Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-09-05
News Items.

females. u women wear The bloom
er custume, and many of them are said
to be well educated. A large number
are from the factory districts of England
Some come with much money. They
are absconded wive: daughters &C.
Strange, the chief of the tribe Is desert
bed as an educated philadelphia lawyer,
whose lawful wife resides in Wisconsin.
He publishes a newspaper, and is post
master. a member of the Michigan Leg
i%sIature, and an important mar am,ng
the Democracy.
a FAT CoNTRAcF.-Messrs. Walter
and Wilson the Architects of the new
Court House in Cincinnati have notified
the new County Commissioner that they
have a verbal contract with the old
Board by which they we've to receive
three per cent. on the cost of the build
ing for their pay. As eight hundred
thousand dollars have already been ex-
banded, their due is now tUenty four
thousand dollars. 1t will be largely in
creased before the structure is compile
ted.
A LETTER from Rio Janerio, in the
Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, mentions a
slave, 100 years old, of the name Fran
cescus TOmmasso Da Sala, now living
on a plantation a few miles firm the
Capital. He was born in 1747, and
had IA sons, who became fathers of 16O
grand children, from whom have sprung
10 great. grandchildren, having in their
turn, up to the present time, produced 5
children, making a grand total of 249
persons, issued from one stock still alive.
GAIN OF TIME.-The difference be-
tween rising every morning at six, in
stead of eight O'Clock, in the course of
forty years, amounts to 90, 500 hours, or
three years, 121 days, and 16 hours,
which is eight hours a day for exactly 9
years I; so that rising at six will be the
same as if 9 years of life were added,
wherein we may command eight hours
every day for the cultivation of our mind
and dispatch of business.
RICE grows spontaneously in Mime
sofa, some parts of Uppe rCanada, and is
gathered in large quantities by the Indi
ans in the vicinity o fRice Lake, Minneso-
ia. They sail amongst it in canoes,
bend the rice down and beat the kernels
into their boats. In this way some 5000
bushels are annually gathered in Rice
Lake alone.
MORE PAPAL TROUBLE AT BUFFALO,
The Buffalo Commercial says hat some
difference of opinion has arisen between
Bishop TimOn and the parishioners of
St. Peters (French) church, in regard
to the government of the same, and that
an order was read on Sunday from the
pulpit, declaring the church closed for
the present.
ANOTHER LINE OF STEAMERs.-The
steamer Constitution, built for the Bel
gian Company, for translantic navigation
from Antwerp TO New York, was launch
Il - --.I.-. -. IL. oil II. I'll
first steamer of this line, the ~Belgique, is
finished, and will soon be sent to sea-
The Leopard 1 and Due de Brabant are
in process of construction.
Tue Trustees of the Bank of the Uni
ted States will make their final dividend
on the 28th of September. when the con-
Germ will cease in any shape to exist
It has taken fourteen years to wind up
the affairs of this bank. The assets re-
allied are sufficient 10 pay the creditors
of the bank, so that the loss to the stock
holders will be total.
PORTRAIT OF WAsHINGToN.-The Gal
lery of Portraits at the New York City
Hall is to receive another contribution
from France-a manufacturing firm at
Lyons being about to send out a portrait
of the " Father of his Country" which
is woven in silk. This portrait is ex-
tremely valuable, and has been FIVE
years in the course of preparation.
DIFFERENT nations have different kinds
of l~oafers. The Italian spends his time
in sleeping-the Turkish lOaferi in dream
ing-the Spanish praying-the French
in lsughing-the English in swearing
the Russian in gambling-the Hungarian
in smoking-the German in drinking,
and the American in talking politics.
The Buffalo Commercial says hat a
German, named Emig, del on Thurs
day in the upper part OF the city, from
drinking three gallons of beer in the
space of twelve hours. He was taken
in the afternoon, physician was sent
for and two quarts pumped from his
stomach, but he died shortly after.
JUST FoUR HUNDRED YEARs.-The
book ever printed with a date ap-
peared in 1855 just four centuries ago
this very year. Nine years after the
Koran began to be publicly read al Con-
stantinople, and at the same time the
Bible was sent forth on the wings of the
press.
Quick WoRK.-An English
named Alfred Grey, was arrested in New
York on Tuesday for picking the pocket
Of a lady of $40 in bills. The money
was found in his possession. He was
sentenced TO 6 months hard labor in the