Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-11-02
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Gen. Garfeld's majority in the Nine
teenth District is 6,254.
The total population Of Ohio is 2,652, SO2
A gain OF 3l2,7 9I since 1850.
The Democrats claim to have carried
West Va, at the recent election.
So far as known there is but one sur.
yivor Of the wrecked steamer Cambria
The flax mill ofJ.C Eurtz, at woos.
ter. was destroyed by fire on the 27tl
ult.
The DAYTON Journal says that Schenck
will contest Lew CampbelIs claim to q
seat in Congress.
The city Of Erie, Pa, isnow lighted by
gas from gas wells-manufactured gas
being dispensed with.
In New York four hundred Orange
men have formed a military organiza-
tion called the Washington Continental
Guard.
The reduction Of the number Of As
sistant Assessors of Internal Revenue
will reach six hundred, a saving Of near
" $4,000, annually.
The population of the city of Philadel-
phia, in 1850, was sos, $50; in 1870, 657, l59
an increase in ten years Of 81 1850, or at
the rate of 1870 per cent.
A~conference of the Western Reserve
Association Of Universslists, will be held
in Wiuoughby, Nov. 18th, and continue
till the following Monday.
There is a class Of French volunteers
who style themselves the wild boars Of
Ardennes. Their best holt seems 10 be
in roofing up rail road tracks.
It is not healthy for fghtists in Boston.
on last Saturday a court in that city SEN
fenced one to two years in the peniten-
9iary for intending to engage in a prize
fight.
DR.. VIM. R. Thran, OF Columbus, and
late private Secretary of the Governor,
has been appointed L. 5. Marshal for the
Southern Ohio District. A goodsppoint-
ment.
1t is estimated tina the Germans have
thus far in the wal taken $4,000 French
prisoners. That number must require
vast supplies OF bareback, or its dutch
substitute.
The Italian press advocates the placing
of outrage and treason to the Pope on The
same footing s treason to the King
What a whack that Will be over the in
faIlible head.
It is reported that King William had q
narrow escape from Franc-tireurs, the
other day, and only saved himself by
precipitate flight. The story is believed
50 be an invention.
The franking system for the year end
ing June 30, would have yielded a '
nue. to the government ofovers s., 10000,
II the documents transmitted under it
had paid regular rates.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has d.
reeted the sale, at New York, Of
million dollars in coin, on each Wedues-
day, and the purchase Of n million
dollars worth OF bonds on each Thurs
day.
The ~capituIation Of Metz, It is said,
has thrown the Bonspartists,a at Brussels,
Belgium, into despair. They must have
been a hopeful set, if their great expec-
tations had not vanished some time
since.
The police superintendent, of New
York city, has addressed a circular to
his force, calling their attention to their
duties on election day, and says emphat-
ically, Access to the polls must be kept
open"
It is said that thousands Of letters sent
to the soldiers in the Prussian army are
sent back to the writers, with the follow
ing stamped on the envelope: "Adru-
sat ist todt.' The person addressed is
dead.
Secretary Cox retired from the Int
rior Department on Friday last, and
was expected to leave with his family
for Ohio, in day or two. He will prob
ably the practice Of law, at Cir
ciRnsti.
Senator Morton, o Indiana, has written
10 the President, declining the place Of
American Minister to the English Court.
He does not desire to resign his place as
L. S. Senator and have a Democratic
successor chosen.
The New Workers having complained
that the census of that city was very
incompIetely taken, falling much below
the estimate, the President has directed
that the enumeration of its Inhabitants
shall be taken again. Immediately after
the election next week.
The people along the line OF the Union
Pacific railroad, in order TO get satisfae-
ton for the enormous charges for freight
and passenger fares, are taxing that cor
eeration propOrtionately, and will prob
ably collect from them 100000 on taxes
in Wyoming Territory this year.
some newspapers intimate that Gen.
Cox would suit them as a candidate for
President in 1872. The General stands
high in the estimation of candid men Of
all parties. and was perhaps the most
popular member Of the Cabinet.
Mr.. Sherman H. Disbro. OF Hunts
Ourgh, committed suicide on Saturday,
Oct. 18th. by taking an ounce Of lauda-
mum. The deceased was sixty-three
wears Of age, had resided there about
three years, and EsE formerly from Dan
bury, Conn.
Orders were received at the Charles
town. Mass, navy yard, last week, to fit
5gt for sea, with all possible dispatch,
three monitors and nine other wal YES
sells. mo question naturally arises
What does this mean, and where are our
Syar vessels to be used?
On and after the LIST Of November the
French postage stamp bearing the En-
Deror's head viii no longer be accepted
at the post Offices in any part Of France.
From that date there will be new stamps
an which will be a figure Of the Repub-
&c, Eiththe old legend, Liberty, Equal
ity snd Fraternity, engraved beneath,
\ renewal OF the wal between Van
derbilt and the Erie Road seems impend'
ing. ThensF Erie branch OSuspensiOn
Bridge was to have been opened next