Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-02-12
WILLIAM R1TEzEI Eaitor aad ProDrissor.
Hon. Waiter F. Stone, Ofsandusky has

The contest for the Republican guber-
material nomination in Connecticut ha:
end-d in the nomination Of Henry P,
Haven.
The death Of Mr.. Dixon, who first as
eertained that oysters were eatable, is
announced rs having occurred at Girls
field, Nd, last week.
The Greenville Advance says: Daniel
Keck, of West Salem, the last of eleven
brothers, died on Sabbath last, aged near
ly Lightweight years.
Horatio Hertzog, a Justice of the peace,
residing near Millerstown, Lehigh coun-
ty, Penn, weighs nearly four hundred
pounds. He is truly aldermanie in his
proportions.
4 national penny subscription has
been taken up in England for the benefit
of the first Englishmsn who signed the
total abstinence pledge, and who is non
old, infrm, and in utter want.
In Mississippi the Democrats are re-
organizing on the Bourbon basis, which
prompts the Memphis AUGlGnehe to re-
mark that their candidate for Governor
will be beaten by forty thousand major
ity.
1t is said that the employment of Chi
nese cheap labor is not altogether as pop
uIar as il was in San Francisco. As soon
as the heather get 4 trade about half
learned they start in business for them
selves, and double discount their old EN-
ployers' prices.
The body OF a young lady has been
placed in the receiving vault Of the In
disnapolis cemetery for daily inspection,
rs the doctors sie by no means certain Of
her death. The indications Of a trance
are the freshness Of the countenance and
the pliability of the joints.
DIR. Holmes wrote a letter which was
read at the Tyndall banquet, in New
York, in which, alluding to the revela-
tions Of science as opposed to religious
theories, he asserted that "Faith was
bankrupt" If Faith were bankrupt,
then the sister virtues, Hope end Chart
tv, would soon likewise withdraw from
the world.
Under the provisions of the Missouri
vagrant act q vsgrsnt may be advertised
and sold at the court house door, for the
term of six months, to the highest bid
der, for cash in hand. Hence the follow
ing from the Hannibal Courier: A man
was sold at Savanna, Andrew county, on
Monday, under the vagrant act, in front
ofsthe court house door, for ono dollar
for six months service
It is stated that unreconstructed con-
Gederates at the South still cherish the
hope Of the redemption, dollar for dollar,
of the worthless confederate scrip with
which secessia was flooded during the
war. Many are said to have it packed
away in old jars, awaiting some favora-
BILE conjuncture of affairs to upset the
fourteenth amendment and to bring the
American people to the task Of paying
these obligations. Long may they wait.
Rev. D. Palmer, writing from Manka-
%, MINI, January 25th, says that the
religious interest in that place stiIl con-
tinues among all denominations which
unitein the work. The Baptist Church
has given q very cordial and unanimous
call to the Rev. C. Telford, OF Warren,
o., to become their pastor. Bro. Telford
has made q very favorable impression on
all classes in MankAto, and 1t will be an
occasion Of profound satisfaction, not on
" TO the Baptist Church here, but to the
entire fraternity of the State. should he
see this duty to enter this field where a
man is 30 much needed.-Press.
There would appear to be no limit to
the facility for obtaining witnesses in
criminal suits at New York. At the
eleventh hour Stokes bias produced a do
mestic from the Grand Central Hotel,
who deposes that she saw Fisk go into
q room of the building and draw q pistol
just before his encounter with the man
now condemned for numbering him.
This evidence is offered by Stokes coun-
sci as basis for a new trial, but nobody
suppcses It will secure that favor. The
fatal 9th is rapidly approaching. As it
draws near hope reeedes. Nothing in
the shape of pardon or Communication can
be expected from Governor Dix.
The combined Catalogues of Seeds and
Plants for 1873, OF Peter Henderson &
Co., SIS Cortlandt St., New York, is just
Observation-Disclosures us pages; is beauti-
illustrated, and in addition, con-
a colored plate of the new "Fount-
ain Plant" and also a handsome litho-
graph ola group ofnew Fuchsiss. These
are mailed to ali applicants
by Peter Henderson q Co., on receipt of
% cents. To their customers OF last year
they are sent without charge; and to all
purchasers of their books, Gardening
for PROFIT And Practical Horticulture
price $3.50 each, prepaid by Nail. they
also send them annually, free of charge.
The repeal Of all usury laws is now
being vigorously pressed in different
quarters. 1t is argued that money, like
.ny other commodity, should be left for
to the mutual convenience
md necessities Of the borrower and lend
sr. This, however, is an assumption not
verified by any experience as yet. Mon
81 is in some respects only a commodi-
", but its specific character is that Of q
measure of all other eommodities.-
uVL-L.- H. ,lar.a1ts -hiob ehnu1l de-
this question. grew out of the
ormer or lsttsr character, has, as yet,
been determined by no specific facts.
aueh idle speculation and debate has
been wasted on the question which now
ZONES up for practical settlement.
The impetus given to commerce by
hat great international improvement,
he SueE Canal, is enormous, especially
the India and China trade. Steamers
SOW reach Calcutta from London in thir-
y days, and expend ten per cent. less
soal than formerly. The multiplication
IF propellers, which alone are available
or the Suez Canal, has rendered the tran
to the great msrts of Europe and
America astonishingly rapid. A Voyage
low lasts but three fourths Of the time
ormerly required, which amounts to a
Of forty-ive per sni in the
Of goods in the mere ocean tran
The multiplication OF railroads has
also expedited the marketing of goods,
sfecting another wonderful saving of
cost.