The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-09

A SHALISoULED FoRGER.-Some men make
bold dashes-go either to the penltentiary for
the best end of lifetime, or lnduige In tnat
annual rotation between liberty and the County 1
Prison. A. young man named Stephen T.
Colonel Cross, he risks the penitentlary by |
working off forged checks of the paltry sum of /
ten to fiteen dollars. He is now In the lookup
His modus operandi is infinitely petty. |
He assumes the name Of Henry st. Clair, |
and has been boarding lately with relatives |
been mainly in West Philadelphia. just as the |
locomotive on the Pennsylvania or the West |
Chester road is giving the whistle premOnitory
of start, this genius rushes into a store or
tavern with check OF paltry amount. with q
slorekeepers, with drawer full OF dirty. looking
stamps, gladly count them out to him In return
for his bright looking and, ofcourse, undoubted
check. He has thus bitten number of people
He nipped Walter Hager, in Market street,
above Thirty. first. He ordered "trei beers, aud
received SO 80 for check representing ten
dollars. The check found It's way To- oank and
gave the authorities a chance to fry this sin gu
larly diminutive minnow, The police soon
worked up his case. They found that he had
victimized Jonathan Williams, of Media. to the
magnificent amount OF $50; that he stuck sun
Ter sums sand that he had left for safe.
keeping with MIR. Hancock, the agent of
that he proposed to use as occasion
might present itself He was arrested at
barber shop, No. 3l33 Market street, while the
tonsorial professor was moving the rather
auburn hair from his not i'll shapen chin. He
was considerably vexed at his arrest He
claims TO be IN The hat business. in Columbia.
with an ample bank account upon which TO
draw. The phIlanlhroplc authorities tele-
graphed to the COluI.. bia banks, and were
CURLY informed that no such person as st. Clair
or Beale ever had an account there.
Alderman Lungren heard the case this morn
ing with exemplary patience. He gave tue
prisoner Jhe be nefJ of every douot and thea
Issued an oblong fiat of greeting TO the Warden
of the County Prison, commending the little
adVenturer TO his tender keeping.
TIE CURIosITIEs OF REAL LIFE.-William
Fisher is a Southron. He came here wneu the
war tnded He took up his abode in a court
Of n mulatto girl, whose love he could only
secnre by rendering to her lawful wedlock.
They were married. The Southron soon after
wards fapced himself iu his old home in
Georgia, where the taint of African lineage in
either party to Gods holy ordinance, matri-
moDy, renders the ceremony farce. The
woman in this evinced decided repug.
nance to being discarded, and has followed the
man for some days past. Last night, tnt1ame ed
with wine and anger, he fought with her. She
returned his attack with interest but in he
end was vanquished and seriously beaten. Her
name was Annie Clusky. Her Injuries are such
that, for the appearance of the husband, Alder
man Carpenter declined to accept less than
5000 bail.
THE LAW AND THE PRoPHETs.-Ti
Mccarthy lives in Lithgow street. Ills proreS.
sion in the "ould country" was that of sew
ing up seams in rent tinwRre with a soldering
iron. At Llthgow street and Girard avenue
last night, he and another man named Joseph
Bower were found tightly clinched. Policeman
Reed came along. This policeman is as me-
thodical as meat saw, and as inexorable as
the gas office. He wasn't sure which was the
aggressor, but threw the responsibility upon
the Alderman by arresting both. Alderman
EgglestOn put on his spectacleS, took down Pur-
uOns digest, and heard the case. The Alder
man is IpI overblal for his ability to see quite
as far Into a grind. stone as any gentleman upon
the Supreme bench. He concluded that as
MCCarty had knocked Bower into the gutter.
McCarty was the resp )nsible party. Bower and
the gutter were discharged.
s'TzwEI LAGER !''-Six of the singing socie-
ties of Philadelphia will participate in the
grand music fest in Reading, beginning on the
month The excursion party Will number
about three hundred. They represent the
M9nnerchOr
SRngerbund,
LieGerta1el,
IiederkranZ,
Young Mennerchor,
Liedertafel d. d. fr. gem.
The programme is one of exceeding interest;
| Included IN 1t Is singing separately by each OF
| the Societies above. named. Our German friends
| are philosophers. What they don't know about
enjoy ment in this life isn't taught at any semi.
| nary whose catalogue has thus far reached our
table, We repeat as we began, "tzwel lager %
SLOW But SURE.-Three years ago a man
| named John w. Eastman, kept a livery Stable
| at Eleventh and Parrish streets A man named
| Christ opher Worcester hired q horse and wagon
| from him, and drove away. He forgot TO re-
| turn. leaving Mr.. Eastman to mourn the loss o
| valuable quadruped, at time when the GOv-
| eminent was paying hundred and ten d Illar6
| for any animal able 10 stand without a tresJle
| Q0Uer DIS D6lly. THIS morning MT. ASJna0
| saw the man for the first time since his horse
| was taken away. Instead of presenting bill
| for horse hire he sent John jenkins and stan
| oack with an Oblong piece of paper, authOrlz
| ing them to take Worcester into custody
| Alderman Hood held him in $500 bail tC
| answer.
| A DEsPICABLE SCAMP.-Aldermau Carpenter
| had the pleasure of sending To prison this
| morning "bummer," named Hugh Agnew
| He has just completed q twenty-five months
| residence in Moyamensing Prison. Returnina
to his old haunts, near Nineteenth and Carpeu.
| ter streets, he heard that an aged colored lady
| there had managed to scrape together about
twenty dollars. He found that her habits were
eccentric, and that she invariably carried heI
| treasure upon her person. Last night he way
| laid her, knock ed her down, and would have
| robbed her but for her persistent cries. He
| was arrested, and disposed of as above, by
| Alderman Patchell.
| PERsoNAL.-Mr. Kay, clerk to the Mayor
| asks TO state this-A German woman, named
| Eliza M@Vers, nee Fendner, grieving incon SOla-
| bly, over the death of her son, lost TO some eX.
| tent the vgor OF her intellect. DaZed and down
| cast as she was, a visit to Newark, n. j., where
| she had friends residing, was proposed to her
| She left on May 9th, and has not since been
| heard OF. Her friendsare in state of extremely
| painful suspense concerning her. She is 81
| years of Rge, five feet five inches in stature has
| false upper teeth, and speaks English with q
| very marked German accent. MIR. Kay will be
| very glad of any definite Information concern.
| Ing her, whether dead or living.
WHAT Rum WILL Do.-A we'll known res.
| fore Recorder Given this morning He is q kin l.
| pH bnt like n his N