Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-09
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
W. II. BREWSTER.

The Kentucky Mammoth Cave is to let.
The population of Iowa is ascertained to
be 749,9O4, being an increase in two years
of Al, 300.
Springfield (Ill.) is reviving the old
Blue Laws. A journeyman barber was
fined $50 for shaving a gentlemen in his
private room of a hotel on Sunday.
Cleopatra, the Snowman Robinson's fe-
male elephant, that has been in i'll health
in Cincinnati for some time, and submit
ted to a surgical operation on one of her
legs last week, died last week.
Florina Budworth, a female Philadel-
phia soldier, whose sex was not discovered
until shortly before her death, was among
the victims of rebel cruelty in the prison
at Florence, S. c.
DR.. Mudd, of the assassination conspir-
acy, recently attempted to escape from the
Dry Tortugas on board a steamer. He
was found secreted in the coal hunks and
put to hard labor wheeling sand.
The Central Council of the Fenian or
ganization were in session on Fridaya at the
Astor House. They have called a special
congress of the entire organization in this
country, to assemble in Philadelphia on
the 10th inst.
Eureka, a small town in California. was
quite violently shaken by an earthquake
on Sunday last. Property to the value of
several thousand dollars was injured.
A very successful and interesting horse
fair, at Kalamazoo, Michigan, has lust
closed. The great thousand dollar race
was won by the favOrite Chicago horse.
Cooley" in three straight heats-time
2.264, 2.282 2.274.
The railway over Mont Gents viii be
finished in about eighteen months, and
will be about fOrty-six miles in length,
we presume from Lanslebourg to Susa.
The journey will occupy only two and a
half hours, and the fare for first-class pas
sengers will be twenty-seven francs, a high
charge for the Continent.
The case of William S. Mann and Dam
lei Stratton, charged with an oil swindle,
IN which some of our citizens are inter
ested. has beon hanging fire in the New
York courts for four months. The evidence
having been completed on Friday, Nj.
David Dudley Field, Jr., counsel for the
defendants, moved the dismissal Of the
complaint, and Justice Dodge took the
papers and reserved his decision,
There is a great cutlery in England at
the prospect of a general failure in the
oyster crop. The English oyster is a small,
round bivalve, with a strong copper favor
something as if q penny had become
mucous, and although foreigners (esnecial-
ly Americans do not like it so much. they
afterwards get to favor it = great deal
The French crop is not good and the cnn-
ming Parisians are tempting the dredgers
to make contracts with them for the sup
ply.
The world moyest A contract to carry
mails between Winchester and Lees
burg Va has been awarded, by the Post
Master General, to Robert Orrick. a COL
pred man. This is the first instance since
organization of the Post Office De-
partment of a colored mans bid being ac-
,epted for service of this or any other
And for it Senator Summer is to b..
The trial of Marschall and Ere 10 tho
'BOyds Hill m~urderers, as the 1917 /,
ook place in Pittsburgh IN FridoT~o.
'ather that of the forr .er did, the IaitSr
.'Ing demanded q separate trial. The
rial was a briett one, the evidence, which
included t.he confession of the prisoner,
being very conclusive. He was found
but has not yet been sentenced.