Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-06-02
NEWS ITEMS

WIN NC'iClai J0INE'i' b'i- i-Si5hSu
MS commission soon after the war.
Col. Michael Ny ers, committed suicide
at Madison, Wis, on Saturday morning
last, by drowning himself in the lake
He was sixty-fve years of age, and had
been afflicted Tor several years by %incura-
dyspepsia. lie was formerly a
Colonel in the L. S. Army, and had been
Sheriff Of Kenosha County, aud was at
the time of his death living with his
so~n-in-law. Frank Frarey, Of Mldison.-
Chicago Tribune 27.
President Woolsey, of Yale College,
says it seems to be an a%scertaihed iac;,
that there is a tendency to produce boys
rather Than girls, both wheH the wife is
young, and when the husband is consid
erably older than the lie re-
fers 10 Il German Psychologist in support
of his assertion. and claims that Polygs-
my, contrary 10 what has been asserted OF
the Mormons and other polygamists,
gives birth to more boys than girls.
Ii is stated that Mrs. Cunningham has
adopted the celebrated bogus baby"
and will rear i; as her own The woman
has some new plot in progress, undoub,-
edly, in which the baby will be an im-
portani actor.
Chief Justice Shaw, of Mass, has de-
cided that under the law Of that State,
keeping liquor is a common nuisance,
which any person or persons have d
right TO abatc by force, aud without pro-
cess.
a Miss Lee, of Newton, Licking
country, o. while on a fishing excursion,
was standing OIL the banks oflhe stream
near a tree which, having been under
minded BY the high water, fell, and Miss
L.. was caught under il, and so shocking
" mancled as to die in a few hours.
The Auburn Ameriean says that the
entire loss by the late disaster on the
Central Railroad is put down by some,
at one hunlreI thousand dollars.
The assets Ct John Thompson, Broker
OF New York, who failed during the
panic, were sold on Friday. The whole
sale realized only Si1,G9l, on assets
valued at 82O7. 355.55.
A correspondent Of the Burlington
Free Press writes from 81. Charlie, H.
inois:
Times are hard and dnll. Produce
is worth nothing; wheat ~ cents; corn,
"a cents; oats, 10 cents; butter IL cents;
eggs, 5 cents, and other things in pro-
portion"
April 18Th, tweEty negroes belonging
to Judge Ruck OF Washington County,
Miss, and two white men, were drowned
while attempting to stop a break in the
levee on Judge RS planiation-the
bank of the river caving in while they
were at work.
From various parts of Wisconsin, Ohio,
Tennessee. Virginia and of Illinois, the
accounts respecting the coming crop are
most promising.
The horse shoers of Pittsburgh and vi
ciaily have resolved to charge a dollar
and a quarter a set for shoes, after TIE
first of July next.
Col. Schouier, known in connection
with the State Journal, has retired from
its editorship and is soon to take a situa.
ton in the Boston Bee office.
The Pittsburg Post says that one hun.
dred shares of Pittsburg and Cleveland
Railroad stock were sold on The 26th uit.,
at the Philadelphia Exchange, at So. rs
Tae Emperor Napoleon is having al
elegant palace built al Marseilles. The
material is to be marble, from i new
quarry at PayIeguins. The beacon hill
has been cut down five or six metres, 5,
that the Emperor will be able as lie ST.
in his study, 10 see at the south the isle.
Of If. the FIioul, and the bay; at th.
aonh, the old Phoecan basin, With il
thousand vessels, the city and th'
suburbs, wiki their country seats; at tn,
cast; the barren but picturesque rock O
Notre Dame de Ia Grade; and at III,
west, the Port de Ia J~olielic, the Napo
leon Docks. aui the new Quarantine.
Mrs. VllIlet,e, of La Sale. (Mich.
was buried Yesterday morning in III
Catholic buryias ground. She was IL
wears of age at the time OF her death
and had lived in This region the bette
part Of a century. Her husband-th
third or fourth one-is sill living. age,
some 50 or 10 years. 1t is said tha
she made her WI in the latter psrj o
the last century, and what is most sin
gular, she had o%uliived ali the person
to whom she bequealhed her property
} She was a small woman, and very activ,
5 for one Of her age.-NOaroe Commercial
the revival at Portsmouth, Ohio, ter
; minated in a weeks debate betweer
Rev. MIR. Franklin and Rev. Mr.. Merrill
l on the subject of baptism. There wa
a high state Of bellIgerent excitement
, and Mr.. Merrill was publicly pr~esente'
: with a gold watch by the party that con
.. sideIed him the victor. His reverenl
! opponent arose TO say that he expecte.
> his reward in Heaven, but was prompt.
. Kissed down. The revival stopped whe