The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-19
MISCELLANEOUS JoTTINGs.

-Quantrell, the notorious Kansas guerilla
has been Identified, and will be brought TO
Washington for trial.
The health Of the venerable Lewis Cass is
rapidly lailing. He SO lrcely sits up ut all aud
his death is daily expected.
The Richmond gold claimed by the banks
of that city is still in the national treasury ut
Washington.
'-Governor Buckingham, Of Connecticut, has
issued proclamation appointing March 80 as q
day OF tasting and humiliation in shat State.
The tannery of FRANKLIN Upton, in South
Danvers Mass, was destroyed by fire on Sun
day. Loss $4,000. insured
Father Galtier, pastor of Prairie du Chen,
Mimi, whose death was recently announced,
was the first Catholic missionary in Minnesota.
The Minnesota papers complain OF the spread
of by hy0Tophobia throughout the southern Coun-
ties OF that State. In enc town-Spring Valley
every dog but six has been killed.
AT the freodmen's lair in Portland they are
exhibiting General Neal BOWS shirt, the only one
he had TO wear hile in Libby Prison. IL is said
to be we'll darned.
Luther Haven, the Collector Of the Port of
Chicago, and one Of the most respected citizens
and Oldest residents of that place, died on the
9th instant.
Two young Russian women are studying
medicine at the University of Zurich, and 1t is
said they show much aptitude for their pro-
tessloD.
General Beauregard is out in q letter to the
Legislature to do something at once to de epen
and widen the passes Of the Mississippi.
I'm the case of the murderer Green, on trial
recently at Hartford CT, for killing hIs wife,
insanity was proven, and the prisoner will
henceforward be confined in proper asylum.
The State Department is preparing state
ment for the use of Congress of the damages
done to American commerce by Confederate
cruisers.
The Charleston and Savannah Railroad is
now completed to Anderson's, q distance of
thirty-three miles from thls city, and trains are
running regularly.
The operative engineers at the East End Of
London demand an increase OF wages to the ex-
tent of ten per cent, and threaten to strike in
the event OF being refused.
st. Paul is enveoped in blackness after dark
the Gas Company refusing to allow the street
lamps 70 be lighted uHtil the city pays $4,000
damages for violation oi contract.
The London Times Is evidently severely hurt
by Mr.. Bancrofts address, OF which 1t says,
ironically that it will 'cause the British lion to
put his tail between his legs and howl with
anguish"
The extreme cold which has prevailed in the
far West has been very fatal TO live stock. A gen.
tleman writing from Denver, Colorado, estimates
that as many as ten thousand cattle have been
frozen to death since winter set in.
Ground has been broken at st. Paul for a
magnificent opera house. 1t ls to be built OF
blue limestone quarrled from the basement of
the building When completed IL will be a first
There will be total eclipse of the moon on
the evening of the 30th instant. 1t win begin at
five minutes past nine and will reach its total at
twelve minutes past 10 o'clock. 1t will be yisi-
BILE throughout the United States.
Captain James Forsyth died in New Orleans
on the I'd instant, az the age Of 93. He was q
native of New London, Conn.,, but for the last
forty-fve years had resided chiefly in New Or
leans-partly in Pensacola.
"A little girl was lately reproved for playing
doors informed that. being
seven years old, she was ''too big for that no ="
But with all imaginable innocence, she replied,
''Why the big ger we grow, the better we like
'em."
The legislators of North Carolina are said
to disport themselves after the primitive style.
In the House of Commons, as the lower cham
Der is called, members may often be seen whit
Ting sticks and smoking their pipes Ia stage
Yankee.
The petroleum fever is extending to Maine,
A Mr.. John Garland writes TO a local paper that
in the great drought of 1864 fire broke out spon-
taneously in seventy different places on his farm.
His explanation is that the soil must be saturated
with OIL
The sandusky (Ohio) Register says that SO
great is the anxiety to improve the first oppor
tunity for lake navigation, that most OF the yes
sells az the piers have their canvas spread. There
is an immense amount of material awaiting
TRANSPORTATION.
AT latest accounts the Norm ons were ex
cited over the municipal election which was
Daniel FL. Wells is the candidate for Mayor on
the part of the SAINTS; but the "Gentiles" pro
pose to set up an opposition ticket
The Cork Herald says that emigration tc
the United States has already commenced on g
large scale. II is not the poorer classes tha
are departing, but those who could live at home
If they could only be taught to be content with
their LOT.
Auburn, in Maine, is beginning to be a cen
tire for shoe manufacture. Several new firm:
have been established, and besides, rents are
small-not one quarter what they are in Lynn
or Haverhill, and the cost OF supporting family
Is twenty-five per cent. less than in either o
those places.
charity displayed itself during lie by numerou
gifts 70 the public instltutions Of Providence, r
l., has left a will containing the folio wins
bequests:-$50, 900 to the Rhode Island hos
pital, SIC, 900 to the Providence Athen@um, and
$4,000 to the Providence Dispensary, all free
from Government duties.
The western papers are full of accounts o
the losses resulting from freshets. Half tn
bridges on the Kalamazoo (hich) are down
and great quantities of grain stored in ware
houses by the river side have been spoiled b.
the inflow of water. On the Illinois the iniur
10 dams, piers, bridges, etc. is very serious
Huge masses OF ice sweep down the stream
some of them more than thirty feet in altitude
The divorce case of Kasson vs.. Kasson, il
Warren county, Iowa has been decided. MI
Kasson, M c., the defendant in the case, AZ
peared in open court and pleaded guilty to tn
allegations of inhdelity, whereupon a deere
was entered in accordance with the prayer
Mrs. Kassons petition. Mr.. Kasson will probS
bly, be compelled to resign his seat by the pre-
sure of adverse public opinion.