Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-12
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wALks UP AND SETTLES.

| WALKS Up AND SETTLES
WAsHISGToS, April I1.-General Grant to-
| day acknowledged the service of a warrant
| for fast driving, and appeared before JUS
| tice of the Peace and paid his fine.
PARDoNs ISSUED.
Warrants for pardons were issued from
/ the Attorney Generals Office to-day by the
direction of the President, for forty indi-
viduals, the majority of whom are residents
/ of Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. A few
were pardoned under the first exception,
but the majority of them under the $4,000
| clause.
ESCAPED.
General AugUr has been notified of the
escape Of Oscar Mankin, from Alexandria
/ jail, where he was awaiting trial for mur-
| der. His escape IS attributed to the negli-
gence Of the Jail officers.
A. H. STEPHENS TESTIMONY.
Alexander H. Stephens, of Ca, appeared
before the Committee on Reconstruction to-
day, and will conclude his testimony to-
morrow. He was very deliberate and care
full in all his replies. His testimony is in
teresting, He returns to Georgia.
NOT APPOINTED.
The President has not yet appointed
Custom Collector Of the Port Of New York.
HORRIBLE MURDER.
PHILADELPHIA, April ia terrible crime
in the lower section of the city was discoy-
cred this afternoon. A family of seven per-
sons had been murdered Christopher Deer
ing and his wife, niece and four children,
on Mr.. Deering's farm at Point House road
and James Lane. 1t is supposed the mur-
der was committed last Friday by Ger
man labOrer on the farm. The crime was
discovered this afternoon by finding the
bsdies Of Deering and his wife in the barn.
One of the victims was a baby ten months
old. Plunder seems to have been the sole
object. The horses and cattle in the stable
were found in a famishing condition.
STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS.
NEW York, April 11-Dr. Percy mads
some remarkable statements before the
Health Commission yesterday, concerning
the Punishment of the cows and cow stables
from the city. He said the animals were
nearly all suffering from pleuro pneumonia
and that the disease is contagious A gen
tleman of Boston, a few days ago, imported
three animals that had contracted the
disease and Massachusetts, lost 100000
cattle which were infected from these three
A bull was sent from Holland to the Cape Of
Good Hope, and from that one animal, mil
lions were infected and died, while business
was almost destroyed and starvation pro-
mails could be seen by thousands all over
the country. A bull was sent from Eng
land to Australia, and, notwithstanding the
passage, the animals which come in con-
tact with him in every case, were infected,
but as they were killed the disease was
finally mastered.
The disease exists here in the stables and
if you break them up the owners will sell.
TAey will go abroad and it may be so spread
as to infect the cattle in every State in the
country. DR.. LetherOy says that when the
disease has become chronic persons who
have eaten the meat of cattle killed while
suffering from this disease have experienced
no bad effects, but when it is acute it pro-
duces carbuneles in those who eat it. Far
mers in Duchess county would as soon take
small pox into their homes as cattle
from these swiIl milk stables into
their barn-yaads. If they are sold, the
disease Will be communicated. II is fact
that trichina has been found in beef, and
traced directly to the swill milk stables on
Long Island. 1t exists in pigs, and is found
wherever they are kept in filthy stys and
fed on swill. Rats are foSnd wherever
there are pigs, and they become filed
with triehina- Cows deVour the exere-
tions of the rats, and they take the dis
ease Losses of this kind I have person.
ally traced to Newtown-