The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-04-19


The line of Gen Grants army is said
10 be twenty.three miles long
The soldiers cemetery at Nashville
1880 bodies, 1900 Of whom
have died since December last. |
A Confederate band Of music was cap
tured or surrendered, and on the way up
from City Point played number of
airs, such as "Dixie,' and "a Lite on the
Ocean Wave"
Information has been received that s.
900 Union prisoners, of those held by the
rebels in Georgia, have arrived at or near
Dalton, to be delivered to US on Thurs
day.
1t is said the Blairs are nursing Brandy
johnson for the next Presidency in SO.
ber earnest. So says the Cincinnati
Commercial.
1t is stated that the Pittsburgh, Fort
Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company
have purchased the Cleveland and Zanes-
vile Railroad, and intend opening it
through to Cincinnati Immediately. 1t
intcrsects the former road at Orrville,
Wayne county, and will run through
Coshocton and GAINESVILLE to Cincinnati.
The Treasury is now paying out s2,-
100000 day f,r troops
Nashville, which is now 'loyal" must
be a charming place to live in. The
Nashville Daily Press of Saturday says
that crime. has been leurluly on the in
crease lately, and that scarcely night
passes that there is not one murder, or
more, committed.
The New York Tribune says it has a
"repprt from source that ought to be
we'll informed, that the Confederatss have
been for weeks. if not months, busily
engaged in drilling an army 81 ne
groes, aud a. this moment they are about
ready to eulel the field.
A whale about twenty-five feet long
was capture of Sandy Hook, last week
by fishing smack, and towed to the
steam boat basin near the Quarantine
Landing, Staten Island.
Thirteen breweries were seized at AL
leghany City and Pittsburg on Monday
by tie Internal revenue officers, for fraud
ulent returns Of the amount OF beer and
liquor manufactured.
1t is stated that Queen Victoria will
shortly visit ireland, il great state. to
open the Dublin Industrial Exhibition.
Persons most aux ious to add to Their
wealth are generally those who don,
how to make any good use of what they
have have already.
A soldier's wife residing 10 Macon
county, ill.,, few days since received
from her husband in the ormy package
Of S4OO, and upon returning home placed
it under the pillow of her bed During
the same night man with blackeneG
face, broke into the house and demanded
her money. The woman took the money
threw it upon the floor, and when thu
rufiap stopped to pick it up, she deal
him blow with poker that broke hi
neck. Upon washing the dead man
face, it proved to be her brotheri in law.
\ Mosby's guerrillos came within sever
Nmiles of Washington few nights since
| Baile,'s Cross Reads, and carried Of
ix horses aud n contraband.
A In the Liberator of last week, William
Lloyd Garrison, the editor, announce
that he has concluded to discontinue tn
publication Of that paper after the pres
cut year
| A magnificent comet was discovered q
Rio de Jaueiro, January %. Its lengt
was between eight and nine degrees ii
breadth forty Or fifty minutes.
1t is estimated that two square mile
of the city of Rochester we're under wate
during the recent food. It is though
that the city was damaged to the amour
of s2,OOO,OOO.
The Legislature Of Michigan has pas
ed joint resolution to submit to the pee
7 pie. at the fall election of 1885, an amenc
. ment to the Constitution to allow the n,
3 groes to vote.
The wife of the Confederate Gener,
, Ewell has arrived in St. Louis. Ninet
thousand dollars belonging to her, in on
of the banks of that city, was seized
the Provost Marshal q short time ago.
The Empress Eugenie figured at a la,
reception with diamonds worth three mi
4 lions aud half in her hair.
A court 10 Dayton, Ohio, lately awsr,
ed young lady there s6,5OO damog'
0 for breach of promise Of marriage.
California produced 100000 gallol
n Of wine last year aud 100000 gallons
Q brandy. Whouldn't California be
t healthy climate to live ipi o.
A Chaplain in Arkansas says that
man buying up furs was conversing vii
a woman at whose house he called, al
4 asked her "if there were and Presbytel
!, ans around herei" She hesitated m
= ment and said, 'quess mott her husbaI
I hadn't killed any since they'ed liv'
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