Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23
THE NEW S
N cIoaed last nirht al -.

TIE peach trees in East Tennessee ar
overburdened with fruit.
GEN. LOGAN, in card, declines being
candidate for Congress.
A FIRE occurred at Atlanta, Sunday morn
ing, destroying a coach factory, a store,
workshop and two residences. Loss $50,
600.
The Directors and officers of the Mer
chants National Bank at Washington ar,
to be arrested for fraud.
TIE johnson Convention called to NEE
at Indianapolis, May sc, has been postponed
until July 10.
TIE body of Preston King was buried las
week by the side of those of his father and
mcther, at ogdensburg, NY.
soEE additional particulars of the Callac
PERU fight are furnished in the dispatches
this morning.
ABOUT 1000 cords of Government wood
was burned at Alexandria, Va, night be-
fore last
The New York Academy of Music, de-
stroyed by FIRE night before last was valued
st $685., 900.
GEMS. Steadman and Fullerton have gone
to Florida to report on the Freedmen's Bu-
reau in that State.
The House of Representatives yesterday
passed the Bankrupt bill by 6s yeas to 5s
nays.
MR. sEwARD's speech-or part of it, be-
ing all that was telegraphed last night
will be found in our special dispatches.
MISS EHNA WEEER, for several years past
clerk in the Franklin, Pa Fostofice. has
become Deputy Posmsster at the Reno Post
Office.
Tax fourteenth annual session of the Ma
tioral Typographical Union will be held in
Chicago, commencing on the first Monday
Of next month.
THE railroad bridge over the Wisconsin
river, aI Kilbourn City, Wisconsin, the finest
in the State, was burned on Sunday. II
cost $25,oOO, and fifty or sixty days will be
required to replace it.
MAYOR PARK, of Memphis, sent a chal-
Ienge to one of the editors of the Argts.
The invitation to fight was declined, and
the Mayor publishes a card denouncing the
argus man as a coward.
A SLAUGHTER-HoUsE has been erected near
Chicago, to do the entire slaughteriug of
that city. 1t is 27O feet long by us wide.
and is three stories high, and can work off
daily $4,000 head of cattle, hogs and sheer.
Tar Maine Legislature has passed law
allowing any person who shall place q
trough by the roadside, into which a stream
of water shall be kept constantly running,
a deduction from his taxes.
The loss by the New York fire was greatly
exaggerated in the first reports. Last
nights dispatches state that the total loss
will not exceed, if il reaches, q million.
4 coRoNER's jury, in New York, yesterday
rendered verdict on the death of Preston
King, viz; that he came to his death by
jumping from ferry boat in ft of insan-
ity.
THE Massachusetts Senate has elected
Gen. B. F. Butler Major General of the State
militia, and Superintendent of the organi-
cation Of the new State militia.
The President has nominated John Lo-
gan, father of Cen John A. Logan, U. S.
Marshal for the Southern District of Hi
nois.
THREE hundred thousand dollars of frac-
tional currency will be issued this week, to
take the place of cancelled mutilated cur
rency.
Iris reported that the Chicago Republican,
one of the strongest opponents of the Pres
ident's policy in the West will change
front. It's business manager, and Chas. A.
Dana, its editorial conductor, will retire.
A BOLD robbery was committed Saturday
night by disguised ruffians, in the house of
John Hourhan, at Six-mile House, near
Chicago. The villains forcibly entered the
house at night, dragged Hourhan and wife
out of bed, beat the former most terribly,
and then decamped with $500 stolen money.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for a
grand celebration in Detroit tho coming
Fourth of July. All the colors of the Mich
igan regiments are 10 be received by the
State, and the officers and soldiers of these
regiments arc to have grand parade.
The new five cent piece soon to be issued
is to be one of the means of conveying to
the country some practical ideas of the new
metrical system of weights and measures.
Its weight is to be FIVE grammes, and its dia-
meter sne-fortieth of meter, or a trihe less
than one inch.