The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-07
NEWS JoTTINqs.


Tho dcbi Of the city Of Philadelphia is SILL
Oj2,0j7.
The salary Of the Mayor Of Boston has been
raised TO S5OOO
Seth Boydeu, OF Newark. celebrated his
golden wedding last week.
1t is proposed to establish public d,pensary
and hospital at Youkers, New York.
The Washington Home in Boston has re-
ccycd two hundred and twenty-five patients ihis
year.
The city OF New Haven has voted an extra
bounty Of $500 to recruits, and has Appropriated
100000 or the purpose.
The merchants of New Haven have ust sent
TO the soldiers OF their state three hundred and
dity pairs of gloves and one hundred pair, of
mitters,
The rloughmakers Of the Northwest had
convention at Chicago last week, at which it was
resolved to advance the price Of ploughs twenty
per cent.
There are two hundred aud twcnty-six BOYS
at the Reform school in Meridou, Ct, the largest
number at any one time since the opening Of the
institution.
DR. Mary l.. Walker has received the ap-
poinimcnt Of Acting Surgeon in the army, and
has assumed duty as surgeon ia the female mili.
tary prison in Louisville.
"A popular music teacher in Fast Boston has
cloped with beautiful girl Of seventeen, both
members Of the same church choir. The man has
left behind a wife and child.
"A party OF circus managers are about lel.-
ing the old National Theatre estate in Boston.
with the intention of erecting vast amphilhea-
tire, in which to give first class circus entertain
ments,
The charitable Fuel Society of Providence.
Rhode Island, relieved eight hundred and
seyenty-fye families and distributed $ S2223 worth
OF coal last year, and the expenses Of tho Society
were only Sli'25.
"A Sunday School in Bangor Mniuc has
been stimulating its pupils to commit verses Of
Scripture to memory, and one little girl of ten
years has received a Bible for learning nearly
liOO verses in six months
Some rascals have mutilated the plaster cast
of the Megatherium placed in the State Cabinet
at Albany by Charles f. Wadsworth, son of the
late General Wadsworth. It is ife-size COPY of
the specimen in the British Museum
h-Ihe building intended to contain the Wat
kinson Library of Reference erected at Hartford.
Connecticut, ia connection with the Historical
Society building is nearly completed, and will
furnish room for twenty-five thousand volumes.
There is a school district in the western part
of York county, Maine, consisting of forty fami-
lies, of whom three are too poor to be taxed at
all, and thirty three of the remainder are taxed
only poll apiece, and that has to be abated each
year.
Rev. Calvin Fairbanks, of williamsburg
Massachusetts, who was recently released from
an INN n md h,1r
Kentucky, announces his willingness to lecture
on his Imprisonment, his suiferlngs, and his Won
derful escape.
Mrs. Sarah Thompson, one of the loyal
women who caused the rebel John Morgan TO be
surprised and killed by scout of Federal sol
ders, has arrived in Cincinnati. She is a widow
with two children, and is represented to be home
less and penness.
Salem is about 10 add one more to the list of
cities in Massachusetts which have provided them
selves with an ample supply of water. Worcester
and Charlestown celebrated such an event last
week. Lynn, Springfield, and New Bedford are
engaged upon similar enterprises.
About one hundred and fifty vessels are now
in Boston harbOr, and more than fifty are now
on the way there from different parts OF the
world mostly laden with large and valuable
freights. Cargoes from India and distant Pacific
ports, so large as those of 1861, have not been
received there for many years.
There are several regiments Of the Veteran
Reserves on duty in Washington. 1t is very de-
srable says the Chronicle, to supply Libraries to
these regiments in their various enclmpments.
Said an officer in one of these regiments -
Nothing could accomplish more good than
well.selected library in our camp"
The Governor and Council of Massachusetts,
usually celebrate Thanksgiving by pardonng a
meritorious convict from the State Prison; bu;
emitting it this year, propose to let out two on
Christmas. There are now three hundred and
fifty-nin conyiCts in the prison, of whom forty
are for life, and three in solitary confinement
AS workmen in BOsto n, last Thursday, were
engaged in digging deep trench in Kilby street.
for the pu rpose of putting down a boxing to pro-
tect the cellars the remains Of the old timbers aud
buttresses Of divers Dock, one Of the ancient
landmarks of the town. were exposed to view.
When the streets were named, on the Sd of May,
l7OS, this street was called "Mackrill Lane"
Mr. and Mrs. jeremiah Deane, of Gill, Mass,
celebrated the sxtieth anniversary of their mar
riage on the 18th November, forty-on of their
relatives being present Only one person now
living witnessed the marriage, sixty years ago,
Mrs. Sally Chaplin, of GIL, and she also attended
the celebration. Mrs. Deane has been blind for
three years, and during the time has knit thirty
five pairs Of stockings for the soldiers.
"A venerable man in Chicago, who is poor,
and keeps "bachelor's hall" has been detected
in fching sugar from the tables Of eating-houses
in that city. lie gave his name as George Parker
and offered as an excuse for what he had done
that he "Inade his coffee at home, and wanted
little sugar" He is evidently not in a needy
condition, yet must have taken, at Indifferent times