Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-12
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GOLD closed Saturday night at 1919.
. IT IS reported that a recent attempt ba
been made to assassinate Msximilian.
LUTHER HAvKxs, collector of the port o
Chicago, died in that city Saturday last.
: THK Legislature of New York Saturday
voted down resolution favsring the eigh
hour labor movement.
AN extensive boot and shoe factory, and
a wholesale grocery and provision store, il
Albany, were destroyed by fire Friday last
The city of st. Paul has refused to pay 9
claim of $4,000 for gas, and in consequence
ST. Paul is in darkness.
VERY neat cottage has been erected in
Red Bluff, California, as 6 home for the
widow and three children of John Brown.
GIN. GUSTAV has been before the Recon
struetioA Committee. His testimony was
not favorable to the loyalty of Texas.
MALLORY, ex-rebel Secretary of the Navy,
has been released from Fort Lafayette in
consequence of i'll health.
A BOARD, of which Gen. Hancock is Presi-
dent, for the examination of breech-lo loading
arms is in session at Washington.
The Z. S. Consul at Liverpool informs
the State Department that that the rinder-
pest is on the increase in England.
ASoTHER installment of testimony taken
before the Reconstruction Committee will
be published soon, among which is that of
Lee and other rebel generals.
The boiler of locomotive exploded at
Harlem bridge, Friday evening, instantly
killing fireman and severely WOunding
the engineer.
A Cattle dealer in New York has been
arrested for making fslse returns of his in
come. He gave his first return at 100000
whereas it should have been over $3O0, ,OOC.
SECRETARY SEWARD, it is said, has assured
abe English Minister that no violation of
the neutrality laws by the Fenians will be
permitted.
Urea, New York, has voted to take half
a million dollars worth of stock in the
Utica, Ckenango 4 Susquehanha Valley
Railroad.
CoyeREssIoN4I; Saturday the House was
devoted to speech making Tie feature of
the occasion. as the reader will observe,
was the speech of Thad. Stevens.
RoHERT DALE OWEN and, it is understood, ,
Ex-Governor Andrews, are employed by the
Mexican Republic to act as counsel in urg |
ing Congress to endorse the Mexican loan.
MAxnuLhN has given the New York and |
Vera Cruz Steamship Company $4,000 in
gold as subsidy for the encouragement of
the commerce of the empire.
THREE days old veal, to the number of
two or three hundred carcasses, were seized |
in the New York market last Saturday. |
The wretch who would offer such stuff for
sale ought to be sent to the penitentiary.
CANADIAN troops are marching, or holding
themselves in readiness TO march, to sever
al points on the frontier. Absurd rumors
prevail that sweeny has three invading
columns in motion
BY the latest foreign news it is intima-
ted that Russell will soon ask the Queen to
allow him to withdraw from the ministry. |
The London Times denounees the bad taste
displayed in BancrOft's Grafton.
ARCH Bishop spalding, of Baltimore, has
received authority from the Pope to con-
vene plenary council of ali the Bishops in
the United States. 1t is thought he will be
made Cardinal before long.
THE telegraph informs US that three
gentlemen" made raid on paymaster
and sub-editor in Norfolk, Va, Saturday,
and "hogged" him severely. Several va
liant friends of his fed on the approach of
the assailants.
The Richmond Republic says southerners
who ernigrate to Brazil from apprehension
of negro equality here, go to a country
where that equality already exists, and
where they may find black officials over
their heads.
SoNB thirty distillers have been seized in
New York for rendering false returns TO the
revenue officers. One of the inspectors, on
Saturday, while making an examination of
The premises of one of the distilleries, fell
into vat end was drowned. A distiller in
Brooklyn, Saturday, was killed by his fore
man.
ONE of the most extensive robberies on
record in this or any other country, was
in New York on Saturday.
Government bonds to the amount of a mil
lion and half of dollars were abstrseted
from the banking house of Rufus Lord, in
Exchange Place. The propertywas stolen
from safe in the daytime. A full des-
eription of the bonds is given in our dis
patches.
THE divorce case of Kasson VS.. Kssson, in
Warren County, Iowa, has been decided,
Mr.. Kasson, N. c., the defendant in the
case, appeared in open court and pleaded
guilty to the allegations of infdelity, where
upon a decree was entered in accordance
with the prayer of Mrs. Kasson's petition.
The details of the case have not been made
public, and perhaps never will be. Mrs.
Kasson is a daughter of Hon. Thomas D.
Elliot, Representative in Congress from the
First District in Massachusetts. Many
years since, Mr.. Kasson held the relation
of French teacher to Miss Elliott, in New
Bedford, and while doing so achieved the
more endearing one of husband, decidedly
against the wishes and consent of the
parents and friends in fact it was a runs-
way match. It is reported that Mr.. Kss-
son viii not return to Washington, but re-
sign his seat.
"MOst of the Young Men in my neigh
borhood are going to the Union Business Institute,
oberIin, Ohio, when they sttend Business Col
Iegs, - said friend Of ours. the other day.
Plastic Slate Roofing does not crack BY
frost. or run when exposed to the sun. See sd-