Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-12
News Items

ker, for the murder of Bill Poole.
The Times says that no less than two
hundred astrologers, c~laiIvoyants and
fortune t~ellers exist in New York City.
DURING the last half year there have
been over eleven thousand arrests in New
Orleans. About one-fourth of the per-
sons arrested were females.
MISS Catharine Hays, it is said has
realized fortune bysinging ,ofs2OO, coo.
She has visited California, Australia,
China and Hindostan.
THE Terre Haute papers say that Sen
a:or Douglas is still sick in that place,
and will not be able to attend the open
ing of Congress.
The flag staff of Wallack's Theatre in
New York, lately broke off in a gale,
and falling in the street struck a man on
the head killing him instantly.
VEsPAsIAN ELLIS has resumed his post
as editor of the American organ at
Washington. 1t has a more Northern
look than it has had for some time past.
TEE New Orleans Delta of the Esd ult.
says that yellow fever has broken out at
the Centenary College, at Jackson, East
Feliriana.
THE New York and Erie Canal is still
open and boats are running, and orders
have been given not TO draw off the wa
tiers until the 10th inst.
THERE has been a rebellion among the
prisoners in Sing Sing prison. One of
the keepers was badly beaten. One of
the ringleaders was shot dead in his
tracks.
A BILL has been introduced into the
Tennessee Legislature to compel all free
persons Of color in the State to emigrate
to Liberia or elsewhere beyond the lin.
its of the State.
The Republicans have a majority of
two over all other parties in the Senate
of New York. An important fact, as this
Sanate next year will assist in the cleo
ton of a U. S. Senator.
THERE have been 1879 vessels launch
ed at different poins on the Lakes this
season, with an aggregate tonnage of
40, 567, of which 9,O55 were of steam,
and 80, 5l1 sail.
The gross receipts of the New York
Post Office on account of the Govern
ment, for the last two fiscal years a.
mount to the enormous sum of 50, SOL
1,22.
WIN. KNOX, of Washington, while at
supper, on Saturday evening last, choked
to death in attempting to swallow a
piece of meat before it was properly mas
ticaied.
ACCORDING 10 the quarterly statement
of The banks of the slate, the entire cir
c%ulalion of tie banks of Ohio, on the
first Monday in November, was SO, 1884,
sos.
THE Know Nothings of South Carroll
na.-Tbe Grand Council of the Ameri-
can Party in that State recommends the
subordinate lodges to disband and abb
solve their members from their obliga-
tons.
The Vincennes Gazette says that a
case of very compact "nigger storage
was found by the Marshal of that place
who was taking the census. In one hut.
sixteen feet by thirty, was found eighteen
darkies.
JUDGE MANLY, of the Superior Court
of North Carolina, in a recent trial, held
that persons protesting the doctrines of
UniveIsalism are incompetent witnesses,
and in accordance with that decision
ruled out two or three witnesses.
The village of La Crosse, Wisconsin,
the terminus of the La Crosse and Mil
waukie Railroad, was laid out only four
years ago, and is now said to contain two
thousand houses. 1t supports a news
paper, and enjoys the visits of thirty diff
ferent steamboats,.
REV. CHARLES BEECHER lately preach
ed in one of the churches in Lawrence,
Massachusetts, and wore, what is quite
unusual in the pulpit, amoustache andlong
hair. Nh. Beecher's appearance struck
the good people who listened to him as
somewhat odd.
AT Ashland. Schuylkill county, Pa, a
collision occurred a few days ago be-
tween an Irish and an American militia
ry company. The Irish fired upon the
Americans, when the latter charged bay
onet on the former and wounded three Of
tltm, Two Vi hnOn nave sihCe uieu.
AT Preston, England, a chimney has
Just been completed at the works of
Messrs John Hawkins & Low, which is
258 feet in height its width at the
foundation is "a feet the weight of the
stone cap is 81 tons; and 44O, 900 bricks
have been used in building. 1t is high
er thar the Bunker Hill Monument.
LAST Monday, a woman named Sarah
-Schribill, was arrested at Sharpsburg.
Pa, on the charge of passing a counter
felt $40 DILL. During the examination
she fell irem her chair in an insensible