The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-02-17
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
? Nnsay s2s, 600, 900 are annually
4, 9ens Tor liquor sold By retail m cody
Wasaachnsetta
: The recent lunar eclipse could be
80 from the summit Of the Sierra
Nevada while the sun was still in
debt This phenomenon was caused
b. feftaction.
-EiEhty persons have spplied for
divosos &C the February term Of the
Fort Wayne Qndiana1 Common Pleas
Cons-a large per csntAes from ad
teining States.
he Mosque Of Fuundoukly, at
2 ConstAntinople has by order Of the
/. SUDAN, been lit with gas, and the 9TH
.r - Mussulman places of worship are
hkely to be shortly provided with a
Amilar apparatus.
A number Of dogs, supposed TO
have been affected by hydrophobia,
2 we're killed in Spencer County, India
N, last week: Many head of stock
have been bitten, and two valuable
horseS have died. Exeitemeut in
"A serious stabbing afffay occurred
na Terre Haute on Friday night. A
drunken man by the name Of Nc
Crocklin assaulted a saloon-keeper and
"a policeman with a large knife. The
former received a severe cut on the
breast, and the latter in the thigh. P
The celebrated swine case" now on
A-tdl In New Orleans, gave rise to a
curious scene in Court last Saturday.
The day was consumed in tasting q
varsity of different wines. A wine
merchant, a. witness, the counsel and
Judge consumed the contents Of
about twenty bottles altogether.
Tie Lynchburg' Va.) Mrps says
Mrs Stoyer, daughter of President
johnson, accompanied by her chill
dren, passed through that city yester-
day, en- route to her home in Tennes-
see, The remaining members of the
aaP residents family are expected to re-
turn. to Tennessee, ris that city in a
lew days.
The Grand Council Of the Canton
Of Arragan in Switzerland has just
decided, by $50 votes t 101, that, in
q direct manner in the government.
all laws, treaties, loans and extraord-
mary expenditure of sums exceeding
100000, should be submitted twice a
year to the sanction Of the popular
!. vote. arl1 aI
Al the burning Of the International
~ Hotel at st. Paul, On Wednesday
! night, a number OF the guests were
rescued only after great difficulty.
Two State Senators and their wives
= were taken from the third floor by
of ladders. A Mr.. Holyoke
became beHildered in the halls and
nearly stifed with smoke, but was
: rescued by a lady against whose door
he fell 1lt 1Il.
g1 Successful experiments have been
madeat Mobile with okra as material
e1for paper. The paper is said to be
very strong, tough and elastic-bet-
ter inrthese respects, when made en-
( firely Of okra, than either straw or
5uwood pulp when mixed with fifty per
5Ecent. OF more of rags It has none
Of the brittleness and hardness SC OBJ
fashionable in straw papers, and can
-zhe manufactured very cheaply.
4 long-standing feud between two
. families named Braddock and Turner,
sregding on Dunn's Lake, Florida, and
which arose out of a dispute about
some land, resulted in a deadly ell
counter between members of the re-
spective families. On Thursday last
: three of the Braddocks and three of
/; the Turner'S, armed with guns and
Gpistols, met and engaged in a general
tight. One of the Braddocks was in
SANITY killed and the other two NOR
6 tally wounded, so that they died next
day. One of the Turner's was killed
and another MORALLY wounded, leav-
ing but. one survivor out of the six
= engaged.
The Marquis 'Ourches, a French
man, by his will, founded a prize of
20, 600 francs for the discovery of a
sure and simple means of recognizing
If death he real or apparent. DR..
-Carriere, says the French Courrisrs
DEAL EHTe, intends to claim the money
for a process which he has employed
2 for forty years. This system consists
In placing the hand, with the fingers
closed, before the fame of lamp or
candle. In the living person the mem.
"bers are transparent and Of a pinkish
color, showing the capillary circula-
ton and life in full activity; while in
that Of a corpse, on the contrary, all
Is dull and dark, presenting neither
.aign Of existence o trace of the blood
trrrent. III.
IAN observatory is now in process
. of erection at Salt Lake City, under
the direction of the United States
Coast Survey, in order to obtain an
exact meridian, and for the purpose
of determining the difference of iongi-
tude at specified points across the con-
tinent, from Cambridge, Massachu-
sits, to San Francisco, California. An
intermediate station has been establish
ed at Omaha, Nebraska, fifteen hun
,dred miles west of Cambridge. The
observatory at Salt Lake City is one
Thousand miles west of Omaha, and a
little under bine-hundred miles east of
San francisco. To obtain the requi-
site pierssior mounting the transit in
struments, Brigham Young has to
send teams to Weber cannon. and
brings the blocks of stone a distance
ct sixty miles.
of the Pleasant