Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-27

and Titusville is to be Immediately built
Presidency AccEPTED.-w. g. Case, ESQ,
thelate President of the Reading and Co
lumbus Railroad, has accepted the Presi-
dency of the Gettysburg Railroad. s 10.
OH CREEK RAILRoAD.-The statement that
the earnings of the Oil Creek Railroad for
the past year show an increase in gross
earnings of nearly eighty-seven per cent.
over the preceding year, the business of the
past six months being more than sI5e,e0O
in excess of the total business of 1864.
NEW OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. J. H. Potter
has been appointed General superintendent
of the sandusky, Dayton and Cincinnati
Railroad, in place of Mr.. II. Rice, late Su-
perintendent. He has been the Superin-
tendent of the Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad, the last two years. For eleven
years previous he was in the employ, as
conductor, of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton Railroad.
ANEW PATENT ELEyAroR-The New York
and Erie Railway Company has adopted q
new invention to supply locomotives with
water from deep and hollow wells. This
piece of mechanism is novel, as there is
neither wheel, cog nor stop to any part of
it. 1t is constructed of iron, has two cylin-
ders, one of which, when the engine is
working, is half submerged in water at the
bottom of the well used. The cylinders are
connected with a pipe which can be varied
in length according to the depth Of the well.
Communication is made with the boiler Of
the engine by means of a flexible rubber
tube. A locomotive can be supplied bythis
elevator with 1000 gallons of water in less
than two minutes from the period of stop.
ping until it is ready to leave and to dc
this, but four pounds of steam is taken from
the locomotive. Major General John A
Logan own the patent.
49,
CASE AGAINST TIE GRAND TRUSK Rail-
RoAD.-An important case is howin progress
at the Circuit Court, in Detroit, wbieBin-
wolves perhaps some points OF law that have
never been decided. John Brooks, a whole
sale merchant, living in Brantford, Canada
West, brings suit against the Grand Trunk
Railway, claiming damages of $4,000. He
asserts that he was forcibly elected from 9
train on the Grand Trunk by one of the
conductors. On the 26th of June, 1884, he
purchased a ticket at Buffalo for Detroit
buying it at the Grand Trunk ticket office
He rode to Stratford soon after and on the
25th of August went to Port Huron, and
claims that the conductor Of the train from
stratford to the latter place received the
ticket as a good one, punching it and re-
turning it to him, but alleges that at Port
Huron two trains were consolidated, tina
the conductor of thattrain would not take
the ticket above alluded to, but upon his
refusing to pay his fare put him off the
train about twenty miles west of Port
Huron. The question viii probably be
Does Brooks long delay in using the tickle
from stratford invaIidate it, y
lf IS
Police CouRE.-Judge Abbey dispOsedo
the following docket yesterday :if fIOe
Drunkenness-Joseph Malone, fined s:
and costs; Margaret Malone, sent to the
Work House thirty days.
Yagrancy-Mary Mccullough, 81 ,anG
COSTS James Russell mot LowelD Thoma,
Green, Helen Ringer and Robert Vance
sent to the Work House thirty days NOR,
or less. -1Ir
Carrying Concealed Weapons-Andrev
Lail, s. and costs.
Grand Larceny-Julia Johnson, Emelin,
Dorsey and Caroline Richie, bound over il
the sum of $500, each, for their appearance,
at the next term of the Court of the Com
mon Pleas, and in default of bail went Il
Jail. [True ring in that last Bob David
son, ESQ, appeared for defendants, and A
7. Brinswade, Esq, conducted the prosecu
ton. l $3.50 +.