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Items of Wcws. •—A School Hlt;HM to oo*t $8Q,WW ia to be built In Clyde, Ohio,—Mis? Burtiett Couth? lias tak?ft on herself the entire ex pease ofhjc- . pure water Into Jerusaleir**“*•» l,lirty-twu biographic^ uf Mr. Lincoln l*-Te published ii. „Germany *UP'e jle Wl4* murdered.—It ta^ Uie Massachusetts Court but minute* to untie the matrimonial 45 .*ot. Five couple* were put through at that rate, a ft* days ago.—The sureties of Mr Patrick A. Jone*% the newpost master of New York were James B. Taylor for Horace 1Greelev for$lontW0, amiSamuelSim-lnirmmm .. —-r—There are now in Ktmme557 branches of the Young Men’s Christian Association, with 25,000members. In thin country more toaxi C*W Associations, with memberaiiip of 70,000.—The LouhvJHe eot^riVr say that in Mime portions of that City -sioftil-poz Is fearfully prevalent, ami the deaths numerous. The courier calls for energetic t measures to check the speed of the dlt- hease*—The buildings, Quartermaster's stores, and camp and garrison eijulpagv of the post of Columbus, Kentucky, were sold on the first iiwt at public auction, and the post is now entirely abandoned by the military.—About eighty jierxon*, mei»dM*r of the Kansas Colouv,” left Cleveland, Ohio, on the* 4th lust for tiusir uen homes * in Kansas. The land selected by the * colonists an- upon the line of the Kansas , Pacific Railroad.—The number of emigrant* who left the Irish porn* in 1868 was lt;£199, being a decrease of 19,524 compared with 1867. The number of males who emigrated Iti 1888 wa* 30,181* being 4,680 leas thau in the previous year; the females amounting to 26,lt;W6, a decrease of 9,68*) com- , pared with 1867.—A prize fight came off on tlx* 6th inst. about tour mile* from Youngstown, Ohio, j between two Welshmen, named Phillips and Nautywlmtle, for $500 aside. Thirty-eight round* were fought in one hour . and twenty minutes, when Phillips was declared the winner.—We have heanl of an amoving in-. stance of how General Grant wmi flanked by an applicant for a position n short time since. A gentleman called on him —asked him forauofiice—wnsd* fdred by 1 l fie President to produce his recommendations—and drew from Ilia p»ekei a letter written wme three year* ago to ] President. Johnson strongly ui^ing him for a place, with the signifiean t sign a Urn* at the bottom, “U, 8. Grant.” The result we do not know, but can imagine.— Atchiton Pnf,—Zachary Taylor Hoc ken berry hu* iKren convicted in the Butler County i Penn.) criminal court for muider in the | rirat degree. He wa* charged with killing lib* cousin, Miss Nancy Ann MeCan-dleas. on the evening of November 3, 1868, near Prwidect, Penusylvttiiia. The priouer was reared in the family of par- i entsof the deceased. From infancy he became estranged with his foster parents, aud look up his abode with a neigh-) bor.—The number of letters *ent from the United Kingdom to, and received in the j United Kingdom from, the United Stale* —the number out and home”—was 3,-.167,637 in 1805, an increase of 9M* per lt;*nt. over the number in 1805, in the height of the civil war; hi 1366 the number was 4f066,2$4, on Increase of 20-7 per cent, over J**; in 1867 the numl*er declined to 3.Hid,75W, a decrease .-f 3-7 per cent.; in 1868 with the postage reduced from Is. to 6d., the number was 4.675,80S, I an increase of 24-5 per cent, over 1867.—In Sharon Township, Clinton County. Iowa, one day last week, n fanner named Stanton had gone out In the morning to plow, uud was followed by his two littb* 'iilldrcn. a boy and girl, who atomx-d to play In tin* high prairie grans. Not being aware of this fact, Mr. Stanton set flreiu the grass, and the children were wwn enveloped hi the ragingflames. Die noise «f the fire probably ■, drowning their shriek*. Mr. S. came homo to dinurr, ami, tlu* children not returning, search was made, when the liody of the Jit tie girl was found, burned t to a crisp. Tlio I my hud managed to escape to the plowed ground, but win-very daugrrmndy burned.
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Urbana Union
Urbana, Ohio, US
Wed, May 12, 1869
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