Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-01-10

There are about 500 in the State, needing
care.
In ISL the railroads in Ohio carried
twelve millions of passengers, and their
gross receipts exceeded thirty millions
dollars.
In the New York stock exchange, on
Monday, Erie Railroad stock was the
great feature, nearly one hundred thous-
ead shares changing hands.
In the Ohio Legislature ajoint resolu-
ton has been adopted to appoint a COM
mittee of seven from the Senate and
nineteen in the House, on re-districting
the State for Congress.
Stokes. who shot Fisk, was once a
very wealthy man, but on the m
able Black Friday in New York, when
the gold gamblers run MAJ, Ef0kes was
wiped out financially. Since t .an he
has been an enemy of Fisk, and b rival
in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. infricues.
The number Of insane in Ohio is S4I4.
o. wboE only 1884 are in asylums and
under treatment. The State has hitherto
been too negligent in providing suitable
asylums for this unfortunate Glass;
When the Central and the Athens Asy-
lums are completed, this great need will
be largely met.
The Ohio State Journal of Columbus.
the central Republican thunderer, COM
menced the year 1872 in elegant new
typographical attire, and is in contents
and appearance a very attraetiye news
paper-wem might say eomely throughout.
the Journal issues morning and eve
ming additions Of the daily.
A National Catholic Tenn peranee Con-
vention is to be held at Baltimore on
Thursday the 22nd Of February next,
FOR the purpose Of forming a National
Catholic Temperance Union. State
Unions are already hormedin six States,
and are now forming in three others,
namely, in Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Minnesota.
The statistics of the Coroner Of New
York city, for the year just closed, show
that 126 infants were found dead in the
streets that s5I deaths by accident &C.
CURED, some OF them growing out OF
riots; that 129 persons were drowned;
that 20S left the world by suicide-Paris
green and morphine being the favorite
modes Of exit; and that A homieides
and five ~infsnticides were committed.
II the lower house Of Congress on
Monday a resolution was offered direct
ing the Committee on Ways and Means
to report & bill to repeal the income tax,
and a motion to suspend the rules for
its adoption was lost-yeas 20; nays 50.
Mr.. Garfield voted yea. Mr.. Morgan's
resolution TO amend the Constitution so
as to make foreigners eligible to the
Office Of President Of the United States
was lost-yeas so; nays 65.
A destructive fire occurred at Titus
vile, Pennsylvania, last Sunday after
noon, about one O'Clock. Twenty
buildings in the heart Of the city were
destroyed. The principal buildings
burned are the Sherman House, Pc
troleum Hall and Commercial Block.
Loss 500 700; insurance about $50
900. The Assistant City Engineer fell
from a ladder, ~fracturing both knee
pans.
At Lowell, Mahoning county. on the
morning of the I'd instant, a smallpox
patient, while delerious from the effects
Of the fever, performed some strange
feats. Getting away from his wife, he
demolished a window and went roam
ing through the streets in q nude state.
After wandering around about an hour,
he became chilled and came to his senses,
and went into the furnace casting house,
and remarkedthat it was quite cold. He
was secured, clothed and taken home.
A barrel of buck wheat -four exploded
recently at KeOkuk, Iowa. A man OF
science calmly says that the buckwheat
wa probably wet, and being confined in
the barrel, an alcoholic vspor was
generated, which ignited as the lid was
taken on and a lighted candle brought
into contact. That is all very well, but
whom or what can we trust when the
staff of life goes back on US like gun
powder or nitro-glyeerine, and a barrel
of slap-jack timber turns out a self
constituted internal machine?
The indianapolis Journal OF January
/, narrates the following. The conduc-
tor referred to is our former townsman,
Mr.. o. W. Merrill:
"CALL IT MKRRILL-A child was
born on conductor Merrilrs train, of the
Panhandle road, which left here at 800
on Saturday morning. When the train
arrived at Columbus the happy parents
were undecided whether TO name it for
the Superintendent OF the road, the con-
ductor of the train, or the conductor of
the sleeping car. Both the latter gentle
men declined to collect fare from the
little stranger"
The State Board OF Agriculture met
last Thursday at their rooms inthe Capt.
tol, their chiefbusiness being the settling
up OF the business OF the old Board, and
the organization of the new one. The
new 0OAsu Was OIkdAl6C0 Dg MO CIV
ton Of the following officers: James
Buckingham, OF Muskingum county,
President; Simpson Harmount, of Canal
Dover, Tuscarswas county, Treasurer,
John H. Klippsrt, OF Columbus, Cores
ponding Secretary. 1t was agreed to
advertise for proposals from the differ
ent localities for holding the State Fair
next year. The time fixed upon for
holding it was the I'd and 9th Of Sep
tember next inclusive. The Board ad-
journed TO meet February 10th, 1872.
Gov. Hayes ADVOCATES the erection by
the State of a Governors Mansion at
Columbus. The ruling passion Of the
Governors messages has been economy
in public expenditures. taxes. DC. A
Governors mansion could not be built
at any trifing cost or maintained in good
repair and q~uadrennially, at least, re-
fitted and refurnished for the new
Governor, without drawing literally on
the treasury. The Governor is now, as
heretofore, especially solicitous on the
subject of local taxes. Now we say that
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