I noticed some strange lagg in alot of the 1.8 snapshots.
>> Things that DO lagg:
Mobs (move laggy)
The sky (The sky seems to 'visualy go faster' than it actualy does)
Redstone (Some redstone components, like repeaters have a noticable longer delay)
Liquids (Liquids spread out far slower than normal)
>> Things that DON'T lagg:
The chat (Chat works without lagg (Single player & Multi player))
Commands (Commands don't get effected by lagg)
Entities (SOME entities do not get affected by lagg like players, Items and Minecarts, but primedTNT does get affected)
I did some more tests with this strange lagg and I found this:
Nearly always happens in Flatland worlds
Somtimes go away after some time (~5 minutes)
Are on SIngleplayer as well as Multiplayer
Don't report more than one bug in one issue. However, in your case, the bugs have already been reported.