The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-18

In three weeks more than two thousand box.
| holders abandoned their boxes of their own
| accord. The immense growth of this city has
| rendered post Office reform necessary. No one
| who has not taken the trouble to investigate the
s2bject would credit the number of letters
which, from being calc cleSsy directed, fail or are
tardy In reaching their destination. Besides,
the box system depends for its success upon the
aptness and precision OF the mem ories Of the
post office clerks, called "Sorrers," who assort
the letters. Maby Of the old firms in the city,
conservative to the last degree, have not yet
been persuaded into Postmaster Kelly's views,
and some years will perhaps elapse before The
new system will be as perfect aud as popular
here as 1t is in London. But the time must
come, sooner or later, and the younger and
more go.aheaditive firms are giving the subject
all the attention II deserves.
Another homicide and another midnight riot
are the last street and lager beer saloon agonies
which have transpired. The homicide occurred
In a saloon in East Fourteenth street, and was
consequent on the refusal OF the bartender
there to supply q drunken German, named
Seibert with beer Seiberps action, upon being
refused, was to stab his refuser in the neck, and
another man who interfered, in the forehead.
The stabbed bartender, Stellwagon by name,
died soon after the in6iction of the wound, but
identified Seibert as his assailant. There has
been an unusual number of these
lager beer brawls lately. The other
affair, the riot, occurred little later in another
portion of the city, and had it not been speedily
checked by the arrival of q platoon of police
would have given every promise of assuming
very serious proportions. Shots were fred,
missiles were thrown, heads were broken, aud
wndow-rames smashed in; but at length two of
the riDgieaders were arrested and locked up
and this became the signal for the dispersion of
one OF the ugliest street manifestations that has
disturbed New York for many year.
The approaching fall and winter season OF
amusements promises to be unusually fertile
and charming. In the first place Mapleson
Msretzek, and Bateman are each going to have
separate opera companies, Bateman, indeed
two. Madame Ttiens, who years ago expected
10 come to this country, but whose engage
ment, like those Of Rlstoris, about the same
time, was cancelled because of the uncertainty
felt in regard TO her success, is going to resign
the operatic fields in London and Paris
awhile, to Patti and Nilsson, Pauline Lucca
and lima de Murska, and intends placing her
self under the leadership of Mr.. Mspleson,
Then Grau and Pike have pledged themselves to
produce first class ballets and operas boufe, and
MIR. Brougham will produce his own plays (and
speeches) in the renovated little Fifth Avenue
Theatre. Edwin Booths splendid theatre will
be opened with that Legitimate" that is heard
so much about and seen go little Of some time
IN the fall Barney Williams will produce new
Fenianisms at tho Broad way Theatre; after the
conclusion of Joe Jefersou's engagement at the
Olympic new pantomime will commence
| another two hundred.nghts season there. Then
Woods Museum will be opened two weeks from
the present time, with salutatory by Mr.. Bar
mum, the Siamese Twins "pIevious to their
separation by the Paris College of Surgeons" a
baby woman two years old, giantess eight feet
high, Circassian girls who speak English re-
mark ably we'll and have the most lovely crmped
! hair, Scotch dwarf "a inches high, fat boy
| five years old and 230 pounds in weight, another
| dwarf named General Grant, and an automaton
| Leottrd. Besides these phenomenal glo
| ries, Maggie Mitchell Is to appear there
IN an entirely new play; Miss Lydia Thompson,
| the English burles9ue actress, is to see whether
| she can make us forget Mrs. John Wood; aud
Susan Galton, an English opera boufe are to do
| all the matinee business. What do you think of
| all that? You shall see and hear them all if you
| come on. 1t is even rumored that Gabriel
Ravel and Leotard are to appear in conjunc-
| ton at this resuscitated Barnum'S. Add to this
that Mrs. Scott siddons, granddaughter Of the
Sarah Siddons, has already arrived, and will
de6a ou September IL, at Steinway Hall. That
Janauschek is coming back, and another
German actress whose name, among all these
notabilIties am too har.brained to recollect,
is shortly to make raid on us; and you will
perceive that the beaker of amusement will be
sparkling to the brim with unwonted splendor.
May we all come out Of it no worse than we
60 in, is the prayer of ALI BABA.