Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-08-20
News Items.

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DANGEROUS ALTERATIoN.-10's, on
the "City Bank of Columbus" Ohio,
raised from rs. by extracting the de-
nomlnational words and figures, and in
sertiDg TEN and 10. Observe that the
oblong square in the centre of the note,
which contains the words "Ten Dollars"
has been extended soas to admit the as"
but by that extension ii touches the let
ter 80" in the word CON- not so in
genuine los Lords Detector.
BUCHANAN is at a low ebb in Mercer
Co., Pa. Two attempts have been made
to organize clubs. At the first there
were four persons present and a speaker,
who had gone from Mercer about eight
miles to organize it. On the second at
tempt, which was fixed to be held in the
Court House, there were twelve present,
nine of them being Democrats. So says
the Mercer Whig.
PosT OFFICE SITE The New York
Times says S85O,OOO has, been Offered
for St. Johns Park as a location for a
Post Office in that city, but that the
Yestry of the Trinity Church ask a mil
lion. The Times condemns the location
as m which would put the Post flee
out of the reach of nine-tenths of the
citizens of New York.
THE New London Chronicle says that
Nh. Richards, who keeps a store on the
Hartford road, a few mornings since
found in one of his empty molasses hogs
heads a human skeleton, the remains no
doubt of a departed negro. How they
came in that ~saccharine sepulchre of
course no one knows.
The Christian Wotchman says: We
learn from a reliable source, that the
Rev. George D. Boardman, of Barnwell
Court House, S. c., has been compelled
to abandon his pastorate, for refusing an
expression of sympathy on the side Of
Brooks in his outrage on the Massachu-
sets Senator.
HIGH PRICE FOR A GELDING.-We
learn that Messrs. Craig & Kennedy, of
this city, sold their celebrated gelding
Mark Smith, to a gentleman of Philadel-
phia for $500. He is a remarkably fine
animal, and is probably the best broke
horse in the United States.-Lexington
Oh. d. RIP.
SAMUEL GRAHAM, of Mantua, Ohio,
was found OF the Goth ultimo, hanging
on a tree near his residence. Mr.. G..
had been laboring under mental ~derange-
ment for some time, and had just return
ed a few days previous from Newburg.
FATAL ACADEMIA little child Of
Sylvanus Waters, of Randolph, was
drowned in a well on Friday, the 9th
The well was forty feet deep, and before
aid could be rendered life was extinct.
The child was only two years old.-Ra-
UenRa Democrat.
IT is stated hat the New Orleans Pic
ayune divided 100000 profits last year,
or $4,000 TO each of the FIVE partners.
A WHITE man was hauled up to the
whipping post in Norfolk, Virginia, the
other day, and received fifteen lashes for
petty larceny.
THE grain crop the present year, says
the Boston Transcript, over all the New
England States, is very heavy.
THE Pennsylvania State Fair, is to be
held at Pittsburgh on September, 80,
October LIST, I'd and Sd.
An Irish woman was found dead in a
well in Cleveland, on Monday morning.
IN DOylestOwn, Pa, Bejamin Leedon
had one arm and n leg cut off by a
moving machine. He died in a few
hours.
THE rice crop is said to be promising
in Georgia, and will be a fair average
one.
THE Rhode Island Legislature has ad-
journed without electing a United States
Senator.