The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-12-30

must SpeeuIy Dc QOn0
to rid Margaretta Township, Erie
| County, of the pack of b~lood-thirsty
wolves now infesting that locality:
Monday night the entire pack of six
or eight entered the field of Thomas
Neal, in the Otis settlement, and
slaughtered between fifty and a humid +
red sheep, suckedt the blood from them,
and left their arcas on the ground.
These wolves are very dainty fellows
and never condescend to tear and eat
the flesh of their prey. They bite, q
neat hole in the throat of each sheep,
suck the blood, and then pass on. to a
fresh wether. 1t is said it takes tie
blood of SIX sheep to satisfy the hum
ger of one wolf, and when satisfied
they kill no more but return to their
dens. There is a reward of one humid
red dollars each offered for these ras-
cals.-Sandusky Register.
The remains of the late Prince AL
bert have been removed from the tenn
porary to the permanet tomb in the
Royal Mausoleum, neal Frogmore
House, in Windsor Park. The gran
tie sarcophagus stands in. the middle of
the central chamber of the mausoleum.
This chamber is octagonal in shape,
thirty feet in chamber, and sixty-fve
feet high. The walls are adorned with
colored marble and paintings. On the
i'll of the sarcophagus isia recumbent
figure, in marble, of his late Royal
Highness. bs
The Duke Of Montpensier, this
youngest son of Louis PHILIPPE, is a
dark-complexioned gentleman of
rather slender figure, and, owing to
his magnificent mustache, lqboking
like a dashing officer. Although he
had several high positiee6s in the
Spanish army, his tasfzIes are literary
and commercial, ratkSxrt than military.
He bears a very trongsxusaefiifee
TO his brother, the DukedAumale.
His older brothers, the Prince de
J~oiDville and the Duke de Nemours,
look like men of g. or 65, although
they are considerable younger. &c
The Empress Eugene. though re-
ported very rich at the time of her
marriage, was only model ately veal
thy, and what with her spendthrift
habits, and the expenses connected
with her exalted position, has man.
aged to incur more debts than she can
pay, unless she curtails her Expenses
by two-thil DIS, which she will neve
d.. One of her Spanish estates was
sold as far back as 1862, and the 9TH
err, which can not be sold under the
laws of Spain, is heavily mortgaged-
one of the bad debts of the Credit
Mobilier. The story of her. having
effected an insurance upon her life in
"a London company fora highsum was
a canard.
In his article on the fight ofJeffer-.
son Davis, in the current number Of
Packard's Monthly, Mr.. Edward A.
Pollard makes the remarkable state
ment that the bulk of the valuable
documents of the Confederate Govern.
ment, including the correspondence of
Jefferson Davis, exists to-day in CON.
cealment that many days selection of
important papers, especially those in
the office of the President, and that
these were secretly conveyed ont of
Richmond, and deposited in a5qplace
where they remain concealed to this
time, and will probably not be linear
thed in this generation. Where is this
repository of the secrets of the Con-
federate Government? Is Mr.. Pollard
prepared to say? III
The Boston Traveller says the con-
tract for completing the Hoosac tun-
mel has beeh awarded after al, the sue
cessful bidders being the Stanley Bro.
theirs of Canada, whose bid of $4,750.-
900 was the third highest submitted
to the Governor and Council, The
Stanleys are Englsh-engineers= who
command unlimited meaps.
The Chicago Post, a Radical sheet, T
became so tired of seeing only Briga-5
dier and Major generals during the
late army reunion in that city, that it
advertised for a private soldier of thei
Army OF the Cumberland, Tennessee,4
Ohio, or Georgia. Il wanted to see :
how one of those who did the fighting
for thirteen dollars a month looked. Z
II wedding near Ottawa, in Can !
ada, the brides cake was eight feet
high, twelve feet broad at the base,
and cost fourteen hun red dollars. It
baked in sec ions, piled up in
pyramidal form, and then covered with
frost,ng so as to look like one solid
mass of toothsome goodness. ,sa5