Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-28
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"A letter from a friend at Niagara Falls
was received too late for this weeks paper.
-Sena tors Wade and Sherman, and Rep
~resentative Garfield, have placed US undel
obligations for documentary favors.
Attention is called to the advertisement
of a newly invented Single Machine, in
this paper.
u. j. StedmAn, the young Temperance
Lecturer, will lecture at the Methodist
Church, on Sunday evening, the 1st day Of
\ April.
The making of maple sugar and mo
lasses this Spring has been a failure. The
weather has been very u~nfavorable.
Attention is called to the advertisement
of the Reno Oil and Land Company, in this
paper. 1t seems a great enterprise.
Mr.. Warren A. Young, at Washington,
has favored us with sundry public documents,
for which he will please accept our thanks.
Hon. John Hucthins left here on Satur-
day last, for a brief visit to New Orleans
and Mobile. He has promised a letter to the
CHRONICLE, on the state of things in that
latitude.
The county commissioners advertise to
let the masonry work for the pier of the new
bridge. The iron and wood work has not
been contracted for yet.
The Universal Clothes Wringer," ad-
Tertised in this paper, is a good machine
We have had one in use in our family for
six months, and it is considered indispensi-
BILE Too much can hardly be said in its
praise.
An old gentleman had a narrow escape
9rom drowning q few days since. While
passing along Main street, he stumbled and
fell into the mud, and just as his coat tails
were retiring, he was discovered and hshed
out When first observed, his destination
was thought to be China, or som other ce-
lestial realm.
-Houdin, the magician, gave entertain
mentsa at Webb's Hall, each night of last week.
In addition to his wonderful slight of hand
tricks, he distributed among the audience
handsome gifts, mostly rings, pins, medals,
&c, made of brass, pewter, and other equal
ly valuable metals. He left at daylight
Monday morning, for Mansfield, leaving an
unsettled bill of $3.50 at this office. Wede-
parted from our rule not to trust characters
in his case, and were rewarded as stated
Printers, don't trust H udin. He is q scamp.
Hon. William Stewart, UAited States
Senator from Nevada, is a native of this
county, being born and raised in the town
ship of Mesopotsmia. He is a self educated
and self-made man. In his boyhood DAYS
he was employed as a farm laborer. He
managed to get sufficient funds to attend
school, and having qualified himself as a
teacher, he kept a district school in the win
ter to provide the means of attending an
academy in the summer. Several wears
since he emigrated to California, and was
elected sheriff of San Francisco. He there
married a daughter of Senator Foote, and
more recently tried his fortune in Nevada
and turned up o. S. Senator.
The Union and the United States Tel
-egraphic lines having been consolidated
the Union line Office in this place will be
discontinued, and the entire business
done at the o. S. line Office, under the
supervision of Mr.. Sam. Davis. who has
proven himself very worthy the position.
The coal miners in the Mahonine
Valley are on a strike. The consequent
falling off in the supply of coal has caused
the furnaces to close. The supply OF
coal is very short in this place, and con.
sumers are put on short rations.
Jack Cooper is to be hanged at Ra.
n on the 9th of April. The Supreme
Court refused a writ of error in his case.
We understand that parties owning
four machines for manufacturing hot
pressed nuts, and the exclusive right Of
the same for this State. are willing 10
erect works in Warren. if a few thousand
dollars capital we're invested by citizen:
of this place. The parties are reliable
and experienced men.