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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-11-22

The Louisville, KY, Courier Journal,
Of last Saturday, publishes a startling
letter from the south, which sets forth
that s society, strong in numbers and in
wealth, has been organized, having for
its object the importation Of negro
rufians into the Northern States. The
letter in question is very positive and
specific. It says the plan is, to furnish
such negroes as are dangerous in every
community, with the means of getting
away, requiring them to go north of the
Ohio river. The society is opposed to
the Ku-KIux. It claims that it has a
right, in the absence Of the local justice
denied by the general government, 10
get rid of its murderers and marauders
by money. 1t is alleged that the increase
in negro criminals in the North, during
the last three months, is the result Of
the operations Of this society. Adouble
loaded leader in the Courier Journal
dIscoursgers the movement as revenge
full and dangerous, and advises in its
stead education and kindness 70 the
negroes.
On last Saturday night 8 mob number
ing rs to 100, at Brookyille, Indiana,
forced the Jail and attempted to take
Mcdonald Cheek, the murderer Of
Thomas Harrison, his f~ather-in-law, at
at Lawreneeburg, a year ago. with the
supposed intention Of lynching him.
Cheek knocked down the first man who
entered his cell, took a revolver from
him and defended himself bravely. The
citizens gathering in numbers, the mob
dispersed. but not until many OF them
had been hurt. Cheek has been granted
a new trial, and it is supposed that those
composing tho mob fear he may escape
punishment. The mob had come from
Aurora, Indiana. Lynch law is getting
to be ffightfully common. The same
may be said Of thieves and murderers.
Representatives Scotefd and Lansing,
of the sub-Ku Klux committee, who
visited Florida, have returned to Wash
ington. While there they examined a
large number OF witnesses. They say
that in Jackson county, in that State,
there have been seVentT-fve murders
since 1868, and that there are now no
white Republicans in that county. AL
though the condition of things is gener-
ally bad, there seems to be a little i'm
provement on what it was two years ago.
A Detroit paper says " there isn't any
room for doubt that the coming winter
is to be awfully cold. The prophets all
say so and the man is insane who dis
putes the prophets. They have found
the moss growing thick on the trees,
frogs standing on their heads, sunAoWers
pointing toward the North Pole, grape
vines running around poles, instead Of
up them, and there are a thousand other
signs to show that every human being
will be frozen as stiff as a chip before
February"
Apoor woman named Frances Shu-
maker, living five miles above Grand
Tower, Jackson county, Illinois, was
brutality murdered a week ago last Mon
day night by some unknown person.
She was first attacked in her house and
beaten With a club, but escaped, and
was followed and struck With an age,
and her head almost severed from her
body. When found On Wednesday, her
remains were nearly deYoured by hogs.
No clue to the murderer has been dis
covered.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-11-22
Wisconsin gives washburne, Repub,

Wisconsin gives Washburne, Repub-
iican, for Governor Q, 500 majority.
At a recent marriage among the no
bility OF England, two Of the five brides
maids were respectively TWO and three
years OF age.
There is talk that the Atlantic and
Great Western Railroad Company is
about to throw its track through SPRING
field, instead ofcontiBuing to run just in
sight of that prosperous little city.
Four ofa gang oftwenty-fve burglars,
arrested at Springfield, Ohio, some weeks
ago, were sentenced on Saturday, each
to five years imprisonment at hard la
Dor in the penitsntiary.
The secretary OF a British temperance
society has made the public charge that
Queen Victoria gets intoxicated. The
charge aus a great uproar, and legal
proceedings have been commenced
against the man Griffet who made the
charge.
Compulsory education is henceforth to
be the rulei in London. The school board
of that city has agreed to q bye-lsw
which enacts that /" the parent Of every
child between five and thirteen years Of
age is required to cause such child to
attend school, unless there shall be rea-
sOnable cause for non-a attendance"
The Madison County (o.l Democrat re-
ports the sale of six thousand bushels OF
corn from the Buff farm a. SSi cents, and
gives items indicating considerable az
tivity in the hog market about London
and West Jefferson; a lot Of Chester
White and Berkshire, ranging from four
hundred to five hundred pounds, were
recently sold in London at about four
cents. and West Jefferson shipper is
making purchases at three cents. Quite
a large number of cattle have recently
been shipped from Mechanicsburg.-
Horses command low prices.
Hyde Park, neal Scranton, Pa, was
the scene of a remarkable occurrence,
on last Thursday. Abortion OF thetoWn
extending along the main street from
Odd Fellows Hall to the p~ostofice, caved
in, sinking about a foot. The sinking
arises from a csving in Of a coal mine
under the town. Numbers Of houses in
the same neighborhood are rent and
cracked from top to bottom with the
unexpected lowering Of their founda-
tons, and the astonishment and panic Of
the people is something beyond descrip-
tion.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-11-22
The Next err for Mrnion.,,

President Hinsdale, of Hiram College,
In a recentsddress at Rsvenna, said that
In travelling across the Reserve in any
direction one would never be out of
sight Of the gravestone Of some church (;
and yet the Reserve is one Of the
strongholds of both school and church.
The remarks were called out in review
ing Disciple progress, but the speaker
said Baptists, Presbyterians, ETC., etc,
felt the loss alike, and If any church
bore fewer marks of loss, it was owing
to close organization or more restricted
work.
In seeking for a reason Of this falling
away it was remarked that churches
were not the only things that country
towns were losing. Our common schools
show gravestones too. District schools
that twenty and thirty years ago were
large and well sustained, to-day are
doing little work, indeed are almost
dead.
Many rural towns formerly had a life
Of their own, a circle complete in them
selves, a township interest that exceeded
every other, which now had been almost
wholly lost.
Sooner or later our rural towns must
learn that they are no longer gaining but
losing in population. Pres. h. referred
to Portage and Ashtsbula counties. As
a whole the counties may show small
gains but take out the gains Of three or
four chief towns and the rest have lost.
The West, the South, and the railroad
townsville centres OF business, are con-
stantly calling from secluded towns the
very elements that gave them their
vigorous mental and moral life.
A strong appeal was made for closer
union in country churches. The speaker
felt justified in saying that il unyielding
sectarianism kept up partisan warfare
between two, three or four churches to
the bitter end" the time might come
when in that community the Bible
would cease to be heard in the Lords
Day congregation altogether. There is
more than one torn in the Reserve that
teaches this lesson to-day.
The President said that there was no
church among US that he would not
rather support and worship, than witness
such q result. And he urged people to
look more for pastors who shall be
liberal in heart, as well as devoted. Ac-
cepting a faith in God and His Divine
Son, he urged great tolerance of indi-
vidual opinion. In place of three or four
dilapidated churches, he urged in a
proper center one common well kept
church.
Does not such a plan appeal to the
better Judgment Of many Of US who live
"cut Of town." and can we not fall to-
gether in such a way that we may not
fall at all? CLEMENT.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-11-22

Hunter, sentenced to be hanged at
Akron, yesterday, attempted to cheat
the gallows by cutting an artery in his
arm, Monday afternoon. He was dis
covered bleeding %profusely, the wound
was bandsged up. He begged to be per-
mitted to die.
The finances OF Ohio are in good con-
dition. Ohio is a sound and reliable
Republican State, and the policy Of the
p-rty has been to manage the affairs of
tie State economically, The New York
Herald says Of our State debts The
great State OF Ohio, the third in the
republic in population, is IN 8 happy
financial condition. The debt is a little
less than nine millions OF dollars-s
small one for ~Ohio-which places that
State in a very favorable light compared
with other large States. Though the
debt is small comparatively it vas de-
creased last year seven hundred and
thirty-hye thousand dollars. Here is an
example for the city and State Of New
York and the local governments Of other
States which have large debts and are
augmenting them greatly and consider
ably.
A number of important facts relative
TO drunkenness were adduced last We'd
nesday 1T the annual convention Of the
New York Association for the Cure Of
I~nebriates. The President Of the As
sociation, DIR. Parker, stated that thirty
three and a third per cent. OF all deaths
in New York City were occasioned,
directly or indirectly, by the use of alco-
holic drinks, and that in the last thirty
years one hundred and ninety thousand
persons had thus come to their deaths.
DR.. Harris, Inspector Of Prisons, stated
in his report that on visiting hfty-six
persons in the State he had found that
seYenty-6Ee per cent. Of all crimes COM
mitted were traceable to the use Of
liquors.
The Monroe Democrat tells the follow
ing: Mr.. Labar is now M hundred
and eight years old. About two weeks
ago he took It into his head to hunt for
bees. Accordingly, taking his bee-taekle
with him, he went ont into his meadow
and " fired up" BE soon thought he
had found game, the bees eoursing to-
wards > large curley maple in the woods.
He at once set TO gork to bring down
the tree, when the old man E&s some
what chsgrined to find the bees were not
there. Since that time be has been cut
ting hsop-Poles, which he thinks pays
better than hunting bees
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-11-22

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL JOURNAL for
December is at hand, and contains
among other good things, Judge DAILY,
of New York, with a fine portrait; An
Old Bone of Contention ; An Able Re-
view of Mr.. Beecher's Life of Christ ;
The Bridge of Motion, or Recent Scien-
tife Developments; Laura's Experience,
q Strange, but a True Love Story Gen.
Robt, A. Cameron, the Colorado Colo
mist; Chicago; Chronic Catarrh. its
Cause and Cure; Thought, in Sound and
Motion; The Geological History of Man;
The Faculty of Order and its Culture;
Working at Nighti The Deserted Viii
lage. Single Nos. 80 cts. 5000 a year.
A new vol. begins with the next num-
Der. S. R WELLS, Publisher, $50
Broadway, New York.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-11-22

Hon. John S. Way, of Woodsfeld,
Ohio, Judge of the Belmont and Mon
roe Circuit, was found dead, at an
early hour ON Wednesday morning,
in n of the streets OF Woodsfield.
The GAINESVILLE Enterprise says
"He had been spending the latter
part of the previous evening at Min
sterman's Hotel, in company with
friends, and was last seen alive by
them when they bid him good night.
At three o'clock in the morning Mrs.
Way became alarmed for her hus-
bands safety, and Drawing the storm
that was then raging, went to find
him. She passed within a few feet
of him, but her search, as we'll as that
of other parties, did not reveal his
presence. About seven O'Clock We'd
Lesday morning the remains were
discovered in the street leading from
the hotel to the Judges residence,
and within fifty yards of his brothers.
door. He lay upon his back, sleeping
the calm sleep of death, with the face
and body covered with a mantle of
snow, which had fallen after he died.
A glass lantern, with the candle
burned to its socket, was standing on
n side of him, and an umbrella
was lying on the other. The scene
that ensued after the discovery of the
remains. is described as heart-rend-
iug.n
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-11-22

The New York Herald very prop
erly designates the conservative" Of
these days as a hybrid, and the ism
as a humbug. 1t speaks about our
views in the following:
The Lynchburg VirginSdn tconserv-
ative) is in favor of o union of demo-
Gratis. conservatives aud moderate re-
publicans upon q moderate, respect
able republican, as the democratic
candidate for the Presidency. "0p-
position to radicalism," it says,
i'should be the platform Of Virginia
OonserFatives.n Conservatism" is
all a humbug in these days of par
ty strife. He who is not for US is
against us" should be the motto in
political as we'll as religious life. 1t
may be well enough for party dis
tinctions to call one party republic
cam and another party ''demOcratie;''
but they are al republican neverthe-
less. Conservatism Is Q go between
hybrid, of no particular service to any
party. When party lines are broadly
drawn men must attach them
selves either to one side or the other,
or drop into insignificanoe. Hence
If is the height of folly forOur Lynch
burg contemporary TO appeal to the
conservatives ofViFginiah TO do this,
that or the other. When the Presi-
Dental campaign commences men
will be either democrats or republic
cans, and he who avows bimself any
thing else Will find himself nowhere.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-11-22

The Ohio Democrats are evidently
anxious to defeat Hon. John Sherman,
or some other decided Republican, for
O. S. Senator, and to this end are trying
to persuade some worthy conservative
gentlemen, Gen. J. D. Cox, for instance.
to be a candidate, they pledging them
selves to support Mr.. Cox in the joint
legislative balloting, providing enough
Republican members al be seduced
from their political integrity to enter
into the coalition so a to defeat the
regular Republican candidate. A cor
respondent Of the Cincinnati Commercial
says hat {" there are seveH Cox Republi-
cans elected to the legislature. 1t Is not
wholly impossible that there may be
some Republican chosen to the next
legislature who would prefer Gen. Cox
for Q. S. Senator to any other candidate,
but that those Republicans can be in
weighed into an alliance with the forlorn
Democracy for the purpose of distract
ing and defeating the Republican party,
- hOk - GA RANLobAOs W. ~ AOA e
lieve that Gen. Cox has had or will have
anything to do with this scheme. On
this point the Commercial says editori-
ally: We have. published several conf
~munications in relation to and favoring
a movement to secure a part of the
Republicans elected to the Ohio Legis-
lature, to remain out Of the Senatorial
partisan caucus, and unite with the
Democrats in defeating the reelection
Of John Sherman to the United States
Senate, and eleoting Governor Cox. We
have the best authority for saying that
Governor Cox takes no part or in
terest in any scheme Oh theory Of this
character, but is engaged in professional
labors and intent upon them only, pur-
suing precisely the policy that he
adopted upon retiring from the Cabinet,
and wholly content with it. He must not
be held in any degree responsible for
the use that is being made Of his name
in connection with the Senatorial on
fast,
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-11-22
Never in lis history was the Demo.

Never in its history was the Demo-
cratic party so entirelys and hopelessly
d~emoralized, so respondent of future
success, and so much at q loss as to what
it must do to be saved. From every
State in the Union, on every wind
that blows. comes the despairing wall
of respondent presses and leaders
lost! lostw From the piteous tone
OF their papers, it is plain that the
shattered and disheartened remnants
of the Democratic party have no hope
OF success in the Presidential contest
of 1872. odeeply has this conviction
entered the consciousness of that par
ty that its disbanding as a distinctive
organization, is now frequently and
openly advocated by some of their
more influential journals, who pro-
pose the formation Of a new party to
combine all the anti-G Grant, all the
disappointed, d~isaffected, rejected and
sore-headed Republicans with North
ern Democrats and Southern rebels,
anybody, everybody, and anything,
that will eoalesce in opposition to the
Republican party. The October and
November elections did the work Of
crushing out the little remaining
vitality of the old Democratic party.
Tammany gave the poor corpse the
unkindest kick of all, and stole the
eoppers off its death-elosed eyes. In
New York, the Democrats by no
means see their way clear, and gen
orally seem to be OF the opinion that
the calling Of a National Presidential
Nominating Convention by their par
" would be a useless expenditure of
time and money. The Ohio States
man favors the non-holding of a party
convention. This feeling isnot limit
ed TO metropolitan papers and politi-
clans, or to central party organs. but
the cry comes from the interior dis
tricts. For instance, the Coopers-
town IN. " Journal. a democratic
paper, says that the leading demo-
Gratis of that State not only admit that
they have no hope of electing the
next President under the present or
ganization of the party, through the
nomination Of a democratic national
convention" but that they favor a
strong movement in the direction in
dictated in the following words: "Let
US defeat Grant with any good and
able statesman available for that pur-
pose, and break down this weak and
corrupt administration" This posi-
ton is said to be approved by the
leading democrats of the State since
the election. Now is it notremsrkably
strange that this weak and corrupt
administration" IS they hippantly
style General Grants, is so strong
with the people, because of its marked
success in administering the affairs of
government, that the Democrats are
afraid TO meet the party under Grant
in a Presidential contest? II Grant is
weak, it is that kind of weakness
which confounds the strong and wise
in their own conceit, and plays smash
with the Democracy.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-11-22
PETERS MUSICAL MoNrHLr for De-

PETERS MUSICAL MONTHLY for De-
cember is to hand, containing nineteen
choice pieces Of Vocal and Instrumental
Music, all of which can be had for so
cents. It seems hard to believe that so
much can be furnished for such a small
sum, but Ue EloiV that it is. II comes
regularly every month, and contains
nothing but good Music.
Bound volumes for 1871 are offered,
postpaid, for s.. They come elegantly
bound in crimson cloth, gilt sides and
edges, and are guaranteed to contain $50
worth Of choice Piano Music, (some 200
pieees.) II ordered per express, $3.50
will secure it. We would advise all
those seeking Holiday Presents to bear
this work in mind. Music is always q
proper present to q lady, and in no other
shape can the same mount OF good
music be bought. 1t is published by j.
L. PETERS, 500 Broadway, New York.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-11-22
Things Mixed,

We find the following in an ex.
change, without credit:
Some years ago, when the writer
was q reporter upon an Eastern pa
per, it devolved upon him to write
for the same edition an account of
the presentation Of o golden headed
cane to the Rev. DR.. Hodge, the cler-
gyman of the place, and q description
of a patent hog-killing and sausage
machine which had just been put in
operation at the factory. Now, what
made Rev. DR.. Hodge mad was this:
The inconsiderate buccaneer who
made up the forms of the paper got
the two locals mixed up in a frightful
manner, and when we went to press
something like this was the appalling
result:
Several Of the Rev. Dr.. Hodges
friends called upon him, yesterday,
and after a brief conversation, the
unsuspicious hog was seized by the
hind legs and slid along a beam until
he reached the hot water tank. His
friends explained the object of their
visit, and presented him with a very
handsome gold-headed butcher, grab
bed him by the tail, swung him
around, and in less than a minute the
carcass was in the water. Thereupon
he came forward and said that there
were times When the feelings over
powered one, and for that reason he
would not attempt to do more than
thank those around him for the man.
ner IN which a huge animal was cut
into fragments was simply astOnish-
ing. The doctor concluded his re-
marks when the machine sliced him,
and in less time than it takes to write
it the hog was cut into fragments and
worked into delicious sausage. The
occasion viii long be remembered by
the doctors friends as one of the most
delightful of their lives. The best
pieces can be procured for fifteen cents
a pound, and We are sur that those
who have sat so long under his minis
try will rejoice that he has been treat
so handsomely.
Mad? Well, about nine o'clock
that morning the Office had been
abandoned by every man but the adj
vertising clerk, and he assembled to
the roof and robed himself in boiler
iron, so that he could watch that ven
cradle clergyman tearing around
down there in the street with his on
gregation, all wearing the psnoply Of
war and carrying butcher knives and
things. Next day we apolOgized, but
the doctor stopped his subscription,
and began to take the rival paper.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-11-22
Arrival Of the Grand DIXIE Alexis.

The long agony of watching and
waiting endured by the New Workers
in expectation of the arrival of the
Russian Grand Duke Alexis, is over,
and the royal scion has really con-
descended to set his imperial foot on the
democratic soil Of the empire State.
The arrival was on Sunday and the
formal reception by the city was fixed
for Monday, the weather permitting.
The following is from the Tribune :
The Russian frigate Svetlana entered
the lower bay at noon, attended by
the revenue cutter Northerner. She
approached the American squadron at
the horseshoe, when she fired q ma
tiOnal salute of twenty-one guns,
which vas quickly responded to by
the Congress, Severn, Iroquois and
Kansas, each vessel dipping her col
ors as she passed to her anchorage.
The Grand duke appeared on deck
and bowed respectfully to the salutes
of the American officers. Admiral
Rowan was received with all honors
on the Svetlana. This frigate met q
storm off Hatteras on the 10th, which
lasted until Friday night, when the
observations showed to be forty miles
off Cape May. A pilot was taken at
four on Saturday afternoon, off Bar
negat. The vessel received no dam
age and did not ship a sea.
Alexis was dressed in the simple
uniform of a Lieutenant, and is tall
and strongly built, with the air of a
gentleman. He has q clear complex
ion, light whiskers and blue eyes.
He speaks English quite luently, but
appears to prefer French. Russian
Minister Catacazy passed the after
noon on board the frigate, the guest
of the Duke. Collector Murphy,
Henry Clews and other gentlemen
will proceed to the frigate at 9 A. N.
tomorrow, in a revenue cutter. The
Grand Duke will be serenaded to-mOr-
row evening by the Ninth Regiment
band. President Grant was officially
informed by telegraph Of his arrival
by Admiral Rowan.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-11-22

A few days since a farmer in Free
dom having an over-stock of cats pro-
posed to get rid of them on this wise :
He took five and put them in q sack,
and started for the village of G. AS
he drew neal the town line he united
the sack to let his stock loose, when
there stood his neighbor, so he put his
foot on the mouth of the sack, and
out comes his neighbor for a chat.
The cats getting uneasy in their cap
tivity began to squirm, his foot slipped,
and out went the five cats. This was
on Friday ; the Sunday night follow
ing the five found their way back with
ten thers.-GGTrettsUiIle Journal.