The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-02-13
"a little nonsense now and then,
La relished by the hest of men,

Is relished by the best of men,"
Believing the above couplet to be true,
we will give a few extracts of "nonscnSe"
from the Ashland correspondence of the
Columbus Journal. Here they are
"Just wait until I start this Havana, and l
will post you on affairs In Ashland and vicinity.
If 1t was not for the qualification of our third
story contemporary Id tell you that we are hav-
ing fine weather overhead, but bad enough I'M
derneath. That very important 'woodchuck'-
Wonder If the fellow means that we
are a "woodchuck !"
I suppose, settled the fate of the weather In
and about Ashland for the next six weeks. Not
being on the spot when said W.. Chuck made
his exit from the hole, am unable TO state posi-
lively whether he saw his shadow or not, but
Judging from the weather we are having now
Mr.. Chuck must have had a bunkum old time
frisking about. Sleighing Is passably good
mornings and nights, but during the day II Is
warm enough to hoe potatoes"
Wouldn't it be rich to see "~slcighing,"
with coat off and sleeves rolled up, hoeing
potatoes and that, too, in February !
"The new hose for our Steam Fire Engine
has arrived, and our city Fire Department ID
completed with the exceptions of a company OF
men, active and energetic, which will be ex-
tremely difficult to procure, as we're going to
fires in rocking chairs now"
Rocking chair men, like the ass who
writes for the Journal, are not wanted in
the Fire Department, and if any of that
kind should go to fires, there ought to be
a special police force appointed to watch
them
"The first thing you behold on coming on tC
any street in this place is q red sign with thu
word saloon" painted and spelled in all sort
of styles"
The above is base libel upon thu
morality and intelligence Of our town.
All the saloons we have arc located OIL
tpo streets, and their signs are not red
but neatly painted and correctly spelled
We can not conceive what object this ca
lumniator can have in willfully end ma
liciously slandering u town and people
But, perhaps, We should not cbarg,
"Kerr Chus" with lying 10 this case
the reflection from his nose may make ev
erything which he sees appear red.]
1.-THE last thing you stumble over on going I
your home at night is ZONE foundered barrel {
whiskey, done up in the shape of man."
A man going home at night, drunk,
very apt to "stumblc," and think every
body and everything ~ipsy" but himself
Nothing personal is intended in this re
mark.
I'VE have twenty drinking saloons In tn
place, or about one for every 1875 inhabitants.
;. That's a lie. There is not more tina
half that number Of saloons here, aud
there were that many, there would not b
one for every R5 inhabitants; not much
1.-THE inhabitants of the Western Reserve,
Sullivan township, are to have q cheese factor
next summer"
We were not before aware hat Il
Western Reserve is located in Sulliva
township. But then, we must olive an
learn."] 1.qarl14
= "n they are as successful IN manufacture
I cheese as Union voters, you can count on
greasy time next year"
+. That's SO +! The Democracy Of Sui
van township made a gain Of Eve at Il
last election.J
But enough for this week. 3u