Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WEpNRspAY. FERRuARr 6.

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The Senate Finance Committee haI
adopted the bill proposed by leading
bankers of the country, with the en-
dorssment ofthe Secretary of the Treas
ury, funding compound interest notes
The Office of Leonard and Jerome
on Wall street, New York, was entered
yesterday and one hundred thousand
dollars in 500 United States bonds
stolen. No arrests have yet been made.
The total amount of money paid by
National Banking Associations as semi
annual duty accruing prior to July l,
1866, was 81 ,265, $50 Al, and as internal
revenue taxes to July 81, 1866, inclu-
sive, Sc, ,424,0s4 46.
The Union Pacific Railway is already
completed twenty miles beyond juno
tion City, and trains are running to
that point. The road will be finished
to Fort Ellsworth, sixty miles further,
by the first of April.
Nearly a million OF colored children
in the South are old enough to attend
school.
Mechanics have worked six hundred
years on the spire of the Strasburg ca
thedrsl.
There are ssid to be fifty thousand
members of the Grand Army of the Re-
public in Ohio.
French scientific men predict that
the summer Of 1867 will be cold end
wet like that of 1866.
The amount Of poverty and destitu-
tion prevalent in London is frightful
and unequalled, and it Is feared An ap-
peal will have to be made to Parlis-
ment for Government aid.
Salt water of great strength has been
reached within the city limits Of Law
renee, Kansas, at a depth Of seventy
five feet. Parties have leased all the
property in the vicinity, and much ex-
citement exists over the matter. -:
The railroads in this country employ
100000 men, and at lsAat 100000
men, women and children depend
wholly fer their support upon thS rail-
road interest.
Four young nen Of Rome, Georgia,
were arrested the other day BY . squad
of United States soldiers, for taking
part in . tAbleau called 1.-The Ofiesr'S
Funeral" at . charitable entertain
msnt in which the TeSsl flag was dis
played.
The citizens OF HSncock, Brooks and
Ohio counties (thS Pan HAndle) in
West Virgins, ID 10 stated, are about TO
petition thsir LeSislAtars 70 be disan-
nexed from that Stats and TO become
attached to PennsylTaAis.
In the Illinois Penitsn siary, ct Spring
field, on Saturday night week, . con-
Vict procured file, cut the iron bars Of
his cell, seized and gagEsd the guard,
and liberated thirty other prisoners.
They then set themselves 70 work cut
ting the bolts of some of the other cell
doors, but the outside guards we're
alarmed and succeeded in capturing
the party before any further mischief
was done.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY I.
The Democrats of Connecticut have
nominated Hon. J. English for Govern
nor.
The 38th Colored Infantry have been
from Texas to Richmond for
final muster-out.
There has been a~great destruction
Of property, caused BY the ice gorges
above and below Cincinnati.
III is not true, as asserted, that the
President has said he would veto the
Tariff Bill if it passed the House.
The Ways and Means Committee
have voted almost unanimously against
any reduction of the tax on whisky.
A DanVllle (Kentucky) horse-thief
was taken from the Jail at Louisville,
on last Tuesday night, and hung by a
mob.
Several professional thieves were ar
rested in st. Louis, yesterday. on sus-
picion of being connected with the
late bank robbery at New Orleans.
Jacob F. Hadopth was executed at |
NorristoWn, Maine, yesterday, for the |
murder of Julius Wochele, a young
German, in November, 1865.
The recent robbery of the United |
States Treasury amounts to sec, ,000.-
The defaulter ia said to have been a
clerk named Lee. from New York.
The wife of General Sickles, who be-
came noted as one Of the principal ac-
tors il the Washington Sickles Keys
tragedy, some years ago, died in New
Y ork yesterday.
The total amount of the public debt
IN the lst inst, was 81, 543, ,349, ,743 Sc.
Of this, 81, 400, 1851 60 bears coin in
.eres, and SSI9, ,672, 740 bears currency
interest
The President and his friends have
10 changed the first section of their
plan-agreed upon a few
lays sgo-that it now simply declares
he ordinance of session in Southern
States null and void.
The Times special says the South
,rners who expected their reconstruct
on plan would De acceptable to Con-
,ress are much mistaken, for there is
10 considerable number who will &C
.ept any modification of the Constitu-
ional Amendment.
The Ways and Means Committee, in
with instrpctions from the
House, will soon report bill to pre-
-ent a reduction of legal tenders, and
will at the same time report a contrary
ill, as expressing their own views,
hat a compromise provision may be
made.
General Grant says hereafter boys
lnder the sge of tWenty-one will not
,e enlisted, except for musicians, and
hen only under authority from the
Of the Recruiting Ser
ice, or the Adjutant-General of the
rmy.
The trial of C. b. Culver and James
;. Austin closed at Franklin, P, yes (
erday. The jury, after a short ab-
ence, returned a verdict of not guilty.
nd that the prosecutor, John Dufiield
,ay the costs. The verdict was receiv-
d with demonstration of applause by I
he audience in the court.
Nearly 1000 acres of land were taken
Ip in Wisconsin during the month of
December, under the homestead act.
The famous Castle Thunder in Rich
nond, Va, has been reconYerted to its ,
riginal use as s. tobacco manufactory.
In regard to the report that Theo-
ore Tilton was about to marry Anna
dickinson, Mr.. T. says he rarely ever !
axes so important step without con- {
llting Mrs. Elizabeth r. Tilton, his