Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1865-11-29
GENERAL NEWS.

| News by the City Of London, with Liverpool
dates to the Sth states that Earl Russell has been
installed as Premier, and Clarendon rs minister Of
Foreign Affairs.
It is said the French Minister at Washington
earnestly protests against the appointment Of a
minister to the Republic of Mexico from the Uni
ted States.
There are 453 vacancies of commissioned Offices
| IN the regular army. a board OF examiners will
shortly meet in Washington to pass upon the mer
! It's Of applicants for commissions.
Our foreign news We ,uld be highly important, if
true. 1t confirms rumOr that France has com
p!etcd negotiations for new corps Of Belgium
troops 10 be sent to Mexico Lord PalmerstOn
bas been buried in Westminster Abbey. beside the
great statesmen. warriors and poets Of England.
The London Times recommends Russell as
successor rs a matter OF necessity, not choice -
The PRINCIPAL powers Of the old world have united
IN 6 conference TO study means TO prevent the
spread Of cholera.
| Tho Union maiorities in Chicago, and Cook eOun-
y, prove much larger than was at first supposed.
Inc city gives 2,7c6 for the regular Republican
| leket In the whole county the majority Is near
| ly six thousand.
The Union majority in Wisconsin is from FIVE to
seven Thousand. The legislature is strongly Re
publican in both branches. Universal suffrage is
probably defeated by 1000 majority.
In Hannibal. Missouri. the Radicals carried the
city, beating the Conservatives ont Of sight. Mr..
Archus elected Mayor by handsome MAORI
ty, and oil the Radical Councimen except one.
News via California from the Russian IA American
| Union Telegraph expedition represents the party
as successful, so far. They were at Petropoowski.
| prosecuting their explorations with energy.
Gen. Howard. who has just returned to Wash
! ington from q tour of inspection through the
south, expresses the opinion that II would be in
judcious to withdraw all the United States forces
| tr0m the South at present.
| DR.. Maddox. the ex-rebel, who killed paymas-
ter Dixon, at Alexandria, Va, short time since.
| has been discharged, on the ground that the hOm-
| eide was justi fable.
| 1t is said that news has been received in New
| York from authentic sources that Maximilian has
/ n n nrnp ar
Vera Cruz the city of Mexico and San Louis POto-
81 making those places his last ditches also that
| hls wife Is about TO return to Europe.
The provisional Governor Of Alabama telegrauhs
| President johnson that the state Convention has
| annulled the ordinance Of secession, abolished
slavery declared in favor of receiving negro tes-
| timony in cases where negroes are concerned re-
pudiated the State rebel debt, and adjourned.
The Columbus correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial says the Senatorial question viii
| probably be left over TO the adjourned session OF
the Legislature as was the case in the reelection
| of Mr.. b. +. Wade.
Tho official canvhss of the October yste in this
State will make General Cox's majority over so 40
and of the other candidates from 80 100 TO 30 co.
The canvass has been completed for sixty counties,
and the otlelal Union vote Is in excess Of the re-
ported vote.
The reference to the return of she pirate Shenan-
| dOah to England, the London lines says that the
vessel plainly belongs TO the United States, but
that the most serious question concerning the Of
hcers and crew. These, 1t says, no account
be surrendered 70 Our gOvernmenI. The Times al
I n
andosh came back to England. 1t is stated that
| Capt Naddler entered the Tagus, discharged his
crew, and brought his ship to England with new
| crew.
Next year 1866 is the centenary of the existence
Of SethOdism in the United States or the one hun
dreth year since the organization was first formed
which was afterwards rlpened into what Is known
as the Methodist Episcopal Caurch. Il was in the
/ year l1I6 that 4 small number OF emigrauts from
the Wesieyea connection in England forp ed them
selves into society in Philip kmbury's carpenter
shop on Barrack street, New York, near the pres
ent sits Of the city ball. Measures are under con-
sideratiOn by the Committee appointed at the last
| General Conference, for the appropriate obserV-
anee Of the occasion.
/ Samuel B. Thompson a young man residing in
Henrietta New ORR, who Is afflicted with period
other day and drew 81 500 from the bank, and re-
pairing to the market, purchased load of pOta-
toes which be gave 10 a stranger. He gave away
bank notes by the handful to strangers and when
taken into custody By the police, had but $50 left
Several hundred dollars were subsequently recov-
cred.
| Unfinished counterfeits, fifty cent fractional
notes. to the amount of about $4,000, together
I glth quantity OF paper, tools &e, for counter
Philadelphia. by Treasury Department detectives
About sUOO had been finished and put into eireu-
latlOn. The detectives succeeded in capturing in
Boston, on last Tuesday night, and committing to
jail the person said to be at the head of this ggan
| tic swIndllng enterprise, named Charles J. hob
erts. an alleged noted counterfeit euRrayer
| 1t Is reported that the Secretary of War has or
dered military court to convene for the trial of
| =
Capital prison on charge of matreatment of pris-
Oners at AndersOnville.
All the COlored regiments, excepting the 5th,
have been ordered for duty to the command of
| General Merrill. at San Antonio, Texas.
All accounts agree that the cholera is fast disap-
pearing IN Paris. The mortality was estimated on
the !st et November to pc less, than one halt of
what 1t formerly was. Since then a still further
reduction has been experienced Deaths in both
hospitals and IN the city, amounted to no more
| than o. or 10. In Malta deaths have diminished
until they average no more than fourteen per day.
Oil springs have been discovered in England.
| The French were to commence the evacuation
/ Of Rome On the 18th inst.
The Spanish government has ordered strict
Wa!eh over the coast OF Cuba, owing to the Jamai-
ca insurTectIOn.
The editor of the New England Farmer. in his
| notes OF travel" says: "a stay of four hours at
/ Lowell gave me opportunity to learn that most Of
the mills are IN operation. and earning large div
idends for stakeholder was told by gentle
| man somewhat conyersant with the manufacture
OF cotton. that on all light cotton goods, profit
OF one dollar Is made on every pound eff cotton
| Usedi"
A statement of the Southern States QegaD debts
prior to the war places them at one hundred and
hity millions. The most Of these bonds are held
Ia Europe. and the prospect of payment even of
lne interest, Is small indeed. Ofthese bonds So,
OOOO00 belongs TO Mississippi So O00000 to North
carolina, S55UOOOO to Louisiana, and S56, 600 600 Is
Virginia.
Two weeks ago the returned rebels in Washing
ton were insuferaby insOlent. but since the cleo
| tions they are growing more quiet. A month ago
they were hoasting in the presence Of Republicans,
that the President was On their side" The re-
cent dispatches of Mr.. Seward have cured them of
this boastlng, and they now alarmed lest Con-
gress will refuse to admit any Of the Southern |
claimants this winter.
The leaves of the elder ifstrewn on corn or other
grain when il is put into the bin, will efectually
pIeserEe IL from me Tavages OF the Weevll Ihe
juice viii also kill bed bugs and maggOts. Insects
| never touch elder bushes. The leaves Of elder |
scattered over eabbages, cucumbers. squashes and
other plants subject to the ravages OF insects, ei
fectually shield them. The plum and other fruits |
| may be saved by placing on the branches and |
among them punches Of the elder leaves.
few weeks ago, q gentl 5man in Petersbur |
employed for the purpose by the military autnOr-
ltes canvassed the city ascertain the number of
houses struck by the Federal shells during the re-
centsicge. Ills investigations developed the fact
that there was over eight hundred houses struck
/ by whole shells, besides large numbers of |
/ DINERS which received rude touches from frGg- |
ments.
The editor of the Springfield Republican went
TO market the other day, and on his return wrote
an article on the high prices and the spirit Of spec
nlatl0n everywhere rite, and closes up as follows
Might not our rsligiOus teachers find IL salutaTy
TO turn aside for time from lamentations over the
/ heather, who worship the best gods they know. |
snd scatter little wholesome damnatiOn among
/ the servants Of MammOn, who in Christian sane
tuaries offer robbery Tor burnt oferingG II We
had the knack and were duly authorized, there Is
/ no mission weeOuld undertake with such relish"
The city of Chicago has been mulcted in $4,000
fer damages resulting from defective condition
| Of her sidewalks.
The diamond drill originally patented IN france
/ by N. Rudolph Leschaud, and subsequently pat
ented in the United States can be driven through
compact sandstone at the rate Of five feet per hour
Fifteen diamonds costing about fifteen hundred
dollars used instead of steel cutters, and are
set in the end of tube made to revolye by ma
chine~y. The drill leaves a core standing. which
is broken of in convenient lengths and drawn up.
These diamond cutters last a long time. and the
machine Is said to be the cheapest in the end.
| About fifteen years ago certain New York mil
4 hOnaiTe was forced to compromise with a debtor
| by taking large lot of unmproyed land far ont
of the city, q valuation of $l25, ,00O. He consid
cred himself greatly the loser by the transac-
tiOn,-but since then the new Central Park has
been located his lot of wild land, and he has
been offered and refused repeatedly million dol
lars for his bargain and now considers the proper
| ty worth three millions.
| a hOusa in Memphis was being raised by jack
screws for the purpose of putting new foundation
under it. when it tell and tumbed thirty feet
il 10 bayou. Five persons were in the house, but
none were killed. Mrs. Weeh was nearly suhoea-
| ted in the mud and seriously bruised. Her child,
an infant Of five months. fell the whole distance
into the bayou, but stove fell over it in such
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