Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-01-06
NEWS ITEMS.

! ueiSuDOInOOu OF IapOfIe since w ed
nesday. The Indians are believed to
ne from the north and belong to Red
| Clouds band.
The Salt Lake Telegraph says the
/ Central Pacific Railroad has reached
.0ur hundred and seventy-one miles
| west of Sacramento.
a chemical analysis of the brandy
and whisky sold at the leading hotels
N New York city, shows that they
Jre cOmpOsedOf twO-thirds water; the
ether third being tannin, fusil oil and
sugar.
y train on the Shore Line Rail-
road, when near Clinton, Connecticut,
/ sunday noon, ran into a carriage con-
talnlng l. +. Bowen, a prominent
merchant of New Haven, his son and
another man. Mr.. Bowen was very
severely injured, and his son had one
of his feet cut off.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has
gwen decision sustaining the deci-
,lOn of the lower court, which held
that the consideration of q note given
to borrowed Confederate money was
a good and valid one. The plea was
the failure of the Confederation. and
that confederate money was an illegal
money, not money or anything Of
value.
A negro named Lewis Street shot
another named Cambria Cox. on Pig
con Roost Road, near Memphis, Sun
day, killing him instantly. Street
was firing a pistol recklessly, when
Cox asked him to quit; he turned and
shot him through the head. He was
arrested and lodged in fail.
On Christmas, a negro named John
Bull murdered and robbed another
named George Beggs, near BARTLETT
station, on the Memphis and Touis-
vile Railroad, and then placed the
body on the track, where It was run
over Oy train. He then proceeded
% lhe mousse OF VIM. Miller, set his
Sln mouse on lire and concealed him
self behind rCsebush with an ave for
me puapose, as he confessed, of killing
Miller when he came out. He was
decoyed, however, and traced in the
snow by citizens, black and white.
and hung to tree.
Secretary Seward insists that the
London Times does him injustice on
the Alabama claims question. He
says he has labOred hard to secure a
settlement, but that Reverdy John
ON has caused most of the trouble of
lare.
1t is stated that General Grant has
expressed himself opposed to turning
men out CT office merely for opinions
axe. The purpose of his administra-
tion will be the faithful performance
If the dates of his great office: to
see tkdt the laws are carried out: that
honesty and economy prevail in the
public service, and that all the officers
are capable and efficient men. If an
Itiicer in the public service has shown
! peculiar fitness of his position and
evidence of his ability to perform its
unctiOns in the highest degree of ex-
cellence and with honesty of purpose.
no matter what his political opinions
may be, it would be improper to re-
place that officer with one who could,
1T least, perform the duties no better.
In Lafayett, Sussex county, New
Jersey, widow White made a confes-
sion just previous to her death, on
saturday, which Mortified the town.
she sent for some of her fellow mem-
bers to attend her in her dying hour,
and to them she confessed that about
seven years ago she poisoned her in
ant child and that it died, and a year
afterwards she poisoned her husbands
father, and he too died. Later still,
on the return of her husband from
the army, she dealt to him also fatal
poison. The woman had borne a good
character. The only reason assigned
inr making this dying confession was
her desire 10 rid her conscience of the
load of crime prior 10 her death. She
was perfectly sane up to the time of
her decease.
VIM. Curtis Grand Secretary of the
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows. died
suddenly in Philadelphia, an Satur-
day, OF apOplexy. Mr.. Curtis was al
so prominent Mason, and had held
many offices of honor and trust under
the POIkand Pierce administrations
Several large failures of New York
dry goods houses are repOrted-tw0 Of
them connected with Lowell mills
and Boston firms. Serious trouble is
predicted this week among the iObbipg
houses, many of which have been paw
ing eXOrbitant rates of interest, Iateiv.
and carrying immense stocks which
they could not dispose OF.
An agent for the Turkish govern
ment has arrived in New York TO mr.
chase revOlvers and breech LOADING
guns for the Sultan's army.
The bill of Senator Morton serious
ly alarms the hebOndholders. whose pros-
perity would be subjected to a serious
However causeless this
alarm, in view of the fact that the
laws of trade and commerce. which
are superior to those of Congress. will
defeat compulsory resumption. the
assistance of these lobbyists will NOT
be ungrateful to the mercantile com
Cornelius Brown, a notorious cut
throat and rutfian, was shot dead on
by Peter Doyle, in a saloon
near Chicago. The Coroner's jury
eXOnOratod Doyle, and heavy
bail will not be exaeted. The deceas-
ed has resided in the state prison.
The New York EreniRq Post has n
report that Mr.. Cushing has been sent
to BagOta, with full powers from our
to close a contract for a
canal across the Isthmus, towards
which, it said, our Government is
ready to promise a guaranty of mill
lion dollars. Probably a part of the
sum will be needed to make the sur
vey. The Past says it is asserted that
Gen. Grant has been consulted about
the Panama ship canal and is warmly
in favor of the scheme. 1t is said he
thinks its speedy construction neces-
sary to preserve our commercial and
naval supremacy and to our empire in
the Pacific. 1t is TumOred that Mr..
Cushing has been examining maps to
report upon the most feasible line of
canal, and he is convinced the canal
must be built at or very near the line
of the present Panama Railroad, and
that the canal company and the rail-
road ought to be one.
Sunday, near midnight, q drunken
sailor named Charles Lawson, fell
from the propeller Truesdel, lying at
Chicago, and was rescued from the
water lnsensible. He died within an
hour afterward.
Moses Stenson, fifty years of age,
got aboard a train at COrdOva, Illinois,
well, but died from con-
gestiOn of the brain before the trian
reached Port Byron, Illinois.
John c. Breckenridge, who man
aged to escape from the pettieoat gov
ernment when Colonel Pritehard cap
tured 1t, will now venture back to his