Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-05-18
News Items.

LADY Thorn, a celebrated travelling
horse, has been sold for $4,000.
A man named Henry Elliott, was
drowned near Conneaut last week.
A. 6. Byers has been reelected Secre-
tary of the State Board of Charities.
Mcfarland is pronounced a confirmed
lunatic by the Medico Legal Society.
Five thousand hogs were destroyed
bv fire in Cincinnati, on the 18th inst
A woman's convention is to be held
in Chicago on the 18th and 18th insts.
The next county fair of Ashtabula,
will be held Sept. 14th, 10th and 10th.
The new temple of the L. o. o. F. at
Columbus, was dedicated on the 10th inst.
Theodore Clay, son of Hon. Henry
Clay, for fifty years a lunatic, is reported
dead.
The marriage of Senator Ames and
Miss BIanch Butler, will take place in
July.
The Hero. bound from Santiago de
Cuba to Montreal, was burned at sea on
the I'd inst.
At the late French election Paris gave
$1,000 majority against the Bonaparte
dynasty.
An Edinburgh cable telegram says
that the Scotch iron-masters threaten a
lockout.
Three young ladies' named Wallace,
were drowned near Wheatland, Ind, on
the 10th inst.
Desc. Simon Lanphear, of Carrots
vile, died at that place on the Sd inst,
aged 20 years.
In New York on the 18th inst, 1867
eolored voters registered for the election
held yesterday,
A proposition to change he weight of
silver coinage is embodied in a bill now
before Congress.
Fifty-seven thousand copies of the
Mcfarland trial have been already order
ed of the publishers.
Nh. Bowles, a banker in Paris, argues
that an American four per cent. bond
will be taken in Europe.
Benjamin Flemming, the last of Com
modore Perry's men, died in Erie, Pa,
on the 10th inst, aged 81 years.
Hon. Thomas Irwin, for many years
Judge of the United States Court, died
i'm Pittsburgh Oh Saturday last.
The Republican General Committee,
in New York city, has decided not to
Join in the coalition against Tammany.
Fifty car loads of oil are shipped east
from Cleveland daily, that city being one
of the largest petroleum markets in the
world.
The French Opposition and clerical
organs say the result of plebiscitum is
without social, political or religious sig
n~ificance.
VIM. II. West, late Attorney General
of Ohio, has been nominated by the
President, Consul to Rio JaneirO, vice
Monroe resigned.
On Tuesday of last week, a British
war vessel was refused the privilege of
passing through American waters-the
Saulte Sainte Marie Canal.
A little girl 4 years old, named Hayes,
parents residing in Cleveland, was
drowned last Friday by falling into a
cistern that had been left open.
A. ID. Richardson's brother and admin
~istrator publishes a card, saying that the
estate of the deceased amounted to only
$4,000, Oh perhaps a little more.
Riota of a serious nature occurred in
4he city Of Paris on the nights of the 10th
and 18th insts. Streets were barricaded
and general confusion prevailed.
The great yacht race in England BE-
tween the English yacht, Cambria, and
the American yacht, Sappho, on the 10th
inst, resulted sn favor of the latter.
The national eneampment of the G. A.
r. held at Washington, on the 18th inst,
elected Gen. John A. Logan as Grand
Commander-in-C Chief, for the ensuing
year.
The fury on the case of Mcfarland,
charged with the killing of a. D. Rich
ardson, in New York, after an absence
of about three houEs. rendered a YER
dict Of not guilty.
The prisoners in the French prison
Of La Roquette, attempted 10 revolt,
on Tuesday, and in the fight that fol-
lowed, one of the keepers was killed
and twenty wounded.
At the Grand Lodge meeting of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, held
at Columbus, on the 18th inst, an appro-
priation of $4,000, was made TO the Or
phans' Home, when located.
Abrsm W. Fox, a full blooded African,
mas purchased an important interest in
the Detroit Free Press, a paper which
heretofore has been noted for its mali
cious bitterness toward his raaa,
Including the balance in the treasury
of the United States, on Dec. Slst, name
~, Sl2S, 1885, 37. the receipts of the Gov
eminent for the quarter ending March
3Ist were SPAS S7 ,24S, and the expendi-
lures sIOe, COS ,O29.
1t is said that the Know Nothing
movement is revived in Washington, D.
c., with this modification, however, that
no wal is to be made against ROmsn
Catholics, many of whom have Joined
the ReE organization.
At LadoEs. : few miles south of Fort
Scott, Kansas, on tbs iOinst., six outlaws
were hanged by the citizeng for the per-
petrstion of iendish OGtragss GU two
daughters of J. n. Roch, aged ~ and IL
years
Susan b. Anthony stated in a recent
speech that C. L. Vallandigham had
espoused the woman suffrage cause, and
had promised TO introduce resolutions
in favor of it at the next Democratic
State Convention.
The telegraph reports large gatherings
of FeEians at Duluth, at the head Of
Lake Superior. and at st. Paul, Mime
sofa, en- route to the Red River country
of British America, to assist the rebel
lion there against British authority.
The Board of Trustees of the Ohio
Agricultural and Mechanical College
met at Columbus, last Wednesday, fif-