The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-12-18
NEWS ITEMS.

- ASAes
Gold closed yesterday at 1884.
1t is believed that the Radicals will
allow Stanton, the great 'kicked out" to
stay out. r
One hundred thousand hogs have been
packed in Louisville to date-just about
double the number last year to same date.
The Boston Democrats, besides cleo.
ting their Mayor, elected twenty.t two
Common Councilmen and five Aldermen.
The Tribune ridicules the aspirations of
certain "incompetents" for the Preaiden-
cy, Nonsensel After Lincoln, what
mountebank may not have aspirations
There Is terrible distress In some parts
of Old Virginia. Two hundred and thir.
ty farms in n county will soon be sold
for arrears Of taxes.
New York, Boston, Baltimore, Pitts
bargh, Buffalo, Detroit and Cleveland
now have Democratic Mayors.
The Radical majority in Manchester,
New Hampshire, carried by the Democ.
racy at the election on, Tuesday, was last
year 543. 1t is now over 800 Democrat.
ic.
John Brown, Jun, Of Put in Bay, son
of old John Brown, was taken to the Lu.
matte ASYLUM at Newburgh last week.
1t is said that the disease is hereditary in
the family.
Enos Hoyt, Of Boston, who engaged
10 walk los miles in los consecutive
hours-one mile each hour-st Jackson.
Mich, failed to accomplish the task,
breaking down on the 1O3rd mile. He
lost during the trial eight pounds in
weight.
A terrible earthquake occurred at Por.
to Rico on the I'd inst. 1t seems that all
the islands of the sea have got to shaking
since Seward has got his eyes on them.
One of the Black Crook girls sang in
a New York church the other Sunday.
and Phariseeism was duly shocked when
it was found cut.
Wendell Phillips told the people in
Hartford, the other evening, that ono
hero worship should permit such a grave
mistake as the election of such a man as
Grant to the Presidency.
A wolf was caught in q trap near
Cbambersburg, Pa, one day last week.
While the hunting party were getting
the animal loose, and we're dispatchiug it
with an axe, about fifteen wolves made
an attack upon them from a neighborius
wood, and drove them away.
Gen. Hancock told the Chief Of Police.
of New Orleans, that he would detain any
train or sink any ship that attempted to
take away two prisoners arrested there on
a requisition from Governor Fenton, Of
New York, before the legality of their
detention had been ascertaiued under q
writ of habeds corpus pending.
The engineer of a train which, on the
Great Western Railway Of Canada, ran
over and killed a man, woman and child,
last week, first discovered the occurrence
by finding a buffalo robe and lady's fur
cape on his engine. He stopped and ran
back two miles and found the dead vic.
tins.
On Tuesday, the wife Of Aaron Rowe,
living three miles south Of Mount YER
non, o., presented her husband with FIVE
children at one birth-three boys aud
two girls. The mother and children are
doing as well as if nothing extraordinary
had taken place.
Grants friends contend that his pros
poets for the Republican nomination are
improved by The selection Of Chicago as
the place for the Convention. If he
should secure the nomination. which
well. posed politicians doubt, it is thought
that a split will take place in the party
the malcontents running Chase.
A daring attempt was made in London
yerterday to release the Fenian Colonel
Burke, confined in Clorkenwell Prison,
Powder was placed beneath the wall and
exploded blowing a portion of them into
the air and iDjuring the adjoining build.
ing AS many as twenty persons are ru.
mored TO have been killed. nau.a .a.
The New York State Election.
The official announcement of the re.
suit of the New York State election in
November has been made. For Secre-
tary Of State, the chief officer chosen,
the Democrats polled 373,SS6, and the
Republicans 3240l7,a Democratic ma,
jOrity OF 1850 in a total poll of 697,-
9O3. The State Legislature will stand,
in the Senate seventeen Republicans and
fifteen Democrats, in the House fifty
four Republicans and seventy.ive Demo.