Ohio annals : Historic events in the Tuscarawas and Muskingum Valleys, and in other portions of the state of Ohio, Part 27

Author: Mitchener, Charles Hallowell, ed
Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Dayton, Ohio : Thomas W. Odell
Number of Pages: 380


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Old John Baker, west of Dover had a similar encounter with a bear, which tore his flesh and face so horribly that he was not recognizable for some time. He survived the bear, however.


Another instance is related of a young man in the county being killed by a bear in a deep ravine, and his body could not be found for many years, when the bones turned up in burning the remains of a hollow tree, in a clearing.


JOHN MIZER'S CONFLICT WITH A CATAMOUNT,


Old John Mizer, who was one of the early settlers of what is now Bucks township, went out on Buckhorn Creek to secure a wolf scalp. Having fixed the bait, which consisted of a skinned rabbit covered with blood, he was about to hide near by when his practiced ear detected the tread of an animal behind him. Upon turning to look for the expected wolf he beheld a large catamount, which, seeing him, in- stantly treed ; Mizer shot, and ere the report left his rifle the beast pounced upon him, sinking its claws into his back. With great presence of mind the old hunter instantly backed against a tree and pressed the catamount hard against it, at the same time dropping his gun and drawing his hunting knife, which he plunged into the beast's side several times in quick succession. At this unexpected turn of affairs the catamount let go, and endeavored to get out of its close quarters. By the repeated blows from the knife its entrails were soon ent out and it dropped dead at Mizer's feet. The animal proved to be one of the largest of its species and measured over three feet in length. The body weighed about one hundred pounds, as he tested on reaching home with it. Mizer's back wounds troubled him for some time but nothing serions came of them, and he was soon out again after more wolf scalps.


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JOHN HENRY'S PANTHER FIGHT.


In December, 1809, John Henry, a son of the old chief Killbuck, who lived at the Goshen Mission town, went to a deer lick, in the present Warwick Township, to watch for and kill a large buck which he had seen frequently, but had never succeeded in getting a shot at. Upon arriv- ing at the lick, Henry posted himself in the fork of a tree, a short distance from the path which the deer trod in go- ing to and from the lick. After half an hour spent in patiently watching for the least sign of coming deer, the veritable buck, followed by two does, came walking leis- urely down the path, with their noses elevated, and snff- ing the air in all directions to find the location of a foe they detected. Just before coming opposite to the tree in which Henry sat concealed, the buck stopped short and turned half round, which movement started the does on the back track. As the buck threw his head around to look after his retreating companions, the bullet from Hen- ry's rifle penetrated his heart, and he fell dead in his tracks. An instant after the report of the gun a terrible scream came from a tree which stood only a few feet to the right of Henry's tree, and there sprang a large panther down upon the dead deer. To reload the rifle was short work for Henry. He took careful aim at the animal, which lay motionless upon the buck, looking him fair in the face. The powder missed fire, and in the haste to recock the gun the flint became dislodged and went tumbling to the ground. Having started out for only an hour or two, Henry had not taken the precaution to carry an extra flint. Here was a crisis not easily bridged by the boldest and most experi- enced of hunters, but Henry at once determined upon his course of action. Grasping his rifle in his left hand, and placing his hunting-knife between his teeth, Henry de- scended the tree to recover the flint, if possible. The pan-


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ther remained crouching upon the buek, switching his tail in nervous agitation, apparently at the hunter's delay in coming within its reach. Cautiously the Indian dropped down the tree, a foot or less at a time, ready. at the slight- est movement of the panther to drop the gun and grasp the knife to defend himself if attacked. Down, down he came, every inch bringing him nearer to the elaws of the ferocious beast, until at length his feet touched the ground. To snatch up the flint was the work of an instant, but be- fore he could fasten it in the lips of the gun-cock the pan- ther uttered another scream and sprang for him. Henry jumped around the tree just in time to allow only one of the paws of the animal to graze his side, stripping his shirt and leggings to his moccasins. He clubbed the gun, and before the panther could recover for another spring, struck it a hard blow on the side of the head, which stunned it. In another moment the knife 'was plunged to its heart, where he left it in his haste to spring away to avoid the claws of the panther, with which it tore up the dead leaves and twigs in its death throes. Before the animal ceased its struggles Henry had replaced the flint, and then, to make death doubly sure, fired a bullet into its brain. He then skinned the buck, hung part of the carcass upon a sapling, and started home with the hind quarters and the scalp of the panther.


The next day, being the 9th of December, 1809, Henry took the scalp to the county seat, where he made affidavit before James Clark, elerk of the court, who certified to the fact, upon which he received the premium ordered to be paid for panther scalps by the county commissioners, which was one dollar and fifty cents.


STORY OF A PIONEER AND THE MAD WOMAN.


Adam Reamer, who lived in what is Wayne township, was born between 1760 and 1770, and was one of the first Tuscarawas pioneers in 1810-11, and killed in his day many


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wolves. He obtained premiums for thirty-five, and has handed down this legend to modern times. He was out on the French hills hunting about 1811, and passing a cabin was asked to assist in holding a mad woman, who had been wolf bitten. Her husband had shot a eub wolf, running with its mother. He fired at her, but the ball passed through her car and killed the enb. He carried it home and gave the dead cub to his young wife, throwing it in her lap, and say- ing its hide would make lining for a baby cradle, which in those days was a sugar trough. Some weeks thereafter, she saw, while sitting at the cabin door, a wolf coming in full speed along the path. She screamed and bounded into the cabin, followed by the wolf. Her husband, making an ax handle near by, hearing the scream, and supposing she had seen a snake, rushed to the door with the ax helve, just as the wolf was coming out. One stroke felled it, and he soon killed the beast, but was horror-struck to see its month filled with saliva, and a half-healed bullet hole in its ear. His wife then told him the wolf had bitten her. They ap- plied all the remedies and preventives then known among the settlers for hydrophobia, and no troublesome indica- tions of madness appeared. But the bullet hole in the car of the dead wolf satisfied him that she was the mother of the enb whose skin had been cured and pegged on the wall, waiting for the time to be made into a baby bed. Inform- ing his wife of his suspicion, she was terrified with ominons forebodings. He endeavored to appease her by taking away the enb's pelt, and burying it from her sight. The circum- stance soon passed out of mind at their new home in the wilderness, surrounded by live wolves, bears, and panthers, and in due time the woman gave birth to her first boy, who soon died, but the mother had terrible dreams that she had contracted hydrophobia, which she actually did in a short time, and it was just as she had become most furious when Reamer called at the cabin. The poor mother, after suffer- ing intensely, and becoming so strong that two men could scarcely hold her in bed, died in a spasm. She was buried


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temporarily in a shallow grave near the cabin, for want of a grave-yard in the neighborhood. The husband in a short time met the old hunter, and told him that he had cut a tree down over the grave to keep the wolves out of it, but that the howling of the animals around his cabin at night so terrified him that he would leave the country, and he did. Reamer, passing by the deserted cabin soon after the young settler had left, went to the grave, only to find that the wolves and forest animals had disinterred the body of the mad woman, and eaten the flesh from her bones. The country for twenty miles around was warned, and little else was done for a time but to hunt down and slaughter wolves.


These incidents illustrate the dangers attendant upon the lives of the early settlers, and from which the present generation are exempt. In those days there were few bur- glars among men, but every wolf was a thief and marauder in its day, and caused or committed some ravage on the pioneers.


It may be remarked that old Adam Reamer was past sixty when he killed his last wolf, and died over three score and ten, leaving descendants.


CANALS IN OHIO.


The two canals in most useful existence at this time are the Ohio Canal, from Cleveland to Portsmouth, 307 miles, and Miami Canal, from Cincinnati to Defiance, 178 miles. The first cost $5,000,000, and the second $3,750,000.


The Ohio Canal was begun in 1825, and finished in 1832. The cost of repairs have been partly paid out of tolls and rents, and partly by taxation. The interest on the original cost has been paid partly from canal revenues and partly from taxation.


Congress donated one million acres to Ohio, to aid in canals, which was in part applied thereto.


When the present lease shall have terminated, in 1881,


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the lessees will have kept the canals in repair (except as to unavoidable expenses arising from destruction by the elements), and also have paid into the revenne fund of the State $200,000.


The increase in the value of property since their con- struction, along their lines of communication, demonstrate that they have more than twice paid the original cost of construction, and that the increased valuation of property along their lines, by being put upon the duplicate, have more than paid the canal taxes levied upon counties through which the canals were not located.


The incisive and incessant efforts of railway corpora- tions either to control or destroy the usefulness of the great arteries of cheap transportation in New York, in- duced that State to take active measures to protect and improve her canals, and the consequence is shown in the facts following :


INCREASE OF OHIO COMPARED WITH HER RIVAL STATES.


It will be seen by the census that our own State, and our great rivals on each side, have increased, between 1850 and 1870, as follows :


Population.


1850. 3,097,000


1870.


New York.


4,382,000


Ohio


1,980,000


2,665,000


Property.


1850.


1870.


New York.


1,080,000,000


6,500,000,000


Ohio ..


504,000,000


2,235,000,000


Value of Manufactures.


1850


New York.


100,000.000


1870. 367.000,000


Ohio


29,000,000


141,000,000


Aggregate Taxation.


1860.


New York


15,000,000


1870. 48,000,000


Pennsylvania.


9 000,000


24 000 000


Ohio


10,000,000


23,000,000


Indiana.


4,000,000


10,000,000


Illinois.


6,000,000


22,000,000


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These figures show that while Ohio has increased, it is not in the same ratio, either in population, wealth, mining or manufactures; while in taxation her rate of increase of burthens upon the people is equal to that State in ratio. This fact has, in twenty years, caused Ohio to fall behind her rival neighbor about two hundred per cent. in all the elements of wealth growing out of protection to mining, manufacturing, and farming industries.


The portentions fact stares the people of Ohio in the face, that while she is the second mineral State (Pennsyl- vania alone excelling her), her increase is but three hun- dred per cent., while the State of New York has increased five hundred per cent. in the same time, by expanding her mining and manufacturing interests along her lines of water communication ; in widening, deepening and enlarg- ing the same; not to destroy railway corporations, but to enable the people engaged in mining and manufacturing, as well as in agricultural pursuits, to compete with these corporations in the one great desideratum-cheap trans- portation to a market.


The remedy is a change in the organic law similar to the provisions in the New York constitution, which pro- hibits sale or destruction, and provides for the continual improvement of the water lines of the State.


RAILROADS IN OHIO.


The number of miles of railways in Ohio are nearly 5,000. These have been constructed by private capital and credit, amounting by average to $30,000 per mile, or $150,000,000, less taxation on exceptional or special counties, townships, cities, and towns to the amount of $10,000,000.


Under the laws taxing railway corporations there have been collected since 1846, from railways, and applied to general tax fund, an amount exceeding $10,000,000.


The whole sum raised by taxation, in special localities,


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has therefore been repaid, not to the communities taxed, but to the State treasury for the benefit of the whole people of the State.


The enhanced value of property in counties permeated by railroads, by reason of their construction, is equal to a gross sum that would yield an interest equal to the tax paid by railroads. Thus the tax paid being $10,000,000, that sum is equal to six per cent. on a principal of $1,000,000,000, which is the estimated enhanced value given to the property in Ohio, by the construction of 5,000 miles of railway therein, or about $4 per acre, over the State, in counties having no railroads, as well as counties through which they have been constructed.


In about forty counties, no county or municipal tax has been collected from communities for railroads. Hence, in the counties and municipalities paying no tax for railroads, the same resulting benefits have accrued to the tax-payers that accrned to the counties and municipalities taxed, so far as general increase of wealth is concerned over the State.


The amount of stock paid in on construction of 5,500 miles of railroad in Ohio is, in round numbers, $150,000,000. Their indebtedness is $151,000,000. Their average earnings aggregate $40,000,000, of which three-fourths is consumed in operating the roads, leaving $10,000,000 as net earnings, applied to interest, dividends, &c .; of these $40,000,000 earn- ings, about three-fifths are distributed along the lines among the people, for work, and labor, and materials.


The fifty odd railroads in Ohio carry annually 30,000,000 tons of freight, and 15,000,000 passengers, to and fro. The saving of time and expenses of transportation compared with the old common carrier system, is equal to $5 per head per annum, by average, or about $150,000,000.


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TABLE OF RAILROADS, JUNE 30, 1874, IN OHIO.


Number.


NAME.


Main line and branches.


Sidings and other tracks.


Ashtabula, Youngstown & Pittsburgh Railroad


62.60


5.20


Atlantic & Great Western Railroad


308.00


42.23


Baltimore, Pittsburgh & Chicago Railway (Ohio Div.)


94.80


3.45


Central Ohio Railroad.


+ 137.00


30.36


Chicago & Canada Southern Railway.


1.50


50.00


Cincinnati & Baltimore Railway.


5.60


61.218


Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis Railroad.


19.00


0.907


Cincinnati & Indiana Railroad.


20.50


9.60


Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley Railway ..


148.44


13.84


Cincinnati, Rielnond & Chicago Railroad ..


36.00


2.69


Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland Railroad.


168.50


15.96


Cincinnati & Springfield Railway.


48.80


9,26


Cincinnati & Whitewater Valley Railroad ..


2.10


0.40


1.


Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis R'y


307.75


87.62


Cleveland & Mahoning Valley Railway.


123.35


94.472


17 18


Cleveland & Newburgh Railroad


3.333


19 20 21


Columbus, Chicago & Indiana Central Railway.


135.90


24.20


Columbus & Hocking Valley Railroad ....


89.00


22.03


Columbus, Springfield & Cincinnati Railroad.


44.37


2.00


23 21


Dayton & Michigan Railroad


140.714


20.188


Gallipohs, McArthur & Columbus Railroad


2.34


0.191


28 29


Lake Erie & Louisville Railway.


87.66


3.79


Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway


377.61


304.56


31 32


Cleveland, Tusearawas Valley & Wheeling Railroad. Lawrence Railroad ..


12.70


0,80


Little Miami Railroad


136.97


46.27


Mahoning Coal Railroad ..


41.58


3.60


35 36 37


Marietta, Pittsburgh & Cleveland Railway.


102.50


6.50


Massillon & Cleveland Railroad .....


12.50


1.20


10 41


Ohio & Mississippi Railway.


19.53


7.50


Ohio & Toledo Railroad ..


10.50


2.10


45


Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Railway.


251.90


56.10


4+


Sandusky, Mansfield & Newark Railroad ..


116.25


17.09


Toledo, Canada Southern & Detroit Railway


7.00


2.00


Toledo & Maumee Narrow Guage Railroad ..


7.00


0.518


Toledo, Tiffin & Eastern Railroad.


43.06


3.54


Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway


75.50


14.30


4,407.442


1,142.046


¡Deduct Newark to Col., owned jointly, counted in both


33.00


Total


4,374,442


1.79


26


Iron Railroad.


16.50


2.50


Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad ...


276.80


09.37


Newark, Somerset & Straitsville Railroad ..


44,00


4.06


North Columbus Railway


3.81


0.25


Painesville & Youngstown Railroad


50,30


Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway.


+ 157.50


30.50


17 18 19 50 51


Rocky River Railroad.


5,53


0.36


Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Michigan Railroad.


64.485


1.832


Columbus & Xenia Railroad


54.42


13.72


Dayton & Union Railroad


31.74


Harrison Branch Railroad.


7.203


14.70


Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Delaware Railroad ..


147.66


Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railway ..


184.77


56.00


Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad ...


59.927


10 11 12 13 14


LENGTHI OF TRACK LAID.


101.14


22.60


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TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF JOHN FUNSTON FOR MURDER.


The first and only capital execution that has taken place in Tuscarawas County, was that of John Funston, who was found guilty of shooting William Cartwell, a mail-boy, in Oxford Township, on the 9th day of Septem- ber, 1825, under the following circumstances: Cartwell was carrying the horse-mail from Westchester to Coshoc- ton, and while going through the woods, on the Coshoc- ton road, was shot. A man named Johnson, out hunting, heard the crack of a rifle, and, coming out in the road, found Cartwell dead and the mailbag rifled. IIe gave the alarm, and was soon after arrested and brought to the New Philadelphia jail (then standing on the site of the present anditor's office), charged with the murder. A man's foot- prints on the ground near the murder spot were measured, but disagreed in size when compared with Johnson's foot- prints. The murder of young Cartwell caused the most intense excitement, and every effort to catch the right man was resorted to. Johnson, in jail, told the sheriff that he had got a glimpse of the murderer as he (Johnson) came ont of the woods into the road, and that if he ever saw him in a crowd he could point him out. The entire able-bodied male portion of the community in the south part of the county were requested to meet on a certain day at the jail, and allow Johnson to look at them. About three hundred appeared, and were ranked along Broadway, and Johnson was brought out and passed between the ranks. After scanning many men very closely, he pointed to John Fun- ston, in the crowd, saying "That is the man." Funston replied, " You are a liar!" but at once all eyes being turned on him, he showed fear, and began to exhibit outward evi- dence against himself. He was put in jail; and the crowd went home, satisfied that the murderer was caught. After


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trial and conviction he confessed the crime, and Johnson was set at liberty. Sheriff Blake's return on the execution tells the finale, thus :


"1825, December 28th. received this writ; and on the 30th day of December, A. D. 1825, between the hours of 12 o'clock, noon, and 2 o'clock p. M., I executed this writ by hanging the within named John Funston, until he was dead. No fees charged.


" WALTER M. BLAKE, Sheriff."


The execution took place at, or on, what is now block No. 3, West Philadelphia. The military were called out, and men, women and children attended from every town- ship, as well as other counties. Some estimates give the number present at five thousand persons.


The traveler on the Marietta and Pittsburg railway will see on his through ticket "Post Boy Station," south of New Comerstown. It is so called from the fact that the post boy Cartwell was murdered there fifty years ago.


FRONT MEN OF THE TUSCARAWAS AND MUSKIN- GUM VALLEYS AND THEIR TRIBUTARIES,


GOVERNORS.


R. J. Meigs. Duncan McArthur, Wilson Shannon, Wil- liam Medill, William Dennison. Jr.


UNITED STATES SENATORS FROM EASTERN OHIO.


Thomas Ewing, of Fairfield County. United States Sena- tor from 1831 to 1837, and 1850 to 1851 : Return Jonathan Meigs, of Washington, United States Senator from 1808 to 1810; Benjamin Ruggles, of Belmont, United States Senator from 1815 to 1833; Benjamin Tappin, of Jeffer- son, United States Senator from 1839 to 1845.


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JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT, FROM EASTERN OHIO.


Return Jonathan Meigs, of Washington County: William Sprigg, Jefferson; William W. Irvin, Fairfield; Charles R. Sherman, Fairfield; John M. Goodenow, Jefferson ; John C. Wright. Jefferson : William Kennon, Belmont; Charles C. Converse, Muskingum: Hocking H. Hunter, Fairfield ; George W. Mellvain, Tuscarawas.


MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.


Charles J. Albright, Guernsey, 1855 to 1857 ; James Alex- ander, Jr., Belmont, 1837 to 1839; Edward Ball, Muskingum, 1853 to 1857; Levi Barber, Washington, 1821 to 1823 ; J. M. Bell, Guernsey, 1833 to 1835 ; John A. Bingham, Harrison, 1855 to 1863, and 1865 to 1873; Joseph Burns, Coshocton. 1857 to 1859: Joseph Cable, Carroll, 1849 to 1853; James Caldwell, Belmont, 1813 to 1817 : D. K. Cartter, Stark, 1849 to 1853 ; David Chambers, Muskingum, 1821 to 1823 ; John Chaney, Fairfield, 1833 to 1839: Benjamin S. Cowen, Bel- mont, 1841 to 1843; John D. Cummins, Tuscarawas, 1845 to 1849; William T. Cutler, Washington, 1861 to 1863; Lorenzo Danford, Belmont, 1873 to 1877; John Davenport, Belmont, 1827 to 1829; Daniel Duncan, Licking, 1847 to 1849 ; Ephraim R. Eckley, Carroll, 1863 to 1869; Thomas O. Edwards, Fairfield, 1847 to 1849; Nathan Evans, Guern- sey, 1847 to 1851 : Paul Fearing, Washington, 1801 to 1803; William E. Fenck, Perry, 1863 to 1867 and 1874; James M. Gaylord, Morgan, 1851 to 1853; John M. Goodenow, Jefferson, 1829 to 1830: Alexander Harper, Muskingum, 1837 to 1839, and 1843 to 1847; William Helmich, Tusca- rawas, 1859 to 1861: Samuel Herrich, Muskingum, 1817 to 1821; Moses Hoagland, Holmes, 1849 to 1851; Elias Howell, Licking, 1835 to 1837; William W. Irvin, Fair- field, 1829 to 1833: David Jennings, Belmont, 1825 to 1826; John Johnson, Coshocton, 1851 to 1853: Perley B. Johnson, Morgan, 1843 to 1845; William Kennon, Bel- mont, 1829 to 1833, and 1835 to 1837; William Kennon, Jr., Belmont, 1847 to 1849; Daniel Kilgore, Harrison, 1834 to 1838; Samuel Lahm, Stark, 1847 to 1849: William


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Lawrence, Guernsey, 1857 to 1859; Daniel P. Leadbetter, Holmes, 1837 to 1841; Humphrey H. Leavitt, Jefferson, 1830 to 1834; Benjamin F. Leiter, Stark, 1855 to 1859; Charles D. Martin, Fairfield, 1859 to 1861; James Math- ews, Coshocton, 1841 to 1845; Joshua Mathiot, Licking, 1841 to 1843; William C. MeCanslin, Jefferson, 1843 to 1845 : William Medill, Fairfield, 1839 to 1843; Robert Mitchell, Muskingum, 1833 to 1835; Robert HI. Nugen, Tuscarawas, 1861 to 1863; Jolin O'Neill, Muskingum, 1863 to 1865; Isaac Parrish, Guernsey and Morgan, 1839 to 1841, and 1847 to 1849; John Patterson, Belmont, 1823 to 1825; Thomas Ritchie, Perry, 1847 to 1849, and 1853 to 1855 ; Thomas Shannon, Belmont, 1826 to 1827: Wil- son Shannon, Belmont, 1853 to 1857; Matthias Shepler, Stark, 1837 to 1839; Milton J. Southard, Muskingum, 1873 to 1877: William P. Spragne, Morgan, 1871 1875 ; David Spangler, Coshocton, 1833 to 1837; William Stans- berry, Licking, 1829 to 1833; David A. Starkweather, Stark, 1839 to 1841, and 1845 to 1847; Samuel Stokely, Jefferson, 1841 to 1843; Andrew Stuart, Jefferson, 1853 to 1855; Henry Swearingen, Jefferson, 1838 to 1841; Jona- than Taylor, Licking, 1839 to 1841; Thomas C. Theaker, Belmont, 1850 to 1861: C. B. Tompkins, Morgan, 1857 to 1861; P. Van Trump, Fairfield, 1867 to 1873; Joseph W. White, 1863 to 1875; William A. Whittles, Washington, 1849 to 1851; William Wilson, Licking, 1823 to 1829; John C. Wright, Jefferson, 1821 to 1829.


DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLIGENCE IN OHIO.


THE NEWSPAPER AND PERIODICAL PRESS.


There are upwards of three hundred and fifty newspapers aud and periodicals issued in Ohio.


Of these, one-half are religious, literary, scientific, agricultural, and non-political; the residue, ninety odd are Republican, and eighty odd Democratic publications.


The daily issues approximate 156,000; the weekly issues approx-


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imate 937,000 ; the semi and tri-weekly approximate 70,000; the semi-monthly and monthly, about 86,000. Total estimated issues, 1,249,000.


It is rather an under than an over estimate to count cach copy issued as having two readers, but upon that hypothesis the sub- joined statement is made, with some exceptional instances.


The names, editors as known, and number of readers as estimated, are classified :


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