Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-16
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TIE Lincoln monument fund amounts t,
s64,626 SO.
) GEN. GRANT had two Of his favorite hc,rsel
. stolen from him lately. Both have been
recovered.
Eight of the men injured recently by the
explosion of the boiler of the Pomeroy, o..
, irOnworks, have since died.
LADY in Boone county, o., recently gave
birth to twins-a boy and girl-One o1
which had eight teeth and another feur.
DR. G. VOLSEr Dorsey, ex-Treasurer Of
the State, was elected councilman from the
Third Ward, Piqua, at the late election.
TIE trial of Gee, at Raleigh, N. c., will
continue, unaffected by the Presidents re-
cent Proclamation.
ONE of stonewall Jackson's brigade com
manders has been nominated for the
Shrievality in New Orleans.
QUANTRELL, according to Texas paper,
lately passed through that State to Mexico
in charge of cotton.
THE Secretary of War has directed Gen.
Sheridan to muster out the 4Sth Ohio with
out court-martialing those who mutinied.
THE St. Louis Dispatch asserts that pilots
on the Missouri river get from sixteen to
eighteen hundred dSllars per month at pre-
sent.
TIE closing obsequies of the late Daniel
S. Dickinson took place in New York yes
terday, in accordance with the rites of the
Episcopal Church.
THE last arrest made by the Canadian
authorities at Cornwall is of one Wheeler, an
ex-COnfederate officer. A Fenian commits
sion as Northumberland, issued by
Sweeney, was found on his person.
Mr.. PIKE has resolved to rebuild the
Opera House block in Cincinnati, but not
as an opera house. The new building will
be completed this summer, and win be div
ided into stores and offices.
The Oldest man in Rushville county, H.,
is Mr.. Jordan Rhodes, of Huntsville. He
is over one hundred and four years of age,
splits rails, carries easily two-bushel sack
of meal on his shoulder, and can walk as
briskly as any of his neighbors.
UP to Friday evening last the number of
deaths on the steamer England, at Halifax,
was l7O, including those who died on the |
passage. The disease is stated to be
severe form of ship fever with cholera
symptoms. It has been checked and is de-
creasing.
In the Wisconsin Legislature the other
dow NJ Wi1aar raeolr1finr
setting forth that the State was in possession
of two eagles, known by the names of Abe
and Andy, and changing the name of Andy
to Timothy. 1t was passed by large ma
jority, amid much merriment
DISPATCH from Washington ola Boston
says that a term of the United States Circuit
Court will be held at Richmond next
month, and the trial of JEFF Davis for high
treason may be expected to take place
within two months.
TIE Queen of England, hearing that |
George Peabody, the London |
banker, was about to visit the United States,
sent him her miniature and an autograph |
letter thanking him for his noble charity to |
the London poor. She would also have |
made him baronet if he had not felt de- |
barred accepting SO distinguished a compli-
ment.
The indianapolis Journal of Friday morn |
ing says: "We have the pleasure of an
nOuneing that Governor Morton arrived in
this city last night. The Governor looks a
great deal better than we expected to see
him, and states that he has gained consider |
ably in weight since he reached New York /
on his homeward journey; but he walks |
with more difficulty than when he left his |
home last November"
A MAN named Julius Hall, on the Sd inst, |
murdered family of negro people, con-
sisting of a mother and her three children,
near Warsaw, Richmond county, Va. He |
went into the kitchen of the negro woman |
and committed the murder with an axe, /
and afterwards told his wife and father |
what he had done. The local paper sup
poses he was in derangod condition at |
the time"
| SINCE the release of the Indiana conspir
ators, under the ruling of the Supreme |
1 AOuEb NAdA lIAdA Vi NANAAAdAS HAAAAeoAJ
courts was illegal, it is said an effort will |
be made to procure the discharge from i'm
pritonment, of Spangler, Mudd, Arnold and |
| oLaughlin, convicted of completely in the
assassination of President Lincoln.
The sanduskY Register says the govern
msnt sale at Johnson's Island came off on
Wednesday according to programme. The
bidding was spirited, and nearly every
| thing sold at its full value. Mr.. johnson,
owner of the island, bought most of the
valuable buildings, and will probably
transform them into dwellings for the future
inhabitants of the island.
"a WATERLOO soldier VIII was supposed to
have fallen in that battle, and whose name
has for fifty years been inscribed on the
monument OF heroes at Wiesbaden, has re-
turned from America, whittier he emigrst-
ed vhile the battle was raging, and had his
name erased from the monument. His
name is william Wust, and he was in the
| Nassau force attached to the English army.
On Fridsy morning Mr.. Heath, stock
broker of Detroit, yss proceeding along the
track of the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne
Railroad, in Chicago, and by some mistsks
stepped on the track, along which, st the
moment, the six o'clock train was running,
His baaS was turned to the train, and be-
fore the engine could be stopped, he was
run over, his legs being rut off below the
| knees.
IL Cincinnati last Friday the wife of an
ex-member of the police having occasion
70 20 to market, locked Ler, little boy, two
or three years old, in the yard, and on re-
turning was horri6ed to find that he had
fallen iEto the priFy vault, which was forty
fee. deep and three-fOurths fun- a crowd
was gathered by her screams, and the floor
ing torn away, but it was found impossible
for man to thrust his body through the
orihcs with the ladder at the necessary
angle. At this stage of the proceedings the