Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-08-01
News Items.

NEWS 1L6uiS'
4 tenement house at Lawrence, Mass.
vas recently burned, and a mother and her
dahghtsr persisted in the flames.
The wool clip of Ohio this year is
over lime millions of pounds. and has all
been sold for over four millions of dollars.
The theaters of Paris received at their
doors during the last year s2.O73.445; the
receipts o. the Opera Comiquc were the
largest, being $500, us.
From the Mansfield Herald we learn
that on the 18th lust. the German Re-
formed Church. at Londonville, Ashland
county, was destroyed by FIRE.
The New Hampshire Gazette published
at Portsmouth, n. H., is one hundrel and
four years old, the Oldest paper in New
England, if not in the United States.
The Hudson river is alive with the
travel Of the season. In all kind of wavs.
the people oF The city 60 from it for the
pure air and wider elbow room Of the
country.
The Rochester papers mention the fact
that within ten days their military, their
bOatmen and their ball players have all
been beaten by visiting military, boatmen
and ball players.
4 proclamation has been issued for the
sale Of one million of acres of heretofore
unofercd land in Minnesota, during Oeto-
Der next. They include lands remaining
to the United States from railroad grant.
The New York Methodist book concern
employs over half 4 million capital above
all liabilities. From twelve to fifteen bound
books are turned out every minute of the
year. The sales of the house amounted
to $4,000 last year.
4 French Armorcr has sent to Garibaldi
4 gift Of a coat of mail, dagger proof and
bullet proof. Its workmanship is perfect.
and it is valued at upwards of five thousand
francs. 1t may be worn under the uniform
like 4 shirt, for it IS extremely flexible,
light, and portable.
Mrs. Brown, wife of Mr.. Nelson Brown.
residing between Norwalk and Milan, and
a son, a lad. was thrown from a buggy, on
Friday last, and so badly injured that the
latter di d in about half an hour after the
accident, and Mrs. b., the Reflector learns,
was not eyncctcd 10 smyiye
The Memorial BOrdelais says that near
st. Sewer there lives an old soldier with a
false leg. q false arm, a glass eye, a com
plcte set Of false teeth, a nose of silver,
covered with substance initiating flesh.
and silver plate replacingpa of his skull.
lie was a soldier under Napoleon, and
these are his trophies.
Man VERSUS TIoRSEs.-The Harrisburg
(Pa.) Telegraph says that a race came off
on Saturday evening. on the Park course,
between a Mr.. Adams and the celebrated
t%rotter, BLACK Dick"-the man to walk
half a mile while tie horse trottcd one mile
and two hundred yards. The man won in
three straight heats; lst heat, 2min. 2Oscc.
ID, 2uin. l3sec.; Sd, 2min. 24sec.
1t is stated that the Falls of st Anthony,
Nina, rapidly undergoing a change; that
during the spring OF 1850, they reached
about $50 feet ut the middle of the river,
and nearly $50 feet further this spring.
The St. Anthony E9presS thinks that in
a few years, they will be destroyed alto
gcther, leaving behind nothing but 4 long
reach Of rolling. ~tumbling rapids.
John Underwood, Esq. of Aurelius, says
the Auburn Advertiser, secured his entire
crop Of hay this summer by consulting the
barometer. The morning he commenced
cutting his hay looked cloudy and felt like
rain, still the barometer pointed unerrinely
to dry weather, and on the strength of
that he sent in his Kirby. The hay was
cut, cured and secured before any rain
made its appearance.
IT may not be generally known that
the highest speed ever attained by horse
flesh was four miles in eleven and a-half
or at the rate of thirty-three
miles an hour. The highest speed of the
locomotive, well authenticated, was on one
of the English lines, at tie rate of seventy
eight miles an honr. And it is said that
a Holyhsad boat has run twcnty-six statute
an hour. which equals the best time
made on our North River.
The ATLANTIC CABLE-Captain Kell,
the agent of the Atlantic Telegraph Com
pany, who was sent out to take up the
Newfoundland end of the cable, has sue
cccded in raising a portion of it, after
some weeks oflabor, and has discovered a
defect in it, causcl by its resting
and chatting on a ledge Of sharp rocks,
over which it was laid, a mile or two from
Bay of Bulls Arm, Trinity Bay.
The New York Tribune of Saturday
contains a list of over fifty murders COM
in that city within 4 little more than
three years, which remain undiscovered
The perpetrators of these murders
have escaped detection, or if they arc known,
asst is believed in some instances they are,
through influence of friends, or the insig-
niGcanee of their victims, they are shielded
arrest.
\ literary discovery of some Importance
has been made at Liverpool, England. A
papyrus brought from Thebes by Rev.
Henry Stobart, and now in Mr.. Mayors
of antiquities, was found to contain
the 18th chapter ofSt. Matthew written in
The Greek Uncial character. which gives 4
new version of the long misunderstood part
If the 9th verse, relating to the passage
# a camel through the eye of 4 needle.