Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-05-19

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Vienna, lbs feet below the surface. O
the opposite side of the road from Nj
GANo's, on the farm of Mr.. c. c. Carl
TON, coal was found a few weeks since
The coal right belongs to Messrs. JON
and r. j. STEWART. Size of veins 4
and 81 feet. These lands are on tn
road running south from the WOodfor
corners.
Although the Trumbun Nationa
Bank has purchased the corner building
of River Block, Messrs. HAPGOOD 4
BROWN will remain there, and when tn
present room is divided by a partition
they will occupy the south room 70
their dry goods store. Their customer
and the public generally will therefor
remember that Messrs. II. & Il. will re
main at their old stand.
Mr.. D. P. RIsLEY, of this place, ha
two beautiful billiard cues, inlaid witt
pearls, one of which he offers TO any per
son in Warren making the highest ruI
in a full game, within a period of ont
month, conditioned as follows: The Gu,
will be retained by Mr. RIsLEY for on,
year, and if in that time the champion
player of the month is not beaten, the
cue will be handed him.
Hon. JAMES A. GARFIELD was il
town during portions OF FRIDAY and Satur.
day last. He appears in good health and
spirits. As chairman of the COMMITTEES
appointed to procure statistical and other
information connected with the subject
of taking the next census, the General
has several months of arduous labor in
prospect during the summer. Hethinks
a system can be devised that Will greatly
facilitate the taking of the census.
Mrs. RANDALL MUNsoN, of Vienna,
now in her s~ixty-ninth year, has given
evidence the past year of being a woman
Of remarkable energy and industry for a
person at that advanced age. During the
year 1868, she Wove on a hand loom
twelve hundred yards of various fabrics.
In addition 10 this she visited consider
ably, and helped take care of the sick.
Here is an example for the rising gener-
alton. If any other community can do
better than Vienna. in this instance, we
would like to hear Of it.
By reference to a city ordinance pub
lished in this weeks CHRONICLE, the
of dogs will observe that their
CANNES are no longer to be allowed the
freedom of the city, unless muzzled, and
accompanied in their strolls around town
by their masters. The ordinance goes
effect to-day. 4 dog pound has
been established at engine house No. >
ours unlawfuIly at large will be
impOunded by the police, and dealt with
as the law directs. In view of the fire.
guency with which hydrophobia occurs
where persons have been bitten by a
rabid dog, the precautions and r~estric-
ITEMS of the ordinance will generally be
deemed proper and necessary.
A stranger came among US on Satur-
day, visited One or more establishments
bad spirits are retailed, and after
the demons eaudsl appendage a
twists, was ready for a pitched battle
With the police or ''any other man."
Stranger was taken in, and Marshal
BROOKS officiating as ''grand conductors"
inflated him into the mysteries of the
old nuisance where he held high carni-
val with q thousand rats, more or less,
until Monday morning, when he wa re-
leased from duranee. The report that
consequence of his having been con-
lined in the county Jail about thirty-six
hours. he came out encased in a half inch
IF green mould, is contradicted by some
persons, who say that the mould was not
heavier than an ordinary January frost.
Our correspondent in Greene, last
week, worked himself up into a fine
frenzy of feeling on the subject of jsils,
courthouses, &c, the expense Of build
ing which, he affirms should be borne
by the people residing at and contiguous
10 the county seat. While his immagi-
nation was at white heat he divulged an
TEN Of news that would be astonishing,
4 it were not for the fact that it is ridieu-
fallaciOus, to wit: He states that
he court house cost one hundred thous-
md dollars, whereas the figures and
vouchers show it cost but SCI, OOO-a diff
of $4,000 against his calculation.
We presume our friend stated what he
believed, but he should have known that
so ordinary a court house as We have
this county could not possibly have
cost when built, some sixteen years since,
yne-third the sum he named. He, per-
maps, like too many other opponents of
he new Jail, or any other public i'm
,rovement, jumps at conclusions, and is
possibly influenced as much by preju-
lice as reason in forming an opinion or
an action in reference 10 a mat
er that affects the pocket a few .shillings.