Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-07-13

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O. MORGAN, Chairman.
T. ]. McLAIN, Jr. Sec'y.
Gold in New York, Monday, I,1S.
Minnesota is introducing fruit trees
from Russia.
The Massachusetts, legislature has just
refused to pass the eight hour law.
On last Friday, at La Sale, Ill, R. H.
Johns fell down a coal shaft $50 feet, and
was killed.
Probably the President will have to
call an extra session of the Senate, to
finish up business.
The Senate by a vote of IS to IS has
rejected the treaty to pin San Domingo
to Uncle Sans coat tail.
Russia possesses 566,2S2 needle guns,
and the fabrication of metallic cartridges
has reached 100000 a day.
" The Maine Democratic State Conven-
ton broke up in a row and declined to
make a nomination for Governor.
The fair of the Portage County Agri-
cultural Society will be held at Ravenna,
on September 9th, 2sth and 10Th.
]. w. Peck, a walworth county, Wis
consin, farmer, lastmonth, sheared four
teen hundred sheep-al his OWL.
Illinois has, by a popular vote cast
July 9, adopted a new State constitution,
Zl=l Ill -, s,4o oHraa4 Annnef Q
Prof. John Wise, the aeronaut, made
his one hundred and forty-fourth balloon
ascension, at Chicago, on the 4th instant.
The Kansas papers says that the man
who started the report thatthey are nav
ing drouth and grasshoppers out there,
sis another"
The Boston Transcript says that Gen.
Cox, the Secretary of the Interior, has re-
ceived many courteous attentions during
his visit to Massachusetts,, and has made
many friends.
= Hon, Jasper Packard, Representative
in Congress from the Eleventh district
of Indiana, has been renominated for
another term.
The encouraging report m from
Iowa that never in the history of that
State has so much land been devoted to
grain, or so good a prospect at this season.
ofa great yield.
g,In the House an amendment was offer
ed to the funding bill, to strike out the
clause exempting bonds and coupons
from taxation. The motion was lost by
a large majority.
c Gen. Kirby, who has been spoken of s
a candidate for Secretary ofState, refuses
to be a candidate against Gen. ]. r. Sher-
wood, who VIII doubtless be renomina-
ted without opposition.
IA trial which will be one ofthe most gi-
gantic on record, is about to take place in
Hungary. The accused are brigands,
three hundred in number, and sit is ex-
pected that two hundred of them will be
put to DEATH"
During a drunken quarrel at Otto,
Sutton county, Illinois, on Sunday last,
man named Craig shot another named
Brown, killing him instantly. The muir
.derer was captured by Browns friends
and hung to a tree.
In Wheeling. a woman attempted to
ill a petroleum lamp, while it was
burning. The fame communicated
with the oil can, an explosion followed,
the woman was badly burned and died
in great agony in a few hours.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has adopted the money order sys-
tenn. Ifyou are in a hurry to pay you
can do it quick as lightning. Delinquent
newspaper subscribers, now is your
chance to sstonish the printerl
A few nights since, in New Castle, Pa,
a four months old child was so badly bit
ten by a rat, while in bed witt its parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Bells, that it died in a few
days after from the poisonous effects of
the bite. One of the child's fingers had
been entirely bitten through.
1t is understood that General Butler is
now quietly but vigorously plotting to
secure Senator Wilson's place. There
are three political elements upon which
he relies for success-the extreme Radi-
Gals, the Grant office-holders and old
line Democrats. The latter because he
favors taxing bonds.
At the Mansfield State trial of mowers
and reapers. last week, the third days
contest, Friday, had the interest princi-
pally conferred in the two principal rivals
for the prize-the Buckeye and the Clip
per. A Leader correspondent seems to
think the Clipper was coming out ahead.
If there were no other reason for urg-
ing the passage of Senator Conkling's
naturalization bill, the clamor against it
raised by the Democratic press, would be
sufficient argument in its favor. That
party advocates any measure which
gives license for deceit at election and a
multiplication of illegal votes.
They always put the ''best foot for
ward in the West. As as an instance, a
Kansas writer speaking of the improve
ments in one of their villages, says: "We
have a splendid school house, built of
magnetism marble" It wouldn't sound
so large to say ''built OF limestone''-a
very ordinary looking article too, which
is the fact.
The advantages, propriety and wisdom
of ~patronizing home manufactures, is
pointedly presented by the Meadville,
Pa, Journal, in speaking of the Agri-
cultural Works in that place. 1t says:
A farmer, in any part of the county, who
buys a machine here, invests his money
where he can get as good machines as
can be bought for the same amount of
money anywhere, and nearly all the
money he parts with still remains to cir
eulate in and enrich his own county.
Probably the very greenbacks he pays
out for a machine this summer, will be
taken back by him before the season
ends, for butter, beef or grain. Pro-
dueerS begin to see the advantages of
bringing the consumer as near to their
own doors as possible. This kind of sa-
gacity pays, and the more it develops
the better fer as all