The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-05-22
NEWS ITEMs.

1t is understood, says the Cleveland
Herald, that Horace Greeley's next jour.
ncy South from New York will DO to
Washington for the purpose Of bailing
Surratt.
The Indian campaign is over. 1t has
resulted in some big stalks" with the In.
dams, and the burning of q Cheyenne
village. The principal feature was "big
talk"
The Lindell House, St. Louis, is to be
rebuilt, the subscriptions already amount
ing to 100000.
At a meeting of the Republican State
Central Committee Of Kansas several ne.
groes were stongly in favor of impartial
suffrage as to color, but bitterly opposed
impartial suffrage as to sex.
Gov. Orr, of South Carolina, has pub
lished an abstract Of letters from all parts
Of that State, which exhibit a terrible
condition Of suffering from starvation.
In the case Of q child which was killed
at Logan, Ohio, by a chance blow in q
melee between its mother and another
woman, both Of whom were exceedingly
degraded, the Coroner's Jury returned a
verdict that "tbe death of the child was
the visitation of God, 10 take it out of its
misery"
General Burton, commander Of Fort.
ress Monroe, and late custodian of JEFF
Davis, has received a summons to appear
before the Congressional Judiciary Com.
mittee. A grand complimentary dance
was given to him at the .Spottswood
House in Richmond on Wednesday night
A Connecticut Yankee, who buried his
sixth wife last week, offered a So green
back TO the officiating clergyman. The
latter hesitating to receive it, the bereav.
cd remarked, "Just as you say ; but that's
what l have been in the habit Of paying
Ohio farmers are universally complain.
ing Of the extraordinary mortality among
the lambs Of their Vermont stock. One
farmer in Knox county lost 20 out Of 26
lambs from his full blooded ewes. No
adequage cause seems 50 exist, and at
present the subject is . MYSTERY. But the
loss Is so great that investigation must
follow, and the nus be brought to light.
Say what they please about other
things in which America is concerned,
at the Paris Exposition the Yankees have
achieved already one distinguished tri.
umph. The jury on locomotives have
awarded a cold medal to o machine from
the United States, in the face Of a strong
array Of competitors from France, Eng.
land, Austria and Russia.
The peaceable citizens Of Tennessee
have sent a representation to Washington
to ask the President for a regular militia
ry force to protect them against the out.
RACES Of Brownlow's colored regulators.
Williamspcrt, Pa, is happy in q Dem.
ocratic Mayor elected by 76 majority.
The fair as Washington in aid Of the
South has Melted nearly $4,000.
There is a rumor that there will be q
Summer session Of Congress.
Gold closed on Saturday at 1861.
An immense wild cat was killed in q
Chicago lumber yard, supposed to have
been brought in the hold Of some vessel.
At Gold Water, Michigan, on the 18th,
Leach, who murdered his wife and o
young man who was walking with her,
last spring, was found guilty, and sen.
fenced to solitary confinement for life.
Con Sherman is said to have remark.
ed, in 81. Louis on Saturday, that we can
have an Indian war or not, jus. as We
choose.
Adyiees' from Arizona convey the in.
telligenco that Indian d~epredations ar,
general, and q war Of determination il
about to be iuaugufated.
Til said to be the purpose Of Jeffer
son Davis to write q book, giving a his
tory Of Che secession movement, The
Southern struggle, and bis own advcn.
lures from December, 1850, to Nay, 'e7
Joel Lindsey, the clergyman who beaI
his child to death, has been granted .
new trial, to be had at Medina, N. Y,
on the 9th instant.
General O'Connor. the Fenian leader
who conirived to give the British author
tics the slip, arrived in New York Sat.
urday. He states That there is 4 hopo
ful prospect for the next rising,