The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

-Advices received by the Commissioner of
the General Land Othce show that the Eastern
Division OF the Union Pacific Railroad has been
completed from Kansas City up the valley OF
the Kansas nver to the vicinity OF Manhattan,
for distance OF one hundred miles on the
main line, whilst the track from Manhattan to
Fort Reilly, distance OF forty miles, has been
nearly finished, with an adequate supply OF
rolling stock. Besides these advances in the
work, branch from Leaven worth TO Law
renee in q southWesterly direction, has been
completed for a distance of forty miles.
Rev. E. B. Fairfield, President OF Hllsdale
College, Michigan, recently gave a lecture in
Providence, +. l., and gave the following sketch
OF weliknown American artist
Harriet Hosmer was fast Massachusetts girl
making $4,000 or $500 a year by her chisel,
come, while she had long since exhausted her
patrimony. She drives the fastest horses in
Rome: and she makes the most beautiful mar
Dles ever looked upon"
The storm on the 9Th inst, in many north
ern localities of Illinois, was very severe. AT
kankakee there was regular tornado. Several
citizens suffered heavily from destruction of
property. building, filed with brooms, was
wholly destroyed. The agricultural warehouse
OF Be0ee q Co. was moved from its centre three
feet, and much damaged. Large trees were
twisted off near the ground and broken into
fragments. Several vessels On the lake were
partially dismantled.
The Fort Smith (Arkansas) Herald Of the
E4ly 5dyb tudS u man Uy TIE name OI
lately from Boyle county, KY, was sitting in
Esquire Mckiernans house, on Tuesday, and
suddenly sprang up and ran out, and plunged
head foremost into well. His head struck on
the opposite side OF the curbing, and he fell
feet forward into the well. After soue time he
was taken cut, his head badly cut and his shoul-
ders bruised.
"A number of persons have left Toronto and
vicinity for the purpose OF proceeding to the
newly discovered gold mines at Vermilon Lake,
in the northern mart the State of Mime.
sofa. The lake in question is at the head OF the
river OF the same name and directly south Of
the wellknown Lake of the Woods, in the
country at the head OF Lake Superior, between
ForC Garry and Fort William.
Two young men, named Weeks and Hollis
Chase, contederates Of j. 2. Whitney, who re-
Gently robbed store in Boston OF $40, 1868, were
arrested in Gardiner, Maine, on Friday after
noon. They have confessed their guilt. Be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 of the stolen money have
been recovered. Whitney was arrested at Ports
mouth on the same day.
Among the American pictures exhibited in
the French Salon this year are an honest, un-
pretentious little canvas. by John Ware, OF
Boston, "Irish Squatters on Vacant Lots in
Upper New York; o portrait in craYon. by
| Miss Gore, very like and admirably modelled,
| and an altogether modest and unpreteniousY
| bad landscape, by Woodbury. Bangdon.
M. Alexander Dumas, pere has left Paris fol
Italy, with the object of acting the part of his
triographer Of the anticipated Garibaldian cam
| paign.
"A thousand nightingales have been caught
| in Austria at the request OF the Emperor Maxi
milan, and will be speedily shipped Tor Mexico
| "A gentleman of Boston recently made hi
| daughter present, on her wedding, of CHECK
for $50, 900, Just to start housekeeping.
"A newspaper writer says native California
| horse is tough and hardy and can live on pno
| tograph of bunch fgrass.
| Snow still lies on the sides of the mountain
| around Jonesboro, East Tennessee.
DIR. Days experiment of introducing trout
| ova into India has proved total failure.
Francis Marty, who recently died at Ha
| vana, lett property valued at $1,000 OOO
There are eighteen aspirants Tor the Office o
| Mayor of Newport, KY.
Cocker, the "boy Soprano" is creating
| sensation in London.
They were eating cantelopes in New Or
| leans on the 3lst ult.
The Princess Mary will honeymoon at Ear
| BrownlOw's.
Queen Victoria 10 visiting the Duchess Q
Sutherland,