Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-24
THE N E w S
cold cIoaed last nieht At 16o3k

/ THE NE w S.
Geld closed last night at 1907
Speaker Uolfax thinks Congress will adiour
Saturday.
4 General Sherman met with cordial reception
Montreal last Saturday.
There Rere ten more deaths from cholera anon
the troops at Savannah yesterday.
It is given out that the President will veto th
jOint resolution admitting Tennessee.
Accounts frcm all parts of South Carolina repre-
sent the prospect for crops as rather gloomy.
Seventeen thousand Eve hundred emigrapis ar
rived in New York since the nrst Of the month.
Hon. Z. B. waslburne is still quite ill at ih'
house Of Gtneral Grant in Washington, although
-evnvaIssoeRt.
The steamship Scotia arrived yesterday will
dates to the 18th. Her news will bs found in tn
telegr aphie columns.
The military districts of Illinois and Wisconsin,
in the Department of she Ohio, are to be discon
tinued after the 3lst Of July. f
Twelve new cases of cholera and four deaths il
New FORK and two new cases and four deaths in
Brooklyn up to noon yesterday.
The Senate Postal Committee have agreed to
report favorably on the nomination of Gcvernor
Randall as Postmaster General.
At boiler explosion in New York yesteriay
twelve persons were more or less injured, maa
and woman being fatally scslded.
One of the performing elephants attached to
Baily Co.'S menagerie, died at Belfast, Maine,
last Thursday. Hisvsluo was SIS, 90.
Tho Senate yesterday confirmed, among other
nominations Of deputy postmasters, that of Frank
Harman, Of oberlin, and A. J. Beers, of Ashland,
Ohio.
General Howard met with accident in Wash
ington Saturday by being thrown from runaway
carriage, but fortunately sustained no serious
injuries.
The State Department 1t has Dispatches from
Europe which do not confirm hopes of peace. 1t
is expected France will assume the character of a
belIgerent.
The House yesterday approved the Senate
amendments to the joint resolution admitting
Tennessee. The resolution is therefore ready to
go to the President. .-I.a.-
The mali bag frem New York due at Montreal
last Saturday was stolen. As it contained no
registered letters it is supposed there was no great
amount of money in it.
Forty-two Of the boardsrs at the Pyle House
Indianapolis were taken sick after supper on Sat
urday evening -suPp'fed to have been poisonsd,
but how has not been ascertained. 7
Three men arrived at Des Moines, Iowa, last
week, with herd Of six hundred cattle, which
they had driven from Texas The trip occupied
two months, and only thirty head were lost on the
way.
A part Of the editorial staff aud one of the
financial people of the Chicago Tribune, are re-
ported to have purchased the Republican news
paper of that place, and are to enter into the joys
Of possession on the first of september.r
A delegation of colored men waited 81 the Pr :.
sident Saturday to learn his views on the question
Of educating the negroes. BE expressed himself
favorable to their advancement, and repeated that
be was a true friend Of the black man.
Z party Of indignant wives attacked bagnio at
Sylvania, Ohio, last week, but were routed by the
tan gypsy woman who kept it, and who h ID armed
herself with well-poe. The husbands then came
to the rescue, and compelled the gypsy and her
to fee. f.ta-
Mr.. @. II Brand, Chicago saloon keeper, tired
Of life, ordered his bar keeper to draw him mug
Of beer, one day last week, which he took in one
hand and Colts revolver in the other, and, going
TO the rear OF his saloon, drank of the beer,
set down the mug, wipel his mouth,
aad then inserting the muzzIe Of pistol in his
mouth, frei it, blowing his brains all around the
shed. ...4 s- .--..
The Fourth was celebrated by Americans in the
City of Mexico. The United States Consul read
the Declaration of Independence, and speeches
were make by Ex-Governor Reynolds, of Missouri,
and General Magrudsr, of the x-rtleI army, the
latter responding to the toast of s.The Army and
Navy of the United states'', The sentiment in
honor of the memory Of President Lincoln was
received with marked respect by all parties.
On Tuesday of last week, in the town of Lewis
borough, Westchester county, New York, three
farmers, Merlin. Charles and Allen Mead, bro
theirs, were suhoCatei in well and died before
they were brought out. One of them went to get
water cut of a well which had not been US late
", and in doing SO let fall the pail. He descended
10 get it, when he was overcome by the foul air
and fell into the water. The others met their
death in the same manner in their efforts to rescue
him. They were all three old citizens, much
respected and wealthy.
There WAS terrible scene at the execution in
Va on the 18th of Isaac Chaney, the
negro convicted of killing Mrs. Gerard. At the
hour appointed for the execution the condemned
appeared the seaffold, the rope was placed
around his neck, and at the signal given this trap
was sprung, but the cord snapped as the weight of
the mans body ierked it taut, and he fell to the
ground with 'thud." The spectators rushed to
him, raised him up, and asked him If he was hurt,
when he answered No, not a bit, it only hurt
NY feet. You amt going to hang me again % A
second rope was obtained after delay of twenty
minutes, and the negro launched into eternity
Clancy was born in GAINESVILLE, Ohio, in 1884
served in the Federal army, first as servant to an
1ficer, and secondly IS a cayalryman.