Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-12-27
The CHRONICLE.
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER q. 1871.
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ISL pegs out next Sunday night.

ISL pegs out next Sunday night.
The mercury, at six o'clock, last
Thursday morning, in this city. fell to
seventeen degrees below zero.
The several days of the current week
are presented to the public in their most
condensed form-shortest of the year..
The Mahoning TIndicdtor nou
ces itself as the smallpox organ of
Youngstown. Very appropriate indeed.
The first reunion of the 18th o. VI.
Regiment takes place at Canton, January
2 The occasion promises to be one of
interest and pleasure to all who may
participate.
The Greenville Argus says that
Messrs Spearman & Forker have deter
mined to erect a new furnace in the
Shenango valley, either at Sharon or
S~harpsville.
The Champion Literary Society will
give an entertainment consisting of
Dramas, Tableaux, Music, &C., at the
Presbyterian church in Champion, Oh
Friday evening, Jan. 4th.
Mr.. John Lillibridge, Of Greene
township, killed a pig on the 10th inst,
which weighed $50 lbs. His pigship
was eight months old when killed, and
OF the Chester white breed.
A grand concert and oyster supper
comes of at Bristol center, in the NJ. E.
Church, on Friday evening next, given
by the Bristol Cornet Band, assisted by
the citizens. Proceeds for the benefit of
the band.
The cheese house and dwelling OF
Lorenzo Waters, in Gustavus, were
burned on Saturday night, the 9th inst.
Nearly all the household goods were
lost. Insured in the Home of New York
for $500,
The Odd Fellows of Warren will
give q ball and supper at the Austin
House, on the evening of the 10th of
Jsnuary. The managers intend that the
occasion shall! be one Of the pleasantest
ever held in this place. .
On Thursday morning last, an acct
dent occurred on the Mahoning R. r.
neal Brier Hill, oecasioned by the break
ing of a rail, which caused q freight
train to be thrown from the track with
such violence that it overturned down
an embankment, killing instantly a
brakeman named John Ref.
There are several cases Of smallpox
in Lowell, Mahoning county, two or
three Of the worst kind, of the continent
type. It is said the physicians there at
first pronounced the disease the "black
measles" The disease was introduced
by a Swiss emigrsnt who had just come
from a quarantine vessel in New York.
The Ashtabula Sentinel, of Dec. 18th,
says: Recorder Reeves, put upon rec
ord last week, a mortgage from the Ash
tabula, Youngstown & Pittsburgh Road.
The mortgage secures one and a half
million dollars. The fund raised by the
mortgage is to construct ffy-fve miles
of the road and to finish paying for the
five miles ofthe Vienna road.
Burglars interviewed Fassett, Of the
Hubbard Journal, a few nights since,
and discovering SIS in g~reenbacks, left
the editors wallet in a perfect state of
collapse. Country editors, by this,
should be warned against carrying large
amounts Of money about them, for in a
night, when the tom cat sings for joy,
the accumulated earnings OF years may
evanesce thusly.
"A man named Benjamin Vaughan,
working in Morris, Hallowell & Co.'s
coal mine, in Weathersfield, was so
severely injured on Wednesday last by
a large stone falling upon him from the
roof, that he died on the Friday follow
ing. He was aged about sixty years.
A son of the deceased was also slightly
injured by the same accident.
They had lively time at 1.-THE Catholic
Fair on last Saturday night, at Webb's
Hall. A cane was put up as a prize to
the most popular man. E., the gentle
man receiving the largest number Of
votes, eaeh vote costing fifty cents.
Whole number of votes cast, 1s4s, Of
which Mr.. VIM. Richards received 1866,
and Mr.. = Haughton 7S2. The amount
realized for the csne was S924,OO {.
One of the events ofthe past week in
Youngstown, was the departure Of Mr.
David Himrod, from thai city to his
home in Erie county, Pa. Nj. II. has
disposed of his Interest in the blast fur
mace to MI. A. B. Cornell and his son
Henry Himrod. Mr.. Himrod was the
first furnace man in this valley to sue
cessfuIly use raw coal in making pig
metal, as he was also a pioneer in The
INTRODUCTION and use Of Lake Superior
ore.