Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-21

The Montreal Advertiser learns that dis
ease, supposed to be pleuro- pneumonia, has
broken out in the county of Huntington, Can
ada East, and that several cattle have already
died it. .aLl#
The reports of crop prospects in Canada
West are fattering indeed. Wheat rye, oats,
fruits, SC, are all the farmers can desire.
The British Government have resolved to
countenance the project of a line of telegraph
to this continent by way of the Farce islands,
Iceland and Greenland. Sir Leopold NJ Clin-
tOck is to make a complete survey and sound
ings of the proposed route.
The Leavenworth Times states that up to
the first of June, one hundred and fiity-nine
quartz mills passed through st. Joseph, Atch-
inson and Leavenwcrth. Of these twenty
were manufactured in Leayenworth. The
Pixies Peak correspondent of the St. Louis
Democrat reports many of the mills as almost
worthless. .4....q.~-
Some idea of the transportation business
to the mining region this season, may be
formed from the fact that one firm in Leav-
enworth has sent out 26s wagons, sixty hum
dred each, and another firm I22 wagons.
The drOuth is quite severe in Stark county.
The Canton Repository says the crops are be-
ginning to suffer. ,rr
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A terrific storm of hail, rain and wind
visited Albany, n Y, the afternoon Of the
18th, doing much damage The storm lasted
half an hour, and was the most violent ever
known there. There was great destruction
of glass, gardens, fruits, &c, and from food
ing of cellars, the sewers being too small for
the floods of water.
The Sanduskey Register learns by letter
from TerriIl, Of Clyde, that his property was
not set on fire by Mrs. Terrill as was stated,
but by Mrs Banker, now in Fremont jail.
Mrs, Martha Shinn, 50 years old, commit
ted suicide in Detroit few evenings ago by
hanging herself from the limb of an apple
tree She was in needy circumstances, and
tired of life.
The Democratic system of robbing the
mails in the slave States in search of incen-
diary matter, is becoming irksome to some
sensible Southern people. Twenty-one Of
the citizens Of Kent County, Nd, have made
a protest against the action of the Grand
Jury Of the County in presenting newspapers
and books as ''incendiary" by wholesale, and
thus preventing their delivery to the owners
by the Post Office, under Mr.. Hollis rule.
Ninety dwelling houses were totally des-
troyed and 76 badly damaged in Camanche,
by the late tornado. The persons houseless
in the town number $50. A great number
of business and other buildings were either
destroyed or badly injured.
The net receipts of the Great Wigwam
Concert at Chicago, for the benefit of the tor
nado sufferers, were upwards of $l,500, The
generous people of Chicago have already con-
tributed about $4,000, and have twice sent
the good City Missionary, Rev. Mr.. COfyer,
along the line of destruction as the almoner of
their noble charities. His report of the first !
visitation details sufferings and losses almost
incredible.
~uC Doet0u AIdfeleIo oi lle 1otu 5litles tlb ]
gratifying fact that it is evident that the cat
tie disease is gradually losing its virulent |
character Nor does it seem to be spreading
much.
The money reports in the Eastern cities /
speak Of plethora in market. In New York /
the six months paper Of a fayorite Domestic /
Dry Goods House was discounted on Friday /
at four and half per cent. in the street, the |
lowest point reached for a number of yearsi /