Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-07-31
NEWS Of THE WEEK.

A negro is reported to have been kille,
at Nashville. BE shouted for Brownlow
at a conservative meeting, and was there
upon shot. The prompt interference o
the police prevented the affair from ter
minating in ariot.
The following Congressman have prom
ised TO take a part in the political cam
paign in Ohio Senators Wilson and Pat
%terson, of NV Hampshire; Representa-
tives Orth, Logan, Kelley. Paine, Cullom
Window, Broomal and Sehofeld.
A Connecticut lawyer obtained thre.
divorces for the same woman last year.
A new factory in Lebanon, n. H, hal
been purchased by the American Patent
Sponge Company for $4,000. The com
pany reduces sPOnges to polp to be used
instead Of hair IN mattresses and general
upholstery. It'll cheaper and said to be
better than curled hair.
Mr.. ALERT Lyford, of Waterford, Ne.
was SO severely clicked by 3 horse that ii
was necessary 20 amputate the leg near
the middle Of tn, thigh. Mr.. Lyford had
within a few years suffered twice an am.
putation of the lame leg-once near the
ankle and again just below the knee. He
wore a cork leg at the time of the acci
dent.
In Hartford, Connecticut, n man nam
ed Davenport, living in East Holliston,
Mass, was taken from his house by some
dozen men in Disguise, conveyed to q qui-
ct place about two miles distant, and there
received Il liberal supply of :ar and feath
ers. Domestic hfelicIties are mixed up
in the affair.
A Justice of the Peace of Newark, n.
j., divorced a couple on Tuesday, and
later in the day married each party to a
new mate, 10 th,t the man has now two
wives and the woman two husbands,
though they do not understand it. The
Intelligent justice supposed that as he
had the power to marry he possessed the
power to unmsrEy.
A man in Little Compton, Mass, by
the name of Richard Slocum, belonging
TO Newport, cut himself shoekingIy q few
days since. he wss carrying a scyths on
his. shoulder when he stumbled, which
brought the scythe in contact with his
thighs, cutting q cash eight inches In
length and very deep.
Alta recent fire in Evansville, Ind,
which destroyed q factory belonging to
Mr.. Magnennls, that gentleman went in
the building to a VI his son, who had
been cut of from all means Of escape by
flames. He succeeded in reaching the
boy, helped him 70 8 window, pushed him
out and saved him, but before he succeed
in making his own exit. became so ex-I
hsusted that he isnk back into the raging
furnace beneath and persisted.
A few days since, u man, in good cir
substances, in or near 0lnsy, Illinois, had
lis little daughter, twelve or fourteen years
If age, with him hoeing corn all Of the
orenoon, and when he returned TO the
house he ordered her to get his dinner
While he laid down to rest. The:child said
l am too ured." Her father
gain ordered her to get his dinner
n return she informed, HIM that .here was
in the house for ner to prepare
lie then repeated the order in o more per-
mptory tone, v~hereupon the child left
he front room. A lew minutes later =
woman came in and search
vas made for the child, who, after q little
lme, wa found under q stairway, hung
y the neck.
NEW FIFTEEN CEST fractional CUR.
meet the demands of the pub
ie there will be issued from the Treasury
in n few weeks an additional
'aetiOnal note Of the denomination of If
zen cents. The principal embellishments
n the face of this note are an engraved
keness OF General Grant on the right
and, and opposite, on the left of the note,
likeness of Lieutenant General Sherman.
he back of the note, like all other late
sues of government money, vii be green,
ith the figure fifteen on each side of the
ote. The bronze figures which have
lus far been placed upon the various de.
Of the United States curren-
will be omitted on this new issue, and
" safety, q peculiar kind of paper will be
Instituted.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered
sermon in Plymoth Church, Brook
n, last evening on "The Nobility of
in which he said that more
lblic men of eminence had started
ON the business Of type setting than /,
robably any other occupation. ]
Colonel Merriwether and some 9TH
gentlemen ut the Jeffersonville Tin
lanai Penitentiary, the other day, {,
ere experimenting with an electric
The Colonel took 9 pretty
shock, which paralyzedh ii right
m, and it had to be rubbed at inter !.
lis for sixty hours before he was suff {
emily at ease to sleep. I
Henry Hartung, aged seventeen, I
wing in New York, becoming infatua- :
d with a little girl aged sixteen, and !
70 versa, married and commenced !
house, when the mother of the t
Dom took forcible possession of and !
FRIED him off. The bereaved wife ap- :
led to Justice Hogan for protection, t
i'd was promised that her husband
not be interfered with. 4
Robert Henry Hendershot, "the drum t
er boy of the Rappahannock," now Z
lids q position as conductor on the Union y
acifc Railroad. His young wife, with
hom he lately eloped from Poughkeep- =
J, is in Omaha, and has made quite 8 (
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