The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-12-10
NEWS ITEMS.

In Wheeling, last week, a number
of dry-goods clerks amused themselves
one evening by hurting a few dozen rot
ten eggs at the windows and doors of
the store of a merchant who had refused
to accede to a movement set on foot for
the early closing of stores.
The Newport Ne1cs says that the
Sherifs throughout the State of Rhode
Island have adopted q uniform style of
dress for court and State occasions
Among other features of it is the State
coat of arms worn upon the buttons.
The Providence Journal publishes
a history of lotteries in Rhode Island,
from which it appears that there was
scarcely a church or religious society in
the State which did not, at some period
of its existence, derive advantage from
them, however shocking it may row ap-
pear.
DR.. HenryWales, recently deceased,
bequeathed 1,400 volumes to the Lii.
brary of Harvard College, among them
being works in Sanscrit, italian and
German. He also left $4,000 to es-
tablish a Professorship of Sanscrit Lit
erature in the College.
"A lady named Roper, in Jay street,
New York, gave birth to triplets a few
days since. They arc all boys, and one
came into the world ffty-four hours be-
fore the other two made their appear
ance.
1t is said that the duty on milk
brought in from Canada, is so high that
milkmen on the borders, instead of send
ing their milk into the States in cans,
drive their COWS over the line, milk them
on the American side, and then drive
them back. Cute as any Yankee trick.
Twelve of the superb capitals which
were to surmount the great columns in
the rotunda of the new Custom House
at New Orleans, costing $4,000 each,
were lost recently in the steamship Oil
plant.
Lola Montez is coming to the U.
States to superintend the education OF
her adopted chiId-the offspring of Foil
and, her manager, who was drowned.
Blankets were first made at Bristol
in England, by a poor weaver, whose
name was Thomas Blanket, and who
gave his name to his peculiar manufac-
ture of wooden cloth.
Tho Daily Times says that NJ.
Kossuth realized e3 900 sterling by his
series of lectures in Scotland, last sea-
SOD; and hat he has received eighty in
vitations for winter lectures in Great
Britain.
Fanny Kemble is about to visit St.
Louis to give Shaksperean readings.
Thence she will start again upon her
travels through the United States.
John NJ. Clayton graduated at Yale
College, Connecticut, in 1915, in the
same class with the Hons. Truman Smith,
of Connecticut Thomas A. Marshall,
of Kentucky; Isaac E. Holmes, of South
Carolina; and Grin Fowler, of Massa-
chusctts, members of Congress and also
James G. Percival, the poet.
In the Criminal Court of Charles
ton, South Carolina, on Friday last, a
man was sentenced to Imprisonment for
six months for illegally whipping a slave.
DARE NOT CoNTEsr.-The Fusion pa
pcrs of Ohio are giving currency to a
rumor that Col. Watson, of this Dis,
~tricts, intends contesting the seat of
Judge Hall, on the ground that Hall
had not resigned his -judgeship. MI.
Watson has authorized us to say that he
never c~ountenanced the silly assumption,
and that he has never had the least idea
of contesting Judge Halls seat on the
question of eligibility.-Seneca .Adver.
PURCHASE OF U. S. SrocKs.-The
Secretary of the Treasury offers to pur-
chase, between this and the Sd of March,
the sum of $4,000 600 of stock of the
loans of the United States, and will pay
therefor, in addition to the interest ac-
crued from the last s~emi-annual divi-
dend of interest thereon, together with
one days additional interest for the
money to reach the vendor, the follow
ing rates of premium OF said stocks {:
For the stock of 1S47 and 1949, q pre-
MUM of 10 per cent. And for the
stock of 1850, commonly called Texas
Indemnity Stock, a premium of six per
cent.
THE TERRIToRY OF "AR1zoNA."-The
residents of the Gadsden purchase are
taking measures to organize that Terri
tory, which they propose to call Carl
IONA" They have elected Nathan P.
Cook their delegate to Congress, to
which body they will forward a memori-
al signed by 200 names, praying for a
division of the Territory of New Mexico,
and the formation of a new government
in the Gadsden purchase. The estima-
ted population of the new Territory is
about 10000.
New CENT CorNs.-The U. s. Assis-
tant Treasurer at Boston, in reply to
applications for the new emission OF