Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-08-03
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A female bigamist has recently been ar
rested in Davenport, g. w, charged with
having five husbands, The charges were
clearly established, and the weman was
committed for trial.
There is great excitement in Chatham,
Canada West, on the oil question A
! large vein has been struck at the depth of
422 feet. 4 new flowing well has been
opened at Enniskillen at the depth of only
about 40 feet.
The Washington Republican imagines
that ifthe the rebels had come within the
fortifcations of the city they could not
nave stood against the charges of the hotel
keepers.
There are at present some 1000
workmen employed in the Springfield ar
senHI. before The WIT HDOuJ SIX hundred
muskets were turned out in month; but
now as many thousand are manufactured
in week.
There is a boy living at Tresillian, Mass.
named Edward Weeks, who, although u
years of age, stands 5 feet inches high, is
very bony, measures 80 inches round the
waist, and is of the astonishing weight of
ls9 lbs, or about double that Of any ordi-
nary youth Of the same agel
Petroleum Y. Nasby, Pastor of said
church in charge" one OF the drollest hu-
morists who writes for the newspaper
press of the day, is Mr.. D. R. Locke, ed
itor ofthe Findlay, Hancock county, JEFF
fersonian.
A man named Steits was arrested few
days ago near Laporte Ind, for a murder
committed in August, 1861, nearly three
years ago. he murdered a fellow-laborer,
nance Won Jesseda, and afterwards con-
cealed the body. The murder was
brought TO light through the murderer 5
sister who, after the occurrence wrote to a
; relative in Germany concerning it. The
latter, after arriving in this country, ex-
posed the crime through personal malice.
The picture of "The Emancipation
: Proclamation before the Cabinet Just
: painted at Washington, by Carpenter, 8
: New York artist, is now on exhibition at
- the White House, and will soon be in New
: York. 1t represents all the members Of
: the Cabinet, with the President as they
are supposed to have been grouped when
, the latter first read to them his proposed
proclamation Of emancipation.
The Edinburgh Scotsman of July l0tf
says: alt is quite true, we have reason t.
5 believe, that Mr.. Chase, Secretary of the
Treasury at Washington, had lately an Of
fer fran Holland of loan of 100000 ,00O
o but on condition of the custom duties 0
. Federal ports being pledged for the pay
e ment of the interest. This condition thi
S Washington government regarded in tn
light of an insult, and the negotiation wa
broken off"
% The editor of the Greencastle Banne
% saws he found curiosity in a printing Of
10 ice at Gosport One of the gentlemen
N connected with the establishment is bin,
man, and sets up type remarkably well
: He stated to him that his average day
a. work was 5000 ems, and that on severa
occasions he set from 1000 to 5000 EN-.
= His letter is distributed for him, and hi
COPY read by his partner his memory be
ing SO perfect that he can retain from fou
to six lines; when this is finished, he erie
h the last word SCI" when another ser
II tenee Is read, and thus continues on durin
~ the day.
?, Another sensation railway adventul
VI IS related IN the Engllsh papers n yOun
I'd lady travelling on the Southwestern Raj
2 way was assaulted by blackguard in
Id railway carriage. To escape his. insult
be she opened the door of the carriage, G,
er out, and remained standing on the ste
and clnging to the side Of the carriage
Ie- while the train was going forty miles a
he hour Fortunatelya a gentleman discove
i'll ed her in her perilous position, and mai
,ir aged to draw her to the door of the COZ
v. partment he was in. He there held b
ed tightly round the waist, and she tainted
d. his arms. In this awkward and most dal
D. gerous position the gentleman travel'
he with his fair burden about five miles.
i'll hast, however, the guard, signaled by pc
ng sons in the neighboring fields, stopped {
train and rescued the young lady.