The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-08-12
Base BALL.-A new Base Bal
rance Of $4,000.

(horse thief from the Alabama Pen
itentiary.
Tom Placide, the famous old com.
edian, married, near New Orleans the
other day, a oma 70 whom he made
love forty odd years ago. Placide has
been q bachelor ever since, and of late
an impecunious bachelor. ard the lady
has been lately left a wealthy widow.
Flora Temple, now % years old,
has a beautiful colt, a few months old,
the exact counterpart of herself. Mr.
Welsh, of Chestnut Hill, Pa, owns
Flora.
"A Massachusetts, youth sold, this
year, 500 worth Of pond lilies, at q
cent . piece, in the cars at Groton
Junction. That boy will be represen
ting some Southern State in Congress
yet.
R d. Mussey, formerly A. John
sons Private Secretary, sued st. Marie,
the Surratt spy, for SO, 900 for getting
his appropriation though Congress, and
tried to attach the money while yet in
the Treasury Department. A CON-
promise was made for $1,000.
In Van Vert, Ohio, on Wednes
day, while Samuel Mel, Postmaster of
that town, was STOPPING to dip some
water with 4 pitcher out of a barrel,
the pitcher was struck by lightning and
broken to atoms. MI. Mel suffered no
further Injury than q temporary numb
ness Of the arm.
-Longf.llow's three daughters are
much admired in England. and a Lon
don journalist calls them the three
graces 1t IL nice thing to be a
daughter of = popular poet.
old Deacon Sharp used to relate
this story : He was standing n day
beside a frog pond and saw a large
garter snake make an attempt upon an
enormous bull frog. The snake seized
one of the frogs hind legs, and the
frog, to be on q par with his snake
ship, caught him by the tail, and both
CONNIE need Swallowing n another
until nothing was left of them.
"A young man ramed Frank Leip
tried 10 drown himself in the Ohio
river, at Cincirnati, on Thursday. He
had been studying theology Mt Dayton
for two years, and had become crazed
on tho subject Of religion.
"A Washington lady became insane,
the other day, owing to the frequent
use of Planchette. She thought it was
Influenced by spirits. and her nervous
temperament became unduly excited
over the curious toy.
"A Toledo gentleman, having seer
ths Union Base Ball club play at De
froit, is more than ever convinced thar
Toledo con d make a far be ter STOW
than many of the crack clubs of the
West have done in their games with
Eastern clubs. "We have the players,
and SEINE as fine ones as any city in the
West, and we should not lose them,
nor should we let them lose the skill
acquired by practice in the last two
eason
An exchange. in commenting on
the shooting of Mr. Orth, of Cleveland,
by his brute Of a SOD, says. "We
should think one good thing for that
young nan would be a plaster on his
head.
"A Pittsburgh niger named Ed
ward Blackman, went to his employ
er, Mayor Evans, and got $40 on the
representation that his wife was dead,
and he wanted the money for funeral
expenses. Il turned out that Mrs
Evans 6 was not in the least dead, bu:
was as alive "a any woman" That
niger was cut out for a carpet-bagger.
TO illustrate the kerculean difficult
ty of starting a new paper we will state
that the San Francisco Times, ayf1er
sinking S250,000, is now said to be on
a paying basis.
One Of the chief bellies of New
port at present is Miss Mea!ie
Schriemer, to whom Appollyon Sharp.
er, Esq, the eminent dry goods jobber,
is now especially devoted. Miss Mealie
is Eve feet three and three-quarters
high, q pale b~runette, with large swim
ming black eyes, long lashes, a pro
fusion Of raven t~resses. lovely bust ditto,
generally wears corn cclors, violets and
mauves, and goes to the Rev. DR.. Sad
mans, on Madison avenue. Her father
did 4 splendid thing in cornering Rock
Island last spring, and she is now the
cynosure of all eyes. She is a superb
vocalist, and could easily eclipse Patti
or Kellogg did not social considerations
forbid such a thing.
On Friday the Cleveland Herald
and PLAIN DEALER bcys had a game
of base ball ; the former styling them
49,. al. Ha~rI1.. Dol H. Ma cd |
the latter the Iron Clads.-Cncinnati
Chronicle
Too fast Mr. Chronicle; the Herald
and PLAIN DEALER "boys" played
game on the 9Th,
"A U. 8. bondhclder don't like the
equal taxation plank in the Democrat
ic platform, and asks the Newark IN.
j Advertiser it sit would be prudent
to SELL" san exchange says : ait
certainly would. IF bondholders don't
ike their property because the Demo
cratic party proposes to put L upon
The same basis with .ther peoples
property, the most prudent thing they
IAN do is to sell. The market is oPen
10 them, and in a moment they can
their bonds into something
The famous English oarsmen,
Ward Brothers, will make match
with any four men of the United States
ror IS, 900 a side Distance five or six
niles, straightaway. The race to be
owed in either country, to be mutually
agreed upon. They will give $1,000
any crew willing to visit the United