Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-21
BROOKFIELD.
March II, 1866.

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Mi. EDITOR The effectiveness of the
mud blockade is conceded by even it:
most inveterate enemies, and until it is
removed by the frigid mandate of ole
Boreas, or the milder edicts of Sol and
Zephyrus, 1 may as well content and
amuse myself by contributing my mite to
the literature and history of our Sweet
auburn, loveliest village of the plain"
Our returned soldiers, mingling in the
Quiet pursuits of life, have so incorpor-
ated themselves with the civic element,
as to almost lose their martial identity,
and to be scarcely distinguishable from
the common mass, as the knights of val
or, who for four dark bloody years heroic
ally warded off the swift and terrible
blows of the myrmidons of treason, aimed
at our country's life. We, too, have u
Roll of Honor, comprisinga score or more
of our "unreturning braves" Some
poured out their lives on the red field of
carnage amid the wild tumult of battle /;
others fell victims to wasting diseases
contracted in southern swamps and Ia
goons while others were tortured TO death
by the refined cruelties of A~ndersonville;
but whether in camp, field, hospital, or
prison-pen, the sacrifice is the same, and
their names will be embalmed in CRATE
full hearts while patriotism has a place in
the human breast.
Allow me to briefly notice a few errors
that appeared in your issue of the Dist
ult., over the initial of your fair cores
pendent III" 1t is not presumed that
these mistakes were prompted by any
unworthy motives; but they resulted
solely from a want of correct data, with
out which no one should ever essay to
furnish facts for publication. Mere idle
rumor may serve very well as staple for
tea-table gossip, but should never be OBJ
truded in the widely circulated medium
of a public journal. l am credibly assn
red that Messrs- Case & Byers have had
no thoughts of engaging in the grocery
business" as your fair correspondent in
Inmates nor has Mr.. Tillotson, their sue
cessor, ever enjoyed the honor of serving
in the capacity of Captain" on the
"raging canawl."
Another inadvertency occurs in regard
to recent cceSsions to the Disciple Church
DTs. Heney and Willis, and Mr.. Chew,
are enumerated. The first named gen.
tleman has long been identified with the
church, as one of its most exemplary and
efficient members; the others have never,
we believe, signifed any ecclesiastical
preference. But 1 will not abate a 1.-THE
from the deserving rebuke she has so just
ly launched against the accursed traffic
of strong drink. Verify we are not guilt
less in this matter, arraigned as we are at
the bar of common decency, and COM
mon safety. These are the institutions"
that are sending forth our street taught
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smoke, chew, drink, swear and sport,
correctly and gracefully" Boys, in
beardless bloom, the fond delight of dot
ing friends, will soon go forth from these
"Hells," a pest to society, adopts in all
the lower arts that tend to depase and
degrade humanity. If Socrates, while
intoxicating the purest precepts of NOR
atty must needs be charged by the Athe-
mans, with corrupting the youth, and
to drink the fatal bemlock, what
sentence should be melted out to these
men, who, impelled by the most selfish
motives, are sowing broadcast the seeds
Of vice and disease, which must ere long
yield a plentiful harvest of crime and
The whitening curse that Byron
supposed Eve to have pronounced upon
the fratricide Cain, is scarcely too bitter
malediction to invoke upon the guilty
heads of these vendors of poison: MAY
the grass wither under thy feet; the
woods deny thee shelter the earth a
nome the sun his light, and Heaven her
God"
The contest for Justice of the Peace,
the ensuing Spring Election, promises
be unusually spirited. The Democra
" have trotted out James Patton, ESQ,
heir most available man, to bear aloft
heir banner on which is inscribed this
device victory or defeat :" the
Republicans have not as yet divulged
heir choice. I,
Mrs. Rice, of Ashtabula county, for
nerly Miss Fairchild, of our town, met
With a sad bereavement about two weeks
ince. While visiting at Mr.. Warren
.3urton's, of this place, her only surviv-
ng child, but nine months old, was taken {
~iolentlY i'll. Drs. Stewart and Rathbone
instantly called, but the best medical {
kill, aided by the kind Offices of sympa- {
hetic friends aYailed nothing, and the t
title sufferer faded in death like a deli
ate howeret, at the rude touch of decay.
Who can know the anguish of that grief. I
mother as she returns to her late q
Apply home, now, alas bereft its bright I
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