The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-06
NEWS JoTTINGs.

There is wood famine in Montreal. The
prices have gone beyond the means of the poor.
There was frost in Ware, Massachusetts,
last Monday and Tuesday nights.
-Incendiary fires are frequent at Pittsdeld,
Massachusetts,, three barns having been burned
within three days oflast week.
Professor Agassiz's course Of lectures on the
breeding of domestic animals will begin at Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, October Ia. ....
Tho population of Vermont is 3l4,06s-
2S2 ,355 native and 32,743 foreign. There arc 10
persons in the State over 100 years of age,
The news of Sheridan's recent victory was
received on Change In Boston with three cheers
each for Sheridan, Grant, and Stanton, and nine
for Lincoln.
The Boston Transcript says eve venture
to say that if the present freshman class will
agree that when they become sophomores thoy
will not haze their freshmen, we shall hear little
more of this unmanly, petty torture"
"A young man from Chicago named Merrill,
said to he the son Of a banker, committed suicide
in saloon at Kalamazoo, Michigan, last week.
He had lost considerable sums of money by the
| blacklegs who infested the place during the fair
"A convention Of German brewers was lately
held at Milwaukee for the purpose of discussing
Tax law. Nearly all the principal cities of the
East and West We're represented.
John Halliday, for the past ten years clerk
in the Lynn Post Office, and teacher in a Sab.
bath School in that city was arrested in Boston on
Wednesday, while attempting to pass a counter
felt 800 bill on the PAwtuxet Bank, Providence.
He was searched, and seven more of the spurious
bills were found upon his person. he has been
l 4 I'LL I. ~.
"A man on Cape Cod who separated from his
wife, some years ago married second wife, with
whom he lived year and half, and then died.
His first wife took possession Of his estate. The
second wife sued her for pay for services duriug
the time she lived with the husbands and after
hearing the evidence, last week, Cape Cod
jury gave her a yerdc', allowing her two dollars
per week.
The silver from the Masonic Jewels found in
the ruins Of the Winthrop House in Boston, attsr
the fire several months ago, was sent to the
United States Mint, and half-dollar pieces coined
from il, which have been sold TO the members OF
the different lodges, encampments, &c. These
are the only hfty-cent pieces coined this year.
"A minister, writing TO the local committee Of
arrangements for the meeting of the American
Board at Worcester, Massachusetts, requested
free accommodations for himself, his wife, and
six children.
The Michigan University has three hundred
students in the regular course, three hundred and
fifty in the medical school, and two hundred
and twenty,on in the law Departmental large
increase in all. ......
The steamer Cty Of NsWpor1 was chartered
70 proceed from Newport 10 Providence, one
Sunday recently, 70 Convey one passenger, gem
tleman having argent business in New York on
Monday, and who wished to take the train in
Providence on Sunday evening for that city. He
probably paid the largest fare for one man ever
charged on that route. .-.
--Eliel Littleheld, Of Milford, Conn, celebrated
his eighty-eighth birthday last week. He has
held the appointment Of justice Of peace from
four governors, holding the office tor twenty
eight years; has been deputy sheriff eight years,
tsWn clerk fourteen years, drum major ten
| years, and school teacher fourteen years, and
has lived with his present wife almost sixty-four
Year,,