Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-07-06
THE
WEDNESDAY. JULY G. 1870.
LOCAL and

WEDNESDAY, JULY G, 1870.
LOCAL and PERSONAL
The Erie road has reduced the fare
from Warren to New York, and also to
Boston, to eleven dollars
The Ashtabula County Fair will be
held at jefferson, Ohio, on Wednesday.
Thursday and Friday, September 18th,
18th and 10th, next.
Several communications, and other
articles, have been un~avoidably crowded
out Of this weeks issue. They will re-
ceiye due attention in the next number
of the paper.
An employee of the A. &c. w. r. R.
Co., by the name of John Denean a resi-
dent of Johnson, this Co., was killed at
BurghiI, on Friday last, in attempt
ing to get on the cars while in motion.
Rev. John Peate, Pastor of the NJ.
E. Church, of Franklin, Pa, has started
on a tour across the Plains and noun
tains via the the Pacific Railroad TO the
coast. He expects to be absent about six
weeks.
An advertisement to be found in
another column, informs the public that
the fall term of the Bazetta Academy
will commence Aug. 18th, 1870, and con-
tinue twelve weeks. A. Wayne Ken
nedy, Principal.
The receipts at the stands of
the Baptist church, on the 4th inst,
amounted to nearly four hundred
dollars. The Episcopal ladies, at their
stand, realized upwards four hundred
and sixty dollars.
The covered bridge over the Maho-
ming, adjoining the R. R. Bridge, caught
on fire on Monday morning, from a fire
cracker thrown on the roof 1t was for
tunately discovered before the flames
had made much progress, and the fire
was extinguished by a few pals of wa
ter.
Mr.. Dana, has purchased of Mr..
Gilbert, for $1,000, the hotel property,
on the corner of High and Liberty
streets, known as the American, which
Is to be ~overhauled and arranged for the
use of the Musical Institute. 1t Will be
occupied by the Institute in September
next
We regret TO learn of the death of
Rev. William C. Clark, formerly pastor
of the Presbyterian Church of Warren,
who died at his residence in Detroit,
Michigan, on Friday afternoon, June 80,
aged sixty-one years. His remains were
inferred in Elmwood Cemetery, in that
city, on Saturday last.
At the caucus meetings, on Saturday
evening last, delegates were chosen from
Warren to the Niles convention, to be
holden tomorrow, to nominate a Mem
Der of the State Board of Equalization
for this Senatorial district, as follows:
Ist ward, John L. Weeks, NJ. L. Hig-
gins. I'd ward, I. N. Dawson and P. L.
Glider. Sd ward, nc meeting. Town
ship, Elisha Adams.
Two of the graduates of the Western
Reserve College, at Hudson, this year,
are Trumbull County young men-Mr.
Charles F. Harrington, of Warren, and
Mr.. Charles Smith, of North Bloomfield.
Prof Barrow, being transferred from
the mathematical room to the chair of
Latin instruction, Mr.. Smith will fill the
place made vacant by Prot. B. Mr.. Har-
rington will also continue connected
with the college, having been chosen to
the position of tutor of mathematics and
assistant in the preparatory department.
The workmen in the Vienna shaft
reached the coal at about two O'Clock on
the morning of July 4. A Al feet vein of
nice block coal was penetrated, and sew
eral toRs brought to the surface. The
contract for sinking the shaft was taken
by Nj. Ira B. Mackey, and he has stuck
to the work perseyeringly amid many
discouragements and Pumors of failure
to successfully execute the work. But
MI. NJ. has proven himself equal to the
task, hard and hopeless as it seemed at
times.
We are informed that Mrs. Beau
champe, formerly a teacher in our pub
lie schools, is to retain her connection
with the Cleveland Female Seminary.
next year, as a teacher of rhetoric and
English literature, and that her sister,
Miss Blakeslee, who, during the past
year, has had charge of the primary
department in the branch of the Semi
nary IN Euclid avenue, will next year
fill an important position in the second
airy department of the same school.
The Republican eaucus, in town, on
Saturday evening last, was nj of the
quietest held here for years to nominate
delegates to a Congressional convention.
There was no contest in either ward or
in the township over choice of delegates
there being no open show of opposi-
ton to Gen. Gsrfield's denomination.
Delegates were chosen TO the Congress
S5onal convention, as follows; LIST ward,
H g. Perkins and C. Z. Glidde1. I'd
ward, John Fofste. Sd ward, no meet
ing. Township, H. J. Harsh.
We nave waited a Eeek or two for
our Warren contemporaries to chronicle
the escape of a prisoner from their Jail.
They arrested and imprisoned Jim Car
and another scamp for assault and bat
terry one afternoon, Jim took in the
situation at a glance, and in a few
minutes crawled out at one of the holes,
and about bed time arrived here in high
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