The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-01-14
NEWS ITEMS.

nounce that the r~eappearaneef OF the
great comet of 1856 is near at hand.
Il A little girl in WatsrvIies Ct,
more than a year ago, swalloweda nee
die, and on New Years day it cane out
of her knee.
e. Hon. james NJ Mason ischo.
sen President of the U. S. Senate. He
is a Virginian and the author of the Flu
gitive Slave Law.it ,GilI0R g
e. Conductor Pittman, on the Ban
COR and Portland Railroad, was mar
ried on his W train, having taken his
minister along in the cars from Bangor
The Cincinnati Gazette, of the
9th, says the ice bridge oVer the Ohio
was completed yesterday year with
in a day of the time of its becoming pas
sable last year. 60, T.
Il The N. Y. Evening Post says
there are at least two thousand gamb@
ling houses in that city, and probably a
hundred faro banks. Wall street "in-
situations :" are not included.
e. Our Government l~and-costs-one
dollar an acre on an average, and cham
payne two dollars a bottle. How many
a man dies laudless, who during his life
has swallowed a township-trees and
all.
e The emperor of China has re-
fused to receive a communication from
President Pierce, forwarded by DIR. Par
ker, who is at Foo, chow-foo. A letter
from the Queen of England, forwarded
some time since, met with a similar
fate. rs
E4 Pennsylvania claims the honor
of originating the first Agricultural So
ciety in this country after the Revolu-
ton. It was founded in 1885, and
Judge Richard Peters was its president
and active, promoter and patron. Z
E. In Lancaster, Mass, the facto-
ry operatives stampededn through
the windows on last Saturday evening,
the superintendent having locked the
doors. A dispute as to the hour of quit
ting work on Saturday led to the excite
ment.
Ea A man in Berlin, Prussia, who
vas laboring under pecuniary difficult
ties, cut up his wife and two children
with a Ratchet, and then cut his own
throat. The next day, a lottery ticket.
which he held, TURNED up a prize of forty
thousand francs.
WISCONSIN PEAT.-Near Madison,
Wisconsin, there are extensive beds of
peat, which is considered preferable to
the best Ohio coal for fuel, and yields,
also, superior Illuminating gas. A re-
cent survey gives the extent of the beds
at 34s, $40 tons, worth about a million
of dollars.
e. The murder mania among the
convicts of the Charlestown, Mass. ,
State Prison is not yet subdued. A
day or two since two of them were taken
from the work shops and placed in close
confinement-one for sharpening a file
into a deadly weapon, and the other for
threatening an officer.
EI George Freanor, brother to the
celebrated Mustang" %. correspondent
of the New Orleans Delta, is the mes
senger selected by the Buchanan Flee
toral College of California, to, carry the
vote of that body to Washington: His
mileage and pay will amount to a large
sum.say, at least, $4,000. .ia
E A base attempt to soil the pu-
rity of the judicial ermine WIS made on
Thursday last, by a peddler of oranges,
in Louisville, who offered the judge of
the police court a basket of oranges,
as a bride for his acquiescence in the Vi
olation Of the ordinance against ped
ding without license.
Il. The new Chief of Police of New
Orleans has adopted a novel mode of
notifying the public of the personal APP
pearance of the light fingered gentry,
1t is to fasten their hands behind them,
place a poster upon their backs, with
name, profession, &C., thereon, and pa
rade them about the hotels and other
public places. a-...f s.4
e. 1t is stated that private advices
have been received at the seat of gov
ernment from Washington Territory to
the effect that the Indian chief, Leschi,
the leader of all the ~marauding bands,
and the terror of the whole country, has
been captured and was to be executed
in a few days. This, says the letter will
restore peace and quiet throughout the
Territory.
IL A "horning party :" in a town
near Rochester, last week, were treated
to sweetmeats seasoned with ipicac, in
the most approved style, by the annoyed
couple, who had heard tidings of the en-
t%ertainment in store for them. The
doctor who sold the bride the dose, was
soon called upon by the whole party, all
suffering from severe stomach ache, and
they were treated to an. emetic which,
it is presumed, purged them of all de