Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-03-19
News Items

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nOunced in the English journals.
Ar the election held in oswego, Marcel
8, the entire citizens ticket was elected
headed by L. r. Croker.
AT Pembina, in Minnesota, the mercu
ry for a week averaged fifty-two degree
below zerO.-Ugh!
AcoNvicr lately died in the State Pris
on of Rhode lslIad, who had served I;
years in that and other prisons.
A SINGLE pew in the Kings Chapel
Unitarian, Was sold in Boston, recently
for twelve hundred dollars.
NINE murders have been committed il
Memphis, Tenn, within a year, and no
one of the murdcrers has been brought &c
Justice.
A WEDDING came off recently in Mem.
phis, Tenn, which was made the occasion
of some fun, as it was the NINTH time the
bride had The matrimonial knot tied.
KATE HAYES, the songstress, it is said
lost $4,000 by the failure of the bank.
ing.house of Saunders & Brennan, at San
Francisco.
A LITTLE babe about six months old
was frozen TO death a short distance from
Plymouth, Ohio, during the late extreme
cold weather, while in 4 crib al the bed
SIDE gifts parents.
The Cleveland Leader says: accord
ing 10 the best information which We have
been able TO obtain, mole than two hum
dred and fifty slaves escaped from Vir-
ginia and Kentucky during the month Of
Feb, 1856.
The Cincinnati Gazette says the dam.
age at that port caused by the breaking
of the ice is much less than was suppos-
ed, the total loss being but little, il any,
over $4,000, of which $4,000 falls on
the Cincinnati Insurance Companies.
A DEvILIsH scoundrel was convicted a
few days since, in Chicago, for maliciously
shooting a number of horses which broke
into his ~inclosure. Three Of the horses
had their eyes shot u and two others
were very seriously MANNED.
Tue Irving Bank, in New York city,
lately redeemed a counterfeit on its twenty
dollar note, which had been executed
throughout with a steel pen, aided by a
p:ncil brush! The fac simile was per-
fectel with such consumate skill that ii
was long a puzzle, rel 10 the engravers
of the bank.
IT is stated that there are twenty-;hree
circus companies in the United States,
and the average expense of each, daily,
in the summer season, is S35O-in all
about $40, 600. The cost of fixtures,
horses, &C., is about $4,000, and en-
ployment is given 10 2,oO0 men, and an
equal number Of horses.
The British fleet in the Sea of Azofr is
stated to have found a terrible enemy in
the shape ola large and destructive worm
peculiar TO those watels. They attack
the u~ncoPpered parts underline water line
of the ships, and lore through them with
the rapidly of an old carpenter handling
an auger.
TINS story Of the elephant that was lost
overheard from a Baltimore s~teamerswim
ming ashore a great distance, is contra
dicie 10y the Charleston Mercury, which
says the animal was almost cert ainly
killed by a blow of the propeller of the
boat. At any rate il has been seen
or heard of since.
Mr.. GoLDscHMIDr, the husband of
JENNY LIND, sent an i%nsoleut reply TO a
letter written by a concert %speculator in
London. The speculator met Gold
schmidt in the street and pulled his nose,
whereupon the Spectator was summoned
before a court 10 answer for the assault.
The conrt, after full hearing, fined The
defendant Jfvs shiHings.
Dyer, Democrat, is elected Mayor of
Chicago by about AGO majority. The
largest vote has been polled that has ever
been polled there, by 1000. In the
Seventh Ward 500 more than the
legal number of votes were polled, all for
the Democratic ticket. The Council
stands four Republicans % fifteen Dem
ocrais. The 9Th Ward will probaly be
contested.
The Steamer Henry Lewis, bound
from Cincinnati 10 New Orleans loaded
with Pork, Flour, Whiskey &C., came in
collision with the Steamer Edward HDw-
ard heal Troy, Indiana at 4 O'Clock on
Saturday morning, March 8;h, and sunk
Immediately. Her cabin passengers were
all saved through the hurricane deck,
but 20 hands and deck passengers were
drowned. The boat and cargo are sur
posed TO be lost. She was insured.
A CENSUS of ST. L ,uis has Just been
complct d, which the LnteHigsneer saws
gives as the total population of the city at
the present time, one hundred and twenty
two thousand two hundred and ffty-two
inhabitants. Of these, ~l22,252, l19,054
are white, $3.50 colored, and l $50 slaves;
9,757 are males, and 55,S68 femalcs.-
The increase Ct our population since