The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-06-23
GENERAL NEWS.


GENERAL NEWS
4. y The Washington correspondents say
that the Grand Army of the Republic
lis attempting to rule the roast in the
redistribution of official patronage
General Creswell told some of them
the other day that their organization
was hostile to Republican institutions.
Mr.. John Bramlette was thrown
from a mule, in a field near Okolona,
Mississippi, Saturday. His leg was
entangled in a trace chain, and the
mule started at a rapid speed, drag
cling him a distance of about half a
mile, tearing out his tongue and two
ribs. He died the next day.
a fortnight ago, while a Mrs. Rod
gers, of Phelps County, Missouri, was
in the garden, with an infant fourteen
months old seated near her, an eagle
swooped down and attempted to carry
off the child, but was prevented by
a dog, which came to its assistance
and fought vallantly in its defense.
The iron screw steamship United
Kingdom sailed from New York April
10, for, Glasgow, and has not since
been seen or heard from, go far as is
known 1t is feared that she has eli
Their foundered at sea in a gale or was
wrecked on an iceberg, OIL met with
some other fatal accident in mid-ocean,
where help and assistance were out of
the question. .I.>i g @
The Ottumwa Qowa) Courier states
that a piece of sandstone, taken from
a well being dug by John Shea, on
Main street, In that city, twenty-three
feet below the surface, and three feet
Unto the middle of the second stratum
of solid sandstone, containing, firmly
imbeded in it,, a perfect formed ivory
shirt button.
Captain WV. Davidson, of Mem
phis, while on his way to visit his wife
and children at Pocahontas, Arkansas,
was waylaid and shot through the
heart, ear the latter place, ON Friday
night last. A man named Whitfield,
an oyerseer on his plantation, who had
grossly insulted Mrs. Davidson, and
who feared a just punishment, is sup
posed to be the assassin. AT any rate
he has not been seen since.
Mr., John Owens, of Orion, Henry
/ County, III. a few nights ago., fearing
his place of business might be enter
ed by BURGLARS, fixed a gun in such a
manner that when the door was open
ed the charge would explode, and
then went home, feeling safe from
robbers. During the evening a Gus
toner called at his house, wanting
something from the store, and he went
to wait upon him. Opening the doc
in the usual manner, and forgetting
his 'sburglar trap" he received the
contents of the gun in his thigh.
Last Tuesday night a party of forty
men armed with muskets, and with
their faces blackened, went to the
house of Croft Houston, living near
the town of Shawnee, johnson Coun-
ty kansas, ana raped at his door.
Upon his opening it, he was seized, a
rope put around his neck, and he was
taken a short distance from his house
and hung until he vas dead. He was
accused of being a horse thief, and
this summary punishment is supposed
to have been dealt out to him by par
ties who believe in his guilt.
Near Upton, Cedar County, Iowa,
the other day, an oldlady named Boyle
died suddenly, and some suspicious
circumstances induced the authorities
to disinter the body. 1t was found
that several wounds had been made |
upon the head, apparently with a fiat
iron, and marks were visible upon the
neck, indicating that the poor woman
had been ~strangled. Some time be-
fore Mrs. Boyle was supported by the
county, and her two sons, upon q suit |
in Court, We're compelled to Fay for
her maintenance. One of them then
took her to his house, and it is sup
posed he murdered her to save the
cost of her support. The son and his
wife and daughter were arrested.
Dick Wells, a colored preacher, was
fined S15 in Clark County, KY, the
other day, for administering discipline
to one of the sisters with q hcrsewhip.
The sister in question had ventured to
hint hat his reverence's veracity was
not unimpeachable, and hence her
punishment.
An old man by the name of Healey,
and formerly section boss on the E.
and c. r. E., committed suicide at
Hartford, Ind, a small place fourteen
miles this side of Terre Haute, on
Tuesday night. He shot himself thro'
the head, using as a mea of self-de-
s~truction a revolver. No reason for
the commission of the rash act was
known by his friends. He was quite
an old gentleman.
1t is reported in New York that
shipments of arms and ammunition
are rapidly going forward for the Tur-
kish Government. Colonel Rassan
Bey, a high public funetionary of the
Porte, is said to be experimenting the
shipment of 20, 900 stand of arms, re-
Gently purchased from the United
States Government. A number of
ocean steamers have also been pur-
chased, it is stated, for the same des-
tination.
The Evansville Courier says that
city is flooded with counterfeit money.
The bills are well executed, and are
of various denominations. BY a COM
parison with the genuine. it will be
found that The counterfeits are a little
shorter than the genuine. There are