Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-15

Pacifc-wupd Twenty miles Of the Platte
County Railroad, frOu St. Joseph to Atehi-
son, was formally opened by celebration on
the 3th inst.
The toilet Of the Japanese occupies much
time, the process of shaving the head being
long and tedious AT Philadelphia the ladies
did not hesitate to march into their rooms
during their toilets, and observe with imper-
tinent curiosity the operation of shaving, The
japanese submitted to the inspection with
marvellous good humor,
The japanese spend much time in playing
a curious game analogous to Chess, on a
board divided into eighty-one squares, kneel-
ing on cushions andrsmolling placidly while
playing.
A street sweeping machine has been in
vented by R. A. Smith, Of New York, which
works so well that the Philadelphia authOri-
ties have ordered one
The n. Y. Sunday Mercury asserts that
Post Office thief Fowler has not left New
York.
There is to be a Spelling Match at Warren
on the 2lst inst, in which the citizens, old or
young can compete for the Prizes, the first
being Wehsters Unabridged Dictionary, Pic
torial Edition.
Late adyices from Kansas represent that
vegetation is perishing from drouth. The
border Missouri and Iowa counties are also
suffering from the protracted dry weather.
Coy. Wise, of Virginia, has just been bust
ed by Henry Dexter, an eminent American
sculptor HUl
Col. Montgomery, Of the popular Biggs
House, Portsmouth, is in happy mood
When Bell and Everett were nominated he
illuminated his Hotel in grand style, but when
Honest Old Abe was put on the track the Col
Onel said By thunderl that suits me a lee
lie better yeti illuminate the House again,
boys" and it was done from basement to
garret,
The Akron Beacon says the Horse Fair at
Summit Park on the I'd, Sd, and 4th of July,
bids fair to be quite successful
Unless his other horses do better than Um-
pire, Vanity Fair thinks Ten Brock win be-
come dead Brock very speedily.
An oil well, only 26 feet deep, has recently
been opened at Franklin, Pa, which produces
fifty barrels of oil per day, of good quality
So states the Pittsburgh Gazette.
The drill for oil is still going on at the
Kingsbury quarry Newburgh.
The Pittsburgh Gazette says there are near
ly forty iron mills in that city and vicinity.
Five of them manufacture 100, tons of
iron and nails annually.
/ At Delhi N. Y, a few days ago, brother
and sister, the latter years old, were driv-
ing a COW to pasture, when the boy, who had
a piece of rope, in sport tied it TO the cows
tail and around his sisters body. The COW
ran, dragging the girl until dead.
What Old Veterans Say and VIII Do.
A gentleman related to US a pleasing Incl
dent yesterday, says the Mansfield Herald, to
which he was an eye witness. 1t occurred
at Fort Wayne, Indiana, on Monday even
ing. Three old men, over whose heads three
score and ten years had passed, met accident
ally. They had voted together the same
Democratic ticket all their life time; two had
east their votes in the same ballot box for
over forty years. After the usual saluta-
tons, one of them said: {" My friends, have
voted with the Democratic party for forty
seven years, never changing my vote.
have come to the conclusion that it is not now
what it used to be- Its principles have been
changed and its leaders have become dishOn-
est and corrupt. l intend for the balance Of
my life to vote with the Republican party,
and if live until next November, will cast
my ballot for HONEST OLD ABB" Il in
tend to do so, too, said the second. And
/, too, said the third. And then those three
aged men Joined hands and solemnly pledged
themselves that if Heaven spared their lives
until next November, to cast their votes for
LINCOLN AND HAMLE, and against the enc
mics of the Constitution and the Union
During this interview, quite number Of per
sons were attracted to the spot and all were
very deeply impressed with the scene. When
the Republican party receives such aids as
these, who can doubt the correctness of its
principles, or its final triumph
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