Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-09-02
Town and County.
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Gov. Tod speaks at Vienna next
Tuesday.
Napoleon Young, the walkist, visited
our town last week.
Our readers will note change of tune
on the main line of the A. & G.. w. R.'y.
The Trumbull County Fair will be
held IN Warren, Sept. 16, Il and Is.
The A. s. G. W. R. R., will not sell
half fare tickets to the State Fair.
The County Commissioners meet in
regular session next Monday.
This locality enjoyed the luxury of
two refreshing showers of rain last week.
Rev. ]. w Lanphear will preach
next Sunday morning and evening at the
Disciple Church, in this place.
The Ohio State Fair will be held this
year at Toledo, from The 2lst to the 18th
of Sept
The Orwell Union meeting, last Fri
dry was a ''buster, 5000 of the incor-
rupt:ble on the ground.
Long coal trains, bearing hundreds of
tons to the lake, now daily pass over the
Mahoning road, showing that the long and
costly strike of the miners has practically
ended
Colonel James Nash. OF Garfield, was
in town on Monday. He reports favora-
bly, on the political situsstiOn in MshO-
ming.
Mr.. Truman Reeves, formerly . resi-
dent, of Warren, has been nominated BY
the Republicans of Ashtabula county, for
the Office of Recorder.
Gov. Tod viii positively speak at
Niles, at the Union Meeting, on Saturday
afternoon next. Gen. Garfield will also
speak at tie same meeting.
The chances for fall feed are poor.
The season has advanced so far, and the
pasturage been reduced SO low, that the
resuscitation Of the latter is hopeless this
fall.
"A heavy rain storm, attended with
much lightning and thunder, swept over
this place, on Monday evening last. The
rain was the heaviest that has fallen this
summer.
-sSelin" writes us from Stark County,
where he is now negotiating, hut finds
that his dutch education was sadly neg
lected bv his Yankee schoolmaster. Let
ter mex week.
The Garfield Herald says that Mr.
Jonathan Warner has struck 8 four feet
vein of coal, at 800 feet depth, OF the farm
of Jonas Naf, in Ausiintown. Coal said
to be of good quality.
Mr.. A. j. Jewell, formerly of this
place, has established himself In the Boot
and Shoe business at Pennington. Mr.. j.
can make good fits, especially for those
troubled with corns and bunions.
On Saturday night last, while the
Grant Boys in Blue were drilling, they
were hooted at by some of the opposition,
who were undoubtedly labOring under the
effects of the 'sGrecian Bend"
The Union people of Vienna are up
and dressed for the fight. Next Tuesday
they are going to have a rousing meeting
IN the grove near the center. Tod and
Garfield both sure to be there.
"A Grant Club organized in Vienna,
August 29, when the following officers
were elected: Robert Stranahsn, Presi-
dent. r. J. Stewart, Vice President. j.
NJ. Lyon. Secretary. VIM. A. Clark,
Treasurer.
Nh. G. o. Griswold, of this place, has
taken in at his oil mill forty thousand
bushels of fax seed this season, from wag-
ons, the price per bushel averaging S2,35,
requiring a disbursement of ninety four
thousand dollars among our farmers.
The work of paving the pike or
North Main Street, is nearly completed.
In about a week a splendid ~thoroughSsrs,
about two thirds of a mile in length, ex-
tending from che lower to the upper de-
pot, will be open. making q very nice
drive.
Mr.. D. P. Hayden, of Bazekts, has
raised the tsllest corn this season, we re-
member having ever seen. He left two
stalks at our Office yesterday, as samples.
One measures twelve feet and three inches.
Both stalks have good ears of corn. 1t is
doubtful if these specimens can be equaled.
or beaten in the county. 1t was raised on
oak upland.
During the year ending August 81,
1868, there were ffty-four final natursliza-
ton papers issued by the Probate Court of
this county. The several n~ationalities
were represented IS follows: Wales 10,
Germany 9, ireland Is; England Z, Scotch
Canada l. In August 26 persons de-
caared their intentions. and final papers
wers issued to 20 who had not attained
their 18th gear.
We were told of a man who tried 10
turn potato bugs to some Pecuniary advan-
tage, by capturing about q half bushel of
them and bringing them to town in a sack.
where he expected to sell them at the drug
stores, or to some of the doctors, whom he
had been informed were buying them at q
big price per quart, to be used instead of
flies for bistering. He failed to
find q purchaser. That man had been
f'deceiv-ed and likewise taken in" by some
iokist