The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-12-12
NEWS ITEMS.
IL The term of naturalization has
been reduced in Canada, from seven to
three years residence.

1Sen iSuuCSu III Odnnua, rum SS'Sn "
Z three years residence.
E William T. Talbot, d saddlel
by trade, fell dead at his bench in Bos
ton, on Friday.
:. E With the present facilities fol
divorce the free-love theory is sheer
nonsense. The supreme courtsfRhodt
Island granted thirty-six last week.
e. The house of Mr.. Chetwood.
near the Narrows, on Staten Island, was
set on fire and destroyed during the alb
sence of the family on Saturday morning
the in~cendlaries having first stripped it
of every article of furniture.
EG A Connecticut man named AL
va Harris, was fined twenty dollars and
costs at Providence last week, for selling
turkeys by balances that were SO de-
fective that he got pay for an extra
pound on every fowl sold.
E Mrs. Capt. French, an aged
lady of Gambia, N. II. was burnt to
death last week. She was reading a
newspaper alone in a room, when the
paper caught fire: and before she could
reach the room where the rest of the
family were, the flames had communica-
ted to the rest of her clothes, burning
her to such a degree as to cause death.
e A disconsolate widow arrived
at Chicago one day lest week, with the
dead body of her husband which she
was taking east. Having formed an ac-
quaintance in the ears with an agreeable
young man, who succeeded in pcrsuading
her that a live man was better than a
dead one, she left the dead body at the
depot and eloped with her new acquaint-
anee.
E A stakeholder in the Boston
and Worcester Railroad complains
through the columns of the Boston Jour
nal, of the act of the officers in giving
each of the EN-. loyees of the roads a
thanksgiving turkey. The Journal H.
forms the grumblcr hat if be owns five
hundred shares of the stock, his proper
ton of the expenses would be just n
cent!
& The body of a man named
Clements, who was killed at Newark,
N. j., by a stone thrown by the keeper
of a grog shop, remains unburied, the
Catholic priest refusing to allow it in
torment in consecrated ground because
the eoroner's inquest persisted in refus-
ing to render a verdict, as requested by
him, that the DECEASED was not intoxi-
Gated at the time he was struck.
LOUIS NAPOLEON IN OUR GRAM MARI
EErs.-The Rochester Union states that
the agents of the French Emperor have
been largely engaged this fall in pur-
chasing wheat in the West on his account
They have purchased 10000 bushels,
of which $50, 900 came to BuHA and
100000 to Oswego. All but 10000
vent down the Erie Canal. The same
agents are still buying in Illinois and
other western States, to go down to the
Mississippi and out by New Orleans.
e TuoMAs SOONER, President,
and JOHN E. REEs, Secretary, of the
State Council of Ohio, have called a
meeting of the State Council of Know
Nothings, to be held at Columbus OF
Thursday, the Sd day of January next.
The call says:
Delegates whose credentials were filed
md accepted at the annual meeting in
Cleveland, will be entitled to seats in
he extra session. Delegates from
Councils not represented at the annual
will be required to present reg
liar authenticated credentials to %entitle
hem to seats at this session. 1t is very
important that a full attendance be had,
nd it is hoped that every working Coun-
il in tie State will be represented.
CAxNIBALs AMONG THE INDIANs-The
ION. G. D. Williams recently returned
o Detroit from a visit to the Chippe-
,as, who resides heal Grand Portage.
,ithin a few miles of the national boun-
airy betweenthe United States and Can
da. While there he became ~acqnaint-
d with the Bots Torte Indians, a tribe
hat often suffers from a want of provi-
ions. The last winter was a peculiarly ;,
ard one, and in the course of it this
ribe were reduced to the revolving and
orriblc strait of eating their own chill
rem, which they did to the extent of al
lost determination. He saw and con-
with two women of the tribe, one
f whom had given up two and another {
lree children, successfully, to be slain.
nd eaten. We had hardly supposed !
nat cannibals existed SO near our rcry
LOLA MoNrEz AGAIN IN TnouBbE.- f
he Chronicle learns from a passen-
sr on the What Cheer from Australia,
lat Lola Montez had a stormy passage i
ON this point to Sidney. The lap-dog t
Lola was at fault in some matter of $
when the mate gave him a !;
ok. Lola seeing this rudeness, drew G
# dagger and attempted to stab the r
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