Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03
STATE NEWS.

4 new post Office, called Dennison, has
been established in Norton township,
Summit county.
The sale of Government stores and
buildings on Johnson's Island has been
postponed until April 18th.
There has been a new postofice estab-
lished at Mount Holly, Clermont county,
Ohio, and David Doughty has the APP
pointment of postmaster.
The GAINESVILLE Signal reports that since
January first one hundred and ninety
one barrels of petroleum have been ship
ped from Muskingum county.
The Executive Committee of the State
Board of Agriculture are now in session
at Dayton, initiating the preparatory
move for extensive arrangements for the
State Fair.
A. T. Herrick, of Tuscarawas county,
has a native COW, common breed, that in
fourteen consecutive days, commencing
February 25th, 1866, gave 473 pounds of
milk, from the cream of which he made
2s l-6 pounds of butter.
Mr.. John Sexton, editor of the Canton
(0.) Repository, announces that the issue
of his paper for the present week COM
pletes its ffty-frst annual volume. Mr.
Saxton began the publication of the Re
pository in lskp, and has continued in
charge of it ever since.
A band of Gypsies is eneamped near
Toledo. The Blade says they are sus-
pected of committing some petty thefts
Whereabouts recently.
The Journal says there is a woman "A
years old in that city who makes a COM
Portable living weaving carpets, upon a
hand loom, at the rate of fifteen cents a
yard.
A correspondent of the ~Saudusky Regis
ter, writing from Kelley's Island, says ''from
what l can learn from the grape growers
generally here, there are a good many
buds on the Isabella killed by the frest;
and some of the Catawba buds are injured,
but not enough to injure the crop"
The Second Presbyterian Church of
Delaware, o., have made proposals to the
Common Council to purchase the market
house and lot in that place, with a view
to erecting a church building on the site.
A vote of the town is to be taken on the
question Of selling ii, on Monday, April
the I'd.
While some workmen were cutting
down a knoll in Dayton, last week, they
exhumed several human skeletons which
were buried at a depth of four feet. One
was evidently that of a woman All the
bones crumbled to dust soon after being
exposed to the air. They were probably
the remains of Indians, and had been in
the ground fully a hundred years.
The Chillicothe Gazette says that the
grand jury of Ross county retained four
teen indictments, one of which was against
William Rittenhouse, late treasurer, who
was held to bail by Judge Dickey in the
sum of $4,000 for his appearance at the
next term of court.
The Cincinnati Commercial ~nnounce
the death, on Tuesday evening, of Mr..
Charles Satterly, one of the pioneers of the
city. He died at the age of se~veqty-fve,
and has been a resident of the city fifty
one years. He oficiated as Clerk of the
Council for twenty-one successive terms.
The Cincinnati Commercial describes a
curiosity, in the shape of a lamb, front the
farm of Mr.. VIM. J. Rennick, of Sher-
man, Kentucky. The lambhad one head,
eight feet, and two perfect bodies and tails.
Its mother had one lamb just before this
one, and it is still living, but this lived
two hours and was then killed.
The new report Of the Commissioner of
Statistics shows that four-ffths of the but
ter and cheese in 1864, were made in the
following counties: