The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-09-15
Miscellaneous.

NlIlSly youthful uOIlhcIS WdllL W
marry Sophie Worrell, the actress.
Fourteen of Anna Dickinson's audi
tors at a lecture in Sacramento surviv-
ed to ask her to "do it again."
The rate at which the new fast
trains between New York and Chicago
must travel to be on time, is thirty
eight miles an hour, including stops.
A San Francisco gentleman, who
describes himself as "a shrewd Italian
with a fine head of the antique type
and a former partner of Garibaldi,"
advertises the best liqueuers in FRS
co.
General Hancock and Staff left st.
Paul, Minnesota, on Monday evening,
on a tour of inspection of such mill
tary posts in the Department of Da-
kota as are situated in Minnesota and
Eastern Dakota
The Connersville CTndiana) Times
says that some days ago A. j. Ste
vens, of Columbia Township, eloped
with Miss Ellen Gilmore of the same
township. Mr. Stevens is about forty
years of age, and left a wife and six
children. Miss Gilmore is a fine look
ing, intelligent girl of eighteen. There
is considerable excitement about the
case in the neighborhood.
A raiser of poultry in Louisiana has
dug a well at the e%nterance of his hen
house, and placed a fitting cover on it.
His catch averages one negro a night.
San Francisco store keepers make
a good thing out of lack of five cent
bits. Their smallest piece is now a
dime, and the next, Of necessity, 25
cents.
An Illinois paper consoles sports
men for the light crop of prairie chick
ems this year by remarking that it will
take longer to find them.
4 young German has lost his eye
sight by IN attempt to win a bet to
swim a certain length of time or his
back in the Scheldt with his spectacles
on. a hot sun acted on the spectacles
as on a burning glass.
There is still in use in Lanark, Ill Z,
Il warehouse that was built sixty-one
years ago in New Orleans. 1t has
been three times taken to pieces and
removed, having done duty in st. Louis
for several years.
On Saturday next n race is to come
off at Wheeling, Virginia, between
Belmont Belle and Glencoe. The
heat-is-to be twenLy nliIcs.-The horses
have made that distance, in training,
in one hour and fifteen minutes.
They have a new kind of wedding
in Iowa, called 'tinvoluntary wed
ding" When a scoundrel seducas and
won't marry the girl, they point his
head at a revolver, and tell him to
''come down." or the top of his head
makes a soup-bowl. He generally
Ome
Ar editor in Brookville, Ind, has
seen a sample of the surprise OATS"
a new variety, which are said to yield
from one hundred and twenty-five to
one hundred and forty bushels to the
acre. The meal ground from these
oats excels that which is imported
from Europe, and the Chicago brewers
say that they are likely to take the
place of barley in malt making.
An unreconstructed fellow tells a
horrible tale of the Port Royal Ma
tional Cemetery. 81 tell you," he
says, ''there is many a boy a in
blue there, and then, again, there are
some chaps in that place who ought to
grin in their collins for being there.
The burging was done by contract,
and a fellow got SO a head for bring
ing them in. l tell you some chaps
were brought in that the Yanks hadn't
declared dlvidens on-a good many
gray jackets, for instance. But the
strangest tricks were these: They dug
up men and then divided them, so
that a ten-dollar job, by separating
arms, legs and head, was made to pay
five hundred per cent. 1t was a cute
thing, you bet and 1 should not won
der if some bummer's skull was at
that gate, and his big toe clean half
mile away down in yonder corner.
They did worse than that. They dug
up two niger children out of our
graveyard, and 1 swear, to my certain
knowledge, those picaninnies are bur-
led yonder as unknown" boys in
blue l reckon they are among the in
fantry"