The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-12-22

A happy Christmas to you all, therefore,
A day of rational f~easting and pious joy.
day of giving gifts to the poor or loved one
A day free from blasphemy and superstition
A day of security from persecution and mai
tyrdom. And a day of gratitude, gladnesi
and confidence in the Son of MANTLE So
of Go3--as your Savior and Sovereign.
e Rev. j. s.. Joralman and bi
wife, missionaries to China, have arrive,
at New York in a ship, after a passag
of nearly SIX months.
EASeveral noted New York thieves
and burglars sailed for Europe last week,
in cor sequence of being too we'll known
to the police.
EAA man named Kenny, residing
on the Stanislaus river, attacked a grizzly
bear, which fed for the woods, be follow.
ing and engaging in a tHssle with the
ribs and crushed one arm and one leg.
1t is thought he conuot recover
GETTING TnRoCGH THE WORLD
They pass best over the world" said
Queen Elizabeth, "Eho trip over it quick
ly; for it is but a bog-if we stop we
sink"
Il Since the disappearance of the
yellow fever in New Orleans and Gal
weston, the influenza has been very prev
aleut in those places.
+ * Baron dc Beauverger died re-
equity in Paris. He was French envoy
at Vienna nIsO9, VAST Project under
the Empi c, and an off Ger of the LEGION
of Honor. TH ~
A bill is before the Arkansas legis-
lature to prohibit the sale Of patent
medicines 10 the State.
The Indiana Legislature has a bill
before it which makes the issuing of
sbinplasters a p~enitentiary offence.
The Uuioo Arms Company of Hart
ford has thrown up its coutract TO make
%, 0G0 Mimic rifles for the British gov
ernment, after completing 10000 Of
them.
The coinage of the New Orleans mint
in Novesaber consisted of SS5 900 in
gold aud 1926, 32i in silver. The de
posits reached S247, 1873.
n a. HHa a." r= "H. H. ..rHr n
A banking firm in Indiana has issued
S25, 600 of pronlissory notes, based upon
live .stock-lO 600 head of hogs, and
1909 head of cattle, del osited in their
Owl pens.
Beavers, which were once so much
valued for their furs, aud were hunted
almost to ex~termination, are increasingly
Canada, aud are quite plenty within ten
miles of Toronto.
A safe has been invented which locks
or the inside, and leaves no keyhole or
other opening. A clock work within
opens it at an hour regulated by being set
before the door is shut.
Without a dissenting voice, the house
of representatives. of Georgia has passed
a bill repeating all lass which authorize
lotteries in that State, and prescribing
certain pepalt CO for all schemes aud sa'e
of tickets after the Est of Juke,r1s60
The Sonora carried to California, on
her last trip, 3l6 bags of mail matter,
containing. b. sides newsTa pcrs. Packages,
&C., "A 06l letters. Of these, there
were for distribution 80, sc, and for
San francisco IS sos. Caiifornians are
certainly a reading AID writing people.
The Canadian Post Office Depart
ment will introduce the system, on the
first of next year, Of carrying by mail
parcels lot exceeding two pounds in
weight. The postage will be 25 cents
on parcels not exceeding one pound, and
SO cents on those over one aud not ex-
ceediDg two pounds.
> Statistics disclose the unpleasant faet
to those intending to cross the Atlsstic,
that there is one chance out of eighty of
their never living to get to The other
side. For the last iour years about
100, 0O5 persons nave pade the trip
all told. In that tire three trans At
lantic steamers have been lost with L..
200 lives. For the past twenty yeare
the average loss of life is about one
in a hundred. 5f5s s1 a5-
The wealth of the two great centres
of Boston and New York amounts to
$780, 600, 0o0-New York having$525,-
600, 600, Boston S275 .O00, 600, or a
little more than one bali that of New
York. The property of Boston is one
hundred millions more than that of the
city of Philapelphia, and nearly three
times that of Baltimore. It is said that
Boston has. more property, per capita,
than any other city in the world.
EETbe Albany Statesman, slludiug
to a candidate for Office, who was defeat
ed in that city, says be had such an
for Office that bis friends con
cluded to scratch him..
A number of the citizens of San Die
go bse removed to the vicinity of the
where quite q settlement has
sprung up, around one of the stations of
the Overland Mail Company, aud where
the settlers have engaged extensively 10
agricultural pursuits. Aflarge breadth
of grain. has been sown, and it is expect
ed there viii be sufficient feed produced
at this point, to supply the wants of the
Mail Company on that sForticnE eft the
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