The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-12-28
NEWS ITEMS.

A man named Foster was put in jei
Cincinnati for a debt of S18. He hung
himself, and Sill in greenbacks were
found in his pocket. Perhaps he didn'
consider them money.
The minimum standard height for re
cruits for the volunteer service has beer
fixed BIZ the Secretary of War at five feet
instead of Eve feet three inches as here
tofore established.
The House of Representatives has
passed a bill providing that any alien Of
There are said to be at present five
thousand descrters from the Lincoln ar
my in Canada.
Over one thousand emigrants from
England arrived in New York, on one
ship, last week.
The regular Annual Convention of the
Ohio sorgo Association will be held in
Columbus, Ohio, at ellis Agricultural
Hall, on Tuesday January 3, 1865.
Al typographical survey of Jerusalem,
for the English Government, is being
made By a sergean. and four privates of
the engineers. A contemporary says that
if it.had been this Government it would
have sent ten brigadlers, a niger and a
) missionary to do the job.
Hon. Charles Sumner is opposed to
getting into a War withlEngland at pres
cnt. BE thinks we should put down the
Rebellion before embarkipg in another
War.
Tbe mansion occupied ~ Daniel Web
ster, at Portsmouth, N. H. during the
frst years of his practice, is transformed
into an oyestor saloon. His old Office is
nov occupied by a Peruvian guaDo agent.
They quarry salt in Russia-as We
quarry granite-it sells at $50 per block.
The American war has had the effect
Of engendering a bitter feeling between
the native Africans and tae Colonists Of
Liberia. The war has enhancedF the
prices of cotton goods there as every
xzere else, and the natives disbelieve the
existence eff the war, and.charge that tho,
Liberians have invented the story to get
higher prices for their goods, and thereby
suindle the purchasers.
The report of the Chief OF the Bureau
Of Ordinance stat,s a curious circum-
stance. II states that Of the 27,000 and
odd arms picked up On the battle field CT
Gettysburg $4,000 on examination were
found to be loaded ; one half Of those
double loaded. One fourth had from
three to ten loads in; and many had five
or six balls on top of one charge of pow
dsr. In some cases the balls were in
serted before the poH1er; and. in others,
the cartridges. were not broken at the
and. In enc musket twenty three balls,
sizty-two buckshot and a quantity of pow
der were all mixed together.
A lad named Alfred Rymell, who was
bitten by a mad dog last October, died
last week of hydrephobia at the house of
his father in Clermont County. Ohio. He
was perfectly well within a few days of
his death. He seemed conscious until
about eighteen hours before he expired.
He would avoid the sight of water by
turning bis head in an opposite direction,
ond if it was placed in contact with his
lips, would Immediately produce spasms.
For the space of one hour and a half be-
fore breathing Lis last he became calm,
as if in sleep, and died without a strug-
GLE
The Government collects on every
three dollars worth of friction matche s
about fourteen dollars andsa half in
stamps. In other words, the tax is about
four times az much as the article is WORTH
Government is a dear luxury when it
costs such taxes to support it.
u br Not long since three soldiers of
the 9Th Minnesota, who have Just return
ed from Sully's Indian Expedition, called
at q saloon in st. Peter, MINI, and be-
gan drinking beer. The three first drank
fvc glasses of beer each, as a kind of an
eye opener. They then took a seat and
called for and drank mine and % half GAL
Ions Of beer as rapidly as it could be drawn
by the half gallon. Two soldiers of the
I'd Cavalry called at the same place and
ate six cans of oysters and a half bushel
OF crackers. A Minnesota editor men,
tions these facts to illustrate how empty
men ssbecome by a long season of fasting,
and what immense expense it is upon
uncle Sam to keep up his Commissary
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