The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-07-08

%" mac 'ibCu sotu III JUL piSSChCC
that "Greeley VAS a id expensive
cuss."
Impeachment has a queer net result
Wade loses his grip and his temper,
Forney loses an Office, and Winnie
Ream a free studio. Butler secures
several tons of private letters and tcle-
grams for his collection, aud Wooley
gains Il national reputation.
At a dinner in Chattanooga, Father
Ryan, the rebel song writer, gave the
following sentiment OF Brownlow
"Pause, gentle reader! lightly tread
For Gods sake let him lie;
We live in PEACE, since he is DEAD,
But HELL is in a FRY"
Forney wants to be United States
Senator from Pennsylvania. He aban-
doned the Democratic party when a
Democratic Legislature refused to elect
him to the Senate. He will not have
the opportunity of taking a similar
vengeance upon his present party asso-
ciatcs from want of a Radical Legisla
ture.
Mr.. Burlingame saws the Chinese
have more books, encyclopedias, pam.
phlets, magazines, etc , than any other
people. Their principal encyclopedia
embraces Eve thousand volumes. Able
Hue, who travelled through China
some years ago, says primary education
is universally diffused in China.
The crops throughout the whole of
Kansas are reported to be the best ever
known in the State, the corn and wheat
crops being particularly fine. The far
mers are in good spirits, and expect to
complete their wheat harvest by the
end of the present week. 1t is thought
that the crops will average thirty bush
els to the acre throughout the State.
Howe Wheeler, of Calais, Vermont,
was ninety years old last December,
and MS wife will be ninety next mouth,
and they have lived together seventy
one years. They have eight living
children, the oldest aged seventy years,
and the youngest forty two ; forty-two
grand children and forty, five great
grand children, making a remarkable
family.
A rich farmer of Calais, Maine, aged
sixty five, recently married q second
wife who is only nineteen years OF age
A daughter by his first wife lis forty
years old, and her daughter, aged TWEEN
ty is about to be married. Thus there
is a child who is twenty-one years old
er than her mother who is a year young
err than her granddaughter.
On the 9th ult., says the Mansfield
Herald as Mr.. Robert Houston, of
Olivesburg, this county, had mounted
his horse, for the purpose of taking a
ride on some business matter, the horse
scared at som ething and threw Mr.. H.
He is since lying in a very precarious
condition, in consequence of three
broken ribs, besides being otherwise
badly Injured. Up to the Goth ult.,
his life was despaired of.
The Bucyr,s Journal says On Sua
day evening, W. P. Warden, Esq , Of
North Robinson, while attempting to
get on the freight train, moving at tie
rate of twelve or fourteen miles an
hour, was thrown under the hind car,
which passed over his left leg. DR..
A. e. Jenner; of Crestline, was sent
for, and found the leg so severely crush.
ed7as TO render amputaiion necessary
and the leg was taken off by DR. j.,
just below the knee, in a very skilIlui
manner. At latest accounts, Mr.. War
den had somewhat rallied from the
shock and was doing favorably. We
sincerely sympathizs with him in his
terrible misfortune.
Daniel Webster wore a hat the size
of which was It; Tturlow Weed wears
the same size; Abraham Lincoln's was
Z l6 ; Daniel Lords Ct; Horace Gree
ley's, II; James Gordon Bepnet's,78
Mr.. James T. Brandy has a head as
large as that of any public man in the
country. Sir Walter Scott and Lord
Byron wore very small hats, but they
had brains somewheres, as all will admit.
Perhaps their brains lay mostly in the
crown of their heads, or perhaps the
brain substance was unusually compact
Byron's brain, though not large super
feially, weighed several ounces more
than the average.
A London correspondent, writing Of
a fashionable wedding says, he failed
to discover q single dress coal in the
company, the groom, the "best man."
and all the gentlemen friends appearing
in dark. double breasted f-ock coats,
light pan:s, black or colored neck ties,
and with the exception of the groom,
retaining their hats in their hands dur
ing the ceremony. The brides maids
dressed in white, trimmed with blue,
while the lady friends wore all kinds
of elegant morning dresses. Gloves of
every shade aud color appeared on the
hands of both ladies and gentlemen,
while the latter all carried the button
hole boquet, without which a London
man of fashion would not be consider
ed dressed.
On Monday night last, says the Pc
mouth Advertiser, an entrance to the
Express Office, at this place, was effect
ed by burglars, and an onslaught made
upon a safe in the room. A hole was
made through the iron door with a
chisel, and the vacuum heavily charg-
ed with powder, a fuse inserted, and
the safe blown. The lock and door lin
ing we're entirely blown off. and a way
at once opened to the inner safe. The
burglars; however, got nothing for their
trouble, except some papers belonging
to MI. S. NJ. Robinson, of no value to
any but himself. Tho valuables of the
Office we're in a burglar proof safe, in
the back room. On this they tried
their hands. but eaye up in despair, or