Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-12-21
Gold cloasd ct IlOE.

Gold closed at 1lOs.
There are thirty gas wells in Erie, aud
the city is Illuminated nightly with this
gas.
Three men Of Ashtabuls were arrested
q few days since for smuggling goods
from Toronto. Canada.
Secretary Boutwell, thinks the reduc-
tion of the public debt for the present
fiscal year will reach $500 {, 900.
The cost Of collecting the revenue
from 1866, to 1870 was more than 81 per
cent, while the expense Of collection for
1870 was only 81 per cent.
The Garrettsville Mining Co. have
leased about 1000 acres Of landin Portage
and Geauga Counties, for gold and 9TH
or minerals. Their leases include the
Thompson Lodges.
From July Isl, 1859, to June 30th, $50.
the public debt was reduced Sl0l, 6Ol ,9l6.-
IS, and from November SOth, 1869, to
December LIST, 1870, the reduction OF the
debt was -s1I9, 25l, 24O.5s.
The total valuation on the tax dupli-
cate OF Ohio for ISL, is Sl,l67, 100000.
The total tax levy for 1871 is about S28,-
463. 900. over th~ree-fourths OF which are
for local and county purposes.
On Sunday last, in Chicago, G. qusrters
Of beeves and IL calves were seized as
unfit for food. The owner said he had
intended shipping the vile stuff to New
York to be made into bologna sausage.
On last Thursday night, Franklin Ket-
tie and wife, two old residents Of Ste
phentown, near Troy, New York, were
murdered by their own son, who is
blind, The father and son had sdispute
about a will. The murderer was COM
mitted to jail.
The average premium Of gold in 1869,
was % 9-10 per cent, and for the first II
months Of 1870, the average was only
Is 2-IO per cent, being an improvement
on the value Of paper currency Of Il per
cent.
BY the nomination Of Senator Drake
as Chief Justice Of the Court Of Claims,
a vacancy occurs in the Senate from
Missouri. Among the candidates men
toned is the name Of Hon. Joel F..
Asper, formerly Of this county.
The House of Representatives has
taken action for the repeal Of the frank
ing privilege. The bill providing for its
abolition after July Ist, 1871, passed the
House by IO3 ayes to 65 roes. 1t allows,
however, for the free interchange Of pub
LEGATIONS, and the free circulation Of
weekly and semi-weekly papers in the
county in which they are published.
DR.. Jeremiah Cullen Wilcox, who
practiced medicine in Hartford, Trum-
bull county, for twenty years, celebrated
his eightieth birthday, on the 9th Of this
month. He has resided in Richfelds
Summit county, since $40. he is enjoy
ing good health and is quite vigorous.
Among The presents made on the occa-
sion were a silver cake basket, a pair Of
gold spectacles and q gold pen.
An Ohio youth sent $40 to New York,
LElEnAANH III AG1HNAoG ~ =
osived by him from that city Of deviltryi
promising him, in return, 500 in coun-
terfeit grsenbacks, "good as the genu-
inc" In g few days he found a package
addressed to him, at the express Office,
c. 0. D. He paid the charges, took the
package to a place where no n could
see him-opened it-feeling rich-and
found it to contain an old newspaper
and written on the margin thereof wer'
the consoling words-"Damphool an6
his money are soon parted How
your eye teeth, now?"
An audacious Kentucky rebel sympa
thizing Democrat who happens to be
United States Senator from Kentucky
startled and disguised the country, N
Wednesday last, by asking leave to in
troduce resolutions in favor OF requiring
the government to disinter and remove
the remains OF the nearly twenty thous
snd Union soldiers buried on Arlington
Heights, near Washington, that the wild
ow of the late rebel General Lee nigh
take possession of and occupy the estat'
forfeited by her husband by reason o
his treason to the country that educated
and fed him and gave him positions o
honor for years. The proposition to thu
desecrate the haliowed resting place o
Eberty's martyrs, is so insulting al
hes-tess as to be positively diabolicaL-
This is only an outburst Of the old AFRO
CANT, presumptuous spirit OF rebel De
mocracy, and indicates the shape thing
would take under a Democratic admins
tration. It is gratifying to know tina
McCreary's disgusting proposal wa.
characterized by every Republican Sen
ator as insulting and ~disgracefui, anC
that by a vote Of 81 nays to 1 ayes, tn
author Of the resolution was refused per
mission to introduce it