The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-11
INTERESTING ITEMS.

PRICFs IN THE ROCKY MoUNTATNs.-In Denver
City, Colorado, flour is selling at ten dollars
hundred pounds.
CHERBouRG. The French Minister of Marine
has issued Decree making CherbOurg a port
Of the frst-class, ranking next TO Toulon and
Brest.
JAPANESE ENTERPRIsE.-The Tycoon has sent
several young Japanese to Russia to learn the
language and to study naval and military
science.
A Dog TEAM.-A Swedish nobleman has created
q sensation in the Champs Elysees PARIS, by
driving a team OF Norwegian dogs attached to a
droiska.
FRENCH RAILwAYs.-A new circular railway
TO connect the various lines approaching Paris
at a distance Of thirty or forty leagues from
their point of arrival, is rapidly advancing.
Coal IN FRANCE.-The production of coal in
France has greatly increased during the past ten
years. The product in 1864 was lll,OOO,OOO
metrical quintals; in 1865, ll3, 100000.
AN OLD MIsER.-James Hartnell a miserly
harness.maker died few days ago, at Bridge.
water, England, at the great age OF one hundred
and two years and SIX months. He left small
fortune.
been made IN the carriages employed to convey
the immense blocks OF cut stone used in the new
buildings in Paris. For the clumsy, two-wheeled
dray is substituted a carriage on four wheels,
made of wrought iron,
A NEW ORDER OF MERIT.-The British Govern
ment has established a new order of merit,
1.-THE Albert medal, 10 be awarded to persons
who may endanger their own lives in saving or
endeavOring to save the lives of others from
shipwreck or other peril of the sea.
INTERNATIONAL CoURTEsIEs. 49, Belgian share
holding companies have been permitted to carry
on business in Russia, and Russian companies
have been accorded the same privileges in Bel
GUM. This mutual concession Will, 1t IS eX-
pected, be followed up by the establishment Of
a Belgian bank at St. Petersburg.
New COMMERCIAL PORT IN MoRocCo.-The
Emperor of Morocco has notified the French
Government of his intention OF making q COM
mercial port of Saff, town on the Atlantic,
about eighty miles from MogadOre, and has
asked that some French engineers might be
sent him to assist in the carrying out of the
undertaking.
A CENSUS OF SPAIN.-The results of the first
census Of live stock in spain have been pub
lished. There are 36, 622, 3l3 animals, comprising
672559 horses, l,0Ol,S7 mules, l,29O8l asses,
2904 59S cattle, % 054 967 sheep, 4429 $40 goats
4,2648l7 pigs and 3lO4 camels. There area Of
Spain is about l25,0O 900 acres and its pOpula-
tion is 1858, ,4Sl persons.
The MPRoPRuETY OF Como SINGING.-The
master Of the Corporation Schools at Liverpool,
England, has Just been solemnly denounced by
the eX-MayOr and another town councillor for
allowing one of the boys to sing comic song
in a schOolboy entertainment The song Dur-
ported to narrate the adventures of a nice
young man bolting with the spoons"
THE FRENCH ENCAMPMENT THIS YEAB.-The
drill season at the camp at ChalOns is to begin
about the end of June, and terminate about the
end of August. The chief command will be
given to Marshal kegnaud de ST. Jean d'Angelv.
There will be at the camp about eighteen thou
sand infantry, two divisions of which will be
furnished by the Imperial Guard.
CRIME IN MISSOURI up a child in the
way he should go seems to mean, in Pike
county, Missouri, 10 teach q boy hOrse-stealing.
Several cases have recently occurred in that
section of this kind OF thieving. The St. Louis
Democrat explains II by referring to the state
law which provides that any criminal under
eighteen years convicted of q penltentlary
Ofense, shall merely be confined in the county
jail.
A LOYAL TENNEssEEAN ON THE FRANCHISE
Horace Maynard, at a great meeting held in New
Haven, last Saturday, gave his opinion that pub
lie sentiment in Tennessee and North Carolina is
more inclined to justice than in Connecticut and
Pennsylvania. 1.-THE question of negro suffrage
IN tennessee" ne sad, VIII De settled 0y-and-
by in favor of the black man, and l should not
wonder it Tennessee gave the black man the
right to vote before Connecticut does. And the
black man will probably vote sooner in North
Carolina than in Pennsylvania"
DEATH OF A PUBLISHER. John p. Tilton,
senior member Of the publishing house Of j. E,
Tilton Co., died on Saturday afternoon, at his
residence in Worcester street, at the age OF 30
years. Mr.. I1lton, the son OF John &. Tlton,
formerly wen-knOWn bookseller IN NeWbury-
port was born IN that city. He commenced
business in Salem, and afterwards removed TO
Boston, where for seven years he has been well
known for his energy, intelligence, and enter
prise in building up and extending the opera
lions Of his firm. He leaves a wife and two
children. His decease was not unexpected, as
he has been long a sufferer from consumption.
During hls protTacted illness has vigor OF will
and resolute devotion TO duty conquered physi-
cal depression, and sustained him in bearing
pain and weakness, Ard in sedueus attention 10
his affairs, when many men OF less force OF
. character would have merely been patient
tenants OF the SICK chamber. Ills remains will
be take9 TO his natrge lace.4ofsl5dtgl - Boston
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