The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-02-14
NEWS ITEMS.

a dener and market man, living in Rock
- porf, aivillagc near Cleveland, murdered
his wife on the night Of the 9Th, splitting
hsr head open with an ax. On the same
right he committed suicide by drowning
JHmself. i.
sds Bucihannou, Upshur County, has The
INT chance Of becoming the capital Of
Vest Virginia. The House Of Delegates
have pronounced ia its favor, await the
concurrent action ofthe Senate.
ssirThe President having removed the cd
itorof ithe Lafayette, Indiana, Journa
from tbc postmastershi,, and appointed
The editor or the Courier in bis stead, thu
friends Of the former, on Saturday, held
indignation meetings on the subject.
Hon. George sandersou, Democrat
.n.HAs re. elected Mayor of the city of Ian
,caster, Pa, on the 9th inst by a MAORI
ety 179. This is the home Of T~haddeus
nftersns. ~
"A Washington special to the New
Express says: at is rumored here, and
shelieved that the President will issue o
Aptoclamation declaring the rebellion at an
end, the war over, and the Constitution
and the Government restored 10 all the
States oftthe Union.
Our Consul at Malta says the cholera
has not permanently abandoned that
place. The physicians think it will in.
derease in the spring.
Grogan aud Boyce, for the murder Of
Adam Deems, were hanged at Parkers.
burg, yirginis, last week. The ropes
troke in the first attempt, aud both meu
again mounted the scafold, whom q strong
..erropo was obtained, and both men wer,
then hanged separately.
The Washington Star says the Presi
,de1t is'opposed to the bill Just passed ex
tending The operations Of tho Frcedmen's
Bureau to Maryland, Missouri and l'ela.
ware, and that he will return it to Con.
gress, TO be modified in accordause with
hia views. =
There arc over six hundred white PEG
pie In Atlanta, Georgia, in q starving
condition. What is true of Atlanta is al
80 true Of every village and city in the
State which was in the desolatiug track
Of the armies in 1S64-5. The destitute
arc Ecckoned by thousands, and their suf
fsripgs are represented ss extreme.
A revival is progressing at Martins
Ferry, Belmont county. Ninety.two per.
SONS have become church members, and
still the interest is said to be undated.
% A bald eagle was recently killed in the
southern part of Madison county, which
measured eight feet from tip to tip.
Tho s~ugar-making season is close a,
hand. Nothing, says an exchange, will
pay better than the manufacture Of maple
sugar and molasses
The New York Tribuno's Washington
special says Ben. F. Butler has JUS
closed negotiations for a valuable mil
property on the james River, near Rich
Iuond, intending to erect valuable cotton
factories, The Cox farm, containing @.
300 acres, through which runs Dutch
Gap Cana, has been offered to Mr., B.
and he has in contemplation its purchase
New England families and mill opera
lives will settle upon il.
A few days ago, tho citizens Of saltillo
Mississippi, summarily executed sever
horse .thicves, whose operations bad been
. terror to that region.
General 0sbond, formerly Of the 4th
allincisC ayaiy, now located in Mississippi
has, written q letter co~ntradicting the re
port that he was. q short tine ago, mur
deredsby Sou.hcrners. The General says
that Mississippi is safe to law and order
and in Tho Union /; that the residents are
asjoyal asthosc of any country Of the
some size in the North.
Licking county. according to the report
Of tho Auditor Of State, has the largest
number of sheep Of any county in the
Bists, by So, 065. Harrison couptycomes
next, having i7s. 427
a delegation Of Negroes waited on
President johnson last week, aud ascer-
iained distinctly that he is oppOsed to Ne
On Suffrage inshe District Of Columbia
ard 10 The seuth Fred Douglass pro-
poses 70 appeal to the people on the sub
Jeoi. and the President Is perfectly
viiIipgthat he should do 90. The Presi
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