Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-02
HE NE w S


THE NE VS..
GOLD closed last night ct l26i@I27.
TIE dismantling of all the forts arou
Washington was completed yesterday.
A FIRE in Lansingburg, N. Y, Mond
evening, destroyed sI2, 200 worth of pro
erty.
TIE receipts from internal revenue sin
. July last are s26s, $3.50, ,3Os; for the month
April sI9, 5s5I or s647, ,528 81 per day.
A CALL has been issued for a national col
vention of railroad officers to be held
, Philadelphia next 18th of July. ---
VIZ. A. CLAPP, formerly prominent ed
tor and printer in Boston, died in that cit
yesterday at the advanced age of SO year
TIE Senate of the Tennessee Legislatur
yesterday defeated the franchise bill, by
vote of I6 againstj.
A FIRE at Grand Rapids, Mich, yesterda
morning, destroyed the Union Hotel an
four stores, with contents. Total loss, $780,
600.
ANOSs the latest novelties in the whit
goods line, for use as well as ornament, ar
paper shirts They are to be sold for TWEEN
ty-fve cents each.
APART of the proceedings of the next eel.
ebration Of the Fourth of July in Philadel.
phia will be the reception of the flags of the
Pennsylvania volunteers.
JEFF. DAVIS is anxious to have his trial
come of. 1t is again asserted that his health
is precariOus, and that probably be may not
live through the summer in prison. --
A RIOT occurred in Memphis yesterday
morning between policemen and negro sol.
diers resulting in the killing and woundfng
of fourteen or fifteen on both sides.
THE Kentucky Democratic State eonven-
tiOn assembled in Louisville yesterday and
passed series of resolutions characteristic
of such modern Democratic bodies
THREE hundred German emigrants, hired
by the Georgia Emigrant Company, have
arrived in that State. They are to be paid,
the men $500 and the women SlOO per year,
board and lodging included,
ANTOINE PRoBsT, the murderer Of the
Deering family, was yesterday sentenced to
be hung. The day of his execution, in ac-
cordance with the Pennsylvania laws, will
be named by the Governor of the State.
Tue spaniards have bombarded and de-
strsyed Valparaiso. The loss of property is
at from fifteen to twenty millions.
Particulars are furnished by the dispatches
this morning.
aa.s- nf sha Fnn;.-, G--a--.l -.-,-- % llo5 ~,
o'AIahoney yesterday, at Union Square, \.
Y, and demanded pay for their services and
time lost in the Eastport expedition. After
a little spsrring, John came down to the
tune of thirty dollars apiece.
A FIRE in New Haven, Conn, Monday
morning, destroyed seven buildings of the
New Haven Clock Company, and eleven
dwelling houses in the vicinity. Twenty
families are rendered homeless, and two
hundred workmen thrown out of employ
ment The Cempany's loss is estimated at
$500, 900.
A RESOLUTION was offered in the House Of
Representatives, yesterday, requesting the
President to instruct officers of the Freed
mems Bureau to examine into the distress of
the people of the mountain districts of Ala
bama, and other parts of the South, and If
relieve their wants and supply
thsm with corn and seed for planting.
THE Cadiz bank robbers, after leaving
their hand car Sunday morning took to
the woods where several of them were
arrested Monday evening, which proves
that they were afraid to come out of the
timber, notwithstanding they had cut the
telegraph wires. The balance of the party,
it is expected, will be found before many
days have passed.
We learn that an accident occurred Sat-
urday on the Toledo, Wabosh 4 Western
Railway, two miles west of Danville staten,
BY which three passenger coaches and the
sleeping car were thrown off the track and
down an embankment Luckily no injury
was done to any of the passengers. The
accident was caused by the breaking of
switch rod.
IT is asserted that during a recent storm
in Wisconsin the lightning was seen to strike
into the lake in the vicinity of Madison, and
masses Of ice, two feet in thickness, were
hurled hundreds of feet in the air, and the
latent heat, set free by the change OF vspOr
to liquid, was so great as to change the tenn
perature from below the freezing point to
that in summer (ssventy-t~o degress), and
preserved it there for nearly tweuty-four
hours.
HENRY C. WHEELKE, President Of the
Brunswick and Florida Railroad Company
and also connected with the Atchison and
Pixies Peak Railroad, was arrested yester-
day on board vessel about ready to sail
for Europe from New York, on charge
of withholding or secreting bonds of
the latter road to the amount of $500, 900.
In default Of bail he was put in jail.
TzE Richmond Times demands that the
same honors be paid to the rebel dead as
sre conferred upon the Union soldiers;
meaning, evidently, that the Government
shOuld bear the expense. While the build
ing Of monuments By the Southern people
to commemorate tie heroism Of men who
attempted to destroy the Government would
be matter of great improperly, the die
tstes Of humanity and the voice of charity
would alike approve their action in collect
ing the remains of the fallen rebels from
scattered battle-felds, where they were but
scantily inferred, and giving them Christian
burial in graveyards near their former
homes. .-7 -1 &
Ne have heard Of "bull in china shop, I"
but never till now of burglariously in
clined COW. The Pittsburgh Dispatch has
the following; IA very intelligent looking
COW, on Saturday afternoon, attracted no
doubt by the hoop skirts and straw bonnets
displayed in milliners window on St
Clair street, had the curiosity to enter the
store. Of course the appearance Of such 8
customer succeeded in creating g panic
smong the fair lady clerks and customers,
Who fed in dismay and left the milk pro-
dueer in charge of the store The poor
animaldid slight damage By tramping down
k,,-. .I;rAu ard honnet frarnas and thar