The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-01-20


o4IsTa-pfemises every smart woman 4
good education at the State Universe
Is. -pal Ell.
The Berkshire, Massachusetts Agri-
cultural Society has voted TO abolish
premiums for trotting horses.
England has coined 40, 0G0, 900 gold
s~c7ereigns and 100000 gold half
s~overeigns during the past ten years
about s225,000, 500.
San Diego County, California, pro-
duces TIM The first bar has just been
turned out ct Temascsl, and California
now expects 0 o to drive the foreign
article from the market-
Tho city of La Crosse, Wis,
through John Ulrich, editor Of the
Lsar3 SteEn, of that place, RENTED
two thousand and two hundreds
francs to Switzerland for the relief
ofthe pooF there.
The tobacco barn of Mr.. Isaac
Manly, of Mason County, Ky, was
destroyed by ere one day last week.
It contained about 5000 pounds Of
tobacco and q number of farming im-
pleraents, a wagon, &c.
a number of Russian ladies have
appealed TO the ST. Petersburg press
for aid in getting schools at the Uni
yersity Of kaiisch for in~structing NC
menin history, natural ecience and
medicine.
4 The ~ OF Wells, Vermont, has
a citizen who married at seventeen.
His first child wss a daughter, who
married at thirteen, and eighteen
months afterward made her father 2
grandfather, at the early age Of thir-
tr-cne and n halfyears.
The Association for the Propaga-
ton CT Game in Pennsylysn ia reports
that the collection Of birds I o be got
free il the spring is accumulating
very fast. Fifteen hundred birds have
been contracted for, and will be
ready f0r distribution at the proper
time.
Fifteen years ego a gentleman sold
a lot OF land in Des Moines, Iowa for
FIVE hundred dollars. 4 week ago he
| bought back the same lot from the
person to whom he sold it, and paid
twenty-seven thouand dollars. 1t is
unimproved except by the growth Of
the city.
A,gteer, elephaptic proportions is
owned by Stockweil SC Hadley, Of
Raey County, Missouri. He is eleven
feet four inches long from top ofhead
TO root Of tail, twelve feet around the
chest, and twenty-onc hands high
from hoof to center Of withers. His
age is five years and weight $500
pounds.
The United States Land Office re-
port for 1867 viii be printed in
foreign languages, for distribution
on the continent of Europe; 1900
copies viii be published in German,
i 600 in French, and 1909 in SIRE
dish, all OF which will soon be com
pleted. The report viii be accom-
panied with a map Of the United
States and Territories.
The guano trade Of Baltimore has
materially decreased, the importation
| having taia. ca IS liz .cs III
1867 to 1887 in 1863 The Chin
cha Islands sent 30,175 in 1867, and
only 100 tons in 1868. The high
price demanded for guano, sos 81
per ton in gold, prevents its use, ex
Lcept in the manufacture OF other
fertilizers.
The time for holding the United
States Senatorial caueus at Albany
viii commence on Monday evening
the day before election. OF forty
seven votes required for the noTina-
ton the Fenton men claim forty-tive
in the Assembly and four in the Sen
ate; but Morgan's men say that twelve
Of the votes can not be depended on
for Fenton. The Tribnn3 continues
30 advocate Marshall o. Roberts for
the ~Senatorship. The fight grows
warmer apd warmer, Greeley, CLas
A. Dana, Hugh Hastings, and other
Republican editors are in Albany,
working for their particularcandidat E.