The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-12
MISCELLANEOUS JOTrIN Gs.

white with gold gilt and silver trimmings.
The shabby little town of Cairo, in Illinois,
has just been lighted with gas!
Mrs. Longworth (Mrs. Yelverton) is about to
appear as public reader.
The Asheville IN. C.) Ne,os says one.fourth
Of The real estate in that town is offered for SALE
Another steamer is about 10 sail from No
bile with emlgrants to Brazil.
"A new gas company has been started at
Savannah, Georgia.
The landlords Of st. Louis are increasing
rents from 20 to 40 per cent.
The Bangor butchers 1T is said, can buy
Kentucky beef cattle cheaper than they can
purchase those raised and fed In Maine.
The President has appointed w. I. Cog
geshall, of Ohio, minister to Ecuador, in place
of +. Hassaurek, resigned.
The Royal Engligh Opera at Covent Garden
Theatre, was closed suddenly on the night of
the 18th of February, on account Of financial
difficulties, and inability to pay the artists.
Mr.. sothern ('Lord Dundreary") has sued
the editor OF the spiritual Times, an English
journal, for libelous publications concerning
his private life in New York.
"A directory of indianapolis has lust been
completed, and it contains IL 440 names against
1860 in 1864. From this the Journal figures cut
that the present population Of that city is $780,
The citizens OF Boone county, Missouri, have
resolved to appropriate 100000 for the purpose
of building railroad to connect with the North
Missouri, and $l50,O00 for three turnpikes.
The catalogue Of Andover Theological Semi
nary for this year gives the numbers as follows:-
Resident Licentiates, l5; Senior Class, 25; Middle
Glass, 20; Junior Glass; 20; total, "a.
"A number OF Mormon merchants are in
ST. Louis laying in their spring stock of goods.
They are accompanied byJ. W. Young, SON of
Brigham Young.
The report of Governor Andrews probable
appointment to a Cabinet position appears to
have originated from the fact that he is guest
of Montgomery Blair in Washington.
un
d'0ssuna, Spanish Embassador dt st. Petersburg,
with a Princess of Salm, is announced. The
Duke is about sixty years old, and served under
Espartcro in the latter part of the Carlist war.
The Democrats of Rhode Island have issued
call for State Convention, to be held in Pro-
vidence on Wednesday, March IA instant, to
nominate a State ticket for the approaching
election.
"A poet in the Nebraska City Ne,os concludes
q long poem with the following lines:-
well such is life Whom the gods love.
Die young. whom they hate, live and prosper
And are elected delegates in Congress.
2 From the several territories"
Madame Murat of Tallahassee Florida, widow
of the late Colonel Archie Murat, and first cousin
of the Emperor of France, has received as a gift
from Louis Napoleon life annuity of $4,000
francs, in consideration OF her losses by the
results of the war.
DIR. Isaiah p. Lynn, o wellknown physician
Of Chicago, died on the 2Sth ultimo IRON the
effects of an overdose OF morphine. Being i'll
ana In severe pam, ne LOOK 1Our grams OF MOT
phine, which rendered him lnsensible and re-
suited in death.
Upon close canvass it is ascert aimed that
with single exception, every Republican paper,
IN Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota takes
ground against President Johnson's veto and in
favor of sustaining Congress- The exception is
the Chicago Journal.
The Diocesan Council of the Episcopal
Church in South Carolina met at Charleston,
February IA, and, among other items of bust
ness, resolved to renew their connection with
the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United
States.
"A wellknown French artist, Bouvin, has
hanged himself on account of the distress in
which he and his family had for some time been
plunged. 1t Is reported that before committing g
the deed he said thai perhaps his death would
give his children the bread he could not give
them while he lived.
The Charleston Courier of Thursday men
tions the clearing the ship Southern Rights on
the day previous, with the heaviest cargo of the
season, amounting to one hundred and twenty
eight bales Sea Island, two thousand nine nun
I dred and twelve bales Upland cotton, weighing
l,272,455 pounds, and valued at TIE heavy sum
of S607,5Sl
Mr.. Paul Badford proposes TO raise in London
a voluntary benevolent fund for guards, engine
drivers and stokers on railways, men who daily
risk lite and limb in the public service. He
suggests that there shall be boxes at railway
stations for contributions towards this benevo-
lent fund, and will not object to such contribu-
tions being called "Paul's Pence"
The observance OF Valentines Day has moi
died out in England, but the newspapers con
demn the vugarlty of some of the cheaper val
entines. The London Telegraph says that
Judging from many of the specimens exhibited
one would think that the humber classes in
England took a peculiar delight ia insulting
each other. Pictorial afironts, applicable to
most ages and to either sex, are freely dis
played"
Notwithstanding an extraordinary drought
and consequent scarcity of water for mining
purposes, the productiveness OF the Australian
gold fields does not appear to have been checked
The reports from many of the companies show
but little falling Off. The Custom House returnl
of the export OF gold since the beginning of thi:
year give l,648,693 ounces. The quantity eX
ported last year was /, 900 ounces.
Concerning the monument to John Bunyar
proposed to be erected in the town of Bedford
England the treasurer OF the fund has issued
circular in which he says that 't is resolved
that the monument shall take the form OF largt
and handsome schools, to be called The Bun
van Rooms.' The cost is estimated at nearl,
9S000. The Duke OF Bedford has contributed
925, and about 9l200 have been promised by the
first promoters of the scheme, before making
any appeal beyond their own circle"
There is great excitement in The department
of the Lower Clarente, France, in consequence
of the suicide of the mayor OF one OF thu
villages caused by anonymous letters writer
by the curate OF his district. The mayors SOL
attempted to bring an action against the curate
charge, fearing the vengeance of the clergy. Ill
has now appealed to a civil court, and the tria
will probably take place shortly.
Laura Harris, who appeared in New Yorl
under dlsadYantageous circumstances, seems Il
have met with marked favor in Madrid. Th