The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-10


~ A sad ARRAY occurred last Wednesday
night upon the road abouttw milesH Of Ash
land resulting il the instant death Of a young
man BY the name OF ALnERT S. D1EsEM. A
young fellow BY the name Of GEoRan w.
LANeFrr whose parents reside in PennsyIva-
MIA was teacher of the school ia that district.
During the afternoon of ths evening on which
the fatal atfray occurred Tiers had been some
trouble between thesteachcr ard DIEsEM.-
On that evening there was a spelling school
Attic School house. Tt was reported that
DIEsEM made threats during the evening that
he was going to whip the teacher, make him
smell gunpowder &c. Acting upon these
threats the teacher procured a pistol and after
the School closed requested some Of his schol-
airs to 50 with him to the house where he was
then boarding, near, a half mile from the
School house. When about two thirds of the
way, DIEsEM with some Others caught up with
the teacher. After some words,-as was sta
ted by witnesses before the Corcner's jury
the teacher either fell or was knocked: down ;
one witness, who seems to have been closet
to the parties, stating positively that he was
knocked down, others who were near by sta
ting that they did not see this. At any rate
while lying upon his back the teacher fred
his pistol, the bali striking D1EsEM close under
the left arm, passing through both lungs, cut
ting off a large artery and lodging in the ribs
near the backbone upon the right side
DIEsEM staggered and walked, together, clear
across to the other side cfathe road, where he
fell upon the bank aud instantly expired. The
teacher Immediately left and has not since
been heard from. DlEsEM was buried on
Friday last. RevsHEss of the German Re.
formed Church and Rev. MYERS of the Luz
theran Church officiating. A large eoncourse
of friends and relatives following him to his
grave; AS the matter viii be made the sub
ject CT legal investigation, if the teacher is ar
rested, we forbear any comment whatever
We have stated only the facts as they were
elicitcd upon the hearing before the Coroners
Jury. sALBERTS. DIEsEM was born in Hon
ey Creek township. Chester County Pa Jan
Sd, 1913, and was killed on the 3D. day of
February, 1861. aged q years and l month
He was generally beloved and respected,
and a large circle ofrOlatiyes and young ae-
quaintances deeply mourn his untimely end.
From the New Fork Tribune, Jan. 10,
HOW RA8LRSAD rs BUTLT--AT-
I LANTEC 81 GREAT WESTERN.
The noble enterprise of connecting New
York with St. Louis by a line Railroad OF uni
form six-feet guage is now SO nearly completed
that we may fairly speak of it as an achieves
ment. That line consists CT the Erie Road
from Jersey city to Salamanca on the Aliegha-
ny 4l4); thence nearly due West by the
Atlantic aud Great Western proper through
Chatauaua County, New York, and parts of
Warren, Erie, and Crawford County, Pa, into
Trumbuil County, Ohio; and 50 to its crossing
of the Cincinnati aud Cleveland Road at Gal
lion-tos which point trains now run regularly,
The work is being vigorously pushed from
this roint through Springfield to Dayton,
whence it runs ever the Hamilton Road to
Cincinnati (i39 miles from Salamanca, S52
from New Y rk), where it meets the Ohio
and Mississippi wherein its passengers are
ra pidly borne TO the Mississippi opposite St.
Louis {340=m miles turIherJ. BY next Summer,
they will takest the broad. roony cars at Jersey
City, and BE conveyed in them, without change,
to the Mississippi--a distance of nearly twelve
hundred miles. a branch of this road Cior
mcrly the Mahcning) already reaches Clcve-l
land f2t4 miles from Salamanca, 628 from
New York;, whence trains start regularly over
q uniform six feet guage for this City, The
Oil region of Pennsylvania and Ohio lies very
near the line Of the Atlantic and Great West
ern, and is tapped by branches running from
Cory to Ti:usville (Oil Creek and from Mead
vile to Franklin, Nenango County, Pennsyl-
vania. Tie Oil of itself furnishes to the main
line more freight than it can move, though a
large addition to its rolling stock has been con-
tracted for, and viii be soon forth coming. The
Atlantic ard Great Western, though not yet
o5mpleted, is already one of the 'g and trunk
lines Of our country, and may yet give its
name to the entire line Of which it forms the
essential link-the vitalizing connection
And it has been constructed in defiance oil
such formidable difficulties, and under circum-
stances so trying to the faith and energy Gifts
projectors: that re propose to give a BRET his
tory ofits origin and progress, as an encourage
ment to those who are still struggling with
unsolved difficulties and unfriendiy fortune.
Some thirteen years ago, Mr.. Marvin Kent,
of franklin, a modest yillaoein Trumbull Co
Ohio, conceived the idea of connecting the
then nearly or quite constructed Erie with
thiss embryo Ohio and mississippi Railroad .by
one direct six-feet Road. He was running
glasswo, ks, q WOODEN factory, a Touring mill
&c, at that place and was then constructing
a cotton factory. The Cleveland and Pitts
burg Road run within three miles OF his VII
lage, but would come no nearer, leaving him
under o heavy cost for wagoning. He consult
ed his attorney, a young lawyer named j. w.
Tyler-and opened to him his project, having
nearly the present line of the Road traced out
on a map, and requested Mr.. t. to furnish him
copies of railroad charters as guides for framing
his own. \ few days thereafter, his draft was
transmitted to the honorable Milton Sutliff,
State Senator from that District, and Chairman
of the Railroad Committee Mr.. s. took al
warm interest in the matter, and the charter
was perfected, March 10, 1851 When intro
duced, the name of the propose work was
sIh, Coal Hill Read !; a r'sse to repel the lob
hv sharks whom a revelation of the real nature
aud extent of The enterprise might have sum
moned to impede or blackmail the undertaking,
IL. aA.aI nbnnt The kCnal Hill