The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-03-17
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+ How should the limbs of the law DO
tlothed? In breaches of promise
Judy.
i The Louisiana planters are CON
| planning Of scarcity Of agricultural
laborers.
! Extensive beds of cranberries arc
being prepared for culture in New
Jersey.
i LeaSenworth is afraid Il viii aoon,
rival chicago as the "divosce nstroP
The "Curfew bell'' was revived &C
Dover, N. H. on the evening of Feb
ruary AID.
Secretary Seward has resided IN
Washington continuously for the last
twenty years:
Gen. Grant is said to have written
his inaugural, as well as selected his
Cabinet, without the aid of politicians
| A Southern paper says that "Blind
Toni" was d white boy and grew black
in the face, owing to his musical cxer-.
tions.
The Portuguese Minister, at Berlin,
has committed suicide. He became
financially involved, and this caused
the act.
A farmer in Washington Territory
brags of having eaten bread from -four
made of wheat sown only four months
before.
The volunteers in Great Britain
number 10000 men, and the Gov
ernment contributes 81, 900, 900 to-
wards the general expenses.
The ''young woman in a trance"
has moved to Paris, where she has
been transformed into an old man,
who has been asleep seven weeks:
The latest about Carlotta is that she
is writing history of the Mexican
Empire.
A Western cotemporary calls strong
minded women knights ofthe garter"
A Paris physician recommends sew
en- vapor baths as a remedy for hy-
drophobia.
The Prince Impt rial of France is q
great velocipedist. No one dares TO-
beat him in race,
4 man in Troy was recently buried
in coffin which he had bought ten
years before in anticipation Of a rise
in prices.
There are said to be sixty National
Bank Directors in the House Of Rep
resentatives at Washington.
1t appears now that the late Ernest
Jones, of Manchester, the English re-,
former, was disinherited on account Of
his polite j belief.
The London Times calls recently
issued Life of Byron dictionary or
reference Of wha; has been previously
written about him.
Col. Czabad, who has published in
Paris and Vienna a Life of Gen.
Grant" relates in it number of an;
ecdotes which were formerly told Of
old Gen. Scott, and of which he makes
Gen. Grant the hero.
An English Judge, Baron Anderson,
on being asked to give his opinion ~
to the proper length of Sermon re-
piled Twenty minutes, with lcan.5
ing to the side of mercy"
Napoleon the Third has ordered NJ
Grivot, young portrait painter, 70
paint full size portraits OF President
johnson and General Grsnt, for the
galleries of Versailles.
You ought always to take me oit
with you, my DEAR" said wife; you
know they say that happiness was
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Siaincse twin" said the brute.
The Paraguayan Lopez meant to die
at Augostura in the high Roman fash.
ion, and handed a revolver to his Ad-
iutant to shoot him with. But when
the weapon was made ready Lopes
fed.
A contemporary says that Victor
Hugo has given The new Cretan En-
voy q general letter of introduction
to the people of the United States"
Victor must think that he knows us
all pretty well.
At Glasgow, February 18th, during
a severe gale, chimney eighty feet
high, fell to the ground, completely
burying q house and killing five wo-,
men, a}rnan and two children who
we're in bed at the time.
Gen. Grant received the other day
By express, stout, new three-string.
ed broom with red, white, blue handIe.
Several persons were present IN the
Generals room when it was handed
to him, and numerous jokes passed as
to its being an intimation that no
should ''sweep clean," but the Gem
eral himself expressed no opinion.
The Patina, or green rust. whick
shows itself on ancient coins, it is stat.
ell, may be removed when in an Incl
pient state from modern coins by the
point of q common lead pencil. A
fne lustre, which Will protect the coins
from the attacks of green rust, 1t IS as
serted, can be impaired by soft brush
ON which very small quantity OF
piumbage has been rubbed.
Henri Bochefort lives in Brassels'
in very fine house, for which he pays
10000 francs q year rent he keeps
a splendid carriage, half dozen ser.
wants, and gives expensive entertain.
menfs. The DIE Deesr,sys, the Bon
apartist weekly, of Paris, calls upon
the French Democrats no longer to
pa:ronize man who, while pretending
to be their special champion, leads the
life of Syharitic aristocrat
The telegraphic communication be-
tween England and the Continent Of