The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-07-22
NEWS JoTTINes.


| '-h'Rebcl Majo, named Sullivan has taken the
oath Of allegiance at Wheeling. lie thinks re-
belhon ''dont fay."
Eight, Eve thousand lettors we're mailed
from the post Office in Bridgeport, Connecticut
duiibg the quarter ending July ist
Mrs. Rebecca Vaiand CHAM, mother Of c.
J. y.llaDIi. ham, 1icd az her residence in Now
| BJDdCn, Ohio, ON thr gth orJuly.
The Indiana Methodist difference has ap.
! pointed q Commute Of five TO FIX tho lIcltiou NJ
dHt-cla.s taiual, college in the limits Of tha,
Coufcrcncc
On the 25tb and 2sth Of May lass Governor
s symour parIouod sN'v.throe men and seven
women, all 5r whom we're discharged from slug
Sing Pris u.
a brisk it lo tornado visited B-atle5oro,
w., on MonJsy nigh, which blew down the
ttecpe OF the Corgrcg ,tional Church, and did q
good deal Of oth'r damage
An eccentric old mau in New Haven relates
with pride that hi broihors his sister =, and his
own Oldest sons We oil born Fobruiry 2gth,
H'd consequently have a. birthday only once in
four years,
Mrs. Winchester who died recently IN
Chirlestown, Mvs, bclueathed fifteen thousand
dollars N a NJ bod-t Cnurch IN that cjy, and
sen thousand t. lhe cry TO provide home for
aged ildigJnt females 10 that city.
The graIuaing class Of Beloit College, wis
Consin, has gIne 70 the war for one hundred
daye, 80 tha; there will be no Commencement this
year. This class will receive It's degrees, how.
ever.
Mao dogs are running Wild in some counti,s
Of Pennsylvania, plr'icu.ary IN Chester and
Dsuphiu. Between the bites Of the dogs, and
the nips Of the Rebels, the Dutch farmers are
driven early crazy
The Providence Journal, in its summary Of
European news, informs the public thai "a re-
port comes 70 rs that Alsen has been captured oy
the Rcbes." Dispatches we're just then coming
IN from the South, and either types or brains got
muddltd.
The dwelling g-hJuse of Commodore Wilslow
(csptin of the KcarSarge), in Roxbury, Mlss.,
WAS entered one night last week by burgar.
The son Of the commodore awoke and found tue
burglar searching his pantaloons, when the thi.
fed without securing any plunder.
The corporation Of the University OF Yer
mont has voted to incorporate that institution
with the proposed Vermont State University, nc.
cording TO the provisions Of the act passed by
the Legislature last fall. The corporation Of
not to incorporate, aud no action in the matter
has been taken by The corporation Of Norwich
University.
"A cotton raising association formed IN North
amptoD, Massachusetts, last winter, has been nm
fortunate. It's agents ON the Mississippi below
Vicksburg, nearly opposite JEFF. Davis plantI-
tion, have been twice visited by Rebel raiders,
and one Of the partners WIS killed, though not
till he had killed three cf his assailants Their
crop promises well, and if they are not further
moesied they will realize a good profit.
The National Teachers Association will be
held at Ogdcnsburg, New York, August 10, to
continue three days. The railroads ere gene.
rally afiording liberal facilities for attendance A
sail on the lake may also BE- expected in the pro-
gramme. The New York State Teachers Asso-
caion will meet at Buffalo. on the ID of August
Professor Thompson, Professor North, and other
routine speakers will deliver addresses on educa-
tions subjects. The exercises, il is sud, will be
OF general interest.
Mrs. EIhelinda Selden, who died at Troy,
New York, on the l2th inst, at the age of ninety
four, settled in that region in l70i. The Troy
Times gives this reminiscence of her early life
" In great fire which took place in lnsing-
burg IN l796, the practical courage of Mrs Seldsn
WIS n markdbly exhibited. Warehouses, in dan.
ger of Confagraton, we're emptied Of their c IN
tents into the middle of the street; and from one
CfthCm were brown ont several kegs of powder
upon q quantity of ShaviDgs in the immediate
vicinity Of fhe fire. A nls4 on the top of one OF
The houses called out TO the people to acquaint
them " ith this danger and shouted out TO them
TO remove the cause OF it. All Wer. afraid 10 20
near il. Mrs. Seden, young woman of only
twenty-five years OF rye, seeing the prospect Of
an immediate explosion, ran out from her own
house, and took the kegs one by one in her own
rdE and threw kbem into a well, while no one
could be persuaded, by any urgency, to assist
her"