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

for five thousand dollars of damage TO
crasing his name from the voting
lists at the late election.
Prof. Wiebe, of Chicopee, Massa
chusetts, asserts that there are no fin,
singers who use tobacco. It is prove
ed in the ~dissecting rooms, he claims
that tobacco Injuries the voice.
General Joseph E. Johnstonis nov
acting a agent, for the States of Geor
gia and Alabama, for the New Yorh
Life Insurance and the Liverpool ant
London and Globe Insurance Com
panies.
General Jubal A. Early pronounce;
Mr.. Pollard's statement that Stonewall
Jackson once oredred q night attack
by "assailants stripped naked and
armed with bowie knives" entirely
without foundation.
The Philadelphia Telegraph makes
rather a good hit at its Radical cola
borer, Wendell Phillips. In speaking
of his lecture upon the "Lost Arts"
it says there is one in particular to
which Phillips should address himself,
the "lost art of speaking we'll of some
body beside himself"
Victor Hugo's eldest son copies all
of his fathers manuscripts. The lat
ter are in variably written with q lead
pencil and contain so many corrections
and alterations that they are almost
illegible to an uninitiated eye. Victor
Hugo writes only his letters with a
pen and ink.
Postmaster General Randall has
sent to the House estimates of the
money required for the service of the
Department for the year ending June,
1870. The sum total is $24,500, 600.
Of this the inland mail transportation,
including overland and sea mail to
California, requires nearly thirteen
and a third millions.
Theodore Tilton, of the Ne,o York
Independent, thus jubilates over Anna
Dickinson's advocacy of the Radical
policy of amalgamation: "Her heroic
attempt to join the Anglo-Saxon and
the Anglo-African blood in true and
lawful marriage, and to make fashion
able society stand by as a consenting
and applauding witness, was purpose
SO much more perilous, humane and
Christian, that, l said to myself, this
is the bravest book in American liter
ature."
The new educational system in Hun
gary will be compulsory" Parents
and guardians not sending their child
rem to school will bepunished by law.
The schools are to be established and
conducted by the various religious
sects to suit themselves, but r all to
be under State inspection.
The Lincoln County meaos learns
that a man by the name of Simmons,
living somewhere near the line between
that county and Madison, Alabama,
was found frozen to death during the
recent cold spell of weather.
In New Madison, Darke County,
Ohio, on Monday night, a young mar
named Powell %quarreled with some
men in a saloon, and shot one ofthem,
named William Montgomery, in the
bowels, causing his death in half an
hour.
A gay young fellow in New York
playfaHy took a pair of diamond ear
rings from the ears of a. nice young
girl whom he had just escorted home
from the opera, and carried them OF
in his pockets. They Were found at
the pawn-broker's.
About the Umbagog waters there
have been taken this fall one hundred
minks, fifty foxes, seven hundred musk
rats, forty sable and various other
iurs, such as fisher, lynx, bear and
otter; about one thousand dollars
worth in the last six weeks.
The Albany 4rgms says the Renos
and their feHow-victims belonged to q.
gang that robbed express companies
without being directors. If they had
been directors theirs would have been
a capital opportunity; as it was, it be-
came a capital ofense.
In Providence, Rhode Island, on
Saturday evening, Miss Alice Brow
nell drowned herself in a well. She
was fifty-five years old, and inirm in
health. In the same city, on Sunday
Henry A. Remington, q carpenter,
hanged himself. No aus known.
While a white man named Gleason
and a negro named Dhniap were be-
ing examined before the Mayor of
Charlotte, North Carolina the negro
drew a pistol and shot Gleason twice,
inficting mortal wounds. Gleason at
tempted to run out of the. courtroom,
but as he was passing out of the door
he was struck by a negro policeman
ana instantly killed. Both negroes
were arrested, but it is feared that a
mob will break open the jail and hang
the offenders.
The present managers of the Erie
Railway Company have introduced a
reform which ought to Be adopted by
all large railroad corporations. 1t is
that of advertising for proposals for
supplies, instead of buying them, as Is
too often the case, from some director
or favored official, at his own price.
The Erie Company invi e all the man.
~faotarors OF spike, chairs, nails, car
springs, car axles locks, and other
iron and hardware, and dealers in
lumber, to come forward and name
the terms at which they will furnish
the articles wanted.
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