Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-01-17
Gold closed on Monday at 1Os.

New Years day.
Vice President Colfax s he will no
decline a denomination.
Gen. Sickles will return to MadriC
about the last of this month.
Major General Henry W. Halleck diet
at Lou i~sville, Tuesday last.
Victor Hugo has been beaten for tn,
French Assembly by alsrge majority.
Advices from London say the 90
bonds come in for redemption Yery
slowly.
They claim at Lancaster, New Hamp
shire, that they had an earthquake shocl
on the 10th inst.
W. B. Allison has been nominated BY
the Republicans Of the Iowa Legislature
to succeed Harlan as Z. S. Senator.
1t is said that the father Of Jas. Fisk
jr., has gone crazy since the assassination
of his son. We believe he has beer
troubled with mental arrangement be.
fore now.
Smallpox is epidemic this winter il
Europe as well as America. In London
and other large cities there is great alarm
on account of the wide spread mortality
from the disease.
A Columbia, South Carolina, letter
states that the defense in the Ku Klux
cases has broken down, and those i'm
plicated are fleeing. The Klan is almost
efectually broken up.
The Ohio Legislature adjourned on
Friday last until Tuesday afternoon Of
this week. They haYe solemnly resolved
thatit will be wholesome for them to go
home once in every three weeks.
Baldwin's carriage factory, at Tai
madge, Summit Co., was burned OF
Saturday night, SOth ult. Loss between
5000 and 5000; no insurance.. The fire
broke out about one O'Clock in the NOR
ming. Origin of the fire unknown.
In the State Legislature a bill has been
introduced to increase the pay OF jurors
before justices of the peace from fifty
cents 20 one dollar a day. That bill will
not pass, for the reason that the lawyers
in the legislature will generally oppose
it. It might discourage litigation, you
know, and that would be bad for them.
1t is said that President Grant is sztis-
fed that aSpanish cruiser fired upon one
OF our merchant vessels, recently, of
the coast of Florida, and is determined
TO have a full explanation, apology and
satisfaction from the government Of
Spain. Otherwise Uncle Sam will knock
the chip OF Don somebody's shoulder.
The Geauga Republican is the new
name given to the newspaper at Chardon,
which has heretofore been burdened
with the MISSIONER of Democrat. 1t is a
sound, clear, perpendicular Republican
paper, and its new name is in every
way more appropriate, and in truer har-
mony with its political sentiments than
the name it has discarded.
The Youngstown Courier appears in a
neat new dress Of type, on an enlarged
sheet, and is printed and published by
the "Courier Steam Printing Company
The Messrs. O'ConnOr are indefstigable
workers, and merit success. Mr.. r.
Olney has become 8 member Of the firm
as business manager. The Courier is a
jealous advocate Of Prohibition.
Nothing of especial interest has trans
PRED in the State Legislature during the
past week, except the election Of U. S.
Senator, On last Wednesday Hon. John
Sherman was reelected BY q majority Of
three. The vote was as follows: Sher-
man 20, Perry l, Schenek l. Cox ), Nor
gan (Dem.) 90. Total number votes cast
40. We think the result is acceptable
to a large majority Of the Republicans of
the State.
The coal miners at Jacksonville, O., on
Saturday, refused TO allow the men not
members OF the union to go to work in
the Brooks Coal Mine, and threatened
them with violence if they persisted in
going in. Several shots were exchanged,
whom e force from Columbus was sum-
moned by telegraph, and about twenty
of the ringleaders were arrested and
taken to Athens and lodged in jail
The New York World the
project Of a new airline railway from
New York to Chicago, to be built merely
with reference to through traffic. Its
course through the State Of New York
will be midway between the Erie and
Central roads. It is to be built on the
shortest line and best grades, and will
cut through the woods, only striking
two or three towns Of commercial inn
portance.
The Republican National Committee
met in Washington, on Thursday last,
to appointa place for holding the National
Convention in 1872. The committee de-
oided to hold the Convention in Phila-
delphia, on the first Wednesday ofJune
next. Each State shall have delegates
10 the convention double the number of
Senators and Representatives; two for
each organized territory, including the
District of Columbia, who shall have the
right to vote.
A New York Herald special from
MADRID describes the reception Of Gen
eral Sherman and Lieutenant Grant by
the Spanish King Amadeus. He said he
was pleased to see so famous a represent
alive Of the American army as Sherman
and that he always entertained senti-
ments of friendship and admiration for
the American people. he desired that
cordial r~elations between neighbors
whose interest can only lie in the preser-
walton Of peace may exist between the
United States and Spain.
We notice that 3 bill has been in
troduced in the House of Representa-
tives Of this State, providing that persons
who may be convicted Of having COM
mittsd murder while insane, shall be
sentenced to close confinement in aState
lunatic asylum. This is the light in
which that class of murderers who plead
insanity in exclamation Of their offence,
should be Regardless persons unsafe
to be at large and dangerous TO the peace
Of society. There is no telling when
they may be overtaken with n Of their
insane passions for human blood. Put
them where they can not indulge it.
The State Of Louisiana, and especially
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