The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-30
NEW YORKLSMS.
From our own Correspondent.

various localities where crime doth most
abound are so startled by
SUICIDE
as they we're on Monday evening. in that densely
crowded neighborhood, Seventh street and
Avenue b.
This neiehborhood is crowded with tenement
houses, and the tenement-houses are crowded
with all sorts of small dealers of various degrees
of poverty, or, as will be seen by the sequel, of
riches.
Among these was Nathan Konigsberg, who,
with his son, occupied the third floor of tene-
ment-hOuse No. 2lS Seventh street.
Xongsberg was character. He was sue.
cessful in two things-in becoming well off and
In maintaining reputation for poverty. He was
dealer IN Jewels, and for many years past had
driven q better business in diamonds than many
q flourishing jeweller along Sixth avenue. The
more money he made, however, the moro the
impression grew upon him that he would die
poor man. To destroy that possibility he cut
his throat from ear to ear, and was removed in
that condition to the hospital.
The foreign remedy of suicide-a remedy
believed TO be applicable to all the ills of life
is getting TO be of as univer.al application here
as over the water. Scatcelya day is free from
self urder. The Coroner's hands are full of
cases in which quietus has been achieved by
various notifications OF the "bare bodkin."
Apropos of the arrival Of
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN,
q very pretty and artistic swindle has just been
perpetrated at his residence or Madison avenue.
That residence, understand, is adorned In
the most ou're and bizarre fashion, with unnum
bered curiosities gathered by the great George
him self, during his rambling gs over the habita-
BILE portions of the globe,
Mrs. Train has taste for elegant chairs, and
. day or two ago purchased two, price 500
each.
As the porter who had conveyed them home
was about ascending the steps, an individual
wearing the blue coat and brass buttons with
out which George Francis Is never known to
appear in public, overlook him with the words,
$50, these are the chairs Mrs. Train ordered
Very well I'll take them in. am Mr.. Train
The porter, borne down and carried away with
such melliauousness of Fenan emphasis, bo wed
and retired and the supposed Mr.. Train found
himself confronted with the servant, who ap-
peared in answer to the bell. The suppositltious
Train Immediately threw OIL the distinguished
air with which he had gulled the por-
ter, and affecting to examine the chairs
he held, suddenly discovered that they were of
would be necessary to carry them back to the
store where they had been purchased. Mrs.
Train, unfortunately, was not within earshot;
and the servant not understanding the matter,
was naturally deceived by such well-sustained
plausibity. The whole thing was q piece OF
protean acting of which Mrs. Barney Williams
might be proud, and the gifted thief, who has
not since been heard Of, beat rapid retreat
with 500 chair under each arm.
THE BEAUTIES OF THE BANJO
were never more forcibly illustrated than they
were last evening at the Cooper Institute, where
q monster meeting, so to speak, assembled to
assist at performance for the championship of
that instrument by MessIs. Dobson and Plumer.
The match, however, did not come of, for Mr..
Plumer did not put in an appearance, and Mr..
Dobson had his banjo and his audience all to
himself During the evening, a series of
remarks, not TO say lecture, was delivered, in
which the history of the banjo was traced from
the earliest CLEANS we discover In Mosaic
records of its existence down to the present
widespread influence it exerts over the negro.
minstrelism of the age.
An examination is just over, at the Tombs
into the case of William G. Wright, charged
with
FORGING RAILROAD TICKETS,
and IL is believed that thousands of dollars
worth of forged tickets have been disposed of
through means similar to those employed by
Wright, in many of the principal cities of the
Union.
Wright says he is a native OF New Hampshire
and dealer in patent.rights, claim that he
was the dupe of Others, and did hi. bu 5iness
openly at his Office. The tickets sold by him
were signed "Lewis L. Houpt, Agent" and pur-
ported to have been issued by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, and to be good for a passage
from Boston to Chicago over the New Jersey,
Camden and Amboy, Pennsylvania, and Pitts.
burg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroads.
Wright is held to answer the charge of forgery
In default Of $4,000 bail. If
THE soRosIs
does not accomplish much in the way of bene-
hting the world at large, it accomplishes
great deal in the way of amusing ITSELF This
amusement consists in those informal sociables
held every week at the house of one OF its
members, Abe one held last Wednesday even
ing, for instance, at the residence of "Jennie
June" Mrs. Croly), was very delightful, bringing
together, as it did, some of the brightest and
sharpest female minds in New York. Perhaps,
lothe Sorosls appears to great deal better
advantage as an intellectual society," with no
aim in particular, except that of its own delec-
tation, than as a high. aiming but small per
forming association, useless because of its lack
Of earnest leaders.
Tonight Leonard Grover
OPENS THE TAMMANY
with programme as long "a he Atlantic cable