Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-09
NEws ITEMS.

10 Sult the new magazine, "l0Wn Qnd
Country" to be started in New York IN
the spring.
The young lady students of the Seneca
Falls Academy have organised a literary
society, which meets onee a week, and
call themselves "the Go-Home-Alones.n
The Harvard University crew, who
have been badly beaten for two years past
at the university regatta at Worcester,
have issued an appeal TO graduates and
friends of Harvard College for $4,000 to
procure a suitable boat for racing and to
build a boat house. They attribute their
defeat by the Yale erew71ast summer to
the inferiority of their boat.
There is one instance of a person hold
ing a college presidency wen longer thar
the late DR.. Mott, of Union College. The
Rev. Martin Joseph Routh, D. D., was
elected President Of Magdalen College,
Oxford, in 1871, and SO continued until
his death in 1884, aged 90. The senior
college president in this country now is
the Rev. Mark Hopkins, D. D., L. L. D.,
President of Williams College, who was
elected In 1885.
An interesting case has come UP in Lex
ington. Judge Goodloe fined a negro,
under the State law, for having a pistol in
his possession. The agent Of the Freed
mans bureau, held that the law was no
longer binding, and asked that the sem
tence be RENTED. This the Judge de-
olined to do. Gov. Bramlette has sus-
tanned his course, saying that it was the
Judges province to execute the laws-
not TO pronounce on their validity.
The paper mill owned by Q. NJ. Butler,
Of the Arm Of Latin Butler, of Chicago,
located at St. Charles, Kane county, about
four miles west of that city, was destroyed
by fire Sunday night. The loss Is about
SlIO, 900, with only $4,000 insurance. By
this casualty a large number of workmen
are thrown out of employment. The mill
had been engaged for some years past in
making print paper almost exclusively for
the Chicago Tri6una.
N. Etienne D., living on the Boulevard
du Temple, Paris, has Just lost his life by
an extraordinary accident. He was sit
ting alone in his Office at night, when he
suddenly heard a noise over his head, like
a clash Of arms, and looking up saw that
a large trophy Of arms, consisting Of a
Turkish sabre, a Malay dagger, a toma-
hawk, and other weapons, had become
disengaged from the wall, and were fall
ling. The next moment he received a
wound on the forehead from the descend
ing mass, and his face was Immediately
deluged with blood. One Of the arms had
divided the temporal artery, and he died
shortly after.
General Cas-, who Is at home In Detroit,
ia said to be seriously i'll, and failing fast.
The Chicago Journal says that among
those for whom prayers were asked in the
daily prayer meetings was, " For young
man in Boston, so far from God Rather
rough on Boston.
Navigation ON the Penobscot at Ban
gor, Ne, is greatly impeded by q bar OF
sawdust from the mills, and also by a
large and dangerous rock. The citizens
propose to ask Congress for an apprOpria-
ton of S25, 600 to clear out the channel.
Late Vice President Hamlin, now Col
lector of the port of Boston, lately receiv-
ed 81, 800 as his share of a forfeiture in Il
smuggling case. A well-known firm was
detected in smuggling ottar of roses to
the value of 800, 600, and was Aned $4,000.
The quiet inhabitants of Norwalk, Con-
neeticut had a declined sensation in their
village on Monday. Sunday night the
body-snatchers attempted to "resurreet"
the body of a young lady who had been
buried that afternoon, and succeeded be-
yond their expectations. She had been
buried while in a cataleptic fit, and upon
being exposed to the night air animation
was restored. The resurreetionists fed
and she walked home. Her parents re-
fused to admit her, believing her to be a
ghost. She then went to the house of a
young man to whom she was engaged,
He took her in, and ON Monday morning
they were married.
A writer in the Cincinnati Gazette
makes the following remarks, the facts OF
which will be conceded by every observ-
ing man: we want a National Bureau
Of Statistics, which, under q man Of sense,
would have saved the Government in the
last war an hundred millions; but it is
almost dangerous to ask for one or make
one, when we reflect how very seldom it is
that any Office is filed by aman appointed
on the ground Of qualifications"
Miss Lacoste, ayoung lady of most pre-
possessing appearance and decided talent,
will, it is rumored, shortly favor blaze
playgoers of this country with the genu-
inc sensation Of a debut. Miss Lacoste,
who has been studying anumber of high
tragedy characters for some time past, will
prove, it is predicted, a valuable addition
to the number of prominent American
whose histrionic abilities have as
tonished the critics Of the Old as well as
the New World.
The crazy rate at which rents are adj
vaneed in New York is exhibited in the
following incident, related by the Journal
Of Co0smsrSs:
"a dry goods firm have rented a store
for the current year at $4,000. The
owner called on them a few weeks since
to ask their intentions for another year.
They expressed a wish to remain if the
terms were made agreeable. He offered
to treat them fairly, and suggested that
per annum, for a three years
lease, would be a reasonable advance.
They Indignantly refused to treat, and he
left. After a few hours search for ano-
place, they concluded to pocket their
and accede to the terms. Gall,
ing on the owner for this purpose, they
that they were too late, the prem
ises having been leased for three years at
300, 600 per annum A further search left
hem hopeless Of securing any thing more
and they have purchased the lease
the new parties for a bonus of $40, 900"