Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-05-30

SO. Three colored men were ordalneo In Macon
Ca, Saturday a week ago. as Presbyterian minis
tiers. One of them was formerly a slave in the
family Of Howell Cobb.
a Four boys. living at Chicago. started out
Saturday in q yawl. to visit the tunnel crib. A
violent gale arose and drove their frail craft be-
fore it. into the open lake. Nothing has since
been heard of them.
Ha-AbiIis pending in the British Parliament to
abolish imprisonment for debt.
HA Mrs. JEFF. Davis is in Washington seeking
an interview with the President respecting her
husband.
q The total number of vessels captured by
rebel privateers was two hundred and eighty
three. -
ga lot of land in New Orleans sold at one
thousand dollars per foot the other day. @uc1,
IN. At least twelve hundred Mexicans were ex-
ecuted in one month. in Zacatscas. under Max
imiIian's decree condemning to death those OPP
posed to his government.
fA. In New York during the two months past,
" enty-two deaths occurred from starvation. TWEEN
ity-seven from drunkenness, and ten suicides were
committed.
q. The stock holders of The New York Acade-
my Of Music have held 8 meeting and determined
tofepQllQ II OQc9s 1ne new suuclUro u 70 Dc GULL
plsted By the first Of November.
f. ia Numerous arrests have been madein Russia
in consequence Of the recent attempt on the Gfe
r. Of the Gar, Twenty students at st. Petersburg.
thirty at Moscow and many others have been
thrown into prison. ,-f - RI
a e. The State Department has dispatches which
eonfrmt the opinion that Eurpoean war is immi-
nent. and the financial and mercantile classes are
strengthening themselves for the expected strain
a upon their resources. .frE =. 81
"a. Late advices from the City of Mexico re-
q portthateonsidersbls dissatisfaction existzoverthe
contemplated withdrawal of the French troops.
g Rnd that there Is q probability that Aaximilian
j Will abdicate before they are Withdrawn.
1t is contemplated to build q costly Exec
utivs Mansion on the grounds east Of the Capitol
and turn the White House into q FIRE proof build
ing for State pgpers.aA j -oG a-rt -
a. gentlemen in Nashua. New Hampshire.
became q widoWer' on Saturday. 9 mourner OF
Sunday. q prOeurer of q wedding certificate on
Monday and sneHly married man on Tuesday.
In three instances at Hartford. Connect
cut. recently. the heat Of the sun has set oily cot
ton waste on FIRE. and a timely discovery has been
all that prevented a disastrous confagration in
becu Cdse-
y5R-e has. A. Dana. the editor in chief of the
Chicago Republican. has sent in his resignation to
the stockholders of that concern. The psper viii
/. 20 into new hands Immediately and will be issued
q Is a johnson organ. BID H-t i- .--g
R5- In N ew Orleans last Wednesday an ex-reb-
ell Colonel deliberately shot a young woman who
refused to marry him. The ball entered shove
the breast on the right side and lodged on the left
side. without however. inhicting a mortal wound.
The same day Mrs. Anna Morelands q popular
actress at the Olympic. was found dead in her
bed from taking chloroform.
sS- Two persons were received at the cholera
o hospital ship in New York. on Thursday. One
has died. and A -51E s a9.lr-
BsrMary Ann Bastine. an inmate of the New
York aImshOuse. died a few days since, at the re-
markable age oils years. 7at III
TO- Richard Pollard. a tailor was murdered Sat-
urdHy night in a tenement house in New York. by
William eormie. his late employee.
"a The time Of laying the cornerstone Of the
monument to Stephen A. Douglas has been chang
ed from the 18th Of June the 4th ofJuly.
"a samuel Kennedy. the last survivor of the
Wyoming massacre. died near York Springs. Pa.
on Friday. in the ninety-third year of his age.
- "a The American Sharpshooter's Society viii
hold . festival in Chicago from the 18th to the 18th
of June next. Competitors will appear from all
parts of the United States and from several places in
Europe.
HA- The Health 6ficers of the hospital sh ip. N.
K. reports its condition an favorable, All on
board are doing well and are ~snxious to be dis
charged and proceed to their destinations in the
West.
HA- The freedmen in Texas are coming to Ar
kansas almost daily in numbers, in q destitute con-
ditiOn. They report that anarchy and despotism
ID reign in Texas. and that shameless outrages are
committed on their persons and property by the
whites. Gen. Sprague. Commissioners ofthe Freed
mems Bureau Ter Arkansas. thiDks the report is
somewhat exaggerated. s
"a A ba I'd of outlaws went to the house Of a
man named Gunter. in 0Ferton county. Tenn 8
few days ago, and on some frivolous pretext, took
him into the woods. stripped him and were un-
mercifully whipping him. His daughter seized q
Ratchet. rushed to the sIpt, and succeeded in kill
ing two of the rufkans and TOunding others. Tbs
The young lady and her father have since been
driven from the county. 1T
eH- Oil City has been visited by another disas-
trous fire. On Saturday the business portion Of
the place. on the east side of the creek. were de-
stroysd. SeTentg-fTe stores. eight hotels. forty
dwelling houses. one church and a seminary were
burned. Total loss about a million of dollars, on
which there seems to have been only $4,000 in
suraRes.
rs The FIRE in Hudson. Wis. brief mention of
which was made by telegraph the other morning.
was a destructive affair. Sixty-four business
houses were burned and twenty-five families made
homeless.
- The steamer City of London arrived on the
9th with Liverpool dates to the 18th. The failure
OF Ferier Brothers. Liverpool, but their assets are
in excess of their liabilities. The panic had SEN
sibIy subsidsd. although many difficulties were
still anticipated. News of the Valparaiso bonn
bardment was received With Indignation BY the
press. people and parliament, although the latter
defended the neutrality Of the British admiral.
There was q rumor from Paris that Prussia and
Italy had agreed to q congress. The reply Of Aus
q tria 20 the proposition had not been rseeivsd. It
was expected Austria. in few weeks. would have
an army In the field numbering 10000 men. She
bad already succeeded in strategieally eoncentrat-
ing large bodies Of troops on the PrussiAn frontier.
,Judpe ABRLL of the First District Court