Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-03-12
News Items.

the following profits: Treasurer, $40, 600;
clerk, $50, 600; auditor, sIo,ono; sheriff,
$4,000; probate judge, $4,000.
THEY catch trout and pickerel in Can.
ada, freeze them into blocks Of ice, aud
restore them to life by warm water at any
future place or time.
Counterfeit BIO on the Merchants and
Mechanics Bank of Wheeling are in cir.
culation.
The Democratic Sale CONVENTION Of
Connecticut have nominated Samuel
Ingham for Governrr, and John T. Waite
for Lieut.. Governor.
TIE New Jersey Legislature adds tc
its perquisiles this year, for each member
a leaiher valise, containing a brace o
razors, shoe brushes, fine tooth combs,
needles, bodkin, &C., and all the eli cete.
ras TO furnish a g~entlemau's dressing
room.
= II is stated that French company is
about 10 purchase eight large steamers
from M. Cunard, with the view of esiab-
fishing steam lines between France and
America; and a Milford (Eng.) paper says
that Enoch Train Esq of Boston, and ].
fCroskey, Esq, American Consul al Ssuth-
ampton, recently visited that city on the
same errand, namely,'to make arrange.
ments fur the establishment of lines OF
steamers from Milford to the United
States.
GENERAL LARrMER, formerly of Pits
burgh, but now a member ofthe Nebraska
Legislature, having presented and alyo-
Gated a bill proposing TO allow mn 10
vote, a committee of members came into
The House and proposed 10 present the
gallant General with a,petticoat, which
created a considerable uproar in the
House! The "resolulion to present" was
voted down.
Prentice of the Louisville Journal,
has received a present of a new overcoat
from some "rightm minded" tailor. In his
notice if the gift he says: at fits as well
as if we had been melted and poured into
it,"
AT Hong Kong, in China, the American
Consul has been arrested and committed
to await a trial in a civil Court, for inter-
fering with the British local police, who
u~nlawfully attempted to arrest the cap
tain OF an American vessel.
THREE thousand five hundred dollars
offered, yesterday, for one share of.
The New YorA Tribune. This would
make the one hundred shares, into which
hat establishment was divided a few
years ago, worth s35O,OOo. The par
value of each share is $1,000. We cor
graduate our ~neighbors on their immense
pccuniary success, and confess that Abo-
itionism pays better than Unionism. 1t
IS hard work sculling up Niagara Falls
with a row.bar.-Ece Hin Or.
A NEW beauty of the Fugitive Slave
Law was developed by Commissioner
P~ENDERY that while the government at
Washington will pay the fees of witnesses
who testify in favor of the kidnapped, un-
Ter the law of 1850, it is its practice to
refuse compensation TO all witnesses who
estify on behalf of the freedom of the al
eyed slave.
An act passed the Rhode Island Legis
allure, repeating that portion of the mar
-iage act so long existing in that Stale,
Viii oh requires the publication of notice
,~fintended marriage i n religious meetings.
The Kentucky rufians, who so brutal.
y assaulted the reporter of the Cincin-
lati Gazette, were arrested by the author
ties of Covington, and brought up for trial
asst Tuesday morning. They were fined
rom five to ten dollars each.
Mr.. WRIGur, the new Ohio Safe Au-
has forbidden his clerks The use of
ardent spirits, on pain of losing their
He ought to have included the
ltre-gqing in the same category.
ANOTHER Of Mr.. Auguste Belmont's
clerks has been arrested on the charge of
,mbczzling $1,000 to $1,000 from the
house in New York. This time it is the
a young German. He found
rail in $4,000 10 appear and answer.
A BILL was introduced in the Ky. Leg.
stature OIL Monday, imposing a tax upon
bachelors over thirty years o age, So on
zach $1,000 worth of property, ad valo
'em, to educate other peoples children.
MATTRESSES stuffed with cork cut into
lille grains are coming into use in New
To:k. They are soft, easy and light, and
~shipboard forn very convenient life
.,reseryers.
TEN inches of snow fell at Holidays
,urg, Pa, on Friday last.
LAST Friday evening, says the Ban
,or, me. Journal, Feb. 25, was the
irst time since the great snow storm.
hat communication has been opened
" railroad between this city and Boston.
rhe embargo laid on all the rail tracks,
vest of Portland, had closed all the
news thoroughfares, except over the
magnetic wires. The consequence was
hat the entire eastern mail for this part
If the State, which had been accumula-
inp since Saturday fha 18th inst and