The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-01-13
NEWS ITEMS.

c The nllers of New York City ar,
aSococganizs a labor union
4 lost city like Pompeiir has beer
Recovered near Chalco, Mexico.
The Lucrezis Borgia story in SUSSEX
county, \. J., Is pronounced Bosh.
New Orleans owes SIS, 900, 600, and
Asr assessed value Is $500, o0n 200.
T~racklaying on the Sheboygan and
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) Railroad
has been resumed.
Carswefi, under sentonoe of death
b Utica, for having ravished and muir
aered ABBY Sanders. has confessec
both crimes.
Canada is puzzling owe schemes fol
= getting rid of its silver; the United
Stztss over schemes to get its silver
a~earreuey back.
Mobile is curiously examining thC
-Arst steel ship which ever arrived al
that port. It is the Alca, from Bonn.
bay direct and is built entirely o.
Hsel-
The Saratoga Board of Education
<eArs ago abolished whipping in the
school 1t does not work well, and
BOW, By. resolution, the rattan is re.
stored.
eiAercer County, Kentucky, has vo.
tedher proportion of the tax (S900,00
&r the Louisville, Harrodsburg and
Virginia Railroad, by e52 majority.
: The Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany are building a car of California
laurel, to be used in the first trip from
Gan Fracisco to New York next sum-
mer.
Another rich strike, equal, if not
superior to the famous Eberhardt
mine, is reported in the White Pine
pistrict, Nevada. Ore is estimated
. s1,5Jo per ton.
Daniel Dechert hasrecoverej 81, 500
from the corporation of Hagerstown,
Maryland, IS dalnagesfor the destruc-
Ton of his printing Office by q "leyaP'
mob, in 1882.
Tho average of hanging done in the
new city of Laramie, on the Pacific
Railway, is said to be one man a
week. It is added: ''The place prom
hes a steady and secure growth"
In Goshen, Iowa, lately, William
a. 1'earman eloped with young lady
Who hsd been making her home in his
family during the last FIVE weeks,
leaving a wife and three children,
The Chillicothe Reg,ster learns that
a man by the name of Vandecamp,
who resides near Marshfeld station,
On the N. and c. r. r.. was gored
10 death on Thursday afternoon by a
bull.
The lawsuit recently on trial in
Bath, Maine, to set aside a will on the
gTohnd that II had been dictated by
"Spiritualism-an insane delusion,'
has been decided, the will having been
Sustained.
The Yoans Mems Christian Asso-
oopal Church, Wilmington; Delaware,
have been debating the question,
-'Should the whipPing-post be abol-
ished !" and have decided it in the
8egatvc.
"A method of sewing boots and shoes
with copper wire instead of the COM
thread has been patented, the
being that at a very small
increase in expense the strength and
of tho work are much i'm
proved.
The aggregate loss by fire in the
United States during the year 1868,
in-sh cases where the damage was
$4,000 and upward, was s34, 49,
000s which is less than that of any
year since 1855. The total loss by
FIRE in this country during the last
thirteen yearsisplaced atS3s9, 705, 000.
The railroads in ireland win proba-
bly, be purchased and run by the Brit
ish Government, as great pressure is
now being exercised to induce the
new Parliament to carry out a recon-
to that effect, submitted
byla committee of the last House of
Commons.
An officer ofthe British navy states
hat from eleven years observations,
,ix years in the Arctic regions and
1--WE years in the north of Scotland, he
rad ascertained that tremendous gales
from twelve to t~wenty-four
hours after the appearance of the au-
borealis.
The river Cam is being widened
and deepened by the Cambridge stu
They hope by the better
practice which their oarsman can thus
obtain to be a match for Oxford
hereafter. Their long series of defeats
has been ascribed by most boating
men tothe bad condition Of the Cam
The pyramids are to be surveyed
by . party of English engineers, who
have already arrived at their destina-
ton and commenced operations. No
accurate plan of tho great pyramid of
Egypt has yet been made When the
of the pyramid are settled,
the unit of length of the Egyptians
win be zaseertained-
GAINESVILLE, in February, 1912, ex-
pericnced the Shock of an earthquake,
appears from the following in a let
ter from Duncan Macarthur to vii
liam Creighton, jun, of C~hiilicothe,
and dated GAINESVILLE, February I,
1912: "The last shock of the earth
quake was terrible, but ne damage
done here. / hope none has been
done in Ross"
Mr. Harrison Thomas, residing in
the upper end of Wilson County,
Tenn, was shot and killed at Auburn,
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