Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-17
STATE ITEMS.

Thirty-seven snakes were found in one
hole about two feet under ground, near
Circleville a few days since. They were
of several different species-black, yellow,
spotted and moccasin-butseem to have
waved their prejudices of race for the sake
Of a warm habitation for the winter.
The next Ohio State Fair is to be held
in Dayton.
Four hundred and twenty-seven mar
rage licenses were issued in Muskingum
county during the year 1865.
A Mr.. Coe, residingin Highland county,
near Hillsboro, recently killed a hog
weighing 1861 pounds. A. Jacobs, of Pike
township in the same county, lately sold a
drove of 100 hogs, averaging 300 pounds
net. for $4,000.
The Fire Department of Cincinnati is
decidedly a paying institution. The Gin
cinnati Commercial says during the year
1865 there were only 80 FIRE alarms in that
city, of which 2s were attended with no
loss of property. The total loss was about
$50, 900, covered by insurance. to the
amount of $4,000.
The Gallon schools are reported in a
highly prosperous condition. During the
last quarter there were enrolled GAL
pupils.
The Portsmouth Tribune says the popu-
lation of Scioto county is only "A, 297 and
yet during last year 336 marriage licenses
were granted by the Probate Judge.
The Dayton Journal says over two
hundred ladies and gentlemen of Spring
field visited the Opera House to hear
Edwin Forrest on Tuesday night.
A terrific explosion of gas occurred in
a fruit house in Covington, on Monday.
The loss will reach $4,000
The Cincinnati Commercial SAYS that
Captain Robert Bliven, in charge of the
Government stables in that city, was ar
rested on Thursday on q charge Of en-
bezzlement.
About thirty members of the 18th o. v.
1. have agreed to form a colony in the
Southwest, to start in the spring. A COM
mittee, composed Of Rev. Randall Ross,
late Chaplain of the regiment, and several
others, is to locate the lands as BOOB as
possible. Persons of good character are
invited to Join the colony, and can address
Mr.. Ross, at New Concord, Muskingum
county.
A grey eagle, measuring seven feet five
inches from tip 10 tip, wal shot in Brook
field township, Noble county, on Christ
mas.
P. Kinney, John G. PEBBLES, Robert
Bell, L. G. Robinson and George johnson
have been elected Directors of the Ports
mouth National Bank.
An ARRAY occurred in Wilmington,
Clinton county, on Tuesday night, be-
tween a young man of the village and a
negro, which finally resulted in a shot be-
ing fired from q pistol, the ball taking
effect in the thigh of William B. Lang,
SO SCATTERING the bone that ~amputation
was rendered necessary. No arrests were
even made.
The Hamilton Telegraph says, on last
Thursday night a wedding party COM
posed of'three sisters put up at the Ham
ilton House. The trio were all married
at the Catholic church the next morning.
Their father wa with them, and seemed
well content to lose three children at
once.
The Lancaster Gazett6 says Daniel
Friend, charged with the attempted muir
der of the Welsheimer family, and who
was released when first arrested on some
t~echnicslity, was re-arrested again on two
warrants one for attempting to murder
Samuel, and the other for attempting to
murder Isaac Welsheimer.
The Cincinnati Commercial says there
are at present in the Hamilton County
Jail one hundred and hfty-six inmates,
twenty-one of whom are women. OF
these, sixteen are United States prisoners.