Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-12
News Summary.

On New Years day there was only 81
42O people drunk in Washington.
The post-ofice at Eaton, Ohio, was
robbed of about three hundred dollars
in money and stamps a few nights ago.
There are now thirty-eight female con-
victs in the Ohio Penitentiary, four more
than were ever reported before in that
institution.
Rev. Dr.. Osgood, who for many years
has occupied q Unitarian pulpit in
New York city, has become a member
of the Episcopal Church.
Madame Anna Bishop has sung in
English, French, Italian, Spanish,
Swedish, Danish, Russian, Bohemian,
and German.
Ten thousand Philadelphians have
signed a petition to the Legislature for
the Enactment of a lawl limiting the num-
Der of passengers in a street car to thirty.
The publishers of Mark Twain's
book, 1.-THE New Pilgrims Progress"
site that the sales of that work for
December amounted to $4,000.
A resolution requesting Congress not
to change the duty on pig-iron, was pass
Gu DN the lEOh ASSOtAdLlOu dl LlllSDAI5
on Thursday last.
One Of the peculiar things in cOnnec-
ton with the movement to abolish the
ranking privilege is the sending of blank
petitions, for its abolition, through the
mails under frank.
a vein of rich iron ore has been dis
covered within three or four miles of
Marietta, which has been tested and
pronounced equal to any in Southern
| Ohio.
AT Portsmouth, Ohio, last Monday
evening, while the Deputy Sheriff
was in one of the cells, which he was
examining, the prisoners, three in
number, locked him in and escaped.
Lieut.. Gen. Sir Charles A. Wind
ham, commander of Her Majesty's for
ces in Canada, has recently made g
large purchase of land in the vicinity
of Manhattan, Kan.
4 Parrot shell, one of ''GilmOre's
pills" was found the other day lodged
between two buildings in Charleston, 5.
C.. A fire nearly destroyed one of the
buildings, but fortunately did not reach
the unexploded shell.
Philadelphia has just broken up a pre-
datory band, known among themselves
as the "Forty Thieves who had for
''Queen" the daughter of a preacher in
Germantown, Penn, who once was a
missionary TO India.
The nail mills at Wheeling have all
stopped operations to take stock. The
aggregate number of kegs of nails made
at that CITY, the last year, the Intelli-
gencer says, will reach $4,000. Includ-
ing the production of the mill at Ben
wood would swell the aggregate to sOO,-
900.
United States Mail Agent Thomas c.
Smith found a package containing ST.
900 in cash, in New Haven depot, a few
DAYS since. He returned it to its owner,
a Boston Soap manufacturer, and receiv-
ed IS a reward $1,000 and a diamond pin.
Hon. TheopiIus Parsons has declined
to withdraw his resignation as Professor
in the Harvard Law School, saying that
he has held the office more b twenty
wears, and that, even if he might hope his
services would continue to be welcome
for a short time longer, it could only be
for a short time.
Alvin Bolbs, who has just served two
years in the Ohio Penitentiary, was taken
TO Michigan yesterday, to serve out the
remainder of a term of fifteen years in
the Michigan Penitentiary. He was SEN
fenced TO the latter for manslaughter,
and escaped in 1865.
A Boy fourteen years old named Au-
gustus Harms, ate a piece of candy
which he picked up on the street, at
Port Clinton, Ohio, last Monday, and
died in a few hours. The candy had
been charged with strychinine, and
intended for some other person, had
been a~ccidently dropped.
1t is something to make a special
note ofthat those who went "the grand
rounds'' of the official receivers in
Washington, on New Years day, COM
mencing with the White House, were
not able to obtain a drop of "the ar
dent1 to drink. There was plenty of
whatever was good for them-water,
coffee, ETC., but with these the fluids
ended. Long may the practice con-
tinue!