The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-09
INTERESTING ITEMS.

is now clear OF ice.
A SUNNY ITEM.--In San Mateo, California,
peach and apricot trees are blossoming.
CoTToN MILLS IN NEW ENGLAND.--Four enor-
nous cotton factories are going up at Fall
River Mass.
MANUFACTURES IN THE WEsT.-A new and large
woollen factory has Just been built in Thorn
town. Boone county, Indiana.
PLEASANT FOR THE RECIPIBNT.-A servant girl
at Halifax, N. s., has recently fallen heir to
fortune OF thirty thousand pounds sterling.
FREsHET IN MAINE.-The Bangor Wing says
that the eastern part OF Maine has been visited
by treshet greater than has been known for
years.
A CHARITABLE LOAN IN GEoRGIA.-The Gov.
ernor of Georgia has published an appeal to
Georgia capitalists for loan to the State TO sup
ply food for its suffering poor.
CREvAssE IN THE MIssIssIPPI-A dangerous
crevasse has appeared in the Mississipp1 river,
five miles below New Orleans, on the opposite
bank. Twenty feet of the bank has gone out,
and the gap is increasing.
QUICK RUNNING.-Mr. Edmund Sewell, we'll
known pedestrian OF Quebec recently ran from
ST. Johns Gate to the church at Indian Lorette
and back, distance of nineteen miles and a
half in less than three hours.
DUEL IN THE SoUTH.-The New York Iri-
6une has story of a duel, said to have been
fought near Vlcksburg on the 2ith ult., in which
Vermont major named Tomlns was killed by
an ex-Rebel colonel named McIver. The weapons
used we're swords.
THE SOUTHERN METHoDIsTs.-T Methodist
Conference met in New Orleans on Wednesday,
Bishop Andrews presiding, Bishop Early assist
ing, and DR.. Summers secretary. One hun
dred delegates were present, and another hun
dred are coming. letter from Bishop Soule
advises that the name Southern be retained
This is the first conference held In New Orleans
for eight years.
New OPERA HOUSE FOR CMcRJNATI-The
new opera house in Cincinnati will be on an en-
tirely new and original plan. There will be no
stairs to ascend in reaching the auditorium, for
the stage, parquette, and dress circle will be on
the ground floor, with such facilities for egress
that as large an audience as ever was coDgre-
gated within place OF public resort in that
city, may, in case of need, be clear Of the house
in three minutes.
SINGULAR SUICIDE. Recently two daugh-
tiers OF man named Wood, living at Neshone,
Wisconsin, attended the revival meetings OF the
village. They were both converted; but on the
day appointed for the baptism the father opposed
the ceremony, on the ground of the weather
being too cold, threatening at the some time
that If they persisted he would hang himself.
They were, nevertheless, baptized and on re-
turning home they found that the threat had
been fulfilled.
CoLT's New PISTOL FACTORY AT HARTFORD
The Hartford Times says the expense of driving
the piles for the foundation of the new Colts
Pistol Factory (on the site of the burnt edidce)
will with the cost of the timber for pilng, eX,
ceed $50, 900. The new edl6ce is to have front
of five hundred feet, all of beautiful ''pressed
brick" with stone caps and tacings; and the
total cost of the new building must be about
quarter of million. 1t will be the most com
plete establishment of the kind in the world;
and it will contain an immense and very per
feet system of varied and most ingenious ma
chinery.
THE IMPENDING GERMAN CoNFLIcT.-A German
caricaturist las well hit off the probable cause
and inevitable effect OF the deep quarrel which
has arisen between Austria and Prussia in regard
to the appropriation OF the duchies wrested from
unfortunate Denmark. The scene represents a
Roman circus. Napoleon III occupies the i'm
perial seat, while a Prussian and an Austrian
soldier, in gadiatorial costume, are entering the
arena and saluting HIM with the ancient for
mula:-"Aue, Caesar Emperntor, n1orituri te satet.
tdnt!n "Hail, Caesar, Emperor! We, who are
about to die, salute you" They fight, and de.
stroy one another for the Bmperor's pleasure.
NEGROES VoTNG IN WISCONSIN AT LAsT-At
the Charter election at Milwaukee on Tuesday,
the regular Democratic ticket, with one or two
exceptions, was elected. j. j. Talmadge, who
is considered a Johnson Republican, was re-
elected. There was no Republican ticket run.
This being the first opportunity given the colored
people to vote since the Supreme Conrt declared
them voters, some precaution was taken to pre-
vent any disturbance, but no one seemed dis
posed to question their right, and their votes
were peaceably deposited side by side with the
white mans. There was not as many at the
polls as there would have been with Republt-
can ticket.
CANADIAN GALLANTRY AND INsPIRATIoN.-Pa-
triotism naturally inspires poetry and the ele-
waited sentiments of a grand national struggle
spontaneously utter themselves IN lofty verse.
II is not surprising that our neighbo over the
border should feel the kindling impulse. A
Canadian paper brings us an ode to "0ur Volun-
teers,n the concluding stanza of which we copy,
to show how high the enthusiasm rose during
the late peril;-
Brave Darlngtonians, should you 90
Where bloody battles rage,
May Heaven guard you while You strive
The struggle to assuage;
And strike amongst the Fenian hordes
Till victory does appear,
And wei, cry hurrah for Canada
And her gallant volunteers.
RAFPLRG FOR PEw.-The Pail Nal Gazette
says:-"An English provincial journal, a few
DAYS since, contained an advertisement OF q
pew in some local church 10 be rathed for by
so many members. This Is surely sign o
the spread of American ideas, and one more
proof of the popularity of transatlantic Gus
toms in this country.r We do not believe the
Pal Mall Gazette ever heard of an instance In
this country of 'raffling for pew" in a church.
We have, ike other countries some customs
that we are not proud of, but we do not admit
this as one of them. We have also many
'ideasn of q different sort, which we nave nc
hesitation in recommending to our brethreI
across the water, as calculated TO supersedt
some usages of theirs quite as undesirable al
'rafiing for pew