The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-07-26
BREVITIES.

The melon (colic1 days are coming.
The song of the day-"Shoo fyP
Skating is poor in and about Ashland.
It rains a dozen times a day h~ereabouts
Peaches and pears promise to be pleanty,
Ripe peaches are appearing in our market
Threshing machines are doing a land Of
fee business just now.
A colored jury convicted Bowen-Grant
pardoned him.
These cold nights and hot days will pro-
duce fall chills.
An exchange admits that Grant is a man
offne presents.
Mr.. Dadd, of Iowa, is the dad" of 19
children-eight pairs and three aces.
Philip Martin, of Milton Tp., possessed
ayoung duck having four legs-The duck
is dead.
The Marshal and a posse of men are
Strengthening the Mansfield road.
Painting mp seems to be the order of the
day-Keep the brush moving.
The walls of the new block on Main St.,
are being rapidly built.
Ifyou are likely to drown, get out of the
water.
Hay making has to be done between
-. showers.
Look out for canines-Dog days are close
at hand.
Wheat has gone up at the warehouse-in
an elevator.
Our devil thinks working between meals
Injuries his health
The prospect for a Fair at Ashland this
fail looks "misty."
Read our advertising columns if you de-
sire to know where to get good bargains.
The excursion party of this place has ar
EISeu sdie liz SOunuo aAu TepOitd PiSdS1A1
journey.
John Rosamond, of Youngstown. NOR
PINNED his chips in, near Pittsburg, last
Sunday.
The Ohio is running dry, owing to the
extravaganza of Cincinnatians in watering
their whiskey.
Colfax ran down to Chicago a moment or
two last week. Politically he has been rum
ming down very fast for some time.
nent young lady had dropped ono of her
curls in front of the post-ofice. 1t was false
Mrs. Peter Mattimore, of Toledo, lighted
a fire with kerosene Saturday evening, and
was buried on Monday.
Noyes, the Radical candidate for Cover
nor, lost more than forty legs during the
war according to reliable accounts.
Eddie B. Wells. aged IS. was drowned at
Petroleum Center on Sunday, while trying
to rescue a drowning companion.
Drink nothing without seeing it; sigr
nothing without reading it, and make sure
that 1t means no more than it says.
Greeley's claim that he is a self-maLe man
is fortified by the fact that he is altogether
the poorest job that has been ut up since the
seventeenth century.
minister not long since preached from the
text. "Be We therefore steadfast )" but the
printer made him expound from BE we
there for breakfast"
Hot weather, bed bugs, h~ydrophobia, Gu
cumbers, cholera morbus, doctor bills and
empty pocket books are the prevailing cpl
denies just now.
Grandma" said a shrewd child, do you
want some candy pr Eyes dear, J should
like some" '"Then if you will buy me some
I will give you half" said Polly,
Franklin said: "a newspaper and Bible
in every house, and a good- chool in every
district, are the principal supporters of viz
tue, morality and civil liberty"
Even the sore-tail colt at the White
House stables is not able to draw the Gov
eminent from Long Branch to Washington
these hot days. Sensible Government.
An old Michigander, who has always liv-
ed in wretched poverty, died the other day,
and q box he left contained $4,000 in gold
and silver. His son is glad the old man
didn't take it with him.
Dom Piatt describes the Radical leader
in Congress admirably. He says: He steals
with a grace: he defrauds with a blessing.
Rising in his seat he says: In the name OF
God, let US rob somebody.
Reader, if you owe for this paper that you
are reading, you ought to make it a matter
Of duty to pay for it Immediately No pa
per ought to be read until it is pIid for
Don't you think SO?
The wife of T. B. Murdoch, of Eldorado,
Kansas, cut the throat of one of her child
rem and then her own during a fit of tempo
rary insanity. She died from the effects of
the wound on Sunday last.
Colored preachers at the South, when
their health requires u summer vacation,
steal two or three hogs, and the State pays
their board bills away from home for sixty
days.
The abstaining Boston people have re-
sorted to tea punch. They make it with
"one bottle of champagne, one bottle Of
whisky, one bottle of rum, two bottles of
claret, a lemon, and a tablespoonful of tea"
The Paulding Plain Dealer has the fol-
lowing item: awe have been informed that
Mr.. Asa Smiths wife, of Crane township,
some weeks since, gave birth to three babies,
two girls and one boy, all of which are still
living and doing we'll.