Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-07
sTATENEWs.

The members of the NJ. E. Congrega
ton Of Portsmouth, propose to erect i'm
mediately a church inferior to none in the
State. Cost $4,000.
Col. W. W. Woodward, on Washing
tons birthday, made a run at billiards IN
the Dayton Opera House Billiard Room,
of 5l2 pOints-the largest run that wa:
ever made in Dayton.
The Beacon states that the Agricultural
Implement Manufacturing establishment
lately carried On by Messrs. Hawkins and
Howe, at Akron, has been sold to Messrs.
Storer, Noble & Co, and II. B. Housell.
The Sandusky Register says that the re-
ceipt of tishat that place at present is from
five to eight tons per day. When naviga-
ton opens the receipts will not be less than
forty tons per day during the entire
season.
Hon. Z. Parsons, Of Troy, Ohio, and
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of
the I'd Judicial District, hes become in
sane, and is now ceuined in the Southern
Lunatic Asylum.
We learn by the Wilmington Repu6Zi-
can that the Franklin College Board of
Control, have selected the Fair Grounds
at that place, belonging to R. NJ. Wicker
sham and wife, containing seventeen and
one-fourth acres, at S25 per acre, as the 10
cation of their college buildings.
The Delaware Gazette says the case of
the State rs. DR.. Hyatt, indicted for man
slaughter in connection with an alleged
attempt to produce abortion, was tried
during the recent term of the Court of
Common Pleas for DelewaIe county, and
resulted in a verdict of not guilty.
The court TO try the Rosa case went
into session at Lebanon at 9 A. NJ, March
lst. There was a large concourse of peo-
pie in attendance. Mrs. Roosa and her
little daughter Netti, accompanied by a
near relative, are present. There is con-
siderable difficulty expected in getting an
eligible jury, although persons have baen
summoned as such from the remotest part
of the county. The sister of the prisoner.
and his witnesses, were in the court.
The Belmont Cironicle thus describes
the first discovery of oil in that county /:
About thirty-fve years ago q salt well was
drilled on the farm of Josiah Dillon, on
Gaptina. Creek, and at the depth of zoo
feet al opening was struck which bursted
ont and flowed a quantity of oil, estimated
by old settlers at u great number of bar
rels. On one or two occasions it caught
fire on the water and burned for twenty
four hours at a time. The well was
abandoned, it is said, in consequence of the
propriet0rs not being able to tnbe out the
oil and gas-the force of the pressure be-
ing so strong that the tubing introduced
was Immediately collapsed.
There is considerable excitement at
Loekland, in Hamilton county, caused bv
the sudden death and immediate burial of
a young lady, the daughter of Samuel
Wiegert, who died some years ago, leav-
ing his property to his daughter and wife,
provided the latter never married again.
Ifshe did, the property entire was to re-
vert to the daughter Mary and her heirs.
Mrs. Wiegert married a Mr.. Nethaus and
girl lived with them. Some four weeks
ago this girl gave birth TO a child, which
mysteriously disappeared. On Saturday
night last she was taken with commissions
and died in about an hour, and was buried
At seven o'clock Sunday morning. This
excited suspicion and the coroner has or
iered the disinterment of the body for in