Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12
News Items.

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Baltimore looked more like q city take
by assault than the scene Of a republi
; can election, and the returns OF kille'
: and wounded look really formidable
! But mark that the ~"agitating," ''fanati
CAL" Revolutionary" party had nothin!
to do with it.-N 2. 7fb.
Extensive fires have prevailed TIL
month in the woods. prairies. and swamp
of different portions of Michigan, dom!
much damage TO timber. fences, soil, DC
In Monroe, Shiawasse. Ingham, Eatol
and other counties, the destruction o
timber has been very great. The prairie
suffered severely. In many sections o
! the State the smoke was almost suffocat
ing, making days so dark that lights ha'
to be kept burning in houses and offices
MONTREAL, Nov. 5.-A terrific hurri
cane passed over this city last night
tearing down chminies and fences, anC
doing great damage to buildings. Tn
steamer Prince albert, from St. Lambert
was driven on St. Helens Island by thu
violence of the wind. The passenger
received every hospitality from the gar
rison stationed there. Much damags
has been done in exposed parts of th'
country.
BALTIMORE, Nov. GA violent tor
nado was experienced at Norfolk and
Portsmouth, on Tuesday, and occasioned
considerable damage. Several house:
were unroofed, and the new car-house o
the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad in
Portsmouth was reduced to ruins. Eight
or ten PERSONS are known 10 have beer
seriously injured, and it is feared thai
others are under the ruins.
The Richmond Enquirer says:-"The
North has much the largest commercial
marine in the world, in proportion to her
population. In event of disunion, twill
have occasion only for a few fishing
smacks. Every interest at the North
will be Frustrated and ruined by dis
union, because there will then be nc
tariff forcing trade into unnatural chan
nels. Think Of that Master Brooke
An ice machine has just been COM
pleted at the Cuyahoga iron works,
Cleveland, Ohio. which is capable Of
producing one ton of solid crystal ice in
twenty hours. A trial has recently been
made with the above result while the
mercury stood at 80 degrees in the apart
met. The estimated expense of manu-
featuring ice by such a machine is So
ner ton, or. one fourth of a cent pei
pound.
MI. Fillmore runs lowest Of the three
candidates for President in his own city,
county and State, as also in the Union
This is a verdict against not the man but
the principles he upholds. When he ran
for Controller in 1847 on the Free Terri,
tory issue, be led his ticket and carried
the State by many thousands. ". Y
TribxEe.
The editor of the Fredericksburg IVA,
Meas, advertises for a wife for himself
Applicants must not be over twenty-five
years of age, and will not he required tC
have more than $1,000 in cash. The
editor adopts this as the cheapest mode
of obtaining a wife. not having time tC
hunt up one, and the advertisement costs
him nothing.
AN EXCESS OF VIRTUE.-One of Mr..
Choate's objections to the Republican
party is that it points to-"the excess
and outbreak of virtues by which, more
surely than by. vices. a country may be
undone-." Nobody but Mr.. Choatt
would ever have thought of this country
being in greater danger from its virtues
than its vices.
The rec, Mt FIRE in Norfolk extended
over the same ground desolated in the
same way in 1914. The editor of the
Norfolk Herald, who penned the accoun
of the first occurrence forty-one year;
ago, now recalls attention to the coinci'
dence BY re publishing his own account
of that date.
THE suspension bridge about to be
erected over the Mississippi at St. Louis,
it is said, will be the most costly in the
world. 1t will cost about two million
! dollars, will be "a feet above high water
and over a mile in length. The bottom
of the towers will be sixty feet below low
water.
LARGE DECLINE IN PoRK.-The re
cent failure of a large pork operator in
New York seems TO have had a disastrous
effect on the market. On the 18th inst
sales we're made in New York at S22 81
for mess, and on the 95th it was sold a!
low as $50, Ie4 and closed dull.
CAsIsG AFFAIR John NJ. D. Nesbit
editor of the Mercer Republican, on las
Friday cansd the editor of the Wig
]. II. Robinson, for a personal attacl
made upon him in the Wig. The Mer
Ger editors are famous for personal at
tacks!
Edwin Forrest has sold his magni6
cent house on the Hudson, below Yon
kers, to Archbishop Hughes, with a pOr
ton of the ground. The price wa
$50, 600. The home of The tragedian
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