Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-11-18
M,sceIInnenu. Items.

A law has passed the Vermont Legisla-
ture allowing towns to erect monuments
to the memory Of deceased soldiers.
The new Secretary of Legation at Wash
ington, from England, the Hon. W. Elliot,
is a son Of the Earl of st. German.
The YeraciOus New York correspondent
Of the London Times writes home that but
for British sailors the American navy
mercantile or national-Would not have
been what it is The same truthful person
styles General Corcoran "an ex-rebel and
rumselelr."
An ingenious person has discovered that
the three most foreible letters in the alpha
bet are N R G that the two which contain
nothing are NJ 7; that four express great
corpulence, o B C 7; that two are in q
decline, D. K; that four indicate exalted
station, Y L N C; and three excite our
tears, yet, when pronounced together, are
necessary to good understanding, L G.
A Scotchman who had heard Beecher ct
Manchester sfterward expressed hts Opin-
ion Of him to an American in unmistaks-
BILE High Fifsshire: "Eh, mon, he was
ioost gran" he said: she CART me tingle
fra the tap of my head to ym taes Ye
must ha' Draw meenisters, if he's fair
sample of emp
Ten Of jeff Dayis's slaves were lately
captured by the rebels thirty miles below
Vicksburg. They were on the river plan.
tation of the president" and had on Fed
eral uniforms, and arms in their hands.
Six slaves belonging to brother of JEFF.
we're taxed at the same time. Will the
"Presiden" carry out his threat and hang
his own slaves for the offence of wearing
the Union uniform
A curious case at law has arisen in
Pomersnis. A farmer held meadow,
with the right of irrigation on eaqh recqr-
ring Apostles'i Day. He contended that
there we're thirteen apostles, 'including
Matthias and Bsrnabes as well as Paul. !"
It was closely argued by the lawyers; and
the joke Of the affair is, that several news
papers have been pounced upon by the
government and punished for having been
guilty pf undue nerrimenFR in slluding
to the subject.
The value Of the petroleum wells to the
State Of Pennsylvania may be inferred
frau the increase Of population in those
regions since the wells have begun to be
worked. Venango the county in which
the wells are situated, has increased it,
voting population in two years from l, 7l3
to 6,265. From having been one of the
widest, it is likely to become one Of the
most PopulOus counties in the State.
1t is perhaps not generally known that
the Russians use English terms for the
various paris of ship, and all the orders
for sailing are given in Dutch. These
terms were originally engrafted in the
Russian tongue by Peter the Great, who
studied shlp-building in England and sea-
msnsbip in Holland. 1t was found easier
to adopt these foreign terms than invent
new ones for every day use, as they had
no equivalent in Russian.
The total shipments Of boots and shoes
from Boston by rail and sea, for the past
week have been (according to the Shoe
and Leather Reporter) II, ,S33 cases. Of
this number 10, $50 cases were sent by rail
as follows: 1862 cases to Ney York and
Pennsylvania; l, III to the Southern States
now in our possession, and 6,5Ol to the
Western States, including 2l3 cases to
California. The clearances from the Gus
tom-house were 1868 oasss, among which
We notice $40 destined for San Francisco.
The New York Evening Post publishes
the following communication:
Will the following do as a rhyme to
"step," for which you asked some time
ago:
F. To say you cannot make
A rhyme that "Etep'' will take
Is most absurd
To make a rhyme to "step,"
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