The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-11-26
NEWS JoTTINas.

milton census, is lGi,7SS-less than Chicago.
Edwin Wilbur. formerly General Treasured
Of Rhode Island, died in that State on the i7tl
in. slant.
u wo autograph letters from Florence Night
incsle :, offered for sale at the Sailors Fair In
Boston.
In sprirpt, I'd, Massachusetts,, the people ar,
holding ward mo 'tings to provide against the
next draft
"A gambling-bouse, kept by John Brown and
Benjamin Kimhall was j. rokcn up q few days
1 since in Boston.
Deacon Cowlcs, Of Amhcr'., Mass, celebrated
bis golden wedding, and his son ms silver we'd
ding, on the same evening last wec,f.
A young lady named Nlalirda Caryt died
lately 10 rittslurg, from the effects OF COM
pound OF ch.oroform and ether.
The New London Northern Railroad Conn
pauy are 20 build q new bridge two hundred and
Thirty feet long at Three Rivers.
The New England Hospital lo- Women and
| Children In Boston was rCopCaed lately at it's
new quarters, and Is now In successful operation
"A boy eleven year, Old lately stole 800
| from the Postmaster OF Waterbury, Connecticut.
| lie coniCssos TO have stolen, at f5rmor times, a
watch and horse.
The Chicago Historical Society possesses the
| hind largest collection In the United Statcs,
! Harvard University and the Boston Athcurum
| having a. G first and second.
! -HoziuR does not flourish at Yale College.
| There has been beta single case OF il there this
| term, and for that one sophomore was expelled,
and two other, were dismissed.
| Skating will soon be the rage In Portland
| The soldiers Of the 18th United states Infantry
have already constru ted a pond aud the citizens
are taking steps to establish another.
In Lafayette, Ind, the other day, a Demo
| crat wheeled a barrel of apples six times round
the public square. He intends to stop betting,
| for at the previous election he sawed "a cord of
wood to pay wager.
"A weekly paper in Hartford suspcnds pubu-
| cation once IN WHILE ON account of the high
| price of paper. The editor saws the subscribers
prefer an occasional weeks suspension TO an in.
crease OF subscription price
Tho production OF haxs,ed IN New Jersey
shows III increase this yeah ,mouut ug t) fourteen
and two.tli;ds per cent There has also been an
increase Of ten per cent in the production of
sorgbum-a greater increase than Is sLowuin any
other State.
Captain Gorham +. Blssct has Just COM
plctcd bis twcuty-sccond voyage to the West
Indies, rs master He has purchased and brought
to Boston over ten million dollars worth Of mcr-
chandsc Captain b ssett is but forty.dyc years
Of age.
Colonel T. w. Higgnson, Of the lst South
Carolina culOIcd regiment, has been honorably
discharged from the army on account Of phys-
cal disability, and mas taken mp his residence at
Newport, Rhode Island. lie will devote himself
to literature.
The Pittsburg papers report q marked decline
in steamboat stock within the last few weeks, SO
that toats which seven or eight months ago would
sell readily for thirty thousand dollars, would not
now bring anything like that figure.
Charles S. Smith, ofNcw York, has purchased
the residence Of Morgeu Morgans, in Stamford,
Conn, for $4,000, and viii soon take possession
Of it. En- Governor Wright, Of Indilna, and
Rev. DIR. Lathrop, of New York, have also pur-
chased building sites in Stamford.
Rev, c. c. Carpenter, of Bernadstown, Mas
sachusctts, the Labrador missionary, has been
obliged by failing health TO return, and will
remain in Massachusetts during the winter. Rev
S. Russell Butler Of Northampton graduate Of
Williams College, who wen. out in July, remains
at Cariboo Island.
AT the funeral of Lieutenant Urmston, in
Danbury, Connecticut, recently, the clergyman
was rainbow round about the throne, and as
the body was lowered into the grave the sun
broke through the clouds and q beautiful raiubow
appeared in the east.
Mr.. Caleb House, of Turner, Me- who will
complete his Rinety-ffth year on the first of next
month, on election day rode with his son four
miles to the Town House, walked unsupported
from his conveyance to the ballotbox and dcp1-
sitcd his vote for Lincoln. He first voted for
Washington, and has voted in every Presidential
election since.
1t is probable that the debt of $4,000 on the
Provincial Theological Seminary at Troy, New
York, will soon be cancelled by the liberal collcc-
tons taken up in the Roman Catholic churches
of that diocese. Last sunday three churches in
Troy contributed $1,000.
During he Union celebration at Nashua,
New Hampshire, on Thursday evening last,
salute was fired at Bowcns Hill, and at the forty
! first round premature discharge occurred, by
which Frederick J. Hughes was terribly maugcd
| in both arms, one Of which has been amputated
The teacher Of the Cambridge (NIassachusctts)
High school, backed by part Of the committee,
recently made a rule that all lhe boys should
wear slippers in the seh0o-room, and sent home
those who did nos comply. ThepareEts objected,
| and the order ha, been rc7crded.
The uial at Boston Of Joseph Bent, Portu-
gu,,e .aiior, for tte murder OF John siyersmith,
| terminated on Tuesday in a verdict Of guilty.
! Tic rarrics belonged TO the bar We Royaa@, on
! board of which the murder was committed in
! July last Judg2 Clifford sentenced Bent to be
! hung on the lI,h @. February next.
-Eulcu Miller, OF Pawuchct, Rhode Isllad,
! shattered a., arm by rifle sho, while hunting in