Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-04-28
The CHRONICLE.
General Notes

General Notes.
Boston received 1856, 1893 for customs
last week.
We are promised a small maple
sugar crop this year.
Seventy-twO cotton and woOllen
mills are in course Of erection in
Georgia.
Pierre Soule, of Louisiana, is to be
placed in the Insane Asylum at Lex
ington, Ky.
The wolves have hunted deer in
large numbers out of the forests of
Canada into Vermont.
The following rules are given for
veloeipedists: Straddle, paddle, ske-
daddle.
DIR. Landarie, q well known citizen
Of San Antonio, Texas, recently COM
mitted suicide by hanging.
The Pennsylvania Historical Socie-
ty possesses a library of Is, 900 volumes
andS5, OOOpamphlets and manuscripts.
Our war cost almost exactly one-half
OF the aggregate expense of all the
wars of the world between 1884 and
1865.
A Mr.. Scalf, residing in Elkhart
county, Ind, is one hundred and five
years old. His eldest living son is
seventy.
A Mississippi town has begun an
extensive raid on prOfane and
has secured numerous convictions for
the offence.
On the 4th inst. a box containing
the body of a man cut into small nie7
ees was found in the river near st Jo-
seph, Mo.
A photograph of the first colored
voter in Minnesota has been taken,
framed and presented to the State
Historical Society.
From present indications. saws the
Osceola Banner, weWinhayeoneof the
most favorable crop seasons known to
Florida for many years.
Governor Palmer, Of Illinois. has
vetoed about fifty Of the 1000 bills
passed by the Legislature, and has
sent back about $50 more for amend
ment.
1t is stated as a singular fact that not
one-tenth of those who die and leave
property in Indiana leave a will. The
law makes for them better wills than
they would be apt to make for them
selves.
The Legislature of Illinois has PASS
ed a law giving married women the
right to Use and possess their own
earnings, and TO sue for the same in.
their owl name, free from the inter-
ference of u husband or his creditors.
In the Michigan State Prison. at
Jackson, during 1868, twenty-seven
convicts were punished with whips.
thirty-four with a paddle, fOrty-eight
by being put in a dark cell, and six by
being placed on bread and water diet,
On Saturday night the village. at
Hancock, Mich, was almost complete.
lydestroyed by fire. Six entire blocks,
containing ITO occupied dwellings and,
a number OF barns, were destroyed,
and over 200 families are left house
less. The loss is estimated at 500, 900.
An individual from Boston, in a fit
of remOrse, recently returned, anOny-
mously, two $500 United States bonds
TO the Treasury as a contribution to
allay the pangs of conscience. Seere-
tary Boutwell, sold the bonds for 81, us
and credited conscience with that
amount.
In the Maeoupin county Nllinois)
Circuit Court, in the case of the eleven
persons under indictment for lynehing
Engleman, the effort to obtain a Jury
was unsuccessful-every man sum-
mOned, several hundred, having ex-
pressed an opinion. The case has
been continued until next term.
An amendment was offered in the
Massachusetts House OF Represents
tives on Monday, to the State eonsti-
tuition, which would make the only
qualification for suffrage, for male
citizens, twenty-One years old, resi-
deHee in the State one year, and in the
town OF city three months prior to the
election when he desires to vote.
There is now residing in Mr. Chevis,
at Barry, Clay county, Mo-, an
old lady who, when young, was adop-
ted by the original stock of the Hues
in Kentucky. She isnOw with
Mr.. Chevis, a branch of the same fami-
~, continuing with them through
several successive generations, until
she has finally attained the extraordi-
nary age of l10 years. Her name is
Frances M0Carty,