Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-05-15
NEWS lTEMs.

A1SAD "a
II was resolved not to nominate any o
their race for political offices.
During the present year 4O,327 EN-.
igrants have landed at New York, be
ing not quite 1000 less than the mum
Der arriving during the corresponding
period last year.
The House Judiciary Investigating
Committee which me yesterday, to
gather evidence to impeach the Pres
ident, has adjourned without transact
ing any business.
A number of the leading men of the
Northwestern States are corresponding
with a view of securing the nomination
of Secretary Stanton for the next Pres.
ident.
A large number of colored persons,
principally women, assembled at Mont
gomery, Alabama, on Tuesday, and
proceeded TO the National cemetery,
where they decorated the graves OF
Union soldiers. This was intended as
an ovation to the nation, and as an off
set to the decoration of the graves. of
rebels by Southern ladies. The pro-
cession was large and orderly.
A horse race is to lake place in Cuba
with a stake of $4,000 in gold.
A keg of powder exploded neal Fort
Lee.yesterdsy, blowing 8 man named
McCalley fifty feet into the air and
landing" him in the river. He swan
ashore and is still living.
By the acquisition of Russian Amer
lea the United States flag has been ad-
vanced to within thirty-six miles of
Asia, and the area of the Republic in
creased from 2,026, JOG square miles to
3,S30,0OO.
Stephen Calhoun Smith, formerly
one of Hampton's rebel legion, was
SEM to Castle Pinckney, in Charleston
harbor, for mutilating the American
flag, at the recent parade of the fire
men.
Awealthy horse trader. named Eckes
committed suicide in st. Louis last
week, through remorse at having squan-
dered a large sum of money upon abed-
izened harlot, who first fascinated and
then disgustedihim.
John Durham, a shoemaker, was in
stantly killed on Tuesday, at GetchelPs
Corner, Maine, by a base ball player
Durham, with a knife in his hand, was
watching q game of base ball, when
one of the players ran against him ac-
ci~dentally, driving the knife into his
heart.
Petitions are being circulatedin Tex
as praying the general government to
divide the State in two parts, n to be
ca lied the "Western State of Texas"
The reason alleged is the loyalty of the
population Of the proposed new State,
and the prepond erancs of secessionists
in the other portion:
The Albany Post says: "Afew months
since Vanderbilt played q corner on
Brother Drew, costing the latter nearly
q million of dollars. 1t is now said
that Brother Drew has Vanderbilt in
q corner in such 8 FIX that it will cost
him three millions of dollars to get
back to the place of beginning.
Mrs. Nancy Rotch, aged 90 years,
widow of the man who owned the ship
which brought the tea which the Bos-
tonians threw overheard in l773, died
in Providence the other day.
The Herald's special says that the
rumor is yet current that Postmaster
General Randall has rendered his res
ignation.
Gen. Wilcox, commanding at Lynch
burgh, Va, has ordered c. Rives Poll
ard not to deliver his lecture there on
the Southern chivalry.
One thousand five hundred and
twenty enigrants passed through Co.
lumbus last week, of whom four hun
dred and fourteen will remain in. Ohio
They were mostly youTn Germans.
The Consul at ~Lambsyoque, Peru,
reports the discovery of silk plant in
that neighborhood. growing wild, and
yielding a fabric finer and stronger than
that of the silk worm.
At a FIRE which occurred on the 7th
inst, a stable on Tw~enty-sixth street,
New York, was destroyed and thirty
five horses were suffocated to death.
The Old and New Schools into which
the Presbyterian church has been di-
Vided, after a weeks session in New
York, have agreed upon terms of re-
union.
The Kansas City Journal says that
thirty outlaws have been hanged by
the vigilance committees in johnson
and Pettis counties, during the winter
and spring.
General Hooker has been granted
leave of absence for one year from the
first of June, owing to i'll health. Gen.
John C. Robinson succeeds him in COM
mand of the Department of the Lakes.
Pollard, of Richmond, having ap-
pealed to Gen Schofeld against the Or
der of Gen. Wilcox, prohibiting him
from delivering his lecture on the
"Chivslry of the South" Gen. Scho-
field has sustained the order.
The Treasurer of the Pacific Railroad
has received $3.50, 900 United States
bonds from the Government. in pay
ment of the subsidy of $4,000 per