Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-04-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TUESDAY. MARCH 26.

A severe snow storm commenced o
Friday night in Iowa, again blockadin
the Northwestern Railroad.
The ex.rebel General Longstreet hs
published letter advocating the a,
ceptance of the Congressional plan c
reconstruction.
If Congress adjourns on Tuesday Q
Wednesday, it is said the Presiden
will Immediately call an extra sessio
of the Senate for Executive busines:
a theological school for colored min
listers has been established at Augusta
Georgia, with thirty attendants. 1
reverend gentleman of high culture ha
been assigned to the charge of it.
A "speciaP asserts "confidentally
that there is no intention to displac
Collector Smythe. As this communi
cation is confidential" it is requested
that no one viii say anything about it
Hernden, President Lincoln's Law
partner, has been lecturing and wri
ting all sorts of nonsense about tht
illustrious deceased. The career of tn,
Court in which Lincoln participated
is announced to deliver a lecture il
Chicago on Lawyer Lincoln" Mex
we shall hear of some old raftsman, o.
deck hand on Mississippi steamboat
lecturing on "Lincoln the Flatboat
man." g.
Atthe Peabody banquet in New YorI
the table was ornamented by magni
fcent service of silver and gold, con
sisting of fifty pieces of exquisite de
signs and elaborate Workmanship
Upon one of the tables was service
of gold, consisting of ten pieces, mas
sive and beautifully carved. 1t il
doubtful if a more splendid and costly
service of plate was ever before placed
upon table in this country.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH q.
The Bunker Hill Baptist Church,
Boston, was set on fire yesterday morn.
ing and partially destroyed.
James S. Thomas, the present May
or of st. Louis, has been nominated
by the Radical Convention for re-elec-
ton.
The Quarantine Commissioners IN
New York are making extensive prepa.
rstions for a visit from the cholera from
Europe next summer.
Brady & Co.'S elevator at Waterloo,
Iowa, was destroyed by fire on Monday.
Twenty thousand bushels of grain were
consumed. Loss $4,000. Insured.
Trouble is anticipated in Maryland
during the session of the convention
which Is to frame a new constitut tion
for that State. Prominent Radicals of
Maryland have been asking aid from
Congress.
Governor Patton, of Alabama, has
published long letter in which he
advises the people to accept the terms
by Congress for reconstruc-
tion cheerfully and carry out the law
faithfully.
On Saturday night four robbers broke
into the house of a farmer named Hen
ry Rapp, near Ringtown, Pa. A neigh
Dor named Jacob Johnston ran to his
The robbers shot him
down, and wounded Mr.. Rspp; where
upon Rapp stabbed one of the sssas-
3lns ana lne gang neu.
General Butler again brought up the
yesterday between him
'elf and Mr.. Bingham, relative to Mrs.
Surratt's trial, and charged that evil
lence duplicating high functionaries
lad been suppressed in Booths diary.
reply was fearfully severe,
md the greatest excitement prevailed
While the debate lasted.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
Ion Sunday Gszettee says that Stephens
md number of American officers are
D Paris, quite innocent of the rising in
which took them by surprise. |
The 0pinione Rationale of Paris has
n article on Fenian movements, in |
which it hints that the United States |
Government connived at the rebellion,
q the interests of Russis, as q means
f embarrassing England at a critical
noment of her diplomacy on the Eas-
ern question.
Unusually rich and promising speci-
nens of silver and copper ore have
ately been discovered in Piscatsquis
ounty, Maine.
A sweet potato from the Azores.
'eighing thirteen and quarter pounds
nd thirty inches in circumference is
n exhibition in Boston.
The Petroleum Center Era says a
tile girl, eight years of age, is perfor-
ling the duties of an engineer at a
ell on Bennehoff Run. She is paid
day, the wages of the best engi-
GERS.
By the surgeons report to the Police
commissioners of New York, we learn
lat there were. thirty three police
er injured in the affray at st. Pat
ck's Day nine of them being classed
seriously, nine as severely, the re- {
ainder escaping with bruises and con- l
sions.
The Roberts Senate of the Fenian 7
disposed of the PROPOSE L
IN for union with the Gleeson branch S
Friday. They are trying to unite
d send supplies to Ireland if revo- v
tion is actually in progress in that 4
nntry, but the movement against e
NADIA will not be relinquished. a
An iron building in Charleston, Mass. d
g damaged to the extent Of $50, ,000, o
ew days ago, by few blows from a v
MINER. The agent did the mischief 81
trying to get the snow off the roof Il
striking the braces which support P
it. The iron roof and one side of Il
, building fell in with crash.
THURSDAY, MARCH, %, d
Reports from the lower Mississippi a,
licate the probable giving way of the il
ees, in which event the whole valley fe
/ be inundated. K
senator Morrill,, of Maine, and Rep X :.
entatiye Hopkins, of Wisconsin, are :. =
mbers of the Union Congressional -
nmittee. Their names were omit - -
from the list yesterday.
he two Houses of Congress having K
ed to agree upon a day of adjourn N
Mt, it becomes the duty Of the Pres to
Mt, under the Constitution, to order Iii
fixing the day him W
ate advices from Idaho represent 10
mining interest fiourishing. Inter. o'
ng geological discoveries are being SD
de in the 0wyhee country, which st
expected to create lively sensation oe
he scientific world. hi
meeting of freedmen was held in to
con, Ga, last evening, which was to
ressed by several prominent citizens. A.
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