Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-03
NoRTHERN OHIO NEWS.
TRUMBULL COUNTY
The Warren Chronicle says:

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magnitude has prevailed in the Sabbath
and great numbers of children and
have professed religion. The work
is not, however, limited to the younger
people, bnt numbers of adults are mani
much anxiety on this important
The Presbyterian and Baptist
Societies have this week commenced II
series Of meetings for religious inquiry.
and a general revival spirit seems to be
pervading the churches of the place. We
learn from West Pennington, that the
Methodist protracted meeting in that place
still continues with increasing interest and
glorious results.
The next term of the Trumbull Common
Pleas Court commences on Monday, Feb.
l2th.
kinsmaR is erecting a monument to cost
$4,000. That township raised ST., 900 for
war purposes during the rebellion.
The first election of officers in the cor
porated village of Niles took place on
Tuesday, January 23d. 1866, aud resulted
in the election Of the following gentle
men: Mayor, Ii. II. Mason; Recorder,
james Draa; Town Council, jas. Ward,
ir, William Davis, David Griffith, =. 5.
Holeton, Henvey Sheier. The new Off
cials were sworn into office, en- Friday,
January 18th.
The members of the Trumbull County
Agricultural Society held their annual
election at the office of A. d. Webb, on
Saturday, January 10th. The following
officers and managers were elected for the
present year: President, F. Kinsman,
Warren; Vice President, Harmon Aus
tin, Warren; Treasurer, A. ID. Webb,
Warren Secretary, H. +. Austin, Brace
vile; Managers, j. F. King, Jas. ChrIsty,
David Harrington, William Fee, J. b.
Drake, Edward Delon, Elisha Walker.
An establishment for the manufacture
Of Russia iron is about to go into opera
ton at Niles. The wOrkmen are hired for
for q series Of years, and are all sworn to
secresy. No visitors are TO be admitted
Seth Brockway, of Orangeville, weighed
a pair of yearling steers whose weight
was 1851 pounds. The difference in the
weight of the two was five pounds.
The Mesopotamia correspondent Of the
Chronicle writes:
Obto OhAAh3 Go4-f WIS ldtutT VI Tue uESt
child born in this township, in 1901, who
is now known as the widow Sheldon. Seth
Tracy, Esq, left Massachusetts, in Feb,
1901 at Cuyuga Lake the snow was gone,
and he exchanged his team for d boot, run
down into Lake Ontario, thence up the
Niagara, hauled around the falls, on the
Canada side, thence up to opposite Buffalo
where he crossed over, kept near the shore
Of Lake Erie to the mouth Of Grand river,
thence up the river as far as Windsor,
thence by teams here; making four
months on the road.
The Universalist meeting house has
lately been fitted up for Thespian pur-
poses. The first exhibition came of last
week, the proceeds Of which were sixty
five dollars.
The oil company have got down over
$50 feet.
Citizens of this and adjoining townships
of late made the Rev. j. E. Carroll IVES
leyan) q donation, and left for his benefit
sl65. Mr.. Carroll was drafted last spring,
left his circuit forthwith, spent most of his
time as clerk, preached almost every Sab
bath, and ence 10 a congregation oil over
1000 persons. he is now holding a pro-
tracted meeting in Windsor, with success.
The Vienna correspondent of the Uron-
icLe writes:
Coal is the topic that RACES here now.
Humason " Co, have found three feet of
good coal in two places, about 30 rods
apart, IN the widow Humason farm, at a
deptb-of about 40 feet. On the King farm.
Il mile northwest of Humason's. Payne
& Andrews have found an ls-inch vein
of coal, which has been tried and found
good. l. b. Mackey has discovered coal
on the Struble farm, and John Cole on his
W farm known as the "Lafferty place"
All the companies are still prospecting,
confident that better veins Will vet be
found.
SOME PIe.-Mr. George Pound butch
cred a pig a few days since thirteen
months old, which weighed when dressed,
467 pounds.
An old citizen under the influence of
whiskey, a few nights since, in a crazy
fit, broke in the doors Of a house occupied
by a widow woman and her little boy, so
badly frightening her that she has been
under the physicians care for ten days.
The Gustayus correspondent of the
Chronil lie writes:
Last Tuesday eighteen or twenty chop
pers turned ont and had a chopping bee
IN the wood lot of Mr.. Alfred Young who
has this winter kindly rendered the priv
lleSe of cutting therefrom for the benefit
OF those too poor to provide wood for
themselves. We do not intend TO forget
the soldiers widows in Gustavus, and the
donation of a rousing wood pile was for
no only soldiers widow in our town.
VIII the good people Of other towns not
bear in mind this cold winter, the widows
and orphans Of men who gave their lives
to save the nation2
Messrs. Pelton & Reeder have lately
brought from the South part of the State
a splendid Kentucky bred bloOded horse,
weighing l,4oO pounds, and capable of
drawing top buggy, with two persons,
a mile inside of three minutes.
There being some reported small diseov-
cries of coal here, search for the black
diamonds will be vigorously prosecuted
the Spring.
Religious r%evivals are in progress in two
in the township, and there have
been several conversions in both.
Some pssty thieving is reported. A
hog that had just been bHtcherei, is said
have mysteriously walked of, and a
kettle Of soap suddenly evaporated. 1t
s wisely surmised hat the hog eat the
'oap, and then the I've in the soap eat the
log, and that's what the natter.