Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-09
THE N E w S

any previous one.
TIE United States District Court for tht
Southern District of Georgia opensd in sa
vannah yesterday. Thursday next the con
stitutionality of the test oath will be argued
THE Washington Republican says United
States District-Attorney Chandler has pre-
pared bill of indictment against JEFF
Davis at Norfolk, Va.
THK man who invented the s'return ball, -
which little nuisance is just now SO popular
is making his fortune out of its mauufac-
ture.
THE health officer of New York reports
three new cases and three deaths from
cholera, yesterday. The total number Of
deaths, 50 far, is fifty.
VAILAyDIGHAM went to Washington, it
seems, to investigate and discover what pos
sibility there might be Of recovering dam
ages for his martyrdom.
All the parties interested in the Ada us'
Express robbery last January have been ar
rested, and all the money recovered except
$4,000. A brakeman on the train origi-
mated the plan of the robbery.
TEE New York dispatches this morning
give a synopsis of the views of Wendell
Philips on the present political situation,
as expressed in a speech at the anti-slavery
anniversary meeting.
A DISPATCH from Albany says the South
ern mail made up in New York te be sent
to Albany Monday night, has not reached
its destination, and no Trace of it can be
found.
GENERALS Beauregard and Adams have
gone to Europe to negotiate the Jackson
Railroad bonds. President johnson modi-
fed their paroles. allowing them TO go and
return.
JOHE J. DAVIS, Grand Master of the l. O,
o. F. of the State of New York, and Grand
Scribe Of the Grand Encampmsnt, and rep
resentstive of that body in the Grand Lodge
of the United States, died yesterday in New
York. --...
THE United States Circuit Court opened
in Norfolk, Va, yesterday morning. The
judge, in charging the jury, dwelt on the
necessity of bringing the rebel leaders to
trial.
A SPECIAL from Owen Sound, C W., states
that another panic took place there Monday
night on account of reports of the approach
of the Fenisns, somebody laboring under
an unsccountable hallucinasion of having
seen seven Fenian war vessels in Georgian
Bay. That's played out.
louisville is suffering from visitation
of rats, and city ordinance is proposed
giving q premium of a cent head for every
Norway rodent that shall be duly produced
before the city treasurer. II Is said that
man of ordinary industry, working eight
hours daily, may earn from FIVE to fifteen
dollars per day by killing rats, even at this
low rate.
A LITTER writer from Fredericksburg,
Va, says that the "young men of that sec
ton are renting farms and preparing them
selves for the toughest work of agriculture"
The young men of Virginia would have
been sll the better for it if they had per-
formed the same sort of work years ago.
THE iron-clad vessel built in America for
the Tycoon Of japan has proved failure.
According to the usage of that country
whenever a man makes q mistake, the con-
tractor or engineer has committed hari-kari.
What blessing it is that Oriental customs
do not prevail over here!
THE Cincinnati COMMERCIAL says there is
between Probst and Covert, the perpetra-
tors respectively of the Deering tragedy and
the Deer6eld horror, a most remarkable
personal resemblance. Both are about Eve
feet seven or eight have blue eyes, light
hair, and turned up" noses, striding walk
and quite a sioop iE the shoulders. Both
served in the army, and both have lost the
thumb Of the right hand, purposely shoot
ing it off, in order to be discharged from the
army
In Chicago, last Monday, riot took place
on TWenty-second street, occasioned by the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Company laying branch track along that
street to some lumber yards, the residents
Of that locality being opposed to the exten-
sion. The workmen were attacked and the
rails torn up four or FIVE times but the
police finally quelled the row and the work
was completed.
SOMETIME since q vessel was wreckedj off
the coast of Mexico, and an American sailor
was picked up by New York schooner, the
captain of which abused the poor fellow
shamefully on the passage, putting out one
Of his eyes, and finding he had some money,
made him pay 500 for his passage. Ar
irving in New York, the sailor brought suit
against the inhumsn captain for damages,
and recovered five hundred dollars.
A BosTox letter to the Chicago Tribune,
under date of April 2sth, says "The widow
of Edward ". Green, lately executed, was
yesterday, for the first time, informed of
her husbands death. She was terribly af-
fected. She says that many times within
the last three weeks she has attempted to
write to him, but q mysterious something
prevented her putting pen to paper. She
had not once suspected the truth"
AT Columbus, Miss, Macon, Ga, and
probably other places in the South, on the
25th ult, the day set apart to decorate the
graves of the rebel soldiers, the ladies hsy-
ing the matter in charge made no distinc-
ton between the Confederate" and Union
dead in the cemeteries, but adorned with
flowers the graves of all The act was as
beautiful as it was unselhsh, and will be
appreciated in the North.
MKxPns, even without q negro riot, il
sufficiently exciting to satisfy the taste o
the most fastidious. The following is I
partial record Of @transsctions' for one day
A drunken policeman shot citizen VIII
refused to allow him to sleep in his stable
A woman Yves accidentally shot by som,
target-sbooters, at 9 German picnic. 4
little boy, AZ orphan fifteen years old. va
drowned on Saturday. Alfred Young,
| fireman, was mortally wounded at Shelby
I Station. on Saturdsy. A man was shot OF
the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
/ bridge Saturday night, and heard to cr7
/ mnrzer. Shooting is.of frequent occurrence
IN that vicinity. .i--zia s-ssi r -