Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-23

CHARLES E. GLiDDEN, Of Trumbull.
SENATOR,
LUCIAN c. JONES, of Trumbun.
Gold Chased on Monday at 112s.
The Asiatie cholera is advancing swift
ly westward.
Captain Halls Arctic expedition has
been heard from. All are well.
The Pennsylvania State Fair will be
held at Scranton, September IS, 10, 20
and 81.
Aman who lost his money in the Buff
falo races, last week, drowned himself
in the Niagara river.
On Monday last a fire al WiIliamsport,
Ohio, destroyed forty buildings. Loss
$4,000; insurance SIS6, 900.
A town may be hid under a cloud, and
rise above it into the sunlight of pros
perity. But that cloud wants to be the
smoke arising from the stacks of manu-
factories.
One Tammany item complained Of its
six dollars on hatchets, and it is de-
Tended on the ground that they were
ordered for the purpose of cutting down
excessive appropriations,
Col. McCook has been compelled by
i'll health to suspend his canvass of the
State. 1t is said that as soon as his health
is Sufficiently restored hi will endeavor
to make noise. We earnestly hope he
will succeed.
The fishery troubles seem not to have
been ended by the treaty. An Ameri-
can schooner was seized by the British
authorities in Canadian waters, while
fishing within a few hundred yards of
the shore, and taken to Quebec for adiu-
dication.
New York has had another steamboat
disaster. This time it was the boiler of
tug boat. The Herald makes the in
quiry, Is there one sound boiler in the
boats OF the bay?" The boiler is claim
ed to have been nine years old, duly
inspected, &c.
On Saturday last the Republicans OF
Portage county met at Ravenna and
nominated the following ticket: Rep
resentative, j. r. Conard; Auditor, Will
liam Grinnell ; Treasurer, E. G.. Hin
man; Prosecutor, C. A. Reed; Commits
sioner, Isaac Brown, Inirmary Direc-
tor, 7. B. Dickinson.
Jay Cook & Co., have taken the two
hundred million balance Of the new
La - 81 ~1-rTr- 49, i
one half of one per cent. discount. This
leaves them a margin Of one million
dollars upon which to advertise and sell
it out. In no event does any portion
of the total fall back upon the national
treasury.
A few weeks ago says the Ashtabula
Sentinel, Messrs. Fortune & Gill, of JEFF
erson, received an order for a wedding
suit, from w. H. Surrine, Of Cherry
Valley. Shortly after his brother was
taken sick with typhoid fever, and lay
sick for some time. Then he was at
tackled with the same disease. He was
to have been married on the 10th inst,
that being his intended wife's birth day.
But instead Of that happy event, the
clothes are to be used to bury him in, he
having died on Tuesday the 18th.
Wfliamsfeld Camp Meeting, which
began on Wednesday the 9th and closed
yesterday; was very largely attended
perhaps as much so as any camp meet
ing held any where in the rural districts
this year. The ground was very well
selected, and very favorable for those
going with carriages, though the tent
enclosure was alltogetherto too small, for
the comfortable accommodation of all
that were present on Sunday, the num-
Der of whom, we have heard variously
estimated at from 5000 to 10, 900 the latter
being far too high.-AShtGbWld Sentinel
The County Republican Nominating
Convention for Richland county was
held Saturday last The attendance was
larger than usual, and the several places
on the ticket contested for with consider
able spirit. The following is the ticket
nominated: Representative, DR.. Nor
man Batter; Treasurer, R. II. Rowland;
Sheriff, VIM. B. Niman Auditor, limo
thy Costin; Prosecuting Attorney, S. E.
Fink; Commissioner, William Newlan
Recorder, Philip Traxler, Jr.; Infirmary
Director, Benjamin Morris.
The third member Of the Geneva
Board of Arbitration for the settlement
of the Alabama claims has been ap-
pointed by the King of Italy in the per-
son of Count Louis Frederick Mena-
brea. Three out Of the five Commits
sioners are now appointed, namely.
Charles Francis Adams, on the part of
the United States, Lord Chief Justice
Cockbufn, on the part of Great Britain, +,
and Count Menabrea OF Italy. The
President of the Swiss Republic and the !
Emperor of Brazil are yet to act.
About ten O'Clock last Monday night, !
14th inst, Franklin street, Titusville, J
was made the locality Of another of i
those horrible scenes Of bloodshed. It {
adds another to the long list of murders
with which the papers are filled, 1t /
appears that John Hetherton, an old {
man, who was quite drunk, got into {
an alteration with John Mcdonald, a
young man, and after being separated &
once they clinched again, when Melon I
aid stabbed him twice, in1icting fright
full wounds, from which Hetherton died
in fifteen minutes. Both men are Irish.
Mcdonald halls from Dunkirk. He has
been arrested. :