The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-15
MIsCRLLANEoUs JoTTINes.


The town of Newport Maine, has cleared off
all its debts, and has now balance of assets of
| $502255. The people had courage enough last
year TO assess q tax of ten per cent. upon them
selves.
The Rockingham Va.) Register states that a
company Of Bsltmoreans have bought tract of
mineral lands consisting of forty tho qsand acres
in Giles and Bland counties, Virginia, for the
sum OF one hundred thousand dollars.
Tho sandusky (0hio) Register says the re-
eight tons per day. When navigation opens the
receipts will not be less than forty tons per day
during the entire season.
In Boston the value of real estate is daily
activity prevailing among architects and build
e1s, and the vast number of projects for improv-
ing buildings by remodelling.
A Russian engineer has discovered an ex.
tensive coal-held about ninety versts from Tur-
kestan. The coal is said to be OF excellent
quality, and the Russians will now be able TO
carry out their plan of establishing fleet OF
steamers on the Syr Daria, which has hitherto
proved imprRctioable in consequence OF the
want OF fuel in those parts
The literature of craniologyi is cumulating.
Nf. Greenwich is about to issue, in London, "a
Decade of Skulls from Ancient Northum bria,"
containing ten lithographic plates, each giving
one view Of skull, half size, and two other
views, quarter size together with a detailed
account OF the circumstances under which each
was found, with wood-cuts of urns and'other
associated objects
The Independence Beige complains that at a
recent amateur dramatic performance at Brus
sells fer All English charity which was attended
by a mixed audience Of English and Belgians,
the English insisted on all standing, uncovered,
while ICED save the Queen" was being played,
and then put on their hats and hurried out
noisily when the band struck up "La Bra
banconne," +" the national air of Belgium.
The editor and printer of paper called the
Gazette de PInduStrfe have been Just sentenced
by the Paris police court to months imprisen-
nent each, and three hundred francs fine, and
the suppression Of the paper has been ordered,
for having introduced political topics into their
commercial articles in order to explain the yarla.
tiens of the BouTse and of trade IN general. The
paper, 1t seems, was not authorized to treat poll
tical topics, and it had lodged no caution money.
"A genuine case OF trance is reported from
GuildfOrd England. An old lady, after being
for long time in low state OF health, sank
down suddenly, and was pronounced by a sur
geon to be dead. The coffin WAS purchased, and
the body put into it, bat it is SAID that Just as
the undertaEers were about to screw down the
lid the supposed corpse started bolt upright, TO
the great terror OF the bystanders, and, getting
out of its coffin, walked across the room. 1t
is added that" the old lady is now hale and
strong.o
TIE Boston IrGnScript says that survey for
railroad around and over the Hoosac Noun
tain has been completed, and estimates made by
which it is computed that instead of Uunnelling
the mountain, the State may relnquish the tun-
nel to the Troy and Greenfield Company, and
proceed to build the new road for much less
amount OF money than has already been sunk
in the bore. 1t is said that the road over the
mountain could be completed within q year.
| The plan Contemplates geng nearly to the top
! Of the mountain, and then by switches making o
| detour Of five miles.
The Detroit Tribune mentions the final set.
| tleHent OF case that was in court over three
! hundred years. About the year 1860 August
| Troutwein, living in the northern part of Ger
| many, loaned a sum of money to Count Mans
| nII rrin hia1rr YYNnr kln1
! all the claims were contested by the heirs Of
| Count Mansfield, and the whole estate. being in-
| deoted to great extent, was pat under seques-
| tration, and has ever since been under the ad-
ministration of the Prussian Government.
| Lately, however, the case has been settled, and
| the money loaned three hundred years ago,
| with accumulated interest, amounting to over "
million OF dollars, paid to the heirs of Trout
vein. One OF these heirs lives in Detroit and
he received his share, which was an eight hun
dred and forteth part Of ths whole sum-
- The San Francisco Bulletin contends that
| that city can compete on advantageous terms
with St. Louis for the vast trade3of Idaho, Mon
tana, Utah, ana Arizona. 1t speaks or a pro-
! jeCt to form a company for the shipment Of goods
to Colville, on the Colorado river, some tour
| hundred miles from Salt Lake, where it is pro-
posed to establish an agency. 1t adds that
during the previous week there had been an az
rival at Montana by way Of Los Angeles Seve-
raj other trains were expected by the same
route, and it is said that the amount of goods TO
be despatched in that direction this spring will
not fall short OF three hundred thousand dollars.
The teams are lett al Los Angeles and the goods
despatched to that point by steamer. The time
occupied in making the trip from Montana was
less than sixty days; forage was reported plenty,
and no hostile lndisns were encountered.
The following is list Of Americans regis
tered at the office OF Messrs. Bowlss, Drevet &
Co., No "a Rue de la Paix, Paris, tor the week
ending February 16:--
Rev, T. H. Means and wife, Dorchester; Mr..
Stevens, New York; DR.. c. NJ. Weld, II. B. Walla2z
John II. Gowen, wife and family; r. NJ. Mason
wife, and family T B. Aoors, Boston; A. Fl Bur.
llnsham, Professor Ed. Emerson wife, and family,
John 5, Kennedy, Miss julia Baker I. n. Groes
chel, Now York; Thomas A. ID Vyer San Antonio
Texas; w. N. States Peter ChFysta San Fran
cisco; George Dexter, Cambridge, Mass; Hon
Milard Fillmore, g. G. Warren, Buffalo; T. IL
Fanner, WImingtoni G. NJ. Hitchcock, California
T. II, Burch, John Henry Farnum, Chicago; Nj
Archibald Kennedy, Glasgow; George B. Farnum
New Haven c. Lippncott, Philadelphia M. C
YOunglpVe, Cleyeland; Charles de Luze, Bordeaux
b. II. Howell, New York.