Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-25
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ioLp closed last night at 1891.

GOLD closed last night at 1891.
PETROLEUM has been found in Texas, nea,
BrsEos Santiago.
4 xKw street railroad company, to be To-
Gated at Cleveland, has been incorporated,
| A BILL is pending in the British Parlia-
ment to abolish Imprisonment for debt.
Mas. JEFF. DAVIS is in Washington seek
ing an interview with the President respect
ing her husband.
TIE total number Of vessels captured by
rebel privateers wss two hundred and eighty
three.
a LOT of land in New Orleans sold at orc
Thousand dollars per front foot the other
day.
TIE cornerstone of the monument to
Stephen A. Douglas will be laid on the 18th
of June.
TIE Treasurer of Wabash County has
failed for ssl, 900. The cause of his failure
was indiscreet speculation in pork.
Ar least twelve hundred MexiesDs were
executed in one month, in Zacateeas, under
MsIimilisn's decree conforming to death
those opposed to his government.
A New YoRk elergymsn's wife, while in a
fit of insanity, yesterday, jumped from the
balcony of her house TO the ground. killing
herself
THE report of the burning Of the Aissis-
sippi river steamboat Morning Star, at
Mound City, above Cairo, night before last,
Is untrue.
IN New York during the two months past
twenty-five deaths occurred from starvation,
twenty-seven from drunkenness, and ten
suicides were committed.
THE stockholders Of the New York Aesi
emy Of Music have held meeting and de-
termined to rebuild at once. The new
structure is to be completed by the lst of
November.
NUMEROUS arrests have been made in
Russia in consequence of the recent attempt
on the life of the Gar. Twenty students at
St. Petersburg, thirty at Moscow and many
others have been thrown into prison.
TIE latest invention is the palpitating
bosom" for the ladies, which "gently
heaves" " to the touch of an "emotional
spring" concealed under the left ann.
GEx. FREHoxT, who arrived in Washing
ton last Thursday, has taken rooms in new
house built recsntly BY colored gentleman
who was formerly his servant and accom-
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THE State Department has dispatches
which confirm the opinion that European
war is imminent, and the financial and mer-
camille classes are STRENGTHENING themselves
for the expected strain upon their resources.
LATE advices from the City of Mexico re-
port that considerable dissatisfaction exists
over the contemplated withdrawal Of the
French troops, and that there is probable
ity that Maximilian will sbdicste before
they are Withdrawn.
THE billiard match in New York between
John Deery, of New York, and Joseph Dion,
of Montreal, played night before last, was
won by Dion, who scored 1900 points to
Dssry's 1885.
IT is in contemplation to build costly
Executive Mansion on the grounds east of
the Capitol and turn the White House into
FIRE proof building for State papers:
AGExTLKHAN in Nashua, New Hampshire,
became widower on Saturday mourner
on Sunday, procurer of a wedding certi-
6case on Monday, and newly married man
on Tuesday. There's enterprise for you.
Orro Bursten Vinder has been discharged
from arrest in New York on the ground that
as he was not personally engaged in ship
ping the nitro-glycerine to San Francisco,
he cannot be held guilty of the crime con-
structiyely.
TIE retail dry goods merchants of New
York have entered into an agreement 10
close their stores at seven o'clock ?. NJ, for
the benefit Of their clerks and themselves
Those in Philadelphia have agreed to open
at eight in the morning and close at four
o'clock P. \.
TX three instances at Hartford, Connecti-
cut, recently. tne heat Of the sun has set
oily cotton waste on fire, and timely dis
eovery has been Ell that prevented disas-
trous eonasgration in each case.
CHAs. A. DANA, the editor in chief of the
Chicago Republican, has sent in his resigna-
ton TO the stockholders of that concern.
Tho paper will go into new hands immedi-
ately and will be issued next week as a
johnson organ.
IL New Orleans last Wednesday an ex-
rebel Colonel deliberately shot a young wo-
man who refused to marry him. The ball
entered above the breast on the right side,
and lodged on the left side, without, how
ever, inAicting mortal wound. The same
day Mrs. Anna Moreland, popular actress
at the Olympic, was found dead in her bed