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

MADAME JENNY LIND GoLDsCHMIDF re-
? solved, as is well known, a long time ago,
after she had given up her projected jour
+ ney to Russia, to leave her present resi-
! dence, Dresden. and settle in England
; This intention she has now carried out.
After all her furniture in Dresden had
been disposed of, no inconsiderable num-
Der of packages. with articles of value,
&C., were forwarded last week, via Ham
burg, to England. were Jenny Lind will
repose in retirement on her %laurels, a, a
villa near London.
JUDGE MCCLURE, of Pittsburg, while
charging a Jury in a lottery case, spoke
of a statistical saUan down east, who had
carefully noted down the number of per-
sons struck by lightning in one year, and
compared it with those who had drawn
prizes in lotteries during the same period,
arriving at the conclusion that three per-
sons were struck by lightning 10 one who
had drawn a prize.
PEDESTRIAN FEAT.-On Saturday eve
ming of week before last, Alfred Elson
the pedestrian, successfully accomplish
ed his feat of walking for a purse of 800,
81 miles per day, for six consecutive
days, having arrived at Monkhouse's
tavern. Toronto. seven minutes before
10 o'clock oil the evening of the sixth
day.-Review.
We learn from the Niagara Falls Ga
zeHe that Canadian engineers have been
making surveys, within a few days, for
a tubular bridge across the Niagara at
that place. The surveys are made for
the proposed Southern Railroad through
Canada.
The amount annually expended in then
construction of railroads in this country
since 1888, has largely exceeded the
whole expenditures of Government, and
the railroad receipts for the same years
have surpassed the Government receipts.
The q. S. Troops distinguished til en-
selves remarkably during the recent bat
tie with the In dians in Oregon, by the
wonderful celebrity with which they re-
treated. They fed ninety miles in q
day. ,
A Buffalo mechanic has succeeded
in applying steam to the navigat- !
ing of boats on the New York and Erie
Canal. The first canal-steamer from The
Lakes passed Schenectady on Monday t
last. {
The Taunton (Mass.) Gazette says {
are four sisters in that town, weigh
ing nine hundred and thirty-fve pounds.
The shortest, being about FIVE feet high,
two hundred and ffty-six pounds.
Mrs. Hays, the woman who lives With :
put eating, is still living and still contin 7
les TO do without provisions Of any kind. 7
She has lived since FEBRUARY 26th, 1857,
the present day, without either eating n
drinking. Q
Mr.. Z. C. Delevan, it is reported, has !
paid off the whole debt of the New York :
temperance Society. amounting to &c. :
out of his own pocket. c
A community in Wisconsin have re-
;eutly given to their town the name of u
Dana, in compliment to Mr.. Charles A. I
Dana, OF the New York Tribune.
No Senator o. Representative shall, }
the term for which he shall have n
,een elected, or for one gear thereafter :
De appointed 10 an civil office under this
State, which shall be created, or the en-
of which shall have been in
creased, during the term for which he .
shall have been elected. :
That is Section 10, Article Ii, of the =
Constitution OF Ohio. Mr.. gibson. OF -"
Mahoning, a member of the present Leg
during whose Term Of service the ii
nfice of Comptroller was created, has a
,een nominated by the State Democratic d,
Convention for that Office. His election -
gould clearly violate the spirit. of that IF
;lauSe in the Constitution Ceueland re
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