Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-10-13
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capable Of such heroism:
Angler HOUSE, CLEVELAND,
October 9Th, 1854. !
GENTLEMEN I would be gratifed if cir
cumstances permitted me to thank each of
you in person, for the earnest and effec
| tive way in which you interested your
selves on the night of the 18th inst, in get
ting assistance to rescue myself and others
from the danger we were in, while on the
spiles ofthe breakwater between C. C. Il e.
+. r. depot and StOckley's pier, after es-
Gaping from the wreck of the revenue
cutter WinslOw," and also TO thank you
for the kind hospitality so generously ex-
tended to US after we were safely landed.
take this way of acknowledging my in
debtedness, believing it will be more ac-
ceptable to you than more formal mode.
With the best wishes for your happiness
and prospects,
am sincerely yours,
DOUGLASS OTTINGER,
Captain U. S. Revenue Cutter Winslow.
70 Messrs. Root Blee W. L. Mutt, J.
Smith, George Myers, D. Calkins, J.
Keller, Z. Burke, George Wheeler, J.
Holmes and others whose names | have
not learned.
MK.DvnLR ITEMs.-We Gull from the
Crawford Journal the following bits OF in
telligence
The moonlight promenade in the Nc
Henry House Park was very fine affair.
The park was illuminated with hundreds
Of lanterns, while Leland's Cleveland Band
discoursed sweet sounds to the large COM
pany assembled. The party closed with a
grand dance in the dining hall.
There was grand Union meeting at
q
consisted of l5s wagons, and the persons
present were estimated at 5000. H. L.
Richmond, Esq, delivered a very eloquent
and effective speech.
A young man named Miles Clark, a
brakesmHn on the Atlantic & Great Western
Railroad, who has resided in Vernon town.
ship, was killed on Tn lrsday morning last,
by falling between the cars, at the oil switch
below the town. The train passed over his
head, mangling him terribly.
A strange case Ofchild-desertion occurred
in this place on Iast Wednesday.
good looking, neatly dressed young
woman, apparently about nineteen years Of
age, made her appearance at the houses of
several of our citizens, endeavoring TO in
duce some one to adopt a fine handsome
little boy, which she said was her own, and
that it was six weeks old. She stated her
name TO De hlT9- james rice. Tor reese
that her husband belonged in Cleveland,
but enlisted, and she had not heard from
him for five month' that she was not able
to support herself and take care of the
child also, that she wanted some one TO
adopt the boy so that she could hire out as
servant, and was willing to give up all
her claim to it, 10 the person who would
take the infant. 1t appears she failed in
her applications, and gong to the Eagle
Hotel asked a eolOred woman to hold it
moment while she went out for her satchel.
Being gone a long time one of the men
about the house suspected something wrong
and went to the depot and found the wo-
man on the train which was about to start.
The man succeeded by threats of having
her arrested, in inducing her to go back
and get her baby. She then went back to
the depot, requested some one to hold the
child while she got her ticket, and sue
ceaded in getting off with the train before
the lady who had kindly taken the child in
her charge he'd any thought of foul play.
The news of the affair reaching the Nc
Henry House, the young married ladies
boarding there took the little stranger in
and furnished it with better clothing. The
baby has so won upon their affections that
a quarrel ssnOpg the ladies was at one time
imminent as to VINO sE0pla keep it. We
hear, however, that the vexed question IL
to be decided by " rattle" Z"