Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-03-24
News Summary.

NEWS OunluldT1s
Newton, the postmaster at CALI
polls, o., was before the United States
Commissioners at Cincinnati, charged
with abstracting the contents of val
liable letters in his office.
Asa F. Cochrane has recovered
damages to the amount of 1000 from
the Adams Express Company for the
losing of a package containing $500
by the burning of the steamer Rio
Rio at New Orleans in 1868.
DR.. Mudd. who was lately released
from the Dry Tortugas, arrived at
Baltimore yesterday.
The depot of the Winona and st.
Peters Railroad at Wasica, Mimi,
was burned yesteaday. Loss s 10000.
Senior Morales Lemues has arrived
at New York, fully empowered by
President Cespedes a minister from
the provisional government of Cuba.
He goes to Washington to seek the
recognition of the provisional govern
ment.
Captain Armstrong, Of the emf
grant ship James Foster Jr., died of
the fever at his residence in Brook
lyn, Wednesday evening. This is
| the officer charged with the most
horrible cruelties to his seamen and
passengers on the last voyage of the
ship.
The body of an unknown man,
supposed to be a Jew, was found on
at Spring Valley; New York, terribly
mutilated. He was clothed in a
woman's chemise and CATERS, and a
hat that did not fit. The garments
were undoubtedly put on him for a
disguise.
Colorado Jewett addressed an aud
fence of something less that forty
persons at Mozart Hall, Cincinnati,
advocating Reputation, free trade,
specie payment and a vigorous for
eign policy.
A boarding house for girls, with a
capacity for forty, was opened in Gin
cinnati under the auspices of the
Woman's Christian Association.
Several important nominations
have been agreed upon in Cabinet
/ meetings, but it is now positively
| asserted that the President will make
no further important nominations
until the tenure-of-offiee matter is
dioposed Of by the Senate.
Five eonvicts at Sing Sing prison
gagged. two of the keepers and es-
capped Wednesday night. One of the
keepers has since died.
Guy R. Phelps, President of the
Connesticut Mutual Life Insurance
Company, died at Hartford, on We'd
nesday last.
Gen. VIM. Barstow, formerly on
the staff of Gen. Dix, died in New
York Tuesday night.
Two more victims of the fever ship
James Foster, Jr., died at the Sea-
mems Retreat, New York, on
Tuesday.
st. Patrick's Day was generally
celebrated by Irish citizens in all the
Larger cities.
A Denver dispatch says Mr.. Craig,
just from Fort Lyon, reports on the
authority of Major Ames, at Fort
Lyon, that Gen. Custar was captured
about eight days ago, while out on a
scouting expedition. No particulars,
nor does the dispatch say by whom
Custar was captured.
The Governor of Louisiana has
signed the school bill providing for
mixed schools, and appointed the
commissioners provided for therein,
among them two colored men.
A bill to discourage and punish
prize-fghting has passed both branch
es of the Michigan Legislature.
Among other things it Furnishes by
fine or imprisonment any one who
shall ''give or publish notice" of a
prize-ight.
Certain childrenin Portland, Maine,
were in the habit of sliding down q
hill near the house accompanied by a
favorite dog. Early one morning
they discovered that the dog had
taken the sled, drawn it to the top
and was now sliding down the hill
all alone; and this was frequently
repeated.
The ~velocipede has gotten into the
highest court in England. A lower
court had decided that it is unlawful
for toll-gate authorities to charge toll
for a velocipede; but the company
against whom this decision was
rendered, mean to carry the case up
to the tribunal. The charge of toll
was made under the clause empower
ing to charge for "a foot passenger
driving a wheelbarrow."
A small boat containing twelve
boxes of nitro glycerine was discover
ed under a wharf at the foot of White
hall street, New York, Thursday
enough, it is said, to blow the lower
portion of New York and Brooklyn
to atoms. The stuff was taken be-
yOnd the city limits by the harbor po-
lice.
In Cincinnati, a negro thief named
John Moss, being detected in stealing,
and pursued by the police, raj to the
river, jumped in and was drowned. ;
A resolution was adopted in the
New York Assembly, directing the
President and Treasurer of the Erie
Railroad to report within ten days in
writing, under oath, to the Speaker
of the House, the exact amount of
stock of said company nov Outstand-
ing, also the amount in detail of the /:
funded and floating debt of said COM
pany up to and including the date of
passage of this resolution. 7
The Senate amendments to the
Stickney Railroad bill was agreed to '
in the Ohio House on Friday last, and
is now a law. The Hon. ]. G. Pennis- I
ton, member of the House of Repre-
sentatives from Pike county, died on :
last at Waverly. ]
The Delaware Gazette is in its fifty !
first year. !
A wood chopper named Roberts !
was killed near Cleves, Ohio, We'd ;
nesday, by a limb falling on him. ]
The increase of the Baptist denomi-
in this country the last twenty
five years, has been SO per cent. in .
churches, AZ per cent. in ministers, !
and So per cent. in numbers. And '
better yet, u contributions have in ,
creased in a much larger ratio-in
twenty-five years the contributions 4
for Home and Foreign Missions have 6
increased three hundred and eighty j
four per cent. So says a writer in the G
National Baptist.
A projected assassination of a Unit
ed States District Attorney by a viii l
lain in the employ of two convicted s
whisky frauders has come to light in {
New York, but the would-be assassin I
has made his escape. He was paid -.
one dollars tn do tho murder )