Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-07-04
Local and Personal.

"A very lengthy article from an" Is
t'too much for our available space this
week. 1t will appear in our next issue.
The report circulated in som parts of
the county, that during the late freshet on
the Mahoning. the ''water was belly deep to
a horse IN Market street" is too high an es-
innate by at least Is feet.
DO not fail to read the great speech of
Gov. Morton, of Indiana, published in this
weeks Chronicle.
We issue the Chronicle one day earlier
this week, in order that there may be no in
-cumbrance on the freedom of our EN-
pioyees on the 4th.
in making up the first page of last
weeks paper, the printer got an article so
mixed in its arrangement that the reader
may possibly havehad some difficulty in find
ing the connection of some of the sentences.
The disordered shape of the article is, of
course, chargeable TO the carelessness of the
person imposing the form, and not in any
wise TO the writer OF it.
An accident, on Wednesday, happen
ed Mr.. Enos Austin, at Packard & Aus
tins mill, west of town, while endeavoring
to roll a saw-log onto the rail way of the
mill. One of Mr.. Austin's feet getting
caught, he fell, the log rolling upon his
hips, severely bruising him.
Mr.. Elevin Harris, breakman on train
No. 20, A. & &C. W. R. R., was thrown, on
Thursday last, from the top of a freight car
at Aurora, and all but the engine and car
from which he fell, run oven him. He was
severely hurt by being cut in the head with
a fracture of external plate of the skull, and
otherwise bruised by the fall. The accident
was caused by the train breaking between
the first and second car from the engine,
while the engine was pulling. Mr.. Harris
was on top and at the rear of the first car,
and was thus knocked suddenly off, but for
tunately for him, he was on the bridge, a
few rods from the station, and fell into the
trough, between the rails on the bridge
There is hardly another point between here.
+. and Cleveland where he could in like man
ner have fallen without having been instant
ly killed and ground to pieces.
He was doing well at last accounts.
On last Friday morning a party of our
townsmen, properly equipped and furnished
with the necessary implements and ''side-
arms" went up the river to near Leavitts-
burg, on a hunting and fishing excursion
A ardent disciple of Walton embarked in a
skiff and boldly pushed out into the stream,
IN search of some voracious pike or bass
Submerged in the att r~actions of the piscato-
rial art, and ~momentarily expecting a bite,
he complacently coated away with the cur
rent, and "Nota wave of trouble rolled across
his peaceful breast until he found the skiff
preparing to go over the dam, which event
transpired in less time than it takes to write
it, and the fisherman Immediately realizing
his situation, righted his boat and without
informing his companions of the mishap,
who by the way were quietly going into
convulsions over the adventure, he once
more launched his craft on the dam, but the
current again became 'master of the situa-
tion," and in a few minutes the feat Of
going over the dam was repeated, but not
with as good success, as the fisherman was
not Immediately visible. His companions
soon came to the rescue, and placed him on
teyTaJfrn7a, convinced that his health did
not require that he should again indulge in
such a novel method of bathing, and al
though they highly appreciate the virtues
of water, they agreed with the ant, which
falling into a barrel of molasses, ventured
the opinion that sit was possible to get too
much of a good thing"