The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-04-26
STATE ITEMS.

In Canton, Ohio, there are forty three
drinking saloons, and the town pays
them $154, 800 each year, enough to
build church, an academy, public
hall, gymnasium, and found free Ii
brary, all of them upon liberal scale.
A village called Camp Dennison has
been laid out on the grounds Of the old
camp of the same name, and the first
sale of lots took place few days ago.
DR.. Roback has been bound over by
United States Commissioner Halliday,
at Cincinnati, in the sum of s51 ,00O,,'to
appear before the Grand Jury at it's
next term, to answer to the charges
against him.
The Cleveland Plaindea1er says it
has been suggested to use locomotives
on the Erie canal, in place of horses,
by building track on the towpath-
It is thought that the increased speed
will be followed by a corresponding in
crease in freight business.
1t has come out in the course of
legal trial now in progress in Cincinna-
ii, that the butchers there have been
charging twenty-five or six cents for
slop-fed beef that they only paid five
or six cents for. This kind of thing
has not been confined to Cincinnati,
nor has this way fdoing business been
confined to dealers in beef alone.
The Cleveland Herald, speaking Of
the recent revivals in that city, says that
in all the Churches wherein special
meetings have been held grand total
of745 accessions to the membership
have been made as the result of the
work. The Methodists head the list
with sos. The Baptists next with 120 !;
the Presbyterians 1O2 and the Episco-
pal Church 19.
The Morgan County Herald says !:
Oil was struck on Mans Fork of Meigs
Creek, in the Rockville District, in two
different wells, on the 18th inst, at the
depth of one at so and the other 81 feet.
The oil is heavy (2s) lubricating.-
There are now eight wells, as we are in
formed, pumping at the rate of fifty
barrels each perday. Great atexcitement
prevails. Farms and leases are bring
ing fabulous prices.
The body of Prof Kleingunther. the
teacher of music who disappeared so
mysteriously from Piqua some weeks
since, was found a few days ago float
ing in the river near that place. 1t is
now deemed quite certain that he com
mitted suicide.
DIR. L1BBY.-Judge Day of the Su-
| preme Court has allowed a writ of
error in the case of DR.. Libby, the
abortionest, now in the Penitentiary.
This brings the case before the District
Court of the Cleveland District at the
session to be held in September next.
The Sandusky Register says the fish
business of that city, in it's various
branches, gives employment to notless
than five hundred men, all of whom re-
ceive good wages for their labor
Wednesday one hundren thousand
pounds of fish were received at that
place, and there is not the least doubt
manifested by those connected with the
trade but that the amount of receipts
will be doubled within the next few
days.
The Clyde Times says a man named
Norman Easily fell between two cars
on the G. & T. Railroad, while the train
was in motion, at Bellevue, ON Satur-
day last, and a part of the train passed
overhi body. He died in a short time.
The Marion Independant announces
the death, on the 14th inst, of Mr.. Par
ker Lee, in the 10th year of his age
He was soldier of the war of 1912 and
had been resident of the State nearly
80 years.
}, James A. Trimble, brother Of Ex-
Governor Trimble, died at his residence
in Hillsboro on the 14th inst. He was
seventy eight years of age, one of the
pioneers of the county, and soldier OF
the war Of 1872.