Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-10
OHIO NEWS.
LoRAIN COUNTY.

FROM Jno ODerlln NeiOS:
COLLEGE ITEMs.-Several changes in
the Faculty, and the individual work of
different members, are in contemplation,
which will lessen the over-work now laid
upon some, and give greater efficiency to
the whole. Rev. S. @. Leonard will
teach one or two GLASSES in the Theologi-
bal Department the present term.
Over six hundred students have settled
their bills at the Treasurer's office for the
spring term; or two hundred more than
at the same date last year.
All but eight or ten of the rooms in tie
new hall are taken, and over a hundred
chairs are filled at Mr.. Toilets well fur
nished tables.
Prof. Churchill reports finding in his
recent New England tour growing favor
toward Oberlin.
The College authorities have determined
to place a financial agent in the field,
whose labors will be continued until a
satisfactory endowment shall be realized.
0BERLIN ITEMs.-Over one thousand
letters were mailed at the Oberlin Post
Office on Monday last-the largest number
ever sent out in one day, we believe.
John Brice, jr, Il lad about fifteen years
Of age was thrown from a horse en- Mon
day receiving several serious cuts and
bruises on the head.
The funeral Of Dea. S. Hullswas held
yesterday afternoon. His health has been
feeble for some months past and his death
was not unlocked for by his friends or
unexpected by himself. His removal con-
4raoAa nra. V,Nr, Tho 1T-Nfn as-,1n -.
naming of the .'solonists' of Oberlin. He
came here about thirty years ago.
Twenty-four persons united with the
First Church on Sunday.
President Finney, though slowly i'm
proving in health is confined to his room
yet and unable TO sit up but a portion of
the time
Rev. John Vetter of this place, Chap
lain of the 9th Z. S. Celored Cavalry is on
duty in the Freedmen's Bureau, in Arkan-
sas. His testimony to the u~nvsrying
hatred aRd persecution of Union men,
black and white, accords with the general
current Of intelligence from the South.
We find after pretty thorough examina-
ton Of fruit buds, that peaches are en-
tirely killed, cherries nine-tenths, plums
uninjured, early pears hardly injured, and
apples nine-tenths alive.
The wheat crop now on the ground
does not look very promising.
Three hundred and fifty-nine marriage
licenses were issued in Lorain county in
1855.
Many of our farmers have opened
their sugar bushes but have not yet re-
eeiyed a very copious flow of sap. If the
season is favorable Il large amount of
"sweet'' viii be collected here.
From the Elyria Democrat:
The Court of Common Pleas com
meneed its session in this village last
week Tuesday, Hon. 8. Burke presiding.
A number of civil cases of minor import
ance were disposed of last week, and the
Court was engaged on Saturday with the
case of Sanders and Rettig VS.. P. B.
Shepard, TO recover G reward of $1,000
offered by the defendant for the arrest of
Streeter, murderer Of the Coy family. The
case was given to the jury on Monday,
and they failed to agree.
On Monday the Court sentenced John
Davis to four years each on two of the in
dictments, and eight Years each on the
other two indictments for horse stealing
and grand larceny, making an aggregate
of twenty-feur years imprisonment in the
penitentiary, and to pay the costs of the
prosecution.
Geo. Mason. for horse stealing, was SEN
fenced to three years in the Penitentiary
and to pay costs.
The religious meeting at the Presbvter-
ian Church will continue during this week
IS heretofore. A large number, prinei-
pally ladies, have made a public profess
sion Of religion, and the interest is appa-
rently undated.
Ely's Hall was well filed last Saturday
evening, to listen to a lecture on temper
anee, by II. NJ. Lille, ESQ, a member of
the Elyria bar who has recently an
nouneed his determination to forever alb
stain from the use Of intoxicating drinks.
His lecture embraced a recital of his own
personal history, and the circumstances
which led to the habits of dissipation that
he had followed, since he came to Elyria.
He was listened to with undivided atten-
ton, and all felt ike lending him a help
ing hand in his efforts to reform.