Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-01-30
News Items.


of Clarke Wolf, was sentenced % the
Peni;entiary for a term of ten years,
Charged with committing a rape upon
the person of his step daughter ; a child
under ten years Of age ; and who at the
time the outrage was committed was but
little over seven years Of age.
The Patent Office has been very sc-
tive during the last year in granting pat
ents. One thousand nine hundred and
forty-six we're issued from the Office du-
ring the year, the largest number any
one year has yet shown. Mechanical in-
v%ention is continually at woik producing
original machines, or adaptations equally
as useful.
FRANCOIS JURIES, a banker of New
Orleans, told his creditors hat he would
pay them all on New Years day if be
had TO "coin his heart and drop his
blood for drachms." When the time
come he was without money, and took
a large dose of laudanum, and thus BY
paying n great debt, got rid of all the
lutte ones.
ACCORDING to the official abstract four
Thousand and six hundred and ten deaths
of consumption. occurred in Massachu-
sets. during the year of 1854, of whom
one thousand nine hundred and three
were males, and two thousand seven
hundred and seven females, a prepon
derance OF the part Of the latter, of seven
hundred and ninety -four.
The deficit in the Post Office Depart
ment this fiscal year, will be about two
and one half millions of dollars, or some
100000 more than last year. There
has been added about 800 miles Of
road service to the Department since tue
last annual report.
THE American mode of manufacturing
small fire arms has been adopted in Eng
land. from plans obtained here by Brit
ish officers. twenty-five thousand ri
fles for the British government are now
being manufactured at Windsor, VT,
and Hartford, Connecticut.
Mr.. OseooD, of the firm of Osgood &
Blake, Columbus, has invented a ma
chine which will print numbers consecu
lively, from one to one million, Just as
fast asa man can work up and down a
short lever.
JEROME, the celebrated clock manu-.
f~acturer, and Barnum, who has been con-
nected with the former, are in financial
trouble, but the papers say the business,
will pay all liabilities, and leave a large
surplus.
THE Allentown Democrat says the
barns Of the farmers in that section are
absolutely breaking down under the
weight Of grain, and yet they will not
send their supplies to market.
WILLIAM TYLER, brother Of ex-Presi-
dent, died at Norfolk, Va, last week, Of
consumption. At the time of his death,
he held the Office of Clerk of the Navy
Yard at Gosport.
The Working Farmer states that the
value Of the hog crop this year. in the
United States, will fall little short Of two
hundred million of dollars, or fifty mil
lions more than the cotton crop.
A protracted meeting ha, been held
for several weeks past at Beaver with
great success, between thirty five and
forty having allied themselves to the
church.
THr Toledo Blade publishes the mar
ri,ge of John Paddle to Emily Canoe,
and adds that the happy groom can ex-
claim, with tie poet.-''I Paddle my
own Canoe"
THK total length of the Mississippi and
all its tributaries, is 81 900 miles, which
is more than twice the equatorial cir
cumference Of the earth.
The American Bible Society c%ircula-
ted during the past year. eight hundred
thousand Bibles and Testaments.