The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-04-24
NEWS ITEMS.

NJ WIS 1AtEMS.
Over three hundred Catholic churches
have been organized 10 Wisconsin during
ne last twenty years.
The Democrats have carried Quincy,
! Illinois BY seven hundred mserity, being
: large Democratic gain.
The news from the Lower Mississippi
continues bad. The levees continue cav.
Ing 10, and an extensive overflow, With
distress and loss of life, is feared.
At Old Lynne, Connecticut, a man lO3
yeaEs of age, voted for English, for Gov.
ernor.
The California Democratic State Con-
vention is to meet at San Francisco on tue
10th Of June.
The National Bank of Salem, Ala, was
entered . few nights ago and robbed of
$4,000.
Judge Lynch took into custody two
horse thieves at McKissack's Grove, in
Iowa, the other day, and gave them their
ehoice, in death, between hanging and
shooting. The thieves chose the latter,
and they were accordingly shot by twelve
men with revolvers. 7.
The people Of Cincinnati have, within
q few weeks past, contributed $4,000 for
the relief Of Southern d~estitution.
A great frssheti is reported in Iowa, ow-
ing to the thawing Of q heaving snow. At
Des Moines, a large number Of houses
are submerged, aud but for the interfer.
ence of levee made last year, the entire
city on the East side Of Des Moines River
would be under water.
The Lowell (Mass Courier says Moses
Wingate, Of Hayerbill, is probably the
Oldest Mason int be world. He 9S is years
old, and has been a Mason GA years.
"a One singular fact in connection with
the death of-Mr. Lincoln ia that no Coro.
ner's inquest was ever held on his body
no legal evidence taken as to the manner
OF bis death, nor was a single person &C.
cused Of connection with it ever brought
into q court Of law nor is there to thi,
day any legal testimony whatever as to
tho manner Of his death, the cause Of it,
or who killed him.
Mount Whitney, California, $4,000 feet
high, was regarded as the highest noun
taain in the United States, till Professor
Wood, last August, calculated the hight
Of Mount Hood, in Oregon, and reported
It 17,c00 feet. But scientific men doubl
his accuracy.
The European air is thick with rumori
of war. 1t is reported at Berlin tia
France 10 putting her frontier iorircsses
as well as her interior military resources
on q war footing, while Prussia is ADMITTED
toibe engaged in the SINE preparations.
The difficulty between England 40,
Spain remains yet unsettled, notwithstan
ding the concessions heretofore reporte,
to have been made by tho latter.
A hickory cane, cut at Mount Vernon
with q Charter Oak head, which has bee
seasoning for some years for q Democrat
10 Governor Of Connecticut, has been Civ
On TO Mr.. English.
Goets, Case and Aulgus, the three mul
derersSof Hughes, 10 Cincinnati, were o
Monday, sentenced to be hanged on tn
30th. Goets laughed when the ssntenc
was pronounced, and said it was the fra
time he had any assurance be should liv,
till the Both
The disunion Radical papers have hat
nothing to say aboutthc idefnnct Demo
cratic party since the lac Spring cleo
tons. To be beaten by a "defauct" par
~ was rather sserious "goak."
The latest and richest Joke Of the ds,
Is the nomination Of Davy Tod, by tn,
Cleveland Herald, as the Mongrel candi
dAts for Governor. Why attempt to res
urreotthc dead :
Before the late Conservative Conveu
ton in Tennessee, some Of the Cosscrva
tive papers had the following nstandiu
head Al the topofthcir editorial column
s'Eor Govsrnor-Any respectable mar
81 In preferanoest TO BrowBlow.P
Emerson E,hefidse has since been &,
edlnpon as that respectable man"
A riot has occurred at the Silver Ben
Mining Comppny's Works, At Belmon
Nevada, which resulted ia o desperai
fght, In which twenty men ware killed.
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