Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-02
NEWS By THE ATLANTIC CABLE
TAs We may eIp,ct to receive it when the wire
stretches around the Globe.

CAnLE IrEMs-The sea-serpent has been
successfully laid between AspY Bay and
Port au Basque, and hereafter dispatches
from Hearts Content will be forwarded
through it instead of by the yacht 1t is
not anticipated that the kilograms Will be
sealy at all.
Night before last, IN latitude 24o 45,
longitude I5o lO", 1000 fathoms deep, par
ty of mischievous young mermaids were
caught swinging on the cable. They were
whaled. -..
FsOn EUROPE.-Tho report that Austria
has been purchasing needle-guns to repair
the rents made by Prussia, is manufactured
out Of whole cloth Do you see the point
The London Times special from Wind
sOr says the Queen yesterday directed the
Lord Treasurer to pay Minister Adams the
amount claimed by the United States for
losses by the alabama" and that Mr..
Adams received cheque for the amountOn
the Bank of England, and at once turned it
in to her Majessy's Exchequer to square the
damages occasioned by the Fenian raid on
Canada. Thus the .'tie that binds Us" is
strengthened and perpetuated.
-Goldsmith's Deserted Village" sweet
Auburn, loveliest of the plain has been
purchased on ninety days" time for the
American Premier, Mr. Seward, who will
retire to that secluded locality, after the
Philadelphia Convention, to pursue his
studies on the Prophecies.
In London, at an early hour last evening,
ayoung gentleman, with spare legs, vsak
eyes and light hair, named John Chivery,
was observed by Little Dorritt-s young
lady of amiable character who resides in
the Old Marshalsea-to throw himself into
the water from the Iron bridge. A paper
found in his pocket after the body was
recovered contained a pathetic inscrip-
ton for his own tombstone.
One Shylock was arrested at late hour
the other night, on the Rialto, in Venice,
for being on bender and disturbing the
neighborhood with his cries about his
ducats aud his daughter. He was marched
across bridge of large size to the police
station in the Ducal palace by that excel
lent officer of the Adriatic Freedmen's Bu-
reau, Othello, who has heretofore done the
state some service.
FROM ASIA, EGYPr AND PALKsTISE.-The
price of pork in Jerusalem advanced yes
terday . shekels per pound.
A young Damascus blade has been ar
rested in tEatcity for coming the confidence
game over mummy of the % century. He
sword awfully when he was " took up
An accomplished young woman in
Tyre, descendant of Queen Cleopatra,
committed suicide day before yesterday by
swallowinga dose of Egyptian calla."
Tho enclosure on the Eastern side Of the
Garden of Eden, being in bad repair, an
unruly hippopotamus lately escaped, but
was soon secured. The local paPer-the
dsiIy Alpha and Omega-says the Garden is
going to ruin. All traces of the bower
where Adam and Eve took their SiestGs
have disappeared; though the trail of the
serpent is plainly visible in the Orchard,
the trees of which still bear fruit, but of in
ferior flavor and no piquancy.
Navigation on the river Nile is OBJ
structed by crocodiles. Water only #
on the shoals and falling.
From Ell MEDISAH.-A party of vagfants
called pilgrims, en- route to Mecca, to visit
the tomb of the lamented Prophet, wert
raided one day last week on the great des-
ert nv a hand of gentle Bedouinz. and rifeG
os their opium, garliek and amulets. Allah
il Allah!
TIE MISSIONARY SBKvIcE.-Late report
from the Fejee Islands represent the inhabi
tants as likely to suffer for lack of mission
| ary meat. The stock on hand is reduced t