The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-25
MISCELLANEOUS J6FTINGs.


.nIeatened with an inundation of the Nile. then
10y hlen' There was great anxiety Tor the
o,pPs, winch were very dne in all Lo wer Egvpt.
and which II was feared would he sno1iaS
Every. precaution was being taken, bnt tbc
stuatlOn OF ahails seriously affected trade Tho
ISVot IN Gambia will have imposed beavv
Iinaaees y urge on the Egyptian treasury. The viceroy
~ y sa'd 10 have furnished thirty thousand men
n1sr 5Vur OIL his principal generals including tbe
nlnlster OF War, money, coal ammunitlon. and
PROVISIONS. The Suez Canal Company contem-
io,, pr'es soon Undertaking the transport OF GER
si ssn KINDS OF merchandise but it seems doubt
iul wnether they will be able to supply sufficient
mEeahS OF conveyance. Tne traffic across
s,p Igypt IS enormous. Lately in very short
sspace or time, twelve thousand bales of manu-.
occurred goods for India passed over the Suez
ppne, ard a great deal of cotton comes from
BOMBAY by that route. There has been a re-
oarr; OF twenty-five per cent on the rate of
carriage OF goods sent by slow trains.
"A letter from Seville in the Paris Tao,ns
gNes an extraordinary account ot a decree
winch the Governor OF that city is endea voring
10 carry out by which heavy fines are levied
oD al VINO say anything irreverent OF the Viroin
or OF sacred things or OF Catholic dopmas Ac
cordlhg to the writer, English visitors are esne-
e ecLally annoyed by. this legislation. Some of
~ nS e EXPRESSIONS which are prohibited are those,
!. - ninteu, with which Englishmen are pro.
verDlaily liberal. One day an Engltshman
passes the host and omits to kneel-he is
nneu. ~, ~. ne passes church or a cross and keeps
on ms hat-a fine. Already, it is stated. one
Enghshman refused obedience, and calling his
nsts TO his aid, freed himself alike from the
Poncemen, the fine, and the lookup. A Prus-
his itsh Sne other day, thinking OF the laures of
us MS, KING, was guilty of disobedience, and
claime1 e ms nationality as a Prussian as a de-
!enssi put this seems to have been bad policy.
Ior the hne IN his case was doubled.
The Paris correspondent of the hadepea-
donce BeIge. says:-"1t has long since been
stateo That the King of Portugal was decidedly
opposed to union of the two crowns of Spain
ana anu PORTUGAL in the person of the same sove.
reign, even were he himself selected, Such is
not onlythe feeling of the Young King, bmt il
- that oI the entire Portuguese nation. An
echo OF tnose sentiments may be traced in the
,bay MY G9rdal reply made by Queen Isabella to
tne ADDRESS OF Count Avia upon the occasion
VI ms presenting his letters OF credence a reply
Which nAs been published in the Paris Monlteur
~ Is stated that the Emperor Napoleon has
mAue known through his Ambassador i'm SoaIn
mat whatever events NAV occur in the PENN
sula, ne could never allow the Montpensier
pranch OF the family to be called TO the throne.n
"A new and singular theological controversy
mas broken out in England. PROCEEDINGS are
ABOUT to be taken against the vicar of Stnrmin
ster marshall, in the diocese of Salisbury for
omlttlng TO read the Athanasian Greed on the
% appoulteu @ Gays; Tor omitting to use the catt e.
plague prayer, and substituting one of his own
composing; for substituting the Prayer-Book
collect against pestIlence for the cholera prayer
aPPoln!ed Dy the Archbishop of Canterbury; for
aooreNaCing tne eXhOrtatlOn at morning and
evening prayer; Tor not wearing his hood: for
denying the doctrine of everlasting punishment:
etc. '
-Ihe Scotsman says that a gentleman resid-
ing In the neighborhood of the river Esk has.
alier repeated observation and experiment dis.
covered that the solid refuse of shale used in the
man MAJ, elscture OF paraffine oil Is most perfect
PuI,uer Oi the nlthlest water. Two bottles one
ol thep nlied with the sewage and the other
Win Crawiey water, as used by the inhabitants
Oh E9ocinpurgh, were submitted to an eminent
medlcal practitioner, who, upon being reouested
10 select the one preferable for drinking mr.
poses, unhesltatinely chose that which had
been purified by the shale refuse. This sub
iacturels OF paraffine oil as valueless.
"A strange petition has been made NV
prisoner IN Dundee Jail in Scotland. The peti-
uoner, Peter Luke, young man, was charged
to ann O1nd Sy with
clares that during his trial. which lasted two
days, several OF the jurymen were asleep, and |
that during the night they were in charge of no |
chose, and conversed with persons about the
guilt or innocence of the prisoner; that several
OF them imbi6ed large uantlty of intoxicating
drink; and he claims his discharge on the
ground of the incompetency of the jury.
The Chicago Tribune mentions a strange
recently among the horses in a
section of Illinois, several valuable ami.
mails 4 having ded within the past few. days. 1t
1s reported to have been caused by the grass
hoppers, which, being taken into the mouth,
bite the tongues of the animals and make them
SO sore that they will not eat thereafter, and
starve to death. The cases have occurred only
among horses turned out to grass.
Miss Braddon is in trouble. Her new maya.
zine, Bet9rdoad, is already the subject of legal
proceedings. 1t appears that Hogg q Son, a
frm in London, have issued the first
number OF periodical with the same name, in
sisting that they long ago projected the. enter
prise and registered its title in October, 1868.
Miss Braddon's publishers have applied for an
injunction, and the case is pending before Vice
Chancellor Stuart.
AN American and an English sailor were
lately before London magistrate for profanity
the American for cursng her Majesty, and
1he Englishman for using basphemous Ian
Euage. The American was fined So for cursing
f. monarch to whom he owed no allegiance,
Eh1e the Brltlsher was fined "a for revlling his
Creator
About the beginning of last month vessel
Fas wrecked on the east coast of Ireland. The
Brew we're saved by the people on shore, and
Nhe daught of the captain was saved by CON
3table, through her clingiug to mis- whiskers
Ind he bravely brought her to shore in this
manner.
"A Milwaukee young lady had her "cap set"
for rather large "leler, " bat failed to win him.
when conidant tried to comfort her with the
|words, Never mind Mollie, there is as good
!fsh in the sea as ever was caughtn "Mollie
knows that replied her little brother, "but she
wants whale"
"A London correspondent says it will aston
2sh rent payers in American cities TO be informed
=Ihat IN the incest and healthiest parts of Lon.
Hon, handsome thfee-story and basement, or
teight-roomed houses, in perfect order, can be
bented at from $3.50 TO $500 per annum.
"A San Francisco paper says there are
lseventy-iVe thousand coolies in California; and 1
|they are demoralzing blight to any commu-
|nlty in which they are domiciled IL saws ''they
|are filthy, thievish, and intamously vile"
While the celebrated giant Ching (height
LabOut eight feet weight, twenty stone) was ON