Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-05-05

Lieutenant De Mercy, of the French
army, belonging by birth 10 a noble
family, and son 10 lave of the Marchioness
de Cantalier, has been condemned TO be
shot for tie assassination of a brother
officer, a lieutenant in the same regiment.
He invited the lieutenant to his room and
then killed him with his sabre. His
defence was that he killed him in a
duel fought without witnesses.
The Washington Str learns hat the
Chief os the Bureau Of Construction, the
Engineer in Chief and Commander
Dahlgreen, have been selected by the
Secretary of the Navy to confer with the
Turkish Admiral as 10 the preliminaries
for the three decker to be built by the
Ottoman Porte in the United States
Two meetings have been had, and the
result will be reported to the Secretary
in a day or two.
In the FIVE months Congress has been
in session, but ten public and eleven
private acts, and six joint resolutions
have passed both Houses. Kansas,
like Aron's rod, has swallowed all the
small fry. There are about iv~ hundred
bills Enacted on, which have been re-
ported from Committees, and over a
thousand bills and petitions yet in Com
mittee rooms.
The Columbus Fact understands that
the Acting State House Commissioner
has discharged all the hands at work
about the building, alleging as a reason
that if they continued to work he could
not assure them that they would get
their pay, the Legislature having passed
an act appointing a new Board of State
House Commissioners, and repeating
former acts on the same subject.
On Sunday last the wife of Mr.. John
Logan. of Bloomingdale, IN. J.,) met
with a very sudden death. Mr.. Logan
left the house for a few moments, and
on his return he found her standing on
the outside of The house with her head
in The window, aud the sash resting on
the back Of her neck. She was dead.
Dir. Rhodes, the young English sur.
geon who SO nobly volunteered to attend
the sick on board the SusquehGnna when
the medical officer of that vessel was
laid low with the yellow fever, was this
morning rendered the privilege of the
floor of the Senate. The Vice Presi
dent rose and respectfully received him.
HASH. States 22a.
The King of Prussia is hoDelessly
mad. He occasionally believes that he
is a private soldier who has just received
his commission of ensign but has since
lost the parchment. and therefore he
~anxiously seeks it in all the hidden cor
ners of the place and hooks of the gar
den. He dislikes 10 be watched by his
aid de camp whom he believes 10 be a
commanding officer.
The South Side Dsmocrdt, in an arti-
Gle on American Literature, says that in
every parlor, boudoir and reading room
the last new novel" by Sylyanus Cobb,
or Emma Southworth, may be seen.
rdone" in Immaculate styl1 of biadery
and typographical execution.
L is stated that the wife Of Gen.
Monagas, late President Of Venezuela,
has $500, 600 a year pin money. 1t is
also asserted that the Mona5as family
have. during a few years, RENTED five
millions Of dollars to Europe for safe III
vestment, and as provision against rev.
dictionary contingencies.
Three pianos have been made from
the wood of the Charter Oak. 1t takes
a high polish, and the inslruciments
which The wood encIoses are of the b9st
description. Yankee Doodle is said 10
sound well on them.
The Lake Superior route is not yet
open. The Cleveland Herald says the
Steamer Michigan which arrived Tues
day from Macinac, reports the st Mary's
River ~blockaded with ice, aud the Sake
Superior steamer were lying at Detroit.
The ice in Mud Lake had not been bro
ken.
The new Azof green Of thu Paris
spring fashions is dyed with such pois-
onous materials that seamstresses who
prick their fingers while sewing it lose
the use of their hands, and ladies
have been taken violently i'll from wear
ing shawls OF this color. The tint is very
brilliant.
The Hon. Samuel Adams, a member
of the Massachusetts State Senate, had
aconite prescribed as an external appIi-
cation for rheumatism. a few days ago.
He took three spoonfuls internally, which
killed him in a few hours, although
anlidotcs were promptly and freely given
him.
The span ofhorses which Gen Pierce's
friends in Boston gave him before his
Inauguration. and which cost $500, were
sold at auction in New York Gu Friday
for S445. The glory of having belong
ed to the late president did not seem TO
add 10 their market value.
The eloquent Mr.. Yeadon, Of Charles
ton, says that Irying's Grafton On Wash
rolled spontaneously from lips
in ealIy infancy, received The sweet