Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-02-13
News Items.

AT a meeting held IN Henry Ward
Beecher's Church last Wednesday eve
ring, between $50. 600 and $40, ZOO of
the stock Of Kansas Emigrant Aid Soci-
ely was subscribed in shares of $50
each. Speaking of the vital issue be-
tween Freedom and Slavery, between
Republicanism and Aristocrscy, now
pending in Kansas. and Of the Influences
the North could send to aid there The
truth and the right, Mr.. Be cher said
among other things that Snaps Rifle
was a truly moral agency"
DURING the late visitation of cholera
at Chicago, ILL.,, a wealthy miser of that
city took the disorder and died. The
weather being very warm 1t. was found
necessary to place his body in the coffin
without removing his usual apparel. One
of the heirs, who was standing by, sug-
ges;ed, just as the lid was being fasten-
ed, searching the deceased's pockets,
which was done, and the searcher also
found an ordinary ~money-belt around
the corpse, containing over $4,000
worth of notes, bills, &c.
The Chicago Press says that the
house of Mr.. Phillips, near Waukegan.
was burned, IN Saturday night last, and
Mr.. p. and daughter persisted in the
flames. A hired man and another
daughter of Mr.. P. only escaped, but
the latter was badly burned, and then
frozen so that her recovery is doubtful;
at least she will be a cripple for l.fe.
A FEW evenings since, at a dancing
party in Brooklyn, a young woman who
had danced at intervals during the eve
ming, suddenly dropped down upon the
floor, while engaged in a set, about l2
o'clock. She was conveyed to a sofa.
and medical aid call in, bui life was ex-
tinct. The cause of her death, was the
rupture OF a blood vessel.
A sTEAME snagged and sunk in the
Mississippi, rear Plumb Point, 1897.
with a valuable load OF lead, tobacco
and furs, by changes of current became
imbedded in an island, and now after
twenty eight years, is again being wash
ed out by the shifting stream, and the
lead will probably be recovered.
In Canal street, New Orleans, on the
18th ult.. Mr.. Terrier and Mr.. Eifee. of
Carroliton. fired a dozen shots at each
other with their revolvers /; but were so
mad that they couldn't kill. each other,
though Mr.. Terrier was wounded in the
side.
During the cold snap the men ofPitts-
burg have keps themselves warm by
whipping their wives. During the last
week. says the Post, no less than a doz
en- persons we've sent to Jail for abusing
wives.
A MINE of Epson Salts is said to have
been recently discovered in Santa Cruz
California. If it should not
prove remunerating TO IFS propr:eIors, it
will, nevertheless, be always good for
working people
MR. Pierce, of Chicago; arrived at
city en- the 98.h ult.. from Green
Bay. He drove the whole distance in
a light sleigh, drawn by one dog, aver
aging thirty miles a day.
THE Tribune c~ontradicts the rumor
that Bayar Taylor Is about to be mar
ried to a young lady of Springfield, Ohio,
and says it is wholly without founda-
ton.
LATELY, on a prairie in the south part
of Minnesota, a sleigh and horses came
up 10 a tavern. and the landlord going
to it found its occupants, five men, fro
zen stiff.
ONE hundred of the students at Dick
College have rebelled against the
faculty, in consequence of the alledged
expulsion Of four members.
A VERY destructive fire occurred in
gainesville, Lake county. Ohio, OF The
night of the 26Ih ut destroying a num-
Der of houses.
THE vote of Texas at the last election
exceeded that of Louisiana. by more
than three thousand.