Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30


!; special order for To-day in the House q
! Columbus.
A MURDERER, under sentence of death
e was found dead in his cell in the Philadel.
phia Jail yesterday. Appoplexy.
The negroes of Richmond, Va, intend
celebrating the Sd of April, the anniversary
of their freedom.
E1HoN. DoNN PIArT, the Representative from
Logan has been very sick in Columbus since
Monday. -.--s5
THE Mayor chief of police and captain o
the night watch, of Mobile, are all dowr
with the smallpox.
EDWIN FORREST will sail for California on
the 10th of April. He has had splendid
offers made him by theatrical managers
there.
LEBANON, Indiana, was visited night be-
fore last by fire which destroyed six of the
principal business houses of the town. The
loss is estimated at S50,00O. s75Ie 3als
TIE Legislature of Wisconsin yesterday
repealed the law requiring foreign insur-
ance companies to take certain amount OF
bonds of that State 50
DURING the first week of the present
month over 1000 emigrants left ireland for
the United States. Heavy emigration is
also noted from Germany. asssa
OFFICERS of the sub Treasury Depart
ment, New York, say they have no instruc-
| t;ops 70 Y,a y fba Mav iptoroot - & % ~, da
before it is due, as reported by Washing
ton telegram day or two since.
TIE question of the successorship of Sem
ator Stockton is exciting much interest
The lower House of the New Jersey Legis-
lature yesterday passed joint resolution to
elect Senator next Wednesday, but the
Senate refused to concur. ..-.---..--
LAFAYETTE College, at Easton, Pa. was re-
organized yesterday by the appointment of
new professors. Among the contributions
received was SlOO, 900 from Mr.. Pardee, of
Hazleton, Pa. 80 -. n.
TIE 0lean House, in 0lean, N. Y, and an
oil refinery in Newark, n. j., were destroy
ed by fire yesterday morning. At the lat
ter place a man was burned to death and
young woman very badly injured.
The New York police think they have
captured the principal in the recent i'm
mense robbery of Sl,5OO,OOO in bonds at
Rufus Lords banking house in that city.
The suspected individual was arrested at
Newburyport, Massachusetts,.
THE United States, Treasurer the other
day received letter post marked Monroe
vile, Ohio inclosing $50, which the writer
says "he accepted in good faith, but has
concluded that it belongs to the government.
1t was paid him through misunderstand-
ing of the regulations" g
TIE author of the overland stage massa-
ere at Alkali Station, proves to have been a
shoemaker named ober. He had recently
established a rancho some fourteen miles
east of Denver, stolen some cattle, and fear
ing that the Vigilance COMMITTEES of Den
yer were after him, slipped off in the coach.
OK the 26th inst, the vicinity of Sullivan,
Moultrie county, Ills, was visited by ter
rife tornado. Its width was more than 800
yards, and it uprooted trees, leveled houses
TO the ground, and killed cattle, sheep and
hogs. One person was killed and several
others severely injured During the pro-
gress Of the-storm and some time sitter, hail
stones fell as large as walnuts, and the
houseless people suffered terribly. The loss
of property can,searcely faIl below twenty
five thousand dollars
FUNERAL obsequies over the late Senator
Foot were performed with great solemnity in
the United States Senate, yesterday, in pres
enee of the members of both Houses of Con-
gress, the Executive and Judicial officers of
the Government, Foreign Ministers, rela-
tives of the deceased, and many citizens
eminent in civil and military life. A brief
sermon was delivered by former chaplain
of the Senate, Rev. Byron Sunderland, after
which the body was sent to Vermont for
burial.
A BIsr1roH to the Pittsburgh Commercial
from Chicago, 2Sth inst, says: The pros
poets of the wheat crop are not very bright.
The spring wheat is nearly all in the ground
in Northern Illinois and Southern Michi-
gan before April lst The season is ex-
tremely unfavorable, cold, wet and back
ward, with little signs of improvement, and
letters received from the country say that
hut little has been planted as yet, and farm
ers are getting discouraged"
THE Managing Director ofthe Ottawa and
Prescott Railway has granted permission
to the volunteers to travel between Toronto
and Prescott at half fares, considering that
this privilege is justly due to the brave vol
unteers fer the heavy sacrifices of home
comforts which have, no doubt, been made
by them, in so nobly responding to their
country's call for men to defend her against
the threatened assault of Fenian hordesl"
"A VARIETY of interesting news will be
found in yesterday afternoons dispatches
on the third page.