Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-26
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Gold closed last night at $50

TxtITe cases ofchoIera aud three dsaths in NeE
York, and eight cases bat no deaths, in Brooklyn,
yesterday
The labor Of convicty in the Aisbaml peniten-
tiary has been leased fsr six years to company
engaged in mining iron The State pays slG,OC0
for the contract.
Tie population of Wheeling, not including
Ritchietown, by census just taken, Is found to be
nearly seventeen thousand In the past five years
IL has increased about four and half thousand =
The President has signed the bill reyiving the
grade of General in the army, and ye teTd'y nom
isated Gen. Grant for that Office, and Bear Ad-
miral Farragut to be admiral in the navy.
Hon. Covode has been nominated by the Re
politicians for Congress in the 2Ist Pennsylvania
District, which has been represented for the past
four years BY Nr. Dawson, Democrat.
Major E. C. Ross, the new Senator from Kansas,
was sworn in and took bis seat yesterday. J.s. L.
Fowler, Senator elect from Tennessee for the time
endiag 1871, a'sO took the oath.
ihe boiler of a locomotive attached to an east
ward bound freight train exploded Monday after-
noon, near Greensburg, Pa. killing two men and
fatally iDjuring q third.
Rabbi Of the Hebrew congregation of F.. wsyne,
Ind, died there few days ago. at the age of about
seventy.
a 7. StewArt's new house on Fifth avenue, New
York, Is now ready for coat OF whitewash. 1t
is said bo the finest private residence this or
any other .csntinent, and will cost 8, 800, 600,
without iurniture.
A prominent citizen of Savannah was arrested
Saturday morning, by military authority, for
beating a negro servant. This is the fl. st instance
in Georgia Of the enforcement Of General Grants
recent order.
Thirty thousand tons focal We're sod at auction
in New York yesterday at the following prices
Lump, S637%@ 81, so; steamer, 81. .50GG 60; CRATE,
Sc, ,62149G, ,75@77Oi stove, s7,eo97,so chestnut,
s5@5,5O.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Rollins has de-
cided, in a case arising in Chicago, that the
smount actually paid of taxes for grading or paw
log of streets, should be allowed as a deduction
from incomes rsturned for taxation.
The safe Of the United States Revenue Collector
at Nashville, on Tuesday night. wss rObbsd Of
81, 800 in currency, Government funds, aud ten
checks on banks amounting to Si3R. private
box, eostaining 81, $50 and several gold watches,
was overlooked by the robbers.
fire on Cherry Run, Smiths Farm, nesr
Ronssviie, Pa, Tuesday last destroyed five thou
sand barrels Of oil and twenty-five wells. Au-
gustus Rouse, euginssr of drilling engine, the
boiler Of which exploded, was killed. Sons Pal-
tieulars are givel on the fourth page
The remains Of General Richard Henry Lee
(father CT Robert L. Lee) to be removed from
Georgia TO Lexington, by order Of the Virginia
Legislature, and will be re.nterred the leth Of
September next, on the occasion of the reinaugu-
ration Of the washington statue
A W RAniAIl Was confirmed yesterday by the
Senate as Postmaster General, aud Joseph Wilson
IS Commissioner Of the General Land Office. Tue
nominations of General Gr4et TO be General, and
Rear Admiral Farragut to te Admiral were unan
imously confirmed without the usual formality Of
a reference ts committee.
raggsI old man was TIC ntly arrested in St.
Joseph, Mo on the change Of vagrancy, and on
examining his person, full half bushel Of filthy
old rags were taken from about his waist, and
wrapped in the rags was c-ncealsd s., ,224.5J in
coin, and s3,9 in currency. The old mAa decla ed
that some Of the coin had been in his possession
for forty years.
Three guerrillas were captured and Immediately
hung, at Little Rock on Friday last, by Regula-
tors. An examination Of the bodies after death
disclosed the fact that one was woman dressed
in mans clothing She is believed to have been
the wife Of one of the other guerIllas. The woman
was decently buried, while the others buried,
hastily, in a shallow hole.
little child, aged foar years, was found hulg
to a tree, short distance from Lutte Rock, Ou
Saturday morning last. Life was completely ex-
tinct. Tbs body had been mutiIated. Three stabs
were found in the body, and one leg WAS cut Of. \
man namsd Sweeney was arrested on slsp cion, he
having had a grudge against the ehild's family,
and possibly took this method OF revenge.
As the western express tIain on the Pennsyl
vania Railroad entered the Uu on Depot in Pitts
burgh, on Monday night, a seen lying
dead on the cross beam of the locomotive, imme-
diAtsly above the cow-catcher. Upon inquiry it
was found that he had been walking upon the
track, and being overtaken by the train ten miles
from tbs city, was thrown by the cow-catcher TO
the position in which he was found.
Wednesday of last week young man by this
IA he OF Jerry Lloyd of FRnkford. Mo-, killed the
father and mother VI Ofayoung lady kewas eourting.
On the occasion Of his visiting the young lady that
esening the question of marriage was raised aad
the father objected 10 the alliance Hard words
passed, and the young man stabbed the old gen
tleman in the stomach, fatally. The mother com
ing to the assistanee OF her husband was stabbed
in the breast. The Eoand was mortal, and she
died almost instantly. The murderer He'd, but has
since been arrested and confined ia Bowling Green
jail, Pike county.
A disgraceful riot occurred recently on the east
| ern shore Of Virginia, near DrummOndstown, be-
| tween the white inhabitants and negroes. Some
| time ago a negro was charged with aItenPu G to
kill white N. .n, and the recent trouble origina-
ted in the Efforts Of band of the whites to hunt
him down. The negroes made complaint to 8 mag
| istrate and he issued warrants for the arrest Of
eleven OF the whites. The day set for the trial
was the l4th and party Of hundred vel armed
men appeared and threatSned to shoot any negro
who gave evidence in the case. Ths magistrate
adjourned the cause as it was impossible to pro-
ceed and the negroes returned to their homes pur-
sued and assaulted by the Afmed whites. Troops
were sent to the of the trouble, but none Of
the guilty parties could be found having scattered
in every direction.
The steamer Hibernitn, with European dates 20
the 18th, arrived yesterday afternoon. The Great
4 VI AStnt feu Ouh milts o. tue
Atlantic Cable, and the enterprise progressing
fAvorabiy. Nothing further has trsnspired about
the peace negotiations. The PrussiaR army met
| aud defeated ths Federal army SehAffenberg,
on the l4th, and were marching On Frankfort,
which had been evacuated by the Federal army
and the Diet. 1t was expected thst the Prussian
army would arrive in front Of the Austrian cspi-
tai, Vienna, on the 18th or 18th. The nperor o
Austria assured tbs citizens of Vienna that h
would not fight the city, but would deiead the
line Of the DAnube, three or four miles from tn,
gates Of Vienna. If the Prussisus succeeded il
crossing the river and driving him from his line
defence, Vienna would fail, without fight in tn,
city.
DR.. Craven, the reputed author of tn,
work on JEFF. DAvis's prison life, is an il
l literate man, the proprietor of an ict
cream saloon in Newark, New Jersey
and wholly incompetent TO write such
book. The real author is somebody else
but who Common. rumor says Genera
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