Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-04-09
News Items.

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to all the world.
The receipts o. dry goods at New York
for the week ending the ODD ult., were
St,86i,l62, aga INST s6O5, 0sI last year.
Miss MARTHA BURwELL, of Bottetourt
C 'uniy, Va, recently deceased, emanci-
pnted thirteen slaves, and made provision
for their removal to Liberia.
OH sailors predict that there will not be
uninterrupted navigation to Buffalo before
the 9Th of May. We hope they may
prove false prophets.
The late l.. B. Leavell Of Elkton, Ky.,
~emancipated his slaves by will, left them
SEQ, GOO, and ordered their removal 10
New York.
A NEW Free Safe paper has been start.
ed at Topeka, Kansas. 1t is called the
Kansas Duly Tribune. Its size is DIM
%inutive, but its pluck is great.
ANOTHER party of 3s emigrants for
Kansas, left Charleston, S. c., March %,
and - started from Orangeburg District
the day before.
The moun OF properly belonging to
the citizens of Mass, which is insured in
the various companies 10 tine State, is not
far from FIVE hundred millions Of dollars.
THE Cleveland Hrrald flies the name
or Col JOHN c. Fremont, as IFS choice
for a candidate for the Presidency, subj C,
to the decision ofthe Republican Conven
lieu.
Ex-PREsIDESr Fillmore has gone 10
Asa, and is not expected TO return TO the
United States until next Summer. 1t
must, Of course, be sometime before he
hears of his Philadelphia nomination.
The Buffilo Republic says that there
are over 100000 bushels of wheat, and
more than $4,000 barrels Of flour now in
that city; a quantity larger than ever be-
fore known al this season of the year.
OK and after April LIST, heavy freight
by the New York and Erie Railroad will
be reduced upon the 100 lbs, from II
cent 10 81 cents. The freight on -four
will be reduced from $3.50 per barrel to
Sl,35.
IL the village Of Middletown, N. Y,
last week., a young man acting as bar
tender in one of the hotels, was killed BY
swallowing a pint of whisky and cider
mixed. lie died in two hours after reach.
ing home.
The Hudson river is yet closed with
ice, and the prospects are that il will re-
main so for at ldast a week. In IS4S the
river was not open till The 1th of April,
but with that exception it has been nav
igable in March for the last ten years.
The TrJume's Washington -c~orrespon-
dent, March 3lst, says there is no truth in
the report that the Kansas Commisson is
stopped for want of funds. Though the
House contingent funds empty, means for
the commission are temporarily provided.
= Mr.. SAMUEL GILMAN, of Sullivan CO,
Ia, had his pocket picked of his wallet,
containing 1925 in money and two
through tickets at Dunkirk, on the Lake
Shore Road, where he left the cars 10 ex-
change the tickets which were second
class 10 first class one'.
A ROW Of six stables, which were being
torn down, in New York March 3Ist, fell,
AMI several children, who were about
the buildings, were buried in the ruins.
One boy was taken u dead, two little
girls were taken on; seriously injured and
one not expected TO recover.
The lIrgest room in the world is now
nearly completed in the British Museum.
II is circular, l4O in diameter, and 140
feet in height. The tables will accommo-
date nearly SOD readers. The wrought
iron book casrs will contain lee, 600 VOL
umes. Tie cost Of the room will about
$4,000.
A PETITION IS now in circulation among
the citizens of Maryland in favor Of the
suppress OIL of the nuneries witch at
present cxis, in that state. They are
termed private prisons, into which girls
aud women are deceived, under various
preiexts, and there confined without any
protection from the laws, under their
present system.
TIE american Ball, published at
L1uisburg, III the county Of Franklin, n.
c., states that the negroes at the PORTS
gold mine in that county, the property Of
T. X. Thomas, ESQ.,, found, a few days
ago, several nuggets of gold, making
about $1,000. One piece was worth be-
tween $500 and 5000, almost pure gold;
another piece wac worth sI2O, inrermix-
ed with quartz, with several others worth
from $40 TO $40.
NAVIGATION is open on Like Michigan.
The steamer Huron left Chicago for Mil
waukee and intermediate ports; Wednes-
day morning.-Tbe business being done
by the Like Shore is immense. A train
into Cleveland from the east, Wednesday
morning, had twelve hundred passengers,
and one hundred babiesl to say nothing
of a large instalment OF SHARPE's rifles
The rifles for now and the babies for after
while.