Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-01-04

A hog owned by Thomas Bushnell,
Of Vermillion, Ashland county, three
years and four months old, weighs thir-
teen hundred pounds.
Aproft OF ten per e on the amount
Of the capital stock paid in, has been
shown by the books Of the Secretary Of
the Northern Ohio Fair Association.
The Northern Ohio Poultry AssociA-
ton will hold an exhibition in Cleve-
land, commencing January Il and con-
tinuing four days. Liberal premiums
will be offered.
An official cable dispatch from Madrid
states that General Prfm died on Satur-
day morning last. An those engaged in
his assassination, SIX in number, hsvB
escaped.
Mrs. Belknap, the wife Of the Secre-
tary OF War. died on Thursday evening
last, after several months illness. She
was the daughter Of the late John Tom
Hnson, Of HarrOdsburg, Kentucky.
Mr.. Beecher, in his Hast speech at the
clergymen's breakfast, said that infslli-
biIity merely means, " when the Pope
hits right he hits right, and when he
hits wrong he hits wrong"
Five Of the finest steamboats, on the
lower Mississippi were destroyed at the
dock, in New Orleans, Pm the LIST inst.
The loss in property is reported at four
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
One day last week a miner named
J. c. Beach was Instantly killed, It the
Yeach mine, in Hubbard, by a large
piece Of rock falling upon him, while
taking out the pillars. He leaves a
widow and three children.
Michael O'Brien, OF Youngstown, a
laborer, about sixty years old, fell on
the railroad track, near the MahOning
depot last Friday night, while intoxi-
Gated, and WAS run over two or three
times by trains before being discovered.
His body was badly mangied.
At the summit Of Mount Washington,
Saturday, ct : P. Il, the barometer stood
2S.6S7, being a fa1 since last report, Of
Sy67, and the Thermometer was II above
zero; relative humidity, H-lOOi wind
north; velocity Of wind s. miles per
hour weather clear all day; the wind
increased since morning from SO 10 81
miles per hour, accompanied by a rapid
fan Of the barometer.
Every month or two the papers an
nounce the invention OF . station-indi-
Gator or enunoiator, for the useful pur-
pose OF showing to the passengers on
each railway car the name Of the next
station. Every one viii acknowledge
the virtue Of such an Invention, but who
ever sees or hears OF one in practical
usef What becomes Of them all, and
why don't the railroads adopt them?
The Marshall House, $ tuated at the
west end Of the wire bridge over the
Allegheny river, in Franklin Pa, took
IRE at eieFen O'Clock Friday morning.
The flames communicated with the
bridge. and the cables soon becoming red
hot. parted from the anchorage, precipi-
tatiug the bridge structure into the river.
The bridge was newly erected and cost
fhirty-six thousand dollars. The Mar
shall House cost I'VE thousand dollars.
In Grand Rapids, Michigan, the ply
sician is a woman one Of the city pull
pits is occupied bya woman, who has 8
good salary the city libary, consisting
OF several thousand volumes, has been
gotten up by WoLlen and, to crown al,
they have a history claas, composed Of
ladies, which has been organized several
wears. and which has regular lectures BY
z lady from an sdjourniug city For
all this Grand Rapids Is growing, and
no apprehensions for the future OF the
civ are entertained.