Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-28
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Sos closed Lac night At l2g.

AT large auction sale Of wool in Bosto
yesterday the prices ranged from As to 59l
per lb. in lots ranging from 5000 to 20,OC
lbs. Ohio fleece brought tho highest price
TIE visit of General Grant and family |
Richmond was made particularly pleasar
by the attention of the he and she rebel
Of that once famous rebel capital.
Full particulars of the execution of Jac
Cooper, at Ravenna, for the murder of Johl
ROdenbaugh, will be found on the fourt
page of this paper.
A pAUeBrEK of the late Owen Loveioy
for many years member Of Congress from
Illinois, is teacher in one of the neSr
schools at vicksburg.
A HEAVY frost probably killed the cher
ries, grapes and pears in the neighborhoot
of Indianapolis night before last. Pcache
are already gone.
IS the Office of the Staals Zietpag, o
Nashville, they have a one-ormed com
positor, who sets 1000 10 1900 ems per day
He lost his arm at the battle of Resaea.
A LARGE number of freedmen at Newberr
and on Roanoke Island have been notifieC
that rations will not be issued to them aftel
the first Of May.
A DEGusrED Fenian captain arrived Al
Portsmouth yesterday on his way home
from Eastport. He thinks o'Mahony is a
fraud on the public.
IL the New York hospital ship since the
last report there have been three deaths
from cholera, bat no new cases have been
received.
Tar passengers on the steamer England
ask to be landed in New York city, mas
much ss 10 new case Of cholera has
occurred on that vessel for fifteen days.
A FULL account of the great fire at
Detroit Thursday night viii be found in
our columns this morning. A telegram
received last night gives some additional
particulars.
A SEwsPAPER correspondent, who has
Travelled over several hundred miles in
Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland,
reports that excepting, perhaps, one field
in twenty five, wheat is in fine condition.
THE Butler New Orleans gold case was
up again before the New York Common
Pleas Court this week. General Buffers
counsel presented an affidavit, which
stated that the gold of Mr.. Smith was
seized by order Of President Lincoln.
THE accommodation train on the Belle
fontaine Road was thrown of the track near
Anderson, Indiana, day before yesterday,
by broken rail. The engine was COM
pletely wrecked, and the engineer badly
scalded.
ACCOUNTS of the coming cotton crop in
the Southern States are conflicting. Some
sssert that planters will be compelled to
replant on account Of the seed being
worthless from long keeping. Others give
glowing accounts Of the crops of all kinds.
THE evidence for the prosecution, in the
case of Probst, the Philadelphia murderer,
was closed yesterday. The defense will
have no witnesses. Probst's counsel is ell
lowed to speak two hours to-day when the
Jury will render verdict.
A RESOLUTION was offered in the United
States Senate yesterday to grant the use of
The Senate Chamber to Jas. E. Murdoch, on
the evening Of the Sd of May, to give read
ings In aid Of the fund TO establish the
National Soldiers and Sailors Orphan
Asylum.
The Methodist Conference at New Or
leans, day before yesterday, elected four
Of Georgia, Mcintyre,
Of Louisiana, Doggett of Virginia, and
ol Missouri. The ordination Of the
Bishops will take place tomorrow (sunday9
TIE English papers give an account Of
the destruction BY fire of the packing -hor Sc
Of Thomas Sinclair & Sons. Belfast, the
largest in Ireland, on April lst by which
of the bacon packed in the
United Kingdom was destroyed. Among
the items was $4,000 hams. The total loss
is estimated at S75O,OOQ.
JAMES ROBINSON, the circus man, was not
killed, as reported, but was badly wounded
in the affraY at Crittenden, KY. The party
of rcwdies who attacked the circus num-
bered twenty-five and were formerly guer-
rilIas. The attaches of the circus, it seems,
gave them tight and wounded several Of
them.
ALABAMA papers report great destitution
among the poorer classes in that State. In
various counties, on days when rations were
expected, as many as 800 women have been
seen at one time around the court houses,
many of whom walked fifteen or twenty
miles. Within forty miles of Montgomery
there are seven hundred families entirely
destitute.
TIE Crawford County National Bank of
Mesdvilie, Pennsylvania, and the Yenango
National Bank of Pennsylvania are the
only ones seriously effected by the failure
of Culver, Penn & Co, of New York. The
frst named bank hes no National notes in
The Controller of the Cur
rsncy has appointed receivers to take
charge of the banks referred to.
I IlTHAIRwELL. the murderer of Hoasman, at
Bellevernon, Pa, of which affair mention
was made yesterday morning, while on his
way to prison confessed his guilt. On the
night of the murder he took Housman's
gun, placed the muzzle of it to his head, land
shot him when asleep, his wife standing by
with tub to catch his blood. She put the
rope around his neck herself, attached an
anchor to it, and assisted to drag the body
to the river. He says he tried to get of
from doing the deed, but she persuaded him
until he consented, and that now he ex.
poets to hang for it.
A WOMAN, apparently about thirty years
of age, from Milwaukee, Thursday, stopped
ct the Matteson House in Chicago. Yester.
day morning she went to an undertake.
and purchased a small coffin, which sht
carried to the hotel. She then placed al
infant child in the coffin and put on the
lid. Attracted by her movements, tn,
people of the hotel sent intelligence to al
officer to investigate the matter. Upor
opening the coffin the child was found to bt
slive- At first the woman said she wa
msrried, but subsequently, acknowledge
she was not. The child was tax en- care o
BY the wife of the proprietor of the hotel
The woman was no; arrested.