Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-07-27

The amiable ~petrlfactlon who writes
the antediluvian editorials for the CORSti-
tuition, once in a while varies his articles
by dropping the name of Jackson and
inserting that of the editor Of the CHRoN-
IcLE. His editorials, after the manner
of his cross-eyed pistol shooting, scatter
like thunder, and are good for nothing
but to besmear white paper.
The Congressional District Committee,
appointed at Garrettsville, on the 9th inst,
agreed to meet in Cleveland, at the call
of the Chairman, to make arrangements
for calling the next Convention. The
want Of any organization of the late Com
mittee, occasioned considerable delay
and misunderstanding, which will here
after be avoided.
Hon. r. B. Dennis, of Cleveland,
has been appointed by the President
to the position of a Consular Agent or
Special Agent Of the Treasury Depart
ment, the duties of which will require
him to visit our various Consulates in
foreign lands, to investigate their o n
dition and report the same to the De-
partment. We are glad to learn of Mr..
Dennis appointment, as we regard him
eminently fitted byability, integrity and
genial disposition for the place. The
compensation is 5000 per year and
travelling expenses.
A granite monument nine and one
half feet high and about four feet square,
erected in Jefferson, Ashtabula county,
to the memory of the late Hon. Joshua
R. Giddings, was dedicated with suitable
ceremonies, on Monday last. The adj
dress was delivered by Hon. James A.
Garfield.
The Mahoning Republicans have NOM
mated the following county ticket
Sheriff, John Campbell, of A~ustintown /;
Treasurer, VIM. H. Fitch, of Youngs-
town; Commissioner, Lewis Temple,
of Green; Infirmary Director, d. V. Til
den, Youngstown; Surveyor, Robert
Haseltine, Youngstown.
The reduction of the public debt dur
ing June was q, 2OS, 72,O4. Since March
/, 1870, the debt has decreased 81 ,969,S77,
4S. In four months 81, 900, OOO. Ayear's
WORK at the same rate will show a reduc-
ton of 156, 900, 600. This is doing the
work the people elected Gen. Grant to
do. The figures for the month just past
are much in excess of those of any pre-
ceding month. They show two things,
atleast. First, that the administration is
working with a will to redeem its pledge.
Second, that the reduction already made
is helping, by cutting off the interest, to
increase the monthly decrease. Not a
month has passed without a reduction
being made of the debt. There is some
thing in honesty in high places.
The week closing July %, was n of
great excitement in commercial circles
in Chicago, and to many proved disas-
trous. Wheat, which on Tuesday last
reached s1,25 cash and S1,42 sellers op-
ton in August, on Saturday touched
SI,O5 cash and S1,1O sellers option in
August. The victims generally of this
revolution in price are farmers. who
rushed into speculations with more
avidity than judgement.
From the hotels and cottages of New
port, the beach at Long Branch, the ball
rooms of Cape May; the piazzas of Sara
toga and Niagara, and the Sylvan seclu-
sion of Virginia Springs and Crab Or
chard, comes the mournful wall of mo
menp' says the Louisville Courier
Journal. There is an awful preponder-
ance Of women and children at all Of
these resorts, and the drawing-rooms
look like those Of a Mormon elder,
Governor Hayes has received the
resignation of General B. F. Potts, State
Senator from the Twenty-first Senatori-
al district, composed of the counties of
Carroll and Stark, he having received
the appointment Of Governor of Mon
tana; and of James r. Hubble, Senator
from the Sixteenth Senatorial district,
composed of the counties of Delaware
and Licking, he having received the
Democratic nomination for Congress in
the eighth District. Writs will be issued
for a special election to fill the vacancies,
on the second Tuesday of October. 1t is
said hat Poppleton, of Delaware, will
be the Democratic candidate for Hub
BELLS successor in the Senate. Potts
was a Republican Senator, and Hubbell
Democratic. Potts majority in 1869 was
4S7. Hubbelrs was 647. The election in
October will probably not make any
change in the political character Of the
Senate by those who may be chosen to
fill the vacancies.