Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-09-02
News OF Ihe Week.
Maine election, Sept. IA.

Maine election, Sept. II.
Heavy rains are prevailing in Georgia,
damaging the cotton crop.
A slight earthquake shook up San Fran
cisco, one day last week.
The Crawford Co., Pa, fair, comes off
at Meadville, Oct. 6, Z, s and 9.
The Seymour party like a frog, grows
more bobtailed as it grows older.
Frank Blair can go longer without
water than any man in Missouri.
The Lake County fair will be held at
gainesville, Sept. 80, and Oct. l and 2.
Blair Is going to stump Ohio. And
Ohio is going to stump Blair-next
November.
At a great railway accident near Aber-
gele, in Wales, thirty-two persons were
burned to death.
John Morrissey, Democratic Member of
Congress, is a shrewd gambler. He bets
on the election of Grant.
Hon. james Ashley has been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans of the
Toledo district.
The Mercer County, Pa fair will be
held Sept l6, II and IS, at Stoneboro, on
the jamestown and Franklin K. r.
The Vermont State election come off
yesterday. Of course it will be true to its
inlexible RepublIcanism.
The California State election comes of
next Tuesday. The Republicans hope to
carry it, but are not sanguine.
General Schenek has been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans of the
Third District. Vallsndigham is his cp.
ponent-
A Lake County peach grower, who owns
q farm of seven acres of land, sold his
peach crop, in the orchard this year, for
81, 200.
A woman named Donovan, was fourd
dead in her doorway, IN Rsvenna, last
week. Cause, apoplexJ, induced BY con-
tinued ~intoxication.
The ODD annual fair of the Ashtabula
Agricultural Society, will be held at JEFF.
f~ersOn, Sept. Is, 16 and II.
A Mrs. Cole, of Perry Township Lake
County, committed suicide by hanging, q
week ago last Friday. She had been in
Ill health.
A boy died of paralysis, in New York
State, recently, caused by applying his ear
to q railroad track, while other boys
pounded the iron with stones.
Gov. Hayes, of this State, has appointed
a board of commissioners authorized 10
prosecute persons who shall violate the
law to prevent the spreading of contagious
diseases among horses, cattle and stock.
The past sixty days, in New York, have
been prolific in crime-eleven murders,
sixty-two murderous assaults, twenty sui
cides, besides smaller crimes by the
thousand.
A Republican mass meeting was held in
Richmond, Va, on he 25th. A process
sion of 1000 colored men and so whites,
marched through the city, with music
and flags. On their banners were the
mottoes-"Grant and Pesce-or Blair and
War"
Nearly every day brings reports of
Indian murders and outrages on i%noffen-
sIve white settlers in the west, especially
in Colorado.
On Sunday, August 8, 1868, Frank
Blair, Democratic candidate for Vice
President, was at Hamburg. Iowa, on his
way TO the mountains. He got so drunk
that NO men had to carry him OF 10 bed
10 hide him from the crowd.
Fenian assassins have been attempting
the life of Queen Victoria, in 3 late tour
made by her through Switzerland. If
the object is to render the name of Fenian
odions throughout the civilized world, the
murder of Victoria will surely accomplish
that M
Gen. Rosecrans has returned from his
late visit at the Virginia Sulphur Springs,
and denies that he went there for the pur-
pose of devising any political plans, or
consulting with Lee, Beuregsrd, Stevens,
and others on political questions, as the
papers had reported. Il turns out how
ever that he went not officially, but on
his personal account and responsibility to
learn the views and feelings of leading
Confederates en- the situation, and says he
was much pleased with their tone and
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