Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-19

Gold, in New York, Monday
121E.
News Summary.
The number of births in Ohio last yea
were 30,l50.
Mrs. Stoves new book in vindica'
ton of Lady Byron, is now before the
public.
The Missouri Legislature has re-rat'
flied the Fifteenth amendment, it
former ratification having been de-
fective.
They are doing the female suffrage
business effectuaIly in Wyoming Ter
ritory. Women can vote at Is; men
have to wait till 81.
The New Court House in Meadville,
Pa, was formally dedicated on the 9th
inst. 1t occupies the site of the old
one, which was built in 1875.
Governor Geary has appointed Gen.
A. c. Russelto be Adjutant General of
Pennsylvania, in place of Gen. D.. B.
Nc Creary, who has resinged to ac-
eept a seat in the House.
A jealous husband in Pittsbug fol-
lowed his wife one evening, saw her
meet a man, ran up and thrashed
him, and found out it was his father
in-law.
Admiral Dahlgren's family coat of
arms is two Dahlgren guns, a tele-
scope, an anchor and a flag, with the
Latin motto for "a part of which l
was.n
The body of George Peabody had
scarcely left the shores of England
when some property of his was siezed
by the crown on the ground that an
alien could not hold land in Great
Britain.
The President has nominated H. H.
Emmuns, of Michigan, as Circuit
Judge of the 9Th Circuit, in place of
S. l.. Whitney, declined and Seth
NJ. Barber, Pension Agent in Cleve-
land.
The lightest man in the Iowa Leg
islature is Mr.. Abijah Conner. He
weighs lis pounds. The heaviest is
MI. Jesse WATSON, his weight being
2S5 pounds. The former isa minister,
the latter a doctor.
The telegraph operators in the en-
ploy of the Western Union Telegraph
Company at this point who quit work
some days since, withdrew yesterday
from the League and went to work.
Chic State Journal, Is inst.
Wendell Phillips, in a recent lecture,
SAYS England stands now a second
rate power among nations of Europe.
She dares not engage in war, for she
knows that the first cannon she fires,
Ireland will stab her in the back"
Mr. reeley's salary as editor of the
Tribune has been raised to $4,000 per
annum. At the annual meeting of
the stockholders Tuesday $4,000 were
divided, of which the late A. d. Rich
ardson is credited with IS, $50, and the
late S. t. Clarke, S22,s50.
The Kansas State Senate yesterday
ratified the Fifteenth Amendment.
1t also adopted a resolution asking
| Congress to repeal the Thanking privi-
Iege, and another providing for the
portrait of the late Senator Lane and
John Brown to be hung in the Capitol.
OF the eighty thousand Chinese on
the Pacific coast, about n thousand
are under Sunday school instruction.
Others are employed inIfamilies. THE
desire to learn gives hope of an eX-
tended effort to teach them. To labor
among this class a capable Chinese
missionary has been employed, and
publications in the Chinese language
-, -Y,.A1sa1 fNu fEn in1fifnffnn
Prince Pierre Napoleon, who shot
Victor Noir, is son by a second mar
riage of Lucien, Prince of Canine,
that he is nephew of the First NapO-
leon and cousin of the Third; that he
was born in 1915, and that he is Pres
ident of the Council General of COrsi-
ca. Though not wholly unknown in
Paris his reputation is not great.
The Pittsburg Commercial says
Next Tuesday, January 18th, thea an
niversary of Scotta's great bard will be
observed by his numerous admirers
hereabOuts, by a grand supper. Ad-
dresses by distinguished speakers, rec
itations of some of Burns famous
poems, songs and music will form the
most important features of the exer-
cises, though no programme has yet
been chosen.
Plymouth church has voted to in
crease fhe salary Of its pastor, Rev
Henry Ward Beecher, to so, 600. In
the course of the discussion among the
leading members, the idea was thrown
| out that this increase is made in con-
| sideration of Mr., Reecher's advancing
years and the circumstance that it is
his intention ere long to retire from
public life. One member hoped that
next year the salary would be fixed at
So, O0O.
The Bucyrus journal records the
death, on the I'd instant, of George
Sim. Hewas born in Lancaster, Pa,
November 20, 1913, and moved in Oc-
tober, 1926, to Crawford county, where
he has since resided. He leaves seven
surviving children, thirty-eight
grandchildren, and twenty-seven
great grandchildren. He served as a
volunteer in the last wal with Greaf
Britain, and was Auditor of Crawford
county from December 6, 1886, to
March 6, 1913, the first three by APP
pointment of the County Commission
ers, and the remainder of the time by
three successive elections by the peo-
pie.
Senator Corbett's resolution about
the ~annextion of British Columbia in
partial satisfaction of the Alabma
claims is said to have extracted the
following from the British Minister {:
"Well, 1 should be glad to have the
American Government agree upon
the items Of its bill of damages against
her Majesty's government. Up to
the present time the United States
has confined itself to the bOldest gen.
eralities. We could not comprehend
accurately what the American Gov
eminent required in the way ofsettle-
ment. lift would only say precisely
what is needed we can soon come to a
decision, Lett fix a bill of items and
present it, and We will consider it
with due respect" That is TO say,
the British Government is open to
conviction on the subject of paying off
our claims by ceding her American
possessions. Well, Great Britain al
ways had a happy knRck of pension
! ing off her poor relations.