The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-02-24
GENERAL NEWS.

The lake-fshing season has opened
It Sandusky.
Anew Haven manufactures has
shipped the first piano ever sent to
Japan.
It's said that the surface Of Salt
Lake. Utah, is rising about one foot
. year.
Well executed 6fy-cent counterfeits
are largely circulated in Washing
ton
OAborsrs in Calcasiea Parish, Lou
~ieiana, haze struck mine of pure
sulphur at . depth Of $50 to 600 feet.
The Norfolk TTcgfsiia claims Al area
of six hundred and f .rty thousand
acres Of "oyster rocks in Virginia,
Yielding an annual revenue of SIC,
Doc, 900.
AFcrusr citizen ofBowhng Green,
who had been buried ten years, was
disinterred the other day, and was
found to Be IN q perfect state Of pre-
servation-
A colony of.l60 Mormon families
hourishes at Williamsburg, near
BROOKLYN, New York Thirty Of the
men have . plurality of wives, D in
dulging IN eleven.
Walker Hammond, said 10 be one
of the Seymour express robbers, was
arrested at Worthwhile, Kentucky, on
Thursday night, and taken to Sey-
mour, Indiana, by the Sheriff OF Jack
son County, Indiana.
The first Methodist Episcopal
Church in Kentucky was organized in
The cabin of Thomas Stevenson, near
Washington, Mason County, in 1885,
by Rev. Benjamin Ogden,
A San Franciscan offers to drive
the smallpox out OF the city, by
means of magnetism, for a fee of $780,
600, and another proposes az q reno
dy the closing of all the theatres,
For the bungiing treatment of the
eyes Of Charles F. Baird's child, caus-
ing blindness to result, DR.. Moses B.
0llet, of Rochester, New York, has
70 disgorgs $4,000, by order of the
Court
After a great number of ballotings,
the West Virginia House of Dele
gates, on the 10th inst, voted that
the new State Capitol shall be built
n ~Parkersburg. The question now
goes to the Senate for concurrence.
Mr.. James Rockwell, of Petersburg,
Virginia, wal dangerously wounded
on Tuesday, by a cut from q razor, In
the hands of a negro thief whom he
had arrested, and was conducting to
police headquarters. 4
a ssap-dealer recently distributed
soap anon the members of the
Massachusetts, Legislature, ana the
Boston papers were astonished next
day ut .the clean and fresh appear
snee Q fmany Senator'S aud Represen-
tativesa f,
One planter on the Mississippi offers
500, 000 ramie plants for sale, and it
Is reported that orders for ramie from
all parts of Europe have been trans
mitted to New Orleans and Mobile, {
oEering to purchase the rough fiber at 4
ten cents in gold. p,
A wretch was discovered the other
evening in the act of cutting ofa
magnificent blends chignon from the
head Of a lady spectator at the Tam I
many Concert-room, in New York. {
Seven pairs of long curls were found I
m his pocket and now await clai-
n1ants. :
A Pittsburg paper says: The other
day a little girl was playing near a /. /.
well, when she slipped and began to !
fall into it. But fortunately a cat was i
on a log close by the we'll, and ,
the girl grasped the cats tail and held :
on, screaming all the time, until some !
body came out of the house and saved |
her. l
The Courier dss Eats Uni, has in.
telligencc from Paris that the real OBJ
ject of the Greek mission to Wash t
ington is to treat of cession to the /
United States of an island in the
Egean, where the mode Republic 1
has long sought to gain a footing. t
The funds to obtained by the sale of
the Island are TO be employed in buy &
ing iron-clads. 1
DR.. Abram G.. Haring/of Spencer
Medina County, and Darius Nichols; !
Of La Grange, were arrested last week, I
charged with procuring an abortion I
upon the person of a<yoLng woman in I
the latter place, on or about the 9th
of May. Both parties waived an ex- Z
animation before Justice Downing, :
and Nichols gave ball IN the gum of :
e6e0:=5 DIR. Barring did not procure +,
tail, and was lodged In jal.-ELya
(OGio) Democrat. !,
F. W. Symons, who lately Walked {
from La Crosseto Chicago, and walk I:
ed q hundred miies in the Wabash !
Avenue Rink, left Chicago yesterday 1
10 attemet a walk of 1900 mics in {
less than thirtydays. Hegoes through !
Indiana to Louisville, Ky, through {
Nashville and Bowling Green to the
Mammoth Cave. There turning
south east, he goes through Murfrees- 1
horo to Chattanooga He is accom-
panied By a young nan named c. W. ,
Harrington, who hopes to keep up ]
With him. |.
On Monday morning, at Tere
Coupee Station, Mrs. :. j. Reeds wife
died, and the bedding wherein she
had reposed was thrown into a spare
ROOM til. ough which a stove pipe (.
passed. The next morning a fire was
kindled in the stove, and soon com