The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-31
NEWS JoTWINGS.

-"hr. George n Sanders" says a Montreal
paper Of Friday, "thc well-known agent OF the
Southern COnederlcy, is In town"
Charles C. Stearns, student in Harvard Col
lCgc, has been fined Sl5 in the Cmbrilsc polio,
courts for breaking sireet-lamps, and S. Msrri-
weather, another student has been put on prO5l-
ton for intoXication.
The train which left Boston for Concord y.
H., on Tuesday afternoon, had a voley OF stones
fired into It at the Lawrence station, breaking
some of the windows in the cars and iniurng
several persons.
The horse mackerel fishery has been brisk
this summer and fall along the coast The fact
that these fish will take baited hook has been
known only for two seasons past, and they arc
now caught by huge hooks blited with porgies.
"A young man in Boston married q wife
few weeks ago, went out into the back yard in the
evening, and has not been heard of since. His
wife subsequently received a letter from him,
stating that he had left her because he was un-
worthy OF her. and that, before she wollI
receive the letter, he should be no more.
The Superintendent of the Pablo Schools OF
Boston reports that many of the pupils are over
worked to such an extent as TO constitute an evil
| of great magnitude. This evil exists in both the
upper aud lower classes, but IL IS more fully de-
vclopcd, and moro Injurious IN its effects, in the
highest divisions, where the pupils are competing
for medals. The average aueudlncc Is thirty
two thousand.
Potatoes are falling. The Bath (Ns) Times
says that the very best qualities sell in Belfast for
ffty.fye cents and in Bangor for sixty cents a
bu,hel. The Portland IrgH says potatoes were
selling in Skowhegan on Saturday last at forty
| two cents a bushel. The potato crop in that
section will prove The best that has been gathered
for many years. One gentleman has raised three
hundred bushels of JacksOns on one acre.
The wife of Governor Harvey, OF Wisconsin
| who has actively administered TO the wants Of
the Wisconsin soldiers during the war; was com
plimented at Vioksburg few days ago with the
gift OF a handsome gold watch, purchased by the
I'd Wisconsin Cavalry. Her little speech, in reply
to the presentation address, contained this pretty
| passage e.
"Soldiers! May your every heart throb be as
strong, steady, and true as the tick OF your trel-
| suIes gift; your every wish pure as its polished
| gold every loyal aspiration full and free, as my
| gratitude is 10 you!'
- Deacon David Fskc and wife, vt S1elbulne
| Massachusctts, celebrated their golden wedding
| on the 18Th instant. A year ago their children
| planned n large celebration, with Rev. Dr.
| Chandler, Of Greenfield, to preside; but two of
| the children have since dicd-Slmuel "DIun
| Browne at Fredericksburg, and another at
| Cleycland-and only two Of the four children
now living, out of family Of seven, We're present
October -, 1874, was near the close OF tbs second
war with Great Britain, and Mr. and Mrs Fiske
| spoke Of the prices Of housekeeping as higher
| than the present prices, and of the rapid decline
| fprices following Inc peace Of the next spring.
Each end OF tho nifty years rests on war.
The Gtty-Grst annual meeting of the Amer.
can Antiquarian Society was held at Worcester,
Massachusetts,, last week The report Of the libra.
rian announces gifts of two hundred and forty
| five volumes and one thousand pamphlets since
! the last meeting A paper on the early settlement
Of Virginia was read by Rev. L. T.. Hale OF B5s-
ton, and the following officers were elected for the
ensuing year President, stephen Salisbury, OF
! Worcester; vicc-pre,iJcnts, Rev. William Jeuks
! Of Boston, Levi Lincoln, OF Worcester; secretary
OF foreign correspondence, Jared Sparks, Of Cam.
bridge; secretary OF domestic correspondence
| Bcnism'n T. Thomas, of Boston recording secre-
tary, Edward Mclcn, of Worcestsrj treasurer,
/ Nathaniel Paine, Of Worcester.
Tile late solomon sturges Of Chicago, who
died last week, was one Of the pioneers Of the
West. The Chicago TrJae says
'IIc was born on the 9Th Of April, 1896, affair
! field, Connecticut, and in the sixteenth year Of
his age participated IN the War Of 1872, thus early
| oyiuCiug q patriotism which hes ever character
| ized hIu. Mr.. Sturges comrades iu-arms during
this memorable campaign were Aessrs. George
| Peabody and W. W. COrCOrau and by a strange
| coincidence all three Of the compatrlots have
| become men of vast wealth aud commercial IN
| tegrity In 1915 he left his native state and
| moved 10 Ohio, then the Far West whence he
| moved so this city about ten years ago. shortly
after his arrival he built the great warehouses OF
| the Illinois Central Railroad, which stlll stand,
Long before the Father Of Wathers was naylgated
by steam he regularly built hat-boats and took
| item for sale 70 New Orleans, walking home a
distance of twenty-five hundred miles. In 1879
! Inc built the Wabash and Erie Canal from Torre
! Haute TO the Ohio, adyansing the money, which
was afterwards reimbursed by the State