Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-23
Personal.

Personal.
ALI. Burnett is engaged to give
twelve entertainments in Kansas.
The Prince declined dead-head rail- |
road tickets.
A Broadway policeman Is six feet
nine inches in hight.
o. Logan received $500 for a recent |
lecture in Chicago.
"Lord" Ainsly has returned to New
York.
Ben. Wade wants the word ''male''
stricken from the Constitution OF Ohio.
Hon. VIM. NJ. Evarts has been
elected President of the Newport Bar
Association.
Private letters confirm the reports
OF the continued i'll health of Alexan-
der H. Stephens.
Bismarck wants the other great
powers to concur in a protest against
the Papal sy llabus.
Arthur got very much balled during
his trip to this Republic. 1t wasn't
the Fenians.
Prince Alfred got handsome treat
ment in Japan, but the Chinese gave
his visit to Perkin no attention.
DIR. William Prescott, of Concord,
New Hampshire, has Washington's
wedding dress sword.
John Browns prospective step-sOn
was pelted with flowers by fifteen
young ladies at Bridgeport, Conneci-
cut. No eontusiOns.
Mrs. Henry ]. Raymond and her
daughters, and the family of Hon.
Ben. Wood arrived in Charleston,
South Carolina, last week, by steam
ship.
Hope Scott, who married Miss
Lockhart, the granddaughter Of Sir
Walter Scott, is said to have law
practice of one hundred thousand
dollars year.
Miss Romero, sister of the former
Minister from Mexico, is expected
from Mexico, for the purpose of enter
ing the Convent of the Sacred Heart,
in Washington.
Gen. James Shields presided over a
meeting in st. Louis, last week, to
raise funds for the national" monu-
ment to Stonewall Jackson. A letter
was read from JEFF. Davis.
George Peabody wrote in "mental
photograph album" as an answer to
the question, "What is your 0istin-
gushing characteristic? the reply
Mot old enough to form an opinion"
A Connecticut paper boasts of a
three-year old boy in that State who
was taken to see the cars for the first
time the other day, and upon return
ing home took pencil and paper and
drew an accurate picture of the iron
horse.
Rev. George Baughart, one of the
oldest Methodist ministers in the
United States, died at his residence
near Bridgeville, Warren county, New
Jersey, a few days since. He had
reached the ripe old age of eighty
eight years.
Arthur Folsom, the Haytain Min
lister to the United States, is native
of Exeter, n. H, and is grandson
of General Nathaniel Folsom, OF the
Revolution, who commanded the New
Hampshire troops on the investment
of Boston in l775.
, Miss Julia Hubbard, the "Trans
cribing Clerk" of Wisconsin Legisla
ture, is young, handsome, and wei
educated. A bashful young membe
= called her the transporting clerk,
] in his confusion, the other day, AMI
! in an instant twenty other unmarried
? members sprang to their feet and call
ed him to order.
There is a man living in the noun
tains if North Carolina, not more thar
: forty miles from Greenville, s. C., WHIT
: has reached the extraordinary age o
: l43 years. At the time of BraddOck'i
defeat he was 20 years old, and had 1
wife and three children. A gentleman
= at Greenville says that this man, whC
come down to US from a former gener
alton, has always been in moderate
, circumstances, and has lived upon {
plain, coarse, vegetable diet; that ht
has never drunk any liquid but pur'
spring water, and bids fair to live
many years longer. He enjOyes per
feet health, possesses all of manhOodi
] attributes, and wants to marry. H'
: has survived seven wives, and, hav
ing lost the last one about 90 year
] ago, he now naturally begins to fee
: quite lonely.
State Items.
3 A man named Mr.. Miller was STRUCK
r insane while upon the witness stanC
. in the court room at Chillieothe, a few
5 days since.
: John Miller, a citizen of Delphos
] was killed by falling from the steeplt
ofthdPresbyterian Church. on the 14tf
[ inst. while engaged in making som'
repairs. He leaves a wife and two
E children.
A man named John Smith was kill
D ed in Peregrine's coal bank Ironton
) about o'clock on the 18th by {
, portion of the roof falling upon him
He leaves a wife and four children
, Having been a very industrious anC
/; careful man, he leaves his family il
! comfortable circumstances.
The Supreme Court of Ohio meet
to-day, when the Clerk will issue ;
, death warrant ordering Thomas d
; Carr, of Belmont county, to be hung
! March 25, for the murler of Louisa G
,, Fox. This is the second death war
rant issued by the Court under th'
new law.
The State tax rate of Ohio this yea
I, will be four mills, against three mill
, last year, from the necessity OF cover
! ing five-tenths of a mill transferred
from the sinking fund last winter, anC
an additional five-tenths for indebted
, ness and ordinary expenses. This in
crease will not be sufficient to NEE
7 the debt of over one million. due il
? December next, and an extension il
| therefore deemed probable.
Governor Hayes, of Ohio, in hi!
message, states the total number o
2 persOns of school age in the State
D duling 1869, was ], ops ,675. The mum
ber enrolled in the public schools wa
740, ,3S2. Total amount raised TO
E school purposes, S6.57S, 1858. Th'
State Commissioner recommends th'
, adoption of county superintendeney
, the substitution of township boards o
education for the present system o
5 township and sub-district boards,
: cOdificatiOn of school laws, and Othel
: important measures.
While the congregation at the st
D Mary's Catholic Church, of Piqua
were engaged in worship, on th'
. morning of the 18th, young wOmaI
E by the name of Miss Mary Maher en-
5 tered the church and took seat, anC
, in a few moments thereafter deliber
2 ately took from her pocket pistol
and shot a young man named Thamai
I | Wise, who occupied the seat immedi
: ately in front of her. Wise, after be
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