The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-23
INTEREsrING ITEnrs.

TOBACCO buyers have been very busy IN Howard
county during the past few weeks, and are buy.
ing at from $5 to $40. Mr.. Butler. of GLASGOW,
had purchased upwards of two hundred thou
sand. pounds, OF an average of about $3.50 per
hundred pounds. l. ..
OMNBUsEs ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIvER.--The
different railroad companies at st. Louis have
commenced running their huge iour-horse omni-
buses, loaded with passengers, across the ice
bridge. The event Is interesting, as one which
does not occur once in many years. There Is no
doubt that If iron tracks were laid the steam
locomotives could cross with equal safety.
LEorUREs.-Ex Governor Wise is this week to
deliver lecture in Richmond for the benefit of
the Female Humane Association Sublect-"Fe-
male Orphans" DR.. George w. Bagby, of Rich
mond, delivered q lecture IN Lynchpurg lew
evenings ago. His subject was Bacon and
Green's" and was handled in such q humorous
and popular manner, that he has been called
upon to repeat it there and'in Richmond.
DEATH-BED MARBnGE.-Last week Mr.. Fran
els H. Goldrick was married on his death-bed to
Miss Mary c., daughter Of Hon. p. A. Cannon,
of Connecticut, at Newark, New Jersey. Mr..
Goldrick returned recently from the army, and
was confined TO bis bed from disease contracted
in the service. Some three hours before death
he was united in matrimony to his afianced, at
her request. f.. ..iv.. ..rT taff
E5AY ELEGANT RENEMBRANCER TO Mrs. PRESIDENT
JoHNsoN.-We understand that Mrs. Johnson
has received from Sir Morton Peto (whose
recent visit to the United States will long be re-
advantage of meeting him), most elegant and
costly present in the form OF a Christmas box Of
rare and exquisite device, filed with PaTlslan
bonbons.- Ndtio1au I1ateLhigeaCeT.
THE GERMAN ARCTIC ExPEDITIoN.--A late Eng
lish paper says:-''It seems probable that the
Prussian North Pole expedition, as projected by
Dr.. Peterman, will really be undertaken next
year, as both Count Bismark and General Won
Room (the Minister of War; are in favor OF it,
and have promised the assistance of the State.
General Won Room wished that Austria should
join it; but the proposal has been declined, pro-
badly from financial reasons, and perhaps others
as well.n
SALE OF KEITTs ESTATE IN SoUTH CAROLINA
The estate OF l.. NJ. Kett was recently sold at
auction. 1t sisted only OF few pung cows,
large number of hogs, and some furniture, which
brought good prices. This estate escaped Gene
raj Sbermans men. and the oNerseer In charge
carried all that he could from the home planta-
ton to the smaller one of five hundred acres,
where the sale has Just taken place. Keitt's
widow is not perhaps wealthy but she wall not
suffer.
EATING EXTBAoRDINARY.-A man named Ben
iamin Wolfe, of ordinary stature, living near this
town, made wager a few days ago that he
could eat the entire liver of a hog weighing
four pounds and half, in less than an hour.
He accomplished the feat with ease in half the
appointed time, besides mastcating two plates
OF oysters, and crackers IN abundance. Encour-
aged by his success, we understand he has made
another wager to eat three geese in twelve hours.
we Cnallenge the mppopoUaulus W DeaG tndt'-
Etkton Democrat.
PLANTING ON A LARGE ScALE-The Selma
(Alabama) correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette writes:-'General Macarthur, of Illinois,
has leased FIVE plantations in Central Alabama
for next year; Major Banks Of Joe Johnston's
staff, has eight; General Chase and William r,
Woods, of Ohio, are getting some; so are Colonel
Gere, of Iowa, and q number of others. Their
plan is to rent at three to five dollars an acre
one-thTd down, and the remainder payable lst
InNN1 hen, NhnNvh hfrn nf DRnIG oil
ries competent overseers for each plantation"
THE SUEz CANAL.-A despatch from Port Said
announces that the steamer CheUdlier Rose, per-
forming the service between that port and Alex
andria, which hitherto could only anchor in the
roadstead one thousand five hundred yards from
the ietty, has now entered, coming from the sea,
into the interior maritime canal and is anchored
at the quay of the town opposite the tran7port
warehouse. The steamer draws at least twelve
feet Of water thus proving that the WORKS at
the entrance of Port Said are being more rapidly
carried out than was expected, since the deep
enipg of the passage ten feet was only announced
Tor the beginning of next year.
FRENCH BRANDY.-The Oogpdc, a French
journal, states that the cultivation of vines for
brandy distillers, use has decreased in France in
remarkable degree in consequence of the
gradual decline in the price of COgnac brandy
and the increase III the value of other produce.
In the Grand Champagne of Cognac, land of the
first quality has not been worth more than ESQ
the hectare (2A acres) for the last ten years,
while meadow land has risen to GAO. New
brandy was worth above fl6 the twenty-five
gallons in the district in the years 1856 and
1857. There has been a constant diminuton in
the price since the year 1858, which may be set
down at present at twenty-five per cent.
QUAINT INDoRsEMENT.-Fra w. Smith.
Boston contractor, was tried by court martial
and found guilty of pocketing a thousand or
two dollars out of contract with the Navy De-
partment for supplies. The report of the court
martial was sent TO President Lincoln for his eX-
animation, who returned it with this character
"Whereds, Franklin w Smith had transactions
with the United States Navy Department to a
million and quarter of dollars, and had the
chance TO steal quarter of a million, and
whereas he was charged with stealing only
$4,000, and from the final revision of the testi
mony it is only claimed that he stole SlOO, !
don't believe he stole anything at all.
wherefore, the records OF the courtmartial,
together with the finding and sentence, are dis.
approved, declared null and void, and the de
fendant is fully discharged
"(signed) A. LINCOLN"
The MACKEREL FISHERY or MASSACHUSETTS
| The whole number of barrels of Mackerel in.
spected in Massachusetts last year was 1885, 1861,
against 274,3574 in 1864, showing decrease OF
| 1861, or a decrease of ovec 1000 from the
| returns of 1863 While the number of barrels
| caught nave fallen off, the quality of the catch
has improved OF the 256,796B barrels returned
| in the State this year. 1881 barrels were No.
| If, against l03, ,3S34 barrels of Is in 1864. The
| number of 3s and As packed has also increased
slightly, say 6053s No. IS and 229g No. As, so that
| which nave fallen off from l37,7464 barrels in
1864 to 65,6623 in 1865 decrease Of ", lS4s bar
| rels. OF the whole amount there were carried
into Gloucester l4l,575 barrels; Boston 6,399;
Wellaeet, 1896; Provincetown, II 40Si Cohas
| set, 9O2S; Newburyport, S344; Harwick, 5S93i
| Rockport, 57a6; bingham, SOL; Chatham, 4l3l;
| Dennis, 40O9; Nantucket S94. -
| A CAUSE FOR REGRET-The Snanish anthor