Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-12-19
News Items.

sun, iC1uihInS 10 TIE ldIIuerS SIO,NOO.
The Library of Yale College contains
$4,000 volumes. 1t is probably the
most extensive College Library in the
Union.
AMONG a large lot of poultry sent last
week from the Weslernly station TO Bos
ton. was . turkey weighing twenty-seven
pounds. dressed. which sold for Sc, 95.
y. L. SWEET, of Grard Rapids, Mich,
has a hog who's" live weight is /, 200 lbs.
He is 9 fee; in length, from the end OF
his snout to the root of his TAIL. and his
body is three feet deep.
Col. WALLER has court martialed and
shot his Secretary of War, for treason,
and one of his soldiers of the American
battalion, for the unprovoked murder of
a~Nicarauguan lad.
MULHER1N, tried for rape upon a young
girl in Syracuse, last May, has been sen
fenced TO the State Prison for fourteen
years and six months. The punishment
is richly deserved.
SYDNEY G. BURTON, whose exertions
to ferret out the Williams who burned the
steamer Martha Washington, are so well
known, died very suddenly, a few days
since. He is supposed to have been pois-
oned.
a Londcn letter to the Petersburgh In
teEgencer says: ''Miss Coutts, the home
" lady who fell in love with the hand
some Marine, lives in the Strand, is worth
100000. and Notwithstanding her
wealth is hated by everybody
CATHERINE COOPER, of Lancaster, Pa,
recovered a verdict of SIS, 500 against the
Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, for the loss of her husband by an
accident ON the road, resulting from
carelessness on the part of the employ
ees of the company.
THE Delaware county Republican
states that the tiial of Judge Kane for
false Imprisonment, will probably take
place in February next. Passmore Will
Hanson claims $50 600 damages. This
is at the rate of S13,333 per month, or
$4,000 a week.
PROF. CALVIN PEAsE has been elected
President of the University of Vermont,
al Burlington. Leonard March, NJ. D.,
brother to James Marsh, and late Pres
ident, has been elected Professor OF Lat
in and Greek, which was left vacant by
the promotion Of Prof. Pease.
In the Circuit Court at Chicago, on
Monday last, a verdict was rendered for
the sum of $4,000, in favor of Joseph l..
Scroyer, Of Ohio, agent of Messrs. Frink
d Walker, late state prOprietors of that
city, for an injury to plaintiff by the over
turning of a stage coach in Hennepin. in
1852, by the drunkenness of the driver.
AMAN was placed a short time since
in a lunatic asylum, at Berlin, to be
treated for mental alienation, brought on
by the use of hair dye. On examining
the dye which he had employed, it was
ascertained 10 be composed of lead, mer'
curry and lunar caustic. 1t produced vio-
lent pains in the head, and at length led
TO madness.
A d~isconsolate widow arrived at Chi
cago one day last week, with the dead
body of her husband which she was TAX
ing east. Having formed an acquain-
lance in the cars with an agreeable
oung man, who succeeded in persua
ding her that a live man was better than
a dead one, she left the dead body and
eloped with her new acquaintance.
DURING the last month, the Illinois
Central Railroad Company has sold land
10 the amount of one million one hun
dred thousand dollars-nineteen-twen
tielhs of which has gone into the hands
of actual settlers, who are, for the most
ptrt, men of substance--men who will
add as much to the moral and intellect
ual as to the material wealth of the
State.
A Mr.. A WINTERS, of Roundout, n.
Y, has invented a new wood. saving
machine for railroad and other purposes,
capable of saving and throwing upon a
pile, a cord of wood in four minutes. Il
may be driven by. either stream or horse
power. The wood may be separated in
WI or more pieces at the same time by
simply mounting several saws upon The
shaft.
THERE has been a steady and ac.
tive demand for flour during the week,
and sales have been made, reaching
nearly 5000 barrels, mostly to one firm
This flour is bought on a foreign order
and without a doubt will find its way &c
the Crimea. This firm have within the
past lew weeks purchased in Detroit
about 30, 900 barrels of -four, at an aver,
age of, say 81, rs per barrel.
A YOUNG man named Levi Mershi-
mer, Shenangotownship, Lawrence coun-
ty, was killed on the Goth ult., by the
kick of horse. He had gone TO the field
for the purpose Of bringing in the horses,
but not returning as soon as was expect
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