Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-04-02

1hS AAAo W a. S~NeAA
err Cazado, from Talhurna f~oundered
near Maule on the 3Oth of January
Out of $50 persons only As were saved.
AMONG the payments at the Sub Treas
ury March 2lst, was SI5O.OOO, being the
final in~staIlmen, ofthe Mexican indemnity.
Messrs. Rowland & Aspinwall were the
recipients.
PERSONS should bear in mind that no
letter can hereafter pass through the mail
unles prepaid by a stamp. The post
master is not authorized 10 receive money
in payment Of postage.
POWDER of pulrerized diamonds is COM
ing into vogue with Partisan fashiOuables-
1t is calculated hat a sufficient quantity
for an evenings toilette amounts to many
hundred frances.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that it cost
22,40O to catch and carry back the iu-
gitiye slaves from that city. Four hun
dred deputy marshals were under pay
tweniy-eight days.
A statement was made in the Cicinnati
Chamber of Commerce, recently, that,
within a circuit of some sixty or seventy
miles 10 Ohio, 1900 900 lbs. oflcaf tobac-
90 uyse ra;so1 orn,,H-
The crsditors of Cassius II. Clay have
refused to eccept of the assignment he
had made in their favor. The assets are
all left in his own hands, to make pay
menirwhen he can. This shows that Mr..
Clay is esteemed as an honest man.
OK the morning of the 11th inst, q
s~prishily little lad of three years, son of
Chas. Holman, Of Conneaut tp., inadver.
family upset tub of hot water which seal
ded him so seyerly that he died the same
evening.
They are proposing a wire suspension
bridge at St. Louis al a cost ef a million
dollars. The length from Bloody Island
to the root of Vine street, is 1900 feet, and
is proposed that the lowest point of depres
sion shall be 100 feet.
A vel known and respectable colored
man of Cincinnati, named Irwin, on 60
ing across the river to Covington, KY,
on business was arrested and thrown into
Jail, and on establishing the fact of his
being a free man was compelled to pay
81 costs.
SIXTEEN weekly, and nine daily papers
with several monthly publications, are
regularly issued in Pittsburgh. Think Of
that, for "a city of workshops" In addi-
ton to these one daily and one weekly
are publ shed in Allegheny c2uaiy, out.
siIe the city limits.
a WOMAN named Ward, residing near
Bridgeport, Madison CO, New York,
murdered four Of her children, by cutting
their throals with an axe. She then made
an unsuccessful attempt to cut her own.
The cause assigned is neglect, and hru-
tally OF her husband.
A BODY of snow fell upon the house of
Mr.. Campbell, real Sydney, Clnada, on
the 18th inst. The avalanche destroyed
The houre; and buried in ruins Mr.. Camp
bell, his wifi, mother, three children, and
two young girls. Only three ofthe whole
number were taken out alive.
The long pendIng suit, under which
some s25o,o00 were claimed by Sam. g..
Ogden of VIM. 3. Astor on an unsettled
account of partnership transactions be-
tween the plaintiff and the late John Jacob
Asior has been terminated, we learn, by
the payment of sla5,OO to Mr.. Ogden.
NJ. o. is The father Of Mrs. Anna Cora
Richie.
The train on the Hudson River Rail-
road on Wednesday last, flew the track
near Albany, and two cars were pitched
down IN embankment landing bottom up.
Mr.. Woodbridge, Sergeant-ai-arms ofthe
N. Y. Legislature, had 18th legs broken,
and three men and one lady were severe
ly injured. The lady was burned by the
stove falling upon her.
COMMODORE CoENoR died recently in
Philadelphia after a service of forty-six
years. He entered the U. S. Navy as a
m~idshipman in 1909, but wa too young
at that period 10 gain much Distinction
He was in the engagement between the
Hornet and the British sloop-of.war Pen
gum, when the latter was captured, and in
the action received a wound.
LLoYD's Steamboat Diree'Ory gives a
thrilling instance for the necessity of wo-
men knowing how 10 swim. When the
ill.faied Ben Sherrod was in flames on The
Mississippi river, and the lady passengers
had thrown themselves into the water, and
were drowning around the boat, the wife
of Captain lCasileman jumped into the
river with her infant in her arms, and
swan ashore, a distance of half a mile,
being the only woman saved oui ofsixteen
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