The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-04
INTERESTING ITEMS.

| A TROUT OF Coop PRoPoRTIoNs.-Th Carron
| (Nevada) Appeal reports that Chinaman OF
| that section recently caught a trout weighing
! thirty eight pounds.
| The AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
| nineteenth annual session of the American Medi-
| cal Association was held IN Baltimore Nav l.
About two hundred delegates were present.
| iILL.-Professor Alexander Dallas Bacbe Chief
OF the Coast Survey, is seriously Ill in Washing
ton, and little hope is entertained of his recovery
| He is said to suffer greatly from the disease
which will probably close his career.
EX.MAYoR STITH FOR ALDERMAN.-G Gerard
! stith, formerly Mayor in New Orleans land now
| foreman of the composing room of the PicdlnLne
OF that CITY, has been nominated as candidate
for alderman. vice j. o. Nixon resigned.
l. AN EXPENSIVE VNEYARD.--A vineyard was
| lately sold by auction at GevrV in the Cote dor
France, at the rate of $4,000 an acre-the
hlgnest prlce ever known to have been given in
| that country, ..r..
GOLD IN New HAMPsHIRE.-A New England
| company, with capital OF 5000, 600, has leased
| Tor one hundred years a tract of six hundred
| acres in Lisbon, N. H., where CheIe are valuable
| gold, silver and lead mines.
GAMBLING IN PARIs-It is said that the ave.
rage money which has changed hands in ''plavn
| every month this year, since January, at one
| Paris club alone, is $500 600, which gives a re-.
turn of $9,600,O00 per annum.
"BUMMER" IN WILMINGTON, N. C.-Tae citi.
Zens of Wilmington, N O., are exceedingly in.
| dignant at the etfrontery of a man who folio we'd
| Sherman's army as "bummern and now ven
lures to advertise himself as drayman in that
! city. y. -a H.a|
The GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LoNpoN.-This
| society has recently made an addition to their
valuable collection of Hooker's cared SEAL more
commonly called the sea bear. 1t is a native OF
| the Falkland Isles and the neighborhood of
| Cape Horn.
SMUGGLMG.-Smugglng is so extensively prac.
tsed on the Russo. Prusslan frontier that II has
| been calculated the loss of in q y;ot
covering about one.third of the whole frontier
| amounted in 1860 to IL, 800 roubles, and in
| 1861 TO II, 0,490, 600 roubles
The CHOLERA CASES IN HALIFAx.-The pilot
| who brought the steamer Enqld7ld into Halifax
| has since died, with two members of his family.
| He said, before his DEATH that he did not board
the vessel, but merely tOwed in her wake
whence he gave the necessary directions.
A SUNDAY MARKET IN MoBnE.-The Mobile
| (Ala.) Times has mo desire to stir up any re
| gious controversy, nor even to wound the sus.
| capabilities ofany class of men," but neverthe
less feels II to be public duty to advise the
opening of market on Sunday morning be-
tween daybreak and o'clock A. NJ"
A LIFE INSURANCE DEoIsIoN.-J Joseph Easter.
brock, Jr., of Camden, Me-, insured his life for
$4,000 some time ago, and afterwards became
| deranged and committed suicide by shooting.
The insurance company refused to pay the
| policy, but the Maine Supreme Court decides
that they must pay the $4,000, and the costs be-
| sides. 49, ..- ta"| |--.. ~
PROFESSOR BLOT IN BosToN,--The stringency
| of the Massachusetts Liquor law has stirred up
"Quilp," of the Boston Post, into the ubjoined
| etort:-
| "BLOT" AT THE HUB
Says Blot the Professor, 'PGrbieui
Now vat IN 70 Hub Will / dor
| For how Will cook,
BY ze rule In ze book,
Viz no zine for re graVeYf Mon Diem"
DEATH OF DIR. HoDGKN.-We london StdY)
deeply regret TO announce the death of DR..
| Hodgkln, the well-known philanthropist and
man OF science. This unexDected event TOOK
place on Thursday last, at Jatfa, whittier the de-
ceased gentleman had accompanied Sir Moses
Monte6ore. DR.. hodgkln was man of large.
hearted Denevolence, of great and varied attain
ments, and OF unquestionable authoritV in manV
branches OF ethnoogical as well as medical sci
ence. His loss will be keenly ieltby a large
| class of his cOuntrymen.