Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-01-06
General, Personal and Political News
of the Week.

lure met yesterday.
All c~Ounterfeiters would do well
make a safe thing of it, by
ing instant trial or pleading guilty,
% as to be pardoned before the Fourth
IF March.
There is reason TO believe that the
States Supreme Court decision
On the constitutionality of the Legal
Tender act will be promulgated this
but nothing concerning It's
character has transpired.
Late Arizona advices state that the
WaIlapai Indians have broken falth
with Col. Price, and are again com79
hitting depredatiOns. The Apaches
two men in Piana county,
and stole a number of cattle.
It is limited that the GOODNESS be-
tvroen President johnson and General
Grant NAV lead the latter to decline
the usual Inauguration ceremonies on
the fourth of March rather than come
in contact with him, when otheF"lse
he would have to do.
a cotton mania is ragingln Georgia
P~renarations are making 10 RAISE
moro cotton in that State than since
$50 Planters are waking up and
the signs of material prosperity are
seen OH all hands, among the blacks
as well as whites.
An old hunter who represents the
Penobscot Indians in the Maine Leg
islature has six hundred traps set for
wild animals, and says that the
beavers nave increased very much on
the Penobscot within the last few
years.
The commissioner of internal V
nue. has decided to allow repacking OF
stocks of tobacco now on hand IN
bulk packages to conform with recent
legislation by Congress, under the
supervision OF a government fnsPoc-
tor.
Queen Victoria has furnished clever
Illustrations in her own book. She
draws cleverly, as does her daughter,
the Princess of Prussia. We judge by
the tone of the English press that the
critics are getting tired of these royal
publications, but the masses OF n
people are not.
The convention of leading Virginia
conservatives on Saturday, in view OF
the expression of public opinion in
the late elections, and though not
believing in the fitness of the negro
for suffrage, declared in favor OF
universal suffrage and universal am
nesty.
In a recent interview with a promi-
nent gentleman, Mr.. Seward is re-
ported to have spoken in very
respondent terms about being able to
conclude q satisfactory settlement of
the Alabama claims and for the pur-
chase of st, Thomas during the
remainder of his term of office.
4 serious accident occurred at the
skating rink in Auburn, New York,
by the falling in of the roof of the
building by the weight of snow upon
il. At the time there were about
thirty persons on the ice. Four chill
dren were seriOusly injured, one fatal
ly.
John FOgarty, a drunken laborer
living at Cicero, a suburb of Chicago,
Wednesday morning beat his wife so
severely with an iron instrument that
she was dead before the neighbOTs
arrived. The coroner's jury returned
a verdict of willful murder against
Fogarty, who was Immediately arrest
ed.
The proposed naturalization treaty
between the United States and Great
Britain provides that a British subject
who has been natuTalized in the
United States shall have the same
rights to protection on his return TO
Great Britain as a native born Amer
lean.
1t has been proved in our that
the late Mrs. Augusta y. Dickens,
whose death from morphine we gave
an accoun of last week, LEFT real and
personal property worth $500. An
acquaintance of Charles Dickens in
y. York says that Dickens's brother
fled from England with the lately
deceased woman, deserving his wife,
whom the novelist supported COM
fOrtably.
The latest edition of Cabinet specu-
lations makes free use of the following
names: Charles Francis Adams, for
Secretary of State ; Gen. SchOfield for
Secretar of War; Z. B. Washburne,
Secretary OF the Interior ID. A. Wells,
for Secretary of the Treasury; David
A. Porter. for Secretary OF the Navy ;
with the Postmaster Generalship and
Attorney Generalship not disposed of.
Senator Morton estimates the
amount of gold in this country, at the
lowest, at 800, OOO, 900. Those who
combat his views estimate it at $685.
S00,0 600, they arguing that Americans
going abroad have taken out more
than foreign emigrants have brought
in. This disagreement on what must
in any measure looking to the
resumption of specie payment be the
pivotal idea, indicates the difficulties
in obtainingasolution of the problem.
A MI. Benedict, claiming to repre-
sent the Chickasaw and Cherokee
Indians, says these tribes are opposed
to the transfer of the Indian Bureau
to the War department and in favor
of a separate department. So are the
rascally agents, whose craftsmanship
finds such ready Endorsement. 1t is
doubtful, however, whether Congress
will conclude to take the advice of
either, although the combined force
is known to be very great in the
United States Senate.
The Columbus Journal says a most
gracious religious revival is in pro-
g-ess in the Seventh st. NJ. Z. Church,
GAINESVILLE. The meetings are o n
Quoted by DR.. and Mrs. Palmer, of
New York, whose labors have been
so wonderfully blest not only in this
country, but also during their -Four
Years Tour" in the old world. The
is crowded in the afternoon and
at night, and very many are turning
from sin to holiness.
The rumOr has reach the ears of the
Columbus Journal, that Andy John
will in a few days issue a procla-
nation of amnesty to all Union
officers and soldiers below the rank of
Brigadier General, to be followed by
one on the third of March, extending
a free and full pardon TO all who were
engaged in that unpleasantness, ex-
the chaplains. 4. J. says any
preacher who carried his religion into
by going into the army does
not deserve pardon here or hereafter.
One of the most extraordinary cases
Of robbery and murder that we ever
heard Of occurred in broad daylight
IN New York the other day, and
a hundred yards of Broadway.
old gentleman of sixty was en-
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