Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-02-22

Gold closed on Monday, at III7.
The small pox is raging in the north
OF France.
The bin to repeal the Test oath, has
becomoa Law.
The japanese minister aud suit are on
their way 10 Washington.
Washington was born one hundred
and thirty-nine years ago to-day.
The English Commissioners are ex-
pected to arrive At Washington on Fri
day.
Mr.. John B. Cough delivered a lecture
on temperance, at Cleveland, on Thurs
day evening last.
Mr.. Fisk, Of Cleveland, was shot and
killed on Thursday night, by a young
girl whom he had seduced.
Alderman James Dickson, Of New
Castle, Pa, dropped dead in an apoplec-
tic fit recently, while at a fire.
The Thornton Hotel in Mansfield,
Ohio, was burned at one o'clock on
Thursday morning last loss about
1900. Insurance, $3.50.
The Prohibitionist political party of
Ohio, hold a State Convention at Della
ware, Ohio, to-day, for the purpose Of
putting in nomination a State ticket.
The GreenEiIle Argus says: There is =
nan living near this place, worth two
hundred thousand dollars, who was
once a boot-black in San Francisco, Cal
ifornia.
The Committee appointed by the Leg
islature to visit the grave of eI-Presi-
dent Harrison, recommend an appropri-
alton OF $4,000 to build a monument in
honor OF the deceased
The French forces now in the field are
as follows: With Chauzy 10000 men,
we'll equipped and armed; I35, 200 with
Fsidherbe 10000 at Cherbourg, and
10000 at Hsvre, in a bad condition.
The State Board of Examiners met in
Columbus, on the 18th, and organized
by electing \. J. Kickoff, Of Cleveland,
President; T. c. Nendenhall, Of Column
bus, Secretary and John Hancock, Of
Cincinnati. Treasurer.
Books will be opened on the sixth
day OF March next, in this country and
in Europe, for subscriptions TO the Ma
tional Loan, under the act approved
July Il, 1870, entitled, IAN Act TO au-
thorizs the Refunding OF the National
Debt, and the Act in amendment there
Of approved January 20, 1871.
One of Americas favorite poets has
gone to her last home. Alice Carey
died Feb. 18th, and was buried Feb. 14th,
from the church Of the strangers, in New
York city. Horace Greeley, B. F. Tay-
lor, Geo. Ripley, W. W. Hall. P. T. Bar
mum and A. ]. johnson were pail bear
ers.
The yield of quicksilver on our Pacific
coast is steadily declining. For 1868 it
was $500 TASKS, for 1859 it was $500
TASKS, and 29,546 in 1870. The exports
have declined also from 1896 in 1868 to
1873 in 1870. The home consumption
has increased, being 80 per cent. greater
in 1870 than in 1869. But the price IS
steadily advances, and is now 90 cents,
although it was Co cents in 1869. If
accounts from California are correct, the
reason for this lies not in diminished
capacity for production, but in the fact
that the mines have fallen into the con-
troll offs monopoly.
Two other accidents, both of a serious
character, have happened on the Hudson
River Railroad since the New Hamburg
slaughter. The Montreal train was com
PEELED to wait an hour for a freight train
to get out Of the way, and it waited on a
draw-bridge. Another train going the
same way, on the same track, was due
only a few moments after the position on
the draw-bridge was taken up. Never
theless, no signals were displayed, and
the consequence was the following train
plunged into the standing train. Lucki-
", however, the engineer saw thed dan
ger, and used his engine and brakes to
check his train, which was going at the
rate Of thirty-hve miles an hour. As it
was, his engine drove half way into the
rear car, filed with passengers, none OF
whom were seriously injured. The sec
ond was a passenger train jumping the
track down an embankment, where it
was burnt. Although many persons
were exposed % death and injury, no
one was seriously hurt.