Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-10-23
THE NEWS.

The Hon. Cakes Ames, of Nassachu-
sets, has recently entered into the
largest railway contract ever under
taken by a single individual. Itis to
build the mountain section of the Pa
ciae Railroad, GOO miles in length.
Martin Gates, of D~uncansville, Pa 4,
was shot in the right breast before Pc
tersburg. Recently he felt something
p~rotruding from his right side. It was
extracted and proved to be a large brass
button which the ball bad driven in.
The Memphis AnalaneAs tells of a
German who settled in West Tennessee
in 1863 upon a capital of 5000 and good
health, hired a farm at $500 rent,
cleared $1,000 first year, bought the
farm for $4,000. and has how become
a wealthy landed proprietor
There is a well about 20 feet deep.
near Sudbury, VT, in which the ice
formed in the winter remains through
out the summer, Other wells which
have been dug in close proximity to
this one exhibit no such phenomenon,
and AVA are unable to explain the
mystery.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has
received a notification from the K
outors of the last wIll and testament
of Capt. Ralph S Fritz, of San Francis
CO, that said testator has left to the
United States the sum of go 600 in
trust to be applied towards ~cancelllng
the National debt
A gentleman in Pittsburgh, Pa, has
whiled away his leisure hours in train
ing four chickens TO draw a small wag-
on in which a rooster Is perched. They
come when called by name and when
harnessed, rattle over the lawn with
great speed, while the rooster looks
grave and digniied.
A man in Maine has invented a
machine for digging potatoes. II con-
sists Of a scoop made Of boiler iron,
is driven under the potatoes and
hits them with the earth upon q hop
per on which the earth is shaken off
and the potatoes thrown into the fur
row behind the machine.
Already the work of Americanizing
has commenced. 4 member of
the publishing house of G. P. Putnam
IS about sailing for Japan to establish a
branch of that concern for the intro
duction of American school books and
apparatus. This first step may seem an
absurd one, but we venture to prophecy
that it will count.
Much of the article known in this
country rs ivory, is merely part of the
shin bone of an OK. Mr.. Peter Cooper
contracts for the legs, between the
knee and the hoof, of oil the oxen
killed to supply the city of New York
meat, $4,000 weekly. and the
of the same are made up into
~psrasol handles. Mr.. Cooper has made
IN immense fortune in this way.
Near Lacon, H.. Mr.. Samuel Bickel
a rattlesnake snake four feet long
,oiled up in the grass. which he sought
capture by catching him by the tail,
put in the effort got severely bitten in
he hand. A neighbor fortunately had
/ supply of whiskey. Of which he drank
.hree quarts before feeling its effects.
His entire arm was badly swollen, and
.urned black to the Shoulder, but no
i'll effects followed.
The Court journal has discovered that
women may vote under the Reform
Bill which has lately become the law
If England. Its mode of reasoning is
his: The Act of 1850, for shortening
he language used in Acts of Parlia-
nent, provides that in all acts words
importing the masculine gender shall
,e deemed and taken 10 include fe-
males, &C., unless the contrary is ex-
provided. Now the new Re
orm Bill has not expressed the contra
y, and therefore women are safe to
,ote if they like.
Two women, Blanca Ovarita and Rose
about fifty and thirty-fve years
Id, were arrested at Lawrence, Massa- I
husetts, on Monday last for procuring
.Our under false ~pretensions. 1t was dis
that not only these but others 1
ave been engaged in the business of beg j
ing -four for the support Of ''three star :
ing children" and carrying it 10 ar es- /,
sblishment kept by TIA ians, where it was /
lacked into barrels and sold at market .
ates, making quite u lively business. !
Some days ago a man called upon sew ]
girls in Philadelphia who work on I
ewing machines of their own, and en- =
them TO come to his establishment
n Chestnut Street on the following day.
lie gave them his card and promised TO J
IN / for the machines early in the morn
rg. that no time might be lost Aecor v
ingly L man drove up to the doors and s
oOk away their machines. The girls !
ient TO the place designated, but found t
ssch individual in the neighborhOOd, c
nd have not heard Of their lost machines :
inee.
The West Bend lWis.) Post relates the
Of q little girl Eve years of age, who c
wandered away from home and was gone :
days before she was found. When y