Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-08
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Il hENl heuSOo "SAO NSSNASJ -
fire in Port Even, N. Y, yesterday.
Gov. suYrHE, of New Hampshire, was in
sugurated yesterday.
TIE prominent Fenians in st. Louis were
arrested yesterday
A NASHVILLE telegram says yesterday was
the hottest day of the season there.
A JOINT resolution yesterday passed the
House to adjourn Congress on the 2sth inst
TnF Grand Jury of Franklin county ad-
journed last Wednesday without. finding
bill of indictment against DR.. Dorsey.
GEN. Burnside has accepted the PreSi-
dency of the Rhode Island Locomotive
Works
PoPE PIus TIE NIsTH completed his55th
birthday on the 18th ult. He has been p
years Pope.
TEE Fenian army is said to be entrenched
at Pigeon Hill-near Hygate, which is near
st. Albans waiting for subsistence.
Is the House yesterday Afr. Garfield pre-
sented a petition of citizens of Thompson,
Geauga county, asking for increased protee-
ton of American wool
THE food in the Mississippi has subsided.
The people of the submerged districts are
suffering fearfully, Relief is sent to them
every day from New Orleans.
A COMPANY of one hundred colored men
in Philadelphia, who served during the late
war, yesterday offered their services to the
Fenians.
WM. H. HoYr, os Haverhill, Mass, in at
tempting to pull off his boots, few nights
since, broke his right leg just above the
knee.
TIE State Soldiers Association was in
session in Indianapolis yesterday, and de
cided upon Governor Morton as the orator
for the coming Fourth of July celebration.
TIE Indiana State Board of Education
have condemned Appleton's American
Encyclopedia, on account of its article upon
that State, contained in the last two vol
umes.
HTwo sharp young country boys recently
caught seven young foxes near Rockford,
Ill They took them to town, and made the
Supervisors believe they were wolves They
got $40 bounty for them.
JUsr as a negro was about ascending the
scafold to be hung, in Clayton, Ala, on the
18th ult commutation of sentence to ten
years Imprisonment was received from the
Governor. Rather a close thing.
Ara "large and enthusiastic" me3ting at
Cooper Institute las! night, the Fenians de
nounced President johnson and declared the
Irish population would not support him
hereafter.
By order of Gen. Meade, two car loads of
Fenians going to the "front" were yesterday
put off the cars at Watertown, n. Y, and
party were also put off at Antwerp. No
more will be allowed to go to the frontier.
THE great austrian army of the North,
destined, in case of war, to attack Prussia,
will comprise an effective force of $4,000
men and 500 guns, much larger army than
we mustered at any time during our great
war.
THR largest estate in Boston is that OF
Augustus Hemenway, valued at S2,lO6,OOO,
upon which tax was paid of S3s,Ol7. Mr..
Moses Williams pays the largest tax upon
real estate, valued at Sl,23l 500, tax $40, 500.
A FIRE in San Francisco, on the I'd, de-
stroyed twenty buildings, chiefly frame,
valued at $4,000. The same day mu-
tiny occurred on vessel about ready to
| sail for New York, in which the parties en-
gagged were badly cut and bruised. The
rust has appeared in the wheat in some por-
tions Of California.
PRoF. HAYES, of Massachusetts, has Wis
| tied the town Of Lyman, n. H, and has
| aualyzsd some of the gold quartz found
there. The rock yields from S3l9 to sS67
/ per ton. This is probably continuation of
the gold bearing range which crops out in
Western Massachusetts,.
Apv1cEs from Texas state that the Grand
Jury of Cameron county have indicted ex-
Major General Heron, of the United States
army, for kidnapping and delivering to
General Cortinas a suspected Imperialist,
who was subsequently shot by Cortinss' or
der.
Tar surrender of Lees army threw into
the hands of our government 80, 600 muskets
of British manufacture. These were sold to
a speculatOr, and from him purchased at
double their originnl cost by the Canadian
authorities.
A FIRE in Chicago yesterday considerably
damaged the Metropolitan block, Academy
of Science, and several other buildings. A
steam fire engine, while proceeding to the
fire. was run into BY a railroad locomotive
by which one fireman was killed and thre'
severely injured.
Gsy. swEESY was arrested BY the 0. S
authorities at St Albans, VT, night befor
last. Mr.. Roberts, President of the F. B.
| was arrested in New York yesterday. H
refused to give his parole or accept bsiLan'
was placed under guard.
THE Congressional Committee closed thei
investigation in Memphis yesterday an
started for the North. They examined II
witnesses, whose testimony occupies 200
| pages. Itis understood that the testimon
shows the riot to have been of greater pro
portions than the published accounts indi
cate.
THE Court of Common Pleas at Pittsburg
has awarded Martha ]. Kinds s2,25O dam
ages from the Pittsbu-g, Fort Wayne
Chicago Railroad Company. The circun
stances were somewhat singular. The lad
was passenger on the Newcastle accom-
modation train west, on the 5th day of o.
tober last, and was injured BY having hi
arm broken, near Beaver Station, Beav'
3 County, Pa, during fight which occurrt
among some Of the passengers in the car 81
was in.
CAPTAu MESrER, OF the famous MentG
Brass Band, died Wednesday evening at
home in Newport KY, from the effects of
4 pistol shot wound received in an encount
with a burglar the night previous. III
circumstances of the affair, briefly relate
are As follows: Wednesday night he and b