The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-03-17
GENERAL NEWS.

The Opera-house in Detroit Will be
opened on Easter Monday.
The Chicago policeman who shot Il
hackman for fast driving, has been
suspended for twenty days.
John Brougham's Theater has pass
ed into the hands of the Erie-Opera-
Bowlcs Fisk, and is Il failure.
The cemetery at Seymour contains
the, bodies of eight men who have
been murdered by the vigilaatS.
Hong Kong has an annual Trade of
S2G0,O00,e00, and contains l3o,QeQ
Inhabitants, -of wheaa $4,000 are En-
glish and American.
icy James NJ Chain, for twenty
FIVE Years pastor ofthe Presbyterian
Church, at Abingdon, Va, died last
Monday after a. long and lingering
;IISaSsSE. S52GJtS - o.
5By asrecent experiment instituted
betweem Boston and San Frsnciseo, it
has been found that electricity flies at
tina rate of e, 600 miles in something
lesssfhmf1 sixty seconds oftime. t-a Z
Maurice Strakosch, having pHrchas-
edsthe Score Of RossiDi's Posthumous
mass, iSiabout TO produce it at the
Tffeater Enrique, Paris, with Mad.
Albohi as the CONT alto soloist 1t is
aEoato be produced in New York,
with Miss Kellogg os soprano.
Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania,
4 assigned the death-warrans of George
SSFwftchell.! jun, for the murder OF
Mrs. Mary1E. Hill, and George Eaton
for the murder of Timothy Heenan.
These men will be executed on the
Sthl of April 1te
"A duel already arranged between
Major Randolph, of the Tuscaloosa.
Alabama, Monitor, and Captain John
Martin Of that place, was amicably
settled by the interpesition of mutual
frierds of Memphis, Tennessee, while
thepaFftes were in that cityen r5~te to
the fed eS5dH .slL1 81
The insurance agent of, Columbus,
Miss, have been indicted for not FL
ing and publishing, as the law requir.
es, the annual statement of the affairs of
the companies they represent. The
penalty IS $500 fine and six months
Imprisonment.
Mepqphis policeman named Finch,
whose father lives ut Wellington, Io-
rain. County, Ohio, was killed ON che
Tt1sinst., BY a desperate he was at
tehpffng TO arrest. Finch served III
the Federal army during the late war,
ahdfwas for a while Quarterm2ster's
clerk. 3d2go5 bsd CO g.
4 book has been published in Sa-
vannah-x Ga, emit led the "Great
RffH4hak6 By which the Destruction
OHShannah and the Surrounding
Country Within Radius of Fifty
Miles tois be accomplished" The
date d this dreadful mishap is fixed
OF ahe579i@of june next. The con-
tents of this book are invisible until
exposed TO Il very strong heat, when
theyYHl immediately appear in red
OTEbrown1 characters. .fy
To prevent smuggling the United
States g eTermnent maintains a feet
of1eferts-th three vessles, compri-ing,
twenty-five s.camers and eighteen
sailing veSsles. They ara differed by
t~Hffty1iTe Captains, t~hirty-nine First
l~ieutenants, thirty-thfee Seeond-liou-
tenants, thirty Third Flieutenants,
tWenty=one Chief Engineers, twenty
fsTr First2A assistant Engineers, and
taentys one Second Assistant Engn
GERS, with salaries rangingfrom 81 200
tgz,500a year: L7jdT at
cl1fissK elloggs temperance as
MdSshea0a, in ssFausts" at New York
on Mehdavy was an Overwhelming
ucces The Academy was famed
fnA, and the papers have only praise
f1pher acting land singing. Habel-
mann sang Eoat in italian for the
fHstr time: .yOrlandini vas Valentiue,
Cellini Siedel, while Antenucci took
APhstopheles in q most satisfactory
manner; the only fault being that he
dHnot fOOk ike the Devil, as Her
manns does.
G5Wla horses are so numerous in
the Orange District of New South
Walesthat they have become a posi-
tiXeT nuisance, and devices for trapping
them at their favorite watering places
are r~esorted to. Those branded are
impounded to be claimed by the
owners-the rest are shot and 8 IL nd,
if not sold at auction. One hundred
and eighty of them were sold at two
centsla head at Bhquey Pound
Skins, at Sidney, were worth 81, and
hair Fifty Gently per pound.
$3.50 ~ /
According tosthe results of late re
cent deep sea soundings, it is anounc-
Cd that the bottom of fine sea, at
gFeat depths, is. covered by n continu-
Gus mass, extending. over miles in ex-
tent, of what may be considered as
Que single animal, It is thought to
fo9m the 1-w ;ststaee of a1imal life on
the globe, and is supposed to derive
its nourishment directly from the
mineral world, as in the case of plants.
The new-animal has been baptized by
the euphonious name of Bathybiias.
Alcohol dissolves ~chloroform, so
that when n mixture of alcohol and
water is shaken up with chloroform,
alcohol and chloroform unite, leav-
lug the water separate. An instru-
ment TO test the adulteration of alco-
hol, based upon the above results,
has recently been invented. 1t con-
sfss of a graduated glass tube into
which a measured Quantity Of chIori,