Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-28
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1866.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1866.
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| GOLD closed Saturday night at 1866.
KAvAxAUsH and Roberts played mattel
game of billiards in Nashville last night
EDwARD 8. ERvTsG, cashier in the Boston
postOfice for nearly thirty-six years, died
yesterday, aged seventy-one.
ALBERT L. srARKwEArHER, the Manches.
ter, Conn, murderer, was yesterday SEN
fenced to be hung on Friday. August 1fth
ANY. dispatch says the Western Union
aud the o. s. Telegraph Companies have
been consolidated.
TAG loss of steamboat property by the fire
at st. Louis, night before last, is said TO
amount to $3.50, 200.
1t is reported that small band of Fe-
mans made an attempt recently, to rob a
bank at stanbridge, Canada East.
AN explosion of furnace occurred yes
terday in foundry ia Harrisburg, Pa, by
which FIVE men were killed and ssix
wounded.
ADvIcEs from Montana report depreda-
tions by the Indians. Gov. Meagher has
called for 500 mounted volunteers to march
against them.
The office of Provost Marshal of Nashville,
which has been in existence since the COM
mencement of the war, was yesterday
abolished.
The Virginia house Ofdelegates yesterday
reconsidered the vote passing the Senate
bill amending the usury law, and rejected
it, so that the legal rate of interest in Vir-
ginia will remain at per cent.
An old lady residing in Rochester, was
burned to death on the 2Sd instant. She
laid down on lounge to sleep with
matches in her pocket, and in moving
about they ignited.
A DISPATCH from Toronto processes to give
information that the Fenians will make
feint On Canada with a small force, about
the middle of March, and strike New
Brunswick with their "main columns"
The Senate Military Committee propose
to report bill, soon, to establish uniform
militia system throughoutthe United States |
The substance of the proposed bill is given |
in the dispatches on our third page.
GEN. GRANTS recent visit to New York |
was unusually eventful. He was made a
present of $1OO, 900 by the nsbobs of the city, |
and received a severe wound in the hand
from the accidental discharge of a newly
invented rife he was examining.
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CONGRESSIONAL: In the Senate yesterday,
Mr.. Wilson reported from the Committee on
Military Affairs the militia bill with i'm
oortant amendments; Mr.. Sumner offered
a resolution, which was adopted, calling
upon the President for information relative
10 the salaries and official correspondence
If Provisional Governors; a letter was read
charging department commanders in the
south with completely in cotton frauds.
The concurrent resolution on Southern rep
was taken up and debated by
Senators Dixon, Fessenden; Trumbull,
and others. The proceedings in
he House were unimportsnt.
WK made mention yesterday of an ARRAY
It Deertield, Warren County, in which
nan named William Lee had been stabbed
" one DR.. Littleton, 60 severely that it was
cared he could not live. We learn that
Lee died on Friday night. The circum-
tanses attending the affair are, that Lee,
he had discovered an improper
existing between the Doctor and
lis wife, met the former soon after, and
made demonstration upon him, which re-
utted fatally as we have announced. The
wife of Littleten, committed suicide some
months since, on account of family Difficult
les. Littleton was held over to answer for
murder in the second degree.