Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-27
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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The ice bridge over the Niagara river at
the foot of the American Falls still re-
mains intact, and is crossed daily by hun
dreds of people at the point known as
1.-THE Ferry" The ice in the river be-
tween the Falls and the Suspension Bridge
could be measured by the million cords,
and it is estimated that the river will not
be clear before the middle of May.
An academy in Clinton, New York,
worth about three thousand dollars, was
recently burnt to the ground; the editor
of the Courier, (the local sheet) who was
a witness to the confagration, tells us that
the "ire increased in vengeless fury, and
the forked flames leaped up the cupola,
and rolled over the richcornice and heavy
balustrades in livid streams of madness,
sending up great volumes of smoke and
lighting up the darkness and distant hills.
How grand the sight, and still how terri
bic, none will 0 forget who saw it.
Sadly We watched its burning timbers,
and saw its splendid halls and stairways
n sheets of fire, its vernadahs and tower
trembling and falling in ruins"
A hog epidemic prevails extensively in
the neighborhood OF Detroit, Michigan.
Mr.. Joseph Bridge, who resides on Beau
bin Farm, within the city limits, within
the past month, has lost over FORTY hogs,
mostly about ten months old, by an cpl
demie which Is still raging. The value of
his losses he estimates at $3.50. the
disease seems to be a sort of cholera, vom-
iting and purging being the principal
symptoms. 1t is also more fatal in cold
than warm weather. Sometimes the ami
NAL is taken off within tw~enty-four hours
after being attacked, while in other cases
they linger a week. Everything that
could be thought of has been tried, but no
remedy as yet has proved successful.
Basil Duke, John Morgan's second, is
commanding a Fenian regiment in New
York.
The new State capitol which it is pro-
posed to build at Albany, N. Y, will cost
Sc, 700, 900.
The Nashville Press and Times chron-
icles the burning of the Postofice, the
Freedmen's Bureau, the County Court
Clerks office with all their papers and
documents in Hickman county, Tennessee
by rebel incendiaries.
A private letter from Sault St. Marie
dated March sth, says: ave have had d
hard winter, with largequantities of snow
1t is thought navigation will open about
the It'll of May"
A new counterfeit $50 greenbaek, which
is described as very well executed, has
made its appearance. The border inelos.
ing the figures so at the ends of the bill i:
made up of circles, while in the genuine
they are octagons.
A young man named Robert Hardy,
nail feeder in the Belmont Iron Works
near Wheeling, last week cut one hundred
and thirty kegs of "tenpenny" nails, av-
eraging sixty nails to the pound. This il
one of the best weeks work, we venture
to say, eve made in the United States.
On Saturday last, a census of Boston
was completed, and the population is re
ported at 1872, 264. The increase since
1860 is 1892, not quite so great as dur
ing the previous five years from 1855 tC
1860, when the population grew l6,473
In Boston, a census is taken every five
years, and a new division of wards j:
made after each census.
A wretch named Quigly, a b~ook-keepel
at the Union Stock yards, in Chicago, 6
low NdOo dSU COLAlAlbLCN ali OuLId86 upOL
the person of a little girl with whose pa
rents he was boarding, and so injured hel
that it was thought she could scarcely re.
cover. Attempts were made to Lynch
him, but he escaped
The marriage law of Pennsylvania il
undergoing change. A simple agreement
between a couple in the presence of wit
nesses has been held to be a legal marriage
heretofore, but that sort of thing will be
done away with, and the services of 6
clergyman or magistrate will now be re
quired. For marrying a pair, either o.
whom is intoxicated, $500 fine and sil
months imprisonment will be imposed
The President has finally approved o.
the awards of the Military Commission
who were appointed to distribute the re-
wards for the arrest Of Booth and the con.
spiratOrs. These rewards amount to nearly
a quarter of a million dollars, and nothing
now remains hnt for the Secretary of Wa
to and pay out the money, SC
far as it is in his hands. This will be q
great relief to many who are interested
and have been in Washington waiting
%anxiously for many months at heavy ex-
pense.
A Union soldier writes from Padueah,
KY: shooting between niggers and
whites is quite common here, but, as a
general thing, the whites are to blame.
If they let the niggers alone, there will
be no difficulty; but they won't do it. A
few days since, a white man was walking
along the street, with g lady on each arm,
and met anigger. He pretended to think
the niger was not going to give as much
room as he ought, left the ladies, stepped
out in front, and knocked the niger
over"
A horrible infantieide is talked about
in New York. 1t is to this effect: A well
dressed man at New York recently pro-
cured a nurse to attend the accouchment
of a young woman, and after the child
was born he threw it into the fire, roast
ing it to death. He then drew a pistol
and threatened to kill the nurse if she
disclosed the affair. She was placed in a
carriage and driven by q circuitous route
to her home, where she has been so i'll as
not to be able to communicate the facts to
her priest until a day or two since. The
priest has laid the case before the police.
The Eight Hour bill has been defeated
in the New Jersey Legislature.
The Rev. Henry A. Wise has received
a call to the Episcopal Church in Rock
ingham county, Virginia.
A portion of J. Wilkes Booths theatri-
cal wardrobe, which has been purchased by
Mr.. Rankin, of Windsor, Canada, arrived
at that place. It was filed with vermin.
The scandalmongers of New York are
rolling as a sweet morsel under their
tongues the news of q suit for damages
brought by Mr.. Barnes, late city editor of
the New York Times and husband of the
actress known on the boards as Miss Rose
Etynge, against Hon. Henry j. Raymond.
One day last week D. A. Rider, of Ben
nington, Vt, cut open a perfectly sound
pumpkin, and found the seeds had AL
commenced to sprout, some oftbN-
ing up more than an inch IL shoot
the roots were O. IN length, while
pumpki- ..rongly fastened in the
III, which was completely filed
with vegetation.
Considerable interest is attached to the
recent discovery of rich deposits of aurif-
erous pyrites and gold bearing quartz,
shove Washington, on the Potomac, near
the Great Falls. It is stated that the prop
erty has been purchased by Philadelphians
A stock company has been organized with
a capital of 1915, 900. A powerful engine
for quartz crushing and sublimating the
ore is on the ground, the erection OF a
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