Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-21
TIE NEWS


GEN. osrERHAus has been nominated Con
sui 10 Lyons, France.
Receipts from Internal Revenue last wee
were sS,5e6,lH,
GEoAeE PEABoDY is i'll, but not dangerous
/ ly, at his sisters in Massachusetts,.
HOBokES is agitating the question O
closing the liquor saloons on Sunday.
FIrrr clerks were discharged from tn
Treasury Department Saturday for incom
potency and lack of employment.
A FIsHrSa party, consisting of two younl
men and two young ladies, were drowned
in Cedar river, Iowa, last Monday.
A ToRxADo and hail storm passed ovel
Clark county, Miss, last week, uproOtiDg
trees, leveling houses, and entirely destroy
ing the crops.
Az election for State officers will be held
in Texas on the 25th Of June next. AT the
same time vote viii be taken on adopting
or rejecting the new constitution.
GzS HowARD has received contribution
OF one hundred and ninety francs from
the paster of church in Switzerland, for
the benefit of the freedmen.
IRIS proposed in Charleston, S. c., to con-
vert the square Of the burnt district into
public garden, on the same plan as the
Palais Royal, in Paris.
IT Is proposed to send Santa Anna the
cork leg captured from him during the
Mexican war, and now held as relic by a
Pittsburgher.
TEE Governor of Florida has issued
proclamation announcing the close of mil
itary rule in that State, with the exception
of military courts in certain cases
SENATOR'S Cowan and Doolittle spoke to a
large audience in the Academy of Music,
Philadelphia, Saturday night in defence of
the Presidents policy.
MORE than hundred French midship-
men have arrived at Annapolis, Nd, in
practice vessel, to witness the annual exam
ination of our naval cadets.
OLE BULL had the satisfaction of reading
extensive obituary notices of himself called
forth by his reported demise in Canada. At
last accounts be was fddling away in st.
Petersburg.
GES. HALLEok, commanding the Depart
ment of the Pacific, telegraPhs General
Grant that there is not word Of truth in /
the reported massacre of the garrison at
Fort Goodwin by the Indians. |
Az old fossil, Jacob Thompson, Secretary
of the Interior under Buchanan, has turned
up in Paris somewhat in the character of
rebel, and declares that be is
opposed to the re-establishment Of slavery.
NEw YoRk was quiet yesterday, owing to
the closing of the saloons, but tho drinking
community by thousands visited Hcboken,
Jersey City, and other places where the ex-
else law is not in force.
TIE American Baptist Home Missionary
Society met in convention in Boston Friday
evening. J. NJ. Hoyt, of Cleveland, was
chosen President of the Society for the en-
suing year.
THE Mexican Club of New York has
passed resolutions asserting that Santa Anna
is most obnoxious to Mexico and the source
ofher rcalamities, and protesting sgainst sym
pathY being extended to him as friend of
that country.
TIE coppeFhead Way, of Massachusetts
.own, who lately brought suit against GER
sain parties for compelling him 10 raise
Gag and make loyal speech during tae
excitement, placing his dam
lges at $2O, 600, has been awarded 500.
CoLoRADo can raise tremendous crops, if
L is true, as reported, that the Commissioner
IF Agriculture has received from there sew
sral sheaves of wheat and oats, the former
Yielding eighty-fve bushels to the acre, e,and
he latter one hundred and twenty.
TEE health of jeff Davis Is on the mend
he is allowed an abundance Of liquors and
,igaIs and many other little luxuries,craved
BY invalids. A report of his health is made
weekly 10 the Surgeon General at Washing
on, and Mrs. J. D. is permitted uninter-
-upted visits with him.
THE people of ST. George, Bermuda, re-
,ently had scare of the first magnitude
A French war vessel was mistaken for the
advance ship of Fenian feet, and the citi-
sens, soldiers and sailors were greatly ex.
,ited. A council Of war was held and meas
Tres proposed to rePel the supposed inva-
ZION.
THE Grant House, in Franklin, Pa, was
destroyed by ERE early Friday morning.
Three servant girls were burned to death.
)ne woman jumped from tae fourth story
window, but received such injuries that she
lied shortly afterwards. The house is sup
posed to have been fred by incendisries for
purposes Of plunder.
A "FIxE show of Eurfsce oil" which
,resied much excitement at Fishkill, n. Y,
while ago, and which was made by judi
.iossly pouring crude petroleum in certain
narshy places, induced the purchase of the
ands at high price by the Hudson River
Petroleum Company, which has just found
put how it was gulled, and has sued for
sl5O, 900 damages.