Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-12-18

The only case tried in the Mayors
Court the past week was that of Daniel
: Ludwick, upon a charge of being drunk
and d sorderly. After a Sabbath days
lodging in the jail, and the payment OF
fines and cost, amounting to s7.a5, be
was discharged.
AT the last annual meeting of the
Trumbull County Agricultural Society,
Mr.. JusIus HOsglsnd, Of Bazetis, was
elected as member of the Board of Di.
r%ectors, to serve two years. By an over
sight his name WAS omitted in the report
Of the meeting published in our last
issue. Also, W. w. Kennedy was elect
ed member of the Board Of Managers to
serve one year, instead Of Wallace Ken
nedy, as given in the report.
The three newspapers in Youngs-
town are devoting their editorial COL
umns to a personal war Of words, some
what IN the plan of Jack Es-y's trisn-
gular duel-while the ViHdie1to and the
Miner and Manufacturer are banging at
eachother, the Register peppers away at
both OF them. The manv ~virtuous Quail
tiles or these amiable editors are being
LIade known to the public in a style Of
expression entirely free from ambiguity.
BY an advertisement in this paper
we learn that the winter term of West
ern Reserve Seminary will
January I'd, proximo. Under Prof. G.
W. Beatty's management, the institute n
has been prosperous the past year. The
Zone study" system appears TO work
quite advantageously, and is a special
of the mode of instruction adop,-
ed in W. r Seminary. In the advertise
ment as published last week, the types
PLACED the price of family board at So,
when it should have read 50.
AT about eight o'clock on the morn
Of Thursday. the 18th inst, a man
Irwin ]. Porter. living at Column
Diana, O., committed the horrible crime
II numbering his two little girls with a
The children, as we learn. were
ICED n and three years respectively.
The prisoner. who is a man apparently
# about thirty-ive years OF age, was
brought to the Trumbull county jsil, in
Warren, for sa~fe-keeping, on Friday
last. in the custody of Mr.. T.
Morris, sheriff Of Columbiana coun-
Y to whom our reporter is indebted for
he above facts.
Considerable excitement was created
Iot only in this city, but all along the
of the gainesville and Youngstown
:. R., on Monday last, by the spread OF
he report that P. T. Cook, contractor
lr the grading, &c, of the narrow gauge
!. R., after having been paid an install
of eighteen thousand doll rs, on
lst Saturday, had absc 'nded, leaving
Contractors, teamsters, labnrers.
narding-hOuse keepers, merchants,
lechanics, farmers and most all classes
people his swindled creditors. HIS
will inhict serious financial in
Try on a number of persons. Cock
here from New Jersey. His family
sides in this place. He has proven
imselfa first-class confidence man.
The new Wrought Iron Doub Q
tubular Bridge, across the Mahouing, {
the foot Of Main Street, being compile
d, q brief reference 10 some Of its les s
Tres will be proper. The bridge was !
instructed by Miller, Jameson & Co., i
Cleveland, superintendent by Mr.. A. :
Mcdonald. The bridge is a single
'an of l64 feet; arches 10 feet high :
Is feet. On each side OF the
is q side walk FIVE feet wide, with
on railing. The bridge proper was
lthorized to be built by the County
commissioners, and this part of 1.-THE
sdWay-cost SIG per linesl foot The
de walks were built al the expense OF .
a city, and cost "a per foot The ap-
caches, including the fills, were also !
ade by the CITY. The structure is war
nted to support 1000 lbs. weight per h
zeal foot. The entire cost amounts tn L
$50. II is the longest One span bridge, n
d probably the handsomest, in the n
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