The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-08-02

After partaking of an elegant collation.
they returned to the city, and left for
the Indian Territory at $50 P. NJ.
BREVITIEs.
"Bridal bathing costumes are an
nounced.
Croquet is the popular game at Long
Branch.
The Chicago reporters accuse each
other of having 'canal horse check"
Ambrose Thomas, not Gouncd. is
to have Auber's chair in the Paris
Conservatory.
General Meade, Colonel J. w. For
ney, Senator Stockton and Ole Bull
are at Cape May
= John Morrissey and John G. Hee-
nan were recent visitors at the Round
Lake camp-meeting.
Hon. Simon Cameron and family
are spending the summer at Bedford
Springs, Pennsylvania.
A New London Firemen's Debating
Society are endeavoring to extinguish
the Darwinian theory.
Hallam Tennyson, son of the poet,
has recently won a prize for a poetical
essay at Marlborough.
General Halleck has been elected
President of the association of veterans
of the Mexican war.
Mr.. Rice has been compelled to
withdraw from the Harvard. crew by
attack of measles.
Theodore Tilton says Victoria
Woodruff is one of the most upright,
truthful, religious and unsullied souls
he ever met. Theodore is easy suited.
John Shipman has just died in
North Springfield, Vermont, at the
age of one Hundred years,
less four months.
The Fourth was celebrated in the
Yosemite Valley by the firing of ali
wills. The echo of each report lasted
about five minutes.
A foreigner hoped that if that was a
Fourth of July, Heaven would delive,
him from the other three-quarters.
Boston Post.
Ismail Pasha has SEM twenty thou
dollars to the French Consul at
Alexandria for the orphans made in
the late civil strife.
A Utica man sat on his umbrella at
a lecture to prevent its theft. When
he got up it was gone, and he wants to
know, you know.
The railroad running southeast from
San Francisco toward Arizona has
been completed to Hollister, a distance
of nearly one hundred miles.
The excess of women in Great Bri-
tain, as revealed by the recent census,
is exciting much attention. The dis
proportion between the sexes is 913,-
1872.
The Boston Post wants to know if
the man in the Journal of Health who
harps about 'the necessity of warmth
for the human body" is satisfied now?
Charles Adams, the Boston tenor,
is engaged at the Imperial Opera
house, Vienna, for four years, with an
annual salary of fifteen thousand flor
ms.
Ben DeBar, the st. Louis manager,
will make his debut next season as
Falstaf. 1t is stated that he has been
studying the character for over two
years.
The young nan at Hamilton who
shot himself in showing how Mr.. Val
landigham shot himself, in the attempt
TO explain how Myers shot himself, is
recovering.
The one %hundredth anniversary of
the birthday Of Alois Senefelder, the
inventor of TYPOGRAPHY, will be cele-
brated in New York on the 9th of next
A part of the house in which Steph.
en- A. Douglas taught school, at Win
chester, Scott County, Illinois, is still
standing, and is now used as a black
shop.
Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren is compile
ting the memoirs, commenced by his
of Colonel Uric Dahlgren, in
volving many incidents of interest and
deeds of heroism.
Mr.. William Gregory, who was re-
markable in the British House of
for his Confederate sympa
thies, is about to assume the duties of
of Ceylon.
Jim Sinh, a colored gentleman, who
used to fiddle in saloons in Savannah,
Georgia, is now a District Judge in
South Carolina. This would be call
ed a nice thing in Oberlin.