Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-12-25
News of the Neighborhood.
From the COnneaut Reporter

AsHTABULA IN THE FIELD.-The County
Military Committee report 1877 soldiers
enlisted; the townships Of Dorset and Say
brook not reported.
A little boy in Springfield, son of Al
bert and Mary Mayer, aged + years, while
playing with a lantern, broke out the glass
and lighted the candle, and by some means
his cotton apron took FIRE and instantly his
whole clothing was in flames. His mother
plunged him into a tab of water, but too
late to save his life. He fingered in great
agony until the next day.
Mr.. Horace DIN, Of Plymouth, was kill
ed on Tuesday, of last week, by the fall of
a scafold, erected in shiugling a house.
R. P. Brown, Esq, has been appointed
Postmaster at K~ellOggsville, vice Geo. E.
Waite. Esq. resigned.
Diptheria is said to be prevailing alarm
ingly in Windsor.
Capt. c. E. Allen, "a citizen of Jeferson,)
of the Sd Regiment Kansas Volunteers, has
fallen into the hands ofthe rebels as a pris-
oner. He was on his way east for the pur-
pose of recruiting more men, and was sur
prised and taken by a party of seceshers
at Weston.
FREEDOM, PORTAGE Co.-The three fol-
lowing items arc from the Freedom cor
pondence Of the Ravenna Democrat:
SMALL Pox.-One case of this disease
has occurred in the family of Fitch Bishop,
who lives in the western part of the town
ship. Mr.. Bishop and some of his family
have VariOlOid, but all are convalescent-
and the disease is not extending, as the at
tending physician informs US.
BADLY BURNED.-Last Friday. Mrs.
Larkins Udall, while about Der house work,
by some accident caught her clothes on
fire. Fearing to attempt to ~extinguish the
flames in the house on account of her chill
dren, she ran out doors. Here she was
seen by a brother-in- law, and hurried into
a puddle of water, and the flames put out.
She was so badly burned that her life is
despaired of.
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE-Last week, Miss
Sarah Richardson, II years of age, attemp-
ted to commit suicide by taking strychnine.
She was living with Mr.. A. S. Hall, in the
east part of Freedom.
. CowLEs House, PAINEsvILLE-We take
pleasure in informing the numerous friends
of W. H. Gaines, years ago the proprietor
of the American House in this village, that
he hoe taken the n@sesvuaOut Of the OoYfes
House. Under the jurisdiction of our
friend Gaines. we have no fears of the fn-
ture popularity of this Hotel, forhe knows
how to keep a hOteI' as well as "any
other man."-PunesUiHe Press.
WATSON HOTEL, New LIsBoN.-On last
Saturday Andrew j. Cowan leased the Wat
son Hotel till the first of March next. An
dy will make a first-rate landlord, and do
lots of business.-N l.. Patriot.
SOLDIERS FROM New LIsBoy.-Lieut.
Emmons, with forty members of his Com
pany, left here on last Monday for Camp
Sherman. at Newark. Our best wishes 90
with the gallant Lieutenant and his brave
men. He will return the first of next
week for the purpose Of receiving a few
more recruits.-E1atriot.
FATAL AcoIDENT.-0n Monday morning
last, about ii o'clock, as Mrs. j. G. Gre
Their, of the South village. was pouring
som boiling hot soap from a kettle into a
bucket, near where her children were at
play, a little girl between three and four
years Of age, ran against and fell over the
bucket, splitting the soap upon her person,
which SO ~dreadfully sealded her that she
died at''about ii o'clock the same night
Akron Beacon.
BURNED TO DEarH.-A distressing ac-
cident occurred at the Mahoning County
Infrmary, last week. Mrs. Rachel Cox,
who was confined there on account of in
was locked in a room by herself,
and some time during the day, either by
inadyertency or accident, set fire to her
and before discovered. was burned
to death. She was between fifty and sixty
years of age, and much loved and esteemed
by all about the establishment.-Herad.