Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23
STATE NEWS.


ARRIVAL OF MILITARY PRISONERS
Six military prisoners from Little Rock,
Ark, arrived at Columbus, Saturday,
having been sentenced to various terms IN
the Ohio penitentiary fer various crimes
chiefly desertion. They were guarded
by q detachment of colored troops
DIED FROM ExPosURE.-Philip New
man., a machinist, formerly Of Canada,
died in Columbus on Saturday from ex-
posure. He was found in the graveyard,
where he had lain without food for two
DAYS, stupefied with liquor and laudanum.
He died in a short time after being re-
moved to his clearinghouse. He was
about fifty years old, had been in Govern
ment employ. and was a quiet man, but
addicted to drinking.
KELLEY's ISLAND contains $500 acres
and has at the present time a resident
population of about eight hundred. The
taxable property, exclusive of bank stock
owned by Islanders but assessed in the
Sandusky district, is valued at S203,s3l
Indications are most favorable among the
Island vineyards for a full crop of Cataw-
bas the present season. The Isabellas will
generally be a total failure, but as they do
not form a twentieth part of all the vine
yards, their loss will not be felt
AGRICULTURAL SoCIETIEs.-The farm
ers of Henry county last week organized
an Agricultural Society. The Defiance
County Agricultural Society offers a pre-
MUM Of Eve dollars for the best worked
road district in the county for the second
best a premium Of two dollars and fifty
cents.
INcORPoRATED.-A certificae of incor-
poration for the youngstown Novelty
Works was on Friday filed at the Secre-
tary of States Office. The mandatory is
70 be located, and the business to be car
ried on, in Youngstown, Mahoning county,
Ohio. The company propose to manufac-
ture machinery, tools, and other articles
of iron and steel. Capital stock, SIS, coo,
divided into shares of $3.50 each.
MINERAL RAILRoAD-0n the 18th inst,
there was flied at the Office of the Secre-
tary Of State the certificate CT i~ncsrpora-
ton of the Mineral Railroad Company
capital stock $4,000. The new railroad
is to extend from a point on the Hubbard
Branch Of the Cleveland 6 Mahoning
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Trumbull county, across the mineral coal
beds, to the Pennsylvania State line.
SENTENCE REvoKED-Upon the re-
commentator Of Lieutenant General
Grant, the sentence in the case of Second
Lieutent Thomas G. Morrow, 18th 0. V.
c., who was cashiered March 10, 1866,
has been revoked, and he is honorably
mustered out of service from the date
his sentence took effect.
SUICIDE OF a BoY.-A son of Nh.
Jenkins, residing near Otsego, Muskingum
county, aged eleven years, hanged him
self on Thursday, the 10th inst, under
the following circumstances: His mother
told him to bring some frewood from a
woods a short distance from the house.
He at first refused, but at length went.
Not returning for some time a search was
made, when he was found hanging from a
small tree, dead. It seems he had taken
arope from the house when he went after
the wood, which he used in destroying his
life, from anger, probably.
Masonic CELEBRATIoy.-There will be
a grand masonic celebration in Ashtabula
ON the Goth Of June. All the lodges in
the vicinity are invited. A dance in the
evening viii wind up the affair. The
proceeds are to be applied to furnishing
the new Masonic Hall in that village.
Fatal AFFRAY IN SANDUskY.-A
colored man named Taylor, last Saturday,
in Sandusky, entered the house of another
colored man, named Forrison, and fred
three revolver shots at him, neither of
which took effect, when Forrison fired at
Taylor, killing him instantly. A feud
has existed between the two men for a
long time, caused, it is stated, by a wo-
man. Forrison at once proceeded to the
court house to give himself up, but none
of the officers being present it was m
time before any one could be found TO
take charge Of him.
ANOTHER STRIKE. The GAINESVILLE
Courier says another fine oil strike was
made in Blue Rock township on Thurs
day. The fortunate company is g Penn
sylvania one
Misunderstanding the week ending
Saturday, May 10, five hundred and
eighty-four emigrants passed Columbus
for points south and west. Two hundred
and forty-eight of these proposed to set
tie in Ohio, H. in Illinois, 65 in Indiana,
l26 in Missouri, 81 in Kentucky and u
in Kansas.
QUITE A CURIoSITY.-The Cincinnati
Commercial says; Workmen engaged in
a gravel pit near Slackwater Station, on
the Whitewater branch of the ~Indianapo-
lis and Cincinnati road, recently found,
imbedded in gravel, what appears to be
the tusk of some monster animal of
former times. Nearly all the pieces of
thetusk were found-eightf feet, altogether,
and ten inches in diameter, at the base,
and tapering to q point. Ii is supposed
to have been ten or twelve feet in length.
Upon being exposed to the air some con-
siderable time it was found TO crumble,
unless being carefully handled. The Gu
riosity has been placed on exhibition at
the depot.
A Touch SToEY.-The Sandusky Reg
lister tells the following: In digging for
the foundation Of Keech's new building
on Water street, q few days since, the
workmen came upon the foundation of an
old log building-formerly occupied as an
icehouse-Rnd between two of the logs,
under the water and mud, they found a
can of oysters that must have been i'm
bedded there from twenty-five TO thirty
years. The can wa opened and the oys-
tiers were found TO be as white and sweet
as if they had just been "put up for fami-
ly use
The Coshocton Age is informed that
Mr.. ]. W. Cullison, of that county, has
sheared one of the celebrated Atwood
sheep, two years old, and the feeces
weighed 244 pounds. At the first shear
ing, last year, the fleece weighed Is
pounds.
The bridge across the river at Newcom-
erstown is TO cost about $1,000. The
wood s-uperstructure has been let to
Allen, of Urichsville, at S. 81 per foot,
and the stone work awarded to KAISER
man, of New Philadelphia, al 81 80 per
feet.
A New Aspect Of the Colorado Veto.
From the Detroit Post, May 2I.l
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune writes as follows:
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