The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-12-18
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LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.
ASHLAND, : DEC 1s; 1857.

- Tax-paying will be pretty lively
from this time on to the Goth.
There, are signs of Christmas in all
the stores in town.
- GREENEwALD has a splendid as.
sortment of winter clothing. Drop in.
- Court is still in session. 1t will
probably close this week.
- The Democracy Of Wayne County
will hold o Festival at Wooster on the
9th Of January.
- The public schools Of this place
will close on Friday until after the holi-
days. o
= Petitions are being circulated in va
rious portions of the State, asking for
the repeal of the present Road law.
- An Indiana editor appears highly
elated wei the receipt of a little "local."
1t weighed nirs pounds.
- Don't forget that PARMELY is dai-
ly il receipt of New Goods. No. /,
Town Hall, is the place to get bargains.
All matter intended for publication
in the UNION, next week, must be hand
ed in by 10 o'clock Tuesday morning.
The Monday evenings mail brought
us a copy of the Cleveland Daily Plain
Dealer, dated November Goth. Better
late than never.
The United Brethren are holding
protracted meetings, in the South Ash.
land Chapel.
- ZUvER has Just received a splendid
lot Of goods, suitable for Christmas pres.
ents. Call at his Book Store, opposite
the National Bank.
- We understand that the Luther ran
Sabbath School is going to have a Christ.
mas Tree. Who wouldn't be a Sabbath
School scholar
= Our "Roll Of Honor" for December
will be published on the LIST day Of Jau.
uary. Reader, send in the money and
have your name appear.
- The sleighing in this v;city is now
very fine, and will improve, from day to
day-if the cold c~oniinues-as the roads
are gradually beaten down.
- A writer, in speaking of bonnets,
says the coal-scuttle was worn when
blushiug was in vogue, but both arc now
obsolete.
Another year is drawing to a close.
How time flies. Eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven will soon be gone, and only
thought of as the eveniful past,
"A catamount measuring over five
feet in length and q inches high, wa,
killed in Bu2e,ta, Trumbull county, OF
the 9th, by a boy of sixteen years.
Two dollar counterfeit Nationa
Bank currency arc in circulation. TIL,
engraving is much coarser than the gen
uine. Lock out for them.
- Wool thieves are prowling through
the country. The barn Of James Cor
win, Of Morrow county, was entered
few nights ago, and FIVE hundred fleece
Of wool stolen.
- Our citizens can not be too careful
about fires. Besides the scarcity of va
ter, it would be impossible to get til
steamer to any part of town, on accoun
of the snow. BE careful,
- General Wood says, in writing fror
Brazil, that the ladies, on being intro
duced to q stranger, insist upon bein
embraced, "heart t~hrobbing against he
hearth" Go, for Brazil
D NJ. D. Shopbell has been clecte
! Secretary of Star Fire Company No,
. Uice B. F. Nelson, resigned, and T. K
: Jacobs, Captain Of Star Hose No, 2, vic
j, NJ, lands, resigned,
i The 'Baptist Church, in South Ash
5 land, caught fire during service last Sal
0 bath morning. The stove-ripe becam
disjointed, and the fire was commune,
y ted to the %rafters, but was discovered b.
- fore much injury was done. a..
- There will be q masquerade ball
Gallon, on New Years eve. The mo
prominent feature of the evening will
the presentation of prizss-a silver goblt
al album, and a hdy's jewel case-to Il
L prettiest, the best taken, and the uglie
characters.
- People should not pay money
newspapers to strangers. There are Sc
eral swindlers in the West taking su
scriptions for The Western Rural, Rur
d New Yorker, etc, Subscribe throul
the Post Master, or some one you knc