The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-23


Theirs old his two great historical works tor
SlOO, 600 each. Dumas pere has earned by his
pen $900,O00 of which he has saved nothing.
Madame Sand has taken an average OF SlUUOO
for each of her seventy i've volumes ana pSO,OUO
more for her plays 1880, 900 in all-which will
do tor woman.
The Henderson (Texas) Times says con;
panies are now operating IN Nacogdoches ana
Angelina counties, and in San Augustine, with
the best of prospects of striking OIL and at no
great depth from the surface.
On Saturday last two guests of the Presby
House, Bradford, N. H.. with their ladies', took
seven hundred and fortytwo deep water perch
and pickerel from Bradford Pond, two miles
from the Presby House.
Candidates for Governor of Tennessee are
becoming more plentiful. The names OF Judge
0m0 Fl Tgg Thomas a. H. NelfGa N 80 ana
nection.
Mr.. James E. Murdoch, the tragedian, has
q large farm in Ohio, and recently town in
the vicinity has been named Murdoch, and
post Office established there by the Government.
The com pli ment has been fully deserved.
While the American journals ascribe all the
credit of the Atlantic cable TO Mr.. Field, the
English papers allege that MIR. Glass is the real
prime mover in the enterprise.
"A. A. Lee, City Attorney of Troy, died last
Tuesday of consumption. He remarked few
hours before he died that he expected to recover
and make trip to the sea, shortly.
The majority of the Partisan theatres are
at present closed, on account OI Jue uedI, Or
because the ideSse, who for the most part sup
port such places, are now out OF town.
"A few nights ago Mr.. Hill, who resides
about seven miles from Kinston, N. g., caught
a negro stealing his corn, and shot him dead
upon the spot.
hollow tree at Niles, Michigan, which led to
the arrest of man named MattuX, for murder
committed twelve years ago.
"A thousand of the Irish peasantry in thc
vicinity of Valentla were enter tanned IN grand
rural fete by the Knight of Kerry in honor OF
the laying of the cable.
"A returned miner from Montana was drug
ged and robbed of about $4,000 in gold dust at
low doggery on the st. Louis levee one day
recently.
The indications are that the cereal crops of
the West and Middle States soon about to be,
If not already in good part harvested, Will be
the most abundant on record.
"A farmer in Clinton, Mo-, purchased some
land in that county, in the spring of 1865 at $40
an acre. The wheat crop this year more than
paid for it.
"A mertorious painting is on exhibition at
Hartford Conn, executed by young artist in
Antwerp, who was born without arms, and
paints with his toes.
-W.P. Braunan, painter and poet, died in
| Cincinnati on Thursday. He was the author Of
| the serio-eomic sermon, 'The Harp OF Thou
| sand STRINGS"
The Emperor has given up his idea OF visit
| ingI Nancy this summer. The resolution gives
| great sa tisfaCtiOn to Eugenie
General Rousseau has declined a renomlna-
| ton TOR Congress from Kentucky, he designin 2
| to locate permanently in Washington.
On Thursday $500 was paid IN Richmond for
one hundred pounds OF fancy leaf tobacco, the
| highest price ever paid in Virginia.
| The great central camp meeting of the New
Jersey Conferences is now in progress at Barns
| boro, on the line of the West Jersey Railroad.
Whatever may be thought to the contrary,
\ still it is a fact that the neede-gun rs not
/ threaded with cotton.
The silver plate belonging to the royal
| family Of SaXony, sent to Prague, weighs thirty
| tons, and the crown jewels ten tons.
| 1t is suggested that the graduates OF female
| colleges be diplomatizcd as A. M'-Artiul
| Maidens.
| Why are women hard on clothes Because
| when they Duy new suit, they wear II out the
| first day.
| "A street railroad company in st. Louis have
/ been fined $500 for alleged eXtortien In raising
/ their rate of fare after midnight
| "A large proportion of the children OF the
/ working classes in ENGLAND now being chris
| tened are named ''Gladstone."
| "A man has lost his life at Woolwich through
swallowing nitro-glycerine in mistake for
whisky.
On the lst of September EueTy Saturday is
| to be enlarged to 40 pages week.
George D. Prentice, fthe Louisville Journal,
returns an income Of SIS, ,Ae0 per year,