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

A Nashville special sayo that the Re-
publicans estimate that the majority
for Brownlow for Governor, over Eth
eridge, viii be twenty thousand.
d. Robins, q wealthy farmer in the
town of Salem, Wis, hung himself on
Wednesday night in g fit of insanity.
A school teacher in Brooklyn, named
William Knighton. and said to have
three wives living, died on Saturday
under suspicious circumstances. 1t is
supposed from the effect of poison
An investigation is being made.
Some sharp practice is reported from
the west. An agent of the U. S. Ex-
press Co. at Weston, Mo-, named John
w. Matthews absconded last week with
$4,000 belonging to the Express Co.
Matthews vas principal of q grocery
firm which made an assignment about
a month ago.
A month ago Rufus Lord, theVictim
of the celebrated Lord bond robbery.
received from an unknown source,
$I,400, 900 of stolen bonds, sent through
the firm of James King & Sons, from
the London bankers, Barring Brothers,
who received them from the guilty
party. Who that party is remains q
secret with the english lawyer.
Gen. Miles, assistant commissioner
of :he Freedmen's Bureau in South
Carolina, reports that widows and or
phans of dead confederate soldiers, to
the number of thousands, : living
upon precious charity. There is no
employment for them, and hundreds
have undertaken 6eld-work to support
life, but exposure to the hot sun breaks
down their constitutions. The Bureau
is willing to afford transportation to
these poor creatures if employment
could be found for them in our cas-
tern towns and cities.
The rent of the late New York dry
goods house which failed is said to have
been $1,000 per week and the Brook
Ign Union adds that it Is nc wonder it
failed.
There is q great deficiency of lime
in the soil Of Oregon. The dentists
are frequently called on to fill teeth Of
children six and eight years of age
The effect on the entire bone system
must be equally m ischievous, though
less manifest.
At Rome, Georgia, last Tuesday, q
man named Hinton stabbed his en-
ployer, Major Thomas Aver, ~inflicting
a severe, but it is thought, not fatal
wound. Hinton alleges that Aver had
insulted his wife.
The Des Moines Register says: "As
indicated by the scattering returns re-
ceived we may safely say that there
T oyer q million people in Iowa to-
day."
At Dayton, on Sunday morning,
about 2 o'clock, Robert Boyden, a
brakeman on the Atlantic and Great
Western Railway, wasrun over and cut
in two by q train. 1t is not known
how he got in the way of the train,
which the hands were engaged in ma
king up at the time.
1t is said that the surfaceindicationS
in Brown county. Indiana, are decided
ly IN favor Of extensive gold mines
Boys and girls are now making from
two to FIVE dollars q day psnning along
the streams of that county, from which
it is presumed there are leads toexten-
sive mines.
Lemuel G. Perry, 3 student of Brown
University, died at Providence, r. l.,
last week, of an abcess brought on by
excessive exercise at the time Of the
University match game of ball between
the students of Harvard and Brown,
some two weeks since, in which he en-
gagged with great ardor. He had been
. remarkably healthy and vigorous
young man, but after the day when he
engaged in this game, he 1.-THE house
more.