Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-05-26
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miscellaneous ALrMAa 800 I
It has been a very mild winter in the
North Of Europe, and the lower ports OF
the Baltic have been open. Ice is being
imported 70 Copenhagen from Norway.
A Mississippi rebel newspaper boasts
that IL there IS no more frest thar State
will furnish wheat enought to supply half
the Confederacy for q year.
The Domestic Missionary Of Taunton,
Massachusetts, reports the number OF
drunken women in that town at five hun
dredl .r-
There are now living in the town Of
Londonderry, New Hampshire, five faml-
lies on the original farms settled in 1873,
al the time Of the first settlement Of the
toWn,
The tax Of Massachusetts, for the next
wear will be about nine millions, besides
what the National ta~x-gatherer will getin
various ways. OF this amount Boston
bears $8,4O0,OOO.
A new organ has been imported from
Germany for the Boston Music Hal, which
will cost about $4,000 when finished.
The cartridge factory explosion in New
York city, lately, was distinctly heard ut
Hartford, Connecticut one hundred miles
away.
The famous Colonel Grierson is describ-
ed as a tall, spare maD, with q determined
cast of e~ountenanoe, light "comPlected,
and every inch a soldier.
Since the war broke out ffty-six mem
bsrs Of the Chicago typographical Union
have entered the army. Tn most OF these
now hold commissions besides three or
four Majors, there are several Captains
and q number Of Lieutenants.
The women Of New England are no
halfway patriots. One in Boston, through
A fair gotten up entirely by herself and
personal friends, andheld in her own par
Tors, received over 81 1000 in aid Of the sol
diers' hospitals.
Christy's minstrels are performing in
Liverpool, where they appear to have
made 4 useusstion." The Post says the
ST. James Hall is crowded nightly by an
enthusiastic audience, who testify to the
merits OF the entertainment"
The Chicago Tribune mentions the case
OF an old lady in Carville, who has the
dropsy. During the last eighteen months
she has been taFped twenty-eight times,
and about thirty pounds Of water been
removed on each occasion.
EeypFs Pasha is kindly intent upon ca
tsrinR TO an English nOtion-thatof doing
the Nile with comfort and eheapness. He
is going to establish a line of steamboats,
on the Nile with every elegance.
The Swiss tourist must not expect any
glaciers this year, as they have been all
sold for ice to the Northern powers, owing
to the warm winter. At Grindelwald an
immense number Of workmen are cutting
and carting ice.
Parties in Sandwich, Massachusetts,
(Cape Cod, have bought and hired several
thousand pine trees, intending to tap them
the present season for turpentine. At $50
per barrel it lie thoughtthe enterprise may
prove remunerstive.
Arsbel newspaper announces, with nc
little exultation, that specimens Of shoe
pegs have been produced at the workshop
Of the South Carolina Railroad. It is an
encouraging evidence Of the progress OF
the useful arts under stress Of the block
ade, and if the war continues two years
longer, and the blockade puts the inventive
and constructive faculty Of the rebels to its
trumps, it may risetO the dignity of clothes
pins and tenpenny nails.
When the pilot Of the steamer Escort
81 LuG Eltkb VI WubAAIBLOAf DAbA CeAS-
ma, was shot in the head, he grasped th'
tiIler fl rtWelve minutes, steering the boat
beyond the rebel battery, eZclaiming tina.
II he could only take General Foster safely
by, he was willing then to die. He accom-
plished his viii, and nobly persisted in thu
gallant performance of his duty.
Near Toulon, France, lately, a wardel
Of the burg, named Durand, met with hi
death in an extraordinary manne HI
was amusing himself whilst off duty, will
fishing in the dock from a marrow floating
raft when, having caught a mullet, and no
knowing where to put it 70 prevent its es
Gaping Into the water, he conceived tn
idea Of holding it between his teeth, Will
he baited his hook. The fish struggling
in the commissions Of death, ended by frs
slipping his head first into the mouth Of tn
man, and then down his throat, completed!
filing up the cavity. The man rushed on
Of the dock for medical aid, but sool
dropped dead from suffocation.