The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-08-15

pG-A revolt recently took place in the st.
Louis penitentiary, in which some forty con-
Yicts were engaged. Twenty escaped, and
about twenty were re-captured. In the affair
seven prisoners were severely wounded, and
three killed out right by the guards of the
prison.
A French armorer has sent to Garibaldi a
gift of a coat of mail, dagger proof and bullet
proof. Its workmanship is perfect, and it is
valued at upward of five thousand francs. 1t
NAV be worn under the uniform, like a shirt,
for it is extremely flexible, light and portable.
A young lady says the reason she carries a
parasol, is that the sun is of the masculine
gender, and she cannot Withstand his ardent
glances.
THE WIDE AwAKEs GETTING SLEEPY. =
Old Abe seems to possess a strong mesmeric
influence over the Wide Awakes without
intending it, for they are every where becom-
ing awfully drowsy, will be fast asleep and
rigid before the November election.
nA-One hundred little boys escaped from
the Rochester House of Refuge one morning
last week, and the some afternoon the same
one hundred little boys were rc-captured and
soundly spanked.
p&-A man died of apoplexy the other day
in Michigan. The next day the coroner held
an inquest, when the following verdict was re-
turned "Died from a visitation of one beet
steak, eight cold potatoes and a fried pie"
| pas-The New York City Board of Alder
men on Tuesday evening appropriated SlO5,
900 to defray the expenses attendant on enter
tanning the Japanese Embassy, in lieu of the
$50 800 originally appropriated:
Rsy-The Houston CTexas) cotton Statement
shows that since the LIST of September, 1859
up to the present time, only 110,403 bales O.
cotton have been shipped from that State
leaving yet ON hand 2,726 bales of the stock
of the year.
nM-In the British Parliament there ha
been a debate on the expenses of the Chimes.
war, and Mr.. Gladstone made a statement tina
the amount required would be no less thar
e54,000,00o.
nA-A market gardner, in Southern Indiana
! has a "patch," containing LOO acres, plantet
in watermelons. His markets are Cincinnati
Louisville, New Albany and Chicago.
rA- The Census returns already received a
Washington, from Illinois clearly indicate tn
total population of that State to be 100000
against 85S, 900 in 1850.
nsa-A few days since, Mr.. Cory, of the firm
of Cory q Miller, In New Orleans, hung him
lself in his own store, because a note of his fo
5000 had been protested.
pas-It is stated that in his late retreat, Gen
Miramon of Mexico, lost one thousand mel
and twenty-one pieces of artillery.
ns-The Democracy of Haywood county
Tennessee, have organized at Brownsville
Little Giant Club.
Rsz-The Louisville journal says that 9th
Hon. Archie Dixon has taken the stump 70
douglas. The little Giant of Illinois couldn'
ask for a more gallant and effective ~champiol
than the tall giant of Kentucky"
m-Maj. Dan. Mace, of Indiana, who let
the Democratic party some years ago because
repealed the Missouri Compromise, has recent
IV returned to its ranks, and declares his IN
%tention to support Douglas and johnson.
n- A Breckenridge pole, which a party o
men were raising lately in Haywood county
Tennessee, fell and killed three persons.