Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-01
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

An attempt was made Wednesday
morning to blow up the office of the Union
paper in Charleston, Virginia, by means
Of an Internal machine. \ terrible explo-
sion was the result, which effected, how
ever, but little injury.
Susan Wissert, a fortune-teller in In
dianapolis, got married the other day.
Becoming merry over the event, the bride
and bridegroom both got drunk, in which
condition they were found by a policeman
and sent, to enjoy their honeymoon in the
county Jail.
Petroleum still continues to pour into
the New York market, and the supply ap-
pears to be constantly on the increase.
Last week the receipts were y, 700 pack
ages, making since January lst, l5l, 900
packages, against $4,000 for the same time
last year.
1t is said that Bierstadt's brush has
earned him $4,000 in the last three
wears. He has the finest team in the New
York Central Park, and is building avilla
at Irvington, on the Hudson.
A Washington letter to the New York
Tjmcs says; There are very few dress
makers of skill and taste here-almost the
only n of high reputation IS a colored
lady, born in Virginia, and, with twenty
years experience, her business in st. Louis
and in this city, has built up a high repu-
tation and secured p large custom from
The most fashionable ladies of the capital.
Every lady fully appreciates how indis-
onsable Is correct taste and skill in such
atters-hence this allusiOn.
During the festivities of Christmas a
large cake, of very rich appearance, was
sent by some unknown person as a present
TO Gen. Manteutfel, Prussian Governor of
Schleswig. The gift was received with
great pleasure by the Governors family,
and one evening it was placed on the table
with no little ceremony but on cutting
it the tempting outside was found to be
merely Il shell, containing numerous copies
IF journals prohibited in ScEleswig by
order Of the General.
An agent of the American Missionary
Society, laboring in Virginia, recently
called on a Presbyterian Doctor Of Divin-
ity, 10 interest him for the education of
freedmen, and the doctor coldly informed
him that the Northern people had under
taken that job, and It would be left to them;
when they got tired of it, as they soon
would, then the Southern christians would
take it up. The missionary afterwards
called upon Mosby, the guerrilla chief,
who treated him in a very gentlemanly
way, said the blacks ought to be educated,
and there could be no reasonable objection
10 it and gave him assistance in finding
citizens likely to assist him in his work.
At Bunker Hill, Illinois, on Sunday
last, the congregation Of one oftbe churches
we're treated to the spectacle Of a fist light |
between two young bucks, arising out Of
he opposing claims to a certain pew.
The minister quietly ceased preaching till
the fight was over, and the b~elligerents
mad left the church. The same evening.
AS two gentlemen were escorting two
ladies home from services at the Metho-
dist Church, a young man called one aside, i
accused him of having seduced his sister.
and drawing q pistol pulled the trigger.
The cap, however, did not explode. and
the seducer striking a two-forty gait broke
for the open country, and has not since
been heard from.