The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-29

An Australian paper records the death, at
the age of torty-one of James Morill, an English
sailor, who was wrecked on the northeastern
coast of Australia, and lived seventeen years
among the Mount Elliott aborigines. He had
forgotten his mother tongue when he was re.
stored to civilized life, about two years since.
The women of Gateshead and Newcastle
England, have petltioned the authorities OF
Durham University, to extend the benefits of the
local examination by throwing them open to
girls as well as to boys The movement has been
called forth by the results of the recent exami-
nation OF girls at Cambridge
This year more vessels will leave Dundee,
Scotland, Tor the Greenland whale fishing than
for some years back, and in their crews and
TO the fleets OF former years. There are eleven
vessels in all, but of these one belongs to London
and another Is an American.
1t is suggested in the London Chemist and
Druggist that chloroform IS an excellent me-
dium for the removal of stains of paint from
clothes, etc. 1t is found that portions of dry
white paint, which resisted the action of ether,
benzoe, and bisulphide OF carbon, are at once
dissolved by chloroform.
in Belgium there are eighteen thousand per-
sons who have right to wear the order OF King
Leopold, and in France there are sixty-four
thousand with the ribbon of the Legion of
Honor This makes one deoore in sixty-six of
the population in Belgium, and one In one hun.
dred and siXty-six in France.
Seven or eight negro criminals were taken
to Petersburg, Wednesday, from a Southside
county, to be put in Jail. Some discharged
colored troops cut the ropes with which they
were tied, as they were passing uptown, and
they scattered, but after an unstrateeic scamper
were rearrested. The prisoners were charged
with the most diabolical crimes.
There is woman, named Ellen Pollard in
the Callan Union (England) Infrmary, who
has attained the patriarchal age of one hun
dred and four years, and who, though she
keeps her bed, enjoys very fair health. She
has distinct recollectlons OF events which
occurred from eighty TO ninety years age, and
is communicative about the rebellion of 1898.
The Idaho Statesman protests against the
course of the Legislature of that Territory in the
matter OF granting franchises by wholesale
Tolls are now collected on nearly every road
and pack.trai in the Territory. Persons are in
many cases authorized to take tolls on trails
which have been used for years by the public
without this incumbrance.
Hon. N. f. Doubleday, father of Major.
General Abner Doubleday, died at Belvidere,
Ohio, on the 10th inst. Mr.'Doubleday was for
many years resident of Auburn, New York,
and represented that district in Congress several
terms. He was printer by trade, and for
twenty years editor of the Cuyahogo county
Patriot. At the time of his death he was a citi-
zen of Bloomington, Ill.
There are $50 wholesale dealers in milk in
Boston; 200 more sell milk at wholesale from
carriages. Fifty small wholesale dealers keep
COWS and sell to their respective neighborhoods.
There are 297 COWS kept within the limits OF the
city. There are about 1900 retail dealers in Bos-
ton. Boston also uses 1878 gallons of milk a
day, costing 1881, ,6l4 year. A little cypher.
ing will show that the hub consumes no less
than 5,742, ,545 gallons Of milk year.
The Illinois papers publish the assessment
returns of real and personal property in that
State for 1861 The entire valuation is
S39l sO3, ,2s4, which is an increase on the'pre.
vious year of ten per cent. Much dissatisfac
ton prevails on account of the lower standard
of value assumed by the asse ssors of Bureau,
10 Davies Kane. and halfa-dozen other coun-
ties, the estimates being much under those OF
1864. In Bureau county there is a falling
off of nearly two millions 1t is proposed to
establish State Board for the equalization OF
taxes,