The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-12
INTERESTING ITEMS.

INTERESTING ITEMS.
+" PRICE OF PAPERS IN THE SoUTH-The Gal
feston (Texas) Bulletin says that any New York
ally paper can be bought in that city "ior fifteen
!, Pents copy"
FAIR WAGEs.-The ST. Louis (DIo.) Dispatch
+ sserts that pilots on the Missouri river get from
xteen TO eighteen hundred dollars month, at
3bresent.
TELEGRAPBIo CENSORSHIP REMovED.-A de-
patch from New Orleans saws that all resric-
ions on commercial cipher dispatches are re-
{fnoved by an order from the War Department.
A COMMUNITY OF SPIRIT.-The Atlanta (Ga.)
1teRigencer reports that within the limits of the
orty-six counties which form the fourth revenue
collectors district in that section, there are
hree hundred distilleTies.
CAPABLE OF SEEING BoTH SIDEs.--The Cleve
and Leader says that at Cory, Ohio, the same
<gentleman is owner and editor of the two local
bapers one of which IS thoroughly Union and
: he other strongly Democratic.
NAVIGATION ON THE LAKEs.-The Detroit
Mlchigan) Free Press says that there were
= strong indications of general breaking up of
the ice in Lake st. CLAIR, aud q resumption of
navigation in that direction.
ARSENIC FOR THE CoMPLExIoN.-A girl, not
ourteen years of age, died recently in Smith
e field, N. Y, from overdose of arsenic, which
bhe had been taking in large quantities for a
eries of weeks in order TO improve her COM
&bleXion.
Mormon bishop Is thus announced in Salt
Lake paper:-"He was thirty-seven years old,
nd leaves an interesting family of eleven wives
RDd fo1ty-seven small children to mourn his
leath."
VERY SoMNoLENT.-Ac child at Calais, Maine,
being troublesome from teething, was given a
Yraft of infused poppies which put it to sleep.
This was on Tuesday night week, and at last ac-
tpunts the child was still sleeping in spite Of all
Efforts to arouse it. The phgaician entertain
FBhOpe it may recover.
A VERSATILE CLERGYMAN.-A correspondent of
b Western religious paper knows of preacher in
one OF the Southern States who has charge of
flour churches, edits newspaper, is president OF
"a female college, runs several peddler wagons,
#keeps up farm, and owns several patent rights
(which be farms out.
MORE iExPLIoIT IF NECEssARY.-Sprng6eld
MhIass. desires brief biographical record of the
.,soldiers who went from that city to the war.
The city clerk, therefore, sent out circulars and
Received from one hero reply covering fifty
flour pages with postscript expressing will
Ilingness to be more explicit II necessary.
Il WHAT MARTHA's VINEYARD PRoDUoEs,-A New
IBedtord (Mass.) paper reports that the steamer
II MonOhGnSeH, from the Vineyard, recently
brought to that port wild geese, black ducks,
Moons, coots and sheldrakes; halibut, Goldfish,
&haddock, founders, smelt, and herrngs; with
#eggs enough to set all the hens in the county.
y PRIZE MONEY. The law requiring the deduc-
ton OF bounty paid TO persons transferred
= from the army to the navy from all prize
Hpealed by Congress-. and large number OF
|Rclaims which have accumulated in the office
|of the Fourth Auditor will now be taken up
y and paid as fast as possible.
Y PAY OF SEAMEN.-A months sea pay is allowed
y to every officer in the navy, by a law which has
NJ Just passed Congress, for clothing lost during
4 ythe war in 1861. Applications may be made to
kthe Fourth Auditor, enclosing athdavits that
" such clothing was not lost by the negligence or
fault of the claimant. A schedule of the articles
"a lost is required.
n DIRECT TAXES FROM THE SoUTH.-The following
is q statement of the amount OF direct tax paid
n by Southern States under the act OF August 5,
" 1861, for the quarter ending the LIST of January
= virginia. .S22 go II Tennessee 800. $40 10000
North Carolina. 31,3l0 % Arkansas 16,2SOOO
Il South Carolina. 1O,29745 --
Total. .S125 1O762
You CAN Do IT WITH EAsE.-The following
ingenious little enigma is inscribed under the
Commandments, in the chancel OF an old Epis
copal church:-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Only one letter is wanting TO make good
= English of ofit-thus:-
"Perseyere ye perfect men;
Ever keep these pfecepts ten"
ABOLITION OF SLAvERY.-At the last session OF
the French Committee for the emancipation o
the negroes, two addresses were read, one to the
Queen of Spain and the other 10 the Emperor o
Brazil These addresses, which ask for the
abolition of slavery in the Spanish colonies ano
e the Brazilian Empire are signed by NM. Gulzot
" BrOgAle, h1OuldleLnOeIJ, fdlIOuX, IeuIl mdIIiu
Laboulaye, and others.
JUST TO BRIGHTEN HM.-A negro was shot las
Sunday morning In front of the Macon (Ga.,
Jail, while standing there cOnversing with some
prisoners. An individual named Tom knight
told MIN TO move on; and upon his refusing
Knight fred his pistol, the ball striking his
" victim in the neck and wounding him danger
Ously. Knight says he intended only to lrghteI
the man.
Sickness IN TEXAs.-The Austin Intelligence
of the 22d says that upwards OF seven hundred
cases of measles and other diseases are reported
in Austin and vicinity, and the epidemic is nov
decreasing only for want OF material. or thi
extraordinary number of cases large pei
centage has terminated fatally. AT last &C
counts 1t was rumored that the scarlet fever wa
in the city.
MYs TERIoUs DIsEAsE.-The New Albany QI
diana) Ledger of Tuesday says:--"A diseas
something like hog cholera is proving yer
fatal TO the hogs in this city. They are dyin
in large numbers, and the Street COMMISSIONS
informs us that this morning there were no les
than one hundred lying dead in a radius of tiy
or six squares, all OF them having died sine
SUNDAY morning"
A MOVEMENT TO DIVIDE TENNEssEE.-Th
people OF East Tennessee, disgusted bV the cor
& duct OF the ''bolting' members of the Stat
a Legislature. and believing that Central an
Western Tennessee have interests totally di
tinct from that section, are agltatng the que
ton OF a division OF the State. writer IN u
Jonesboro (Tenn.) Flag asserts that he hi
talkedewith a large number OF citizens, and hnC
them almost unanimous Tor tue measure