Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-03-02

ufactured, and the Benedict & Burn
ham Company has taken the contract
to make it. The candle burns fluid
called "Terrane," and gives a light
equal to one and half sperm candles,
at a cost of one cent for twenty-four
hours. 1t is a Russian invention,
used by the mobiles of that country, of
which Mr.. Clay has the patent for
this country.
The culture of the pineapple is
profitable in Florida. A local paper
reports that one man in Key West
has sold his crop of pineapples this
year for nearly 81 900. The crop was
gathered from less than an acre and a
half of ground. This same man has
lis, 900 plants, which will be in bear
ing next year. These cover less than
seven acres of ground, and, if sold at
the same rate as this years crop, will
net him $50, 900. The pineapple crop
of next year, it is supposed, will ex-
ceed 100000.
State Items.
Colonel P. H. Olmstead, one of the
Oldest citizens of Columbus, died Feb.
20.
Considerable plowing has been done
during the last ten days in Franklin
county.
Nicholas Wuebben has been bound
over in $500, at Dayton, charged with
the murder of O'COnnor, few days
ago.
Wheat, Notwithstanding the alter
nate freezes and thaws of the past few
weeks, is looking very well in the
central part of Ohio.
The veterans at the Soldiers Home
the 22d in good style. Lieu
tenant Governor Lee, General Potts,
and others, spoke on the occasion.
Mr.. Isaac Pence, a wealthy and re-
speeted farmer of st. Paris, o., COM
mitted suicide on the second ult., by
himself through the head
with a pistol.
Mr.. H. n. Gillett, of Lawrence
county, o., raised from one potato
twelve and a half bushels of potatoes.
The soil was pond muck. Can any
beat this?
Carr, who is now awaiting eXecu-
ton in the Belmont county Jail, for
the murder of Miss Fox, received the
news as to the day of his execution
with loud laugh.
Three hundred and forty-two emil
grants passed through Columbus last
week, forty-seven of whom were refu-
geese from North Carolina, en- route
for Kansas City.
The Ohio Patriot tells of q widow
OF blooming thirty-six calling at the
Probate office there to get n licence.
saying her fellow, husband that was
to be, was so bashful. She gave his
age at eighteen. Bully for the widow.
Lewis Hedrick, near South Charls-
ton, has sixteen children by one wife
twelve girls and four boys-all living
and arrived at years of discretion.
His brother, Isaac Hedriek, Marshal
Of the village, who has been twice
has family of thirty-three
children.
There are now Woman Suffrage As
;ociatiOns at the following places in
Ohio: Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton,
Springfield, Yellow Springs,
Xenis, Cadiz, Troy, Cleveland, Ashta-
ouIa, WillOughby, Jefferson, Paines-
Vile, Norwalk. Elyria, Mastersville,
rontogany, Mortified and Marys-
vile.
Professor ]. S. Newberry is lectur-
ng or The mineral resources of Ohio.
he says that the coal fields of Ohio
embraces 10000 square miles-one-
ourth of the State-a greater area of
,Oal than that of Great Britain, where
100, ,000, 900 tons are annually mined,
While Ohio mines but about 5000, 900
ons. He thinks that the Mahoning
Valley will become one of the most
important iron centers in the United
States. He says that about 200, 900
Ons of iron ore are brought from
lake Superior annually, three-fourths
# which are manufactured in Ohio.
Foreign.
The released Fenians are to have an
walton at Dublin.
The Irish members of Parliament
ccept Gladstone's reform bill.
England expects to spend s., $50, 600
ess on the navy this year than last.
The uniform depth in the Suez
ANAL is now said TO be only nineteen
eet.
Austria accepts the Hungarian view |
n the question of the military bound
ry.
Prince Pierre Bonaparte is to be tried /
y the High Court of Justice on the 4
harge of homicide.
Letters received in London from
lOme say an early adjournment of
he council is probable.
Fonville has been sentenced to a
me of five thousand francs and six
1onths' Imprisonment.
Rochefort complains that he has
cen denied the privilege of writing
ditoIials while in prison-a privilege
sually extended to incarcerated Jour
alists.
Letters received in New York from
lome say that if the dogma of infalli-
ility is presented, and its passage
GEMS probable, n number of Bishops,
eaded by the Gallican party, will
ecede.
The French Government has proof
( plot to assassinate Napoleon and
he Prince Imperial. On one of the
risoners was found a plan for throw
lg bombs through the Emperor's
Madrid journals publish an address
ON London and Liverpool mer-
hants expressing sympathy for Spain
] her attempts to suppress the Cuban
and inclOsing a contribu-
on of sl, $40.
Miscellaneous.
Brown is the ruling color in Paris.
The disbursements for Alaska thus
IT amount to S597, ,7S9; the receipts
ON it to S2l, $50.
The President does not think we
IN fund the public debt this year at
ar for four and half per cent.
Admiral Farragut is quite i'll. and
,ars are entertained for his recovery.
lis friends think it a return of his old
The Woolen Manufacturers Associ-
ion, lately in session at Chicago.
iOpted resolutions against the pres
1T tariff.
]. Wesley Harper, another of the
lembers Of the well known publish
lg house of Harper Brothers, is dead.
Solomon did not say, but he might
ave truthfully said, that those who
} to law for damages are pretty sure
get them.
1t is said that an unfortunate cool ,
ess has arisen between Victoria and
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