Western Reserve chronicle and weekly transcript of the times. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1854-1855, 1855-02-07
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the Spanish Mission till after the adjourn
ment Of Congress.
Two conYicts were being taken from
New orleans to the Peniteniiary at Ba-
ton Rouge, on a steamer, when they
jumped overheard, and were drowned.
A California paper advertises a grand
bull fight, in which a woman will fight
and kill one Of the widest bulls that can
be obtained ; also, a fghtbetween abear
and q jackass, all to come off on Sunday.
We learn from the Paulding Demo
Graf that the population of that county
is rapidly increasing. In 1850 the
population was only 1,766, while in 1854
it exceeds 1000.
The Columbus Fact says hat on Fri
day, near Alton, as Mr.. VIM. Durfey
was tending a saving machine by the
side Of the railroad, a stick Of wood was
~secidently thrown across the track. The
cars were close at hand, and as Mr.. D.
was in the act Of picking up the stick to
get it out Of the way, he was struck by
the locomotive and Instantly killed.
NEAL Dow is preparing a still more
stringent liquor law for Maine. 1t pro-
vides fifty dollars fine and four months
imprisonment for the first offence /; same
fine and six months Imprisonment for
the second, and n hundred dollars fine
and one years imprisonment in the State
prison for the third offence. No action
will lie against officers for destroying
liquor. Common carrier are liable for
carrying liquors contrary to law.
The guano diggers at the Chinchi Is
lands from the United States, have been
driven off by the Government of Vene-
zuels. The sloop of war Falmouth was
at st. Thomas and would sail to Bird Is
land to look into these matters. Guano
is becoming an important institution
Being an article of salt water commerce,
it is constitutional to protect it by the
general government.
The Catholic Almanac for the 1855
gives the following statistics Of the Ro-
man Catholic Church in the United
States: There are 7 Archbishops 2
Wears Apostolic ; 90 Bishops; 1,7o4
Priests, 1924 Churches, showing the in
crease the past year to have been 9 Bish-
ops; 1873 Priests, and liz Churches
There are also 500 Missionary Stations;
% Colleges ; III Female Academies,
and 81 Theological Seminaries.
THE German liquor sellers Of Cincin-
natl have resolved to disobey the liquor
laws of State and City, and are %circula-
ting petitions calling on the Governor to
convene the Legislature for the purpose
of repeating the anti-liquOr law.
AS astriking commentary onthe move
ment of the Cincinnati liquor sellers, we
record the melancholy fact that Peter
Achey, of Preble county, bought liquor
at a groggery on Saturday, drank it,
and on Sunday was found dead, frozen
stiff.
A Turkish Pacha who rendered Vslu-
able assistance to the steamer VIM. Penn,
which got ashore in the Dardanelles
lately, in ~psrtaking of the Inequalities
of the officers of the Penn, refused to
drink wine because it was forbidded by
the Prophet, but imbibed champagne
freely, getting over the difficulty of con-
scince by saying that Champagne was in
vented subsequently to the death of Ma
homet, and therefore could not come I'M
der his prohibition.
The General Post Office at Washing
ton, embracing the Appointment and
Contract Office, Dead Letter Office, dc.
&C., is to be enlarged, by extending it
over the whole block on which it stands,
leaving a square courtyard for mail
carts, &C., in the centre. 1t is OF white
marble, and when completed will cover
about as much ground as the Astor
House. A bill appropriating S4Oo, 900
for it has passed the Senate, and is now
before the House.
MAssAoHUsErTs.-The Know Nothings
have had trouble in agreeing upon their
candidate for Senator, in the old Bay
State. The majority nominated Gen.
Wilson, who has been a prominent and
active Freesoiler. A portion of the order
have demonstrated, and have used much
effort to bring forward another man
Each AUuse votes by itself, and the tel
egraph says the House, By 100 MAORI
ity, elected Gen. Wilson. We have no
doubt the Senate will confirm this choice.
QUEER MATRIMONIAL FREAK.-A let
ter from a citizen of Livingston county,
Ky, to the Danville Tribune, relates the
70 lowing bit of family history in that
neishborhood
"a widow took an orphan boy to
raise, quite small, and when he arrived
at the age of eighteen she married him,
she heing in her fftieth year. They
lived many years together, happy as any
couple. Ten years ago they took an or
phsn girl to raise. This fall the Oldlady
died, being SO years ofage, and in seven
weeks after old man married the girl
they had raised, he being SO years old
onJ che 1917