Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-02-19
MORNING LEADER.
BIORNING, FEB. Ie. 1858.


kWestsrn paper says: at is only
twenty-one years since the first log-eaoln
was erectedin Burlington, Iowa, and now
It contains 10, ,120 inhabitants" A large
eabinl .t E15 H
The Chicago Times says that Chicago IS
infested by a gang Of Eell-aressea VII
lains Of The blackleg fraternity, Wnlen
would have done honor to hatchez Wheh
the town under the hill was IN the very
zenith Of its glory.
When the ram Queen Of the West left
Vieksburg for down the river, Commodore
Porter wittily remarked that the erait
might properly be classed with that breed
Of sheep known as '' South-doWn-
Hsnrv Ward Beeoher was in the rail-
road train with Mcclellan, last Saturday
weeE. in front oar-the hero behind.
GWhere il the General q inquired COM
pauion. In the rear, as usual, replied
Henry Ward.
A bill has been introduced in the New
Jersey Legislature which provides that
married women shall be empowered to
make wills, and dispose Of whatever
property it may be their good fortune to
possess, in like manner with the stronger
sex.
A babe was born in Britain, OOnnecti-
cut, last December, with a complete set Of
teeth at birth. The Winsted Herald knows
4 fellow np on Colebrook river who has
two rowsof teeth around his upper jaw.
He must have tough times with the den
tistss
The following appeared on letter from
q soldier, addressed to a young lady not
many miles from this city: "Soldier's
letter, and nary red. Hard tack in place
Of bread. Postmaster shove this through,
I've nary stamp, but seven months
due.n
It is stated, as q curious summing-up Of
Christian benevolence in the United States,
that the annual income Of ali the great
Mission Societies united is S2,500, 900.
This is about the cost Of an iron-plated
frigate, and less than the excise tax paid
on the single article Of tobacco
A wrestling match, for 500 a side, took
place lately in Jersey City, between F. D.
Bunnell Of Chenango county, N. Y, and
Lieutenant AinesWorth, Of Hartford,
Connecticut. Bunnell won the first fall,
(upon which it is said he had $500 bet,
after six minutes contest. The second
and third falls we're won by Ainesworth,
who Of course won the main bet.
Emma Livry, the danseuse, who was
burned during q rehearsal at the grand
opera in Paris recently, was at the point
Of death OF the last accounts. She had on
10 petticoats, and taking fire from the foot
lights, they made column Of fire 10 feet
high. She ran shrieking about the stage,
all persons avoiding her, until fremen
throw her down and extinguished the
flames.
The Cincinnati Enquirer denies that
many Of the Democrats in Congress repu-
dated Vallandigham and his sentiments.
It says nearly every one of them cordially
agrees with him, and that the report that
Judge Jewett cut him after he made his
speech, is utterly false. By this denial,
the Enquirer at once confesses its shame
and that of the colleagues of Vallandig-
ham.
Abraham G. Synder, foreman Of the
finishing shop in the Waterliet IN. "
Arsenal, will probably receive $4,000 for
having invented in his leisure hours,
machine for making bullets, for which he
could not obtain letters patent because he
was in Government employ. The machine
is in use in all our arsenals, and saves a
vast sum annuslly.
A veteran who served in the war Of 1872,
now belongs to an Ohio regiment, having
been in the present war from the start.
& ffSt h 81 55 ayRa as RS h dnistsa ST. this I pAE y
boys, my sOn-in-law, neighbors and friends
went into it, and thought might as well
be with them; and between you and I, it
was hard work to keep the old woman out
Of it,