Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-29
STATE NEWS.


Perry Mallon, left home in Akron to go
to a Sunday School about the middle of
| April, and has not since returned. He
was afterwards seen in 0rrville, Wayne
| county, but his friends can trace him no
further. He had on when he left snuff
| colored pants and vest. Any information
in regard to him will be thankfully re-
ceived.
AKRON IRON CoMPANY.-This new
company nowabout to begin its operations
met on the 23d inst, and elected Mr.. Lo-
renzo Austin, a member of its Board of
Directors in place of Mr.. J. P. Alexander
resigned.
EASY JUsTICE.-It is said a man past
the prime of life committed an outrage
upon a girl l2 years of age the other day
at Elmore, Sandusky county, and a Justice
OF the Peace bound him over on a bail OF
$500. The latter statement seems almost
incredible.
YANKEE ENTERPRISE IN ALABAMA
The Sandusky Register learns that a Mr..
MeElwain, formerly a resident of that
city, has a foundry, blast furnace, and a
railroad track two miles long to an iron
bed and coal mines on the Cahawba river,
Alabama. He is making the manufacture
of railroad iron a specially.
ROLLING MILL IN ToLEDo.-The Toledo
Blade says: We learn that the investi-
cations by parties contemplating the es-
adjustment of a Rolling Mill, were quite
satisfactory, and it is not improbable that
we shall have the privilege of chronicling
at an early day, the organization of a
company, Us the commencement of the
enterprise.
CENTRAL OHIO WooL.-The wool
growers of Clarke, Madison, Champaign,
Clinton and Greene counties met in Con
yention in Springfield, on the 23d inst.
The attendance was large and the interest
was well sustained. One hundred and
fifty sheep-amples of the produce of
their eounties-were on exhibition for
premiums. The ram "Gen. Grant" i'm
ported Merino, owned by VIM Huffman,
of Greene, took the first premium for
fleece. Weighto of fleece IS pounds and u
ounces. Weight of sheep los pounds.
Henry Warren Of Bath township, Greene
county, took the first premium for best
fine wool, eve and fleece, the latter weigh
ing II pounds and ) ounces. Uriah VIII
son, a neighbor to Mr.. Huffman, took the
first premium for the finest buck and eve,
long wool sheep. The fleece of the ram
weighed Is pounds and g. onces.
FREMONT DRIVING PARK ASSOCIATION.
The certificate for the incorporation of
this Company was fled in the afiice of the
Secretary of State, May 18th. Its object
is to establish a Park in the vicinity of
Fremont, on which TO train and exhibit
horses. Capital stock, $4,000, divided
into shares of $25.
TOLEDO DRIVING PARK.-On the 22d
inst, there was filed at the Office of the
Secretary of State, the certificate of in
corporation of the Toledo Driving Park
Association, The new park is to be To-
Gated at Toledo, and the company is or
ganized with q capital stock of 50, 600.
Shares 800 each.
INTERNAL REvENUE.-We learn that
the assessments for Internal Revenue for
the 10th District, for April, were SO, 749-
As; of which Toledo pays $6O,653 %.
SLAUGHTER OF RATs.-A rat hunt in
Frazeysburgh, Muskingum county, con-
tinuing three weeks, terminated last Sat
urday. The male community of the
township divided into two parties, and de-
voted their energies to the bloody work,
with the understanding that the company
killing the fewest number of the vermin
should pay for supper for both. Saturday
evening they counted "tails," and the re-
suit was that three thousand one hundred
and ssUeaty-eight rats had been killed.
Company number l killed l,478; while
the other slaughtered l, 700.
As Sheriff Ashford, of Columbiana
county, opened on Sunday morning last,
the door Of a cell containing four prison
ers, for tho purpose o fgetting a coal buck
ct, a rush was made by the inmates to
break out. The Sheriff pushed the door
shut with great violence in the scufia,
which closed on Jefferson Gibbons hand,
cutting off one of his fingers.
On the night of May Goth a destructive
fire occurred at st. Clairsville, Belmont
county, destroying in all twelve or fifteen
houses. Among those were the Gazette
Office, Judge Harris's dwelling, the Meth
odist parsonage and several business
houses. The entire loss is estimated ut
SIOO,00n.
An extensive fire occurred IN Spring
field on Wednesday afternoon, originating
in the rear Of the Western Hotel, and de-
stroying several buildings in the vicinity.
An Agricultural Festival is to be held
in Highland county on the 9Th, 18th and Sth
of June, at which Corporal Pike is adver-
tised 10 run a race of ten miles in one
straight heat against a horse of average
speed.
Milton Carpenter, CT Wayne township,
Belmont county, a returned soldier, was
lodged in Jail Tuesday, on the charge of
rape on the person of Mrs. Williams of
the same township.
GRAND TEMPLE OF HONOR OF OHIO
This body convened at Dayton, Tuesday,
May 22d, and adjourned on Thursday, the
oath. The next annual session will be
held at Steubenville, on the Sd Tuesday
in May, 1867. The following are the Off
GERS elected for the ensuing year: G. W.
T., d. B. Worthington of Steubanvile;
G W V 7, f. P. Brodbeck of Columbus;
G W R, j. Wordsworth of Cincinnati G
W TT, J. c. Richardson of Seven Mile;
6 W U, Z. S. Allen of Dayton G w G, |
VIM. Langsdon of Springboro; G W Oh, |
Rev. A. W. Tibbetts of Brookville.
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Commission
ERs.-The Board Of Commissioners, ap-
by the Legislature TO report upon
he location for the Agricultural College,
resolved to address, bycircular, the differ
snt counties in the State and such parties
As specially interested, asking for propo-
.itions for the location of the Agricultural
College, these propositions all to be in by
September list. The Board will examine
al the bids, visit such proposed locations
Is seem necessary, and then prepare their
'eport to the Legislature, recommending
.ome particular site. In accordance with
he sentiment of the Legislature, the
Board will not entertain any bid below
400, COO and land for the experimental
arm.
LARGE WooL CIp.-Mr. j. W. Built
of Coshocton county, has just sheared
of the celebrated Atwood sheep, two
iears old, and the fleece weighed 244 lbs.
At the first shearing, last year, the fleece
IS lbs.
# the Cadiz bank robbers, who was Sc
'erely wounded and is still in Jail at Ca
liz, says the robbery was arranged in
Pittsburgh. He still Insists that only one
# the escaped burglars carried off any
reasure, and that the bulk of the missing
,onds and money was secreted in the
woods near Lagrange. He says if it is
ound it must have been taken by some
PERSONS who searched the grounds before
he party were captured.
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