Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-24
NER NEWS ITEMS.

Charles Allen and Charles Mills, broke
open the store of James Bird, another col
ored man, and carried away $3.50 in
greenbacks. They made an Reagle spread"
while it lasted, but were arrested at Titus
vile, where they were founding a solid
reputation among the colored population
for liberality of spirit.
Edmund Yates, the Fianeur of the Lon
don Star, and the editor of the Pail Mall
Gazette are having a newspaper quarrel.
The Pail Mall journalist says that when
he sees 2 "galloping snob' in the Row he
shall say, "There goes the Flaneur of the
Morning Star" To which Yates retorts
~ can only remark that when l meet a
gentleman speaking the truth, I shall at
once know that he IS not the editor of the
Pail Mall Gazette" The quarrel is thus
a very pretty one-one disputant is a gal
Looping snob, the other a liar.
Sherman said, at New Haven: uOur
family does not claim TO be descended
from the great Roger, yet we slip in a
claim of family connectionship when we
get a chance. He came FROM the Roger
Minor Sherman family; we from the
Judge Taylor Shermans, with whose de-
scendants, we yesterday, in Norwalk.spent
the day. Both families lore re~pntations
for virtue and unspotted integrity, l be-
lieve. The whole family of Sherman hail
from Connecticut; and /, though a IVES
tern man, willingly admit that l am a
full-blooded Yankee"
A few nights since, two men employed
at the lime-kiln of E. P. Vogt, near st.
Genevieve, Missouri, while watching the
kiln at night, took a coffee pot which had
been standing on the bank through the
day, and made some coffee of which thew
both drank freely. Shortly after drinking
the coffee they became very sick, with
strong symptoms of being poisoned. Up
on examining the coffee pot, a small snake
was found, which had by some means got
into the pot and boiled up in the coffee.
The men have recovered, but do not re-
commend snake coffee" as a healthy
drink.
The base ball match for the champion
shipof Massachusetts was played on Sat-
urday afternoon, between the Harvard
and Lowell Clubs. The latter won the
silver ball andthe championship, the score
standing 81 against 81.
Much excitement has been caused in
Missouri by the fact that among the last
issue of military bonds two of them have
been found to bear the same number. but
It Is believed to be aclerical error. But it
Is the duty of whomsoever it particularly
concerns in the Auditors or Treasures
office to make the proper explanation of
it.
st. Louis has no hermit, but enjoys the
society of a crazy doctor named Cham
berlain, who perambulates the streets
swinging a dead cat by the tail, and fall
ing IN love with every good-looking wom-
an he meets. His affection runs to inter
mInable billets-doux, and a person has on
ly to intimate in his hearing that he is a
terrible fellow among the women to be
gleefully invited TO smoke.
A letter from Middletown. Conn saws
that wonderful discoveries have recently
been made in the sandstone q~uarries of
that place. The graves and mode of bu-
rial OF a primitive race are found in the
rock The men are lying in one position
and the women in another. These men
all had three fingers and a thumb. and
four toes. The comparatively more re-
cent OF them were six to seven feet high.
but as we unfold the leaves still further
and proceed far back in the cycles of. |
time TO the lower depths of the rock we
come to Il race of giants twelve feet high.
with feet twenty-five inches in length.
These men wore shoes, and had domestic
animals OF peculiar structure and great
size. The only human instruments so far
discovered were made of stone. They had
saws and long knives made of slate.
A young mar in Bolton, Connecticut.
had a cancer on his nose, and it fretted
him sothat he tried to kill his mother
with a butcher-knife.
A foreigner, apparently an italian, has
been arrested at Washington under suspi-
clon OF being Lamirande, the escaped de-
taultlng French cashier. While in con-
nnement he attempted TO commit suicide.
and Is held until the authorities in New
York city can be communicated with.
III gross advertising receipts of the
st. Louis Republican, during the quarter
ending July ist, were 500, 253 -; of the
st. Louis Democrat S45,4l6 90. During |
The preceding quarter the receipts of the 5
Republican were $50, sol, and of the DEM
oerat S34, 749. I
Inc military prisoners confined in the t
Ohio ~Penitentiary are being discharged t
lnder the recent order of the President
Among others was DR.. Paine, who was b
captured two years ago, and was at one
lme n sentence of death as a rebel {
Ply. I
a r1atch of n novel character Was made n
n Union Mills, Pennsylvania, on Thurs l
lay last, for $50 a side between Thomas l
army, the champion harlmer-thrower. b
nd Henry GOss, of Union Mills. The b
hatch Is as follows To win, Mr.. Jarmv P
MI be obliged TO throw asix-pound ham a
Ter two yards further than his opponent. Ell
Ii. Goss, throws a pebble finger stone 2
seven unces The match is to N
place on the 9th of July, at the ath- 81
tic games, on the Meadville driving er
ark.
Two fremen of Pittsburgh, according
} a Pittsburgh journal, made the follow
g owe wager a day or two ago: Yea
er bet a bushel of potatoes on Hamiu. 10
Jones took the bet for Kelley, with IN
le specification that the loser should p;
lace the bushel of potatoes on a Wheel 10
arrow, envelOp himself in a heavy pilot ri
9th tireman's ~oyereOat, and start be- -
Veen n and two o'clock P. NJ, on q f.
-nshiny day, and proceed from the msr- a.
to Abietzs store, in Lawrence "
lie. -
Mrs. Mary Rannev, a German lsdv ~
wing at Morrisania, was taken III on a.
and soon after became apnsr- &c
tly ~lifeless. Two physicians declared Va.
she was not dead, but the burial was 80
oceeded with next afternoon, when the an
Inn being opened at the grave bv her A
other, he declared that she was not -
I'D, and he refused to allow the burial ~,
proceed. The lady was not buried as IL,
g as Friday evening, but she had not To,
ooi
The cash receipts of the daily press of i
stsburgh for the fiscal year ending june mas
1866, were as follows: Commercial Yer
'Ol2; Dispatch, S53,237; Chronicle, Bes
u.s. Gazette S3s,s76. The receipts eigl
The fiscal year ending June 30. 1865. of '
70 DC Iolio"s CHRONICLE, $39,33I; baf
'amereiaL 27,624; Dispatch, s2494I Ne,
sette 24,So7j Post 1894; Freedoms was
1851. Mr.