Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-26
STATE ITEMS.

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The Columbus Journal says hat two
soldiers arrived at the State Soldiers
Home on Saturday, coming from the
Soldiers Home at Cleveland. Their
names are P Harrington, l5sth n. VI,
and Ezra Pendleton, Company E; 2lst
n. z. ]. The former has lost his arm,
the latteris crippled in one of his legs.
During the ten days ending January1nrh
2l2 men were received at the Home. The
whole number of meals furnished was
100, and the number odgings 26Ls -
On Monday Gen. Wilcox received or
ders from the War Department to report
to the Commanding General Department
of the Ohio, for duty as Commanding
Officer of the District of Ohio, in addi-
ton to his duties us Provost Marshal Gen
eral and Chief mastering Officer for the
Gen! Wilcox Chief Mastering Officer
for this State, has received officialnotice
that the l27th o. vi, now at Macon,
Georgia, would be mustered out as soon
as possible. Orders for the muster out of
the 4sth Detachment, now in Texas, were
also received.
The disease, hog cholera, or someth ng
nearly related thereto, and quite as fatal,
is still prevailing in the vicinity Of Circle
vile. Mr.. Nelson 5-.Turney has lost in
all sixty-seven hogs within the last few
weeksa eds taetfs 50
During the week ending Saturday, Jan
uary 2eth, 2se emigrants passed Colum-
bus for places South and West: These
were p%rincipallv Germans, and 40, or
,1,-4,- IoIc - 49,, 1rn.1-a1 ~ find
homes in Ohio. T~hirty-five were bound
for Kentucky, 4s for Missouri, rs for Hi
nois, 30 for Indiana and eight for Michi-
gam sr5 7r- ua--cy sll
Tho Columbus Journal says that the
Adiutant Generals Department, within
the last three weeks, have been doing a
heavyibusiness in forwarding to the diff
ferent regiments Of National Guards Ger
t~iflcates of Merit, containing the thanks
Of the national authorities for services
rendered in the field. During the time
mentioned, thirty-five boxes Of these docu-
ments, representing as many different reg
iments, have been forwarded to different
counties in the State. afiT o. H-'l q.
The Superintendent of the Ohio Sol
diers' Homeacknowledges the receiE I from
the Ladies' Soldiers Aid Society of Rag
giles, Ashland county, of l half barrel OF
apple butter, l keg of pickles, ! box of
canned fruit, l box dried fruit.
The Cincinnati Gn1mereial says: On
Saturday evening, about o o'clock, the
Planters House, on the corner of Third
street and Broadway, wal the scene of d
terrible cutting afIray between B. s. Hine,
one of the proprietors of the house, and
his partner, Col. w. S. Knott, which re-
suited in the latter being terribly stabbed
in the bowels. They quarreled about a
The ZanesvilleS ignaL states that on Sat
urdAy morning between the hours of two
and daylight, the room of Mr.. Joseph
McGrea, at the American House, in that
city, was entered by some person or per
sons, and some four thousand five hun
dred dollars stolen.
The Dayton journal says there are six
teen persons in Jail at that place. One
for murder six for grand larceny five
men and one womanl; two for highway
robbery two for receiving stolen goods
(One man and one womanG one vagTant /;
and four as suspicious characters.
Bishop Morris, the well-knownM etho-
dist prelate, was stricken down with
paralysis at Xenia, on Saturday.
The Columbus Journal states incident
ally that Senator Sherman proposes
making his home in Cincinnati.
The entire number of emigrants that
passed through Columbus the past year is
I5,l4o.
Ohio is the only State that came out of
the war with a less debt than it went in
with. ,i 'a'
The GAINESVILLE Courier says Our Repre-
sentative, Hon. Columbus Deiano, received
an indefinite leave of abseuce Thursday,
on account of a death in his family.
The number of cubic feet of gas manu-
featured by the gas works of Cincinnati
during the year 1855, was 22o,7Sl, 749, on
which was paid q revenue tax of
S82, 3osg 50.
Tho Portsmouth Tribune publishes the
amount of revenue received in that dis
trict for several month";, and shows that
where q single distillery was in operation
the rovenuS fncrcassd fr5-n 800 %
S3oO,0 600 per month.
The Hon. VIM. Stanton, Ohio House of
Representatives, writes to the Cincinnati
Commercial thst the vote given by HIM
self and other Republican members in op-
position to permitting the use of the Hall
by the Oolored Mems Convention was
based upon a rule of the House not to
allow any public meetings in the Hall,
and not because Of any prejudice against
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