Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-03-18
General NeKs Itemu.


General News Items.
Strawberries have made their appear
snee in Baltimore.
1t is stated that James Redpsth is to
edit the Charleston Mercury IS a loyal
sheet.
Humboldt almost equslled Sewsrd-he
wrote two thousand letters per annum.
The popular author of the HSchonberg
Gotta Family" is Mrs. Charles, of Eng
land.
-Verdfs new work, ala Forza del
Destino,' is produced in this country in
advance Of both Paris and London.
Carl Formes is in New York.
"A new opera, by Max Brueh, called
LOrelei," has been produced In Ham
burg.
-TheEverettstatue Fundnow amounts
to- $31, OLA
-Itsly's cotton crop is valued at sI2,-
100000.
The flag of the Union waves; that of
the rebellion waivers.
The latest Roman joke is that Liszt,
who is furious Pspist, has set the Encyo-
lical letter to music.
Maine is to have two war vessels to
defend her coast
For the first time in the history of the
State negro testified against 3 white man
In the Recorders Court, of ST. Louis, last
week.
Although the Vice President an
nounced himself plebeiAn, he showed he
had great deal of the old Bourbon spirit
in him.
"A New York psrer says that "at the
Broadway last evening Owens came out in
two PARTS" Poor fellow.
Mr.. Bsndmsn is pronounced by the
New York critics 8 much improved trsge-
disn-but he will say sis-tow for sister.
Governor Randall, of Wisconsin, in
his message of 1861, said This war began
where Charleston is; it should end where
Charleston was ~
The petroleum millionaire who called
bis daughter Kerrie Scene, is going to name
son after the Greek Oileus.
"A secesh woman at Newton, Va, has
paPerOd her kitchen with greenbacks
which she has received from Union SOL
GnoAa AhAh AOI piss
M. Boucicault is resp;ng q harvest
from his "Streets of London at the
Princess and other theatres. The play at
the Princess alone is said TO yield him
s., 900 week.
An irre7erent paragraphst says that
It is related of Jouah, that when he took up
quarters in the whales belly, he wrote hDme
to his father to come down Immediately, as
he had discovered g splendid opening for
the oil business. The next day he tele-
grsphed the old gentleman as follows
I" Plenty of oil, but no msrketp This is the
first QfJfsh-dL account historians give US Of
the oil business.
Queen Victoria has announced to the
world that she maintains in reference to
the conflict ofthe sections, 3, a,isStsadfast neu-,
traity." Brigham Young has made an an-
nouncement precisely similar. 'gEhe North"
says that uncEnonizsd SAINT "prsys that
their swords may strike deep into the heart
of every rebel, and say amen The
South prays that the North may be cut
down on thousand battle-hel6E, and again
I say amen !"
The funeral of Cardinal Wiseman was
the greatest thst has been seen in England
since that of the Duke Of Wellington. The
funeral procession was ten miles long, and
hundreds of thousands thronged to see it.
The services were held in the Cathedral of
st. Msry's, Moorfelds, and Wss attended
BY nearly all the Roman Catholic Arch
bishops and Bishops of England and Ire
land, and by many of the nobility, both
Protestant and Catholic, foreign Ambss-
ssdors etc. Monseigneur Manning pro-
nouuced the eulogy, and the remains Of the
good Cardinal, for he was truly such, were
buried in the Catholic division Of the Ken
sal Green Cemetery.
An elephant and bull fight took place
lately at SEragoss, Spain. The elephant
was walking quietly about the arena when
the first bull was released, and rushed at It
with all his might. The elephant received
his antagonist with great GOODNESS, and
threw him down with the utmost ease. The
bull rose again and made two more attacks,
which the elephant resented by killing him
with q thrust of his tusks. The conqueror
did not seem in the least excited, but quiet
" drank some water offered him BY his
keeper, and ate several ears of Indian corn.
A second bull was then released, and in q
few minutes suffered the same fate as the
first.
The attempt to grow oranges and lem
ons in California is every year becoming
more successful The principal groves are
at Los Angeles, where there are half a
dozen men engaged in the business. Or
snges are grown in other places in the
State, but mainly in gardens, and for pri-
vAte use. There were about 60, 900 oranges
and 10000 lemons grown last year at Los
Angeles. This year nearly 100, 900 oranges
and 4O, 900 lemons have been raised in that
vicinity. The oranges grown this year are
larger and in every way bctter than last
yeSrs crop, and sold at the groves st three
dollars per hundred. The largest growers
are TIVE Frenchmen at the Mission San Ga
briel, whose crop last yesr amounted to
about $4,000 oranges, Decides quantity Of
lemons,