Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-04-03


pondent affords some of the minutis
of the Fenian outbreak. A number o
soldiers have been inyalided, and man,
cavalry horses have died from the IA
tigues of the campaign. A difficult,
between British troops occurred neai
Cork. The men of the I'D infantry
Ia Scotch regiment) endorsed the Fe
mans, and came into collision with the
member of Lancer regiment, where
IN number of the latter were severly
handled.
The Legislature of Alabama has jus
created new country, and named il
'Dixie."
The locomotive now runs four hun
dred and fifty miles west of st Louis
and the track is being laid at the rate
of mile every day.
1t has been suggested that line o.
large hotels, for the exclusive use o.
American single gentlemen, be es
tablished from HaYre to Jerusalem.
George L. Stearns, proprietor of thai
spirited and fearless little paper The
Right Way, started at Boston, in No.
Vember, 1865, announces its discontin-
uance not because it has been q pecu-
MARY failure, but because the work tc
assist which it was established has been
fully accomplished.
Luther Calvin Saxton, who proved a
great sWindler in the character of an
agent of an extensive English publish.
ing house, and defrauded Mr.. Cham
piou, of Rochester, of large amount
of money, for which he was sent to
State prison, has been caught at the
same trick at Hartford, Conn. He was
driven out of town.
The editor of the Soldiers Friend of
New York has offered $500 in prizes
for left-hand penmanship by soldiers
who learned to write with the left hand
after having lost the use of their right
hand. The money will be distributed
in premiums of $50 each, under the
names of ten of the most prominent
naval and military officers.
The Fort Wayne (Ind) Gazette tells
of lad named Marshall, aged fifteen,
well known in that place, who lost
both speech and hearing sixteen
months ago, having those faculties re-
stored to him by 8 thorough drunk
which he INDUCED in experimentaIly
q week or two since. A Mr.. Loyed
finding him inebriated Piled him with
more liquor and then shook and rub
bed him vigorously. The result was a
sudden return of those possessions to
the unbounded delight of the boy.
A courtesan of Cincinnati recently
palmed off borrowed baby upon one
of the merchants Of that city as his
own, and under threats of exposure,
he having recently married, induced
him to give her considerable sums of
At last she demanded, as q
final settlement, that 500. 900 should be
settled upon herself. The merchant
couple Of days for consid-
Grafton, and in the meantime, through
the aid of a detectiYe, discovered the
secret of the baby.
A melancholy accident occurred near
Cincinnati on Sunday. Mrs. Brane,
wife of a merchant now absent in
Memphis, while on a visit to her faith
II at Mount Pleasant observed Sher
,hild, Ella, who was totally blind, fall
through a trap door into q cistern.-l
The mother plunged in, her little son |
n her arms, and, it is supposed, must |
rave injured herself in her descent as
he never rose to the surface. When |
escued, the lives of all had fed, the
mother still holding her babe in her
rms with the grasp of vice.
The Methodist Church of Ports
mouth, Ohio, was destroyed by FIRE on
sunday night. The building was val
ed at $4,000.
The Senate yesterday, after consid-
rable discussion, confirmed Col. Peter
}. Sullivan, formerly of the Forty
ighth Ohio, as Minister to Bogota.
Statistics show that during the past
ear, nearly FIVE hundred persons have
cen burned to death by the explosion
{ kerosene lamps, and that the de-
truction of property amounts to more
nan $4,000 900.