Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-05

The mode Of churning in Fayal, one o
the Azores, is to tie the milk up in a goat.
skin, and kick it about till the butter comes
A new novel is said TO have been dis,
covered In England. which is attributed q
Charlotte Bfonte, and said to be equal tC
"Jane Eyre
Last year there we're in England Rnd
Wales fity-two capital convictions one
week on an average, and nine executions fol-
lowed all for the crime Of murder.
Benz. r. Powers, a brother Of Hiram
Powers, died on Saturday last, at Troy, Ohio
aged 20 years
"A Russian tradesman recently swallows
ed forty tallow candles in 81. Petersburg, on
a wager, and strange to say. still lives.
Mrs. Henry Miller, residing near Middle.
burg, Pc a few daysago, took by mistake
hrge dose Of tineture Of colehicum, in place
Of bitters. The mistake was soon discoY-
cred, and medical aid procured, but it was
in vain. She died IN a few hours, in great
agony.
The N~orwegiaus are raising money "a
build q college in Iowa. Twenty thousand
dollars have already been raised for this pur-
pose. -m.o- avid m
The report OF the Treasurer of the Com
monwealth of Virginia is published in the
Richmond Enquirer. The amount received
into the treasury for the fiscal year ending
Sept. Both was $5,974,624.29, and the dis
bursements were S., 100, 9I5.6s.
"A suit to forfeit the diamond snuff box,
bracelet and brooch, valued ats coo, former
" the property Of Madame Rachel, on the
ground Of n~on-payment Of duty, has been
concluded in New York, and the jury render
ed sealed verdict for the United States, for
feiting the goods.
Mr.. Wilkie Collins "Woman in White
has gone through five editions in England,
which is counted something in that land of
moderate sales and high prices. Mr.. Collins
novel sells in England for something like
seven dollars and a half per copy. The
American edition has more and finer ~illustra-
tons and is sold at one dollar.
I'VE clip the following lively paragraph
from the account given by the South Caro-
linian Of a celebration the other night in Co
lumbis sGrsq 81 .a, ,ysait-lat
A large transparency had the following
notices: "Euchre-South Carolina Phys 1t
Alone" "Her. Right and Left Bowers,
Georgia and Florida" aHer Trumps Ma
grath, Colcock, Conner" "With these she
claims a March
"A monument to VIM. Wallace, the pa
triot hero of Scotland, is to be erected on the
Abbey Craig, which is not only geographic
cally in the centre Of Scotland, but is like
wise the centre of the Scottish battle-ground
for civil and religious liberty 1t oYerlOOks
the field Of Sterling Bridge, where Wallace
obtained his greatest victory. The spot is
three hundred and sixty feet above the level
Of the Forth, and commands a scene of pic
turesque and enobIng character
The Omaha Republican says that gold
dust is coming in there from the mines in
large quantities. One nugget purchased by
Smith & Parmalee weighs 4 ounces, and is
valued at upwards of $40.
The Santa Clara (Cal9 race course was
the scene Of a remarkable trial Of equine
speed and human endurance on the LIST of
November. J.R. Pieo, OF San Jose, made a
wager of $500 that he would, on the day
above named, ride $50 miles in the unpreoe =
dented time of six hours and thirty minutes,
or at the railroad speed Of more than twenty
three miles per hour, not allowing the time
lost in mounting and dismOunting the differ
ent horses which he proposedto use. he won
the bet, with fourteen minutes and ten seconds
to spare lat.l. II