The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-18
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pietv are alike closed. and the city is depleted
Of players and preachers gore t. draw from the
self.same bAlhs and breezes, the Inspiration OF
strength. For the lat SIX weeks, the lists of
passengers for Europe, have included about an
equal proportion Of those who wear the SOCK
and those who wear the surplce, aud such of
the deserted pubic and parishoneIs as remain
at home dl cern that their wouted temples OF
pleasure and of pisty are very few indeed.
The merciiu coolnes, OF yesterday put a stop
to the cases OF sun stroke aud deaths from heat,
which, for the previous three days, had
amounted TO no les ,hsn two bundled and
t1ftv, and hal caused an unprecedentedlJ rapid
increase IN the number Of patients at the city
hospitals, and Of corpses vt the Worgue. There
are few places IN the United States which, for
aggravating, obstinate, and sullen intensity of
glare can equal the Broadway OF New York,
when once Sir us has once made up his mind to
do his temporary wort. The number OF horses
chat fell dead and dying IN the traces on Nor
day, Tuesday, and Wednesday, was only less
than the number OF pedestrians who experl.
mented with cool cabbage leaves and soaked
sponges inside their has, and finally succUmbed
to q coup de Soiel after all.
For two or three weeks past, the stranger 10
New York who 10 not quite so well posted as he
might be, or who has glanced over his morn
ing's paper more cursorIY than usual, has had
his curiosity piqued by Il ngitudinal pIacard
one loot in Oepth and six feet long, which, star
ing him in The lace at every turn, seemed to be
possessed of greater share OF the gut of pluri.
presence tLan charac erizes most placards IN
this sensation age. The m vstc words these pla.
cards bore, were, The wickedest man ia New
York"-a combination OF noun and adjective
quite frequent enough to put conjecture on the
rack. Was it a ne song? or a fresh burlesque
at Bryant? or the last novelty introduced into
"Humpty Dump'yW
Who was it that enjoyed the unparalleled
honor of being the most in,quitous inhabitant
of Gotham, So wondered the stranger. Meau-
while the Wickedest Man in New York kept
himself busy in stunning observation, in his
saloon in Water street He is a man edgug
towards fifty years Of age, and one of the most
incomprehensibe unions of antlpodes ever
behed in mortal moUlj. His pame Is John
Allen. His three brothers are ministers; him
self is keeper of bar and dance house. His
education Is as liberal as his potatons, and his
conversational capacity as choice as his own
private liquors. He is equally at home With
quotations from fancy ii,eraur asd the Biole;
and swears by Henry Ward 3eecner aud G. W.
Matsell. His saloon abouLds with equal
proportion of tracts and temptations, and il
would seem that if one man uLited the mutu-
ally repellant attributes of the two thieves at
the Gloss, this man does. He is fond of the
society OF ministers and newspaper people, and
always brings forward his best cigars and
liquors, and invites tentIon to The 6nest-look-
ing lasses in his estsbli hment, whenever the
press pulpit calls on h M to report or inform.
To crown all, he has u darling little boy, named
Chester, whom he loves at once with all
fathers pride and a mothers tenderness. This
little scion of the Wickedest Man IN Ne v York
Is about as full of smartuess as
grain Is full of wheat. Some
times, when visitors arrive, his father
haj him woke up at midnight, and causes him
to display his accomplishments before the asto-
nished company. The profane and Biblical
knowledge OF this mite is amazing. The sou is
quite as much a wonder in his way as the ia her
is in his. The Lords PrayeA aud mot TOR oe;'
the Ten Commandments and limitations of Ed
win Forrest are artistlc9l y rendered by him AZ
his fathers bidding, aud after a display of geo.
graphical and grand scientific learning, a series
of classical attitudes and Virginia break-dow wu
are made to wind up the entertainment. Bat
there are rumors that the Wickcdest 10 an in
New York is in future going to allow the better
part Of his nature rule. The other oay his little
son came running home from school
sobbing so violently that for some mlnu.es
he could not sreak. At last he managed to
make his fa.her understand. through his tears,
that his paymates refused to have anything
further to do with him, because his father was
the wckedest man in New York. This set Johu
Allen thinking, aud the result is that he has
signed bond pledglng himself to abandon his
dance.hou forever. The lamp" has ''hel 1 O 1t
to burn" for him so long already that those woo
are religlously interested IL him feel that no y
is his last chance, and that the flame Of hope Is
ready to leap in the socket uuess he at once
folio VS. the injunction to repent, believe,
obey"
Respecting the new prima donna, Mad'lle
Mane Irma who is to make her debut on Mon
day evening at Nlblo's as "Boulette," In Barbe
Bteue, / cannot say at present that she is very
pretty. What heard of her voice on the OCca
sion of one rehearsal ouly is insufficient TO judee
by, since the rehearsal was incomplete, and she
did not take the trouble to exert herself Mr.
Bsteman, however, has been so successful
hitherto in the singers he has brought tC
America, that failure is never looked tor IN any
OF his new attempts.
Are there any ladies in Philadelphia who
remember that changes are going on in THE
evanescent world of fashion, even during suct
weather as we have had? Muslin and g4uz'
have almost usurped the place tatreta lately
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