Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-03-11
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Firth. an English artist, is to receive
10000 guineas for painting an elabOrate
picture Of the marriage Of the Prince Of
Wales.
Owing to the absence Of pennies 10 CIR
eulation, the gTocers Of New haven are
giving natmegs in the way Of small change.
The President has signed one hundred
and two public acts, thirty-three private private
acts. and forty-two joint resolutions passed
at the session just closed.
The woman-whipper Hsynau, who got
ducked by some London brewers for his
cruelies in Hungary, has come TO sulta-
bic end by blowing out his own brains from
political disappointment
DR.. J. Monroe, Of New York, has received
3 Havana orange, weighing three pounds
and half and measuring tirenty inches in
eireifgfeTenesI 1t was presented to him BY
the captain Of a vessel, who brought it
from Cuba.
Adsh Isaaes Menken, after a short ex-
perience in married life with 0rpheus C..
Kerr" has returned to the stage, and is
now playing "Mazeppa" at the Front
street Theater, Baltimore.
Nearly one-third of the women in Eng
land never marry, and 8, 100000 Of females
are thrown upon their own eXertions for
support What to do with the old maids p
is q question Of startling import in Great
Britain.
The rebels in Richmond arc Offering
most liberal prices for substitutes. One,
in the Dispatch, offers to pay 81, 800 each
for two substitutes, and another etfers
$1,000 for an acceptable substitute over
45 years Of age.
Queen Victoria has prepared the follow
ing inscription for a memorial Of Prince
Albert which has just been erected at the
Bath United Hospital in England: His
life sprung from a deep inner sympathy
with Gods viii, and, therefore, with all
that was true, beautiful and right"
A negro boy, 16 years old, was murdered
at Washington, D. c., on the 20th inst, by
an Irish boy. The only provooation being
that when the negro was snoW-balled, he
took the liberty TO SNOWFALL too, after
bearing it as long as he could.
A Federal Cavalry man writes home
from Virginia: The roads are impassa-
bic, we cannot move for mire, but If the
Rebs attack US, we are prepared TO welcome
them with muddy hands to horse pistol
graves" A soldier who was arrested for
stealing aIebeTs goose, said he found the
bird Kissing at the American flag, and ar
rested it for treason.
A "robin red-breast' has paid his al
most daily visits 10 the neighborhOOd Of R.
R. Keith Of Montpelier, Vermont, all the
past winter; even the coldest days, IL
perched upon the trees in his yard, and,
eating berries from the mountain ash,
bade defiance to the elements.
A gang of blacklegs accompanied the
Army Paymasters to Hilton Head. Gen.
eral Hunter put one of them, James Storey,
ct work with ball and chain, and, in his
fne clothes and kid gloves, he presents a
ridiculous appearance. A sutler named
Beard, who took the chaps with him as
clerks, has been ordered out Of the depart
ment, and his goods confseated. Exactly
right.
In the summer Of 1861, young man at
New York, who happened to have 10000,
took the advice Of a veteran fnancier, and
invested the whole in tar at 81 per barrel.
he realized last fall, selling out at $40
per barrel, the nice little fortune of
100000. The story is a tough one, but is
well TOuched for, and is an example Of
how some men have been making money
since the war began.
Thomas jefferson Shelley, a well-known
coach driver for the United States Hotel,
New York died on Friday from suffoca-
ton. Deceased was probably the fattest
man in New York, and was such a ourios-
ity that Bsrnum exhibited him, and Van
Amburgh thought it profitable to engage
him to travel throughout the country with
his circus troupe At his death Shelley
weighed over 500 pounds.
There is a very pretty story Of young
woman in Brandon, Vermont, the wife Of
6 volunteer, who went TO district school,
and side by side with the little children
persevered until she learned to read and
write, in order that her correspondence
with her fondly-loved husband might not
pass under the eye Of some stranger in
consequence Of her ignorance.
Lieutenant Britain, Of the l4th Connec-
ticut Regiment, was wounded at the battle
Of fredericksburg by heavy rife ball,
which entered his breast between the ribs,
passed completely through his body to the
skin Of his back, just below one lung and
above the stomach. He now carries the
ball in his pocket, and declares he is 60
ing back to try it again.
The citizens Of ST. Louis have now
chance to purchase a splendid piece Of
ground, 300 acres in extent, near the heart
Of the city, for park. They can have it
for Sl949 per acre, with the refusal and
use Of it for seven years, by paying S., 900
9 year rent. The limited quantity of land
devoted to parks and pleasure grounds in
many Of our American cities, where land
Is so cheap is q source Of damage to
health, and of regret to the lovers Of nat9-
raj beauty.