Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-12-12
News Items.

already endured six months OF this
outrageous sentence. The attention of
Congress has been called to the matter,
and a thorough investigation will
doubles develope many instances Of
similar character.
A new Lisbon paper says a newly
married couple in bridal costume, re-
Gently stopped at that place to spend
a few days of their honeymoon. The
bridegroom borrowed $50 of an accom-
modating gentleman and then mysteri-
ously disappeared. The bride wept
and tore her hair at thus being left
without money and without friends,
and the sympathizing inhabitants of
the town contributed literally for her
relief-a5out one hundred dollars be-
ing donated. She then disappeared,
and it has since transpired that the
promising couple had played the same
game in several towns in the State.
Nasty opens his last discourse thus /:
''The papers Nv the country are very
generally discussin the question =
'Shel the Democratic papers live or
die? p which when we take into con-
siderashen the fact that the corpse is
afore us, seems to me holler mockery,
and a heartless trifin with the feelins
of the the deceast. Their amt no
yoos Nv talkin NV its fucher now, and
a tombstun mite ez well be put up,
regardlis Nv expense, commonwealth
its virchoos."
IMPORTANT STATEMENF.-The Boston
Journal states that Ex-Gov. Boutwell,.
in a lecture at Lewiston, Maine, last
Wednesday evening, said that President
johnson and Mr.. Seward had known for
more than a year that John Surratt had
gone to Rome and enlisted in the Army
ofthe Pope. This statement was made
before the announcement that Surratt had
been demanded, given up and had escaped
from custody.
The investigation which Mr.. BoUT-
WELL proposes to make into the LIN
COLIN asasination-the escape of SUR
RATT-the conduct of ANDREW JOHN
soN-the New Orleans riots-and some
other of the darker hues of the cloud
that hangs over the Administration, is
to prove a work of vast impor-
tance-and to some, no doubt, a labor
terrible interest. 1t is one of the
gravest matters yet agitated.
The New York Commercial, which
don't like Secretary McCulloch's report, |
INDUCES in the following gloomy look at
the future: at is felt from the character
Of the Secretary's recommendations, that
The administration of the finances may be
with indiscretions materially
affecting values generally, and hence there
S an unsettled feeling among holders of
securities anything but favorable to a
condition of the market"
The New York Times has the follow
ng item +: "The purchase of Lower
has been formally confirmed
~ the Juarez Government, and the
title is settled beyond a reasonable
loubt. 1t is the largest purchase by
persons in modern times. 1t
covers 1880 square miles, extends
rom gulf to ocean, between the paral-
els of "a deg. and 20 min, and 80 deg.
# north latitude.
The Freedmen's Saving and Trust
company, of Norfolk, has been reaping
Iuite harvest in the way of deposits
made by the soldiers of the colored
egiments which have been paid off
nd mustered out in that vicinity. The
,eventh United States Colored Regi-
nent deposited $4,000 in this institu-
ion, and the Thirty-sixth Regiment
las already deposited 100000.
1t is said by those who are in posi-
ion to be well informed that the tariff
Ill which Is in course of preparation
y Special Commissioner Wells will fix
be duty on wool, competing with Am
rican fleece, at six cents instead of
en- per cent. ad vslorem, as provided
the House bill of last session. 1t is
lso asserted that he will recommend
general reduction in duties on raw
Material.
One hundred thousand dollars worth
o. S. bonds and securities have been
Iolen from the Office of Riker & Co.,
roadway, New York, by Chas. d.
ady, the confidential clerk of the
establishment. He was arrested, and
considerable portion of the property
as recovered
The Montreal Herald publishes a
,tter from the person who identified
nd reported Surratt to the American
finister at Rome. He says he vas in
ne papal service, had formerly served
the American army, and become
cquainted with Surratt at the South.
The excitement about Irish affairs
increasing in London. There has
cen no actual outbreak, but the mill
.ry and naval authorities are actively
repairing for one. Three more iron
ads and two regiments of regulars
ave been ordered to Ireland.
In view of the probable restriction
Congress of the Presidents power
} pardon rebels Unfortunately, the
outhern journals call upon him to
lake haste and pardon everybody be-
IRE the bill 10Y pending becomes a
The press of Alabama generally OPP
ose the recent position taken by
udge Busted in favor of the adoption
{ the Congressional amendment, and
barge him with having abandoned the
rue interests of the people he profess
) to represent.
Mr.. Seward and the President, it is
aid, differ in their foreign politics,
nd the Secretary disclaimed to NJ.
e Montholon any responsibility for
he language of the Message in regard
\ the action of France.
The Governor of Alabama has recon-
to the Legislature the adop-
ion of the Constitutional Amendment.
The recommendation produced con-
excitement. Both Houses
re opposed TO it.
Wilson Shannon Roof, the murderer of
Irs. Musson, at M~ogadore, was arrested
| the township of Atwater, Portage
ounty, on Thursday last.
1t is expected that the committee to in.
the New Orleans riots will de-
art on that business early next week