Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-20
STATE NEWS,

The Democrats of Dayton have nomin-
ated Jonathan Kenney for Mayor, and
Ames Clark for Marshal.
A company is organizing at South
Charleston, with a capital of 500, 600, to
erect and work a wooden factory.
The Ohio Eagle announces the death OF
the venerable Joshua Clark at Lancaster.
He was for a time editor of the Lancaster
Gazette, and 20 years of age at the time Of
his death.
Harlan A. Edwards, of Cincinnati, who
killed Orlando S. Murray on the night OF
February ed, has been acquitted of the
charge OF murder in the second degree.
The Delaware Gazette saws that Capt.
A. Z. Lee, late of the SD Regiment O. Y.
l., has been assigned a position on the ed
itorial staff of the Detroit Daily Post, q
new Republican Journal about to be es-
qablished in that nitF of which Gen. Carl
Na--4I &c edltor-ln-chIef.
The Sheriff of Hamilton county. Ohio,
who has been examining the accounts of
BeDno Speyer, the Ascending banker. re-
ports thea assets at So, 600. The liabilities
are about $4,000. Speyer is nowin Eng
land.
Major f. c. Newton and Prof. L. V.
futile, both now of Lebanon, were in
Libby Prison together. On the 18th of
September, 1861, two days before the for
mer was removed to Parish Prison, New
Orleans, the latter loaned him a fve-cent
piece, all tho money he had. A few days
ago this circumstance being recalled in
conversation, the debt i0as paid in specie.
The State journal SAYS a general at
tempt was made to escape from the Pen
%itentiary Wednesday night of last week.
by cutting a hole through the fOer of a
room adjoining the hospital. The hole in
the floor, however, was discovered and the
plan spoiled.
The Delaware Gazette learns that the
County Commissioners passed, during
their recent session, an order appropria-
ting $4,000 toward the erection Of an iron
bridge across the Olentangy, on North
street, provided the citizens of Delaware
contribute a sum sufficient, with said pro-
posed appropriation, to complete the
structure. The estimated cost of a bridge
Of the kind contemplated is about $40, 900.
The Sandusky Register says that Brig
adler General o. N. Hart, Inspector Gen
eral of the Department of the Ohio and
the West, has visited Sandusky and John
sons Island the present week to make ar
engagements for the final disposition of
Government property connected with the
late Depot of Prisoners OF War. The
sale of public buildings and stores will
take place about April lst, and Johnson's
Island will then be surrendered to its
owner, Mr.. L. B. johnson, of Sanduskv. |
General Hart, after inspecting the forts on
Jobnson's Island and Cedar Point. has de-
cided, at the suggestion of Mr.. johnson.
who has proffered the use of the land oc-
by the fertilization, to recommend
in his report that these defences with their
armament be left intact, and that
a sergeants guard be permently detailed
to care for the guns and the forts. The
on Cedar Point consists of six
-hirty-two Founders, so mounted as TO
command the entrance to the harbor and
weep the Bay. The armament of Fort
dill on 9Ohnson's Island consists of four
-hirty-two Founders, six twenty-pound
Parrots, n thirty-pound Parrot and
hree twelve-pOund howitzers. The mag
yin contains two hundred thousand
ounds Of small ammunition and n :
thousand rounds of shot and shell. The
hi-ty-pound Parrots will do good service
t a range of three miles, so that the ar !
Of Fort Hill alone, with average {
could send to the bottom any Z
ostlie fleet that would be likely TO float in !
resh water. r