Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-03-05
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Ink INCOME OF ONO The last year was
about four and a quarter millions of dol
lars, and its expenses three millions and a
hall. 1t has 500 miles of canals, 600 Of
nayigable rivers, and 1000 miles of Rail-
road. lis wheat crop last year was 80,
i9OO,o00 Of bushels and corn so, 0O0, OOo.
The Pittsburgh Gazette says: awe
fear we shall have to relinquish every
hope Of peaches next year. Since our
last meation of the subject, some exper:.
enced growers have informed US that they
have examined the buds, and find them
killed. This is the prevailing testimony
at the South and Southwest Of us"
Tbs London Times says that the Brit
ish G0vernmsst viii soon require a fresh
loan of one hundred million dollars.
Another feather for the back ofthe camel
John Bull. By the way, wars are much
more expensive than they used to be.
To fight the Russians two years has cost
more money than the whole Of our Reyo-
luton.
The Souihside (Va.) Democrat states
that, a day or two since, a gentleman ma.
med s. A. Kswson, of Wilmington, N. c.,
on a bridal tour to Petersburgh, went
down the river to SKATE, his wife standing
on the bank watching him. He broke
through, but got out safely; but biz wife
was SO overcome by the accident hat she
has become a maniac.
In the United States there are "a tun.
nels, the longest of whiehis about one mile.
England has As canal tunnels, of an ag-
gragate, length of 40 miles, the Longest
being over three miles. She has 10 Rail.
road tunnels with an aggregate of So
miles. The longest tunnel is in Hunga-
~, being eleven and one half miles in
length.
IT is estimated by the Norfolk Argus
that $4,000, 900 are invested in the oyster
trade of Virginia, and seven hundred YES
sells are engaged in the transportation de-
psrtment. The principals in the trade
pay from thirty-fve to forty cents per
bushel for them at the rocks, and pay
twelve and a half cents per gallon for
shelling them. Upon being packed and
sent to the West they bring 81 per gallon.
A gentleman who was born in Detroit,
and is now IA years of age, informs the
Monroe Commercial that the winter of
1912 was colder than the present, The
ice in the lake was three feet thick, and
closed up some of the hardors till May.
Ten years previous TO that time the win
ter was still colder; and one winter, he
recolIects, the snow was three or four feet
deep on a level.
IT is stated that a young lady of Cum
berland county, Pa, while riding in a
sleigh one night last week, was frozen to
death. She complained 10 her companion
early in the evening Of being cold, but
there being no public house near they did
not stop. Soon after, on coming 10 a tay-
ern, she refused to get out, saying that she
felt very comfortable, and they drove on.
Arriving at home, she had to be assisted
out of the sleigh, in a stuPor-like manner,
and shortly afierward expired.
TEE Niles (Michigan) Republican says:
A lady visited cur family q few days
since, and stated that her daughter had the
erysiPelas very bad. We called to mind
the remedy recommended by a New Ha-
ven editor. On returning home in the
evening she found the disease spreading
rapidly-it had assumed a frightful ap-
pearence.-Sh. Immediately applied a
poultice made of cranberries, which
seemed to arrest it at once, and the second
poultice effected a complete sure.
The Northern Light left New York
pier, February %, little after 3 o'clock
with GOO passengers, 200 OfwhOm goOut
to Join Gen. Walker. At 1.2 o'clock a
a ! large number of police arrived on the
dock to prevent confusion and keep order.
There were no arrests, and the steamer
sailed amid the enthusiastic cheers Of the
crowd on the pier.-John P. Heiss, form
erly one of the proprietors Of the WASH
Union and late of the N. o. Deho,
left here to-day to take up his permanent
abode in Nicaragua.
The Helena Arkansas Shield, of Feb
rurary I'd, says: On Tuesday morning
last, about daylight, a negro woman be-
to Mr.. Bowie, of this place,
drowned herself and two children, one
aged five years and the other twenty
, in the Mississippi river. About
nine o'clock the same morning the bodies
of the mother and the eldest child were
lodged in the ice at the DOW of the wharfs
boat. The body of the other child wa
not found. Previous to leaving home,
which was before the white family had
she attempted to fire the kitchen.
She seems to have deliberately dressed
ner children forthe awful deed, the little
boy found in-her arms having his clothes
and shoes on.