The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-05-03
NEWS ITEMS.

attempted with poison.
General Lee and staff, in a group, have
been photographed in Richmond
The extensive machine shop Of the
Government and U. s. Arsenal near St.
Louis, yerc destroyed by fire recently.
It is proposed to erect monument to
the memory Of Abraham Lincoln in Nsv
York,
The Springfield Republican thinks
two-thrds of the people received Buffers
removal with satisfaction and the rest
with indifference. Poor Butlerl
Two hundred applications for divorce
arc before the Supreme Court Of Massa.
chusetts.
Chinese laborers are to be imported in
to the Sandwich Islands. That is, the
Chinese slave trade is to be re.opened.
A gentleman in Wetherfleld Connect
icut, last year bought 1000 bushels of
onions and put them to seed, getting s.
900 pounds Of seed, which he sold for the
high price Of $3.50 per pound, getting
Sl7,6OO for the crop, and making prof
it of oyer $4,000.
The new City Hall, at Boston, to be
done some time this year. has already
cost 100000, ard cool 100000 more
is asked for to complete it. This is all
the building was to have cos. in the first
place.
Greeley gives wholesome hit to some
of the "patriots" who are upon his
track "He who fancies that all the ex.
bibitions Of cruelty or perfdy have been
the work Of the rebels, has but superb
cial knowledge Of our current history.
New York is thinking Of public drink
ing fountains. Convenient for milk men.
Gov. Vance is reported to have been
captured by the Federal forces in North
Carolina, while on peace mission to Gen.
Sherman.
Go into the busy world, and you will
find vaulting ambition. Go into the
lonely church, yard, and you will find
vaulted ambition.
Hindostan is the most religious coun.
try in the world, taking the number Of
its gods as the test. 1t has three hund.
red millions Of them.
Truth is sometimes exposed by the
very efforts and artifces designed to con
coal it; like clocks which point tie hour
right, but strike the hour wrong.
1t is said the emigration from the old
er Confederate States to the State of Tex
as has been very large during the last
Dur years. The area of Texas may b,
imagined when we state it is about equa
to all the New England States, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Ohit
and Indiana. A territory Of such vas
extent and fertility can accommodate al
immense population.
The Legislature Of Illinois has laid
tax of one dollar for the first dog owue,
by any individual, two dollars for the sec
ond, and five for each additional dog.
During the fight on Sunday Gen. LIE
is said to have himself headed brigade
to resist Federal charge. He narrowl
escaped death from the explosion of
shell, which stunned him for on instant
> and killed several in bis vicinity.
y The King of Prussia saw man OF th
! hospitable in Berlin, lately, who had Lei
both arms and legs, and asked him if h
Il had any wish. The cripple said, "Ye
E your majesty, 1 want 10 be sbot y Th
I. King replied that he could not do tha
' ' whcreupOn the unfortunate soldier curse
= the doctor that cured him. The Kin
turned away and wept.
Michigan now yields about seven mi
lion dollars worth OF copper and tv
million dollars worth Of iron, annually.
4 The Mormon Temple, at Salt LaE
: City, now in process Of erection, will se
5000 people.
9 In the counties around Buenos Aver
Q four million cattle are killed every ye,
d for their hides. Eaca cattle yields abo'
Il one hundred and City pounds Of drie
o beef hence the enormous quantity was
o ed may be easily calculated.
b Some papers are advising farmers
o cultivate onions to q greater extent
q There is no doubt this has been an o
n scedingly profitable crop during the WI
. aud will continue to be so long as ,
/. have large army 10 the field.
y The Ohio State Journal utters a mo
!, dastardly falsehood when il says that 4
J Democracy are inclined to apologize {
those Engaged in rebellion and pallia
ID thOir etfensss. It utters q malignant
e. when il says the assassination Of tho Pre
iient is "distinctly traceable to the teac
'ings" Of the Democratic party.
., The Louisville Journal says that
st Boston physician has discovered th
a geld has medicinal virtues. So the "
., low-mstal, wo suppose il to become
drug, =