The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-08
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Tho Richardson Mcfarland Tragedy.
Since II is impossible for me to give you any
news on the subject of Mr.. McFarland-the tele-
graph wires anticipating every effort in that di-
rection-I shall not attempt 1t. Sufficient to
say that the public interest has not in anywlse
abated. The subject is still discussed with all
the pristine vigor at the breakfast-tables, and
the firm of Beecher and rockingham continue
to be hauled over the Goals in highly edifying
manner. Some affect to think Mr.. Beecher's
conduct mere advertisement trick, and credit
him with forever keeping an eye to business
AS for poor Mr.. rockingham, the absence of
argument and rhetoric from his excuse is one
of the most amusing instances of an educated
mans bunders.
The Storms Doings.
Every time we have snow storm our boast
of being q model metropolis falls to the ground
Behold the one we had on Monday evening!
The snow around the Astor House is not easily
described or imagined 1t is the great depot for
several of the Avenue railroads. The cars of
Third and Fourth avenue, more particularly, are
crowded with hundreds of poor girls and arti-
sans of every description, who would else have
to walk miles before reaching their homes.
Consequently, whenever storm sets in like
that of Monday, the cars are besieged as soon as
g 6oclock strikes, every man and woman clamor-
ing those nearest them without the slightest re-
spect for age or sex, treating old age and help
less infancy alike, and only anxious to get one
foot on the platform of the car Ah
the study of human nature is sad one at such
times as these. Scores of poor sick-looking,
thinly clad girls, shivering in tattered shawls
and mantles, their garments searched and almost
shredded by the Winds stand in the great area
between the Astor House and Park Row, de-
spairingly eyeing the cars as they come in, and
making q vain rush after standing-room. 1t is a
positive fact, sad, heartless truth, that strong
men, young and mddle-aged, have at such
times no more respect for helpless womanhood
than if all that the Woman's Suffrage Associa-
tion says about the brutality of the superior sex
were strictly true. / have seen old women
elbewed and pushed about, and made the butt of
disgusting ''chaff, while men young enough to
be their sons almost ousted them out of the
little vantage-g they had obtained. Until
we have an underground railroad, or until some
equally effectual means have been devised for
relieving the distresses which ensue with snow
storms among the poorer class of people who live
up town, we cannot boast of being on n par
with Paris and London. Along many of the
avenues detained cars to the number of forty
in row might be seen painfully trailing along,
and those who got seats or standng-room at
four o'clock in the afternoon reached home at
eight or nine o'clock. Storms like these have
their comic features, but they haye their tragic
aspects, too 1t is all very well for warmly-clad
pedestrians filed with good victuals and drink
to go wassailing along Broadway, stopping al
every other tavern to the chorus of 'Shoo fly
don't bodder me-" but meanwhile hundreds O.
working-girls are catching consumption ant
death along the freezing open spaces opposite
the Astor.
Another Newspaper Gone.
The Republic is dead-long live the Republic!
Another evening newspaper has gone up-lone
flourish the evening newspapers The fact is
we have too many already, and the Republic
being a little more conscientious than any other
was too good to live, and has gone to the wall
1t did not understand how, or at least it would
not consent, to "make corner" and, although
it was very lively and readable, had to pay the
penalty which virtue always has to pay in {
world like this. 1t would be unpleasant tt
count up the number of failures among evening
newspapers in this city. They do not flourish
here to the extent they do in Philadelphia TO
the reason that proprietors do not under
stand how to be at once decent and enterprising
The ssBaroness" de Riyiere
has been for some time busy among certain
newspapers here, interesting them in the pro
gress of her suit, and making friends for herself
The case has for the present been brought to
close. 1t will be remembered that the "Baron
was arrested on complaint of the Baroness
that he had appropriated to his own use abou
five thousand dollars of her property and tina
he had married her and then deserted her.
was demurred. however, that several causes @
action had been improperly united, and til
Court has rendered judgment by default suf
tanning the demurrer.
''One Chicken an Hour,
This is the rate at which chickens are hatche
at the poultry show at the Empire City Skatin
Rink. The artificial incubators there are abou
as attractive as anything else almost as muc
so as the Cardiff giant at Woods.
ALI BABA.