Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-12-23

PArrSgyILL1, 0, Dec. 40, 1851.

PAIHESvILLl, o. Dec. ~ 1851.
EptroRs LuApHR-A brief letter now and
then, giving the news in this county, may
not be unacceptable to yOunOF unintereStlng
10 your readers. In this opinion ! send you
the following.
In Kirkland township / understand the
small poK has made Its appearance. To
what extent It has spread have not been
able to learn. Some considerable excitement
has arisen in consequence, indeed am tsld
that something akin to terror has sized many
of the more timid and spprehsnSive, on &C
count Of the dread mRlady.
At Willoughby the Collegiate Institution,
under the supeEintendancy Of Dr.. Reno, has
Just commenced the winter term, under as
encouraging auspices a. could be hoped for
during the present year Of general depression
and arrangement in business affairs. At
stated intervals lectures are held in the Hall
of the Institution, to which the public are
generally invited, aIOrding, I an told, very
many pleasant and instructive evenings to
the public in the course Of the year.
In Perry the presence Of DipthsriA Is car
rying sadness and sorrow into many a family
circle. Now the malady attacks both the
old and the young. There have been several
cases among adults in Mentor, also. In
Mentor in one house In the family Of an
lrishman, there were twelve dead from THU
terrible disease at one time.
The fall term of the Lake Erie Femsl,
Seminary has just closed, and the young
ladies have gone home to enjoy the holidays
I do not understand that there were any pub
lie exercises.
The gainesville High School closed its fal
term with public exercises on this Friday at
terno0n. The school is conducted by Mr.. N
j. Oatman as Superintendent, assisted b.
Miss Mary Burton. The Grammer School Il
taught BY the Misses Tiddias, T. Gee and 3
Houghton Everett. The intermediate b!
Miss Sarah Palmer. The exercises consisted
of the reading Of compositions, q paper, 90
lcCt ue8lhmaIuub W tWo young m0u aA4 NCl
i~tations in poetry by the young ladies, colo
quies with interludes In music. The Who'll
was witnessed by a large audience with ear
nest satisfaction.
The Parmly House, the most elegant struc
ture on Main Street. for which our town !
indebted TO the muni6cence Of DR.. Parmly, G
New York, is to open on Christmas Eve.
public ball Is to be given by "mine host"
Burnidge, Esq. So l am told.
Some Of our citizens almost think tbs
Death is holding his carnival here Just nov
|, in consequence Of the death Of two of on
citizens. Such is the place that a useful an
worthy citizen holds in community. With
the last half moon DR.. ]. B. Carpenter an
Judge D. Aiken have gone the way Of ell th
earth. Few men live in any commnnit
sharing more fully of the respect of all tina
DR.. Carpenter. he was 8 quiet but uno.
, Tending citizen. His loss is universally d.
plored. Judge Aiken was a wealthy ma
and was most s~crupulonsly attentive to a
| the little cOurtesies Of life. BE was g men
Der of our Board of Education, and was eve
! an active friend of education. His funera
t 1t is said, was more largely attended than an
|, that has ever taken place in gainesville.
l OCCASIONAL.