Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-04-08
News Items

The Prairie State Bank of Illinois
closed its doors on Friday last.
The town of ~Jacksonport. Arkansas,
has been nearly destroyed by fire.
A NEW counterfeit FIVE, on, The State
Bank of Indiana, has made its appear-
ance.
Mr.. ScHooNNAkER, late Auditor of the
Bank Department at Albany, is a de-
lauiter to the sum of s45. 600.
A dangerous counterfeit FIVE on the
Farmers Bank. KY, has just made its
appearance. Engraving rather coarse,
but well calculated to deceive.
A NEW and dangerous counterfeit $50
bill. letter B. payable at the Hopkins
vile Branch Of the Bank of Kentucky,
is in circulation. The closest scrutiny
is required to distinguish it from the
genuine note.
A democratic post master in Iowa is
unable to read. ard accordingly he
spreads the mail matter out before his
customers, that they may pick out their
own.
A gravel train on the Illinois R ,ilroad,
near La Sale, on Thursday last. precip-
itated from a bridge % feet below
Four persons killed and a number more
wounded.
WITHIN n week there have been
lost on The OHIO and Mississippi the
5 .eamrrs Grand Turk. Grapeshot. Eau
Claire. Shotwell, Belfast. A L. Davis.
Amazonia and the Sultana.
Ex PRESIDENT PIERCE and wife are at
the La Pierre House. Philadelphia,
where they will remain for some days.
The health of Mas. p, which for a long
time has been very delicate, is said to be
slightly improving.
A race from Albany to Syracuse, a
distance Of one hundred miles cam off
Oh the 3lst ult. One of the horses &C
complished it in twelve hours and twenty
minutes. The roads were heavy, and
in many places were snOwdrifts. The
owners must have teen brutes them
selves.
Awoman in Canada has been confined
for debt over sevenyeTs
The Republicans ofPennsylvanis have
nominated David Wilmot for Govern
Or.
Gov. Gardner has appointed Thursday
April 16.h. al Fast Day in Massschu
sets.
Elk Gov. Bisler. of California, is ap-
pointed Minister to Chill. Uice Mr.. Stark
weather.
A Billie distributor in Kentucky re-
ports that Of 30 900 families be visited,
one fourth had no Billie.
Col Fremont is busily engaged in New
York, preparing the reports Of his last
three expeditions for publication.
LOOK ORA new counterfeit Twen-
ty on the State Bank Of Ohio. Portage
county branch, Ravenna. is in circula
ton. The figures "s0" on either end
are pale, but otherwise the note is we'll
executed.
Il is said there are about fifty appli
Giants at Washington for every Office at
the disposal of the President.
One hundred thousand persons. it il
estimated. we're in Washington City on
the day of the Inauguration.
Washincto Irving. with his accus
toned liberality TO his family connec
lions. has made over the copyright of
the Life of Washington to one of his
nephews.
The Iowa Central Air Line Railroad
Company has put under contract the en-
the line Of Dad. commencing al Ssbula,
Iowa. on the Mississippi. and trrmina
ling at some point due west, on the Ms
souri,. a distance OF $50 miles.
The demand for the seed of the China
Cane has increased Of late so rap
idly that the price has advanced full
three hundred per cent
Gen. SCOTS pay. hereafter. will "a
mount to Sis QUO a year He gets also
$50 100 arrearages which Secretary D.
vi refused to grant.
Gas Costs bu, IS cents per thousand
feet in London and Liverpool; and
the United States the average price is
50, 50 per thousand.
The new epidemic, popularity called
brain fever, is prevailing TO such an ex-
tent in Madison and Onondaga counties,
N. Y. that the people are flying from
some localities in alarm. as if from a
oestilence. Persons are attacked sud-
denly, become insane, and die in a few
None recover.
The people Of Deu OFT a few evenings
iince closed the doors Of a church which
;iihu Burritt had engaged, and refused
0 permit him to lecture. We thought
he day of intolerance like this had
A STOCK company has been formed. of
,cr>ons residing in Cincinnati and Day
on, Ohio. who have constructed a steam
wagon to be run on common roads.
DIR. WIZ YATES, who introduced vac