Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-21

and silent champion of free trade"
!. A. t. Stewart has written to a
friend in Washington that he has not
and will not give a cent to elect
Greeley.
There are six Welsh papers published
in the United States, all of which are IN
qualiiedly for Grant and Wilson.
The wheat raising belt is said to be
shifting to the southwark. Texas, it
is predicted, will become the empire
wheat raiser.
Fifteen hundred large and small
snakes were drawn up from a Long
Island well, in daily use, recently.
AT Utica, yesterday, the race for (, 5000,
mile heats, was won by American Girl
beating Palmer. Time-2:24, 2:22I 2:I9.
The majority of the rolling mills
about Pittsburgh have temporarily
suspended operations on account of
the intense heat.
Congressman DeLarge, Of South
Carolina, writes to the New York
Herald that the statesment that he
had declared for Greeley is false and
malicious.
They have a new way of muzzling
dogs out West. 1t is done by placing
the muzzle of a pistol behind the ear
and pulling the trigger.
Heavy fires are o raging in the
woods below Richmond, Virginia,
and cover an era of from fifteen hun
bred to two thousand acres.
The Third National Bank of Balti-
more offers ten thousand dollars re-
ward for the arrest of the thieves who
robbed it of seventy-fve thousand
dollars last night.
Three families in Columbus, o.,
came very near being "closed out" by
eating toad stools, which they mis-
took for mushrooms. Eating mush-
rooms is a dangerous business.
The New Hampshire Gazette, pub
lished at Portsmouth, is the Oldest
newspaper in America. 1t was es-
tablished October 18th, 1855, and IS
soundly Republican.
In the next House of Representa-
tives there will be 292 members.
There are "A Senators, and these adj
ded to the members make 366, which
is the number in the Electoral Col
lege. A majority is 1s4.
An infirmary for sick horses and
cattle has just been opened at the
Iowa State Agricultural College. Sick
animals presented during the clinic
hours are examined and prescribed
for free of charge.
Matilda Fletcher addressed an inn
mense campaign: meeting at the Opera
House in Muscatine, Iowa, Friday
evening. Her plea for President Grant
was eloquent, and is regarded by Re.
publicans unanswerable.
The latest form of Yankee cuteness
has developed itself in a town in Mas
sachusetts where a small boy has been
discovered purchasing eggs from the
grocer on his fathers account, selling
them at a restaurant, and afterward di-
viding the proceeds with his mother.
The Springfield Republican, one of
Greeley's and Summers warmest sup
porters, frankly admits that nobody
of "a fair disposition" can deny that
President Grant has decidedly the !
best of Sumnerin the petty charges"
which the latter brought against him.
The Jews of New York City are :
said to be seriously considering the
expediency oftransferring their week :
ly religious services from Saturday to :
Sunday. Several of the synagogues
throughout the country are now open
ed on both days.
John Brown, Jr., son of the anti
slavery martyr, who is now residing
on Put-in-Bay Island, writes to the
Register denying in en- l
phatic terms the report that he is a
supporter of Greeley. He is a Grant ,
and Wilson man from head to foot.
The New York World of a recent
date says: "We will frankly admit
that we ourselves, although support.
ing Mr.. Greeley, should be unwilling
to submit the financial policy of he
country to his uncontrolled guidance.
We have no faith in his financial f.
wisdom, and never had" A support,
that, to be sure.
One of the worst hated men in the 7
country at present, is Colonel Blanton
Duncan, the leader ofthe "straight-out',
Democratic movement. The fearful !
walls of wrath that are poured out upon 8
his head by the Greeley press, would be '
enough to drown an ordinary man, but :
the infatigable and im~perturbable COL
onel appears rather to enjoy the matter
than otherwise. Z
Another incendiary attempt to
destroy S%tubenviIle was made Satur-
day night last. A Waterman dis I
covered a man endeavoring to set fire =
to a pile of shavings saturated with
coal oil, which he had placed against 4
a building. The Waterman shot at,
but unfortunately missed the man.,
who fled, and has thus far eluded the
officers, as have the 1thers who twice ]
previously within a few days at
tempted the destruction of the city :,
by fire. o
Under the late law of Congress i
granting to disabled soldiers new arti- E
fetal limbs, or in lieu thereof COM Z p
mutation, those who have been b
paralyzed or have sustained some Ii
injury depriving them of the II
use of their limbs can make applica- n
ion for Communication to the Surgeon II
General of the United States Army. 10
The law, as it has been amended, d