Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-08-11
NEWS ITEMS.

for the Ohio Farmer some time ago, in
which Gay and his wife were the real
characters. The result was a hostile
meeting, in which James Price was BAD
ly wounded and his son was killed.
FATAL DRINKING MATcu.-The Ian
caster (Pa.) Times says that Mr.. Isaac
Baer, of Warwick township, in that coun-
ty, and one CARRIER, drank seven gall
Ions Of whisky in thirteen days, when
Baer died of mania a potu, leaving Gar
Der master of the field.
In Kansas, two weeks ago, Miss Irene
Baker,a girl Of seventeen, married a man
Of seventy-fve from admiration of one of
his political speeches. Thus is a common
saying verifed-"politics makes strange
bed-fellows.
On Saturday last, three men were
taken before Justice Bates. in Willouah-
by, for shooting w~oodcock, and two of
them we're fined $40 each. Sportsmen
must remember the "game law" aud
'hold their horses until the 18th of
September - PainesUiHe AdV.
The Wooster Republican mentions the
death Of a child of Mr.. Fletcher Spear,
by falling head first into a barrel Of hot
soap. Also the death of Mr.. Burns, of
Congress township, by being gored by a
vicious bull.
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Prees says that a caravan
of camels is being organized 10 facilitate
the transit of emigrants TO the Territory
of Arizona. The camels are 10 cross the
Intervening desert toward The Gulf OF
California.
A Cleveland firm have Obtained a
patent for a process 10 tan leather. By
this mode a calf skin can be tanned il
four days, a sheep skin in a few hours
and heavy hides in fifteen or twenty
days.
Judge Lott, of the Brooklin N. Y.
Circuit Court, has decided that a Planf
Road Company are not liable for injuries
happening 10 persons travelling on Sun
day, for other purposes than those 0
necessity and mercy.
A duel is announced 10 take place be-
tween Thomas F.. Marshall, and Thorn
as P. Porter. They got into a quarrel a
Versailles, Ky, on Tuesday. Porte.
choked Marshall and Marshall retorteC
by a challenge.
The Norwalk Reflector says new
wheat has been brought to that village
with fine plump berry, and sold for 81
cents.
Two fireworks establishments in Lon
don rxr!oicd lately, iujuring abouto ne
hundred persons, some of them fatally
The New York authorities are waging
a war of determination against gambia!
bells and houses of ill-fame.
Samuel Morgan, the drunken, bruta
wretch who inhumanly murdered hi
wife near Portsmouth,, Ohio, was sen
fenced to be hung on the 24th of Septem
Der, has cheated the hangman by hang
ing himselfin Jail with a strip torn fror
a sheet in his bunk.
The bill fixed the rate of interest whicI
banks may charge their customers ha
passed the Minnesota Legislature an
become a law. The rate is Is per cent
This is considerably below the currer
rate ofmoney in MINES ota, but the bank:
with the aid of brokers, will find no diff
Guilty in exceeding the legal limit.
a fishing party al Charleston, S. c.,
few days since, captured a shark overl
feet long, and on ripping him open, foun
a sailors pea jacket and other large art
Giles in his maw.
A negro, who had sh~ockingly abuse
a respectable young white woman, wa
taken from the officers and hung by
4, mob in Enterprise, Miss, on the Isl
inst.
Wesley Fisher, an aged citizen
Ottawa, Illinois, murdered his wife, wi
: was many years his junior, Oh the Isl
J inst. jealousy was tie moving Gauss
Much excitement exists in Cincinna
at the cruelty practiced toward the f
e males of the Luuatic Asylum in the eli
n by the keepers, who are in the habit
: hoging and beating them whenever the
? are rebelious.
T. Lean, formerly Deputy Postmas't
at Worth, Tuscol county, Michigan, h;
e been convicted in the United States ID
S tricl Court, of robbing the Post 01ic
: and sentenced to fifteen years in STA
Prison. Lean was a Methodist miuiste
and had borne an i~rreproachable chara
: ter previous to this transaction.
From a gentlemen who left Richmor
: on Saturday morning, we learn that fly
: of the men engaged in the fight at Il
barbecue near that place on Wednesda
had died. and a sixth could not surviv
= The fate of the two others wounned W.
still doubtful. Old man Haley and 0;
of his sons were under arrest; the 9th
son was still at large. The Richmo'
+ Messenger says the fight occurred
R~ockcaslle county.-LouiSv;He JOurnd
The Postmaster at ST. louisville, !
a Y, states that at least forty bags of ma
&c &C. ,. hmm, IN fha mail orr IF n