Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-10
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| TIE President yesterday had an inter
view with delegation of Southern minis
tsrs.
A CHILD in New Jefferson, Iowa, was fa-
tally poisoned few days ago by chewing
pieces of an enameled paper collar.
THURIow ". BRowS. a wel-known lee
turer on temperance, and editor of the Wis
eonsin csiet, died at his residence at Fort
Atkinson, Wis, lest Friday evening.
A WHOLE family were poisoned last week,
in Iowa, by eating wild parsnips, suppos-
ing them to be artiehokes. Fortunately
only one member died.
one hundred and thirty horses were
roasted to death by the burning of the sta
bles of the st. Louis Street Railroad Com
pany, on Saturday last.
A NEGRO who was arrested at Frankfort.
KY, on Monday, for rape on little white
girl, was taken from the jail on Monday
night by mob, and hanged.
A BOY, named Conrad Koch, committed
suicide in St Louis, on Wednesday, because
he was chastised by his father in presence
Of his sweetheart and other spectators.
==sNcE the destruction of the COWS in Eng
land, they are importing goats from ireland
for milking purposes. Some orthem sell as
high as forty dollars each.
Gov. Brown, of Alabama, has issued q
proclamation designating the 18th of May
as day of fasting and prayer, in view of
the approach of cholera.
THE Spanish Admiral who bombarded
Valparaiso has written letter to the Span
ish Minister at Washington, giving his YER
sion of the affair.
A GANG of horse thieves, who have long
infested Washington county, Alabama, was
broken up recently by joint civil and
military force sent against them from Mo-
bile.
CHARLESTON is to have new weekly paper
published in the French language. There
are many persons in that city to whom the
French tongue is more familiar than the
English.
MISS sFEBBISs, of Chickasaw county,
Iowa, has received an appointment as No
tary Public for that county. She is the first
female ever having received such com
mission.
ACCORDING to the Cork Examiner, upward
of five thousand persons are awaiting ship
meut to the United States from Ireland.
Two-thirds of them belong to the middle
and farming class.
A GREAT council is to be held at Fort Lar
annie, about the 1st of June, between Gov
ernment Commission and the Indians of the
plains. It is thought that 10000 Indians
will be present. A large number have al
ready gathered at the appointed place.
Az invitation was recently extended to
Charles Dickens to read before the Queen,
which be declined, with the remark that he
was not willing to appear as performer
where he eogld not be received as gentle
man.
A ToRxNDo passed over the neighborhood
of Carrolton, Miss, last Saturday. 1t
ranged through the southern part of the
country, was about a mile in width, and
lett not tree in its track. The largest
hickory and oak trees were blown up by the
roots, or twisted of near the ground.
THERK is post-ofice in McDonough
county, Ill, through which only two letters
passed each quarter fer the last two
quarters. They consisted of the corre-
spondenee between the Postmaster and
the Department. The last letter to the Des
partment announced the Postmsster's adhe-
sion to the Presidents policy.
THE railroad drawbridge across the Cum
berland River, at Clsrkville, Tenn, was
completed on Saturday, and at five o'clock
p. m. the first train passed over it since
February, 1862. The road will be pushed
on as fast as possible, to make connections
through to Memphis.
Sons of the citizens of Philadelphia are
taking action for the purpose of properly
providing for and educating Willie Deer
ing, the only survivor of the Deering
family, SO inhumanly butchered. The poor
desolate little boy is left entirely without
means.
The death warrant for the execution of
PrObst on Friday, June 9th, was given to
the Sheriff of Philadelphia yesterday. The
prisoner announced to his confessor that he
believed death was The only expiation for
his crimes. He arrived in this country
three years ago yesterday.
Mn. F. C. KILToS, of the firm of Kilton,
Bancroft Co., wholesale grOeers, an old
and highly respected citizen Of Columbus,
was seriously and probably fatally injured
BY falling from the third-story window of
his store on Tuesday morning. Several
bones were broken, and his recovery was
regarded as hopeless.
TEE battle field Of Franklin, Tennessee,
where Hoods men fell by hundreds and
were buried, has been rented by the pro-
prietor to freedmen, and is about to be given
to the plow. Every Southern State has IL;
representative on this field, and th ell
friends are endeavoring to secure meaps t.
remove the bodies before the traces o III,
graves are trampled out.
Ar Petersburgh, Va, a few days az o, som,
bigots set fire to schoOl-housa u, whicl
eolored children are taught. The Indez @
that city is indignant at this o ct of vio
lence, and says that the citizens in genera
reprehend the act-one gent.eulan feelip
so deeply interested in the matter that h
started a subscription for a new building
and headed it with five h1ond-ed dollars q
his share in the good work.
ATERRIsIE tragedy took place on Mon
day in court room at ST. Louis a VIC
man named Bright had been fined 500 fc
committing adult sry, and was about payin
the line when b OF husband drew a revolve
and shot her through the head, infictin
injuries viii eh may prove fatal. Afte
shooting h wife, Bright turned the pistc
against n sown bosom, but was foiled i
his stter apt at suicide. lTW-,