The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-11-01
NEWS JOTTINGS.

"A down-cast editor declares that modes:y is
a quality that highly aiorns a woman, but ruins
maR.
Joseph Lake, fat boy, twelve years old and
weighing three hundred and eghy-dve pounds
died az his home in Chichester ~ H., on the
10Th ult Of typhoid fever. He took cold while
on an exhibition tour.
The medical college property at Clstleton,
Vermont, whence two thousand young doctors
have been sent, has been sold, and will be known
as medical college no longer.
"A movement Is proposed at Nantucket,
Massachusetts, to enterupon the cod and mack
erel fishery az a means OF retrieving the pros
perity of the town.
There is a boy in Quincy, Massachusetts,, two
years old, who can call all the letters OF the
alphabet, spell three or -four words, and do a sum
III arithmetic. His name Is Frank A1lms Tirrell.
Our armies halt to bury their dead. They
resume their marching and fighting. The Peace
Surrender Party dig up the sleeping brayes-form
| them in unwilling ranks-pnrsue the Union
| columns, and in the blAckness aud quiet Of night
force these shadowy heroes to fire in!ot their com
rades in arms, flank and rear, ballots more deadly
| than Rebel lead.
Hon. Ezra Wheeler, Democratic Member
Congress from the Third Wisconsin District, has
stepped, like the true man nc is OIL the Chicago
Platform, and pledges himself to sustain the
prosecution OF the war Until the Rebels lay down
their arms
There is no crime In the history or hGman
wickedness to be compared with .he infamy
digging up the dead soldiers OF the Union from
their martyr graves in Virginia, and making
them vote against the cause which they died to
| sustain
Two gentlemen in Indiana have offered 10
| give City thousand dollars each towards the
establishment Of a fsst-class Female College in
the city of Lafayette, in that StIte, II one hun
drtd thousand dollars mere can be raised by the
| citizens.
There was gathering Of five generations at
the house of widow Polly Powers in Princeton,
Massachusetts, on the 10th instant. There were
present Mrs. Powers, aged ninety eight, her
daughter from Leominster, and her grand.daugh-
ter, great granddaughter and great great grand
son, all from Clinton.
Professor Bowen, of Har7ard College, while
returning from meeting of the faculty one even
| ing last week, was assaulted by rultiin, who
sprang upon him from behind a tree and struck
| him severe blow upon the head, rendering him
nearly insensible. Aiter inhioiing the blow, the
assAilant fed.
Several gentlemen OF Boston have Just re-
turned from grand coon.huntlng expedition in
several Of the New Hampshire towns. In two
nights they captured sixteen racoons, the largest
of which weighed sixteen pounds. They were
all freed by finely y-trained dog aud then shot.
The whole parish o. Rev. J. ", Wellman, Of
Newton Corner, Massachusetts, Joined With their
pastor in celebrating his tin wedding last week
and besides = large amount Of tin ware, gave him
$500 and new oYercoat to remember the o,ca-
sion by.
AT Washington Park, in Providence, r. l., a
day or two ago, a man weighing one hundred and
forty pounds undertook to run around the mile
track in sixteen minutes, dragging suiky weigh
ing ninety five pounds, in which was seated a
man weighing one hundred and seventy pounds.
lie accomplished the feat in eleven minutes and
thirty. y.seven seconds.
John ?. Robinson, formerly q lawyer AZ
Lowell, died at Somerville, Massachusetts, last
week, in his sixty-fourth year. He was q native
Of Dover, New Hampshire, graduated at Harvard
in 1928. studied law with Daniel Webster, and
became eminent in his profession. He was
passionatey fond Of classical studies, aud his
fayorite literary recreation was the reading OF
Demosthenes and Plato in the original, after
completing the business Of the day.
Some interest has been created by the dis.
coyery Of number Of Indian curiosities in the
lands of the English Land Company, in the town
ship OF Dysart, Canada. The men at work on the
company's road accidentally found an Indian
grave, and on opening it found buried therein a
number Of silver tTinkets Of excellent workman
ship, and in capital preservation. There are said
70 be numbers Of these graves throughout the
English Company's lands, they having been in
former years the neutral ground between the
Chippewas and the Mohawks. The company'e
officers have taken steps 10 have those graves
respected.