Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-10-19
Gold closed, in New York, on Monday

The Clerical party IN france are said
TO have refused TO fight under GaribaIdi.
Block coal in ninsble quantities has
been found near Atwater, Portage coun-
ty.
The smallpox is said to be spreading
rapidly among the Red River tribe Of
indians,
On November l, about S25,OOO,OOO be-
comes payable on account OF interest on
the public debt
The Archbishop Of Quebec died on
Friday night, Of dropsy Of the heart,
aged s~eventy-twO.
A disastrous storm occurred oil the
Irish coast on the 18th instant. Many
~sbipwrecks are said to have occurred.
Sflas E Burrows, 'the great Ameri-
can traveller" died in Mystic, Conn.,, on
the 18th inst, in his seventy-sixth year.
The Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical
College was to-day located on the Neil
farm, about two miles from Columbus.
A heavy frost in north Mississippi and
Arkansas, on Wednesday night, it is
feared has done great injury to the late
cotton.
Wade Hampton in the New York
Herald, denies that the goods confiscated
for duties, belonged to either him or his
family.
George Allen, of Ravenns, was seri-
ously wounded last week, by the care
less handling Of a pistol in the hands Of
Miss Hartlerhode.
The official returns Of Nebraska show
that the State legislature stands thirty
six Republicans, nine Democrats, and
nine peoples candidates.
The T~reasurer's report of the Northern
Ohio Fair Association shows the total
number of tickets sold, during the six
days Of the fair, 70 be sass.
The capture Of scissors opens a sec
ond railway route to Paris, and the
Prussians viii put it to use at once
The other line only reaches to Meaux.
Three men, Robert Mccoy, Joseph
Holmes, and - Pouse, were instantly
killed by the falling Of a bank Of earth
upon them, at Akron, on Wednesday
last.
An instruction Of Chinese laborers on
the cotton estates Of Peru, took place on
the 4th inst A three days battle has
been fought with loss Of forty whites
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A returned Californian, Christopher
Herbert, brother Of the editor Of the
Sharon Times, was victimized by conf
dencs operators to the amount Of 5000.
at PitIsburg, a few days since.
A correspondent to the n. Y. Herald
from Friendship, says that Angie Phil
lips, formerly Of Sharon, Pa, committed
suicide at that place on the It'll inst, by
taking chloroform and laudanum.
A Paris letter says: Peace is tabOoeC
in Paris. Everybody is casting cannon
making mitrailleuses and constructing
pontoon bridges. Enough Of the latte,
are constructed to bridge the Atlsnti
ocean.
Prof. AMI Atwater, formerly Profes
scr in the College at Hiram, Ohio, bu
recently pastor Of the Disciple church q
Mentor, Geaugs county, has been ap
pointed Professor Of Latin in the Stat
University at Bloomington, Indiana.
If the German invasion and armed oc
cupation of France have made sad havo
in the champagne depots and vineyard
the enormous apple crop Of this seaso'
throughout the United States will NEE
the deficiency of genuine champagne il
the cider substitute.
Gen. Robert E. Lee, commandment
chief OF the late rebel armies Of tn
South, died at Lexington, Va, Octobe
u, of an attack of paralysis. May tn
evil that he did be inferred with hi
bones, and his example and memor,
moulder with his dust.
The pension roll Of the War Depart
ment contain the names Of twelve wild
W Of revolutionary soldiers, each owe
one hundred years Of age. Of thes
relics Of the Revolution two have reach
ed the ripe ~ Of III years another,
resident Of Ohio, counts nine years owe
a century, and her son is a prOmisin
lad Of eighty-seven.
The Tehuartepec Canal survey is 500
to be an accomplished fact. The Unite
States steamers Kansas and Mayhowel
sailed from Fortress Monroe on the lat
inst, with the parties appointed by tn
Secretary Of the Navy to make the sul
vev Of the Tehuantepec Isthmus, an
within q few months probably the prot
lem of a ship canal uniting the waters {
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will b
solved.
Collector Robb, Of Savannah, Georgi
on Thursday last, sent a dispatch to Sex
rotary of the Treasury Boutwell,, tn
some of his subordinates having unaI
thorizedly placed the flag Of the Unite
States at half mast, OF the custom hous
for the death Of Gen. Lee, he ordert
the flag Il be run up at full mast, ar
asked the Secretary If he had done righ
Boutwell, replied ~spproyingly Of the CO
lector's action. It would be & base pro
titution Of the old flag to drspe it
mourning over the death Of a man who
hand was raised in murderous rebe
lion against it, and for four years Of b
life stained it with blood and treaso
May all such rot in oblivion.
Detectives sent to the United KIN
dom, in search Of corroborstiVe eV
dence Of some already taken in the \
than murder case, have returned. Wht
asked whether they had been successfI
an evasive answer was given, and it
not by any mean certain that their 7
searches were productive Of any yalu
bic results; although the Circumstance
small in themselves, that the detectiv
passed on The vessel under sssum'
names, and that the s~tenographers at {
Central Office were called upon by d
teetives TO take testimony, gives rise
avague suspicion that they were accoI
panied home by some person either e;
prisoner or as a witness. 1t is hop
that such is the case, and that the mis
ing links in the chain Of evidence bel
woven about the offender have be-
secured.
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Resignation OF Secretary Cox.