The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-03-06
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
One OF the lions at Barnum's Museum
escaped from his cage on Monday morn.
Ing, and iercely attacked a visitor, wound:
Ing him seriously before the brute was
knocked down by his keeper, with an iron
bar.
Five thousand unemployed sailors are
now in New York, and more persons look
Ing fur work there than for Eve years
past.
Il stated that W. II. Stevens has
discoyersd . deposit Of gold at his place
In Chesterfield eight miles from Rich
mond, Virginia. It has been tested by q
ninsnlogist.
Judge Warren, ofa Connecticut Court,
has decided that corporal punishment Of
. scholar bya teacher in the common
schools is unlawful.
The Radicals have cause for Joy. On
Monday, Of last week, the Negroes elected
their candidate for Mayor Of Georgetown,
D.. O, by q majority of SO.
It. is proposed to hold mass meetings
10 denounee the tyrannicaf Military Gov.
eminent Bill.
A.crazy Second Adventist in Herking
county, N. Y, has for ten years been
feeding q big OK for a feast when Christ
should appear. He has starved his 9TH
or stock, and spent nearly all his proper
ty in purchasing food for that OK ; the OK
q few days since died of a s%urfeit, the
owner having but two days before refused
$1,000 for the animal.
The State Of Nebraska is admitted to
the: Union. A proclamation Of the fact
was made by the President yesterday.
The Colorado bill has failed. The vote
In the Senate, yesterday, stood 20 to 10,
being less than two-thirds necessary for
fts re.passage over the veto.
A negro woman, by the name of But.
len, was recently arrested in Kentucky
for stealing ,spoonsl Wonder if her
name had anything to do with her steal.
ing spoons.
Hon. B. F. Wade, u. s. Senator from
Ohio, was yesterday selected by the Re-
publican Senatorial Cacus, to succeed Mr..
Foster, as President protein, Of that body
and Acting Vice President of the Uuited
Ststes; His election will follow as a mat.
ter Of course.
The Washington Rep. states that Mr..
Peabody made a will in 1855, which dem.
onstrated that he was then worth fifty
million pounds sterling, and it estimates
that the increase of his fortune by good
management has made it amount to one
hundred million sterling-fye hundred
million dollars.
The cable announces on the authority
of the English Foreign Secretary, that
90 far a. Great Britain is concerned, Bra
nil and Paraguay are content to fight
their own battles, without her mediation.
Gen. Schenck has written a letter to
Dom Piatt, announcing himself as a
candidate for the Gubernatorial nomina.
tion.
Three MasoDs Of Philadelphia have
presented . handsome Bible, and the
Masons Of Washington, D. O., . set of
jewels 10 the Masonic Lodge at Columbia,
South Carolina. Il win DO remembered
that the regalia and jewels Of this Lodge
were destroyed during Sherman's march
10 the sea:
In setting forth the conditions for q
Convention to amend the Constitution,
NJ branch Of TIE N. 7. Legislature has
declared that the question shall be deei.
dsd y 2ts votes Of all her citizen. with
out distinction Of sex OF color. Should
ihis b eononrred 10 BY The otbes branch,
I. will BEL bag step in advance Of any
point heretofore reached on the suffrage
question.
Thirty thousand bushels Of corn have
bson shibped from New York, IN aid Of
tks suffering poor Of the South. Asoth
Or cargo viii speedily f5llOv.
Tho Ersi National Bank At Medins, D.
2, filled and closed it, dOOs permanent
b on he 22d ut The cause Of the
3 lsid 70 b The Wild spssulstiops
fits pIssidsps in Tie produss busiussa
Whatever The msrkst offered
i prices that we're ADORE ths current