Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-02-26
News.

dist Episcopal Church, at Orwell, Ashta-
bula County. lately closed with very
satisfactory results.
There were issued from the Office of
the Probate Judge of Summit County,
during the year 1867, 399 marriage
licenses.
Mr.. Robert Isbell, of Freedom, Port
age County, iSreported as having shot a
white owl not long since, which measured
five feet from tip 10 tip of the wings.
An interesting revival has been in
progress in Ashtabula, in the Methodist
Church, and, according to the Telegraph.
a large accession has been made to the
church within a few weeks past.
The Garfield Union has the following
mysterious item in lis last issue: "Poets
say little feet are pretty and enchanting"
our village ladies footed all the bills at
the Friday evening leap-year party.
"A bold but f~ruitless succession of
burglaries we're recently perpetrated in
R~avenna, three business establishments
being entered N a single night, from
which the robbers gathered together the
sum Of S2,35 as a reward for their daring.
"A large revival has been in progress
in several of the churches in Youngstown
during the winter, and especially in the
Methodist church. Rev. John Peate, has
been laboring faithfully in the good work,
and about one hundred new converts are
the results of his labor.
"A singular accident befel Mr.. Edward
Wiswen, of Widsor, Ashtabula County,
a short time since, as he was driving his
horse over the bridge across Phelps Creek,
near SINNERS Mills, when the animal
took fright and jumped over the railing OF
the bridge, falling a distance of forty or
fifty feet, 10 the ice below, without break
ing a bone, or 10 appearances i%njuring the
animal seriously.
"A correspondent writing the Mahon
ing Register from CoitsYille, in that coun
ty, under date of the 18Th inst, says thai
a child of Mr.. James Armitage, some six
teen or eighteen months old, fell into a
pan of boiling hot water which had been
set on the floor while its mother was scrub
bling. The mother was but a few feet
frem it and when she turned around it was
sitting in the water without making any
effort to rise or making ado whatever.
The child lived until the next day.
Great religious interest prevails in
Rsvenna. The Democrat says that upon
Sabbath evening a very solemn and i'm
pressive ceremony took place after the
sermon, hat of administering the rite Of
baptism to t~wenty-nine new converts, BY
the pastor. Such a scene, one so calcula-
ted 10 fill the minds of all with respect for
and interest in the sacred rite, has been
rarely witnessed. Since the close of the
quarterly meeting on the I'd inst, there
have been fifteen additions to the church,
making the entire number of additions on
probation Go, and the conversions since
the special meetings began something over
one hundred.
The Garfield Herald tells of a sleigh
ride by the young people of that place, one
night last week, in which there were two
loads. Concluding to have a race,
the drivers whipped up their teams and in
a moment they were flying along the road
at a fearful rate; and the next momen t
one sled-load was in the snow, while the
team came pelI-melr upon them. No
one was hurt to any extent, and they come !
to the conclusion that it was best toAmake
haste more slowly.
The Conneaut Reporter says, Deacon
Daniel Maltbie and wife, long among the {
pillars of the Congregational Church at
SaybroOk, Ashtabula County, celebrated
their golden wedding on the LIST inst. Six
Maltbies were of the company. Their
Twelve ehildren-six sons and six daugh- !
5ers-are all married, and, with their 9
and husbands and the sixteen grand
children, were all present-coming from =
homes scattered from Connecticut to Iowa.
of them, with \ exception, are sing
ers, and all over eight years of age are !
Christians. t
On Tuesday avening, 18th inst, says i
he Salem Republican, Mrs. B. Copeland,
IF ~Columbiana, after lighting a cAhdle and 9
it upon a table, went out of the =
house for a bucket of coal, and during her ? ?
absence her youngest child, aged about :
eighteen months, got upon the table where !
he candle was, and its clothes caught fire; :
Mrs. G. hearing the cries of the child, ran (
the house, found her child completely -
,nveloped in flames. The child was so
'adly burned that It died in a few hours =
forward.