Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-02-15

WEAK Lld4 0AaSLAC6f MAe1S RAeRSAe-eL
Of the ordinary tax is not sufficient
to keep their roads in proper condi-
ton.
OLD BOOKS.
Being in the State Library, a few
evenings since, I had an opportunity
to examine some rare old specimens
Of Typography. The Oldest work in
the library is a volume Of 1923 pages,
in Latin, printed in Black Letter, and
written by St. Jerome. The printers
imprint is dated I4s5-nearly four
hundred years ago, and only forty
years after the invention Of printing.
Another work, printed in the year
1855, is in Old English Black Letter,
and is q curiosity both in its odd ap-
pearing typography and its quaint or
biography. It IL entitled the I" Trage
dies of John Boehas.n There lie also
in the library a Bible printed two
hundred and Eeventy-two years ago
in London. It is illustrated with
coarse wood engravings, one Of which
pretends to give the precise g~sOgraph-
ical location Of the Garden Of Eden.
I was surprised to find several Of the
psalms set to notes, not having been
aware that music had been printed 90
long ago. The title page Of this old
volume reads: "The Bible, that is
the holy Scriptures, cOnteined in the
Ode and NeWe Testament, translated
according 10 the Ebrew and Greekel
with most profitable a~nnOtatiOns upon
all the hard places" Among the
antiquities deposited in the library, il
8 Welsh deed Of land, written in s
very elegant and uniform hand, on
rather coarse and heavy parchment,
dated January 10, 1919, just seventeen
days before the execution Of Charles
the Fint. The deed is from Hugh ap
Richard and wife to Richard Nighin-
gold.
GEOLOGICAL REPORTS.
Ihave received 8 good many letters
from persons requesting to be fur
nished with a copy Of the partial
report made by the State Geological
Corps. Iregret that it is not in my
power to comply with the requests
of these friends. for the reason that
the inst edition was small, and the
number allotted 70 each member
Of the General Assembly was quite
limited, and soon exhausted. Ten
thousand additional copies in English
and three thousand in German have
been ordered to be printed, and will,
perhaps, be ready for delivery by
April next.
PETITION FROM WARREN TOWNSHIP.
I received q petition last week sign
ed by about seventy citizens Of the
section Of country west and south Of
Leavittsburgh, asking the LegislA-
ture to enact q stringent law to pun
ish conductors or engineers Of rail-
road trains, who stand their trains 50
- to obstruct highway crossings, as is
done almost every day Ft Lesvitts-
burgh, where the Newton Falls road
crosses the track. An existing law
would seem TO afford the redress askec
for by the petitioners. By reference
TO the Road Law, Section 81, page 669
Swan and Ssylor's Supplement to
Revised Statutes, it viii be seen that
any person or. persons, corporations,
or any conductor Of any train Of rail-
road cars, or other agent OF servant Of
any railroad company ~obstructing
unnecessarily any public road or high
way, authorized by any law Of this
State, by permitting any railroad car
or cars, or locomotive, foreman upon
OF across such road or highway, for q
longer period than five minutes, :
to the hindrAnce OF travellers or other
persons, shall forfeit and pay for each
ofense from two to twenty dollars,
and be liable for damages arising from
such obstruction, to be recovered by
an action ct the suit Of the township
trustees, OF BY any person suing for
the same before any Justice OF the
Peace within the county, oil byindict-
ment in the Court Of Common Pleas.
Section 50 renders the railroad eompa-
ny liable for the fines assessed against
its employees, and such liability may
be enforced by ezecutiOn issue sgainst
the company. We would recommend
the petitioners to have this law en-
forced a few times, and try what vir-
tue there may be in it. Should II
prove impractieabie or Intellectual,
then the Legislature may be prevailed
upon 70 amend it.
THE G0yEREoEsHIP.
Amoug the gentlemen named as
proper persons to receive the Republi-