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Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-18
NORTHERN OHIO NEWS.
PORTAGE COUNTY.

The Kent Reuie0 says: The annual
meeting of the stockholders of " the Kent
National Bank" was held at the Office of
the Bank, on Wednesday, the eth inst.
The following are the Directors elected for
the ensuing year: Marvin Kent, w. 5.
Streator, Henry A. Kent, Z. L. Day, and
Charles b. Kent. Marvin Kent was re-
elected President. Mr.. james S. Cooke,
formerly of the Mahoning Bank, Youngs-
town, Ohio, but recently of the Bank De-
partment of the Auditor of State, Column
bus, Ohio, takes the place of Mr.. E. /.
Day, late Cashier, who long since rendered
his resignation on account of the increas-
ing demand upon his time in the manu-
facture of window glass, a business in
which he has been engaged for some time
past. MI. Cooke ONE among US with
The highest recommendations for integrity
and qualification, and with the advantages
of a long experience in banking matters,
he will undoubtedly prove adequate TO
the responsibilities of his new position.
Since the sale of the building now oc-
cupied by the Kent National Bank, the
managers have concluded to erect a new
and elegant Banking House, on the corner
of Main and Water streets. Although
this banks now as safe a depository as a
frst-clsss Fire and Burglar Proof afe can
make it, yet there will be incorporated in
the new Office all the improvements which
modern art and skill has invented to thwart
the designs of the ill disposed. The erection
of thenew building being under the super
intendence of NJ. Kent Esq., insures the
Bank amodel office, and to the town an or
nament.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-18
Death ORION. a: l. HALT,

The Columbus Journal of yesterday
makes the following mention of the late
Hon. A L. Haskin, member of the Ohio
Legislature from Washington county
The announcement of the sudden death
Of Hon. A. L. Haskin of Marietta, crea-
ted a profound sensation among his friends.
No further particulars have have been re-
celved from Logansport orfrom Marietta.
The dispatch forwarded to the latter
place was received and made public, and
1t is supposed immediate arrangements
were made by the relatives for the
conveyance of the remains to Ma
rietta- Mr.. Haskin, on Tuesday, through
his colleague, Mr.. Curtis, asked leave of
absence on account of sickness. This was
granted, but on Thursday he was again
present. reporting himself much better.
He has been extensively engaged in rail-
road enterprises, and was at the time of
death superintendent or engineer of
he Logansport and Peru Railroad. He
eft this city on Friday for Indiana on
connected with this road. He is
represented by those who accompanied
him to the station TO have been in good
pirits, but experiencing some ~inconve-
Hence from a slight pain in the neck. His
leath creates a vacancy in the Legislature,
o be filed by special election on the order
T the Governor.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-18
OIL NEWS,

The Mercer, Pa, Dispatch says that oil
has been struck on Sandy Creek, on the
farm of Mr.. Canadian, in Mercer county.
About sixty-fve holes have been sunk
on Watson Flats, only five of which are
now producing. On the north side of the
creek, forty-four wells nave been sunk, and
five of those are now being worked. The
oil produced is about sixty barrels daily.
The Oil City Register says: The grad
ing upon the Oil City and Pithole road is
nearly finished, and will be ready for the
iron during the course of another week.
The Kersey Mineral and Oil Company.
who are building the railroad from Oil
City to Pithole, Ui0 Cherry Run, having
finished grading their road from the mouth
of Cherry Run to Plumer, and laid the iron
upon some three miles of the same, will
soon commence the construction of the
lower end of their line from Oil City to
Housewife.
The Titusville Herald says: On We'd
fo4L
above the Reed well, on Cherry Run,
commenced to flow while drawing the
sucker rods. So great was the force Of the
gas, that the sucker rods were blown over
the top of the derrick. Our reporter Wis
tied the well on Friday morning, and ac-
cording to his estimation, it was flowing at
the rate of four hundred barrels per dav.
The gravity of the oil is A, and It was
being barreled as fast as it flowed into q
small tank, The first 600 barrels were
sold at S. 90 per barrel.
The Titusville Herald says:
We learn from q reliable source, that
the production of oil in Pithole is on the
decline, but other wells are springing up
in various sections, makinga total average
of about 5000 barrels for the whole oil
region. The Pool and Grant wells are
not producing over one-half of their sup
posed original production, and many other
wells arc on the decline. The Pithole and
Reno Railroad Is graded nearly the whole
length, having nothing but the bridges to
be built, and the rails laid, which are ex-
pected to be accomplished by the first of
FEBRUARY. AT the present moment, the
average amount of oil passing through
Reno is 200 barrels daily, most Of this is
to Cleveland and Pittsburgh. The
cost of shipping oil from Reno to Pitts
burgh is 81 per barrel; so that the Pitts
burg men will not long be without their
usual winter supply. The Allegheny
river is at last ~unnavigable for the bal
of the winter, and consequently the
Reno Railroad will mOnopolize the whole
the Southern trade. The roads through
'ut the whole oil territory were never in
condition than at present. Those
which were when mud-bound almost
mpassable, are now frozen hard, and COM
'aratively smooth and level.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-18
Anecdote Of greeley.

The New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial relates the follow
ing:
Persons well acquainted with Horace
Greeley are aware that, with all his amia-
bility and good-heartedness, he is not par
ticularly orthodox. You remember, no
doubt the solicitude of one of his extreme
ly pious friends who asked him, when his
two daughters were Ill some years since, if
they had been baptised. "0h, no." said
II. g., 'but they have been vaecinated.n
An earnest advocate of foreign missions
forced himself into the presence Of the
Tribuneis editor-in-chief in the Bible
house the other day, while he was hard At
work on his Conflict" and importuned
him to subscribe to the cause. The veteran
journalist looked up from his manuscript
In very choleric mood, and said crustilv,
"Don't ask me to give anything for the
salvation of souls. am convinced look
ing significantly at the intruder) that not
half as many people go to h-lnow as
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STATE ITEMS.

Ths Cincinnati Gazette of Saturday says
"In our notice yesterday of the arrest OF
Mr.. Robert Bliven, we were led into er-
ror in prefxing Captain to his name by
the warrant for his arrest. Captain @. L.
Bliven, of the Quartermaster's Depart
mant is apnthar ~ro sorry
to learn, has suffered some annoyance
from the blunder."
A man named Siddall was arrested at
Three Rivers, on the 10th inst, by the
Sheriff of Hancock county, Ohio, and
taken to Findley to answer to answer to
the charge of burglary committed at that
village about eighteen months ago.
The Cincinnati Enauirer says that on
Monday Brigadier General Soammon as
sumed command of the Ohio Military
Academy, rice Captain Witham, resigned.
The citizens of Cincinnati ask the Gov
eminent to pay them for services render
ed in defending the city against Kirby
Smith in 1862. The soldiers who partici-
pated in that defense think the Cincin-
natians were sufficiently compensated by
by the exorbitant prices they charged
their defenders for food and other neces-
SaIies.
The Dayton journal says, on Friday
night some thieves stole two horses from
the premises of Mr.. Samuel Bigger, six
miles southeast of that city.
The Dayton Journal Of Monday an
nounces four different robberies in that To-
cality on Friday and Saturday. One case
is peculiarly provoking. Two young
ladies were stopped on Saturday evening
on a frequented street, and robbed Of
money and a gold watch
The GAINESVILLE Signal records the death
Of Mr.. Bernard Van HorEer, n of the
Oldest citizens of that place. He died on
Sunday morning, at the age of So.
There are thirty-ssvSn prisoners in the
Hamilton county jail under Indictment !
awaiting trial for different offenses. OIL
these ten are charged With murder. There
are eight sentenced to various terms of
imprisonment in the Penitentiary, and
only awaiting transportation to Column !
bus.
The Commercial says a party Of Cincin-
natl gamblers, after getting g~loriously
tight, on Sunday, got into an ARRAY, in
which one, John Cussard waa SEVERELY and
dangerously injured.
A man named Michael Cahill was kill
ed by the cars at GAINESVILLE on Saturday
night. He had been warned of the track
twice by the watchmani
The Cincinnati Commercial says there
Ire now remaining in the Commercial
Hospital in that city proper and its
2sI inmates. During tbe last
week there were received, So; discharged.
IS; deaths, 8.
August SghotEman, who fell a distance
# sixty feet in an ise-house In Cincinnati,
lied on Sunday.
First Sergeant Msufics susmah, of the ,
9th 0. V. V. l., was on Saturday pro- |
noted to First Lieutenant.
The Columbus Journal SAYS that Major !
Bradford is now accepting recruits for ,
'uard duty at the Arsenal. They enlist !
three years in the Ordnance Corps of .
he Regular Army. I
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-18
Horse Stealing ON The R-,,,

Under this head the Nsoark Advoeats
of Friday notices a notorious horse thief
as follows:
Elijah Metz, the horse thief, who was
arrested by officer Griffith a few weeks
since OF which we gave an account at the
time seems to be a monomaniac. He has
already served five terms in the Ohio pen-
itentiary, and he stands a fair chance of
being convicted again. He has confessed
TO stealing a horse and buggy from Wiley
and Mhlte last spring; also of stealing a
team IN GAINESVILLE, and a team in Mariet-
ia. The Marietta team he sold in Toledo
the team passed through here last Thurs
day, the owner having found it in Toledo
Metz stated. The Wiley and White
horse and buggy he sold in Louisville.
n.y. and has not yet been found. The
GAINESVILLE team, which he also sold in
Louisville, KY, has been found. He also
'tole a horse and buggy in DelWare last
hummer.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-18

OAC9uA SC"S
INCLUDING Watches, Diamonds,
i Brooches, Chains, Lookets. Rings, Gold Pens,
Silver and silver Plated Tea and Dinner Service,
Silver and Jspanned Walters, Bronzes, Statuettes,
Sevres, Porcelain, BJouterie, Photographic Al
buns. Pianos, and, in fact, the entire stock Of an
old established Jewelry House to be closed out on
an entirely new and novel plan,
EACH ARTICLE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO
7 VALUE, TO BE SOLD o
ONE DOLLAR.
The plan is this:-our entire Stock Of Goods Is
appraised, and Certificate $, or Tickets, each
naming some one article of our extensive assort-
ment Of Jewelry, ETC., are placed in envelopes
carefully sealed, and then thoroughly mixed in a
case. The number Of these certificates correspond
to the number Of dollars at which our stock Of
Coos is valued. Upon the receipt by Us Of One
Dollar, a disiuteresfef person sell cts, iLdlscslmi
nately, Five of these Sealed Envelopes,
each cOntaininga certificate, which we send with
out opening, TO the person who has ordered them
Upon receiving and opening them You are entitled
to whatever articles the Certificates name, upon
payment Of One Dollar for each one. IL ii lisa
$500 Piano, or 3 "a Locket, or a $3.50 Watch, or q
$50 Diamond Ring, or a 81 Scarf or Bosom Pin, il
is all the game The RETURN OF ANY CERTIFICATE
TO US, WITH ONE DOLLAR, ENTITIES you TO WHAT
EVER THE CERTIFICATE MAY NAME, IRRESPECTIVE
OF ITS VALUE. As no article Valued less than One
Dollar is named in any Certificate, II will be at
once seen that this is NO Lottery, but a stralght-
forward, legitimate business arrangement, which
may be participated in by the most fastldious.
You receive your Certificate, AID If they name
something which you want, or some article of val-
ne, as for instance, a Gold Watch, Diamond
Brooch; Parian Statuette, Piano, Pin, Ring, etc,
you eau send and get; if not, you let it alone and
the matter is ended.
To reimburse US for the cost Of printing, adver-
Using, and forwarding the Certificates we charge
as follows: Five Certificates 81 Eleven for ~
Twenty for So; Twenty six for 81 Thirty for go.
One Hundred for SIS and elegant premiums, and
Two Hundred Certificates and a superior Watch
las premium) FOR $50.
We want 10 600 active. stirring Agents to call
vass every city, town, village, neighbOrhood, fac
tory, and shop in the United States. Energetic
m1Ho "---F good reputation and business
capacity may clear $50 per week in tho aitiSs end
large town, and a proportionate amount in the
interior. 30 Send for Certificates and confidential
circular of terms tn Agents.
Register remittances Of over One rOl'ar.
7. 4 II. GAUGHAN 4 CO.,
.jauI6:2S2 ZIG Broadway, New York.
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Congressional Action on the Death of
President Lincoln,

Congressional Action on the Death of
? President Lincoln.
The Congressional Committee on the
death of President Lincoln have fixed
upon his birth day, the twelfth of Febru-
airy, as the occasion for fit and proper ex-
ercises in commemoration of his death,
and have selected an eminent American
scholar and thinker to deliver his eulogv
before the assembled Houses of Congress.
This is very well, but it is by no means
the whole of that committees duty.
While COMMUNICATING with fitting public
eeremonials the services and sacrifices of
the murdered President the committee
and the Congress should not neglect or
provide scantily for the family that he
left. They are the nations wards and
the nation should deal with them in a
which would properly indicate the
love the reverence, the gratitude it feels
toward him, their husband and father
who fell in the nations defense. This
they have not done. The scanty p~ittanee
of a years salary which they propose to
offer to the family of Abraham Lincoln is
p~itifully disproportionate both to the
wealth and power of the mighty republic
and to the obligations which it owes to its
murdered President. We are amazed
that the press has not spoken out boldly
against such ittleness and ingratitude.
and we are sure that the great and gener-
Gus heart Of the people would respond.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars may have
been enough for the widow of General
Hsrrisoh, who died peacefully, and who
lived at q time when that amount of
money was a fortune; but, under all the
circumstances, one hundred thousand dol
is not too much to pay the widow of
President Lincoln, and we hope that it
viii be paid without further parley. The
bill granting Mrs. Lincoln her husbands
salary ought to have been passed unani-
mously and without reference to q COM
1t is nov too late to- do this grace
but still it ought to be done at
onee.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-18
HURON COUNTY.

The Norwalk Reflector says The dwell
ing house belonging to Mrs. Bates, and
occupied at the time, by Mr.. G. W. Man
ahan, jr, wal discovered to be on fire, on
Monday afternoon, the 9Th inst. The en-
CINE was 500 upon the ground and at
work. Owing to the fact that the strainer
was not affixed to the suction hose before
it was put into the well, the machine was
soon choked up by leaves and rubbish.
However, the shell of the building was
saved, though SO badly injured as to be
nearly worthless. All, or nearly all,
the furniture WIS saved. We understand
the building WIS insured-the amount we
do not know.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-18
An AIIifntoF eaught

Strange as it may appear to our readers.
it is nevertheless the fact, that an aliiga-
tor, 8 feet 81 inches in length, was caught
In the Licking river, just above the sus-
pension bridge which connects Covinston
with Newport, by some boys who were
playing on the bank. Two or three gem
tlemen who happened to be passing by at
the time, obtained the creature, and con-
veyed it to the Office of Mayor NJ Cracken.
in Newport, where it shortly after died.
The Mayor intends to have it stuffed, and
preserve it as a curiosity. How this ALI
gator managed to make its way this far
north is a matter of considerable dispute.
1t is stated by one gentleman that about a
year ago a boat load of soldiers arrived
here from Arkansas river. On board the
steamer were two alligators, one of which
overheard, and it is now supposed that
It was the same which wa, captured on
Sunday. 1t can be seen at the Mayors
'ficei in Newport.-Gncinnatt GazsHe.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-18
Forrest Notes.

Under this caption, the Dayton Journal
publishes the following respecting the
great actor Edwin Forrest:
Nearly forty years ago a youth of about
seventeen summers appeared in Dayton,
with a peregrinating Thespian company,
and played in minor characters for some
weeks, winding up with a benefit in the
character of Tag" playing to S1O.4O.n
This money was paid over 70 his landlady
for board and in company with ali acc
quaintance, the aspiring tragedian started
for Cincinnati of foot without d cent in
his pocket. Our youthful adyenturet had
made a number of friends here, aud it was
not without regret he took his leave of the
place. As he made his way down the
banks of the Great Miami southwark, he
wondered if he would ever again behold
the sce1e of his mimic exploits; and If
he should chance to feturh, whether his
personal condition would::be changed.
Some dozen miles down the river, he
became weary of walking, and espying a
"fat" on the opposite side of the river, he
proposed to his compafiidh that they
should get possession of it and float down
to the Ohio. Stripping himself of his
seant wardrobe, he swan the turbid
but the people being alarmed by
barking dogs, he returned to the shore
whence he started, and abandoning his
of navigation, he resumed his jour
ney afoot. At eight o'clock the same eve
ming, having walked sixty miles, he
into the old Globe Theater in Gin
The manager expressed great
in meeting him, and re-
at once, "The house is full, Mr..
and my leading IMAM has failed
keep his engagement. Will you
axe his placer "Yes," said Nj. Forrest,
for a consideration" "What amount 9i
quoted the manager. give dollars" said
"You shall have it 2" rejoined
he manager-and said Mr.. Forrest, II
have seen the time when 1 felt as
ich as 1 did with hat five dollars in my
'ocket. 1t was all 1 had" From Gin
innati he repaired to Philadelphia, and
inferred upon his great career. The con-
rast between his first and his present visit
D Dayton is n s%trikingly illustrative of
be struggles and successes of Americans.
his first visit he "played to slO.4O."
lie has within a week "played to" a good
cal more than a thousand dollars.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-18
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VAN VERT COUNTY.

The Van Vert bulletin says: On last
Saturday morning when Deputy Sheriff
Evers entered the Jail he found one of
the prisoners, Emanuel Brainer lying dead
upon the couch. Coroner WEIGH empan-
nsled a jury, when it was ascertained that
the deceased died in a fit of a~ppoplexy.
He had been laboriDg under some cerebeal
arrangement for years, in consequence of
which he had been taken in charge by the
county and placed in the Jail building,
where he had been tenderly cared for.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-18
nnuNTY

G. Whitney, a Justice of tho Peace in
Orwell Township, has been sick for several
months. For the past two months he has
been considered on the verge of the grave.
DR.. Haines, of Orwell, recently performed
asurgical operation upon him, taking some
three pints of matter from his side, since
which his prospects of recovery are more
favorable. This is a very interesting case.
as MreWhitney is well known to the citi-
zens of Ashtabula county. Esq
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-18

We learn that during the recent severe
cold weather, a steamboat, loaded with
soldiers returning home to be mustered
out was delayed in the canal at Louis
vile, Kentucky, for thirty hours, to allow
the passage of coal barges from above,
and that even then permission to pass up
wss only obtained when the of6cer in
command Of the troops threatened to
force a passage in case of further deten-
ton. The troops were direct from Texas,
and being but scsntily supplied with win
ter clothing, suffered extremely from this
apparent inhumanity on the part of some
one having authority.
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RePresentauon I'M Conrre.s.

The Chicago Republican has the follow
ing figures upon the present ratio of ap-
POrtionmsnt: New Hampshire has three
Representatives in Congress, her white
population being s2s,O 900; while Louisiana
with q white population of s57, 900 would
have I've Representatives; Georgia, with
$4,000 white people, will have seven
Representatives: while Maine, with s25,-
600, has only five. Alabama, with
$4,000 white people, has six Representa-
dVes, the same number as Wisconsin
whose white population is 774,OOO, and
Michigan whose white population 742, 900.
mississippi with $4,000 white people, viii
nave v Representatives; the same as
New jersey, with 646, 5000.
General schenck's bill is the proper sur
gerry for such a state of the constitution.
!
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-18


The election OF james N. Scovell, of
Camden, TO be President Of the New Jer-
sey Senate, secured to that body a most
accomplished presiding officer, and was an
honor justly rendered toa thoroughly radi-
cal Republican. Mr.. Scoven has consid-
cred himself ill-treated bothin Gubernate-
rial and Congressional aspirations, and a
correspondent says: "There was much ex-
element among parties on account of the
refusal of Mr.. Scovell to appear in the
Republican caucus. Without his vote there
a tie, and his vote was necessary to
secure the offices for The Republicans. Both
parties sent committees to him, but he de-
clared his independence. The Republicans
finally gave him the position of President,
although they had agreed upon Mr., Buck
ley, Of Passaic, for the post"
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-18

Rev. ]. Isaac Errett, late pastor of the
Christian Church in this city, is t o be edi-
tor Of q new weekly religious newspaper
to be published at Cleveland, Ohio. From
the acknowledged ability that Mr.. Errett
brings to the enterprise, it is certain that
the Christian Standard will not disap-
point the hopes of its friends, but prove a
welcome and hospitable visitor to all its
readers.-DetToH Free Press.
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10 CONTRACT0RG-se

VINE IV OVNlRAOIVhEs0Dcdlc0
In proposals will DO received at the = fice ofths
o'clock P. NJ, January I'D, 1866, for ren. orihg All
90 Swill and house ora" from the city limits, for
one year from said date, in accordance with the
ordinance OF December 9Th, 1865. Said bids to
give the number OF the ward or wards, and the
price for each ward. The Board invite the rub
mission Of bids, reserVing the right TO accept or
reject the same. G., s. WHEAT0H, Clerk
January 9th, 1866. janI0;2a2