Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-02-15
sod elosed on Monday, a lI2.


Gold closed on Monday, at liz.
Congress is threatened with night sss-
EionE.
Horace Greeley wa sixty on the 4th
inst.
The New Lisbon cOSl miners have
gone to work again.
The Ohio Editorial Convention meets
at Akron on the 23d.
Massachusetts, is allowed to tax InEur-
ance Companies four per cent.
The Erie Railroad Company has just
secured 8 consolidated mortgage OF $780,
10000.
The wreck Of the iron bridge at Frank
lin, Pa, has been removed, and = chain
ferry established.
The citizens Of GsrrettsViIls are dis
cussing the propriety Of organizing a
building association.
The manufacturer Of factory cheese of
the Western Reserve, meet in Conven-
ton at GsrettsYille to-day.
A dastardly attempt was made q few
days since TO burn the AtTster Block in
Cleveland, by parties from Chicago.
Judge Brinksrhoh's term on the bench
Of the Supreme Court expired on the
sth inst. Judgs NcIlvaine succeeded
him.
On Tuesday OF last week, Nj. seneca
W. Palmsntsr, OF North ShenSngo. Pa,
was instantly killed while engaged in
falling q tree.
The capital stock Of the GarrsttEVille
Savings and Loan Association has been
increased to one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
At Cleveland, on the first instant,
William SehAllsnberg was convicted Of
wife-murdsr, and sentenced to be hanged
on Thursday, the 18th Of May.
The Northern Ohio Fair Association
will hold itE Second Annual Fair, at
Cleveland, commencing the 18th Of Sep
TENDER and continuing five days.
Theodore Tilton, having retired from
The independent and The Daily Brook
lyn Union, is TO pabiish anew weekly
journal in New 7 ork, called The Golden
Age.
Over I've hundred citizens OF Akron
have sent a petition to the Legislature
protesting HgIinst the repeal or any
modification OF the liquor law passed
April Is, 1870.
It appears that Dr.. Livingston made
an extensive journey TO the west ofLake
Tanganika, and this accounts for the
long continued absence Of all informs-
ton respecting him.
A bill passed the Ohio Senate, on
ThunudGy, to make the weight Of BUSH
Ell Of clover seed sixty instead Of sixty
two pounds, and Of = bushel OF oats,
thirty instead Of thirty-twO pounds.
Among the lost in the terrible calami-
ty OF the Hudson River Railroad, was
GEORGE S. BENEDICT, Esq, n Of the
editors Of the Cleveland Herald, and
only son Of Geo. A. Benedict. Esq, edit
OF in chief OF that paper.
The Supreme Court has rendered q de-
cision, sustaining the law passed at the
last session OF tbs Legislature, changing
the time OF commencement and expira-
ton ofthe term Of office OF county audi
tors. The case was brought mp from
Allen county.
In regard to the repeal Of the income
tax, the President states that, while he
would have been glad to have had the
income tax abolished, he is satisfied that
the position Of the Secretary Of the Treas
ury will meet the appreciation Of the
country. To-day was set apart by the
House for the consideration OF the bill.
The Commissioners nominated by the
President to negotiate terms Of settle
msnt OF the Alabama claims are Secre-
tary Fish, Minister Shenek, Justice Mel
son, OF the Supreme Court, ex-AttSney
General Hoar, and Senator Williams.
Il is understood the Commissioners on
the part OF England are to be Earls De-
Grey and Ripon, Sir John Rose and
Minister Thornton.
Complete returns Of the recent census
from AL the States and Territories have
been received at the Census Bureau in
Washington, by which the aggregate
population Of the country il shown to be
50, 5S5, l5s. The population Of Ohio, &C.
cOrding to the returns, is 2,659,2l4; per
centSge OF increase since 1850, 1867.
There is going on at present in Penn
Eylvznia, Ohio and Illinois, a combined
movement on the part OF the coal miners,
to secur the enactment Of a code Of
mining laws, similar in purport to the
mining statutes Of Germany and Great
Britain. The object aimed at IS to secure
by law such measures as can best secure
the miners against the constant dangers
to which their hazardous calling neoes-
sarily exposes them.
DR.. NeWberry, OF the State Geological
Corps, reports that he has discovered in
the corniferous Observation-Disclosures
Of Ohio two well marked tree ferns.
They are among the very earliest traces
Of land vegetation. Also that in the
same formation he has found three
species Of two genera Of CiimerOid fishes,
one Of large size. Fishes OF this charac-
ter have not been found before in strata
older than the IurAssic.
The generally recognized fact that pop
ular education is the worst Of all en-
emies to the Democratic party was
frankly admitted by the Washington
Patriot, a newly established organ Of the
Democracy at the National Capita, when
it said recently in discussing the bill de-
vised by Mr.. Hoar 70 provide for Ma
tionsl education: "This is n Of the
most insidious and dangerous OF al
plans for perpetnating Radical rule yet
conceived by the inventive genius OF
New England, and is therefore the n
that ought 70 be most firmly resisted"