The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-05
NEWS JOTTINGs.

The Widows Wood Society, of Portland
Me- has permanent fund Of 5000.
The substitute brokers in Hartford enlist men
and then advertise for principals for them.
The Adams Express has carried sixty tons
OF Thanksgiving gifts to the soldiers from Boston.
Crime is decreasing in Wisconsin. The num-
ber Of couvicts at the state Prison s reduced by
the expiration Of time, and there are no conylcts
to make good the decrease. There are now one
hundred and fifteen prisoners there.
Two gentlemen Of Portsmouth, N. IA.
NJ. Payson and Albert Laighton-have published
a handsome volume entitled "Thc Poets of Ports
mouth" It comprises selections from the native
and resident authors Of Portsmouth.
The saw and grist mills at Princeton, Nc,
were destroyed by fire on Friday night. Loss
$4,000 on which there WAS $4,000 insurance.
The calamity is a blow TO tho business prospects
of the town.
Amherst, Mass, voted on Saturday to petit
ton the Legislature for leave to tax herself fifty
thousand dollars for the Agricultural College,
and to appropriate the surplus money now in the
treasury to the purchase Of recruits on the next
call.
"A large rolling-mill for the manufacture Of
boiler and sheet iron, galvanized gas pipe and
gasomeler iron, will soon be erected at Proyi-
dence, h. 1. About three hundred hands will be
employed, and some operatives from England
are already engaged.
The introduction of water into the new city
aqueduct was celebrated at Worcester, Mass, on
Tuesday, by city government inspection, and a
parade and trial Of machines by the Fire Depart
mcnt, the annual fremen's muster having been
postponed to that day for that purpose.
"A Connecticut clergyman illuminated his
house in honor of the Union victory at the cleo
ton, and exhibited over his door transparency
with the quotation from Genesis :-"And the
angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out OF
Heaven a second time"
"A slave woman fifteen years ago ran away
from her master in Maryland, and came north to
Hartford. A freedman, recently brought home
from New Orleans by Connecticut officer, on
seeing the woman discovered her to be his wife.
They were remarked.
The new post office money order system
works admirably in Boston. The increased busi-
ness thus devoyed upon the office has made it
necessary to appoint "A clerk to attend specially to
that department, and the money. order office is
now palt and parcel Of the establishment.
-Ihe whole number OF persons in the New
Haven Comm District reported as liable to an
income tax is 2l95 the amount of special income
tax assessed is S2jl, ,202'lO; the entire amount of
taxable income reportedis $jO2j, ,Sl2. This state
mcnt shows high degree Of business prosperity,
notwithstanding the heavy burdens Of the war.
Hull, England, has been excited by report
that on every evening, some time since, man,
assuming on each occasion different disguise,
but always having his features completely con-
cealed by a black mask, had entered several
houses in the vicinity, and having first sienced
the inmates by threats of personal violence, plum
dered them of whatever he took particular fancy
to. Information in all the instances was giyen
to the police authorities but the description given
Of the man was so vague aud unreliable, owing to
the conceament of his face by the mask, that
is feared he will not be arrested.