Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
FRIDAY. FEBRuARY /.

have adopted the GENITAL system.
The rumor of the ~defalcation in the
American National Bank in New York
is untrue.
The amendment to the constitution
striking out the word white" wa
passed by the Kansas House of Rep
resentatives yesterday.
A dispatch from st. Louis announ
ces that the ice is thawing rapidly in
the Mississippi, and that there is a fail
prospect for the early opening of navi
cation.
The President has recently said to a
number of persons that the worst thing
he ever done in his life was to pardon
Mayor Monroe, of New Orleans.
The Reconstruction Committee will
soon report a plan of reconstruction.
It will avoid all recognition of the
present State governments South.
The Southern Relief Commissioners
of New York have issued an earnest
appeal for generous and universal
efforts in behalf of famished districts
of the South.
A Richmond correspondent says that
the impeachment is r~egsrdedas a fixed
thing among people generally, althoug
some allege that it will certainly lead
to another d~isasterous revolution.
Under the Bounty equalization bill
of July last, about $4,000 applications
for extra bounty for white, celored and
deceased soldiers have been made to
the Second Auditors Office, and about
100000 living white soldiers to the
Paymaster Generals office. Applica-
tions are still coming in at the rate of
one thousand per day.
The Quartermaster General has pub
lished, at the instance of the Secretary
of War, the names Of soldiers who
died in defense of the Union. inferred
in cemeteries in New York, Wisconsin,
Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Missou-
ii, North Carolina, Arkansas, Kansas,
and Dakota Territory. The pamphlet
contains the names of about l2,000.-
1t is for the information OF their survi-
wing comrades and friends.
John B. Cough lectured in Toledo
last night.
The snow drifts on the Allegheny
Mountains are thirty feet deep.
A dissipated youth in Ohio came
home the other day, and the father
observed to his wife. "Kill the fatted
prodigal, the calf has returned"
On Saturday last a wild cat was
by some sportsmen in the vicini-
ty Of Sterling, III. The animal was of
a tswny yellow color, lightly spotted,
and weighed about forty pounds.
The Florida and Cuba Telegraph
chartered by the last session
Of Congress, has secured 3 grant from
giving them the exclusive right
to land 8 cable in Cuba. 1t is expect
ed to be in working order by the 18th
of March.
A tunnel has been completed on the
and Connelsville railroad,
4, $50 feet in length, or a thousand feet
than the tunnel of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad through the Allegheny
1t is called the Ssmpatch
tunnel.
OAIlhDA1f IkbhOAh1 n
The Ways and Means Committee
have decided to put butter and cheese
on the free list.
A bill has passed the State Senate
authorizing town Councils to appoint
their marshal and police, and to remove
them at pleasure.
The Hall of the Ohio House of Rep
resentatiyes was refused John NJ. Lang
ston, in which to deliver a speech on
the suffrage question.
Hon. Phillip johnson, Congressman
the Eleventh District of Pennsyl-
vania, died suddenly on the 3lst of
January, at Washington.
The Wooden mill at Dighton, Mass,
owned by William Cobb and others,
burned yesterday morning. Loss
$l20, 600. Insured for about $4,000.
W. 7. Jackson was shot and killed
at Winchester, KY, yesterday, by R.
T. Lewis, ayoung lawyer. Cause, jeal-
ousy.
L. S. Morton, Deputy Postmaster of
the House of Representatives, waI to-
day confirmed SIS Assessor of the 18th
Ohio (Cleveland) District.
The Fenian leaders in New York,
advertise for sale two thousand stand
of arms, principally muskets and
rifles, all ready for instant
use.
The Herald's special says: 1t is re-
that the House Committee on
Whisky Frauds have concluded to re-
port the repeal offs o much of the law
as relates to distilleries, and tax them
the capacity of their stills.
A destructive fire broke out in Mans
field, Ohio, yesterday morning at three
Weldon's block was entirely
consumed. The estimated loss is
$I00, 900; no insurance.
The New York Herald's New Or
leans special says: Radicals are organ
izing the Grand Army of the Republic
all over the State and a conflict between
the radicals and x.confederates is not
improbable.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4.
Ex-Governor Hunt, of New York,
died in that city Saturday night.
The internal revenue collected in
New York city for 1866, is SIS, 200, 900,
and for four years nearly n hundred
James A. Nein and William n. Neill,
ust from California, were on Saturday
last, induced by sharpers in New York
to exchange 5000 in gold. for a bogus
check for $6,Sl2,50.
Advices from the Continent, state
that it is officially announced that
Maximillion will remain in Mexico, if
the Congress of that country, o to
assemble, will sustain him.
The Tennessee House debate on the
suffrage bill was closed, and q
test vote was taken, which resulted
yeas sc, nays %. The question of ne
gro suffrage will be submitted to a vote
Of the people of that State.
Prominent Union men of Texas,
have memorialized Congress to divide
that State midway between the Brazos
and Colorado rivers, saying that if it
was so divided, the western section
would strongly sustain the Union on
the basis of the Congressional recon
policy.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5.
Gold closed last night at 1873.
1t is thought the Tariff bill will not
pass the House.
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