Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-12-22
MORNING LEADER.
TUEspEY aIoRNING De. p, Isas



Seven buffaloes snd three elks- have re
csntly been added to the stock of animals
in the New York Central Park, where
there is quite mensgerie Of strange
beasts and birds.
The police authorities Of Portland, Me-,
have ordered that sll persons found abroad
after eleven o'clock at night arc to be ques-
toned. The object is to detect the m OTe-
ments Of suspicious characters.
Asis generally known, the President
has had the Tarioloid-others say it is the
small pOx. As usual, Old Abe could not
refrain from his joke for he remarked to
his physician There is one consolation
about he matter, dootOr-it cannot in the
least disfgure me-"
An officer who had just arrived from
Mexico, tells that the French officers and
soldiers are rather sick Of their glory and
civilizing the country, which results in
having their throats cut if they move
away from the town half mile without q
regiment as escort.
A New York barber, was SO conf
dent of the defeat Of Mr.. Gunther that
us ptCukcu uluEtAA 10 Dc bcNcIGly suEuD-
bed BY four muscular men, in one of his
own bath-tubs, in case Of Mr.. Grunther's
election. Mr. Gunther was elected, and,
four muscular men, with coarse towels,
did it to the barber On Monday.
A pair Of shears wsifhing "a tons have
been built in England for the Russian
Government, TO be used in the neighbor-
hood of st. Petersburg. They have
power of pressure equal to 1000 tons,
snd can cut to pieces bar of iron half
foot square The blades are Of cast steel,
and they are operated by hydrOstatie pres
sure.
A suit is pending in the United States
Supreme Court, in which the city of Du-
buqus is interested to the amount of $780,
600, the suit being brought by Gelpeeke,
the banker, to recover value OF bonds is
sued by the city for railroad purposes.
Hon. F. E. Bissel, of Dubuque, has gone to
Washington to conduct the defense on the
part of the city.
In Washington, the other day, a small
boy was knocked down and run over by
Mrs. Lineoln's carriage, breaking his leg,
and otherwise injuring him. Mrs. Lin
coin took The lad into her carriage, and
carried him to his home, where everything
in her power was done to alleviate his
snffsrings.
1t has been thought that people are de-
generating, because they do not live as
long as in the days Of Methuselah. But
the fact is-the Bangor Wing says-provi-
siOns sre so high nobody can afford to live
very long at current prices.
Two young boys, named shockleY and
Hs7ens, we're arrested at Shelbyville, In
diana, few days ago, and placed in the
same cell with an insane man When the
jsilor went TO give his prisoners their
breakfast, the boys lay Weltering in their
gore, with their throats cut from ear to
ear by the maniac.
On Wednesday, the 9th inst, an afro
eious murder was perpetrated in Leroy,
Illinois, Stephen D. Crook, an old citizen
Of the place, was shot by one LeaUder Coff-
mann. The murderer was arrested, and
the evidence before the eoroner's jury
showed that the act was purely one of
brutal and cold-blooded enormity.
A young woman recently died at Homo
lulu under the belief that she vas being
"prayed to death" The Polynesisn says
it is common thing for a native to hire
another to pray his enemy to death; and
80 great is the power of Imagination that
the victim, hsviOg been made aware of the
occurrence, dies.
The Free South, of the 9th, gives the re.
suit of the tax sale of lands on Hilton
Head Island, the previous Tuesday. Nine
teen parcels, Of from three hundred to two
thousand acres each, near eighteen thous-
and acres in all, were purchased by the
United States at an aggregate price of
Sl4 900. Six other parcels we're sold to
individuals, the highest at less than three
dollars an acre.