Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1870 — State Fairs for 1870. [ARTICLE]

State Fairs for 1870.

Kansu. Fort Scott..... ■ .•••• ■ .... W*? Illinois. Becatnr. .....Sept MioOct. 1 Nebraska, Brownville.... Sept. 90-M Kentucky, Henderson . ■ •-Oct. Ohio. Springfield WP*; J»-ro Michigan. Jackson -Sept. Wisconsin, Milwaukee Sept 37-80 Georgia, Atlanta •;£<*■ Penmv (vania. Scranton .Sept. 37-30 Now York, Ulka ........ .Hept. V 7-." St. Louis Associatioc, St. Louis. Oct. 8-7 Ontario Provincial, Toronto ...:.■ •- OcMLj Central Michigan. Lansing .....Sept. 14-16 Arkansas, Utile RocK.^--. w ■ ■ ■ ... -Oct. 11-14 Until September next the present liquor law of Massachusetts is in force, and the sale of anything to be drank on the premises is illegal. On the Ist of September, under the new law, if seven citizens of a town and fifty of a city have petitioned for a popular vote, an election is to be held to decide whether the sale of ale, lager beer and cider will be allowed. If affirmatively decided, it will bo legal to sell these beverages over the bar to be drank on the premises, A. visitor at Mr. Dickens* house writes to a Boston friend that Mr, Dickens, after he received the fetal paraly tic stroke, never regained consciousness, but for “.twen-ty-four hours he breathed heavier and heavier, louder and louder, until a quarter of an hour before he expired he began to sob. At last the tears rolled down his furrowed cheek, and with one last sob his spirit departed.” . ..