Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-12-01

A new army hospital has been estab-
llshed at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
The Newark New .JerssyJl papers com
plain OF the increase of the lottery business
in that city. t5a b
The people of New Haven have sub
scribed S5O,OoO to form cosl-at-cost CON-
psny. rrl
The Chicago Historical Society proposes
to erect fre-prOof building to preserve
It's valuable collections.
An edition of Tennyson's poems for the
masses Is to be Published IN England in
semi-monthly sizpenny parts. It viii in
olnde poem never before printed.
Mansfield mountain, in Vermont, has
been lately re-measured, and the achinn
found to be four thousand three hundred
and eighty-nine feet above tidewater.
4 A meteor was seen in NeWburyport,
dassaehusstts, on Sunday last. Il ap-
pesred in the heavens near the star Zsts
CePheF and passing in north-westerly
direction for few degrees, exploded.
Jeremiah Dodge, of Thstford, Vermont,
formerly prominent citizen in the coun-
ty, committed suicide by cutting his throat
on the morning Of the 9th inst. He had
been insLne for several years.
A Connecticut clergyman Illuminated
his house in honor of the Union victory at
the election, and exhibited over his door a
transparency, with the quotation fro1a
Genesis; "And the angel of the Lord
called unto Abraham out of heaven asec-
ond time"
A slave woman fifteen years ago ran
away from her master in Maryland, and1
came north to Hartford A freedman, re-
Gently brought home from New Orleans by
Connecticut officer, on seeing the woman,
discovered her to be his wife. They were
remarked.
The new post Office money order system
works admirably in Boston. The increased
business thus devolved upon the Office hiss
made it necessary to appoint clerk to at
tend specially to that department, and the
moy ey order Office is now part and parcel
of the establishment
Rev. DR.. Cook, principal of the Wesley
an Academy, st Wilbraham, Massachu-
sets, says the Methodists of this country
have for the last twenty years, established
On the average one school in four months,
at an average endowment of forty thous-
and dollars making sixty school in that
time at cost Of over two million four hun
dred thousand dollars.
The twentieth annual session of the
Massachusetts Teachers Association in
Worcester was held on Tuesday. The
president announced that the receipts for
the past year had been two thousand four
hundred dollars; and the expenses nearly
two thousand dollars. In the afternoon
there was an address by the president in
regard to the association and its objects,
which was followed by an address on
Moral Training in Schools" by Harris
K. Greene, Principal of the Worcester
High School
The term Of Dartmouth College. lust
nearing its close, has been marked by quiet
and progress. A college resding-room is
about to be opened; enlarged faeilines
have been provided tor the use of the col
lege library, and considerable addition has
been made to the funds of the college.
The trustees are contemplating still further
financial enlargement. The new members
Of tie Faculty are Professor Quimbv in the
Mathematical chair, and Mr.. E. Il. Rug
giles in the department of modern Ian
guages and literature.
In some comments upon the approach
ing charter election in New York City,
Wilkes Spirit, states that the candidates
who are already in the field for the Com
mon Council are composed of Hpocket-
book droppers, thimble-riggers, jail-birds,
and baggage-smashers who aspire to lsgis-
late for the interests of this imperial city,
and to handle the fifteen millions which
arenow annually assessed upon its proper
ty."