Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-07-31
Greene. O.. July "A, Is729

Advices from Mexico report the death
of President Juarez.
P. 7. Barnum is a Greeley man. BE
is also the prince oFHumbugs.
The cholera scourge threatens Europe
this season. Great alarm is said to pre-
vail.
Large and enthusiastic Grant and
Wilson meetings are being held all over
the country.
The crops throughout the West are
suffering in consequence of the scarcity
O flaborers to harvest them.
An emigrant woman, who has been
STAYING with her friends in Youngstown,
was taken with the smallpox last week.
So copious have been the rains recent
" in many portions of Pennsylvania
that the grain is growing in the shock.
Hon. James Monroe, of Oberlin, wss
ANONYMOUSLY nominated as Congress
man from the eighteenth district on the
18th inst.
The city council Of Akron has passed
an ordinance requiring all saloons and
restaurants in that place to close their
doors at 10 O'Clock in the evening.
The balance in the q. S. Treasury at
close of business on the 9th inst. was:
currency, s1l, 624,S $500; coin, S69,9le,-
sIs.OO, including SS1, $50 10000 in coin
certificates.
A Confederate flag was carried at the
head of a Greeley and Brown procession
which marched through the streets Of
Richmond, Va, Friday last.
The Ohio State Tournament comes OF
in Evansville the 22nd Of August. The
prizes will be competed for by fire COM
panies belonging 10 this State only.
The Daily Ohio Statesman, a Columbus
Democratic journal, hiss merged into the
Daily Dispatch, independent journal.
This leaves the Democrats without an
organ at the Capital.
Thursday. the first of August, the
MeadYille, Pa, fire department have q
grand parade; companies from Titus
vile, Akron, O., Freedonia and James.
town, n. Y, viii participate.
Arrangements have been made for q
trotting match for $4,000, to take place
in Cleveland, August 18th, between the
horses Annie Watson, of TitusTille, and
Bella Patterson, Of Oil City.
The sportsmen of Youngstown have
determined on holding their second an
nual shooting tournament on The LIST,
2nd and srd of August. The prizes viii
amount to four hundred and twenty
five dollars.
A large and handsome schooner left
the port of Cleveland Sunday with the
names of Grant and Wilson" on the
streaner flying from the mast head.
The Leader says the owners expect her
to be able to breast the severest gales.
Christine Nilsson was married in
Westminster Abbey, London, Saturday
the 9th. The ceremony was witnessed
by a large concourse Of the aristocracy
of England. The presents received by
the bride amounted to Rl2.OOO. The
Prince OF Wales presented a handsome
diamond bracelet.
Among the many uses to which papel
is put is the construction of railway ca
wheels. A set of these paper wheels
steel tired, on a Pullman car, have rul
over 100, 600 miles of track, wearing tn
tires entirely out. The ordinary wheels
it is said, will run only 10000 miles.
An internal revenue circular, which
now in preparation, announces that tn
only stamp tax which will be retsine
on any business or legal document o
written paper of any kind, after the frs
of October next. is the two cent stamp O.
bank checks.
On wednesday night Hast tie shops c
ehe Erie Railway Company, at Serse
City were destroyed by fire. The shop
formed a parAllelogrsm covering an are
of 500 by $50 feet, and were only CON
.pleted eight months ago, al a cost
sbout 100000