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

society.
Hon. John Van Buren has Just returned
from a visit to Charleston, South Carolina.
Amusement for young ladies on wet after
noon-Knittng their eyebrows. mo-
"A baby left in hotel in Iowa was rafled
for and won by childless Mrs. Kelser.
The Calfornians gave Brambilla, the opera
singer, coronet of diamonds
The wheat crop in Virginia is very unpro-
missing.
The Rinderpest is bad, but throwing orange
peel on the pavement is the Rindest pest
The people of Ceresco, Michigan, are talking
OF building woollen factory and q large foundry
at that place.
The Hampton (Ya.) True Souihaner, paper
OF liberal ideas, has been forced to suspend pub
ucatlon for want OF peCuniary support
"A rich Russian prince in Paris has married
poor but pretty seamstress. The fine world is
much moved by the event.
"A letter from Dresden announces the death
in that capital of Madame Wagner wife of the
Well-knOwn musical composer.
MIR. s. G. Halls attempt to erect q monu-
ment over Leigh Hunts grave in England has
failed, for want of funds.
The British Board of Trade is about to es-
tablish volunteer liie-boat brigades throughout
the country.
Thirty thousand trees on the southern coast
of England we've blown down by recent tenn
pest.
The lady to whom Colonel Ellsworth was
named Brett, in Chicago.
General D. H. Hill, of the late Confederate
army, is about to start q magazine, to be called
1he Land zoe LoUe.
"A Western paper suggests as an improve
ment in Bibles the preparation of Leaf or two
in the "family record" for divorces.
"A cotton factory has been erected at Oak
land, near San Francisco, capable of producing
one thousand two hundred and eighty yards Of
cloth a day.
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voring to recruit a regiment of soldiers, and
have selected Colonel Z. McDonough, formerly
of the Pennsylvania Reserves, to be their leader
The consumption of wine is said to be pro-
gressively increasing in Paris, from its great
abundance and the consequent reduction in
price.
M. Emile de Girardin is about to give a
series of Sunday dinners, to which nobody but
wits will be invited, and the wit who fails to
shine will be struck OFF the dinner list.
The total number of children between the
ages OF six and twenty-one years, enumerated
for school purposes in Indiana is: males 2S3, 1888;
females, 268, AL; total, 552274.
Louis Napoleon has been visiting some of
the lowest and most turbulent quarters of Paris,
in phaeton driven by himself. His escort con-
sisted of a friend and couple of grooms.
Mr.. George Appleton, of the firm of D. APP
pleton & Co., sailed for Europe few days since,
and MIR. Joseph Harper, of Harper Brothers, for
Cuba.
"A large per cent of the apple, peach, pear,
ounce, and plum trees in Hancock county, West
Virginia, has been destroyed by mice. There
will be few cherries, owing to the trees being
full of black knots. The wheat looks well.
In Napa county, California, the spring grain
crop is ruined. The wheat came up beautifully,
but owing to the intense cold the sprouts rotted,
and thus the land in some instances will have to
be resoWn.
in the United States Court at Memphis, on
the 9Th, the case of the United States VS.. N. b.
Forrest being called, continuance was granted
on the ground that General Forrest was lying Ill
with the smallpox.
The iourneymen plasterers of Pittsburg,
Allegheny, and vicinity held meeting few
days since, when it was unanimously resolved
that on and after the lst day of April next, they
would demand four dollars per day for work.
king Victor Emanuel, fulfilling the wish of
his son Prince Oddone, has given orders that
the municipality OF Genoa shall be put in pos
session of the rich objects OF art which adorned
the private gallery OF the Prince.
The cholera still prevails in Southern Russia,
where the mildness OF the winter has produced
a great deal OF illness. At Moscow there have
been so many cases oil typnold lever lately uhaI
the hospitals are full.
"A welknown wood engraver, named John
Thompson, died recently IN England. Many
years ago, together with his brother Charles, ne
was much employed by French publishers when
scarcely wood engrayer existed in France.
Italian brigands lately captured Mr. Wen
nerson, rich Swiss, at Salerno, and did not re-
lease him till his family paid fourteen thousand
ducats. Their first demand was tor million
ducats, but this was refused
"A marble group representing Leda and
the Swan, recently brought trom Florence DS
Mr.. Millais, has been deposited in the North
Court of the South Kensington Museum, in
London.
The second volume of the French Emperor'
"Iife of Casar' has been "set uD;" the proc
sheets are in the authors hands. The work VIII
probably be published in the last fortnight
March.
,Tarl,in q Mead. Jr., of Bratieboro the Yer
mont sculptor who has been in Italy for severa
years, is expected home in few weeks on
visit. He brings with him wife, native
Dalmatia.
business in New Orleans must be prosperous
The papers publish triple or quadruple sheet
almost every day; and the last number OF TN
Times which has reached us mad eighteel
pages, "the largest ever published in Amerlci
as one of the regular editions of daily paper.
New Bedford, Mass, has Just been provide,
with street letter-boXes They are so small a.
To cause general dissatisfaction. One gentleman
Gomplains that box near his residence is s.
shallow that it is necessary to take dozen ou
before he can put one III.
in Indiana the fruit trees have been injured
Peach buds are very generally killed. All tn
more tender varieties OF cherries are IN the sam
condition. Raspberries of the European vari'
ties, where they were not protected, have su
fered severely.
Mr.. Hermann, a New York merchant le
Chicago on Wednesday night with S22 0QO IN n
pocket. He took sleeping-car on the Mlchlga
Central Railroad, and when at Detroit dlscoVerS
that his money was missing. Exactly now
lost it is not yet known. He oilers SpOOO reWaI