Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-10-16
MORNING LEADER.
FRIDAY MORNING. OCT. I6, 1883.


81 FRIDAY MORNING OCT. 10, 1SbS'
si So sa miseeIIausOus Items.
o. "A Washington letter says The garri-
sons Of the various forts around Wash
ington are actively engaged in building
winter quarters"
"a The schooner Orion, laden with coal oil,
vas burned Friday night on the Welland
canal, and her captain drowned.
Thirty-one head Of cattle were suffo-
ested in one Of the box cars Of the Kenne-
bee S Portland RailrOsd, Tuesday.
1l The Cincinnati Common Council have
appointed a committee to purchase S20,-
900 worth Of coal 10 be sold TO citizens at
cost.
Professor Richard S. McCulloeh has re-
signed the chair of physics and medicines
in the Columbia College, in New York,
and gone to Richmond, Va, "to cast his
lot with the South"
=. DR.. George Hayward, of Boston, died
on the 7th, at his residence, CT apoplezy.
BE was widely known and enjoyed great
reputation as an American surgeon in for
eign countries.
freight and passenger routes between New
York and Boston, and it is proposed to es-
tablish new line Of steamers 10 touch at
Newport and connect with the Providence
Railroad, at Bristol, Rhode Island.
In course Of some conversation at the
War Department at Washington on Tues
day, an intelligent Tennesseean said /:
"The way to settle all things in my State
between us and the rebels, is to enlist ev-
cry able bodied slave in East Tennessee" j."
A loaded pistol in the hands of son Of
the late Ira Hoxie, Of South Adams, Mas
sachusetts, was discharged, a few days
since, the ball passing through the young
mans hand, and entering the right lung
of his mother, killing her instantly.
AspppOsed boy who was arrested as q
vagrant in Philadelphis the other day,
proves to be girl fourteen years of age,
who says she has served in the ermy as a
y servant to Captain in New York regi-
ment, and has been through several bat
ties
A woman in Washington, whose hus-
band is worth $4,000, was recently de-
tected, for the second time, in purloining
eggs at the Central Market The dealer
gave her sculding and let her off on the
q promise that she would never come near
his stand again.
The state Of society in Paris at this mo-
nent is described as bad beyond descrip-
ton. Pleasure, folly, extravaganza, reek-
lessness and dissipation are unrestrained.
A Journal called the Hanneton is largely
circulated, and yet the grossness Of its
contents will not bear explanation in En-
glish.
Mr.. Dicey,a writer in the Victoria Maga.
zine, in sn article on the American war,
makes the following short work of the
whole business "A nation overburdened
with prosperity, intoxicated with success,
demoralized by wealth, has learned how
to die as well as how to live, and that
lesson is surely worth the learning"
An old man driving across the railroad
track in Hinsdale, Massachusetts, on the
9th, was struck by train and in twink
ling found himself seated on the engine
in front Of the pilot house, while his horse
was killed. Gathering himself up, he in
nocently remarked, 4" What upon aith does
this mean p but was not long in ascer-
tanning. He escaped with only a slight
cash in his head.
The Washington correspondent Of the
New York Commercial writes " General
Hooker, who was published a few days
since as being at Nashville, has left that
place, but not 10 take command Of Burn
sides forces, as lately intimated. His po-
sition is entirely separate and indspend-
ent On the whole the officials here are
said to be well pleased with the situation
of Rosecrans' army. The day is now
passed for the rebels to crown the fighting
of Chickamauga with what possibly might
have been a legitimate success. East
Tennessee is forever ours"