Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-07
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The family of a well-to-do farmer,
Burkholder by name, have been engaged
for some time past in plundering the cars
of the Pennsylvania Central Raiload, at
Altoona; they stole thousands of dollars
worth. Eight members, out of nine-one
was used as States evidence-were sent to
the Penitentiary,
There are now about eighty thousand ap-
plications for pardon on file in the AttOr-
ney Generals office. Many of the appli-
cants will have to wait until after the as
sembling of Congress before they will re-
ceive Executive clemency, and some OF
the prominent ones, doubtless, a much lon
ger time thar that.
The new telescope-said to be the finest
in the world-which was purchased by
subscription for the Chicago University,
will reach Chicago from Boston during the
ensuing week, when it will ut once be put in
place, and will, undoubtedly command the
public attention.
John Franklin Chandler, now on exhi-
bition at Richmond, Va, has Il head meas
uring four feet in circumference and out
weighing the rest of his body. He has re-
quired a new cap every day or two since
he was born. He is lifted about by his
mother, his limbs being too weak to sup
port his head.
A fatal case of accidental poisoning oc-
CURED in Chicago on Saturday. Three
men and a woman who were cleaning out
a building found a bottle which they sup
posed contained mndi~i-e1 or something
else, and each drank a portion of its con-
tents. Shortly afterwards they were all
taken i'll and one of the men died after
suffering intense agony. The others are
still very sick, but hopes are entertained
of their recovery. Upon making an analy-
sis of the remaining contents of the bot
tie, it was found to contain Il solution of
corrosive sublimate.
Habakuk johnson, an old farmer living
-four and "A half miles from indianapolis,
having been missed for six weeks, was
found a corpse, on Saturday last, under the
floor of his own house. He was seventy
six years old, and his wife, who has just
turned of twenty-five, reported that he
had run off with another mans wife. Mrs.
Johnson and ayoung farmerin the vicinity
have been arrested on suspicion.
The Sandusky e gister, of the 4th, pub
fishes the income returns of that city,
among which the largest are as follows:
F. T. Barney, S1O,235; r. b. Hubbard,
$l3,9I7; w. Hubbard, 1896; j.. T. John
son, SlO,6s7; L. B. johnson $II,616; L.
w. Lewis, $3.50; J. McKelvcy, 1929;
IL. c. Post, $9,297; G. n. Ryan, SlO,645.
An extraordinary billiard match has
just been completed between two well
known citizens of Denver. They agreed
to play for 500 a game of one hundred
points, and to continue it without Sleep
ing, eating or cessation until the party
most exhausted should agree to forfeit
$500 to tho other. 1t lasted for twenty
two hours, and $4,000 was lost BY the
superior player, who gave odds of forty
points to his antagonist, and the victor
paid the forfeit of $500. During the latter
portion of the contest the stakes were $500
per game.
The Toledo Blade has figured up 12,216
barrels of apples that have been packed in
that city during the season. The growers
have received an average of 81 l21 per
bushel for them, or something near $35.-
600 in the aggregate. The Blade saws
1.-The fruit packed has been shippedto Ma
saehesetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
New York, Pennsylvania, and IL score of
cities and towns in Ohio; and while the
farmers have realized handsomely on
those sold to packers, the latter have made
a good thing in the shipment of fruit"
Hamill, the Pittsburgh oarsman, an
swers the proposition of Mr.. Kelly, the
champion of England, on the question of
an international sculling match, that 2lOO
sterling or $500 in gold being allowed for
avannsnS ha mill hit E--I%1
a visit from Mr.. KelIoy in this country,
(the visiting party to select racing course
and pull a match of five straight miles,
and another of two and a halt, turning
boat and return, for $3.50 or 81, $50
n gold each race. 1t seems probable that
these negotiations will lead to a match for
championship of the world.