The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-14
OHIO ITEMS.

he following singular fact: Near the salt
we'll, on the Lounsbury farm, Is a sugar
rec, aud during one Of the warm days last
week It was tapped, and to our great sur
prise, run out water fully two-thirds as
salt as came from the well.
At a hunt In Athans county, last week,
two offs party shot a vcritable Catamount.
This animal had been seen and heard Of, at
intervals, for the past twelve years, so we
The creature was some four feet
long and twenty-five inches high, and
mouse-colored. After a long chase it was
finally brought to bay by the dogs, and
shot, the first ball being put through it by
MIR. RARDAN, and the second by Mr.. LAM
BERT. Some of its leaps were fully thirty
feet In length, and that it skipped about
over the tops of the tallest laurel bushes
with case.
At a fex-hunt. on. last Saturday, says the
ohio Patriot. Or. DAVID BRINLER was
thrown from his horse and killed. His neck
was %dislocated, either from the fall, or a
kick of the horse. After he was of he at
tempted to remount, and the horse by some
means kicked him in the head.
An Important Railroad Contract
The Cincinnati, Hamilton and
DAYTON Line, and the short Line
HarmOnize.
Under this prominent heading the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, ofthis morning, makest the
important announcement, by authority that
a contract ordered by the Directors Of the
two companies has been executed and
which needs but the assent of their stock
holders to perfect it, between the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Com
pany, and the Cincinnati, Dayton and
Eastern Railroad Company. The latter Is
the corporation recently organized to build
what is known as the Short Line Road TO
Dayton, and has a perpetual lease of the
Sandusky and Cincinnati Railroad, form
erly the Mad River and Lake Erie Road.
BY this contract the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton and Dayton Company grants to the
other the perpetual right to the use of the
narrow gauge tracks of the former, includ-
ing side tracks, switches, water and wood
stations. and depots at Dayton, Middletown
and Hamilton for as many trains, both pas
sengers and freight as may be necessary Tor
/ InN convenient ldllNhNllbAA vi 10 bAHAAAAoaF
between Dayton and a southern terminus
In this city, not further east han six hun
bred feet east of the point of connection
| with the Merietta aud Cincinnati Railroad,
near Millcreek. the Cincinnati, Dayton and
Eastern providing its W depot grounds
and depots; for which an annual compensa-
ton is tdst9 paid of one hundred and thir-
ty thousatrd dollars, to be increased to a
maximum Of one hundred and fifty thou
-,,l .In11avg II, tho pNpnt of a gnntpmnIl-
ted increase of business from connecting
roads, and also a certain proportion of the
cost of repairs of the tracks, bridges and
structures used in common, according TO
the wheelage and mileage of Teach company.
The use of the tracks granted to the Day
ton and Eastern Company Is limited and
restricted by certain conditions.
The Dayton and Eastern Company binds
itself not TO construct or operate any rail-
road between Cincinnati and Dayton, and
the Sandusky and Cincinnati Company is to
become a party to its provisions. The con
tract takes effect upon its due ratification by
the stockholders of the respective COM
panies. and the rents to begin to accrue on
January l, 1868, or the date when the use
of the tracks contemporaries shall commence,
lift sooner commences.
This contract, we are advised, has been
executed upon the unanimous approval of
the Directors of the two companies, and
will doubtless receive the like assent OF
both bodies of stockholders. Its import
ance to their interests cannot be over-esti-
mated, as it must be regarded rs mutually
beneficial. 1t secures two great objects
lst, to the Saudusky Road and its connec-
tions, now or hereafter formed, the benefits
of an independent entrance to Cincinnati,
with all the advantages that secures for Il
through line to the North and East, free to
compete with all its rivals for public favor,
without the enormous and ~unremunerating
outlay that would be required to construct
a separate road from Dayton to Cincinnati.
ID, to the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton Railroad Company, a more full and ac-
tive employment Of its capital, fixed i'm its
road-bed and structures, with a handsome
return for its use, amounting to about sew
en- per cent. per anuum upon one-halt of
the cost of its construction. exclusive OF
the b~road-guage track, not used by the
Cincinnati, Dayton and Eastern Company,
and a full and complete protection in its
purely local business.
The only disappointment to be expected
at this cOnsummation, which has any APP
5 pearance of being Legitimate, will be on
/ the part of those residing on the line of the
: proposed route, which, by this arrange
ment. is abandoned, principally the inhab'
Z itants of Middletown, Franklin, and others
t east of the Miami River.
CARD OF THANKs.-The undersigned il
. behalf ofthe relatives Of Robert T. Platt