Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-04-13
General News Items.

The supreme court has taken a recess
until April 18th.
The Pennsylvania Legislature adj
oIrned on Thursday last.
Gold closed in New York, Mon
day evening, at 1I3s, IlS7.
The House Committee on Foreign AT
fairs have resolved to recommend the
passage of a resolution according bellig-
erent rights to the Cubans.
The earnings of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railroad from Jan. /,
1870, to March l, 1870, were 81 1888, 733,
against s., SS7 $50 for the same period in
1869.
st. Louis, this year, pulls up close to
Chicago in the pork packing business
The number of hogs packed in Chicago
has been 600. 900; in Cincinnati, 3S7, $50;
in st. Louis, 64l,3l6; in Milwaukee, ~
626.
A letter from an ex-rebel officer in
Nashville to Congressman Stokes 4 V il
is publicly threatened, if an attempt is
made to reconstruct that State, Union
men will be killed right and left. We
should prefer to be one of those who are
left.
The Ohio State Sunday School Union
will hold its annual convention this year
in Springfield, on the first and second
DAYS of June. The musical exercises,
the programme, will be in charge of
Philip Phillips.
The question of reducing the army is
being discussed in official circles in
Washington. The War Department
saws the terms of ten thousand men eX-
pire this summer, and if troops are sent
to the South and frontier, the army will
have to be filled up to its maximum.
The management of the Erie and Pitts
burgh Railroad has passed into the hands
of the Pennsylvania Central. the neces-
sary legislation and transfers having
been effected, the change 10 take effect
not later than the first of May.
A little daughter of Jacob Miller, near
Mount Vernon. recently, was sent to the
house of a neighbOr, and, upon arriving,
she was seized by a couple of ferocious
dogs, and literally toIn TO pieces before
assistance could arrive. She died almost
instantly.
The new postage stamps will probably
be ready for use in April. They are
said to be much better than those now
in use. We can not see how they could
be much worse. AS we have had several
changes lately. We hope that the ma
tional designer has pitched upon a stamp
that will stick.
Lady Franklin arrived at Rio Janeiro
on the 4th, from England. She is now
upon a trip around to the Pacific side OF
North America, she having heard that
some one living in Vancouver's Island is
in possession Of a letter from, or regard
ing Sir John Franklin, which he will
not deliver to any n but herself in
| person. 1t is to be feared that the poor
old lady, now eighty, we believe, is
has had no other object in view for the
long years since Sir John was lost among
the Arctic Yilds than to find him, or at
least traces of him. for even yet she
does not doubt his existence.
An act has Just passed the House at
Harrisburg, Pa, 10 prevent gambling
and lotteries, which provides that all
gamblers shall be fined not less than
$1,000, and imprisoned not over five
years, and all keepers of game the same.
Lottery dealers are punishable in the
same way, but purchasers of tickets are
exempted. COnstables are charged with
the duty Of watching for such game
and punished for neglect; and Keepers
OF nOUelS, inns or are forbid
en-, under sever penalties, from allow
ing gambling in their houses. The rela-
tiyes of those who loose are enabled to
sue and recover in any court of record.
The Governor, on Friday last, sent to
the Senate the following nominations
Stephen H. Pitkin, of Summit and
". r. Waite, of Lucas, to be trustees OF
the Northern Lunatic Asylum: Linton
Durham, of Preble, to be trustee of the
Southern Lunatic Asylum; Joseph 81.
Bates, of Hamilton, to be trustee of the
Longview Asylum; Henry F. Booth and
F. c. Sessions, of Franklin, to be trus-
tees Of the Blind Asylum; John A.
Lutz, Of Pickaway, to be trustee Of the
Idiotic Asylum; Robert c. Smith, OF
Richland, to be register of the Virgins
Military School lands at Mansfield
Joseph Perkins, of C~uyahogs, and Doug,
lass Putnam, Of Washington, to be mem
bers OF the Board Of State Charities
Clark Waggoner, of Lucas, To be trustee
of the Reform School for Girls.