Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-03

ana SeIlieu III LElO county WHICH, II Was a
ERRATIC ELECTRICITY-A fisherman
sitting under a tree on the banks of the
Miami, fishing, during a late thunder
storm, informs the Springfield Republic
that the lightning struck q tree, close
where he had taken shelter, and shivering
the trunk from top 10 bottom, split it into
four equal parts, just as nicely and COM
pletely rs it could have been done by
maui, wedge, and axe. And the quarters
were laid out from the ground, the tops
pointing directly towards the four points
of the compass. For a few minutes after
ward, the air was filed with the litter of
theriven bark and foliage, and the "fogs
of birthstone"
BUSINESS MENsoF DAYToN.-The Day
ton Journal publishes a report, from the
assessors books, of the sales of merchants
of that city for the year 1865. Forty-sev-
en- houses returned sales of over $50, 600.
The highest on the list are Kneisley &
Mcintyre, whose sales amounted to $780,
600. Darst Herchelrone & Co. return
1898 ,O00i Perrine, Lyttle, & Shaw $780,
600. -Four other houses sold oven $780,
600 worth Of goods, and sixteen houses
sold over $1,000 worth. Twenty-three
firms sold between $4,000 and SI0O,O 900
worth. The report does not include the
returns of manufactures. The Journal
says HIt is proper to add that our Job
bing houses generally, in 1865, contract
ed their credit business, so that the figures
we publish represent transactions for
which merchants receive the solid equiv
alent."
GROWING OUT OF THE MORGAN RAID.
An interesting jury trial came of in
Marietta, IN Monday last, wherein VIM.
Sharp, a violent and notorious copper
head, covered all over with rerdqiris, sued
I. X. Wells, for Sol 50, the value of a
navy revolver, a Colts revolver, belt,
scabbard and knife, lost during the Nor
gan raid. Sharp had left these arms with
Mr.. Wells, then keeping q hotel. Capt.
Hills, Of Urbana, being the officer of the
day at the time, at Col. Runkers en-
campment, took the arms from Mr.. Wells
for the use of the Government. The Jury
returned a verdict for the defendant, and
the case has been appealed.
THE CADIz REwARDs.-The Steuben-
vile Herald saysthe payment of the re-
ward to those engaged in the capture of
the CsdIE Bank robbers last week. was
the occasion of much excitemsn+lTha
Bank Harrison N~ational.) offered a re-
ward of $4,000 for the recover of the
money, oTPro rata for any considerable
portion of the same. The pro rata
amounted to $4,000, which is divided
among sixty odd claimants. Eleven per-
sons, engaged directly in the arrest of the
thieves, received $1,000 each. The bow
who gave notice where the thieves were
secreted, got 500. Other parties got
$500, and others as low as $55. The party
engaged in the taking of the thieves
were disappointed. They had set their
expectations higher. Some Of them. we
understand, like "our army in Flsnders,
swore terribly
How IT e TO DIE.-One day last
week a young man who was in Hamilton.
Ohio, was run over by a locomotive and
so badly mangled that he died in a few
hours. The poor fellow was carried into
a house near the road, and a physician
was brought TO him in g very short time
but it was evident that he was beyond
human help. He conversed ebeerfnlIv
with his acquaintance who came in to see
him, and said he felt very well. Soon sf-
forwards, turning to the physician he
asked "Did you give me something to
put me to sleep, Doctor 2" The doctor
replied that he did not, @Then I'm dy-
ing !" exclaimed the poor fellow. with sur
energy, and after giving a brief
direction to have his friends in q distant
state notified of his death, he expired.
BIOGRAPHICAL.-Col. Il. L. Phillips
died at his residencein Manchester. Adams
Ohio, on the 25th instant, of con-
gestion of the brain. He was in the prime
Of life, and at his death was a member of
the House of Representatives in the Ohio
Col. Phillips was a physi-
clan by profession. In 1850 he was an
ardent Douglas Democrat, but when the
war broke out, in obedience TO the teach
of Stephen A. Douglas, he Joined the
party of Patriots against the party of
Traitors. He recruited a company for the
10th Ohio in the fall of 1861. served
the war with great bravery
and distinction, and returned less than a
year ago at the head of his regiment for
out. Made g candidate for the |
while absent he returned and
canvassed his county for q few weeks, and
elected by over 200 majority.