The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-11-08
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OFFICIAL@dppOt"I"SeIteSO Y1peCA
ideut4Geo. L Curry, of Oregon, to be
Governor of the Territory of Oregon.
William FL. Farrar, of Oregon, to be
Attorney of the United States for the
Territory of Oregon.
BENJAMIN f. Harding, of Oregon, to
be Secretary of the Territory ofOregon
q New YoRK, Nouen1ber IA Wash
inpton correspondent of the Tribune
~teiegraphs that the British Government
has issued orders to its naval officers and
dipIomatic agents in the West Indies
and Central America, which amount to
the abandonment of the Musquito Pro
Htectorate, as far as Greytown Is concerned
the officers being directed not to inter
fere in any way except as to claims CT
actual British subjects for demands for
damages in the bombardment of Grey
town, which are 20 be taken note of.
The FAMED JoHS SAwYEE.-This
venerable clergyman, aged 90, lately
preached By appointment in a town In
New Hampshire, where he began lis
ministry IS years ago. He vas accom-
napied by. a deacon Of his church aged
IS who has lived on the PeHObscot river
: for half a century, and has never been
down to its mouth, since be went up to
settle in a wilderness, as it were, in
1904.
GRAEr LITERARY FEsTTvAL.-One of
the greatet literary festivals oftLe year,
in New York, viii be the anniversary;
celebration of the historical
Society, which takes place next month
ThAHon. George Bancroft will be the
orator at the public services. The
dinner will be attended by the most
eminent Americans interested in histori-
cal subjects. Lamartiny and Guisot
are expected to send replies to the urgent
solicitations ahey have personally re-
ceived to be present on the oecasids
sa ETexas has almost entirely gone
for Maine Ei4o& Law In the recent
INSTRUMENTATION PsNsc.
II the Maine-Law consists fa fofeias
people to buy their hquor-one quart
at a time and no less-we agree that
Texas has gone for 1t to the amount of
about onesthird her poplulation.-A
TEXAS Exchange.
@ The Times says that Capt. OIL
iYer Byrne, military and civil engineer,
lately a resident of New York city, has
gone to Russia, by invitation of the Car,
to occupy aposition in the Russian army.
This Byrne is the author ola mechan-
ical dictionary issued in parts by the Ap-
fpletons.
EA counterfeiter was arrested in
Farmville, Va, last week, having con-
eealed in the leg of his boots six thou
sand dollars of spurious bank bills On
his person were also found instruments
for changing ones and tens and hun
dreds. He was safely locked in Jail in
Prince Edward County.
49, e One of the most elegant church.
es in New York, now building in the
upper part of the city, is paid for out
of the proceeds of an acre of land left
many years ago by a ~parishioner to one
, of the elergymen for the pasturage of a
COW.
A WEALTHY WooD-sAwYER.-It is
stated that there is a wood-sawyer IN
Boston whose interest income Is $500
per year, and that his occupation yields
him an average income of "a per day.
E9Mr. Mccormick has obtained a
verdict of So, $50 in the United States
Circuit Court, at Albany, New York.
against Seymour and Morgan, for in
~ffingement of his reaping machine pat
ent.
WAsH1SGroN, November PIT is un.
derstood that Willard Hall, CT Nilsson.
ri, will be appointed Governor of Ne
braska, nice Burt, deceased
The Chinese spend annually 100000,
900 for incense to burn before thell
idols above IS. for svery man, woman
and child in the Empire, :
IL The Albany papers notice tht
Indictment of one " DR.. Duval,n ofthai
/, city, for publishing obscene books. Hi
publications have been in legal difficult
ty.
A singular fatality seems IL
pursue the buildings on the site of thl
New England. That of last night wal
the fourth time that corner has beer
consumed within eighteen years.-Czepe
4la71d Leader, Saturday.