The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-01-24
NEWS ITEMs.

nuuore ana tnlrty.Vne Poi oaJi "" P0P
plation Of ten thousand.
The small pox is prevailing among tho
eolorsd population Of Cincinnati.
The Fenian Senate has adopted q res
olution requesting President Roberts to
call the Fsnian Congress at Pittsburgh,
February 10th. It will be composed of
delegates from all circles favorable to
she Roberts party.
They have a bill in the Legislature Of
New York which PROPOSES to license
houses Of prostitution. TIE license fee is
fixed at 81 900 where the house has over
ten rooms. Physicians are assigned to
them. This is in imitation Ct the French
law. ! Where are We drifting? ,lv
r Mrs.. Martha Grinder, the Pittsburgh
poisoner, was executed on Friday. She
made confession Of two murders by pois-
Sning, but denied others with which she
was charged.
It may be a consolatiss to some to
learn that Thaddeus Stevens, the radical
leader in the House of Representatives, is
Is years old and in all PROBABILITY his
timo for evil will be comparatively short
It is stated that Ben Buffers reply to
General Grant is nearly finished, aud will
soon appear with the imprint Of a New
York publishing house.
Advices from the West Indies say that
the bill abolishing the old Constitution of
Jamaica, and sesting all Legislative pow
e. in the hands of the nominees Of the
English Grown, passed the Colonial Par
lament somo time ago, but it requires
the sanction Of the home Cover nment to
become . law.
( A frozen alligator was found the other
day at the mouth Of Licking river, .op.
posite Cincinnati. II was 6 feet 81 in
ches long, with II inches spread of jaws.
With the exception Of n found in the
same river ten or twelve years ago, this
is the the only animal of the same spe.
!cies known to have emigrated so far
Northward.
The Cincinnsti Commercial advises the
farmers to plant sorghum largely the en-
suing season, and make all the maple su
gar they can, as It is evide Mt from the
unsettled condition Of the sugar p roduc.
ing section Of the South, that it can not
be relied on TO produce sufficient for the
demand.
SMACK" the Washington correspond,
emit Of the Commercial says, "this is the
most ordinary Congress ever convened"
We think it the most extraordinary col.
: lection Of fanatics and damphool, if not
traitors to the Union, ever assembled in
this or any other country
: General Grant has issued orders with,
drawing all troops from the Southern
States. .fg s1
The Freedmen's Bureau in Alabsma
states that poor houses are greatly need
editor the freedmen in that State. This
is the result of Abolition tpbilanthrophy
for the negro. Starvation and poor.
h0dsesI'E DEIC ~-TT.
- The wife Of a German surgeon died re.
Gently 10 Paris. When his friends came
to condole with him he was found to be
busily dissecting her body.
The House Negro Committee have q
bill setting apart three millions Of acres
Of land ip Florida, Mississippi and Ar.
Kansas, for the negro, under the home
stead bill. The negroes are to have for
ty acres apiece. This bill illustrates the
madness and fanaiicism Of the times.
+. The following are the Ohio regiments
sill in the. service, none Of which are,or.
Ill a.