The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-03-31
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! House. There are fifteen OF him.
A number of Democratic papers il
Ohio are advocating tho nomination
50 Of Henry Is. Miles, Of Urbana, for At
- torney general.
~ Victor Hugo has the largest head
among living French authors, and
writes as much twadcle to the square
yard as any of them.
An ill-Ratured obituary writer says;
frsLamnrtine's last word was Enough
lever used it."
SIT Misses Fanny B. Price and Viola
Piunkett, the well-known actresses re-
= eeived the rite of confirmation at St.
aI.azarus Church, Memphis, or Tues
day.
The, Parkcrsbure, West Virginia
Ddily Zires (Radical), suggests that
set al parties known to the political world
mite in electing General Cary Gov.
efhor Of Ohio.
Bishop Littlejohn, Of brooklyn, bit
yterly demounces the pratice of cxpen-
. ding thousands of dollars annually on
church music. He contends that
music in Gods service should DO free,
not hired.
.graM Maria Taglioni, the celebrated bal
let girl, who married a few years ago
AN Austrian nobleman of high rank,
has applied for a divorce. She objects
to her husbard' habit of getting drunk
rand irorscwhipping her In that condi-
-fion.1
= Queen Isabelia's son, the Prince of
.Asturias, has been dismissed from col
?. sfege, because he. could not read and
write his own Language with sufficient
,auency to follow eve the course of
studies in the lowest class of the col.
lege-
3. The ST. Louis Republican observes {:
IAN enthusiastic lady correspondent,
:: writing from the Capital, speaks of
Cen, Logan's complexion as "a bril-
liant olive For PHYS sake, and for
the sake of the lady of that name, do
not let him come TO be known as Olive
Logan"
Mr.. Bancroft Davis, just appointed
II Assistant Secretary of State, is the
oldest son of the late John Davis, of
Massachusetts,, and a nephew of Mr..
- Bancroft. He was Secretary of Leg
:. alton at London while the late Abbott
Lawrence was Minister to England.
: o. The cause which has brought Mrs.
Stoves Florida plantation into the
market Is said to be the insecure ten
hturc by which that lady holds it. 1t
was onfiscated during the war, bought
for a song, and now the heirs of the
original owners are demanding their
property in the courts.
The daughter-inlaw of Parker,s
Hotel, In Boston, was not married to
the secretary of BurlIngame's trained
troop in Paris, after all, the account
the wedding by cable to the contary
Notwithstanding. De Champs was
too greedy about the dowry for human
OF hotel keeping endurance.
~ The New York correspondent of
the Chicago Republican,, says cit is a
somewhat strange result of Stewards
Cabinet difficulty that the great i'm
porter has returned to New York
breathing out denunciations, not
against the Senate, as one would ma
: turally expect, but against the Execu-
tiTe." 49,
OF the Spanish triumvirs, Marshal
.Eerrano affects republican simplicity
This mode of life /; he has refused to
have q guard of honor stationed in
front Of his palace, and displays the
utmost afabiiity in his intercourse
witfrshis people. Topete, a rather
dull sort Of u man, is taciturn and
naughty; while Prim, the idol of the
= PFagFesSsts, likes to display the pomp
and alendor of royalty.
A little of Trains private history s
given in.the following, from his last
letter : II am the best governed man
fnsthe country: AT. home dare not
say, nv soul is my own. It was by
mere accident that / learned that my
fair. wife was building a palace down
there by the sea lat Newport.) Wher
you get money settle it On your wife,
and let her buy real estate if she
wants to"
The M~archioness de Ia Valette,
wife, of the French Minister of Fore
ign Affairs, died at Paris a few many
ago. She was born in Rhode Island,
and her maiden nan was Fowie. At
an early age she wcut,over to LONDON
,toresi3e with an elder sister, who'was
married to an opulent American
banker, Timothy Virgins. There she
became acquainted with and married
t Mr. Samuel Wells, then the only Am.
erican banker in Paris. He died in
1871. and his widow, in thenext year,
;. married. the Marquis do1a Valettc,
then ayoungemcmber Of the diploma
-: : tie corps. - Her son by her first hus-
=: band, Count Wells de la Ealette, is
married to a daughter of NJ. Rouhc.
I'm minister in Mitchell County,
Georgia, says that the ''forbiddcn
fruit that Eve partook ofand gave to
Adam was-tobaccoi
"a week ago, in Manchester, n. H.,
man worth $500, 900 earned twenty
RE cents by carrying home 4 fowl tor
another man. He said he thought
himself lucky to get pay for taking
needed exercise.
The National Observatory people in
Washington have been measuring the
distance to the sun, and find it only
8 1880, 600 miles, instead of 95, G0O,:
900; as reported by the last ,savant,
who travelled over the road.
Minnesota has q law absolutely pro-