Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-12-12
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

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Gen. NJ. D. Leggett, formerly of this
place, Is editor of the GAINESVILLE Gazette.
On the first page is printed the.
Thanksgiving discourse of Rev. Geo.
Pierce, which will well repay for the time
spent in reading it.
Bishop Clark, an eloquently EplscO-
pal Divine, of Rhode Island, will deliver
the third lecture Of the course in this place,
on Thursday evening, Dec. 20.
We are indebted 10 Col. Jas. Dumars,
of the Memphis Post, for a number of
Southern Journals, one or more from each
Southern State. They have more or less
to say of their smartyred Dead" and the
s'brutal punishment" which JEFF. Davis is
undergoing.
Mr.. J.. c. Cowdery, of Mecca, adver-
tises a public sale, at his residence, Dec.
%, of stock, farming, utensils and a ten
horse power steam engine, boiler, &c
"A young mar named Samuel Quack-
.enbush, a brakeman on the switch train
at Leavittsburgh, had his right hand
caught between the drawheads of the cars,
while coupling, one day last week, result
ing in the smashing of the hand and the
loss of one finger
Miss Hull, an e~mployeein VanGorder
6 Cos wooden factory, met with an acct
dent on Saturday evening last, by getting
her fingers engaged in the machinery of
the carding works, producing severe
wounds to the first and second fingers.
The little son of Mr.. Blggers, of Min
eral Ridge, whom we mentioned last week
as having met with a serious accident by
falling in a coal shaft, has given encour-
aging hopes of recovery, since the opera
ton of trepaning was performed.
"A fire broke out about 8 o'clock on
Tuesday morning, in the distllling room
of Lockwood & Sons Oil Refinery, on the
south side of the canal. The iremen were
promptly on hand with the engines, and a
few dashes of water e~xtinguished the
flames. Damage sustained by the fire is
light.
We have a communication from Yer
non, signed ga Subscriber" which we
would like to publish, if its statements had
been vouched for by a real name. We re-
peat, for about the fftieth time, that arti-
cles coming to US, not authenticated by a
responsible name, will not be published.
This rule is necessary to prevent imposl-
ton. We do not require the name of the
writer for publication, but for our person.
81 information.
Mr.. H. P. Bassett, of this place, Is
agent Of the ''Great Western and Amer
lean Horse Insurance and Detective Com
pany."a grOwingly popular and useful
institution, and a terror to horse thieves.
Its authorized capital is 100000, and its
actual, cash capital S167, $1,000. 1t is
the pioneer company in Stock Insurance,
and we believe the only Company that
insure against depreciation in value by ac-
cident, or death and theft, separately or
all combined. Mr.. Bassett viii give per-
sons desiring it, detailed information con-
corning the rules OF government of the
Company, and practical workings of its
system.
The Western Reserve Medical Col
lege, Cleveland, o., has about. 100 students
in daily attendance. This old and tried
institution is supported by a very reputa-
bic portion of the Medical profession of
this and adjacent States. Its prospects
were never better. Regular sessions of
Medical c~liniques are held each Wednes-
day during the current term, which are
gratuitous to all.
Mr.. George Alfred Townsend, who
has just arrived from Europe, where he
has been travelling the past season, and
furnishing very interesting letters to the
New York Tribune, World and other pa
pers,-will lecture at Webb's Hall, on next
Friday evening-Subject: Europe Arm
ed" Mr.. Townsend's pen pOrtraiture, in
richness and graphicness Of style, is sur
passed by no other writer in the country.
Mr.. A. w. Parker, who for about
twenty years published the CHRONICLE,
but for the last dozen or so years has been
ruralizing on a fine farm in Braceville,
has concluded to embark into the news
paper business again. and as will be seen
by an advertisement II this paper, has, in
company with Mr.. S. D. Harris, purchased
the OHIO FARMER, at Cleveland. The new
.~rm will take charge of the establishment
at the first of the new year. We wish
both gentlemen great success, and have no
doubt they will win it by publishing the
best Agricultural Journal in the west.
Trumbull County farmers should not fail
TO subscribe for the FARMER.
We have received q Letter from an
unknown source, in Mesopotamia, giving
particulars of an attempt TO rob the house
of L. Norris, in that place. The burglar
being frightened by the screams of one OF
the inmates, made his exit in haste without
any booty. We would thank correspond
ents to give us their name, when sending
articles for publication.
The New York Tribune states that
Miss. Anna Dickinson is at present very
i'll from an attack of pneumonia, she hav-
ing contracted a severe cold on Thanks
giving day. Her western engagements to
lecture are necessarily r~escinded, hence
we shall not have the..pleasure of hearing
her in Warren, on the 9th inst, as was
axnaetad and announced