The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-13
MISCELLANEOUS JOTTINGs.

The voice of Winter-Snow-bawlng.
In Chicago, last year, the money expended
on new buildings was S6,96O,OOO.
Thomas Hughesis ecturing on English and
American Humorists"
"A man in Minnesota ate six dozen raw eggs
IN twenty minutes-on a wager.
During the year 1865 there were in Boston
2S66 marriages.
"A sweet thing in furs is a mink cape-for all
extravagant minXes.
Robert Brownngs new poem will not be
published for year to come. 1t is Ill twelve
books, and will make two volumes.
"A gentleman complaining of the various
taxes, says he cannot put on his boots IN the
morning without stamp.
An interesting and instructive scene may be
daily witnessed on the Virginia and Washington
Railroads, viz. z.:-Reconstructed Coniederates
selling spelliDg-books to recently entranchised
contrabands.
"A most daneerous forgery has been dis
covered In Chicago. 1t is supposed that some
specimen checks Of Watson u Hoes, jewellers,
which contain the water-mark OF the firm, were
obtained from the lithogIaphers and used for
this purpose. The checks came through Eastern
banks.
"A pickpocket with a watch in his hand
which he had Just taken from the pocket of a
gentleman who was in the Boston Custom
House on Thursday, waiting his turn to cash
his coupons, was pounced upon by policeman
before he had time to transfer the watch to his
own pocket.
Among the "Old Folksr in Boston are Deacon
Nathaniel Willis who started the first religious
newspaper now nearly ninety years of age;
Samuel d. Barker was the first District Attorney
of Suffolk, now about four-score years old;
Father Taylor, the liberal preacher, who must
be nearly ninety; Derastus Clapp the oldest
constable in Boston, and still in service.
Three pardons were granted by the Presi-
dent on Saturday. to citizens of New Mexico,
under the thirteenth exception clause of the
m A lo hor nioDc nj
the same class were pardoned, and also Mrs.
Jane Moore, of New York, sentenced to the
Penitentary for three years for abstracting
letter from the mail. 81
Out in Peoria, Illinois, a noted whisky manu-
featuring region, they test the quality of the
liquor by the distance man can walk after
tasting it. The liquor called 'tangle-legs" is
said to be made of diluted alcohol, nitric acid,
boot legs, and tobacco and will upset man at
the distance Of four hundred yards from the
demiiohn.
The locomotive "Homer," attached to
freight train going East, on the Toledo, Wabash,
and Great Western Railroad, exploded her
boiler on Saturday morning, while standing
upon the track near the depot at Decatur,
instantly killing Edward Miles, the engineer,
and James Brstow, the fireman. The loss is
yariously estimated at from $4,000 to $4,000.
There is quite an excitement about real
estate at Toledo. The transfers during the year
amount TO more than a million of dollars
During the last week IN December the activity
were entered for record the consideration
money for which was over S10300O About
the same amount was done in the two preceding
weeks.
The report of the Chief of Police, of Boston,
records the following arrests during the past
year:-"ArTest for crimes, 1881; males, 49, l39;
| females, 4472; residents, l4527; non-residents,
| 1854; adults 13,43l; minors, 4450 Number of
larcenies reported at the Chiefs Office 177l pro-
perty reported stolen in the city, S2l4 299; re-
| covered and restored property in and out of the
| city, Sl44, ,240."
| "A grade Chester SOW, exactly ten months
and one day old, was slaughtered in West Spring
| rield, Mass, on the Sd inst The dressed weight
OF the animal, including the fat of the entrails,
| was Az pounds This animal was fed regularly
| three times day. and for the last two months
almost exclusively on corn meal, from six to
| eight quarts day made into thick pudding.
| The brother of this pig kept in the same pen,
| broke down with gluttony some two months
| previous, at the weight OF $50 pounds.
The Dayton (O.) Journal of the Sd, says
that "at Delphi, last week, Mr.. Jacob Wolf
| formerly of this county, and brother to Mr..
| John Wolf, of Harrison township, was shot and
| killed by his son-in-law, named Hardy All the
| information we have of this tragic occurrence,
| we get by telegram received here, making the
sad announcement. Mr. Wolf had been having
domestic Affections in his family, and had beer
especially estranged from his son-in-law, who
had sued him for slander. 1t is understood that
| Mr.. Wolf was shot during personal alteration
He was buried last Saturday, at Delphi"
The Southwestern Press Association met a
Memphis on the 2lst of December, and adjourned
on the 22d. The following officers of the asso
citation were elected president, j. NJ. Keating
of the Memphis Commercial; Secretary, j. w
Kinsley, OF the Vicksburg Journal; Treasurer
John Roberts of the Nashville Banner; BoarC
of Directors-A. NJ. Holbrook, OF the New Or
leans Picaylae; j. r. Hood, OF the Chattanooga
Gazette; Isaac NJ Partridge, OF the Vicksburg
Herald; w. NJ. Halderman, of the Louisville
Courier; W. G. Clark, of the Mobile Register ant
Advertiser.
Major Samuel E. Everett, of Ellsworth, Conn.
has donated to the Ellsworth Congregations
Society the sum of $1,000, on condition that tn
Society raise an additional $500 TO establish
library for the benefit of the pastor and society
The 5000 has been raised, and, together with 500
of the $1,000, been expended in purchasing book
| for said library The remaining $500 is to remail
as a permanent fund, the annual interest o
which is to be expended in making additions t
the library. Books to the number of nearly sil
| hundred volumes have been selected and pun
chased by the minister, Rev. A. Goodenough
late of Yale Theological Seminary.
Two convicts, Gillespie and Catlett, tn
former sent TO the penitentary for ten years, tn
latter for one, was placed yesterday afternoon il
charge of a single sentinel, who was to conduC
them to their destination. When they ha
reached the extremity of Cary street, both c
them broke and run. The sentinel fired at Gi
lespie, and the ball passed through his coat. H
was then recaptured but Catlett made good hi
escape and is supposed TO be concealed in som
of the negro dens in the vicinity OF the pen
tentiary. Gillespie has already escaped twice
and il was only the dreadful fright he telt whe
the ball pierced mis- clothing that prevented n
escape a third time.-RioitmOnd Examiner, 6tt
a The Savannah Republican of the 29th III
! has the following weather paragraph: w.