Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-05-02
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1t is said Congress will not adjourn till
June.
The bin to amend the internal revenue
law is to be taken up next Monday in Con
gress.
The wheat crop in Pennsylvania, Mary
land and Delaware is reported generally in
fine condition.
, An Odd Fellows State anniversary was
held at Springfield, o., last Thursday.
The heavy frost used up the cherries,
grapes and pears in Southern Indiana last
week.
The Fenians have busted again. ThsiT
late expedition towards New Brunswick wa;
a failure. They are becoming disguised al
their own nonsense. Other folks were some
time since.
Great want is reported among the poor in
Alabama On ration days, in several coun-
ties, as many as 800 women. some of whom
had walked II and Is miles, met at the court
houses for their shares.
The New York correspondent Of the
Springfield Republican chsracterizes the
spring style Of bonnets as sdilapidsted, Zap
jack looking concerns" He is right OF the
CLAP"
Since President johnson has said his Peace
Proclamation does not restore the habeai
corpus in the Southern States, the copper
Head papers say the proclamation is about as
sensible as 8 conundrum. Andy johnson is
a sort OF Irishman's flea to the democracy,
whom they are always grabbing for. They
think they nave him, and then they haven't
Hon. John W. Forney has been lecturing
in Philadelphia on the question: 'tHas the
War for Human Freedom been fought in
Vain" Wendell Phillips took the afirma-
tive of q question, substantially similar, last
fall. Nevertheless slavery is abolished.
The Crawford County National Bank Of
Meadville, Pennsylvania, and the Venango
National Bank of Pennsylvania, are the on
II ones seriously affected by the failure of
Culver, Penn & Co., of New York. The
first named bank has no National notes in
circulation. The Controller Of the Curren-
cy has appointed receivers to take charge of
the banks referred 10.
An awful FIRE occurred in Detroit on last
Thursday night, by which the Michigan
Southern and Milwaukee Z. z. depois, and
three freight depots, were destroyed. The
destruction of freight was immense. The
loss of property is put at 81, 900, 0O0. From
20 to 80 lives supposed to be lost. The fire
originated from 3 barrel of benzine being
ignated by a lamp.
Thairvell, the murderder of Housman, at
Bellevernon, Pa, while on his way to pris-
on confessed his guilt. On the night of the
murder he took Housman's gun, placed the
muzzle of it to his head, and shot him when
asleep, his wife staining by with a tub to
catch his blood. She put the rope around
his mech herself, attached an anchor to it,
snd assisted to drag the body to the riVes.-
BE says he tried to get off from dong the
deed, but she persuaded him until he consen-
ted, and that nov he expects to hang for IT.
A Won an, apparently about thirty years
of age, from Milwaukee, Thursday, stopped
at the Matteson House in Chicago. Yester-
day morning she went to a undertaken and
purchased a small coffin, which she carried
to the hotel. She then placed an infant
child in the coffin and put on the lid. At
sracted by her movements, the people of the
hotel sent intelligence TO an officer to inves-
tigate the matter. Upon opening the coffin
the child was found to be alive. At first
the woman said she was married, but subss-
quently acknowledged she was not. The
ehiId was taken care of by the wife of the
proprietor of the hotel. The woman was
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