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THE CROPS.

The Euquoin I'll. Progress says "The
wheat crop in this section PERRY county,
looks fine, and bids fair to make an aver
age yield. In jackson county, also we
notice the wheat looks well. The Win
tiers brothers inform us that the peach
crop will be the heaviest in many years"
The Springfield (Ill.) Republican of the
18th says: "As near as we are able to
judge, after a careful examination of our
exchanges we are satisfied that the wheat
crop in this state this summer will not be
more than two-thirds of an average yield,
if it is n half. The spring-sown wheat
promises better, and may turn out more
productive than any anticipate. Apples,
pears, cherries and small fruits are in a
f%ourishing condition, and will give a large
yield. Peaches are all dead in the north
ern counties Of the state; there are q few
in the central districts and in the South
ern portion of Illinois the crop will be lit
tie less than in the best years. A large
planting of corn is now going on, and, if
the season proves propitious, the gather
ing will be one of the largest ever known
in the state"
The Decatur Ill.) Magnet of the 10th
says: "The fruit crop in our county
Macon) promises well except the peaches.
Of the last, but very few will be pro-
duced."
The Sycamore (Ill.) Republican says:
lover 1900 acres of fax have been sowed
in this vicinity this spring"
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The Reno m

The Reno Times, which, under the able
management of S. d. Page, Esq, has
taken a very high rank among the weekly
journals, not only of the West, but of the
entire country, and which, as a complete
and faithful record of oil news, and an
able exponent of the oil interest, was alb
solutely without an equal, has suspended
publication, after an existence Of six
months. We regret this event exceeding
ly. The Times, during its brief existence,
has been very nearly the model of what q
weekly paper ought to be, not only in its
peculiar speciality, but as a newspaper.
We could have better missed many a lar
ger and more pretentious journal from u
exchange table.
We understand that the suspension of
the Times is one of the disastrous and IN
fortunate results of the failure of C. V.
Culver, Esq. By that failure, the Reno
scheme, if not completely swamped, is
rendered a very doubtful success, and the
Times has gone down with the other IL
terests of that place.
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A Revolutionary soldier in ohio.
CUMBERLAND, GUERNSEY Co, o., I
Tuesday. Nav 8. 1866. [

LSNAAN7FSAAcuNE SAuIAuudll OOulntICltl.
CUMBERLAND, GUERNSEY Co, o.
Tuesday, May 6, 1866.
Having noticed in your issue of Satur-
day, 9Th inst, the death of VIM. Hutch
ings, the last Revolutionary soldier of the
State of Maine, and, as that notice states,
the last but three in the United States, l
was prompted to write you the following:
Mr.. John Grey, who lives in Noble
township, Noble county, Ohio, about four
miles east of the village of Cumberland,
Guernsey county, Ohio, is, without any
doubt, a Revolutionary soldier. / visited
him last winter, and he gave me the fol-
lowing history of his birth and life: He
was born January 6, 1864, neal Pohick
Creek, and was christened in what was
called the Pohick Church, which he thinks
was then within the territorial limits of
Fairfax county, Va. In February, 1850,
he volunteered in theservice of his country,
but returned home in May, 1881, immedi-
ately after the surrender of CORVALLIS at
Yorktown, and was retained as a minute
man on the banks of the Potomac for six
months after, before he was discharged
the service. Col. Church and Major Ram
sey commanded the regiment and Captain
Robert Sanford the company to which he
belonged. His father, Shadrick Grey, died
in the service of his country at White
Plains, in January, IT77; he was under
Capt. West. John Grey has never re-
ceived one farthing from the government
in the shape of land-warrant, pension or
anything else.
According to the above date, he was
lO2 years old on the 9Th day of January
last. He moved to the territory west of
the Ohio river in 1894, aad settled on
what is called the flats of Grave Creek.
The neighbors who have known him fer
some thirty years where he now lives
have always respected him as a sober, in
dustrious and truthful man. He is now
entirely dependent upon the charities of
a step-daughter, the child of his first
wife, who is married to a Mr.. Henry Nc
Elray. He enjoys remarkably good
health, and his mental faculties are very
good fora person in his advanced age. He
has never taken a portion of medicine
from a physician in his life. Many years
ago he had an attack of some kind of fever,
and some good neighbor gave him a por.
ton of tartar emetic, which is the only
medicine he has eYertaken. He has beer
a member of the Protestant Methodist
Church in good standing for seventy-fye
years. He went to the polls last fall and
voted the Republican ticket, ard he told
me he expected TO do the same next fall if
John A. Bingham ran for Congress. He
looks as if he was good for at least eight
or ten years vet.
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me Rank of EngInnd.


The Geographic heading ia this morn
ing's edition Of the LEADER 1.-THE Bank
Of England Closed is a mistaken one.
1t is the Bank Charter Act which has
been suspended, and not the Bank. So
far, too, from the credit of the Bank being
impaired, the bank act has been suspended
for the purpose of allowing it to make an
additional issue of notes to the amount of
I've million pounds sterling, in order to re-
Ieve the stringency ofthe mOney-market.
The fact that this is urgently demanded
BY business men everywhere shows the
prevailing confidence in the perfect SOL
vency of the great financial institution
of England.
The Bank of England is probably the
soundest, IS it is among the Oldest of the
world. It is the sub-stratum Of English
fnances-the granite foundation on which
all other business is built up. Its failure
woald be a catastrophe only less than the
disruption of the government and social
chaos. It was established in 1894, during
the reign of William and Mary. Its ex-
istence was due to the French wars of
that period, which plunged the nation into
debt and compelled it to pay the extrava-
CANT rate of from twenty to forty per cent
annual interest on its loans. Capitalists
cav their opportunity to establish a perm
anent and profitable institution, through
which the Government could obtain loans
st a reasonable rate, and the Bank of
England was organized, recsiving 8 char
ter from Parliament Its capital was st
first but Fl, zoe 900 but was rapidly in
creased, amounting in 1908 to e. 4Oo, 900,
in IT4s to slO, 7sO. 900 and in 1916 to
fl4,553, 900. Its loan to the government
hAd alwsyl bssn about equal to its capital
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23

until the commencement Of the present
century, when the former was reduced
83,5 500, 600. 1t has always had charge of
the public debt, receiving an annual COM
pensatiou from the government for this
service. In Is45 this amounted TO
$500
The Bank of England has suspended
specie payments but once in its entire his
tory. That suspension was, however, of
long continuance, lasting from 1897 to
s23. 1t wSs caused by the re-
action of wild and unhealthy public
speculation, and was authorized by order
of council Iafterward ratified by act OF
Parliament. Payments were resumed IN
1923, after four years of gradual Prepara-
ton for that event
The bank charter act, which has been
suspended by the English government,
was framed by Sir Robert Peel and adopt
ed in 1874. Its main object was to pre-
vent any dangerous expansion of the pub
lie credit, by prohibiting any issue of notes
above the amount of deposits and govern
ment securities. The act has, however, been
suspended twice since its adoption, before
the present time; the first instance occur
ring Oct. 25th, 1847, the second Nov. 25th,
1857, at the time of the financial revulsion
caused in England blythe fail OF the Ohio
Life and Trust Company, and the conse-
quent crisis in this country. The statement
of the affairs of the bank at that time
shows the imminent peril in which it
stood. 1t had in its vaults but S504,443
in coin and 9957,7l in notes, wherewith
to meet liabilities TO the amount of E19,-
l03,07s. But the act was suspended and
the crisis was tided over. In that case,
however, as in the present. this step was
not taken until the bank mad advanced its
rate of discount TO ten per cent, without
obtaining the desired relief. The state of
affairs is hardly as alarming now as it
was then, and we have little doubt but
that the storm will pass and leave the
Bank of England as strong and solid as
ever.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23

On Saturday last, an Irish hod-carriel
entered a drinkery where whisky is sold
by the pint, and called for half a pint OF
whisky.
where's your bottle" asked the deal
er, when he filed the tin measure.
"Mesilf is my bottle" was the reply,
"In carry it inside of mes"
The man of whisky stared, but passed
over the utensil. The ~hod-carrier drained
it to the last dreg. He came back in
about an hour.
"That half pint of whisky is very
lonesome" said he; "give me another
II keep it company Another was given
him, and he drankit. at three o'clock
the same afternoon he came again to the
whisky seller.
Thin two half pints is quarrelin," he
said, "rsisin' a disturbance inside of me ;
let me have another half pint to separate
thin"
He got it, and went his way. Whether
the man is still living is more than we
can tell. There was nc death that night
or yesterday, so far as we have learned,
of any n answering that particular hod-
carriers description-PittSburg Paper.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23
The Collectors private secretary.

Thomas Brown, Esq formerly of Cleve-
land and ci-deUant editor Of the LEADER,
has been appointed by Collector Smythe,
of New York, to the very responsible po-
sition of Private Secretary. The appoint
ment has been discussed extensively in
New York city, where the ofice-seekers
are on the qui Uire TO know what Mr..
Smythe's proclivities are to be. The New
York World says that it sis informed that.
n of the first official acts of Collector
Smythe was the removal of Mr.. Terwill-
iger, a friend of Mr.. Thurlow Weed, who
was appointed by the late Collector King
to be his Private Secretary. Mr.. Brown,
said to be a special adherent of Chief JUS
tice Chase, was appointed to the vacancy
made by the removal. This first act looks
badly for the Weed clique"
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23
A New Aspect of The Colorado Veto.

lFrom the Detroit Posti May FL.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune writes as follows:
at is asserted to-day by reliable men
that on Sunday night the President sent
for the Colorado Senators. They were re-
eeived by Mr.. Cooper, his private Secreta-
", and were sounded as to their political
views; and intimations made that if they
were prepared TO sustain the President pol
icy he could arrange to have the bill signed.
"srhey declined to do so, and were finally
ushered into the presence of the President,
and the offer was there made directly to
them; but they were unwilling to abandon
their openly-svowed principles of a lifetime.
and said that they preferred TO let the bill
be vetoed. If this statement is not correct,
the Senators should deny it."
IF this is true-and the challange con-
tanned in the last paragraph indicates
that the writer had confidence in the re-
liability of his statement-it would seem
that had the Colorado Senators only
promised to support the Presidents poll
ey, the population of Colorado would
have been considered sufficient, and the
admission Of a new state "while eleven
states are yet unrepresented in Congress"
would not have been conflicting with the
true interests of the Union. Mr.. johnson
is evidently governed by principle and
nothing but principle, and the policy is
q wonderfully elastic thing. This is
about the most shameless case of political
traficking of which this generation has
heard.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23
AMERICAN WATCHES.
REDUCTION IN PRICE.
OF THE
American Watches,
Made at WaItham, Mass.

IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE RE-
CENT great decline in gold and silver and all
the materials used in the manufacture Of our goods
and in anticipation ofa still further decline, We
have reduced our prices to as Low a point as they
can be placed
With Gold at Par,
SO that no one need hesitate to buy a watch now
from the expectation that it will be cheaper at
some future time. The test Of ten years and the
manufacture and sale of
More thar zoo, 600 Watches
have given our productions the very highest rank
among tims-keepers. Commencing with the de-
termination to make only thoroughly excellent
watches, our business has steadily increased IS the
public became acquainted with their value, until.
for months together, we have been unable to SUD-
ply the demand. We have repeatt dly enlarged our
factory buildings until they now cover over three
acres ofground, and give accommodation to more
than eight hundred workmen.
We are fully justified in stating that we now
make MORE THAN 0NE-HALF OF ALL THE
SOLD IN H UNITED STATES.
he different grades are distinguished by the fol-
lowing trademarks engraved on the plate:
l. American Watch Co." wAlthAm, Mass.
2. Appleton, Tracy & Co.." walthAm, Mass.
,. "P. S. Bartlett" WAltham, Mass.
4. VIM. Ellery."
8. Q LADIES WATCH is of first quality
named Appleton, Tracy q Co." Wal
than, Mass.
e. Our next quality of Ladies' Watches is named
"P. S. Bartlett" waltham, Mass. These
watches are furnished in q great variety Of
sizes and styles ofeases.
The American Watch Co., Of waIthsm, Mass,
Us TO state that without distinction of
trademarks or price,
All the Products Of their Factory are
fully Warranted.
TO be the best time-keepers of their class ever
made in this or any other country. Buyers should
remember that unlike the guarantee Of q foreign
maker who can never be reached, this wsrAntee is |
good at all times against the company or their |
agents and that if after the most thorough trial,
any watch should prove defective in any particu-
it may always be exchanged for another. As
the American Watches made at waltham, are for |
sale by dealers generally throughout the country,
do not solicit orders for single watches.
CAUTIoN.-The public are cautioned to buy
only of respectable dealers, All persons selling
viii be prosecuted.
ROBBINS & APPLETON,
Agents for the American Watch Company,
maylGRl0-D&R 1s2 Broadway, n. Y.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23
A Giant Radish.
The Pail wan Gasette saws:

"The last new thing in vegetables is
really quito a startling wonder. Think of
a radish with seed-pods about three feet
long, and sometimes growing five or six
inches in tour-snd-twenty hours. We
can think of nothing like it except Jacks
immortal bean-stalk, which automatically
described planti is nevertheless not spoken
of as good to eat, whereas this radish is said
10 be as palatable as it is monstrous. The
plant comes from Java, but we are told it
hss been fairly tried in the open ground in
England and succeeds perfectly we'll.
To add to its merits, its pods are ready for
use in less than three months after the
seed is sown."
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23

The proverb "misfortunes never come
single" is often illustrated by the daily
newspaper. The dispatches of yesterday
for instance, we're crowded with evil
tidings. The telegraph flashed to us the
Intelligence of financial ruin in England,
Ofthe failure Of Sir Morton Peto, of an at
tempt on the life of the greatest states
man of Europe, of an imminent German
war which will involve the entire CONT
nent in the contest, of the bombardment
of Peruvian Callao, and of the destruction
of the beautiful Academy of Music in
New York, by fire with a loss of four
millions ofdollars.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23
CITY NOTICES.
NOTICE.-Tbe attention of All par.

IN ties interested Is called to the provisions of
Sections 1 and Nv, of an Ordinance to prevent the
sale Of Intoxicating liquors on Sundays, which
sections are as follows:
"sEo. l. No person shall sell, or give away, or
expose for sale, snV Intoxicating liquor, or keep
open any saloon, grocery, bar or other place. on
Sunday, for the purpose Of selling. giving away
or exposing for sale, intoxicating liquor.
~. ~. any PersGn violating any ProElslpn
OF TINS ordinance, shall, on conviction thereof be
lined not less than ten nor more than nifty dol
lars"
In conformity with the provisions of this ordi-
nance, saloons, groceries, bars, or other places
whers Intoxicating liquors are sold, must be closed
from IL o'clock on each Saturday night to II
O'Clock on Sunday night.
By order Of the Board o. Metrorolitan Police.
Il. NJ. CHAPLIN, President.
J. SCHROEDER, Secretary.
Cleveland. Nav Is lsg6- mavIq.9Is
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23

A rhymster in the New York Tribune
called the National flag a "~iaunting lie"
The st. Louis Republican asks if the Radio
ais would permit this s~tupendious lie TO be
Haunted from every flagstaff on shore and
from every masthead on the sea? Or would
they mutilate the proud banner as they
nave mutilated the Union Of which it is the
symbol, by plucking eleven stars from its
azure field and sending the desecrated flag
10 tell the story of its shame around the
world"
We cut the above from a Democratic
exchange. It is perhaps proper to add
that the " rhymster" referred to, Colonel
Charles G. Halpine, is now cooperating
with Copperheads in supporting Andrew
Johnson's policy. We do not hold Col.
Halpine responsible for his poetical at
tack upon a flag in the defense of which
he has since shed his blood; but We do
protest st~renuously against having the
verses of a johnson Conservative saddlsd
upon athe Radicals"
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23
Outdone.

The people of 55th street, New York
city, have a pleasant neighbor named
John Kranehie, whose agreeable ways are
thus described by a Health Inspector, in a
report to the Board Of Health
John Kranchie, alias Schwitzer mick
name), occupies part of three lots. One
of them is situated on the southerly side
of 55th street. nearly midway between
sixth and Seventh avenues, and is in a
condition detrimental to health and dan
gerous to life. A four hours fruitless eff
fort was made to find the owner. On this
lot was found Kranchie's abode, which
consists of a barrel and some filthy old
carpets spread upon the bare rock. On
these he sleeps, and during Indictment
weather protects his head and such parts
of his person as the capacity of the barrel
will accommodate, from rain and snow.
Adjacent to his abode is 8 pile of old lum-
Der, sufficiently elevated from the rock TO
allow his dogs to crawl underneath for
rest and protection. All this is surround
ded with baskets, barrels, pans and boxes,
containing decomposing bones, lobster
shells, fsh-heads a dead cat and dog,
SACuGG aA4 GNEA1 ia h4lSAGA AG-
fuse, swill and garbage picked out Of gut
tiers, and so called ash and garbage boxes;
all of which, or q part thereof, are stewed
or cooked in their mixed state by said
hranchie in the open air, amid q shantie
population, and which stew, when cooked,
is esten by said Kranchie and his numer-
Gus dogs. Evidence is not wanting to
prove that he has esten the dead rats and
cats found on the public highways, and
that he kills his own dogs for their meat
as food, when no other nourishment is at
hand. Captain Sloat and Sergeant VIM.
J. Lande-s informed US that such and sim
liar charges as above enumerated have
been heretofore preferred on several occa-
sions against said Kranchie by members
of the Twenty-second precinct, james
Mssterson and many other citizens. Be-
ing also very filthy in his other habits, 1
charge said Kranchie with occupying
premises and possessing habits detrimen-
tai to health, and dangerous to the lives
Of those who come in contact with him.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23
The MOck Auctioneer.

Governor Fenton's friends assure us
that he pardoned Zeno Burnham out of
Sing Sing because he lDouLd surely die if
compelled to remain there longer. Sam
johnson once berated a Grub street auth
or for l~ampooning him. "But 1 must
live" said the writer, in self-defence. II
don't see the necessity for Il" Immediately
retorted johnson.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23


The Springfield Mass Republican, says
the present senior class in Amherst Col
lege enteredin 1852, with ffty-seven men,
and viii graduate ffty-two. Seventy
eight different members have been con-
nected with the class during its course, of
whom two have died. More than half the
class have already decided on the minis
try as their future profession. A former
member of the class, who was marrie7 be-
fore entering the college, and to whom the
class once presented an elegant cradle, is
reported in Sing Sing prison, sentenced
for a long term of years.
YALE COLLEGE AFFAIRS.
The junior class prizedebstes in the Broth
ers in Unity and Linonia societies at Yale
College took place on Wednesday. Prizes
were awarded in the former society to
james G.. Flanders, of Milwaukee,
Wis. John W. Shonalter, of Minerva,
Ky; and Wallace Bruce, of Hillsdale,
Y; and in the latter, to W. B. Hard
ing, of Putney, Vt; F. NJ. Sprague, of
New Haven: and \. E. Lamb, Of Wor-
cester, Mass, and D. T. Brown, of New
Haven, and Z. W. Clarke, of 0berlin,
Ohio.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23
COLLEGE GOSSIP.
A COLLEGE MEMORIAL HALL

ACoLLEGE MEMORIAL HALL.
The Bowdoin College Memorial Hall
will be built Of granite, two stories high,
and in the form offs Greek cross. It will
cost thirty-fve thousand dollars, twenty
thousand dollars of which are already
subscribed.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23

In Birmingham, England, the other
day, a woman accidentally killed her in
FAINT by pressing its head against the front
of her dress, in which a needle was stick
ing. The needle entered the ohild's head,
and caused fatal injuries.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23
MAYORS OFFICE, CLEVELAND, o.,
Nav 18th. 1866.
.OTICE-To all whom it may con-

In cern.-At q regular meeting OF the City
Council Of the City of Cleveland, held May s, 1856,
the following resolution was adopted, viz
RssOlred, That in the opinion Of this Council, it
is deemed necessary to grade and improve Mime
sofa street in accordance with the plans and pro-
file of said street ia the City Civil Engineers
Office. Any person or persons claiming damages
by reason OF said improvement, are hereby requir-
ed to file their claims in writing with the City
Clerk within five weeks from the first publication
Of this resolution, or be forever barred from filing
any claim, or receiving any damages therefor.
@. E. HILL, City Clerk.
NEo- N 1GGa --.-TO nT0
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23
DOHESTIC SEWING MACHINE.

GLITCH ALIKE ON BOTH SIDES.
- GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN Sc WING
MACHINES.-The domestic will do a greater
range Of work than the four different grades or
sizes OF other leading machines, and in a more
perfect nisnner. 1t combines simplicity Of con-
structioE with perfect action. Send for circular
and ssmpies Of work. Great inducements offered
to agents. G. W. CROWELL & CO.,
mayI6 12I Superior-st. Cleveland. Ohio.