The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-07-20

Charles Back, a horse thief, was
captured on Tuesday near Salem, In
diana, with a stolen horse in his pos.
session. He was taken to Decatur
County for trial, and at last accounts
had not been lynched.
In a distance of FIVE miles on the
Northwestern Railroad, between FL
gin and Gilbert's Station, twenty tele-
graph poles were shattered by light
ming, on Thursday night. The wires
were melted in several instances The
thunder was terrible.
Fifty soldiers went out from Jack
sonboro, Texas, last month on an In
dian scout. They got as far as the
Wichita, where they met with a large
body of redskins, and were whipped
and driven back in confusion. Two
citizens ard n soldier were killed.
Baxter Smith, late Colonel of the
Confederate army, has with.Iraw
from the Congressional race in the
Nashville district, because Congress
has failed to remove his disabilities.
The stringent law against prostitu-
ton passed by the Common Council
Of Omaha, ONE weeks ago, was c
pealed the other night, as the law
seems to be bad in its effects.
The New York papers report that
Col. Fisk said last week that he
should carry passengers to Chicago
for two cents a head, ard feed them
on the way, before lie would succnmb
to Commodore Vanderbilt.
The old belief that n feather bed is
proof against the attacks of lightning
was refuted, the other night, in Green
field, Massachusetts, when such a bed
was set on fire during a thunder storm,
and its occupants severely injured,
while nothing else in the house was
harmed.
A Bishop of the National Church
of Russia has been commissioned to
establish an Episcopal See at San
He is expected mere in a
few days. His official title is John,
Most Holy Bishop of America and
the Aleutian Islands.
Private adviccs received in San
from China make it proba-
BILE that, on the representations made,
the Imperial Government will pro
hihit female emigration to California,
md etablish a Chinese Consulate in
hat city. The Government feels the
Ioss of Burlingame very much, and,
besides p~ecuniary benefits to his falni-
y, has conferred a posthumous title
IF the highest rank outside the Inn
9erial family.
LADY in New Albany the other
lay gave a party to a number of her
in celebration. of the twenty
second birthday of one of her sons
The feast vas a sumptuous one, to all
appearance, and the meats were par
icularly announced excellent. 1t
ranspired in the evening, however,
hat the fine roast and stew the guests
lad partaken of with such appetite
md in such abundance was nothing
more nor less than the flesh Of a fat
A sensation of sea sickness,
UGH as might be expected where PEG
lie embark on UNEMPLOYED sea- of gas
ronomy, has troubled most of the
,uests ever since. The Ledger insists
nat "thc cooking and eating of the
log is no joke" and the victims doubt
ess see it in the same light.
The Methodist Episcopal church,
n Cincinnati, is in a ferment. A Mrs.
eliza Van Colt has been licensed as a
Methodist preacher by q quar-
erly conference at Troy. More than
baker's dozen of the ministers of
hat denomination held Il meeting in
on the Goth ult., and re-
olved against the Rev. Mrs. Eliza as
Tot in harmony with the Scripture,
Tor to be allowed as a prudent meas
Ire.
James Little and wife were shot a
ew days ago in Jackson county, Ten
lessee, whilst going to work on their
arm. Little was killed instantly,
md his wife MORALLY wounded. The
murderer is supposed TO be a man
famed Balco, who decamped after the
Iced was done.
Alligators are becoming reconstruct
d, like everything else in the South,
or a planter lear Midway, in South
Carolina, about seventy miles from
Augusta, has cultivated his entire
arm this year, so far as pIoughing is
concerned, with an alligator. The an
NAL is an unusually large one
three hundred and fifty pounds
and is perfectly docile and domesti-
,ated. He is said to work splendidly
plough harness, and is far superior
% mules or horses: Those who wish
believe this story can do so
Congress shows itself quite sensitive,
its last moments, to the public land
question, but at the rate things have
been going on Uncle Sam will soon
Iack ground for a decent cemetery for
its last resting place.
An exchange notes, as the most
''harrowing" sight 1t ever saw, the
spectacle of a gentleman in a dress
suit of black narrowing in field with
a tall plug hat on.
ILL., sc No,tb Coro1po