The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-17

SECULAR APPEARANCE or THE SIN AND
MooN.-The murky conditioner the atmosphere
within the Inst ten days impaired an obsctrity 10
distant objects which was less than that Of a fog
and more than that Of an autumnal haze. Il was
smoke, but so fine and Reecy that there was no
smell Of smoke in the air. Telegams from re.
mote points in the State speak Of the sainc pho
nomcnon, and attribute it TO the great fires raging
in the northeastern forests. In some places,
miles from the Gene of COnHagrdlOn, the smoke
Is so thick as 20 eclipse the sun aud render can
dies necessary az midday. On one or twO-even-
ings, while the sun was still aeerces above
the horizon, the smoky med "htch
he was disccrncd gave 20 J. a'a
color II was the nTterial b. il.a, -ti
nature more closely than Hu.
fierce rays seemed 20 haI e1 lI
blood. Every intelligent obser,t
Ions bank OF tenuous smoke lying ciOa~
oaIth and stretching away for n hundred mil
towards sunset, wrought this change rom the
clear sun that had been throb0lng ont his white
light all day overhead.
DisoRDEIuH HoysEs.-This morning Sarah
Fisher was before Alderman Better, charged
with keeping disorderly house in Henrietta
street. She was committed to answer,
John Koch, residing at New Market and
Green streets, was arrested last evening at his
residence, charged with keeping a disorderly
house. This morning he had a hearing before
dollars bail TO answer. ... .
4 CLomEs TmEr.--Mary Rainor was arrested
last evening, charged with larceny. She IS
alleged 70 have gone into 4 yard az Third and
! Queen streets, and helped herself 10 two dozen
shirts which were hanging on clo;hes-liue.
| This morning she was introduced 70 Alderman
Carter who committed her 70 prison.
LOCAL BREvtrGEs-ren cent postage currency,
altered TO fifty cents are in circulation the figure
one in the ten being covered by figure FIVE
pasted over It,. The annual inspection of the
| police force by Chiet Ruggles aud three of his
| leutenants is now taking place. Colonel
| Thomas one hundred days regiment is now
called the 1921, and has been ordered West.
| About $4,000 was paid into the City Treasury
| last week. The NCr iyOUSidtS Is announced 10
/ sail from the Navy Yard on the 20th instant, if
her repairs are completed by that time .Ber-
nard Fitzpatrick, u tavern keeper at Fifth and
| Marriott streets, was held yesterday TO answer
the charge Of entcing soldiers 10 desert. He
! woHld have the men sworn in as substitutes, and
| then aid their desertiOn.. Yesterday was the
| nineteenth successive day in which the ther-
| mometer has been amongst the nineties. Sneh
| continued heat, it is said, has not been expe-
rienced for some years.. The Club House of
the Union League has been removed 10 No. 1916
| Chesnut street.
THm DEFICIENT WARDs.-Ihe committee ap-
pointed by the Convention OF The Ward Bounty
Fund Committees 20 supermend recruiting for
the Wards having the largest quotas to ill has
been somewhat changed, and now consists OF the
| following gentlemen N. u. Brown, Joshua
| Spering, James l.. ClaghOrn, James II. Orne, DR..
| Wm. Nj. Uhler, A. IL. Francscus, and JohG W.
| Frazier The committee held meeting yester-
9ay afternoon, and organized, by the selection of
| James J.. Claghorn as Chairman, A. H. Francis ,us,
| Treasurer, and John w. Frazier, Secretary
| Another meeting is TO be held, and then five
recruiting lieutenants will be appointed and plan
of action will be adopted. .