Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-09-08
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49, S'hNSo
contest between Morphy and Lowenihal,
in London, for $1,000, which the winner
of first nine games is to receive, the
score stood Morphy 7, Lowen,hal 2,
drawn l.. The American had hut Two
games 10 win. The ninth game coniin-
ued over three sitinss, and lasted, in all,
nineteen hours and a half.
There can be no doubt that John Van
Buren,, who is now abroad, is quietly
but earnestly pressed for Minister to
England. He leaves the ficiions OF the
Empire Stale behind, but his friends are
at work for him. He has great claims
upon MIR. Buchanan's Administration,
having always been his foe.-PAR.
Press.
A number ofnegroes, late the properly
Of Mrs. Hester Blanchard, of Fayeile
county, Ky, and emancipated by the
will Of that lady. were in the Probate
Court, this morning, upon the occasion Of
the instrument by which they were man.
united being admitted to record. They
were, in all, forty-eight in number-C Gin.
Times.
1t is proposed by The government, 10
purchase Of Prof. Morse his patent for
the Magnetic Telegraph, at $500 .OOo,
aud thus throw the patent open and free
to The public. 1t is estimated that Morse
will receive of the European power over
one million cf dollars for the use of his
invention.
From minutes Of the several Con-
ferences in the New England States, it
Appeals that there are, in round numbers,
one hundred thousand members Of the
Methodist Church in New England, and
The increase of the past year is about Ten
thousand, including those on probation.
WILLoUGHBY SEMINARY.-The gradu.
ates Of Will3ughby Seminary will rejoice
TO learn of the rapid rebuilding of their
alma Mater. The walls Of the first story
are up, The timbers on, and the masons
have commenced laying brick for the
second story.
In Mortified, Minnesota, a short time
since. a liquor seller had his whole stock
summarily destroyed, and in a few
weeks. being himself converted TO Chris
tianily, publicly thanked the citizens who
took the ease in hand, as his best friends.
or the 48 senators who look their seats
in the 18th Congress in 1923. but Two
survive, v:z:-Mar in Van Buren,, OF
New York, and John Branch, of North
Carolina. Both of these gentlemen were
members CT Gen. Jackson's first cabinet.
The republican Ticket for Mercer
County Pa, is as follows. For Congress,
Hon. William Stewart; for Assembly.
William G. Rose; for Commissioners,
John W. Veach; Auditor, Porter Fritz;
Poor Director, John w. Mccullough.
The distinguished Phienologi>t GEORGE
CoMBE, died al the Water Cure in S.rrey,
England, on the 18th inst. He was born
in E iinburgh in 1873, and has always
resided there. Thus has passed away
the great fati,er of PhenOlosy--
A smart man in Boston writes that
Stanton the Republican Congressman,
from Ohio, is a mighty mean man. The
writer thinks thai "Bosiing', is the only
place in the United Universe, and that
he is the only man in "B 1siing."
Northern f0snciers, says the New
Orleans Crescent, are aslonished al the
dividends our banks have made, little
dreaming hat the senseless panic of last
did not operate al all against The
business Of our city.
Cattle have been dying ia coHsidera-
Bile numbers, in Lorain County, Ohio, of
disease occasioned by the ergot in the
grass. The tistemper commences al the
causing the l'gs TO decay, and
finally produces death.
a case, of wife poisoning was discover.
I'd in Hartford, CT, and hushed up con
of the responsibility Of the par
The husband put arsenic in her {
which she drank, but not enough
kill her. :
An Irish servant girl at Hartford, found {
Ter baby suifocaled in bed on Tuesday t
morning. she says she left it sleeping, l
with the bel cloths, and when
he returned she found it dead.
The Professional Robbers who emptied r
he t~laliers, Bank of Danbury CT. of its 4
ash, have returned 100000, of their !
'ooty, 10 the police. Generous fellows 10 9
e sure. \
Sheriff Ciapp, of Geauga, died last v
feek of typhoid fever. The typhoid '
ever has broken out in The peniiehiiury =
1 Columbus. Sixty patients are now in ?
he hospital. a
We have the startling announcement a
nat The government brig Dolphin has =
a captured an American sla-
er-the brig Putnam, with 3I8 slaves
n board. II
1t is reported that the New York Cen :,
raj, New York & Erie and Hudson d
River Railroads are TO be consolidated d
nth a representative capital of $780,. II
oo, 1000. a
nhn Tll =. a.