Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-11-28
News Items.

PRISON more ina q year, auu 'HN
property he possessed when charged
with the crime for which he Is now sui
fering has almost melted away.
Rev. Tbaddeus Fiske. D. D., died at
Charlestown. Mass, on Wednesday, at
the advanced age of ninety-three years
and FIVE months. lie was the last sur
vivor OF the class which graduated at
Harvard in 1889. and with one exception
the Oldest graduate
IN New Orleans, Lately, a man named
Hunter has Teen sentenced to pay a fine
of a thousand dollars, and undergo an
imprisonment of six months, and forfeit
certain slave, whom hc Illegally sold in
such a n as to separate the moth
err from the children, contrary TO the laws
of louisiana.
TnEC Car of Russia, through hisagents,
has succeeded in embarrassing the Pc
cuniary affairs of France and Finland
to such a degree, as 10 cause more I'M
e~asiness in commercial circles than has
existed since 1847. From England he
has distracted about $50, 900, 900 IL
specie, and from France a still larger
sum.
PosrMAsTERs are responsible for the
subscription of ? newspaper or magazine
as long as they allow it TO be received at
their Office, after it is uncalled for or re-
fused by the person to whom it is direct
ed. The postmaster-general requires
that a written note shall be sent TO every
publisher, that his paper or work lies
dead in that office.
KILLED BY HIS OWN KNIFE An ex
change says Mr. Melvin, one of the kill
ed by the Pacific railroad calamity, was
found with a bowie knife, which he had
on, thrust up TO the hilt in his body. He
was terribly mangled. How literally
was verified in this case he. saying of
the Savior, They who take the sword
shall perish with the sword"
AT Calcutta, India, two Englishmen
have been heavily fined for ejecting from
the railroad cars a native, three four his
naked, whose unctious presence was dis
agreeable to the ladies present. The
/ Court ruled that a natives ideas of de-
cency were the criterion, an that civil
zed visitors must not attempt to force
compliance with their pr judices.
The Albany Argus learns that Mr..
Abraham SoIes, of Schenectady, re-
Gently received Instructions through a
friend, from the British Minister at Wash
ington, to buy twenty thousand horses, if
he could get that number, and Mr.. Soles
has beenengageddurin the past fortnight
in buyirg up all the horse flesh that lie
could obtain.
The Seneca Falls ReUeiHe tearfully
tells of the following melancholy al
fair" At Niagara Falls, last Friday
night, a young man, name unknown,
who had been disappointed in love walk
ed out TO the precipice, took off his hat
and coat, and casting one lingering look
into the gulf beneath him-turncd and
went back to his hotel His body was
found the next morning-in bed.
THERE has been much ill-feeling oc
casioned at Pittsburgh towards the au
thorities of Cleveland and Cincinnati, in
consequence of a practice on the part of
the latter cities of shipping their paupers
to Pittsburgh. Over a dozen persons
have recently been thrown upon the
charge of the directors Of the poor Of
Allegheny County, under these circum-
stances. Measures have been taken to
send them lack.
TuoMAs Stafford, of Little Falls. y. Y.
was in the habit of bathing his head
every morning in a cistern a short dis
lance from his house. On the morning
of the Sd, as he went to battle, as usual,
the water in the cistern being a few feet
from the top, he slipped in head first,
and was drowned. He was found an
hour afterwards, with his legs hanging
over the edge of the cistern.
JossUA ELLIS, agent for the c.. H. d
D. Railway at the Middlefown station, has
left for parts unknown. with 500 be
longing 10 the Railway company and some
$500 obtained from individuals. Ellis
left behind him a wife and several chill
dren, having taken, IS is supposed, a
female travelling companion from the vi
ciriiy of his residence. The Railway
company have telegraphed 10 various
points, and it is hoped lha' Ellis will yet
US StNulGu-
a ENTLEMA froE. Fort Belknap,
Texas, informs the editor of thu Dallas
Herald that a fight had taken place near
the Fort, between a party of Delawares
and Camanches. Seven Cam inches are
are reported to have been killed, the
Delawares having cut their bow-strings
the night previous, leaving them entire
ly at their mercy. Several ~depredations
have been recent Y committed, and con-
siderable alarm prevailed among the set
tiers. who were moving into the Fort for
protection.
An OLD SToCKHoLDER.-The LolGeA
(Mass.) Courier says: Mrs. Dolly
/ D r. N,I,-,,r+ ,rID -, 800,