The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-11-27
NEWS. ITEMS.

1hent Of the Platte reports that on the
18th inst, q band Of Indians attacked a
bsuttlers, train, near Fort Phil Kearney,
and killed zone man and wounded six,
and captured four wagons with goods.
Mccoy, the Steubenville murderer,
who will be sentenced to imprisonment
for life, isa gray.headed man Of sixty
years, and is considered wealthy, being
: the owner Of lar &c tracts Of land in Ohio.
10 y is thought that Cincinnati will be
selected as the place Of meeting for the
National Republican Convention, which
will probably he called to meet in May.
1.-two hundred negroes marched into
Columbus, Mississippi, a few days since /,
and demanded bread and provisions. They
were disarmed by the military.
% The indians in the West predict an un.
usually early winter, and a severe one,
with an unusual depth Of snow. They
give as q reason for this last, that the
autumn was excessively dry, and what
we did not get it rain we shall in snow.
The majority of Marshall, Radical
wndidate for Governor of Minnesota, is
1894. '7..ah.e '.+
'0fCleveland went wild over Weston
Nearly the whole population turned out
10 see him. Oh
m9tNegro Suffrage was defeated in Min.
pOsota by 6,24s.
80 Democratic majority in New Jersey,
NOfhcia, is 1884.
Intelligence has been received in Lon.
don of the safety Of DR.. Livingstone, the
celebrated traveller and explorer.
Richard O'Gorman, the we'll known
Irish patriot. died recently in Dublin,
aged eighty six years.
leya The Montreal Gazette advises the peo.
'pleion the frontier to keep q sharp look
against Fenian raids.
A ladies' base ball club near Cold.
water, Michigan, played a game last
week. One Of the players over-exerted
herself and died in three days after.
-. Mount Yesuvius is again pouring forth
Immense volumes Of FIRE, in seven dis,
tinct streams.
boIfA maj on Tuesday Of last week walked
from Erie to Dunkirk, for a wager Of
$3.50, fifty two miles, in eleven hours and
fifty four minutes. His friends offer to
back him with 5000 tina. he will walk
slll5 miles in twenty-fOur.
ed Another missionary, the Rev. W. J.
Baker, an English Wesleyan, has been
Killed and eaten by the cannibals of the
Fee Geo Islands. They finished their
meal with six native Christians.
The New York Tribune says "the Re.
,opnhlican party, thank God, is bound to
-rgo under unless it sticks to Negro Suf-
,lfffage." We may add, what i, still bet
ter, that the Republican party, thank
God, is bound to 60 under, whether it
Isticks'to negro suffrage or not.
% aAsquad Of fifty prisoners in the pen.
itentiary at Nashville, while returning
from work under guard on Monday even.
ling, made o concerted break to escape
After q hot pursuit by the guards and
Spromiscuous shooting at the flying fugi.
otises, they we're all captured except six,
s'who escaped. Two were badly wounded.
Quite an excitement was occasioned at
ySk Adams, VT, on the 10th by the arri-
osal Of two car loads of fire arms address.
,Sed II, Peter Ward, q notorious Fenian.-
The guns were met at the depot by a
posse Of men and soon removed for stor.
age elsewhere.
'9a General Sherman telegraphs that he will
be in Washington about the first of De
cember, when he will be at once appoint
I'd To. IN important duty there, but in
what position the President does not an.
nouncs: II is believed that he will take
tho War Office. 2.a
The snow.drifts in some parts of Con.
n%ecticut quite covered the fences a few
days ago. ''ii-
Senator Reverdy johnson has prepared
an argument to show that the President
~lqeahnot DO suspended from Office pending
sa,ttial of impeachment, aud that he can
be convicted only on charges Of treason
and bribery. I'd,
The drought in Western New York
SSScRtiatss, and threatens serious come.
oaushoea Wells have failed that never
efiilsd before, and there is scarcely q els
,.tsrn between Syracuse and the State line
That contains any water. Some Of the
,5sgnsrs are obliged to 60 three miles in
o.Otdet n obtain water for kitchen aud Ia,