Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-05
LATENEWS ITEMS.

Patrick Fleming, Il murderer in Jail at
Chicago, under sentence of death, has sold
his body to a medical college for the sum
of fifty dollars. He will buy a suit of
clothes to be hung in, with the proceeds ef
this repulsiye bargain.
The execution of the murderer Kierch-
ner, at Buffalo, last week, was the first at
that city since eleven years ago; but now
another is to quickly follow-Charles Car
rington having Just been sentenced to be
hung on Friday, january 9Th, 1866, for
the murder of policeman Dill.
The Chattanooga Gazette of the 2sth
says that a coiored man was found dead
about one mile from the bridge, on the OPP
posite side of the river, yesterday morning,
shot through the body and head. His
name was Stephen Brooks, and he was Il
preacher.
A correspondent of the New York EUen-
ng Post writes from Galveston: 81 have
| to-day seen a Confederate Colonel, with
his full uniform on, stars and all, driving
a dray, with a mule whose harness was
made of ropes. A late Lieutenat General
of the rebel army is a clerk in an express
office in New Orleans, and the officer who
drove off Franklin and his fifteen thou
sand men, at Sabine, is a barkeeper at
Houston"
Life in Coffee county, Kansas, is thus
pleasantly described: Some hogs of a col
ored men named Martin, got into the en-
closure of u white neighbor named Clark.
Mrs. Martin drove them home. Then
Clark came and forcibly took the hogs
back, claiming possession because they had
damaged his crop. Martin offered to
compromise by giving half, but as no
terms could be agreed on Mrs. Martin
was proceeding to let down the fence and
drive the hogs back when Clark shot her.
Her son instantly shot Clark and fled to
the woods,
The temporary vault designed TO re-
ceive the remains of President Lincoln, al
Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, will be
completed shortly. 1t is located on the
summit of the hill Immediately in the rear
of the reeeiving-vault ofthe cemetery, and
in a few days the casket containing the
remains Of Mr.. Lincoln will be transferred
to it, there to remain until the national
monument shall be ready to receive the
precious dust.
The mere substitution of some blacks
for a few Irish hod-carriers who had
" struck" held a curious crowd for the
whole day at Boston recently. To COM
plete the picture, one of the new carriers
wore the army blue. 1t was certainly
queer, even in Boston, to see a black man
with u bod, and the dear public studied
the show as if religiously bent on deciding
once for all whether the black man would
work, and how he would work. Having
seen just how he planted his feet and
dumped his mortar, the crowd went away
satisfied that be bore his hod-honors well.
Interesting letters have been received
from Professor Agassiz, giving an account
of the astonishing scientific discoveries
he has made in the river Amazon. Under
date of September sth he writes that he
had then obtained more than three hun
bred species of fish, although he had, to
that time, only examined one-third of the
Amazon, without ~trenching on its afiiuents.
He had only counted on, at most, two
hundred and fifty or three hundred species,
and he says; that not a third of those he
collected belong to known ones. The
latest report is that Agassiz was to leave
Manaos, in Amazonas, on the 10th of
September, for T~abatingu, in Peru.