Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-12
THE N EW S
ID closed last night at 1924.


A LITTLE girl died very suddenly
Roundout, n. Y, few days ego, from she,
exhaustion, produced by jumping the rop
CAPT. THOMAS JexEs, the first male Dor
, in Louisville, KY, died in that city on Fr
. day, in Ais seventy eighth year.
A coLoRED man in Philadelphia devot,
: $1,000 to the circulation of Congressionl
Speeches IN favor of negro suffrage.
Mr.. KELroN, the gentleman who fell fror
third story window on Wednesday, i
Columbus, died Thursday midnight
TIE Office of Governor of California isn't,
bad thing to take That official receives
salary of $4,000 year, in gold.
Az oil refner, some canal boats and othe
property in South Brooklyn, y. Y, were de
strOyed BY Ere Thursday morning, and til,
proprietor of the refinery was badly burned
A NEAR relative of Senator Gragin of n. H.
who is a clerk in one of the Departments al
Washington, was solaier in the rebe
army.
Mrs.. MARIA 6ToEFFKE and little dsugh-
ter were run over and killed by a train O.
cars on the sth inst, at Glendell Station, Oh
the Cleveland and Pittsburgh railroad.
] THE levee above Now Orleans was break
ing last night and the whole volume Of the
Mississippi was pouring through it. The
city will likely be submerged.
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A PROSTITUTE, named Anna Hedges. shot
and killed her paramour, named Krick, a
gambler, in St. Louis, Thursday morning.
The two were alone, and Krick, when dy-
ing, declared the shooting to be accidental.
A SPECIAL from Washington says the
House will probably not meet again until
the mtddle Of next week, and that It is ex-
pected the Senate will strike ost tie third
section from the constitutional amendment.
TIE Grand JarY Of the U. S. Court In ses-
sion il Norfolk, Va, Tuesday afternoon
found true bill against JefT. Davis for
treason, and then adjourned until the first
Tuesday in June, to meet in Richmond.
2he Detroit TTi6stas, after thorough in
Testgaticn Of the condition of wheat in that
State, is compelled 10 conclude that The ag-
gregste crop for 1866 will fall below the
average yield of past seasons.
TEE milkmen of Rochester, n. Y, have
reduced the price of milk, within the last
few days, from eight to ten cents per quart.
We have not heard Of the n,iieTnen Of this
city adopting similar course
A DEsPERADo named Charles Quinn muir
Sered policeman in Leaver worth, Kansas,
on ho lst inst. He was finally secured and
confined in the jail, whence he was taken
by an excited mob of the pOpulace and hung
to tree in the jail-yard.
VERY little stir seems to be made over
Head Center Stephens arrival in New York.
He assures all who call on him that his sole
object in coming over here is to effect a re-
consultation between the two wigs of the
brotherhood.
GovEEEoE Cox has committed the sentence
Of Thomas Minms to imprisonment for life.
Mimms is now, aud has been for year, an
inmate of the Jail in Cincinnati, under SEN
tence Of death, and was 70 have been hung
on the 25th inst.
Ex-PREs1DESr Buchanan conAxibuted 5000
TO the Southern Relief Fair st baltimore.
Did any one ever hear of Mr.. Buchanan
contributing anything to the various fairs
held in the North IN aid of the Union sol
diersl
ORDERS have been received at the Brook
lyn Navy Yard to have the U. S. steamers
Huron, Narrsgansett, Oneida, Unadello,
IrOquois and Pequot in such a state of readi.
ness that they can put 10 sea on ten days
notice.
TIE failure of Messrs. Bayne, the Balti
more brokers, besides causing the suspen-
sion of the Merchants National Bank al
Washington, has seriously affected several
of the Baltimore Banks, neof which is said
to have lost over 100000.
MEETING of railroad officers was held in
Indianapolis, Thursday, and new schedule
of freights. making advance in prices, was
adopted. Nineteen railroads were repre-
sented. The new rates make the following
charges For -four, from Cincinnati and
Chicago to New York, all rail, 81, 10; from
Louisville, $3.50; from St. Louis and Quincy,
S1,4O; from Columbus, Sl,OO.
A coLoRED man named Hardee, formerly
a slave of ex Gen. Hardee,of the rebel army
has large grocery store, three large ware
houses, and two wharves, at Saven.
= Il kka r.
company Of eolored men who have pur-
chased and will run a steamboat from
Charleston 70 Florida, touching at different
points along the coast.
TEE Internal Revenue Bureau has decided
that the people of the South are required L
. pay tax on incomes for 1854 as well as fo
1855. Some rebel officers living in Alexan
dria have been surprised by calls from tn
Assessor. One of them, with grim appre
citation of the ridiculous, offered to pay il
, Confederate money, but the tax eollectC
, couldn't see it.
Exc1rISe Fenian news comes to us from
> Chicago. A small party of the Finnegans
on Thursday, broke open q car in the Mich
igan Southern freight depot in that city an,
; bore off triumphanny two kegs of powder
but the police the next morning srreste,
them, and they were committed for trial
In connection with this important move
ment there is also a rumor (which a ma
licious eorresPondentsays was started byth
Fenisns themselvesl to the effect that tn
brotherhood are fitting out and srming sew
Il ersl vessels at that point for raid upon tn
Canadian lake towns.
We make up summary ofSouthern new
from special dispatches to the Cincinnati
c,mmereial of yesterday: The wet seaso
/, has set in throughout Northern Alabamr
Work on the plantations is certainly stoPpeC
and the cotton crop not yet all planted.
General Candy has ordcredah civilians hel
: for trial under his orders by military court
I To be turned over to the United States eourt
for the eastern district of Louisisns, if Ii
z crime was committed within The jurisdictiO
Of said court.....A girl fourteen years oil
from Buena Vista, Ohio, named Luerit
Coun, has been arrested at Huntsville
male attire, and lodged in Jail. She was 4