Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-01-03

we haven't seen her for a long time
when is she coming down to see my wife ?"
/" am quite well, 1 thank you; but, in
deed, sir, you have the advantage
Advantage my good fellow-what adj
vantagef Why, really, sir, l do no
know you'll" know mel well, 1 don't
know you where is the advSntage?"
Governor Curtin, of Penn'a, has issued
the death warrants of August Frecke
and Benjamin Barnhardt Marshal, who
were convicted at the October term of
the court of Oyer and Terminer of Ale
gheny county Pa., for murder in the
first degree, and fixed on Friday, the 18th
day of January next, as the day of exc
cution. He has also issued his warrant
for the execution of Mrs. Martha Grin
der-convicted of the murder of Mrs.
Caroline Carothers-on Friday, the 10Th
day of January next, between ten in the
morning and three in the afternoon
Frecke and Mrs. Grinder protested their
innocence when their death warrants
were read to them. They will be hanged
at Pittsburg.
The Erie Road has borrowed four mil
lions of dollars in England with which to
complete its double track.
A North Carolina editor has been bro't
to Washington, under arrest, for publish
ing disloyal articles.
Seven or eight thousand dollars were
stolen from the safe of the Treasurer of
Pulaski county, Ind, on Sunday night
last.
Commodore Winslow, of the famous
Kearsage, has been transferred to the
command of the Gulf Squadron, which
PNnSIctc of fnanfu racca11 ooru-,-- 100
guns.
Gen. Grant, it is asserted, Immediately
after the holidays, will proceed to the
Rio Grande, to look after the military
situation there.
The prison connected with the aims
house, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
was burned last Sunday night. Three
inmates persisted in the flames.
The President has relieved Provisional
Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi, of his
duties, and turned the State over to the
officers recently elected by the people.
Among the Washington rumors is one
that the Committee on Appropriations
were to report a bill for the assumption
of the wal debts of the loyal States by
the General Government.
Some laborers provoked a fight on the
Dayton and Western Railroad near Rich
mond, Ind, Christmas afternoon, by re-
fuslng to pay their fare as passengers, in
which two of,them were killed and sew
eral wounded.
One Mercer, a General in the Rebel ar
my, who had command of a battalion of
Union prisoners forced into the rebel
ranks from AndersonVille, is now on trial
at Savannah for murder, having caused
seven of the prisoners to be shot for de-
Sertion.
A schooner from Hayti to Boston went
ashore last Friday night off Nantucket,
and her crew., seven men, in endeavoring
to save themselves in the life-boat, were
capsized and drowned.
Brigham Young has been dangerously
i'll of pleurisy, but is now recovering. OF
late the Mormon militia have been &C.
lively drilling, and many people out that
way apprehend the breaking out of diff
culties before the close of winter.
The cities of the South, Tennessee espe-
cially, must be desirable places of resi-
dence since the war. Nashville, as every
body knows, has been particularly "salu-
brious;" and Atlanta, now, is raising a
regiment 10 protect itself from murder
~ 6A4 EOOAC-S-
Officers of the army who have marched
over the Plains, and had some acquain-
lance with the people of Salt Lake. are
rather anxious that military operations
should be commenced against Brigham
Young and his latter dsy saints.
At -Shafer, Pa, on Christmas day, a
fire broke out which, in two hours, con-
sumed half the town. Ten stores and
four hotels were burned. A quarrel took
place during the fire between a Mr.. Park
and another man, which resulted in Park
being shot dead.
News from the city of Mexico repre-
sents Maximillian's government as about
played out. 1t is upheld only by foreign
b~ayonets. The withdrawal of the French
forces viii be the signal for a general up
rising in favor Of the Republic.
A fire broke out yesterday in the build
ing of Dibble & Co., Pearl street, New
York, in which ~turpentine, rosin and
such like combustible material was stored
in large quantities, and in a short time
destroyed the building and $4,000 or
$4,000 worth of property.
A case of s~ufocation from gas is report
ed as taking place in Chicago, on last
Saturday night, at a hotel on Lake street.
Six men were sleeping in one room, and
during the night the cap of the gas pipe,
which was stuck on with wax, dropped
OF, letting the gas escape into the room.
Five of the men were dead in the morn
ing, and the sixth was insensible.
To RELIEVE CHECKED CATTLE.-A cor
respondent of the Rural Neao Yorker saws
that he has tried pouring a half pint of
melted lard down the throat of the suf-
fering animal and has never known it
to fail to give relief.
Rev. DIR. Hatfield. of Chicago. last Sum-
day evening gave the following reasons
why wicked men often die happy:
Extreme and long continued pain will
cause almost any man to be willing to
die.
Some men die happy because they are
ignorant; they keep themselves wholly
in the dark in regard to the whole mat
ter of the welfare of the soul, and thus
pass away from life without any thought
of the future.
Other persons die peacefully because
they believe in something that operates
as an opiate to the soul.
Other persons die peacefully because
they are deceived. They think them
selves Christians, when they are not
This is the case with many protested
Christians.
There are other cases in which the
tranquility is hypocritical and assumed.
An infdel who has taught doctrines con-
trary to the Bible for a long series of years
Will be influenced by his pride to meet
death b~ravely.
There are men who die tranquil deaths
because they are given over by Gods
spirit to believe a lie.
A rule, with few,Iif any exceptions, for
keeping wool on sleeps backs, is to keep
the animals fat.
OF 10000 bales of cotton surrendered
to the United States by Dick Taylor, but
10000 bales have been or ever will be re-
ceiVed by the National Government, the
balance having been stolen.