Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-08-04
SCIENTIFIC AND OTHER ITEMS.


TELEGRAM vs.. MoRsEoGRAM.-The
French, after long lexicographical
struggle, have adopted the word TELE-
GRAM in their language. Some of the
New York Papers have adopted the word
in honor Of Professor Morse,
the inventor of the Magnetic Telegraph.
"The highest honor at the University
Of Cambridge, England.-lhat Of Senior
Wrangler, was taken this year by Mr..
B. Pell, an American student"
This is the secon1 time the highest
scholastic honor of England has been
won By an American Student. The first
American Student crowned with that
laurel was THEoDoRE DWIGHT WooLsY. /
who is now President of Yale College,
SIT is said that Prof. Morse returns to
this country with $4,000 in his pocket,
awarded him by the ten continental pow
ers who have adopted his telegraph sys
tenn"
James D. Dlna, Professor ofsNatural
History in Yale College, has been invited,
by European Power, to make his resi-
dence among them in an Academy of
Science on salary of $4,000 year.
We are glad to see the Roy ally of Europe
doing honor in Substantial manner to
American talent.
The late work. called the ''Life
Thoughts of Henry Ward Beeoher'' has
reached sale of 10000 copies.
William Allen Butler, author of the
rough-and-ready poem, Nothing to Wear,
has new poem of 1910 lines in the press.
of d. Appleton & Co. Mr.. Butler is 10
delivera poem before the Phi Beta Ksp-
pa Society at the coming commencement
Of Yale.
The NExr PREsiDENeY.-Cassius NJ.
Clay, Prot. S. F.5B. Morse and John Van
Buren have each been proposed, by sew
eral papers, as candidates for the next
presidency. John Van Buren is said to
be in the interest of Mr.. Breckenridge
and his friends for the next Presidential
race.
JOHN G. CALHoUN.-A Large sionu-
meet is being erected, at Charleston, s.
c., to the memory Of Calhoun. That
Trio Of the U. S. Senate, Clay, Webster
aud Calhoun, win live in the Memory Of
the American People without heaven tow
ering monuments. When Roger B.
Taney of Dred Scott Notoriety was nomi-
mated for Chief Justice Of q. s.. Supreme
Court, by Andrew Jackson, the Trio OF
the U. S. Senate, Clay, Webster and
Calhoun having no confidence in Taney's
ability or honesty, enrolled their names
in opposition to the nomination. What
rebuke to Andrew jackson and Roger
B. fancy.
Old DIR. Lyman Beecher is described
as now quite feeble; his memory has
signaliy failed; he hesitates at plain
words, while all his auditors know what
is wanted. N
Rev. DR.. Samuel w. Fisher, succeeds
DR.. North as President of Hamilton On.
Y. } College, is, like DIR. N, a graduate
of Yale. lie belonged to the class of
1885, and has been for ten years last
past leading clergymen in Cincinnati.
A MAGISTRATE HALF CENTURY AGO.
David Hudson. Esq. the first settler
of the town is this county which bears
his name, was the first Justice of the
Peace in Hudson. The following en-
tries from his docket will perhaps enter
tain some of our readers:
JUNE 18th, 1865.
Convicted. William Lapping, on view
and in hearing, of Profaae Swearing;
eleven oaths at fifty cents each, is $3.50.
AUGUST 18th.
Convicted, Titus Gaylord. on view
and in hearing, of disturbing the Pu b.
lie Worship on the 18th instant, and fn-
ed Two Dollars.
OCTOBER 18th.
Samuel Bishop came before me and con-
fessed himself guilty of having provoked
an affray on the 18th instant. 1 pro-
ceeded TO summon evidence TO try the
merits of his case. October 18th, pro-
ceeded to try the case and fined said
Bishop one dollar, and adjudged to pay
he cost, which is Two Dollars and seven
cents.-AEron Beacon. a
One OF LOLA MoNrEz's HUSBANDS
DEAD.-A California paper states that
''Patrick Purdy Hull, well known as the
publisher and for considerable time the
proprietor of the Town Talk newspaper,
died at Marysyille on the 2lst OF May =
Mr. Hull was native of Ontario county,
N. Y. He was printer by profession,
and was about thirty-six years of age
when he died. Mr.. Hull was one of Lola
Montez's husbands"
The WAY 1T GoEs.-The Hannibal
Messenger says: "Well the result of the
agitation that is beginning in this Stsse.
and which is now advocated as zealously
as it was denounced twelve months ago,
will be the emancipation of slavery. Ag-
itation will keep Shareholders out of Mis-
souri,, and draw Free State men into it,
This is the natural and inevitable conse-
quence-&. LouiS Dem.