The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-10-18
Gatherings

Barley is selling at St. Louis at 81 S.
1 60 per bushel, which is the highest
price ever known in that market.
VIM. Westner, an engineer on the,
/ Ohio and Mississippi railroad, was muir.
dered near st. Louis, on the 4th inst.r
by a gang of laborers.
Books of subscription to the stock of
the New York and Norfolk Airline
Railroad are to be opened On the 22d
inst, along the proposed route.
Liverpool has seven miles of docks,
and over G3, 600, 900 of money have just
been voted by the town council for the
construction of more.
Rev. DIR. Schumacher formerly pastor
of the German Luthern church, at New
York, died in Belair county, Pa, on
Monday.
The receipts of cotton at New Orleans
from September LIST to October Stb ex-
coed those of the same period last year
Al, 900 bales.
The vote in California at the late cleo
ton, a total of about 5000, indicates
a heavy increase of the population since
last year.
Attorney General Gushing has gone to
Massachusetts, to be absent for about
ten days.
The coinage at the San Francisco
Mint in August, amounted to $I,774,-
49S.
Mr.. Meagher goes to California again
in December.
There arc abont eighty persons now in
Jail at Chicago.
There is a pear tree in New York city
2l3 years old.
Eighteen thousand persons in the city
of New York live under ground.
Prof. Elliott made a balloon ascension at
Magnolia, u few miles from Norfolk, oD
Sunday.
1t is estimated that the present GRIP of
hogs in Otsego county, N. Y, is worth
$500, GOO.
The Connecticut Clock makers are just
now said to be filing large orders for Chi
ma and Japan.
Cranberrics are arriving in large guam
titles at Cincinnati, and selling at $3.50
per Dbl.
1t is said shat the constitution of tho
only military company ever attempted to
be organized in Nantucket, began with
the following article-Articie EM c,ise
# wdr this company shall Immediately
disband.
The Know Nothings of New York arc
said to have $4,000 voters on their rolls
and expect with these and others that
may vote with them, to carry the State.
The notorious Mike Walsh, of New
York City, has been nominated for re-
election,
The third candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor of New York, Elijah Ford, was
nominated for the same office D5 the late
Know-Nothing Council.
The Spirit Rappings and the acrnmpa-
ryipg revelations are, to the npiIfinn of
O. a. Brownson, really superannuul, audi
the communications of demons or lying
and malignant spirits, to those who have
uuhappily fallen under their influence.
A woman has been elected constable in.
Perry CO.. I'll.
The debt of Philadelphia fast verging
on twenty millions of dollars.
A branch from a pear tree in. a thrifty
condition, over 400 years old, was exhTbI-
ted at the Newton Mass, Horticultural
Exhibition.
The State Journal of California chroni-
cles a melon in Sacramento weighing fifty
ty two aud il half pounds.
Miss Catharine Hayes late concert at
the Sandwich Islands, it is said nettcd
twelve hundred dollars.
The third portion of the telegraph wiro
connecting the Island of Sardinia with the
coast of Africa, is already attached.
10000 militia are to be enrolled and
trained in ireland next year.
A Paris correspondent of the Boston
Post says he has seen an elephant stand
on his head at a circus in that city.
A young farmer of Littleton, Massachu-
setts, who is yet hardly "done growing"
being % years of age, at present weighs
go pounds, and is six feet and Ii inches
in height.
The richest man in Providence, r. l.,
is Thomas p. Ives. He is put down at
ST, $685. 700, and is taxed Sl0,223 90
He is said to be worth about three mil
lions.
Wilhelm Schwarz and wife in
the Northern Wochenblatt-'sThis morn
ing we were DlSSSeQ Win CWlnS, u boy anu
u girl for the fourth time"
Muggins observed on the door of a
house, tie name of a physician and sur
geou, and remarked that it put him in
mind of a double barrelled gun, forif one
missed the other was sure to kill.
At the last meeting of the Know No
things, n resolution was passed against
whiskey punch, cause why, its basis comes
from ireland.
US. Senator Jones, of Iowa, bad a
fight in Dubuque last week, with Mr. p.
A. Lorrimer. Jones got severely rum-
melted for calling Lorrimer a id liar.
Ellis Burlington and VIM. England
Cherokee Indians, recently met each other
on Grand River, IN the Cherokee Nation,
and in a fight with pistols and bowie
knives both were killed.
In Canada, the ratification of the reel
procity treaty has already given an i'm
pulse to business, and the best feeling
prevails there towards the United States,
1t IS said that Arrison, the Cincinnati
torpedo murderer, has escaped from Iowa,
where it is supposed he was for some time
concealed.
The Epidemic at Charleston,-The
Charleston Mercury of Monday records %
deaths from yellow fever f r the preceding
48 hours, aud adds: