Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-05-04

Congress has been in session five
months, and will probably continue
until July or August.
A thief recently robbed a corn-crib in
Galloway county, KY, but dropped his
pocket-book, which contained sl25. The
owner has not applied for the money.
The Ohio Woman's Suffrage Conven-
ton met in Dayton, last Wednesday, and
passed resolutions demanding a 10th
amendment to the Constitution, giving
the ballot to women.
The Governor of Illinois has offered
one thousand dollars reward for the ap-
prehension and conviction of the persons
concerned in the lynchinG of Hank
Leonard, at Salem.
Fashion correspondence, from Paris,
extols the new and "pensive" little hat
called "Emigree," which has just reap
peared as it was worn in the time OF
Louis XVI.
Louis Napoleon. is to be a~ssassinated
again as usual. On Saturday last Paris
was excited oyer reports of a new plot
discovered against the life of the Empe-
ror. Uneasy is the head that wears a
crown"
1t is said that no fewer than three docu-
ments of a protesting character have
been submitted to the Pope, and that
the Holy Father has obstinalely with
held every one of them from the Coun-
Gil. The German and French Bishops
are already in a g
In Philadelphia, on last Wednesday
night two roughs, Hugh Murthlough
and James WEIGH, were shot dead by
officer Max. He had arrested one OF
them for disorderly conduct, and the
other attempted to rescue the prisoner.
Western dispatches state that the alarm
i'll the Indian country is general and
well founded, and it is thought that il
the Indians are not ''Sheridanized'' at
once, they will inaugurate the most ex-
tended war the West has wei expert
enced.
The adoption of the summer time
tables, on the railroad lines between New
York and Chicago, which took effect on
last Monday, is received a a declaration
Of war between the rival routes, and
rates of freight will be cut down heavily.
The M'Farland- R Richardson trial is still
running in New York, and no one
seems to know when or where it will
stop. 1t seems to be generally taken for
granted that M'Farland will escape con-
viction. If a jury cannot be empan-
neled which will bring in a verdict of
guilty in cases of this nature, why enact
the farce of a trial?
Quite a number of distinguished men
in. England have announced their in
tention Of coming over here in Septem-
Der TO attend the General Conference of
the Evangelical Alliance, among them
several members of Parliament rs well
as eminent divines, and there will be a
large attendance from the continent of
Europe as well.
In b wide-awake young city Of
Humboldt, Kansas, they had a celebra-
ton, last week, over the completion of
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad
to that place. Among the toasts were
the following unique specimens: "The
Locomotive-the real f~ire-eater." "The
Iron Horse-if you want to see him,
feed him with greenbaeks.n
The National Bank, at Auburn, New
York, was robbed, on Tuesday, of
81, 900, in greenbacks, by three persons,
two of whom engaged the attention of
the officers, while the third entered an
open window, seized packages in the
vault, and escaped. The loss was not
discovered till three o'clock. 4 reward
of 5000 has been offered for the detec-
ton of the thieves.
Senator Robertson, of South Carolina,
introduced into the L. S. Senate, on last
Thursday, a general amnesty bill, to re-
move all disabilities incurred by persons
who participated in the rebellion, ex-
cepting those who had resigned their
seats in Congress and gave aid to the re-
belliOn. Also officers of the L. S. Army
or navy who aided the rebellion. Also
all persons who were members of State
Conventions passing secession ordinan-
ces.
Treasurer Spinner, in a letter to ]. L.
Worth, of the New York Park National
Bank, advocates the passage of a law to
prevent National Banks from paying
interest to each other on deposits. He
not borrow money, and the violation of
this rule draws more money from legiti-
mate channels of business, in great cit
les, than the fact that country banks are
compelled to redeem their circulating
notes.
The experiment of minority represen-
tatiOn has been tried in Bloomsbury,
Pennsylvania, under q law recently
passed by the Legislature, permitting it
in town elections. The case. as stated
by a Democratic authority, is as follows:
The Council consists of six members,
and-the town being Democratic by a
large majority-the whole body would |
have been of that political complexion,
under the old system of absolute rule
of majorities. The new law went into
oper ItiOn at this election, however, and
according to its provisions, every voter
could give n vote to each of six per-
sons, a vote and a half TO each of four,
two votes to zach of three, three votes to
each of two, or six votes to one. The
result was the choice Of three Democrats,
Radicals and one Independent.