Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-05-08


thousands OF this community.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis has finally made up
his mind to apply for a pardon, like any
other rebel.
1t is said that Miss Anna Dickinson, at
Toledo, stepped from the platform to the
pulpit and preached q capital sermon.
The 90 inch gun last made at Pittsburgh,
was successfully tested on the 29th, with
100 ID. charges of powder and half ton
balls.
A Colored Educational Convention met
ST Macon, Ga, yesterday, with s full
attendance. The day was occupied with
preliminary business.
General Stedman, Revenue Collector st
New Orleans, has suspended the operations
Of sll the distilleries in his district-over
sixty in number.
A report reaches US that MAMMALIAN
has suffered his last defeat. Queretare be-
ing taken, his troops routed and himself g
fugitive. If not true, it is very plausible.
In some counties in Iowa, the scarcity
Of wheat for seed snd -four is so great that
the Supervisors propose 20 pledge the
county credit in order TO procure supplies.
The new street car arrangement went
into operation at Richmond yesterday.
Very few negroes avEiled themselves of it,
but many 'unreeonstructed" whites re-
Trained from riding.
The Democratic opposition to the new
Metropolitan Police bill, ct Columbus, has
culminsted in legal proceedings, the Sber-
if Of Franklin serving the papers on the
Board, on the S0th.
An oil refner st Pittsburgh hes invent
ed q new process of refining oil by steam.
The operation is said to be speedy, eco
nomiesl, and prevents the possibility of
accidents by fire.
The resumption of work in the Pitts
burgh bsr-mills viii, says the Commercial,
be only tempOrary-for q few weeks only
at the farthest, and none of them will be
run to more than half their capacity.
c. C. Wetmore, apioneer protector and
constructor of she Oil Greek Railway, at
tended at the station In Warren, Pa, to
receive Schuyler Colfax on the Both, when
his team of spirited horses ran away with
him and, being thrown on. of the buggy,
he was instantly killed. This mealan-
choly occurrence created a profound SEN
sGtion.
The eight hour system was inaugurated
GtSt. Louis, May LIST, by a demonstration
Of the Torking-men. In Illinois, the law
also took effect on same day. Governor
Geary, of Pennsylvania, "pocketed" a
similar bill which had passed the Legisla-
ture of that State, and the new Governor
of Connecticut-English-Elso advocates
the principle in his inaugural message.
The Treasury Department has received
information that the Canadian custom
house officers, the Canadian mercantile
community, and a number of blockade
runner gentry of England are all engaged
in aiding and abetting the Wholesale In
PRODUCTION of Struggled articles into the
United States. The utmost vigilance on
the part of our officials does not suffice to
foil their plans-goods free of duty are
continually finding their way in.
The foreign mails contain an account of
the closing of the North German Parlia-
ment, together with the Kings speech on
the occasion. The speechi is rendered very
imperfect by the wires, but the declara-
ton made by so august a parsonage that
no special military measures have been
adopted and no unusual demands made
upon the fre-arm factories, rather con-
hicts with the sensational reports that
have reached US lately over the Cable
At the conclusion Of the royal speech,
Count Bismark declared the session closed,
amid three cheers for the King.