Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-26
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| IT Is reported tnet the MISSION 70 ltalI
has been rendered to Governor Curtin, Of
Pennsylvania
ApsEAr portion Of the business part of the
town of Pawpaw, Mich, wss burned yes
kterday afternoon.
THE citizens of Detroit intend giving
General Sherman grand military and
civil reception next month.
sEsOR ROMERO last evening gave a, dinner
party TO Mr.. Campbell, the recently-ap-
pointed Minister to Mexico.
A POWERFUL Pennsylvania lobby delega-
ton is in Washington to influence legisla-
fion in favor Of Protection.
THE planning mill of Cromwall 4 Coon, in
Brownsville, near Pittsburgh, was destroyed
by fire yesterday. Less $25,O0e.
TEE Masonic fraternity of St. Louis in
tend to erect in that city magnificent
temple, the cost of which will be about
slo0,GOO.
SOMEBODY says Il is remarkable and
suggestive fact that the Saviour Of the
world has titles in the Bible answering to
every letter in the alphabet.
THE railroad bridge across the James
river at Richmond, erected in place of the
one destroyed by fire in April of last year,
was completed yesterday.
TIE President has pardoned three of the
Alexandra rioters who kept last Christmas
by killing negroes, and who but recently
were sent to Albany penitentiary.
The House yesterday passed schenck's
substitute for the Bounty bill, by vote of
yeas I39, nays .. The provisions of the
bill are given in the Congressional report.
A rIRE at the Hudson River Railroad
freight depot in New York, destroyed one
large building, several sheds, twenty freight
cars loaded, 1000 bales of hay and two
horses.
DR. SOLOMON ANDREWS, with three others,
yesterday made an ascent in New York in
a flying ship of his invention. After re-
manning an hour in the air, they landed
five miles distant.
GENERAL ]. B. HooD is at the head of
stock company, which is forming in New
Orleans, with a capital of $25O,oOo, for
draining and sweeping the streets OF the
city by machinery.
Az election was held in West Virginia
yesterday for the ratification or rejection of
an amendment to the State Constitution
disfranchising rebels. The returns indicate
large majority for ratification.
In the interior of Georgia the late heavy
rains have ruined the crops. In Tennessee
the crops are backward, and wheat will be
about half an average yield. Corn and
cotton, however, look promising.
FRoM January to the time of the Eastport
.tiasco, $4,000 were received by 0'Mahony,
of which $4,000 were sent to Ireland, and
the remaining Sl3O,OOO were spent by the
gentlemen of Union Square headquarters.
ANDREW JOHNSON, JR, nephew of the
President, has been removed from the
Office of agent of the Tennessee peniten-
tiary by the commissioners of that institu-
ton. His uncle will probably provide for
him.
A FIRE broke out, Thursday afternoon, in |
the Baldwin House, in the village of Ball |
town, about half mile east Of Pithole City. |
The flames spread with wonderful rapidity |
and destroyed in their course twenty eight |
buildings.
IT is said Jen. Davis will soon be re-
moved to some prison or point further |
North, where there Is less danger from dis
ease than at Fortress Monroe; also that his
trial will probably be postponed until
August or September.
The Second Auditor Of the Treasury has
decided that no bounty or arrearages of pay
shall be paid to the widow or heirs Of any |
soldier who at any time deserted, no matter |
for how short period, and Notwithstanding |
he may have subsequently served out the |
term of his re-enlistment.
A BLOODY riot between the whites and |
blacks occurred in Quincy, Florida, on
Saturday of last week. A negro WAS ar
rested for some oFense and committed to |
jail, and large number of blacks assem-
bled and attempted to rescue him, where
npon fight ensued between the party and |
the town officers, in which the marshal was |
killed and several citizens wounded.
JONATHAN BURR, residing in Chicago,
made the discovery the other day that he
had been robbed of United States and Cook
county bonds to the value Of $751; 900. The
bonds were kept in small cash box, within
travelling trunk, which had not been
opened for several weeks, SO that the time
Of the robbery is not positively known. A
gardener, recently in Mr.. Burr's employ, is
suspected of having committed the rob-
berry.
A SINGULAR accident occurred on the
Hudson River Railroad Tuesday morning.
Tho engine of the morning express down,
when just below Poughkeepsie, struck a
man, who was probably walking on the
track, and threw him upon the cow
catcher, in which position he was carried
ten miles before the engineer discovered
what had happened. Though badly in
iured, the man was alive and conscious at
last accounts.
A ToRoSro, Canada, correspondent, writ
ing on tho 2lst of May, states that the
eveutful moment Of the legislative struggle
for and against confederation was rapidly
approaching; yet still the Canadians, as q
people, did not eTinee much interest in the
result, exhibiting nothing like the amount
of feeling which has been displayed by the
inhabitants of Eova Scotia and New
Brunswick. II was thought the Fenian
prisoners al Cornwall would be brought up,
under habsas corpus, into court at Toronto.
WEDNESDAY last, near Resaca, Georgis, a
Union man named Wills was murdered
while on his way home from church with
his wife Six men, armed with guns, sud-
denly appeared on the roadside and ordered
him to halt. One Of the Williams leveled
his gun, when the wife caught the sssassin's
hand and the ball passed over Wills head.
The rest of the scoundrels Immediately
fred, all their shots taking effect, killing
him at once. After cheering and abusing
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