Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-04-17

Inc brooklyn Union says that Mad
am Ross, in q recent concert, sustained
high note twenty-three seconds.
The Wisconsin Legislature has passed
6 resolution to amend the State Con.
stitution by giving the right of suffrage
to women.
A negro school teacher has been ap-
pointed Register Of voters under the Mill
tary Bill in Alabama, on recommends
ton of prominent white citizens.
The proposed London Aqueduct to
bring water from the Westmoreland
Lakes, as estimated, will be 13S miles
long, deliver 49, 100000 gallons a day,
and cost owe 500, OO0, 900.
At Salt Lake City, a gambler being un-
lucky at cards. took off bis coat, hat, pants,
vest, and stood in his drawers, while he
bet the rest of his clothes away. Fortune
smiled on him. Enterprise.
Hearts, the best card in the chance game
of matrimony. sometimes overcame by
dimonds and knaves; often won by
tricks; and occasionally treated in q shut.
ding manner, and then cut altogether.
A manufacturer in New Yorkcity is Ill
ling an order for two thousand thimbles,
at eighteen cents per dozen, for the mana
ger ola gift enterprise. "No blRnksl Ev-
cry ticket entities the holder to q present."
The spy. business hs0 become a Iegu-
lar trade in Paris. You can 20 to an
Office, and for a price and in good time,
ind out all about your neighbors, your
wife, your husband, your friends and
your enemies.
JOHN B. COUGH has been offered for
6 years services in London $1,000 in
gold per night and a well furnished
house free Of rent. But one lecture is
to be given each week. The offer is
under consideration.
A few days ago a yerdant youth with
his blashing bride arrived at one of our
fashionable hotels. The head Of the
family Immediately registered his name
"Ar. d, and lady, Vermont,
on a bride ~tOaeer."
Paul NJ. Dishong, a resident of Bel
fast, Fulton county, on the 18th of
February, sold his wife, Mary Ann, and
their children, to James Wilson,
which Is the churn pedler," for ven
teen dollars. The articleof agreement.
Wassigned by all the parties concerned
James Wilson adding after his sigma
ture, "noW proprietor of Mary Ann
Dishong."
A letter from Marietta, Georgia, says
that many of the people in the north
ern part of that State are without bread,
and have no money TO buy any. Deal
es in corn and bacon will not sell ex-
cept for cash. In one family, near
Dalton, four children died of starvation,
in February, and it is believed many
Others have died from the same cause.
A despatch from Fort Mcpherson, Ne
braska, states that the mail party from
Fort Phil Kearney TO Fort Laramie, in
charge of Mr.. Van ValSey, q Government
scout, q sergeant and twelve men of the
I'd cavalry were killed, scalped and mutt
lated BY the Indians Is miles east of Fort
Reno. None escaped. It it feared that
the Crows will join the hostile Sioux, in
event Fort G. F. Smith will be in great
danger.
Henry Cox. who owns the land on
both sides OF Buffers celebrated ditch,
the Dutch Gap Canal, has filed it up
BY making q road at the upper end, in
order 70 make the island accessible.
The Richmond authorities at one time
proposed to improve the canal for navi-
cation, but they took no action, and as
the island was remarkably fertile the
owner was unwilling to lose the use of
it.
The old English law term, to desig-
nate an unmarried woman. was s~pinster.
1t was SO applied, no doubt, in conse-
quence of the principal employment in
which they spent their time. To many
of the sex, especially in their younger
years, the same might still be applies
BILE, but with reference to q different
style of spinning and 8 different kind
of yarn. Such distaffs, spinning wheels
and reels as their grandmothers or even
their mothers used, our girls never
seen, and yet many of them are great
spinsters in their way.
Governor Hswley, the dedicated candidate
in Connecticut, does not seem to be cast
down by the result of the lste election. He