Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-23
PORTAGE COUNTY.
From the Ravenna Democrat:

NAN NV Ut
At the session of the Court of Common
Pleas, last week, Seth D. Norton, ESQ, of
Ravenna, was appointed Commissioner of
Insolvents for toe County of Portage, for
three years from March nth, 1856. Mr.
Norton has assumed the functions of the
office required by law.
The religious meetings that have been
held in the Congregational church during
several weeks, are still held. About IS
persons have been placed under serious
conviction up to this time.
We see by a recent bulletin from the
War Department that the rank and title
Of Major by brevet has been bestowed
upon Captain U. L. Marvin, of Kent, for
gallant AMI meritorious service. As we
have before said Major Marvin entered
the service as a private, and from that pc
sition was advanced to the post of Captain
and Judge Advocate of the District Of
Newbern. This latter promotion is a Just
tribute TO his worth and g~allantry, which
it is a pleasure tc know, have been so
handsomely recogniz 4.
The sneak thief who was sent to jail
for twenty days on bread and water by
Justice Horton, for the robbery of an old
man at the Collins House, was discharged
upon Tuesday last week. Before leaving
the prison he asked and received permits
sion to visit Jack Cooper's cell. After
the sneaking villain had left the Jail it
was Dissolved that while in the cell he stole
q n dollar bill that had been given to
Cooper by a visitor, and which at the time
lay upon his bible in his cell. The dollar
was all the money Cooper had. 1t is diff
feult to conceive Of the possibility of a
more Infamous instance of petty theft.
The public are, we presume, aware that
a Judge for this the Portage, Mahoning
and Trumbul) subdivision of the ninth
Judicial District is to be elected next fall.
In connection with this position it had
been expected that the present incumbent,
Hon. G. E. Glidden, of Poland, Mahoning
county, would allow his friends to present
him as the Union candidate. That this
would have been most acceptable to the
whole people there is not a single doubt,
indeed, the fact is, that in the Union
organization, there would not have been
any other candidate in either county of
the subdivision.
The recent death of ]. L. Ranney made
a NOEolAAGAa ulC BLCdLn III tut OllElul OF
ganization of the First National Bank, he
having been President, Director and mem
Der of the Discount Committee. These
vacancies have been filled by the election
of N. D. Clark, Esq, President; Willis
Strickland, Esq, Director; and D.. X.
Wheeler, Esq, member of the Discount
Committee. Mr.. Clark has been eonnec-
ted with the old State Bank fora number
of years as Director, and one of the Dis
count COMMITTEES, and has held the same
relation to the First National Bank since
its organization. Mr.. Wheeler has been
officially connected with the Bank for
some time. Mr.. Strickland is a new Off
cial. Mr.. Ranney was also a Director of
the Portage County Branch of the State
Bank, and this vacancy has been filled by
the election of Henry D. Seymour as Di-
rector.
L. E. Reed, Esq, n of Ravenna's en-
terprising boys, nov and for many years
a resident Of st. Paul, Minnesota, has be-
came 8 member of a new Banking House
in that city, under the firm of Dawson *
Co.
Observation-Disclosures however, we have
the highest authority for saying that
Judge Glidden is not and will not be a
candidate for reelection 1t is his fixed
purpose, at the close of his Judicial term,
in February next to return to the bar and
take up the practice of his profession, and
this possibly at a point that viii practi-
cally remove him from our midst.
The remains of Henry NJ. Baldwin, son
of Samuel Baldwin, Esq, formerly of this
place, but now a resident of Ravenna.)
brought from Virginia and buried in
the cemetery in this place by the side of
his mother and sister.
The dam of the Aurora Iron Company
swept away on the 4th inst. The
loss is quite heavy on the Company, but
the damage will De repaired in a few
The Democrat has a dispatch from COL
stating that the Supreme Court
has refused the writ of error in the case #
Jack Cooper. He will therefore be hung
IN the 9Th day of April.