Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-18
STATE TENS.

stated that the trial of DR.. Dorsey, late
State Treasurer, would probably COM
mence on that day. Hon. r. B. Warden
is retained to assist in the prosecution.
The offices of all the District Provost
Marshals in the State have been closed,
except that of the Seventh Consolidated
District, which will close on the 18th inst.
The records haye been filed with Colonel
J. A. Wilcox, Provost Marshal General of
Ohio, at Columbus.
The Democratic party are arranging to
celebrate the anniversary Of the battle of
New Orleans, at Columbus, January 6th.
| A committee of arrangements has been
appointed, consisting of John G. Thomp-
son, S. s. Rickly, Amos Layman, w. S.
V. Prentiss and G. B. Flood If the hero
of New Orleans were alive to-day he
would repudiate the Democracy of these
men, who devoted their energies to aiding
rebels in their attempt to destroy the
Union which General jackson swore by
the Eternal should be preserved"
The Columbus Journal says that the
payment of large number of the claims
allowed by the State Board of Military
Claims has been delayed, and will be for
some time to come, by the failure of the
United States authorities to paw over
money awarded to the State for military
outlays, and which was specifically appro-
priated by the Legislature to meet these
claims.
The Central Ohio Dental Association,
recently in session at Wooster, adjourned
to meet in Delaware, Dec. 26.
Wooster is making an effort to secure
the location of the University to be en-
dowed by the Ohio, Sandusky and Gin
cinnati Synods of the Presbyterian
Church. Subscriptions have already
amounted to $4,000.
The contested election in Clermont
county of Representatives, Sheriff, &c, has
been dropped by mutual consent. The
officers having their certificates Of election
will hold them without molestation. The
Democrats have the Sheriff and Senator,
and the Republicans the Representatives
in the Legislature.
Col. James Nash, late Of the 10Th Ohio
Infantry, who served during the war,
having entered the army as a Lieutenant,
and who carries a memento of the field in
the form of a crippled arm, is a candidate
for Clerk of the Ohio House of Represent
atives.
A revival is in progress at the Seventh
street M. L. Church in GAINESVILLE.
The 18th o. V. V. t. was mustered out
at San Antonio, Texas, on the 25th ult
The boys are expected home about New
Years.
The Scioto river is frozen over at Co.
lumbus.
A flowing oil well has been opened on
Duck Greek, near Marietta, by New
York company, and there is in consequence
great excitement in the neighborhood.
There is to be a grand reunion of the
3sth o. V. 1. at Defiance on Christmas
In the evening they will have a ball and
supper at the Russell House.
The Toledo Commercial of Saturday
says: "The Delta Company have struck
oil. D. Fashbaugh was in the city last
evening with a specimen of the oil found.
There is considerable excitement in Delta
over this event."
Major General J. B. Steedman was in
Cincinnati on the l4th inst, on his way to
his home at Toledo.
The State Board of Agriculture will
convene at Columbus on the Sd of next
month, at which time five new members
of the Board will be elected, and Sec
retary Klippsrt will present a report of
his travels aad observations in Europe.
The Ohio Wool Growers Convention
will be held at Columbus January 3, 1866.
The Urbana Citizen says that on Mon
day Major Nelson Downing, formerly of
Mechanicsburg, but more recently of Lon
don, stepped from balcony of the Ameri-
can House in Delaware, striking his head
on the pavement, and died in ten minutes.
Coal miners about GAINESVILLE are re-
ceiving five cents per bushel for mining.
The GAINESVILLE Courier says: I'VE un-
derstand that Life Insurance Office will
be opened in this city in few days, based
upon the Homeopathic system of treating
disease"
There were shipped from Fremont, via
the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad, during
the months of October and November,
s,0e4 barrels of apples, estimated to have
been worth over $4,000.
The whole number of sheep in the State
is 227,252-valued at $2l, ,720, 1856 of
hogs, I,455,6e5, valued at S6,96l, ie6.
Licking county has the greatest number of
sheep-236, 3s3, and Pickaway county the
largest number of hogs-47Osl.
Three hundred and sixty-eight COM
panies have been incorporated in this
State during the year ending November
Is. They may be classified as follows:
Manufactures, AZ; insurance, 20; turn
pike and plank road, l3; petroleum, 26I.
General Grosvenor has served notice on
w. Reed Golden, of Athens county, that
he will contest his election as State SEN
ator.
NJ. D. Potter, of the Cincinnati Com
nlereiaL, has, with his family, gone to
Cuba for the benefit of his health, and
will remain during tho winter.
VIM. Henry Smith, Secretary of State,
is writing the biography of the late Gov
ernor Brough.
It is reported that W. T. Coggeshall,
late of the State Journal is to be Private
ssOrstary tO Governor Cex.