Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-05-26

Measles prevail at wsverly, Pike
county.
Diptheria is very fatal in COlumbiana.
Scarlet fever is carrying off the little
once in Van Vert.
Minister Nelson is on his way to
Mexico.
General Butler declares that his voice
is for war.
Mr.. Washburne has succeeded Gen
eral Dix at Paris.
The horse Fair at Dayton commences
on the 9th of June
Thomas Leonard, aged seventeen,
committed suicide, by hanging, in
Brooklyn, on the I'D
Advices from Porto Rico state that the
island is rife for revolt, and that when
the word is given the revolution will be
universal.
There were 40 deaths in New York
last week.
Grassland won the race at Lexington
on Saturday.
This is the anniversary week among
the Friends.
Ministers of the Presbyterian Church
(Old School, are enjoined to preach on
the duty of total abstinence on the third
Sunday in December.
Affairs in Japan are in an unsatisfacto-
~ condition. A congress of Princes
has been called to meet at Heddo, and
apprehensions were felt lest trouble
should result.
China advices state that the weather
is unfavorable for the tea crop. Some
tea men assert that the first crop is en-
tirely ruined. NelOcipedes are numer-
Gus in Shanghai.
Ex-President Pierce has been inter
viewed in respect to foreign relations.
The state of things, on the whole view,
he regards as delicate and critical, and
thinks a general war may result.
From the proceedings of the Old
School Presbyterian Assembly on Sat
urday, il appears that all hopes of a
union between the Northern and South
ern branches must be abandoned for
the present.
The Navy Department has issued an
order directing that the names of seven
teen vessels, hitherto called by rather
unpronounceable Indian titles, be chang
ed to the names of towns and States.
The President on Friday last issued
the expected proclamation more clearly
defining the intention of the Eight Hour
law. He directs that after this date no
reduction of wages shall be made in
government workshops on account of
the required reduction of hours o flabor.
A bill contracted by Secretary Seward
in ~telegraphing over the cable to Reverdy
Johnson has been presented to Secretary
Fish by the agent of the Telegraph
Company for payment 1t consists of a
single item and amounts to $4,000. Mr..
Seward, il seems, was allowed cheap
rates on his messages, and so became
rather verbose. When this bill came in
he refused to pay it. 1t therefore fell TO
the succeeding administration Secre-
tary Fish declined to pay it, and when it
was presented to President Grant he
sent it to Attorney Genreal Hoar for an
opinion, which he is now engaged on.
Indian Commissioner Parker has is
sued an order assigning a large force of
army officers to duty as Indian superin-
tendents and agents.
The second trial of Mulhall, at Geve-
land, for abetting the murder Of Skinner,
resulted in a verdict of murder in the
first degree.
Another fire broke out in Dayton, Ohio,
about four O'Clock last Thursday morn
ing, destroying the Witherup House, on
I ,lN1v- of-aof man nannaI IVf1lfn-
son persisted in the flames, and several
others were badly injured in jumping
from the windows. The fire is supposed
to be the work of an incendiary. Loss on
the house between five and six thousand
dollars; insured for about one-half
The Wooden Manufacturers Associa-
ton of the Northwest holds its next
annual exposition on the first Tuesday
of August next, in Cincinnati, to contin-
ne four DAYS. a very earnest request
has been made of the wool growers to
participate, and furnish samples of their
iocks. Samples of an amount TO convey
with sufficient cleaFness the quality may
be sent in sacks or boxes marked "FOr
the exhibition, care of ]. H Laws & CO.,
Cincinnati Ohio"
The friends of Mr.. Summer represent
him as desiring in the Alabama claims
matter, in addition to such steps as may
be taken for settlement with England, 10
have the government urge a conference
of leading maritime powers, to discuss
all questions connected with the rights
and duties of neutrals in time of war,
with view to bringing such powers to
some general agreement upon the vari-
Gus points now in dispute.
Gilbert c. Walker. the Conservative
Republican, or Republican Conservative
candidate for Governor of Virginia, in
opposition te Governor ii. H. Wells, the
Radical nominee, opened the campaign
at Norfolk, the other day, by a speech,
among other things in which he said:
The serious question to be considered
was antagonism between the white and
black, and the proscriptive measures of
the constitution showed this fact. The
way to remedy such antagonism was for
the white man and black man to step to-
gether upon the true Republican plat
form of universal suffrage and universal
amnesty, and vote down that clause
which threatened the rights of both.
The state of Delaware has taken a
spasm of internal improvement. 1t has
erected a new whipping post-the only
new thing done there since the reyolU-
ton.
William B. Aston ought to be pretty
comfortably off,-that is, if the care of
his money don't give him too much
trouble, which is very likely the case.
He returned an income last veal of 81
079,2I2. Think of paying a yearly tax of
$50,900,60i
A shooting match for $500 has been
arranged at Chicago between Captain
Bogardus, of Illinois, and Abe KIumas,
the former to shoot from a wagon while
in motion at twenty-five double and
twenty-five single pigeons, at a distance
of twenty yards, and the latter to shoot
at the same number of birds, at a dis
lance of thirty yards, standing on the
ground.
At the close of the trial of Mrs. Nancy
B. MADAM, in Dedham, Mass, for the
murder of her ~son-in-law, the accused
being allowed to speak, said:-"Gentle-
men of Che jury, l have nothing to say,
only this:-I am not guilty; l am will
ing to appear before God, but his blood
will not be found upon my hands"
The jurHyesterday monring rendered a
verdict of murder in b first degree"
a large barn belonging to the Mount
Holyoke Female Seminary, at South
HadIey, Mass. was destroyed by fire
Friday morning, with IFS contents, con-
sisting of horses, tobacco and farming
utensils. The young ladies of the semi
nary turned out and did good service in
extinguishing the flames and saving the
adjacent buildings.