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

Lewis D. Nuckols, son of Claiborne
Nuckols, Esq, of Woodford was acct
dentally shot and instantly killed last
Tuesday IN Missouri, while out on a
hunting excursion with a number Of
friends.
Mrs. Harper, the escaped ~forgeress,
has been bold enough TO write alet-
ter, post marked New York, to n of
her counsel at Middletown, Conn, in
which she sends soothing messages to
various people in the town, members
of the jury and others, and attemps
70 exonerate Thompson from compiler
ty in her escape, rather vaguely i'm
plying that he was drugged when she
evaded his guardianship.
The burning of the forests in East
ern Oregon, this season, caused the
death of many thousand sheep. Humid
reds of them in passing over the char
red districts had their feet 80 burned
the drivers were obliged to shoot
ITEM. The bears and wolves feasted
on mutton. Deer and elk collected
along the mountain streams in u r
prising numbers, and were at the mer-
cy of p~anthers, wolves and hunters.
The rains have now extinguished the
fire.
The Cooperative Building Associa-
tons in New York City are vigor-
ously carrying IN their operations:
The German Association, composed
of cabinet-makers, numbers 400 pay
ing members, and has a fund of S1S,
| 600, raised by the disposal Of So lots.
The first Union Cooperative Building
Society has a bank account of $40,
CAT. The Second Society has a bank
account Of s4,215. The Cooperative
Building Lot Association has 100
members, and has already distributed
III lots in Brooklyn, 16O in Middle
Village, Long Island, and has III
acres in Westchester County ready
for allotment There are six Co-opera-
tive Associations in New York, five
aiming to give homes to workingmen,
and one to take building conti acts.
A member of one of the Episcopal
churches writes to Bishop Mc1lvaine
saying that his rector directs those
who believe in the divinity ofour Lord
and Saviour to Jo,U in the creed when
his name occurs. The member,
though a full believer in the doctrine.
does not comply with the request, and
desires the Bishop to inform him if he
is guilty of the sin of omission. The
Bishop, in a long letter, replies that
bowling in the creed is a matter indif-
ferent in itself, and may be adopted
or not, according to individual pre-
ference. 1t is not required in the for
n.ulas of the church, and is DO test of
churchmanship, but a step in the
direction of ritualistic and superstiti-
ous usages that no rector has a right
exact of his congregation.
At the recent annual meeting ofthe
Board of Managers of the Soldiers
National Cemetery at Gettysburg I; it
was decided to consecrate the monu-
ment in the first day of July, 1869.
The proposed monument will be of
marble, and sixty-fve feet high. The
browning statue represents the God
dess of Liberty, and is ten feet six in
ches high; it was cut in Italy, under
the superintendence of Randol' b
Rogers, and is now on the ground at
Gettysburg. The shaft of the monu-
ment is ofwhite granite, and is already
cut and ready to be shipped from the
quarries at Westerly, Rhode Island
FonratatnezLreEresent 3Spectively
History, peace aht Plenty.
are in the hands of The sculptor
IN Italy, and they will be shipped ear
in the Spring. They will be placed
around the four pedestals or corners
IF the monument.
The income of Queen Victoria is
liked by law at 81, 925, 900 per annum,
but this amount is not under her per-
;onal control. The sum mentioned is
divided into six items, the first of
$500, 00o, is the money paid to
he Queen in monthly instalIments.
Item second is s656,3l 0. for the pay
nent of the salaries of tie household,
rom the lord of tile bedchamber
o the pages. Item third, SO! $40 is
or the expense of the household. The
'emaining items, amounting to $780,
700, are for the payment of civil PEN
ions, and are under tho control of the
Premier. |,
A company has been formed in
Sew Orleans called the Mississippi
md Mexico Gulf Ship Canal Com
ANY. 1t proposes to open a canal
rom the Mississippi River at English /,
Turn to the waters of Lake Borgne.
t will be twelve feet deep, and from
25 to $50 feet wide If the project
successful, it will shorten the dis I
to the Gulf about fifteen miles,
md materially benefit in other ways
he commerce of New Orleans. The
Company hope to finish it by next
Sew-Year's.
Every Mormon Cor "Saint") in Salt
lake City who keeps a store is requir-
ID by order of Brigham Young, to
ave a sign which other Mormons
nay recognize. This sign is an arch
,ver an ~"all-seeing' eye, with the
words "Holiness to the Lord" All +;
hormons are commanded to trade at
UGH stores. only, but-many of them
prefer to save money by trading with
outsiders. These stores are known
lmong the irreverent Gentiles as
bulls eve shops"