The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-14
Greuins Trlegaph
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER Il, 1884.
NEWS JoTTINGs.

laid In San FRANCISCO lasJ AOhthF
Water was introduced into Newport, W., last
week, by a new a1ueduct company.
The fifteenth annual meeting OF the Vermont
Teachers Association will be held in st. Albans,
on Tuesday January 10.
The trustees Of the Massachusetts State Agri-
o,,uysl College have paid for all the land at Am
So,s, vbleh Is 10 form the farm connected With
that Institution
The aggregate amount Of money which has
been raised and expended by the several towns
in Vermont, in bountes for volunteers, is nearly
four million dollars.
The 10th Army Corps alone devoured on
Thanksgiving 1902 turkeys, 3429 chickens A3
barrels Of apples, and II barrels and boxes Of
pies, cakes, &c.
-Maior- General Cadwalader has been assigned
10 the command of the Department of Pennsyl-
vania, formerly known as the Department of the
susquehanna, vice General Couch, assigned to
command in General Thomas army.
The indianapolis Journal says that Hon.
Daniel W. voorhees, contemplates removal to
New York city, and an abandonment Of his Con-
gressional seat to Colonel Il. D. Washburne the
contestant.
The high price of fuel has turned the attention
OF many people in Boston, Reading, Lynn and
numerous places in Massachusetts, to the burn
ing of peat, and that article is now kept for sale
in Boston.
"A new monthly religious paper is TO be pub
lished in Cincinnati, under the title of the Reunion
Presbytcrian Its object is to promote the re-
union of the Presbyterian Church, especially the
branches commonly called old school and new
school.
-Attbe late Presidential election in Vermont,
Serenus Swift, of Manchester, cast his eighteenth
vote for President He first voted for John
Adams, in 1899, and has voted at every Presiden-
tial election since. He is the oldest living gradu-
ate of Dartmouth College.
The Rochester IN. " papers announce tho
intention of Henry r.. Selden, of that city, to
resign his seat as Judge of the Court of Appeals
of that state. Judge Selden was appointed to the
place in 1862, by Governor Morgan, and elected
in 1868 for the next term, which expires In 1871.
The number of applications for widows pen
sions received during the month Of November,
and placed in the hands of the Examiners was
three thousand three hundred and five. The
number of invalid claims one thousand seven
hundred and seventy. SIX.
Oliver Arcy, of Buffalo, New York, has been
appointed principal of the State Normal School
at Albany IN place of Professor d. b. Cochrane,
resigned. Mr.. Arcy has been Principal Of pub
lie school in Buffalo for some twenty years, and
has high reputation.
The people OF Sandwich, Mass. at a recent
town meeting, passed resolution instructing the
Selectmen to enforce the State liquor law, agree
ing TO indemnify them for whatever loss or in
jury they may incur in the execution of these
instructions.
"A fisherman recently hauled up a silver fork
marked Atlantic" near the spot in Long Island
Sound where the steamer Atlantic was wrecked
on November p, 1916. 1t is very heavy, old
fashioned silver fork, and bears marks Of long
immersion in water.
we learn that Brigadier- General Thomas NJ
Rgan has been breveted Major General for gal
liant and meritorious services in the field. Gene
ral Egan is at the Metropolitan Hotel, New
York, slowly recovering from his wounds re-
Ce,ved short time ago.
The rank of Yice-Admiral in the Navy will
undoubtedly be created during this session o
Congress. This will be a rank in the navy cor
responding with that of Lieutenant General il
the army. Rear-Admral David G. Faragut il
most favorably spoken of for the position.
Charles j. Jordan and Willard Eddy hay
been arrested for disturbing congregation a
West Coventry, r. l., last Sunday. They tool
their seats in the body of the church, and, ate
service commenced, produced pack Of card
and carried on game, with obscene and bias
phemous conversation.
Bronson A. Mansfield of North Haven Ct
attacked his wife with an axe on Saturday last
striking her on the head and shoulders as she la
in bed. Owing to the lowness Of the ceiling h
was unable to strike full blows, and Mrs Mans
field, though dangerously, is not fatally injured
Mansfield is thought to be insane.
"A uial of new double barrelled cannon Wa
made at Hartford, Ct, a day or two ago. I'll
gun carries ball Of ffty-six pounds, and waite
proof metallic cartridges are used. IL was fire
at the rate of about two hundred shots a minut
An irOn-clad caissOn, with capacity of 7l(
cartridges, accompanies the gun, and the WHO
can be drawn by one horse or the four me
needed to fully manit In the trial at long RAM
distance Of nearly two miles was reached
The Boston Ttaveley publishes a list of OF
hundred and three persons in that city who
annual incomes are above $4,000, as return,
under the special income tax. The tax payers
the Fourth District are assessed upon incomes
$4,000 each, after the deductions allowed by la
were made. One gentleman Mr.. Nathaui
Thayer, has the comfortable income of $685., Ia
There are about thirty persons in the same di
trict who are taxed on incomes of $4,000 al
under 100000.
On Friday, November 25, a little girl ty
years and half old, wandered from the hou
of her parents, rear Queensyille, Canada We
and although sixty persons searched diligent
for her through the day and night, she was L
found, and the weather being cold they CO
cluded that she must have perished Anotb
search gfn1 hut .