The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-17
OHIO ITEMS.

poor of Cinci innati has commenced. Ont
hundred aud fifty loads were delivered
in one day last week.
Adjutant General Cowen continue:
the collection of soldiers claims as re-
quired by law, diScoutinuing the claim
agency at Washington, and transmits
daily to claimants the amounts collected
Over one hundred thousand dollars
have thus been collected and remitted
by him.
The town of Cambridge was laid out
in 1860, with 140 lots. Since then thir.
teen additions have been made. Thirty.
two town plats have been laid out in
the county, but eleven of them were
never improved.
A large number of the most import.
ant class of Morgan raid claims, those
for property taken by order of Union
officers during the raid, arc being col
lectcd by the State Adjutant General,
who expects for claims of that class a
further allowance by the General Gov
ernment of half million dollars.
Mr.. Warner, Treasurer of the State,
has, upon the order of the Sinking Fund
Commissioners, provided the amount
of exchange necessary to meet the pay
ments to be made in New York on Jan
uary /, on account of the public debt
The village of Bridgeport, Guernsey
county, has an ordinance prohibiting
persons, under twenty-one years of age,
from lettering about the streets, after
nine o'clock, without being able to give
a reasonable account of theselves.
The Youngstown Nut and Washer
Company filed its certificate of incor-
poration with the Secretary of State on
Thursday. 1t is the intention of the
company to manufacture nuts, washers,
&c, in the town of Youngstown, Mahon-
ing county. The capital stock is Sl2, 900,
divided into shares of 500 each. The
corporators are William A. Wick, Alex
ander B. Brownlee and Joseph G. But
Ter.
At recent meeting of tho PomolOgi-
cal Society of the State of Ohio, it was
reported that the apples in Northern
Ohio have greatly deterierated in the
past thirty years. Peaches, from gem
eral and spontaneous growth, have
come to need care aad cultivation.
Three thousand acres of grapes are
under cultivation in Erie and Ottawa
counties, including the islands of Lake
Erie, from which it is estimated that
two hundred thousand gallons of wine
were produced during the last year.
Movements are on foot in Ottawa and
Paulding counties to change their coun-
ty seats-The former from Port Clinton
to Oak Harbor, on the Portage river,
aud the latter from Paulding to Cecil
Station.
The Saudusky Register, of Wednesday,
says: Mr.. +. w. Moore, of this city, has
not been asleep since the Goth of No
vember, eleven days, and suffers no in
convenience therefrOm. He has just re-
covered from a severe illness.
The Alliance rolling mill is turning
ont forty tons of railroad iron per day,
and the orders received are greater than
the company can fill.
The delegates elected to the Manufac-
turers' National Convention, by the
citizens of Youngstown, are Ex-Govern-
or Tod, Hon. r. w. Montgomery, Presi'
dent State Wool Growers Association;
/. H. Brown, VIM. Bonnell, c. D. Arms,
A. ]. Packard, A. D. Cornell, David Hin
rod, Chauncey and L. G. Andrews, VIM
Richards, George Worthington, 5. h.
Shedd, George Margerum, Edwin Bell,
l. B. Walker, VIM. Lowers, Henry Keno,
John Ellis and thirty or forty others.
Youngstown will be ably represented at
Cleveland on Wednesday.
The Dayton Journal says that two
spunky old pisneers, Ephraim Lindsey
and S. d. Edgar, each over sixty years oi
age, agree to walk from Dayton to Gin
cinnati within twenty-four hours, on a
wager of $1,000. The distance, we be-
lieve, is about sixty-five miles.
William Thomas, who fired at the
ring. master in a circus at Eaton, and
killed Miss Campbell, in October last
has been convicted of murder in the
second degree, and sent to the State
prison for life.