Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-05
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


A Wisconsin dressmaker has fallel
heir to 81, 500, OOo.
1t is estimated that there are upward
1000 drinking saloons in Philadelphia.
A Buffalo paper says a dog fight is t
come off in that city in a few days be
tween a Detroit dog and n Of Buffal,
for $500 a side.
The citizens of Chattanooga, Tennes
see, have voted two hundred Thousand
dollars for a direct line of railroad Il
Cincinnati.
The Siamese Twins, residing in Nortl
Carolina, now sign their names SChanl
and Eng Bunker" adopting the surname
of their family the family name of tht
sisters they married.
Mr.. G. W. Spurrier, of Shelby county
Ind, owns an OK which is six years ole
and weighs 1000 pounds. Sl,l5O wa
paid for him. Heis the largest OK known
to exist.
The railroad bridge across the Cumber
land River at GAINESVILLE has been com.
pleted, and trains will Immediately run
through to the Tennessee River. There
isnow but one gap between Louisville and
Memphis, which will be filled in a short
time.
Southerners are buying nice residence:
in fashionable parts of Boston. Over
twenty irst-class houses there have lately
been purchased by Southerners, who say
they made fortunes during the war, and
have com North to invest it.
Nj. N. D. Conway writes from England
to 8 Boston paper that the fellows and I'M
der-graduates of Cambridge feel very sore
about the rejection by the University
Senate of Mr.. Johnson's generous offer to
endow an American lectureship here.
They have had for two weeks a warm de-
bate in the Cambridge Union on a motion
that should have been accepted. Lord
Fitzmaurice opened the adjournnd debate,
in favor Of the motion, on Wednesday
evening. After a warm discussion, a
division showed one hundred in favor of
the lectureship to sixty against it.
Milledgeville papers say that more than
a thousand negro men have, within two
weeks, passed over Putnam and the ad-
jacent country for the west. They have
been induced to leave their employers on
the promise of higher wages, althoughcon-
tracts had been ratified by the Freedmen's
Bureau. The most able-bodied and likely
fellows are thus taken with only a change
of clothing. Their particular destination
is unknown. This complaint comes up
from many counties. Several parties have
been arrested who are thus tampering with
employees.
Montreal, in a business point of view,
is doing well by the Fenian excitement.
There is an unusual activity created by
the presence of a large garrison, and the
stores and hotels are transacting q lively
business. The soldiers meet you at every
step-on the street, where they jostle you
on the circumscribed sidewalks, in the bar
rooms, in the billiard-roems-everywhe
in fact, about the city. The cavalry are
.eternally dashing about the streets, bark
ing their shins against the flying cutters;
for the cavalry does not as yet embrace
the most skillful horsemen. The officers
to the "dem foine" set. Dressed
in fur-edged overcoats, neatly round-toed
boots, brimless and peakless hairy caps,
they effect small canes and a deal of side
whiskers, and ogie the girls on the streets,
Or lounge most gracefully round the hotels |
and public rooms. "The front is an ex-
preston in use with as much frequency as
that locality, so suggestive of the
Of the enemy, really existed.