Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-05-25
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q%uehanna river this sesS On
DO.h congress have agreed
"uyourh oh .Ie 18th of July.
A large new rolling mill, is being
Oult' wheatland, Mercer Co, Pa.
The estate of the late F. T. Backus. of
Cleveland, is estimated at S25O,OOO.
Mr.. W. S. Blair, proprietor of the
Shenango House, Sharon, Pa, died on
the 14th inst.
Columbus is to have a horse fair. COM
mencing June 10 and lasting three days.
Premiums 5000.
Three hundred and n~inety-one emil
grants passed through Columbus, last
week, for the northwest.
The Captain General of Cuba has issued
an order declaring the slaves of all in
surgents on that island free.
\ young fool offers to jump of the
Suspension bridge at Niagara into the
river, a distance of 100 feet, on August
18th, for $4,000.
Mrs. Grant officially inaugqrated the
strawberry season in Washington, on
Tuesday of last week, by a grand lunch
and strawberry festival.
There are now over 800 applications
pending for admission to the Soldiers
Orphans. Home, and the number is
likely TO be increased to 100 by autumn.
The Ohio Democracy meet in State
Convention, June LIST. The Republican
State Convention will be holden August
10. The Prohibitionist Convention is
appointed for June 18th.
The Arcade Bill, for constructing an
underground railroad under Broadway
from the Battery TO 42d street, which
passed both Houses of the New York
Legislature, has been vetoed by Gov
ernOr Hoffman.
The object of Vanderbilt and his
party in coming west last week was to
secure a new through connection for the
New York Central from Cleveland to
Cincinnati Uia. Delaware, Springfield
and Dayton.
There IS q Bible in Salem, Ohio,
printed in 1858. nearly three hundred
hundred years ago. 1t is older than the
King James version, being the Eo-called
Bishops Bible" 1t is owned by ].
w. Satterthwaite.
The crown ofSpain is around begging
for a head fit to wear it. Espartero has
been twice waited upon by Populations
who tried. to prevail ON him to take the
crown, but report says he persistently
refuses the honor.
Early last Friday morning a brick
warehouse owned by DIR. J. P. Robin
son, on River Street, Cleveland, used
for storing oil, and occupied by Moor
hOuse, Freeman & Crumb, was burned.
Loss $40, 1000, to $4,000. Covered by in
suBanee.
On Saturday, l4tiI iqst,, the ShenangO
Planning Min, at Sharon Pa, was burn
ed, together with a large amount CT dry
lumber. Aggregate loss about $4,000.
Wilson IL Robinson's loss S23,5OO. In
suraace 5000. Strain Il Thompson's
Joss 5000. No. insurance.
News from China gives cheering ac-
counts Of the tea and silk crops of that
empire. This as glorious news for the
ladies. 1t may have Che effect Of revo-
l~utionizing the aspect Of the woman's
rights question. Plenty Of tea and
cheap silks may work wonders.
Mr.. TrumbuH has done a good and
practical action in behalf of women in
introducing his amendment to the ap-
preparation bill, making the salaries of
female clerks holding elerkships in the
departments the same IS those of males
performing like work,
The debate in the Senate with regard
10 the act for the enforcement of the
Fifteenth amendment called out some OF
the best talent of the Senate. There is q
noticeable increasing disposition on the
part of the Senators to remove all disa-
bilities from the southern people.
On last Thursday, al 5oliet, Illinois, p
gang of six or eight prisoners made a
desperate attempt TO escape from fhe
state prison, by rushing through a gate
Ehjch a team was passing through. The
guards fired on the runaways, killing
two. The others were soon captured
John Ewart, OF Summit County,
writes to the OL6c Farmer that he has a
-four year old Durham steer, weighing
1884 pounds. His gain during the last
yesrhas been 9H pounds, which exceeds
the gain made by George Agrauifs
cattle during any year of their lives.
ANNoTNcEMENTs are being made for
a grand celebration at Meadville on the
Fourth of July, under the auspices of
the Independent Order OF Odd Fellows.
Vice President COlfax has accepted an
invitation to deliver an address on The
occasion.
There was a tornado ii Montana. in
Apl. a mar nared Elliott was on a
housetop, fixing the roof. The tornado
raised the roof with the man astride the
comb, into the air about forty feet, and
carried it a distapee Of one hundred and
eighty feet, dumping Mr., Elliott on the
ground, not much the worse for bis ride.
The Ashtabula Sentinel says that a !
young man named d. \. Dunbar, was
committed to the Jail of that county, last
seek Oh charge of forgery. He had
sold promissoFY note to c. d. Anger,
Esq, to which he appears 10 have forged
the name OF his grandfather, 2Jr. David
Parker of Richmond.
Mr.. JoHN NJ. VAN METER, Midway, /.
Ky. has purchased from VIM. Warfield, |
Lexington, the Short Horn bull calf
London BEke 9th, at 1000, when two
weeks 0id. Sis sire is the noted prize
'buH MuscateOE, E9's; dan London
Duchess ID, q show cog of whom it
is said she has never been defeated.
'E1le formal exercises of the opening of
che National Soldiers Home, at Dayton,
OI6e, took place May 18th. There are
about tbirtean hundred of the disabled
vohamear sohiiers RSY at that Home.
Governors Hayes. Of QdiC, ard Baker,
of Indiana, were present &n& Srade
speeches. The occasion was One Of great
interest.
An old man named Edmond West, a
sort OF Teo,use residing near Weston, 10