Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-09-28
Editorial Notes and Comments.

evening, at llS3.
General Sherwood speaks at Youngs-
town on tomorrow evening.
The First Chamber Of Holland has
passed the bill sbolishing the death pen
atty.
John 7. Hoffman was re-nominsted by
the Democracy Of New York on the 21st
inst, at Rochester, for Governor.
Work was commenced on the new
rolling mill at Leetonis, on the 18th
Dr.. Wick, Of Cleveland, is at the head
Of the enterprise.
Martin L. Edwards died in Garfield,
on the 18th instant, at the advanced age
Of ninety years. BE was q native Of
Litchfeld county, Connecticut
The public debt has been reduced by 8
Republican administration, since March
1. 1870, the enormous amount eighty-two
and one-half million dollars.
The Board Of Trustees Of the Ohio
Agricultural and Mechanical College has
at length decided TO locate that institu-
ton in Franklin county near Columbus.
During the fiscal year ending June 80,
1870, there was received at the Treasury
Department the sum Of $S53,se7 81, to be
placed to account OF the "conscience''
fund.
The net decrease on interest account
in N national debt, for the year ending
September I, 1870, is 100000. What
hsve the nult-fnding Democrats to say
70 thatf
Rome Is again the seat Of civil power
in Italy, and the Pope accepts his des-
tiny-perchance as q fit chastisement fol-
his lsts naughty assumption Of divine
attributes.
Senator o. P. Morton, Of Indiana, has
been appointed Minister to represent our
government in England. BE has sc
cepted. The choice has fallen upon
very able msn
Gen. Garfield has accepted q challenge
&c discuss with Gen. Morgan, Of this
State, the political issues Of the day.
Morgan will be q used up concern before
he campaign is half over.
Ebenezer BatteIle, senior, and his wife
Mary, Of Newport Washington county,
celebrated their pearl wedding SePtem'
bsr 10th. In five years more, should
they live, q diamond wedding viii be
celebrated.
We regret to learn that u former
felow-eft1en, Col. J. F. AsPer, whS has
been a resident Of Missouri for i've OF
six wears past, has not been renomlnabeo
for Congress in his district. he was de-
feated by only n vote.
Last Sunday evening the Jewish New
Year, 56sl, commenced, and continued
until Monday evening. It is spoken o.
In Numbers XXX, l, as the Day o.
Blowing the Trumpet. The Day OF
Atonement follows ten days later, and is
celebrated as the most holy day Of the
year, by all Isrselites.
A dispatch from Hsvanna, Cuba, an
nounces the death OF John Parsons,
United States Consul at Santiago de
Cubs, from vomito. Mr.. Parsons was a
son Of Henry E. Parsons, Esq, Of Ash
tabula, and this was his first experience
Of the sickIy season Of that dreadful eli
mate. he was a young man Of about
twenty-eight years Of age.
The reduction Of the public debt dur
ing the year ending September !, 1870,
was upward I6s miIIion dollars. Somuch
for an honest and careful execution Of
public trust, under a Republican admin
~istration, Had the Democracy been in
power, this sum would have been in pri-
vate pockets, while whiskey rings and
treasury thieves would have carried on
as under the Andy johnson regime.
The negotiations between Jules Favre,
the representative Of the provisional
government of France, and Count Bis
marck, with q view to peace, have failed
and war continues. The terms demand
ed by Prussia appear to have been the
cession Of Alsace and Lorraine, as far as,
and including, the fortified town Of Metz
and indemnity on the part Of France fol
the expenses Of Germany in prosecuting
the war.
On the 18th instant, at CGnhsld, an
attempt to escape was made by the pris-
oners confined at that place, which was
partially successful. Sheriff Townsend
hearing q noise, entered thu cell from
whence 1t came, when he was sprung
upon by two men, and received severa
stabs in the body, from a knife in the
hands Of one Of the prisoners. During
the ARRAY, one George Lyon, arrested
for burglary, at North Jackson, sue
eeeded in making his escape.
The Democratic Congressional Romi
mating convention met in Warren, OF
wednesday last to nominate a candidate
for Congress in the 18th District The
names Of A Medbury, Of Maboning
Rev. w. o. Stratton, OF TrumbuIl, Geo
A. Howard. of Ashtabula, were pre-
scented. Mr.. Stratton was nominsted OF
the first ballot but declined. Mr.. How
ard was then nominated by reclamation
That is as far as he Will get, this fail, a
least, on the way TO Congress.
The Youngstown Courier while pro-
Tossing to support the Republican ticket
which 1t keeps at the head pitts editorial
columns, is very d~enuneiatory Of Gen
eral Garfield, and threatens that large
number Of "biank cartridges viii be
mot on the second Tuesday Of October
II the Courier don't dry up soon it VIII
not have any blanks to shoot on election
day. for judging from the number o
Lsblsuk cartridges it has already fired al
Garfield, e viii have run out OF powder
and waddiRg and wind, BY another
issue.