The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-11-08

Grants new stables In Washington
are trimmed with Seneca stone.
Kansas cattle are dying with the
Spanish fever-whatever that may be.
The apple crop is estimated at 3d.
600 bushels in Minnesota this year.
When does a man feel girlish P
When he makes his maiden speech.
Buffalo hams on the southern Dor.
der of Kansas are selling at five cents
a pound.
Heavy frosts that occurred in Au-
gust materially injured the Montana
wheat crop.
Two young ladies took the $500
prize for the best bale Of cotton, at
Little Rock, Arkansas.
There are 12,775 Germans in Kan
sas. In Illinois there are 103, 73S, and
in Missouri 113, 61S.
A timely fall of, rain on the 18th
saved Topeka, Kansas, from being
destroyed by a prairie fire.
Hundreds of tons of hay have been
destroyed by prairie fires in Greenwood
County, Kansas.
Ladies are canvassing WiDona for
bedding, clothing and money for Min
nesota frontier sufferers.
Five hundred white topped wagons
passed through Washington, Kansas,
going West In two weeks.
Cow-catchers are now placed on the
bows of Mississippi steamboats,, the
water is so low.
Don't expect too much morality
from your editor, for evil communica-
tions corrupt good manners.
Grant has refused to accept-an in
~vitation to see Franklin statue unveiled
in New York.
Gustave Tonnetz, long celebrated in
Paris as the "swaIlower of sabres," has
died of a throat disease.
A district of nine by four miles, in
Santa Cruz County, CAL, on the Wat
sonville road, was recently swept by
fire.
The quiet citizens of Nevada are
consuming their valuable time in
catching and hanging the late occu-
pants of their ~penitentiarY.
The delay in the arrival of the Rus
sian feet is attributed in naval cir
Giles to the fact that it is making its
way to this country nnder sail.
Bertha Smith, a young girl of elev-
en- years, committed suicide in New
York by swallowing Paris green, be-
cause her parents prevented her at
tending a party.
The mountains and forest in Ulster
County, N. Y, are burning. The
Flatbush fires have been extinguished,
but the Shawangunk Mountains are
still On fire.
1t appears the New York Reception
Committee of the Grand Duke cum
mitted the blunder of sending no in
vitations to representatives of foreign
nations in that city.
The Bank of Montreal has decided
to establish a branch bank in Chica-
go. It will be opened at the corner
of Market and Madison streets, as
soon as a proper vault can be built.
Treasurer Spinner the ap-
plication of a party who lost a small
sum of legal-tender notes by the Chi
cago fire, that it is only in the power
of Congress to afford relief.
In Northern Iowa, Notwithstanding
the ravages of the potato bug at the
beginning of the season, potatoes have
not been SO large or plentiful for years
as at present. They are selling at %
cents a bushel.
1t is cheerful to be sitting in a rail
road a going at the rate OF forty
miles an hour, and have a man pass
through the train and leave a tract in
your lap entitled, prepare to Meet
Your God"
A Milesian born on the last day of
the year fe~iicitatcs himself ON the
narrow escape from not being born at
all. BE jabers," said he, 'tand if it
had not been till the next day what
would have become of me !"
A New York belle, who was pur-
chasing some gloves, told the clerk she
wanted them of a "subdued mouse
COLOR" The clerk said they were out
of that shade but suggested ''infuri-
ated rat" as q substitute. He was
discharged.
The following epitaph is from a
cemetery in Cape May County, New
Jersey: G
MARY JANE,
Aged IL yrs. 8 mos.
She was not smart, she was not fair,
But hearts with grief for her are swellin';
All empty stands her little chair
She died of eatin' watermelin"
Gold has been discovered in the