Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-11-30
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season will range from 200 to 250 bush
; els.
ST. Lofts, Nov. 90.
The Omaha Republican announces on til
authority of persons Just from Fort Keal
ney, the death Of the celebrated mountain
Ger, Kit Carson, at Taos. New Mexico
where he was Indian Agent,
ROMANTIC AFFAIR IN WooD CoUxrY.-
Mr.. Burr Smith, of Perry. Wood Ca
husband and a father -elopcd with hi
wife's servant girl, a few days since, Ia
king with him his only child, and leaving
his wife in great distress.
DROWNED IN A SwILL TUB.-A littl,
son of Mr.. Joseph Thornton, of Morri
Township, Washington County. Pa, wa:
drowned in a swill tub last week.
ARRIvED.-Hon. Charles Sumner, whC
came a passenger from Europe by the Can
ada, arrived at his home in Boston. on the
2lst inst. He is in good health, ant
looking well, and was not injuriously affcc
ted by the voyage.
OWEN BROWN, one of Ossawatomie':
sous, who was with him at Harper's Fer
~, and who came up missing after the cap.
ture of the engine house-is alive and SAFE
from the vengeance of oppression. So say,
the Cleveland Herald.
QUEEN VICTORIA has. received a magnif
icent present from the Maharajah of Cash.
mere, being a shawl tent, containing a bed.
stead of solid gold. The value of this roy.
al gift is stated to be about $4,000.
A United States Senator is to be chosen
by the Legislature of Alabama, which con.
vened on the l4th instant. 1t is thought
Governor kirkpatrick will be reelected.
His present term expires in 1861.
A Man named Riley fell dead in Saint
Louis on Thursday, while wrestling. He
had just eaten a hearty meal, and a post
norton examination revealed hat death
was caused by over exertion while the
stomach was in a state of great distention.
Hon. LYNN BoYD, of Ky, has returned
from Cooper's Wells, in Mississippi, which
he visited for the benefit of his health
His health is not entirely restored, and it
is extremely pro5lcmatical whether he will
ever be able to resume again the duties Of
active life.
The California steamer which arrived in
New York two weeks ago brought an un-
usually precious freight, for among the pas
sengers there were e~ighty-nine babies, seq
enty-nine of whom were born in the Golden
State.
Rev. J. T. DowNEY, a missionary of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, died at Luck
now, on the 10th of September. Mr..
Downey was one of the five missionaries
who sailed for Calcutta a few months ago,
and had but recently arrived at Lucknow,
when he was removed by death.
THE WARREN BAxK.-Thc Warren pa
says: On Saturday last, the North
Western Bank destroyed by burning Sl4S,-
600 of the office notes of the late Warren
Bank, which had been used by the
bank, and redeemed; also, at the same time
100000 Of unsigned bills were destroyed.
DISCOVERY OF A New PLASET.-The
great event at the last sitting of the Acad-
envy of Sciences was the announcement of
discovery of a new planet by Mr.. Rob-
ert Luther, at Blk, on the 22d Sept
This planet belongs to the telescope class,
of the 10th magnitude; it has received
the name Mnemosync.
TIE San Francisco Bulletin thinks that
the visit of General Scott to the Pacific
coast will convince him of the necessity and
military Importance of 4 Pacific Railway,
and that if he reports thus to government
his return, his opinion will turn the
scale in favor of building the road by the
General Government.
Mrs. Antoinette l.. Brown Blackwell
preached for Theodore Parker's congrega-
ton in Boston a few days ago. She took
the following for her text: When l was
| child l spake as a child. understood as a
child, 1 thought as 4 child; but when l be-
a man l put away childish things
The audience Uttered at the application of
he text to the preacher.
THE SORGHUM CROP IN IOWA. Keo-
luk journal says that estimating the value
# the crop by the known amount in a few
We think it entirely safe to say,
hat over one million of dollars will be
aved to the State of Iowa this year, in
consequence of the introduction of the Chi
cane.
DAMAGE TO TIE SUGAR CRoP.-The
Sew Orleans Delta states that the effects
If the great frost on the 18th of Now, and
everal freezes which followed, were most
disastrous to the sugar crop. The loss
throughout Louisiana by these unpreceden-
ed visitations of extreme cold is v%ariously
stimated from seventy to one hundred
thousand hogsheads.
Reuben d. Walter, an old man with a
lcad whitened by the lapse of seventy-fvc
cars, has been convicted in Vermont upon
charge of forging bounty land warrants,
nd sentenced to one years imprisonment,
l%eniency shown to his age and not to his
uilt.
General Bower died very suddenly at
fumwelstown. Pa, on Wednesday. It'll
ppears that he had a very large wart on
nc of his hands, and was induced by some
o cut it out, and apply arsenic to destroy
he roots. He applied the poison on Mon
ay, after having cut out the wart. The
ut being very deep. the poison communica-
ed with the leading arteries, and he was
destroyed by it.
The newly discovered deposits of Oil in
he Eastern part of Crawford county, Pa,
to attract public attention. Two
f our citizens visited Titusyille. the place
there the Oil is found, last week, and re-
urned with samples of it. Our readers
I'LL recollect that this Oil was found is
uing from a assure in the rock on the bank
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