Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-28
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Louis and other portions of the West thi
J. week.
II PREPARATIONS ere being made 10 hold
|, national fair in Washington for the benef
!. of the Soldiers and Sailors Orphan Home
TIE Cosmopolitan Hotel, g drug store an,
eight smaller buildings in St Paul MINI
were destroyed by fire Saturday.
> DoueLAs GaAx1, son of General Grant
has been appointed cadet at West Point b.
the President.
MARY ANS BAsTISE, an inmate of the New
York almshouse, died few days since, a
the remarkable age of 1l8 years.
TIE Louisiana Levee Commissioners are
going to Washington to ask Congressional
assistance.
CALVIN FLETCHER, one of the frst settlers
and a prominent banker of Indianapolis,
died yesterday.
A DRUG store and job printing office
were burned in st. Louis last night. Loss
100000.
GENERALS Steadman and Fullerton have
arrived at Augusta, Ga, from Florida, where
they will remain q week to prepare fur
ther report on the Freedmen's Bureau.
RICHARD POLLARD, tailor, was murdered
Saturday night In tenement house in New
York, by William Cormaek, his late en-
plOyee.
THE time Of laying the corner stone of
the monument to Stephen A. Douglas has
been changed from the 18th of June to the
4th of July.
SAMUEL KENNEDY, the last survivor of the
Wyoming massacre, died near York Springs,
Pa, on Friday, in the ninety-third year of
his age.
HoS. E. L. Wax wrxKLE, Secretary of
State Of Kentucky died at Frankfort on
Wednesday. Before his entering upon Office
he was Governor Bramletts's law partner.
TaE steamer Atlantic, from Bremen, ar
rived at New York yesterday with 1900
passengers, the Bellons from Havre with
500, and the Aleppo from Liverpool with
zoe.
TIE American shsrpshooters' Society will
hold festival in Chicago from the 18th to
the 17th Of June next. Competitors will
appear from all parts Of the United States,
and from several places in Europe.
THE Health Officer of the hospitel ship,
New York, reports its condition as favOra
BILE. All on board are doing well and are
anxious to be discharged and proceed to
their destinations in the West.
WHILE the House was at work on the tax
bill, Saturday, an amendment wss adopted
taxing railroad, steamboat, canal and stage
companies q per cent. on their gross earn
ings. An unsuccessful effort was made to
allow horse-raiIroHds to add this Tax to their
fare.
TaE freedmen of Texas are coming to
Arkansas almost daily in numbers, in a
destitute condition. They report that
anarchy and despotism reign in Texas, and
that shameless outrsges are committed on
their persons and property by the whites.
General Sprague, Commissioner of the
Freelmen's Bureau for Arkansas, thinks the
report is somewhat exaggerated.
A BAND of outlaws went to the house af |
man named Gunter, in overton county,
Tenn, few days ago, and, on some friyol- |
Gus pretext, took him into the woods |
stripped him, and were numerically whip
ping him. His daughter seized hatchet |
rushed to the spot, and succeeded in killing
two of the rpfians aad wounding others.
The young lady and father have since been
driven from the county.
On CRY has been visited by another dis
sstfoas fire. On Saturday the business por-
tion of the place, on the east side of the |
creek, was destroyed. seventy-6ve stores,
eight hotels, forty dwelling houses, one
church and a seminary were burned. To-
tai loss about million of dollars, on which
there seems to have been only $4,000 in
surance. The names of the sufferers are
given in our dispatches.
FRIDAY last was the forty-sevsnth birth
day of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain.
The Englisbmen of Chicago celebrated the
event by playing a match game of cricket.
OCNEcCA NhO EuSCA GlCfC4 anu lnC lluGc
Of Wales eleven, also by foot races and
quOits, and in the evening a supper. The
cricket match resulted, as it should on such
day, in favor OF the Queens eleven.
THE fire in Hudson, Wis, brief mention
Of which was made by the telegraph the
other morning, was q destructive affair
sixty-four business houses were burned and |
twenty five families made homeless. The |
FIRE originated from sparks from the Chin
ney Of a Fenian saloon, or from the pipe of |
half-drunken losfer, it is not positively
known which. The flames broke out at |
o'clock in the afternoon, and in two hours
had done their work. What at noon was a
thriving town, at sundown was blsckened
ruin.
GEOReE ". SAGE, the wretch who was
convicted of numbering child some little
time ago near Vernon, Ind, was hung at
that place last Friday. He confessed to
the murder, but states it was done under an
impulse to screen himself from detection in
the robbery of the house. he attempted, it
win be remembered, the murder of three
children, by beating them with brick bat,
but only one died. He leaves 3 wife and
one child. His father was with him up to
noon of the day of the exesution, and wit
messed his death. After the body had been
hanging few minutes, his father asked
the Sheriff If he could not have the body,
and was told not yet, when he replied,
a think you keep him hanging d-d
long while"
TaE steamer City of London arrived yes
terdsy with Liverpool dates to the 18th.
The failure of FerieT Brothers, Liverpool, is
announced, but their assets are in excess ef
their liabilities. The panic had sensibly |
subsidized, although many difficulties were
still snticipsted- News Of the Valparaiso
bombardment was received with indigna-
ton By the press people and parliament,
although the latter defended the neutrality |
of the British admiral. There was rumOr
from PaEis sshHt RruasiE. and Italy had
sgrssf 70 congress The reply of Austria
to the proposition had not been received.
It vas expected Austria. in few weeks,
would have an army IN the field number
ing 100000 men. She had already succeed