Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-02-27
News Items.

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Mars and Jupiter. The most success
full ~diseoyerer of these small bodies was
Mr.. Hind, who, at the Observatory at
Regents Park, London, first found ten
of them, but who, since his appointment,
two years since. to the Office of Superin-
tendent of hat invaluable work, the
British Nautical Almanac, has discon-
tinued his laborious and exhausting OBJ
serYations.
A swITcHMAs and a station master,
whose negligence occasioned the terri
BILE accident which took place on the
Versailles railway cleft bank, on the
9Th of November last, have been SEN
fenced to the unusually severe but well.
merited punishment of five years i'm.
prisonment, besides fines of 500 francs.
1t was proved that the switchman had
left his post TO take q glass of wine with
an old friend, and that the station mas
ter at Vanguard, whose duty it was to
see that the switches were right, had
taken it for granted the man was at his
post, and had given the signal that a
train was ready to start without having
personally ascertained that the line was
in readiness,
NATHANIEL P. BANKs, Jr., is a native
of Alstead, New Hampshire. He was
bred to the trade of a blacksmith, and
worked at it in a machine shop, until he
was more than thirty years old. He
then commenced the study Of law, and
before his admission to the bar, was
elected a member to the Massachusetts
House of Representatives. In 1851 he
was re- elected to the House, and was
chosen Speaker of hat body, which sta
ton he filled with distinguished ability
for two years. In 1859 he presided over
the Massachusetts, Constitutional Con-
ventitn n, the largest and ablest delibera-
tive body assembled in that State for
twenty-five years.
A GANG of men who had been sent out
from Buffalo 10 clear the railroad track
at the Falls, were frozen to death last
week. The Snow .drifted on the track
as fast as they shoveled it off. Becom-
ing very cold, they attempted to return
to Buffalo, but were frozen in the at
tempt, in which condition they were
found By persons who had been dis
patched to their assistance on a loeomo-
tive.
RoLJIN WHITE, of Hartford has in
vented breesh loading rifle with a mag
azine attached, which may be fired once
a second as long as the magazine of cat
ridges holds out, and when emptied it
can be filed again in from six to ten
seconds /; or it may be fred after the
plan of Shapes rifle, by placing single
cartridges in the brsech, without using
the magazine at all.
In the case of Craft ct al VS.. the State
Bank of Indiana, the Supreme Court has
decided that the 28th and 29th days of
Feb, in leap year, are to be counted as
one day, and a note falling due on the
the 98th cannot be protected for non
payment till after banking hours on the
99th.
IT is stated that Mr.. John C.. Abbott
has received from the Emperor of France
a rich gold medal and a letter in &C.
knowledgment of the Emperor's sppre-
citation of Mr.. Abbott's History of Ma.
pOleon, a copy Of which the author had
transmitted to his majesty through the
Hon. Mr.. Mason, our Minister in Paris.
The cost of the smallest locomotive in
use is from six to eight thousand dollars.
The largest, which can draw a train of
Is cars, holding eleven hundred per-
sons, are worth twelve thousand dollars.
A first class passenger car costs three
thousand dollars 4; second, eighteen hun
dred, freight car six hundred.
THE Taunton (England) Courier states
that the Mormon delusion in that neigh
borhood-where for the last twelve
months a couple of Elders have been
propagating their Latter Day" doc
trines-is fast dying out and that DE
hall in which they have held their meet
ings is now let to a glass and China
dealer.
We learn from the Dayton Journal
that a Mr.. Whitehall, postmaster at
Dodson, in this State, was killed by fall
ing under the Indianapolis train while
putting the mail bag on board of the
car.
II is estimated hat there is now in
vested in the ice business, in all parts of
United States, between $4,000, 900 and
ST. 900, 900. and gives employment du-
ring the winter months to 10000 men.
THE value of stone quarried in Rock
polt, Mass, for building purposes, last
year, was a quarter of a million dol
lars. There are some 800 men con-
stantly at work on the lodges, and twenty
sloops are all the time employed 10 car.
ry it away.
FIVE negroes from the lower end of
Mason county, KY, took a sleigh'ride a
shoit time since, and crossed the Ohio
river. Neither the sleigh, horses or