Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-09
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session at Des Moines.
The United States Senate votes this af-
= ternOon on the pending constitutional
IS amendment.
n GEN. LoSGsTREET, ex-rebel, has been
= elected president of an insurance company
in Arkansas.
CULLEN, Archbishop of ireland, has writ
ten pastoral letter in witch he denounees
the Fenian Brotherhood in energetic terms.
, DELEGATES from Louisiana and Kentucky
called upon the President yesterday. The
interview was merely conversational"
, FIrz JAMES MATTHEWS, formerly Judge of
the Superior Court at Colum bus, Ohio, died
at his residence in Dayton last night
Gov. MORTON, of Indiana, arrived at New
York from Paris day before yesterday. He
IS suffering severely from paralysis.
6. B. LAMAR, of Savannah, has been SEN
fenced to three years Imprisonment and to
pay a fine of $25,OOO for cotton frauds,
bribery, &c.
a YOUNG woman, unknown, committed
suicide day before yesterday by jumping off
a ferry-boat plying between Cincinnati and
Newport.
Ex-Gov. GRAHAM, of North Carolina, has
asked the privilege of cross-examining the
witnesses fsom that State before the Recon
struction Committee.
GEx. MRIGs has issued g pamphlet con
| tanning the names of soldiers buried id
cemeteries at Alexandria. Va. The total
number of intermsnts there is S,3T2 white,
and 22s colored.
A DESTRUCTIVE Are occurred in Titusville |
| night before last Breaking out IN the |
stable of J. v. Libbie, it spread to Arch
street, destroying block of fifteen build |
ings, among them the Moore House.
DICK TAYLOR, formerly of the rebel ser
vice, who gave Gen. Banks so much trouble
in the Red river campaign, has leased the
canal connecting New Orleans with Lake
Ponchtrain.
THE Pennsylvania Republican State Con-
vention yesterday nominated Gen. John
". Geary for Governor on the first ballot,
and passed resolutions endorsing Congress,
and requesting Senator Cowar 10 resign.
MENTION was made few days ago of the
murder of an old woman named G0lszwein,
Cincinnati. suPPoasd to have baen the
work of a rODDer. IL ~PPears TnsI n7I
husband is suspected of the deed. He was
arrested at the funeral and is in jail in
Cincinnati.
foy-rnorlrT |
Howard's staff, notorious for his brief sd-
ministration of the Freedmen's Bureau in
Louisiana, in a manner so acceptable to the
reconstructed rebels of that State, has been
appointed private secretary to the Presi-
dent, and-will enter upon his duties in sbou
ten days.
LEGIsLAIIvR: Proceedings yesterday were
unimportant In the Senate bill was re-
ported. in response to a memorial of the
grape growers Of Northern Ohio providing
for taking statistics cf grape and wine in
the State Both Houses will adjourn over
from to-day till Monday, in order to visit
Newark.
A SPECIAL dispatch to the New York
Times from Montreal last night, says it IS
reported that Navy Island has been seized
by 10000 Fenisns. Great excitement IN
Montreal and orangemen armins. another
dispatch says the Canadian militia were
under arms night before last at Suspension
bridge.
THE Second Controller of the Treasury
has requested the Second Auditor TO require
all claimants for arrears of pay or bounty
for deceased soldiers of foreign birth, and
who represent themselves as only brothers,
sisters and widows of the deceased, suthen-
ticsted evidence from the genealogical tables
of their native place before their claims be
allowed.
A COLLEGE, is being founded on the sum
nit of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee c.
W. Roberts, q retired merchant prince of
New York, is the founder. He has pur'
chased 400 acres on the top of the mountain,
and has bought the Government hospital
buildings located there. A graduate of
Yale College will be Principal, 1t is sx-
pected to be opened by the LIST of May.
Ii. COL Edward Hays, formerly of the !
29th o. V. L, who entered the service from
Ashtabula county and is now a resident of
TrumbuH county, and who lost the use of
his right arm by wound received in one
of sherman's hard fought battles, received
an additional premium Of $25 for the lit
erary merit of his left-hAnded manuscri pit,
from the committee in New York who Of
fered the prizes Private David G. Gates, Of
Go. G, Ist O. V. l., of Portsmouth, Ohio, also ,
received prize. Z
BEpFoRD, Ind, was the sceps of tragedy
the other day, in which a ssoundrel's life | ,
was righteously taken by the father of an
outraged girl. A professor Esans had se-
duced the daughter of DR.. Newland, and
after some time the daughter had confessed
her condition to her father, revealing at
the same time the author of her dishoror.
The frenzied father armed himself with a
revolver and knife, and nesting DR.. Evans
on the street shot him. Evans fell to the
earth and began to implore Newland ito
spare him, but the latter plunged his lsng
knife into the neck of his victim, nearly
severing the head from the body, and then
stabbed him repeatedly. Prof Evans was
a minister of the Christisn Church, who
at one time enjoyed position of consider
able eminenee. He was once Professor in
the Northwestern Christian University, and
was the author of popular work called
~The Pioneer Preachers of IHdiana." He
is the same person who, some weeks ago,
was detected in faerGnts delicto with an
other mans wife at q hotel in GreencastIe
Protection 60 WOOl-GrOWsrH.
The wool-growers of Trumbull county
met at Warren on Tuesday, March lst
and organized county WoOl-Growers