The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-10
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some 10, 600 feet. This will swell the grand
total OF logs on st. CrOix waters to about
SS,OOO,OOO. or the above, 700O00OO will be
driven into the Boom and put into market If
there is water sufficient for driving two months.
CAN SENATOR FOSTER PRESIDE ANOTHER TERN?
1T has been supposed by some persons that if
Mr.. Foster is reelected Senator he can hold his
position as presiding officer of the Senate and
acting Vice-President right over until another
Vice-Presdent is elected by the people. This
! blunder is exposed in a letter to the Hartford
Press:-"Mr Fosters Senatorship expires on the
Sd OF March, 1867, and he is acting Vice. .Presi-
dent only so long as the Senate continues him
as its presiding officer, 1t is the immemoral
usage of the Senate to keep itself in continuous
state of organization. 1t never permits itself to
take the risk OF an organization after a new Con-
gress meets it does so beforehand. For in
stance, at II O'clock, March (the legal expira-
ton OF March 81, the presiding officer announces
tnat the session has expired. moment after
(lf as usual the Senate has extra SESSION. the
new presiding officer raps his gavel and calls the
new Senate to Order.n
AN AGGRAVATED CASE OF SUsPENs1oN.-A
number OF men at Walkerton, Illinois, having
suspected one Philip Shultz OF stealing a certain
mans pocket-book, took him into an upper
room and hanged him, in order to make hun
confess, and on falling to make him do so on the
tirst trial, they put him up again, and kept him
up so long that when let down life was so tar
extinct that it took about an hour to bring him
to. Afterwards the pocket-book was found, and
ShultZ proved innocent He is a returned sol
dier, and has commenced proceedings against
his prosecutors.
PROLIFIC Oow.-Mr. j. w. Seaman, of North
Hampstead, on Long Island, is the owner of
COW which, on the 9th OF March last produced
four calves at birth. They were all full grown
and regularly formed but still born and were
two OF each sex. Mr.. Seaman went to his stable
about twelve O'Clock and ourd two of them
born. lie went again at three o'clock and there
were Two more. He afterwards kept on the look
out to see if there were others to come but none
made their appearance.
AN OLD CHURCH.-The oldest church now
existing In this country is situated near Smith.
field, Isle OF Wight county, Virginia. 1t was
quit IN tne reign OF Charles l, between the
& years 1850 and 1886. The brick and lime and
timber were imported from England The
r timber Is English oak and was framed i'm
England. The structure is OF brick, erected in
the most substantial manner. The mortar has
become so hardened that it will strike fire in
collision with steel.
CAR DESTROYED BY SPONTANEOUS Commission
\ "A freight car on the Troy and Boston road
\ standing at the depot in Eagle bridge on Tues.
day, was nearly destroyed by fire. The car was
loaded with cotton rags, furniture etc. and il
4 Is supposed to have caught fire from spontane-
Gus combustion. The car and cargo were
damaged to the extent of $500 before the fire
was eXtinguished.
THE BULL Run BATTLE-FIELp The work of
removing the dead has at length been com
menced on the Bull Run battlefield under the
4 supervision OF LleuCenantCOl0nel Nj. i. Ludng-
ton, Quartermaster Department of Washington.
The remains of about two hundred of the heroes
who fell along the memorable banks OF Bull
Run have already been collected, and will be
reinterred either at Arlington or Winchester.
A TEACHER OF FREEDMEN PROTECTED DIR
Wilson, at the head of freedman's school In
Columbus, Miss, having received an anonymous
letter threatening him with personal violence,
showed II 10 the Mayor, WhereupOn the Board OF
Aldermen passed resolutions denouncing such
things, and rendering DR.. Wilson the protection
EXPORTS OF TIN PLATES FROM ENsLANp.-
During the last seven years the annual average
4 value OF tin plates manufactured in Great Britain
and shipped for expectation amounted to more
A than one and quarter million sterling. The
4 largest amount (535690) was shipped to the
United States and the value OF So 200 O0O
PROBABLY A TRUB ESTIMATE. Pal Man
Gazette observes the British House OF Commons
has the reputation of being both very sensitive
and very plucky body, not easy to manage, but
4 quite impossible to bully,