Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-09-19
News Items.


The Oswego Times states that there are
in that city at the present time, sixteen
Touring mills, with eighiy.four run Of
stone, capable of manufacturing about
ten thousand bbls. of -four per day
There is perhaps nc point in the United
States, or in the world, where the manu-
facture of flour is conducted upon so
large a scale as in the city of Oswego.-
The facilities for handling grain at that
mort, are also extensive. The elevating
capacity is about thirty-six thousand
bbls. per hour, and the storage room
equal to about two million two hundred
thousand bushels.
THE HARVEST IN ENGLAND.-The last
accounts from England touching the crops
and the harvest are of the most favorable
character. The heavy rains had been
succeeded by fine weather, and the reap
ing had become general on the 18th of
August. The crops are said to be. Jas
large as ever stood on the soil of Eng
land, and promise even more than an
average abundance. There is no ap-
p~earance of the potato rot in England or
Ireland.
CoLUMBIANA CoUNTY.-Last Wednes.
day the Republicans of Columbiana coun-
ty had a glorious meeting at New Lis
bon /; about 5000 people were present.
Speeches were made by Messrs. CHASE,
S~PAULD1NG, and others and many who
have been regarded as staunch support
ers of the administration openly avowed
their determination to vote the Republi-
can Ticket. Never before since, the or.
ganization of political parties in Ohio,
was there so much enthusiasm in old Co.
lumbiana. There will scarcely be a rem-
han of the dirt. eaters left.
THE Springfield Journal announces
That the Chicago, Alton q St. Louis
Railroad has been leased for a term of
90 years, to Hamilton Spencer, late Vice
President of the Company, for a consid-
eraticn of $500, 900 per annum including
the floating debt of the Company.
Gov. Shannon arrived at Westport on
the 21st, ult. He was serenaded on the
evening of his arrival, andmade a speech,
in which he remarked that he regretted
to see a disposition in certain parts of the
Territory to nulify the laws of the late
Legislature. He regarded that assembly
as a legal one, and its laws as binding,
and should exert his authority to enforce
them. He said he was for Slavery in
Kansas.
A HANDSOME PREsENT.-Col. Sam.
Colt, of Hartford, Conn, is exhibiting a
couple of splendid rings presented to him
by The Emperos Alexander, of Russia.
One ofthe rings containss diamonds worth
S3OOo-each contain the CIPHER of the
Imperial personages Alexander and wife,
set with very minute diamonds, and the
shank one of which glitters with numer-
GUS petite diamonds.
Our late st intelligence from Norfolk,
via Richmond, reports that there is a
slight abatement. Over $4,000 have
been subscribed in Baltimore city to-day
for the relief of the sufferers, making a
total of nearly $4,000. A boat was
sent down tonight heavily loaded with
provisions /; also having On board 113
The reported election of Senator Atch.
ison TO the U. S. Senate from Missouri,
by the ". Y. Tribune, is a hoax-as it
is well known the Kansas legislature does
not meet for several months TO come.
Two men have returned to Chicago,
from the supposed gold regions at Han
4lDdl, AlSoOull, OA Vic olhduodo 1dfCA,
report the total failure of the expedition
and the lynching of the leader of the
company, named Poole, by his exasper-
ated companions.
THE steamship Empire City, from As
pinwall Sept. LIST. arrived in New York
about 12 O'Clock with California mails
of August 18th, $50 passengers, and
Serious collisions were occurring at
the mines between the Irish on one side,
and all other nations on the other
Military interference was necessary.
LAKE ONTARIO FALLING.-The report
kept by Capt. Malcolm, under the di-
rection of Colonel Turnbull, for the To-
geographical bureau, shows that the wa
tiers of Lake Ontario have fallen three
inches during the month of August, and
are still two inches higher than on the LIST
Of August, 1854.