The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-03-24
GENERAL NEWS.

Fifteen hundred quarts OF water are
sold-to tho people of Proyidence by
The miikmen every day.
The Mormons are getting up coop
erntiye stores for the purpose of stsrv-
ing GENTLE traders out OF the King
dom Of the Saints.
The Scandinavians of the North
west propose to endow professorshiPs
in two Western Colleges for teaching
the Scandinavian Language.
There are more than twelve hun
dred Americans in Rome, and the
.rhoe-keepers find them the most Ga
.sis6 and. least exacting' Of their Gus
TONERS.
s-oWcir. a Montreal broker, has al
ready shipped $500, 900 in silver to
New York, which exodus Of the sur
eolus ahard CASH has reduced the dis
count on silver IN the Dominion from
eight TO three per cent
The Detroit Opera house is complet-
ed. Il was erected by DIR. +. Nj.
Clark, at q cost Of $4,000, ON a lot
uurchsssd for $55,000. II will seat
1000 persons, and Is elegantly fitted
zap.
Madame Hugo bequeathed TO a
friend the pen with which her hus-
hand wrote the first book of the Con-
.tsuplations. 1t Is considered an inval.
.nable legacy, AID the Paris papers are
crazy about it
q Somebody has discovered that the
names of SIX of the seventeen fresl-
dents FROM the illustrations Washing
ton down to the un-illustrious tohn-
son, terminate with "on," and the
names of nine of them with en-"
Many members of the den'Enionds in
Paris appear upon the stage for no
salary-merely for the sake of attrac-
sng attention. When they a do this,
they ihd,no trouble in commanding a
large inceme.
= The French Company for laying At
lantic cable are pushing forward with
great energy. Every thing will be
ready by the first of June. The point
of landing on this continent will be
near Plymouth, Massachusetts.
The Stockbridge Indians in Wis
eonsin are rapidly disappearing. This
tribe once numbered ten thousand war
nors. They immigrated from Massa-
rchusetts to Nav York in 1880, to
Ohio in 1909 and to Wisconsin in
lSll-zg They are now suffering for
food and number but three hundred
2 men, women and children.
~ Chicago man has received a few
pounds of tea direct from China, and
the papers in that aspiring village are
ecstatic over the occurrence as a''pre-
monitory symptom of great things" in
sfiIe way of direct trade with the en-
Pire of the pig tails
The proprietor of the London Times
will soon reduce the price of the paper
from three to two pence. The great
circulation attained by some of the
cheap papers, tending to drive the
high-priced Tines out of the market,
Is the reason for the change.
From Louisiana to Alaska is some
thing of a change, think the officers of
the Twentieth, who, after having done
duty in a Southern latitude for two
years or so, find themselves exchanged
with the officers of the Twenty-third
t(Jeff B. Davis') regiment, head-qhar-
tiers at Sitka. The men Of each corps
remain where they are.
al Some one in Portland has prepared
the following matrimonial statistics for
that city: Runaway wives, "a; run
away husbands, 1875; married persons
legally divorced, 347 living in open
warfare, Las /; living in private mis-
understanding, !, JOG mutually indif
1fereht, 1908; regarded as happy,
264 nearly happy, 20 ; perfectly
happy, 8 tetals 8,O63.
Mr.. Bridges, of the Grand Trunk
Railway of Canada, met at Buffalo,
y. Y, on Saturday, q committee ap-
pointed to inquire further into the In
'ternational Bridge project, and the
question was pretty generally canvas
eed- Mr.. Bridges gave a written guar
antee on the part Of the Grand Trunk
Railroad, to pay at least $4,000 per
aHnum as toll for the use of the bridge
when built.
A fog whistle recently erected on
Cape Fourcher, Yarmouth harbor,
Nova Scotia, is said to be the most
powerful signal In Moth America,
and al be heard fifteen miles in calm
Weather In storm weather, five to
ioighf miles with the wind, twenty
I've miles ; against the wind, five to
eight miles. 1t has been heard inland,
with the wind, twenty-five to thirty
miles.
In East Lancashire, England, the
'distress among the cotton operatives
~ very great and emigration clubs are
being formed. AT Blackburn, out of
amilhon and q half of spindles, half
million are entirely stopped, and an
other half million are or short time.
OF the ferty-ive thousand looms, ten
thousand are entirely stopped, and
Twelve thousand are or short time. {,
Ths Lebanon (Indiana) PIONEER
says that nothing further has t~ranspir-
ed in the Todd double murder case. /,
The prepetrator of the terrible deed of
blood is yet unknown, and the whole !.
affair is still erreloped in mystery.
d,he County Commissioners have Of
fered reward Of five hundred dollars Z
for information that will lead to the
arrest ofthe murderer, and the citizens :
ntbe vicinity Of the tragedy propose :
five hundred more. :
1t isfeported thatca.tle disease pre- 1
walls very extensively present time in I