The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-11-04
NEWS ITEMS.

Deem IN LdpIduu-
Street cars commenced running on
Broadway, Galveston, last week.
Lemons are now sold by the dozen
in Boston at M third the prize asked
for good apples.
The mineral products of Great
Britain and Ireland in l 81 were val
ued at E43,480,U92, or SIT ,OU0, OOu,
in gold.
About 1900, ACRES Of fax have
been raised In Oregon this season =
It Is expected to yield $1,000 bushels
Of seed.
In the whole kingdom of Great
Britain there were 5,9d3y9Z4 acres
under wheat in 1868, against 3,729,
7S4 acres in 1857.
= "A knitting factory at Dixon, H.
has Just been es arIlshe , winch Will
turn out $I00, 900 worth OF goods this
season.
Red cheeks are only oxygen in an
other shape. Girls anxious to wear
"A pair will find them where the roses
do-out of doors.
A cuban lady Mt the Fifth Avenue
Hotel woro one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars worth of diamonds
ut dinner the other day
Charles Mackay, the song writer,
and once the London Times CORES
pendent IN America, is now editor of
the London Scotchnsan.
Troy. n. Y has adopted a Boston
notion, and henceforth its police will
arrest and bring in all truant school
children found in the streets.
Colonel William A. Warner, who
killed Samuel w. Nutter at Licking
ton, Missouri, the other day, is a soE-
in-law of General Llslie Coombs OF
Kentucky.
The Paris Li6ert says the Spanish
throne has been offered Prince Aired.
on condition that England return
Gibralter to Spain and subscribe to a
loan of f40, 00G, 900.
Six outrages committed by negroes
upon white women in the South have
been chronicled within fGrty-eight
hours. The results of Radical Ticto-
ries in the North.
A New York ferry company has
been obliged to pay s2,00n for CRUST
ing q lady's hand. Many a poor fell
low has Jared worse for giving a
squeeze not half as hard to that SEN
sitive organ.
The Comstock Lode, at Virginia
City, has predicted slO,G00,000 in
bullion, and the present yield of tn
mines is probably a thousand tons per
day, worth twenty-five to fifty dollars
per ton.
Each member of population in
Paris annually consumes $50 pounds
of bread. In New York more meat
and vegetables. are used, and the an
nual consumption of bread is only $50
pounds for each Individual.
Miss Piney w. Eos the, tn
daughter of the veteran editor, Au
gastus w. Forsythe, has become the
publisher OF the Liberty { iss.)
4droeats. She and a sister have been
bred to the printing business, and
sre both practical printers.
B. Smith, of Cuba, N~issouri, makes
use of sorghum seed as a partial sub
stitute for wheat. He had some Of
the yellow variety ground and bolt
ed, last fall, and found it, ior pam
cake, equal if not superior, to buck
wheat. Usually. this seed is thrown
away as useless.
The Toronto Globe says: at was
lime expected that all the gun
boats would be ordered TO winter on
the seacoast, but efforts are being
made to retain the imperial gunboats
ON the lakes, as in previous years, and
it is moi likely that they will be with
drawn"
Mrs. Ann J. wife of Governor VI.
Barley, of Mansfield Ohio, died in
that city on Tuesday after a lingering
illness of several months. She was
the second wife of the Governor, and
at the time of her marriage q widow,
having been first married 10 the late
Captain Ross, of the army. She was
born in Norfolk Virginia.
providence helps those who help
themselves" Here is a case in point:
A. NJ. Jones, of Monroe County, Wis
nssippi, planted forty acres in cotton
In 1867, worked five negroes and
made five bales. This disguised him.
In 1868 he planted ten acres, and with
the assistance of his s n, aged seven
teen, has made ten bales, besides an
abundance of meat, corn and potatoes.
As the mail train on the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad,
bound East, on Monday, approached
Vanwert Ohio, the engineer, Israel
Adams, noticed a small child On the
track. To stop in time to save it lie
saw it was impossible. Runuing out
on the cow-catcher, and reaching out
he caught the child and lifted it on the
engine, without injuring a hair On its
head although he was in great dan
ger of losing his own life.
A new railroad route between Chi
caeo and the Mississippi, RIA the Hin
OILS Central and the Toledo, Peori and
Warsaw Railroads, was formally
opened on Thursday by an excursion
through train. This route is by the
Illinois Central Railroad to Gilmen,
where, without change of cars, the
traveller goes on the recently finished
Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railroad
to Keokuk,EI Iowa The distance from
Chicago to Keokuk by this route is
2S4 miles.