Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-09
General News SnmmarY.

General News Summary.
There are AS boys and lis girls in the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Columbus.
A petition has been presented from
twenty-five thousand citizens of Utah,
for the admission of Utah as a State.
The New Jersey Assembly on Tues
day rejected the Fifteenth Amendment
by a vote of 81.
Since the assembling of the Ecumeni-
cal Council, seven of its members have
died, and four left Rome.
A Spanish war steamer recently stop
ped and searched an American vessel,
on its way from Nassau to Harbor Is
land,
The Assembly Of New Jersey rejected
the Fifteenth Amendment by a vote of
81 to q, Wednesday last.
"Handy andy" the champion burglar
of Chicago, and recently an Ohio LIAM
caster) man, has been sentenced to ten
years in the Penitentiary, at Joliet.
The Legislature of Nebraska will meet
in extra session at Lincoln or he 18th Of
the present month. 1t will adopt the
Fifteenth Amendment.
The remains of Mr.. Peabody arrived at
Peabody, Mass, on the lst inst, and was
deposited in the library room of the Pea
body Institute. The principal buildings
particularly the Institute, are festooned'
with Grape.
Counterfeits of the fifty cent notes of
the Lincoln vignettei issue are reported as
making their appearance. The backs are
exact counterparts of the original, but
the faces are rather darker and more
blueish.
The certificate OF the reduction of the
capital stock of the Enterprise Fire and
Marine Insurance Company, of Cincin-
natl, from SI,OOO,O0 o TO 5000 was
filed on Saturday at the Secretary of
States Office.
There are over %, 900, 600 sheep in the
United States. One-half of this number
are owned in seven States, Ohio taking
the lead with $3.50, 100 head, and pro-
ducing nearly one-third of all the wool
in the country.
The emancipation of the serfs Of Rus
STA, il is stated, will become entire and
complete on February 10Th, 1870. From
that date they will not be bound to reside
in their communes, but will be permitted
to settle at will in any part of Russia.
Owing to the illness of Judge Barnard
the suit of the Erie Railway againt Com
modore Vanderbilt which was set down
for trial Yesterday was postponed. This
suit is to recover 100000 alleged, to have
been paid the Commodore on thu settle
nent of litigation two years ago. The
case was finally set down for the first
Monday in March.
The report of the Ohio State School
Commissioner shows that there were in
Ohio in 1869 l,Ol7 900 youth between five
and twenty-one years of age. OF these,
10000 We're enrolled in the public
schools, with an average daily attend
snce of 434 900. There were l05, 624 school
children reported for Cincinnati, and 81
524 for Cleveland. The Commissioner
estimates the population Of Cincinnati at
293, 400 persons, and of Cleveland at TO-
456.
1t has been nothing but murder and
violence in some portions of Georgia
since the close of the war. Now comes
word that Mr.. Brant, president of the
board of registration, and assistant in
ternal revenue assessor, has been assas-
sinaied between Savannah and Thomas
vile. The work of reconstruction was
~ bCEul a LlOAAACAl1 w HOO1l III oCoA-
gia.
The Lieutenant Governor of Kansas,
by his casting vote in the Senate on
"Wednesday, tabled o memorial to Con-
gress favoring the sixteenth or woman
suffrage amendment. We think that
even Miss Susan will lose her temper
over this, and If so, that the Lieutenant
Governor will have a warm tine when
she and her staunch coadjutors next can
vass that State.
The temperance people of PennsylVa-
mai are working hard for the enactment
of what is called in England a "Permis-
siYe act" that is, to permit the abolition
of the liquor traffic in any ward, borough
or township where the majority of voters
shall so decide. Those districts that
want saloons and taverns can have them,
but their more abstinent neighbors need
not be cursed with them under the pro-
visions of the proposed law.
a number of officers who served in the
late war, but are now members of the
Democratic party, have organized them
selves in New York into what they call
thu "Grapd Army Of the Constitution -
The organization is intended to extend
all over the United States. Now that the
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth
Amendments are to all intents and pur-
poses part of the Constitution of the
United States, il is a matter for rejoicing
that those officers in the late war, who
are Democrats, should organize as a
grand army to enforce > constitution
which prohibits slavery and establishes
negro suffrage in all parts of the Union.
The London Broad Arrotc, thigh naval
gravely moraliZes over what
it calls "the activity OF the American
navy yards" which activity affords con-
proof of the intentions of the
Government, which are to make
navy yards rival those of England and
France. All this our London cOtempora-
~ deeply regrets sin the interest of
peace" 1t adds: ave would gladly
hsYe seen the example set by America in
her days OF comparative weakness en-
on a magnificent scale, and held
up to the worlds admiration. In the
present and the coming time, when her
strength is ineontestable, and no one
dreams, or is likely to dream, of disput-
ing IL:
For some days past active negotiations
a V beef carried on between the Erie
and Atlantic and Great Western railways,
md an arrangement has been finally con-
between the contending parties.
This arrangement places the Atlantic and
Great Western by'direct sanction Of the
courts of the States of New York, Penn
and Ohio, under the control of
he Erie railway, thereby giving the lat
er company under their WI control an
lnbroksl line between Cincinnati, Cleve-
and and New York. ghe Erie Compa-
~ pays as rent thirty per cent. of the net
earnings. In other respects the lease is
imilaF to that Of last spring, except that