The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-28
NEWS JOTTINGS.

--Wednesday was the shortest day OF the year
tho sun rising at 72l and setting at 4'36.
There are now l2,764 patients in thelhospitals
OF Philadelphia and Vicinity.
Prentice thinks young lady should rival an
oyster in her antipathy TO rakes.
"A vocalist says he could sing "Away down
the Old Tar river" If he could only get the
pitch"
Since June, 1862, there have been over Il 900
patients admitted into the army hospital at York,
Pa. 1853 died, and 1902 still remain.
Thirteen hundred prisoners, captured by
General Thomas in Tennessee, arrived at Camp
Douglas on Thursday.
We find it stated that the Eastern Railroad
Company are having their coal-burning locomo-
tves changed to burn wood, and that the same
course is being adopted on the Boston and Maine
Road.
Two young ladies of Hartford, Connecticut,
have sent an elegant embroidered silk flag TO
General Edward McCook, of General Thomas's
army.
General Cheatham long since promised his
troops that they should soon tread the streets Of
Nashville and spoke truly at least a thousand
OF them have done so-under guard.
The Life of Lieutenant General Thomas ].
Jackson, by Professor Dabney, of the Union
Theological Seminary, Virginia, has appeared in
London. Il is advertised as being "from au-
thentc sources" It appears also with "addi-
tons," by Rev. w. Chalmers, A. NJ, who is, we
believe, pastor OF one ofthe Presbyterian churches
in London.
The war in Missouri Is now being carried on
to determination. No prisoners are taken. If
"bushwhacker Reb" meets a Union soldier,
one or the other dies. In many places the in
habIants are formed into a society, whose object
Il Is 70 put out OF the way all bushwhackors; by
this means, they hope 10 restore the State to
tranquility.
The Lockpou Bee announces the death Of an
eccentric Individual named William Colley, In the
Lower Village. He lived alone, kept grocery,
and willed bis propeety, valued at elS0OO TO his
relatives in England. He kent his specie In an
old boiler, buried IN the cellar. Among the
deposits In this private vault we're 6fty thousand
three-ccut pieces. How many millions Of coin
are thus boarded in various parts Of the country.
A recent act of Congress makes IL necessary
that an American vessels shall be measured on
or before the let Of January 1865 and the tonnage
to be conspicuously carved or Otherwise inscribed
on the main beam OF the vessel. Neglect 20
comply with this requislton win place the vessel
or vessels beyond the protection Of the Govern
ment eo says the New Bedford Standard.
The Director-General OF Customs has just
published complete returns showing the traffic
between France and foreign nations during the
year 1863 It appears from those returns that
the general trade OF France during that period
amounted to d, 100000, ,OO0f In real value. These
figures show an increase Of COS 600 OO0E, or II per
cent. in the Official value as compared with the
preceding year. and Of sli,OO0,OOOt, or ID per
cent. in the real value.
"A lawyer, somewhat disgusted at seeing
couple Of Irishmen looking alta six-sided build
ing which he occupied lifted up the window, put
his head out, and addressed them thHs;-
"what do you stand there for, like a pair Of
bloekheads, gazing at my Office DO you take lt
for a church Z"
'Faix, answered one OF them, "I was thinkln'
so, TN the divil pOked his head out the windy"