Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-07-11
Local and Personal.

Judge Brown advertises cotton land:
for sale in this weeks Chronicle.
The attention of farmers Is called to the
advertisement of a hay-loading machine, il
this paper.
Hon. John Hutchins was the orator o.
the day at the celebration at Parkman OF
the 4th.
The Congressional question is discussed
Oh both outside and inside of this paper. Sew,
eral other articles have been crowded out.
"A splendid soldiers monument wa:
erected at Windham. on the 4th. An ad.
dress was delivered by Rev. John Peate, OF
this place.
The Kinsman folks had a good time
on the 4th. W. o. FOrrlst, Esq, delivered
an Grafton, and the evening was enlivened
with a display of fireworks.
Mr.. "McCarthey," your anonymous
parody on "Enoch Arden" is hardly the
thing. Give your own name when you
write, or else you will waste paper and
stamps.
On last Sunday afternoon the ordinance
Of baptism was administered BY Rev. John
Peate, Pastor of the NJ. E. Church, to seven
persons, two by pouring, and the Others by
immersion.
The young men who kept the town in
an uproar on the night of the 4th, with the
ire-cracker nuisance, should be voted
leather NEEDLES by the town council. Such
patriotism as they displayed, should not pass
unnoticed.
The Saturday ReUiea0, of Kent, Ohio,
has recently passed into the hands of Mr..
DAY, who has enlarged and improved the pa
per very much. 1t is conducted with spirit
and ability, and appears to enjoy a good pat
ronage. 1t speaks well for the enterprise OF
the people o. that town that a journal so re-
Gently started among them, should wear so
prosperous an aspect.
Mr.. John Vanness, one of the oldest
residents of Vernon, died in that place, on
the 10th of June, aged &c years, of cancer in
the stomach. Mr.. Vanness was born in Ses-
sex Co, n. Y, and emigrated to Youngs-
town IN 1880, and thence to Vernon in 1881.
His occupation for 46 years was wagon and
carriage making. He was an esteemed citi-
zen and for many years a worthy member of
the Free Baptist Church.
Gardner & Hemming's great show will
be in town on Thursday next. The menag-
erie has many specimens of noted ami
mails, birds, &c. There will be a rush to see
the elephant dance a jig, while monkeys
turn summer-saults in glee at the sport and
the other animals flap their tails in appro-
baton. The dromedary has got his 'back
up and refuses to join in the fun.
Mr.. Steiner made a balloon ascension
Al Cleveland, on the 4th. When about three
miles from the starting point, and about one
mile above the earth, a valve refused to
work, and in giving it a sudden jerk, it
broke, allowing the gas to escape rapidly
The balloon descended very fast in spite of
all efforts to check it, and came down with
crashing force in a vineyard. A young
man named Hazen, who had accompanied
Mr.. Steiner, was somewhat injured, but the
aronaut came off without damage.
The Atlantic & G. W. Railway Co. has
just achieved an important victory atlaw over
the PeIn'a Central & Philadelphia & Erie
railroads. The Supreme Court of Pennsyl-
vania has decided-all the Judges excepting
one, Reed-concuring, in favor of the lease
and contract entered into last November be-
tween the A. & G. W. and Catawissa Rail-
road Companies, that the agreement is law
full and valid for twenty years, and that all
the rights and interests of the Catawissa Com
pany under said agr cement have passed to
and become duly vested In the a. & G. W.
Company. This decision gives the Atlantic
Company the right to build their proposed
new line of road through Pennsylvania to
to New York City.