The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-12-03

nearly forty persons.
TThe Boston Post says that bran
DIV applications are recommended tor
badness. continued externally until the
hair is we'll started, and afterwards ta-
ken in generous quantities internally, TO
clinch the roots.
ga Schenectady editor, describ-
ing the effects of a squall on a canal
boat says, " when the gale was at its
highest, the unfortunate craft keeled to
the larboard, and the captain and an
other cask of whisky rolled overheard"
@ Egypt has evidently poured her
yellow treasures into Chicago, for the
Journal states the total shipments of
grain from that port thus far the pres
ent season, at over twenty millions of
bushels.
E. A mar is taller in the morning
than at night to the extent of half an
inch, owing to the relaxation of the car
tilages-ten days per anumn is the aver
age sickness of human life. About the
age of t~hirty-six the lean man generally
becomes fatter, and the fat man leaner.
e. An immense amount of counter
felt money it is said, is in circulation in
Wheeling. One of the journals of that
city states that the box office of the the.
atre is the place where those having the.
counterfeit money try to pass it, aud
one-half of the bills presented at the box
office are counterfeit.
e. ~ J. Moore, a brakeman on the
Pit,sburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railroad, was lately knocked down i'll
Crestline, and robbed of $40 and a gold
watch. His skull was badly fractured
by the bludgeon.
Es The Free State Mississippi cit
les and towns are going ahead finely. A
census of Dubuque, Iowa, just taken,
gives a population of l2,434. During
the past year new buildings were con
structed of the value of one million six
hundred thousand dollars.
Eas One of the veteran offce-holders
in this Republic, is William Hill, Sec
of the State of North Carolina.
He has been just reelected, having held
the Office, under every political phase
of the Legislature, for more than half a
century.
& The London Times is known
the world over as the Thunderer. 1t
established in 1855, by John Wal
ter, and Inherited by his son, now a mem
Der of Parliament. The Times is now
at over SO, OOO, 900. It's p%rinci-
pal editor enjoys a salary as large as the
President of the United States, and its
Paris correspondent $4,000.
E&A clergyman at an afternoon ser
vice was asked to read a notice for a
women, rights lecture, which he did in
this wise -" At half-past six o'clock,
at q school house in the first district, a
hen will attempt to crow !"
A Coon IDEA.--The following notice
is posted conspicuously in a publication
Office down East. "Shut this door,
and as soon as you have done talking on
business serve your mouth the same
way" .-sm
HEAVY Loss.-Twelvc of the superb
capitals which were to surmount the
great columns in the rotunda of the new
IN Louise at New Orleans, costing
SIS, 1000 each, were lost recently in the
ship otiphaut.
EA Western apples are selling
than was aver before known at
season of the year. Sales were
made in New York, last week, at 81
per barrel. Long Island pippins con-
tinue to be but up in that city in large
quantities for expectation at from Sc
to 50 when rolled in papers and
backed. @
EAThe largest vessel ever built
Noah's time, is to be launched in
England about the middle of rext April.
Her first trip will be to Portland, Me-,
where wharves for her accommodation
are now being built. A vessel of 500,
600 tons is a novelty in the maratime
EEThe Westminster clock bell
Is tons l8 cwt. l or. % lbs. or
I6 tons within a small fraction which
is nearly half as much again as the great
bell of York Minister ; more than twice
that of Oxford; nearly three times as
heavy as the large bells of Exeter, Lin
colin, and st. Paul's; and exactly six
lime the weight of the great bell of
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