Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-02-17

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on the 9th inst, of apoplexy, aged
fifty-four.
Hartford companies received S.
OOO, 900, last year, for fire insurance
premiums alone.
DR.. Siekel, the Partisan oeeulist,
willed his corpse to science, and ior-
bade funeral
Some of "Oliver Optics" young
friends in Maine sent him present
Of black bear.
A Californian has built an "agri-
cultural locomotive" that runs thirty
nine plOws at once.
In Switzerland, one who kills an
other is liable for the debts of the
murdered man.
The Germans are said to be the
coming power in New York city, as
they Outnumber the Irish.
George N. Lee, a distinguished
LAWYER of Cincinnati, was sent to the
LOngview Lunatie Asylum, on the
9th inst, insane.
Cedarville prohibits the sale Of ale,
beer and porter within its corporate
limits, and Xenia held a public meet
ing on Monday, Sth inst, TO discuss
the same proposition.
unknown peddler was murdered
in McNair county, Tenn, a few days
since, by q boy named Quill, only
fourteen years old. The boy was ar
rested and confessed his guilt
The Maine House of Representa-
tives have refused, by a majority OF
four, TO pass an act allowing parties to
fix rate of interest they might agree
upon as legal rate.
The Second Universalist parish Of
Portland, Me-, has extended a unani-
nous call to a woman, Mrs. P. A.
Hannaford, of bingham, Mass, to
become its pastor.
1t is said that most of the thousand
and one stories of Rossini told since
his death, may be found in old biog-
raphies of Beethoven and other illus
trious composers.
A cigar seven feet long, and weigh
ing thirty pounds, has been made at
shop in New Haven. 1t is of leaf to-
baeco, and is about a foot in circum-
ference.
A lady in New York offers TO in
vest $4,000 as the nucleus Of fund
for providing for the illegitimate in
nOeents who are now generally mur
dered in that city.
The President has pardoned Carlo
Latriga and Francis Martinetti, who
were sentenced in 1866 to serve fifteen
years in the penitentiaFy at Frank
fort, KY, for counterfeiting United
States currency.
The Empress Eugene still looks
handsome at a distance, butwhen you
come near you discover that her face
is thiekly powdered, and painted un-
der the eyes, and her eyebrows pen
ciled.
The Assessors books show that the
aggregate sales of Claflin & Co., New
York, for 1868, were S43, ,OOO, 900, and
those of A. T. Stewart $50, ,OO0, 900.
The latter is, however, for the whole
sale department alone.
"Did you know" said a cunning
Gentle to a Jew, ''that they hang
Jews and jaekasses together in Port
land?" Indeed" retOrted Solomon
''den it ish well dat you and I ish not
dere."
John Brougham thus advertises in
the \. Y. Herald: 'If the party who
took a fancy to my Overcoat was in
fiuenced by the inclemency of the
weather, all right, but if commercial
considerations, am ready to nego-
tiate for its return"
Mr.. Joel, jew, has been made 9
Judge in Prussia. 1t apparently has
not been the custom there, heretofore,
to look 20 the Jewry for q judge, as
this is said to be the first case on rec
ord. The judieiOusness of the ap-
pOintment, however is not questioned.
It was recently stated in a discus
sion by the Waltham, Mass. AprieuI-
tural Club, that q farmer in HolIiston
had raised eabbages on the same land
fOr fifteen suecessiveyears,a and aIwavs
successfully. He manured his land
with common salt, and watered the
plants with lime.
a gentleman took his country cous-
in to the theater. On coming out, he
remarked: 'They played well,
didn't they :" The cousin from rural
district looked round at him and
said: "Of course they did; that's
what they are paid to do" There's
practical criticism.
Miss Stanton, Miss Anthony. I,ucy
Stone, ,OlympiaBrown and Miss Chan
in are to address the woman suffrage
convention, to be held in Library
Hall, Chicago, on the I1th and 18th.
insts., and Miss DiekensOn the Soros-
IS convention that meets at the same
time.
Michael kaufman, a German barber
OF Pittsburgh, shot little boy named
Edward Miller, on the 9Th inst. The
boy was looking into the shop WIN
dow, and, after being ordered away bv
Kaufman, the latter fired a revolver
through the window, killing the bow
almost instantly. Kaufman narrow
ly escaped lynehing by the citizens
but was hurried to jail.
Window glass is almost unknown
in China, oiled paper being used as
substitute, admitting light dimIy.-
The streets are unpaved and very fl
thy. In wet weather they are 4 sea
of mud, and in dry weather they are
a bed of dust. The only public con-
veyances in Pekin are covered carts
without springs. There is not n sinI
gle vehicle in the city that possesses
springs.
A curious lawsuit is on the tapis I'm
in England. A Liverpool merchant
suddenly called to New York on ur,
gent business, took q cab TO the steam
er, and in his haste forgot to paw the
driver. On his return three months
afterward, he found the cabman and
cab just where he had left them. shell
tered by little wooden shed. and
was met by bill for coach fare for
l,0S0 hours by day and ], ,OS0 hours by
night. The case is still on.
1t is said that in the Twitebeu trial
IN Philadelphia, just as Judge Brew
ster pronounced to Twitchell the SEN
tenee and ended with ''and NAV God
IN His infinite goodness have mercy
upon your soul, +" the State House he'll
rang out ONE sOlemnly and mourn
fully, the peal going down into that
court room, and sounding forth TO the
wretched prisoner as his death knell.
Not one present but marked it. The
effect was dreadful-terrible.
In compliance with the solicitation
OF the friends Of Mrs. Surratt, the
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