The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-06

The Atlantic and Gulf Railroad has Just been
put in running order, the first through train
having arrived at Savannah on the 18th instant
The Memphis Post asserts of that city that
there is not another of its size in the Union
where there are so many drinking saloons.
The prospect for fruit In Wisconsin was
never better. An examination of the buds has
shown that the frost did no harm.
Boston sells its house offal under contract
for $500 per annum, the ashes collected by the
city at $4,000, and the street dirt and sweepings
for $200O
-Bushwhackers roam up and down the Mis-
sour river. Sixty of them attempted to seize
the Fanny Ogden, river boat, while off Wa
verify.
Mrs. Chanfrau seems TO be quite a fayorite
at the New Orleans Varieties, where she has
Just had benefit Madame Celeste, at the st.
Charles is also very popular. l.'. H
-Madlle Marguerite Ella, an accomplished
young Creole pianist, has recently been asked to
give farewell concert" by some OF the leading
citizens of New Orleans.
According to the statistics of 1866, there
were 36,622,3l3 head of cattle in the whole
island of Jamaica. Compared with 1859, when
they footed up only Ola 1885, this is an inctease
of l0,6O7,979 in six years, or 4O47 per cent.
The Point Coupee (La.) Echo says the small.
pox has been raging in that parish for several
months to a fearful extent, especially among the
negroes. The disease is so scattered that caution
is of little avail. ...I. .
The New Orleans Times asserts that there is
not sufficient labor or force in the State OF Mis-
sssppi to produce three hundred thousand bales
of cotton of four hundred and fifty pounds per
bale
Miss Jean Hosmer has been recently capti-
waiting the Louisvlians, If we can believe the
notices in the Journal, which say that her mrs
HalleI'' is "a triumph of art" and that she
stands at the head of the list OF tragediennes."
in ST. Louis Miss Cecille Rush has been very
successful at De Bars Theatre. Several OF the
prominent citizens have rendered her benefit
The list is headed by the names OF Malor-Pene-
rails Sherman and Pope.
Two men. named White and Edmunson, re.
Gently arrested in st. Joe, have been sent to the
Andrew County Jail, on charge OF being impli-
| Gated in the recent robbery OF the bank at
Liberty, by which that Institution lost some
| $50, 600.
Moore, of Concord Bank notoriety, expresses
intense disgust at the diShonorable conduct of
| certain New York detectives in declaring his
| connection with that robbery, one OF the condi-
tons being that the matter should be left pro-
| found secret
-Leavenworth Kansas, exhibits great mer-r
| camille activity tor so small place. The daily
| average of deposits at one of the banking houses
of that city during the month of February was,
S676, 09l, or over six hundred and seVenty,siX
thousand dollars. o. III
Winter still clings to Northern Iowa. The
| Keokuk Gate 9th says:-''The farmer sees piled
successive strata of huge blocks OF Ice as though
| a respectable sized Alpine avalanche had there
spent itself, forbidding any planting or reapng
this season."
DIR. E. r. Kavanaugh. late of the Confede-
rate States artpy, died at the ST. Carlos Hotel,
City of Mexico, on the 28th ult. Deceased was
a Missourian and graduate OF the st. Louis
Medical College He was buried by his self-ex-
patriated and exiled comrades in the strangers
Cemetery" a lovely spot Of ground not far from
where Cortez once sat to view the beautiful Val
ley of Mexico. a..tta Hh