Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-06-15

Der.
The wool market is quiet Throughout
the State, prices ranging from IS to 4
cents.
There are now four hundred and sew
enty-fve blast furnaces in the UniteC
States.
A thoroughbred short horn bulL own
ed by Mr.. C. Baldwin, of Nelson, weighs
1861 pounds.
The Spanish government has decree6
amnesty to all political offenders since
March l, 1870.
Ten millions feet of timber have been
carried off by recent high waters on the
Susquehanna.
The Franklin Hotel, in Kent, o., was
sold to Mr.. Whitman, owner of the Aus
tin House, in this place.
Red Cloud refused to go home via
New York, saying he had seen enough
of towns. Hard on N. Y.
Holland has justabolisbed capital pun
ishment The vote of the Dutch Cham
Der stood 4s yeas, to SOnays.
The general convention of the New Je-
rusalem Church, Swedenborgians, will
meet at Philadelphia on the 18th.
E. Spencer. Of Lenox, O., has been
fined $4,000 for violating the postage
law by enclosing a letter in a newspaper.
4 man by the name of Adam Warner,
ofSpringfeld township, Summit county,
was struck and killed by lightning on
the LIST inst.
In the Vermont Constitutional Con-
vention on Saturday, the proposition to
grant pms suffrage was defeated by a
vote of 231 to 1.
John Schweetzer, of Chicago, played
out, on last Saturday night He babe
his wife good bye, and emptied a pistol
into a soft place in his head.
General Dudley Prichard, the capturer
Of JEFF Davis, is at his fathers in Nelson,
on a visit. He is a resident of Michigan,
we believe.-GdrrettsviUe Journal
The Episcopal parishes in Southern
States, though poor, have given money
and pledges to the amount of s., l3s for
the Society for the increase of the min
istry.
About three hundred fremen from
New Orleans, en- route for New York on
apleasure excursion, will pass through
Cleveland on or about the ed of this
month.
Hon. VIM. II. West has declined the APP
pointment as consul to Rio Janeiro.
chiefly on representations made by Mr..
Monroe, the late consul at that place,
that the position was not desirable one.
We have the news of a disastrous
drought in Europe, extending from
France eastwardIy an indefinite distance,
perhaps even to the confines of Asia, or
beyond the Holy Land.
John Wadsworth, of Nelson, on going
10 the pasture to catch his horse a few
mornings since, found him dead. Some
evil disposed person had shot him
through the heart. Nc suspicious are
entertained against any one.
The Sioux savages, Red Cloud and
Spotted Tail, were feasted last week in
Washington on ice cream and strawber-
ries. They seemed to relish it nearly as
much as they would the scalping of a
pale face.
An advertiser in an adjoining county
offers to take in payment one cent the
first day, two cents the second day, and
so on, doubling the amount for sixteen
days, for a steinway, Chickering or Brad
burg piano.
The rumpus between Vanderbilt and
Fisk grows out of the refusal on the part
OF the Commodore to accept ticket cOu-
pms, according to previous arrange
meat, from the Erie Railway on his New
York Central.
It is stated that the President is about
TO inaugurate a commercial policy which
will tend TO bring to the United States
the vast trade of the Spanish-American
States which now principally goes to
European ports.
Asubterranean outlet to Great Salt Lake
is reported discovered by the captain of
4 vessel which came near being taken
into the awful whirlpool. A party has
out to investigate the matter
Their report will be awaited with much
interest.
A Columbus dispatch, dated June 10, !
says that the late convention of the Epis-
Diocese of Ohio, adopted a resolu-
ton expressing sympathy with the Evan
gelical alliance called TO meet in New
York. The adoption of the resolution
Is considered a low church victory. I
In Congress, last week, Mr.. Gsrield's I,
dill for increased banking facilities was :
aiken up, and Mr.. Garfield made a
speech in exploration of it. He said, (
Imong ether things. it was notmore cur !
'eney that was needed. but more banks. !
General debate ensued on the bill, but no :
important action was taken,
There has been missed from the treas
Try of the United States, supposed to +,
AVE been stolen, q bundle Of two thou .
and new legal tender United States A,
totes of the denomination Of $40, new Sc ,
les of 1859, having the head OF Daniel 4,
Webster, and numbered as follows: al. ,
53e,O0Is" to "H s,5S2,OOOs." Both in
lusive amounting to 1000. 7
At the late term of Portage Common !
Pleas, Josiah Winans, convicted of a rob- e
perry on an indictment against himself 1
md others. was sentenced to six years I
n the penitentiary, and to pay the costs r
If prosecution. The Indictment as to =,
Basil Porter was nollied, and continued 3
IS to the other defendants, Jacob Win '
ms, John Winans and James K. Polk
Winans.
1t is said there was nearly q thousand !
ives lost N the recent great fire in Con-
,tantinopIe. A marked feature OF the 9
from there is that showing the !
existing between Turks and I
Ehristians. More than q thousand houses ]
the Tanks have besn thrown open to {
Christians burned out, and large sums I
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