Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-12-30
Political and General News Of the
Week.

L. liz -ASAAs - -
be Secretary of the interior unde
Grants administration.
Twenty-seven thousand cigars weT
seized on the steamer Cuba, from Ha
vana, for violation of the revenue law
at Baltimore last Thursday.
A German of ST. Louis wrote a fare
well letter of one hundred and forty
four pages of brown tissue paper anC
then committed suicide.
Bonner says that so long as Dexte
remains the fastest horse in the coun'
try, there is not money enough il
Wall street to buy him.
The Cleveland and Toledo ant
Lake Shore Railroads have declared
dividend of A per cent, making thu
total dividend for the year s per cent
ThurIow Weed is now wholly
withdrawn from politics, his physi'
clan not permitting him to read q
newspaper He has left fOrthe South
TO remain the winter through.
Mrs. Harrington of Stark county,
Ohio, was last week taken to the IN
sane asylum at Dayton by her daugh-
ter, who upon arrival, was also dis
covered to be insane.
On Friday, during the Twitchell
murder trial in Philadelphia, a fellow
stood in front of the court house offer
ing to bet two to one that Twitchell
would not be hung.
Two and a half days staging is the
only and trifiing gap now dividing
the two great railroads which tap the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans. A few
months, and the iron rails will span
the continent.
The War department has issued or
ders for department commanders to
furnish the names of all officers inca
pacitated for duty by reason, among
other things, of habitual intemper-
anee or regular attendance on gamb-
ling places.
The coiored men of iowa have
issued a call for a State Convention to
lee held on the 31st of December at
A~Tuscatine, at which delegates are to
be selected to attend the National
Convention of cOlored men on the
18th of January,
On Christmas night the family of
JSl1lA oLCDOAldA0y III hAAGAlCA DlAlds
went to sleep in a room with a-cOal
fire in q stove. Gas escaped into the
rooms and the whole family were sufo-
Gated. One daughter is dead, and
anothernot expected to recover.
The news from Cuba is as unsatis-
factory as ever. Trade is languishing,
and credit is at a low ebb. All desire
a cessation of hostilities, especially
the royalists. Balmazeda has had
two telegraph operators shot for acting
in the interests of the insurgents.
A good part of the forthcoming
report of special Revenue Commits
sioner wells, being put into type,
relates to the tariff. and decided
ground is taken against anything more
than what is called tariff for revenue
purposes.
In Carol County, Ind, on Thurs
day last, a special election for State
Representatives, resulted in the
election of ~Fairchilds, Republican, by
seventy-four majority, the election in
October being a tie.
a large mass of papers from the
State Department, relating to Para
quay matters, will be laid before
Congress early next month. They
viii do something to help the public
to an understanding of the YeXed
question at issue between Lopez and
ex-Minister WashbuTn.
It is said that Vanderbilt has made
from five to six millions of dollars out
of his Central corner. Jay Gould,
and the other members of the Erie
clique, are reported TO have realized
so much on their Central, also on
their Rock Island and Pacific Mail,
that they have a large amount of
cash on hand, quite as much as Van
derbilt and his colleagues.
On Monday night a young man
named Powell went into a saloon in
Madison, Darke county, and 500 af-
terward got into Il quarrel with some
Irishmen who were drinking. Du-
ring the melee Powell drew a revol-
yer and fired three shots at the party,
the third shot striking an Irishman
named VIM. Montgomery, III the
bowels. The wounded man died in
about half an hour. Powell was ar
rested.
Frank Reno alone knew of the
place where was deposited $50 1000, the
proceeds of his many robberies. His
sister visited him some days before he
was murdered and tried to induce
him to tell where this hoard was con-
cealed, but he refused, telling her that
if he could not live to enjoy no one
else should. The secret died with
him.
The report of General Walcutt, |
Warden of the Ohio Penitentiary, for
the past fiscal year, will show that
that institution has again been q
source of revenue to the State. The
receipts for the year were SI71,037 40.
The expenditures were as follows;
General expenses, S141, 794 45; for en-
largement andrepairs, sd, 953 81. To-
tai, SI63, 7S4 06. The excess O~freceipts |
is S7,2S9 40.
The safe in the County Auditors
of ten thousand dollars, eight thOus-
and dollars in currency and the bal
ance in seven-thirty bonds. The Au-
ditor knew nothing of the robbery IN
til he received a drop letter through
the p~ostoffice containing some cou-
pons which had been cut from the
bonds. This led him to make an in
vestigation, which disclosed the rob-
berry.
IT is learned that the Northern and
Southern Pacific Railroads are organ
izing for q determined effort with
Congress very soon after its reassem-
bling. Parties interested say they
fear Grant viii be against then when
he gets into the White House, and, !
therefore, they think it advisable to
make their fight during Mr.. John
sons term of office. The Northern
line scheme appears TO be stronger
than the other. Grant now SAYS to all
the Government ought not to subsi-
die any more railways till it has
done something toward paying Off
the national debt.
Some of the cx-rebeI Judges in
Virginia are trying to force the pay
ment of portions of the rebel war
debt. The LyRchburg Court of APP
peals has just decided that the cities
of Danyille and Lynchburg are liable
for small notes Issued during the
Rebellion for war purposes. The
Richmond City Council recently I'M
dertook to assume debts of this char
acter but failed, and the question has
been taken into Court there. Bankers