Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-08-24

7. ]. Nolan, Jr, Sec'y.
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Gold closed, in New York, on Monday
evening, at II5I.
The Youngstown races take place Aug.
so and 81, and Sept. I.
The custom receipts for the last week
amounted to AZO.272
Noble county produced 2I7U,S74
pounds Of tobacco last year.
Ben Wade says Ohio will go largely
Republican at the fall election.
The pork crop Of Ohio bids fair to be
275,OOO head greater than last year.
The Treasury balance, on the 10th,
amounted to about forty million dollars.
Maj. Gen. E. A. Hitchcock died in
Hancock county, N. " IN the sth inst.
Hon. John a. Bingham has been re-
nominated for Congress in the Sixteenth
district
The President has just issued a proc
lamation Of neutrality in the European
war.
Hon. E. B. Woodbury., Of Jefferson,
Ashtabula county, died in Jefferson on
the 18th inst, aged IS years.
Gen J. A. Garfield viii make the first
speech Of the campsin at Mansfield, on
Friday evening, August 26.
Emigration has fallen OFF 5000, to the
18th inst, since January lst, compared
with the corresponding months Of 1853.
A Scotch woman, name unknown, in
toxicated, was killed by being struck by
a train Of cars, in Youngstown, on the
10th inst
A large number Of passports are issued
to Germans, by the department Of State
at Washington, whose purpose is to join
the Pmssian army.
At the State Prohibition Convention
held in Boston, on the 18th inst Wen
dell Phillips was nominated for Cover
nor by reclamation.
VIM. B. McClurg, of Piqua, has been
nominated by the Republicans Of the
fourth district Of Ohio, to succeed Mr..
Lawrence in Congress.
The new issue Of bonds for the fund
ing of the public debt 10 the extent Of hf-
teen millions Of dollars will consume
sixty tons weight o fpaper-
A vessel Of war has been sent up the
rivers Elbe and Wesser, by the Secre-
tary Of the Navy, to afford protection to
American citizens residing in North Ger
many.
At Syracuse, New York, an anti-dram
shop convention nominated q ful State
ticket headed by Myron II. Clark for
Governor, and c. c. Leigh for Lieuten-
ant Governor.
A spring chicken marched into a Clar-
ion county, Pa, school house lately
The teacher up and killed the fowl, u
ajustice Of the peace sentenced the teach
er to jail therefor.
Miss Green, Of Alliance, Ohio, was ad-
mitted into the Government printing
office on the 10th inst, on piece work
This is the first female ~oompOsitOr en-
ployed at that establishment
Mr.. Lewis Egbert, Of Sandy Lake
township, has been a resident Of Mercer
county, Pa, for over seventy years, and
Is now living upon the farm which his
father settled in 1876, where he has re-
sided since 1873.
The only cheese factory in central Ohio
is in Delaware county. 1t works the
milk Of 800 COWS, and averages IL cheese,
Of As pounds each, every "a hours. The
foreman is a young Western Reserve
girl, from Wiloughby, Lake Co.
Hon. Jas. b. Orr, of South Carolina, has
published a letter announcing his adhe-
sion to the Republican party in South
Carolina. Hs says for many years TO
come that party must control b State.
Opposition to it will only augment and
perpetuate existing evils.
Rev. A. B. Maxwell has resigned the
charge Of the Presbyterian churehin Sa-
lem, Columbiana county, O., and has ac-
cepted an invitation to the Presbyterian
Church in Burlingame, Kansas, and viii
enter upon his labors there on the first
Sabbath in September.
Col. Simon Perkins, Of Akron, re-
Gently. shipped from his factory to Brig
ham Young, at Salt Lake, Utah, a car
load Of the Hawkins steel tooth sulky
seat hay rakes, manufactured by him.
Some one suggests that Brigham's wives
are preparing to comb their hair.
An impression prevails in some quar-
ters that the two cent stamp on checks
will not be required after Oct LIST. This
is an error. The new law exempts
Hprommissory notes for a less sum than
q hundred dollars, and receipts for any
sum Of money or for the payment Of any
debt"
Prof. William G. Williams Of the Ohio
Wesleyan University, has been nominal
ted for the Senate in the Senatorial Dis
trict composed Of the counties Of Della
var and Licking, es the Republican can
dfdate the resignation Of James Hub
bell having created a vacancy in that
district.
In the recently published minutes Of
the Cleveland Historical Society, an
account is given of the first mill ever
built on the Reserve. The site was on
the opposite side Of Mill creek, MahOn-
ing county, from the present site of Ian
ternan's mills. Some Of the old timbers
can be seen there yet.
No rain has fallen in the region Of OF
tavva- Canada, for oyer two months and
the whole country is dry az a cinder. On
last Thursday night a terrific gaze SWEEP
over that city, and the destruction o me
and property was very great; s0Oo.OOO
worth Of property being destroyed WIN
in a radius OFFS miles.