The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-12-27
NEWS ITEMS.

a letter komi loronto says prePai"'p"s
are being made for throwing up strong
sarthworks around that city.
The Judiciary Committee Of tie House
have agreed to report at an early day an
amendment to the Constitution, providing
that The numb er..of voters'in, the States
shall form tie basls..O representation.
,lBrikaaier General Sherman is to be
placed in command Of Fort Adams, at
Newport Rhode Island, and the Fortress
will soon, be garrisoued by a portion oil
the Third U. s, Artillery.
There is o mau in B~rookville, in th Q
State Of Maine, one hundred aud three
years old.
The Springfield Republican says that
the New Jersey election cost the Repub-
licans $l24, 900.
A lady in. Culpepper, Va. recently gave
birth to three bouncing boys, who have
been christsned respectively Leo, Jack
s,n and Hill.
On the 18th of J%anuary,,the Grand d.
vision Of the Sons Of Temperance for Vir.
ginia, will meet in Richmond.
A movement is on foot in Virginia to
purchase q home for General Lee at lex
iDgton, Va.
Hon. Thomas Corwin died in Washing
ton city on Monday afternoon, 18th inst.
He was Frustrated on the Friday before
by. a stroke Of paralysis. AT a festive
eupper ho was making a speech, full of
fun, when no was suddenly stricken
down. He was in his 7 list year.
A Miss Hagar is engaged in importing
negro boys from Kentucky to Springfield,
Ohio. One too many may be imported
aud that Hagar compelled to visit some
Wilderness.
It's now said the inevitable General
Logan will 60 as minister to Mexico, and
when there he will do great things, in.
volye this country in war, drive Maxim,
lillian out, and whip France and England.
II is easy to talk.
-Four negro soldiers went into a bank.
cr's house, in Mobile, to obtain change
for several FIVE hundred dollar bills,
which they thought were ffties. Their
Ignorance Of their value aroused the sus.
piston Of the cl crk, who had them arrest.
ed, when it was found they had stolen
the money (s2,6OO) from Matthew Scott,
an old citizen.
In Louisiana, the Sergeant.at-A Arms Of
the Senate is without legs, the Doorkeep-
er Of the House without arms, the Secro-
tary Of State and the Clerk of the House
are both on crutches.
In response to the resolution Of Con.
gress,f the Secretary Of the Treasury re.
ports hat tho appointments Of Govern
meut officers in Southern States, have
been confined as far as possible to thost
persons Who can take the test oath, bu
these cannot always be found, and in tn,
latter case those who RETAINED from re
bellion as long as any United States au
thority remained in their localities, hav,
been appointed,
Advices from the Rio Grande indicat
growing ill.feeliug between the UOite'
States troops and Imperialists. Genera
Weitzel is reported to have said to Meji
that he was authorized to redress lutur
grievances by force Of arms.
The mercury at Chicago, on the morI
Ing Of the 2lst, was 16 deg. LelOw zOr
Aman who was hung in IroquOis cOu.
ty, Illinois, on the god, sod his body
few days before the execution, "for
much tobacco as he wanted for his natul
al Hfe.", He must have been q crest co
sumer of the weed or he sold himsf
cheap.
A resolution was introduced in d
House. of Representatives and referred
tho Committee on Foreign Affairs decla
ing that the United States ought never
recognizes a Government SET upon Il
Continent by tbs arms Of any EurOpe'
power.
The intensely cold weather caused I
explosion ola locomotive in tie Tel
Haute depot at indianapolis on the 2!
wrecking the building, and severely pr
ably fatally, iDjurius the engineer a
fireman Of the locomotive.
Asa Me-. Crawford, in New York, '
drawing benzene from a eask, the liz,
took Ere from bis lamp, an explosion Il
place; the burning benzine few all o
the man, who becoming frantic, rusl
for the street, a sheet Of fame.
brother tried 10 make Crawford lie do,