Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1869-04-14


The Counoi ofNew Albany, Indiana,
has legally passed an ordinance author
izing the Mayor to subscribe for six
thousand shares Of the New Albany and
St Louis Air Line Railway. Company,
amounting to $500, -,. ~
Iris a fact not generally known,
PERHAPS, that Washington drew his last
breath in the last hour of the last day of
the last week, in the last month Of the
year, and the last year Of the century.
He died on Saturday night. at twelve
O'clock, December 81, 1893.
Major Fox, of Philadelphia, has Civ
en- notice to the citizens that one thOus-
and sparTOWs have heen imported from
Europe and let loose III the public squar-
es to destroy the worms and other in
sects, and he asks that they be prOtec-
ted.
The New York times recently had a
stone epistle from its Florence cores
pondent, the letter being written on pa
Der made from the fiber Ofasbestns. Sig
nor Del Corona has plentiful mine OF
this substance from which pulp is made,
and then paper. He offers it to the world
as a good thing, for it makes towels and
textures as well as paper, and these re-
sist fire.
PLAYING WITH FIREARNIS.-The Leg
islature of Michigan has passed an act
imposing a fine OfnOt more than $50 and
not less than s., upon any one "WhO
shall Intentionally, without malice,
point or aim any tirearm at any other
person" The discharging Of a tirearm,
even when it does not occasion injury, is
punished with a fine of 500, and not
less than one years imprisonment
William a. Starr, a soldier, who
went to Mexico with Scott, but left be-
fore the war closed, went to sea and was
lost on the MaTquesas Islands, was re-
Gently brought home. The first qUeS-
ton he asked the crew of the vessel
which rescued him was, "How did the
Mexican war finally come out?'
EMIGRANTs FROM IRELAND.-A plan
has recently been proposed to call con-
ventiOn of delegates from the Irish re-
ligiOus benevolent societies of the Uni
ted States, the object being to form q
central bureau in New York, with aux
Hilary societies through all the States,
for the purpose of furnishing aid and in
formation to Irish men in regard to the
price ofland and labor, and to render
anv other assistance necessary to adj
vance Irish emigration.
The Richmond tmd,) Palladium
saws that the other afternoon, while DR..
T. Rose, Surgeon dentist, was engaged
vulcanizing teeth, the retort in which
they-were placed blew up, tearing the
ret0rt to pieces, sending two of the frag-
ments up through the ceiling, shivering
the glass and playing the deuce general
Iv. The doctor was pretty severely in
Wred I'M his face and eyes by the dust
and Ciuders from tue exploded retOrt,
and had his arm somewhat cut and
bruised. He happened to be STOPPING
when the explosion occurred, and the
pieces that went through the ceiling
barely missed his head.
An "aucient landmark" " has been
removed in Dayton, II was building
put up i'm 1901, first used rs n finishing
room ofu tuuntry, and latterly as a ten
emcnt house. Taking Il down was job.
lt was built Ofu portion of the materials
of an old blOCG-hOuse, Lhe logs were
50 stuck together with pins, that they
could scarcely be got apart; the wealth
or boarding was so firmly nailed to the
logs that were hardened by time, that
it.h0d TO he torn of i'm strips; the raft
CUs were strengthened by cross pieces,
md upright braces from the iOists, so
mat they had to be literally cut apart
n order TO get them DOWN, The whole
3 lair wus strongly enough put together,
for an average railroad bridge.