Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-02-04
News Items.
Mrs. Writ, wife of the late William
Writ, died at Annapolis. Jan. 25th.
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NEWS 4ItuS.
Mrs. Writ, wife of the late William
Writ, died at Annapolis, Jan. 25th.
We are informed that Mr.. Hough, the
Postmaster at Chillicothe, has been re-
moved, and E. B. Eshelman, formerly
editor Of. the Chillicothe AdOeriiser, APP
pointed.
Rev. N. P. BAiLEY, late of the Con-
.gregational Church, in Akron, was on
the 2lst. installed as Pastor of the Pres.
byterian Church, in gainesville.
The Medical Department of the Uni
v%ersity of Louisville. including the libra
ry, laboratory and museum. was destroy
ed by fire on the 3lst uli. Estimated
loss 500. 900; insurance $50, 900.
AFTER the fourth of March next, the
Republican vote in the U. S. Senate will
be 90. gain Of ION the present Repub
lican part in the Senatorial composition.
We observe that Erie City Bank notes
are selling at various paints at 70 cts. on
the dollar. There is no need for this
shave-ihe Bank will resume in a short
time. and will pay dollar for dollar
Erie Dispatch.
Two small dwelling houses at the Har-
Dor Conneaut. owned and occupied BY
Hiram Marsh and his father. were des-
trOyed BY fire during the forenoon of
Monday. The loss in buildings and
household effects estimated at.some $500
or $500.
Our exchanges generally are gravely
calculating a story that Gin a town in
Orange Co., N. Y, there are a man and
wife who have not spoken TO each other
for eight years. They are on good
terms apparently, sleep in same bed, and
eat at the same table, but each is too
proud to speak first.
The first snow storm ever witnessed
in the city of Mexico occurred on the 2let
ult., and created quite a sensation among
the larger portion of the population, who
had reyer seen The like before.
The citizens CT Conneaut are discuss
ing the advantages of locating a Bank
in their village. Under the Free Bank
ing Law a charter a be easily obtain.
ed, and there are capitalists enough in
the vicinity to take the capital stock, say
SIS 1000 to 500, 900.
REAn FRAZER. Esq, died on Tuesday
last in the State Lunatic Asylum, at
Harrisburg. where he had recently been
conveyed. He was a member of the
Lancaster bar. and a prominent demo
cratic politician, of impulsive tempera-
ment. and aged about fifty.
Two foolish young men in Perrysburg
the other day, were engaged in that in.
excusable business of swapping pistols
supposed 10 be empty-at each other
One was loaded and sent a charge OF
buck shot into the head of Geo. Linsly,
a clerk in the bank. badly di>fguring
his face anil destroying the sight of one
eye.
THERE will be two ecIipses during the
present :ear-both o. the Sun. The
first will occur on March 25. and will be
visible east of the meridian Of Washing
ton, and only partial west of it. The
second will be an a%nnular eclipse of the
sun commencing on the l7th of September
at midnight in the United States, and
therefore invisible here.
THE Illinois Game Law went into op.
Grafton t e 18Th inst. From this time
until Aug. LIST, it is made unlawful by
the statutes of Illinois for any one "to
kill or have in possession" game, of the
kind specified. on penalty of SIS each
for deer. and IS each for q%uails. prairie
chickens and other birds.
GEN. CAss received only two votes in
Michigan State Senate for U. S. Senator,
last Tuesday.
When elected six years ago, the State
Senate gave him an almost unanimous
vote.
So much for Dou~gbfacery.
Tbs vote in the Michigan Legislature
for United States Senator, was as follows:
.Senols. Houss ToI0I