The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-08-10

a man in Germantown, near Dayton,
on Monday night. The boy was sit
ting in the door at home and the man
deliberately shot him with d pistol,
ran away and made his escape, Though
a large number of persons were In Pur-
suit, .rtl.4srsys.F adj 40 fsnei.,
A young man from the country
who had recently lived in Missouri
going from Cleveland to Toledo, on
Tuesday morning, was heeced out of
one hundred and twenty dollars bya q
confidence operator, who got on the
train at Monroeville and SOON spied'
his man and went for him. af fslk
The woman question seems to be in
rather mixed condition in China.
A man tailor may be sean working
diligently at a lady dress, for; about
sixty cents day, and :. washerman'
will wash and iron your clothes at
three dollars hundred, whilea boat
mans wife may be seen tugging at the
oar or handling the sails like, a man.
often too, with baby on her shoul'
ders. =,
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Yale College last year spent N,647
ABOVE us ine9me'b lllafa9qss 81 81
f. Boston, according to the, ANNUAL 70
port of its City Auditor, has, q ,del't.
Of s12, ,6Q2.5so, an and g popullattie'n plti'll,s os
2S5, 900. '''i''i''is5
The eight-hour system does gno2
/ work successfully in San Franciser''
and employers and laborers are, am
cably changing to the ninerhouf Plan
Boys in San Francisco, Lcslffdtnt.t
earn from S5 to SIS a day, III It's
manufacture of bags. The ,meh'
make from So to $3.50 day. "
The policemen of Chicago are being:
put upona military basis Each ct :
tion-house in that city has just ,bec;t
furnished with a dozen muskets-
The strawberry gardener ne1f
Denver, Colorado, cleared 81, 500 l'v
half an acre of plants this season. H'f
did the work himself
An aeronaut at Altoona, Georgia
hadn't the courage to go up. and the
disappointed crowd pulled him out ni
his car and sent the ballon off with
out him. G5h znisd iiu.
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Alliance, Ohio, only fell short n
few hundred in population from be-
ing city. They think they. cn'si
make it up next week by getting NJ
man from Chicago to take the densus
Judge Gray, of the Supreme Couri
at Boston, yesterday, appointed re-,
ceivers of the Hartford and Erie rail
road, requiring bonds from each in
the sum of fifty thousand dollars
The returns of the census Office at
Washington indicate that by the 18th
of August about half the country will
have been enumerated, and it is
thought the first of September will :
witness the substantial completion Of
the census. 5' Y,. aaii1sIis
A woman of thirty-6ye has been
found by census-taker at Hartford
Connecticut, who has a fanily7 of
twelve children, and all alive and I'M
good health. This is, indeed, an evi-
dence that Connecticut is "a land Of
steady habits"
Near Alexandra, Virginia, the 9th!
er day, colored man forgot bis free
dom, and, when given some work he
didn't like shouldered his, bundle
and stick and started northward on an'
old-fashioned runaway.
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| A Philadelphia youth named Gill
bert was duly arraigned before Mag
istrate, Winthrop, ,charged with as
sault with "intent to kiss the. dapgh-
ter ofEDanieI O.! Dudley, of Monmoth.
The wretch plead guilty and paid his
SO fine 3 mat Yhai z,cro7 4
( ~ - --'Ifllh ~g(I a. in9t. slai-t
Secretary Robeson recently; Feciev-
ell piece of timber from the United
States ship Pennsylvania, which was
sunk at Norfolk, Virginia, April II,
1861. and raised last month. The
wood is hard, and appareBtly well
preserved, except that il EAs been
singularly cut and bored by ihsects. :
Newark, New Jersey, has not yet
succeeded in inducing the horse rail.
road companies to run cars on Sun
day. The voters of the city declared
by large majority, that they were in
need of. such accommodation. The
expression of opinion cost four hHDd-
red dollars, but only ono company
availed of it. 10 7s39o .
.asH7G !g4-aag J9gloysI. 3fit- ijios.
General Sherman says the story
that the French Emperor has refused
to allow General Sheridan to come
within the French lines is absurd.
from the plain fact that General
Sheridan has not yet made such q re-
quest, and that 1t is not ct oil improb-
able that he may 60 to Berlin bstore
he does 10 Paris.
NJ Berthemv bas forwarded to,
Valparaiso, Chilli, t, Count Frishaud
the French Minister al Chilli. his ap-
pointment as Minister to- this coun-
try. NJ. Berthemy is of the opinion
that it will be three months before
the new Minister can get here, and
that he, Berthemy, viii continue ass
Minister until his arrival. ~
The present Charles Dickens doe,
not at all resemble his father, but is
a quiet, reticent man, about thirty
years old. with heavier features AMI
ronu1er face than his father He ia'