The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-07-04

muskets which slipped 30 mysserlously
into q Russian port are said to be a
part Of the celebrated Grape-shot'scarg
@ The Greensburg (Pa.) Demo
erat that a child is still liv-
ing that was born at Salisbury, having
three heads.
* The editor of the Detroit Times,
concluding an article IN Lucy STONE,
says "Petticoats are up, that's 4 fact. "
EA proposition to extend the
right of suffrage to colored men was vo-
ted down on the 31st, in the C~onnerti:
cut House of Representatives, by a ma
jority of twenty.
FIt is calculated that the Ger
man emigration to the Uni ed States this
year, according to the rates at which it
is going on, will number about 10000
soals: and that the British emigration
to the same ports will number about TO-
600.
THE DIFFERENcE.--There are in the
Russian Empire only t%hirty-four towns
with more Than twenty thousand inhaD-
itants. In the United States, a country
much newer than Russia, there are
thirty towns of twenty Thousand and up
ward, whose aggregate population is q
291 ,6Oo. This fact shows the difference
in the social condition Of the two coun-
tIies.
EVermont produces four staples,
namely men, women, maple sugar and
horses. SAKE says:
1.-THE first are strong, the last are feet.
Thu second and third are exceeding sweet.
And all are uncommonly hard to beat"
EM Mans happiness springs mainly
from moderate troubles, which afford
the mind q healthful stimulous, and are
followed by . reaction which produces
q cheerful flow of spirits.
The Clermont (Ohio) Sun says
that sixty Knew Nothings have left the
lodge in Felicity Council in that coun.
W. duu budb LuC MuOlC OL0CA 10 AGPPANAy
dwindling, sicxly, running down.
SAN BERnARDINo CoUNTY.-This
is the largest county in California in ex-
tent Of territory, albeit one of the most
thinlj populated. From tho Los An
gekes Star we learn that a census has
been taken within the city limits of San
Bernardino, and the result, as aseer-
tanned, numbers one thousand belonging
to the Mormon church, and three hun
dred Gentiles or outsiders.
"A New REs1EENF.-The Hon. J.
B. Weller, United States Senator, has
arrived in the city, and taken rooms
temporarily at Miss Clark's, on J-street.
It is his intention to become a permanent
resident of the city, to which end he has
purchased the new and elegant frame
building at the corner of F and Elev-
enth-streets, opposite the residence of
DR.. S. A. McMeans, and formed a law
cop~artnership with j. Nicely johnson.
-Sacyun1ento Union.
The Shasta Courier says that the
travel to and through Shasta was never
greater than it is the present season.
Crowds of people, sometimes as high as
one hundred and fifty or two hundred
per day, are continually passing through
there On their way to the virgin mines
of the North.
-MISING IN CALArERAs.-On the
Calaveras, at Stewards Hill, discoveries
of hill diggings have been made, of al
most fabulous extent aud richness. On
Thursday last Martins company took
SO, 900; and another company takes out,
as We are credibly informed, $500 dali
ly. The claims on the hill average al
most equally rich.
NEVADA DrGeINGs.-From the
Grass Valley Telegraph we learn that
a party of miners at work at Long Hol-
low, about two weeks age, struck on a
very rich quartz lead, from which they
have since been taking out from $500
to $500 per day, using only a hand-mor-
tar.
-RoAcH's HILL.-Low & Co. took
out ninety ounces last week. This is
the result of forty-fve days works, ma
king a yield of more than two ounces
per day to the hand. This company
have been in over two months.
AT Iowa Hill the Jamison Comp
ny, ten shares, took cut $1,000 during
the week ending May 7, making the
gross proceeds of the last four weeks
S22, 600, less expenses $500 per week
go, 900 clear yield, OF So 1000 per share.
The Company have ground enough strip
ped to yield five times that amount
Placer Co Herald.
TRIAL OF BUaRrs.-Burris, who
murdered his wife and four children,
and then set his house on FIRE, in Multi
nomah County, on the morning of the
I'd of January last, was tried last month
in the District Court before Judge Oh
ney, and after an immense amount of tes-
timony being taken, the great burden of
which was to the effect that Burris was
possessed of the devil and insane at the
time, the jury returned the following
verdict: We find the prisoner not
QuiAy by reason Of arrangement Of
mind" Burris killed his wife, two girls
and two boys, with a meat-axe, and when
questioned admitted the fact, saying
that the devil had ordered him to do so.
He vas greatly addicted to liquor.