Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1865-03-08
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"A boy in London cOmmittedsuicide
because he lost game of marbles.
--All applications for extensions of
patents, including Goodyear & Howard,
have failed.
- They are fools who insist on being
perfectly miserable because they can not
be perfectly happy.
"A youth declares that his sister is
90 tender-hearted, that she cannot be per-
.Suaded to strike light.
- It is said that the severe weather Of
the past winter has killed nearly all the
peach buds in New England.
Prejudioes arelike rats, and mans
mind like a trap they get in easily, and
then perhaps they can't get out at all.
The Cincinnati Gazette thinks that
the rebels can well afford to give up their
entire coast for a victory over Sherman.
= The Toronto Globe thinks there is
little danger that England will do any
thig to provoke war with the United
States.
oaz - It is said that talented French
man has at length discovered the process
of fixing the natural cOlOrs of any object
photographed.
We love women all the better for
their weakness. Those strong minded
women always seem as if they wanted to
be men and couldn't.
- The PatersOnian says that upon a
single zoo acre tract in PassaiC county,
Nj, paint, oil, coal and plumbagO have
been discovered in large quantities.
An "honest man" in Hartford, fail
ing to obtain work, was unable to supply
his family with food for seven days, and
his little Eve year old daughter starved
to death.
- The Louisville Journal says: One
Of the greatest of our Major Generals re,
Gently declared that, in sixty days, Gen
Lee would be either in Tennessee OF
Kentucky.
- A negro was married to a white wo-
man at St. Pavl, few days since, by a
jnstice of the peace, Catholic aud PrOtes-
tant clergymen having refused to perform
the ceremony.
--Old Mansfield, in his last eontribu-
ton to the Cincinnati Gazette, asks
--" What is ahead ?" If he had only ask
ed what is a blOckhead ?" any of his
readers could have answered him.
We have to note the deaths of three
distinguished men, viz: William Curtis
Noyes, of New York; Colonel May, of
Mexican War notoriety; and James W.
Wallack, the well known actor.
"A divorce suit is pending in the Su-
perior Court of Brooklyn, Connecticut, in
which both parties are seventy years of
age. Ifthey would only wait bit, death
would pronounce divOurce for them.
- The draft is finished in the India
napOlis district and throughout the State
of Indiana and general orders have been
issued designating the days upon which
the men from each precint are to report
- A countryman seen staring at the
signs in Albany was asked if he wished
20 buy some gap seed. "NO, don't
want any," was the reply. al am look
ing at this little town talk of buying
it."
- Hon. Fernando Wood intends tc
leave for Europe soon after the adjourn.
ment of Congress, accompanied by his
family. He proposes to travel through
the Continent, and also to go to the Holy
Land.
- The Ohio House has passed the bill
introduced by Mr.. Scott, of Warren, to
reduce the number of laws and public
documents published by the State. This
reduction is expected to effect cOnsid
cradle saving to the State.
- Selma, Alabama, is represented as
turning out large quantities of munitions
of war. The place is net very form;d-
ably fortified. A considerable force of
rebels under Dick Taylor is reported as
occupying Selma and Meredia.
The wines left by Daniel Webster,
consisting of FIVE hundred bottles, were
sold at auction in Boston few days ago.
They were packed at his residence thir-
teen years ago, and have ever since been
~ In possession of the trustee Of his will.
- Newspaper men in Philadelphia are
in luck. During the draft proceedings
on Thursday, William V. Mexican, Esq,
Of the Ledger; D. B. Williamson, Esq,
editor of the Inquirer; Ferdinand L.
Fetherston, Esq, of the Bulletin, were all
drawn out Of the wheel.
- Horace Greeley is said to be not
only writing in favor of peace, but he is
working industriously and hopefully at
Washington fOra renewal of negotiations.