The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-24
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From Our ot0n Correspondent
New YORK, August "a, 1869.
Tha the love of money is
The Root of all Evil
was abundanty illustrated at a funeral that was
to have taken place on Sunday, but which, for
all know, may be pending now. Mrs. Ann
Sutton, woman sixty years of age, resided in
Canal street. wherein the houses are not pre-
clsely the counterpart of those in Fifth avenue.
At the time of her death Mrs. Sutton was not
believed to be burthened with too much money.
Consequently physicians did not flock around
her death-bed, undertakers were scarce, and few
were the masses that were said for her soul.
Coroner Flynn procured the services of
undertaken named Kennedy, who proceeded to
convey the remains to what is technically known
as ''bone-garden, alias "Potter's Field" At this
iuncture the family of Mrs. Sutton discovered
that she had a tank account amounting to $500.
This discovery was coincidental with several
others, to witt that Mrs. Sutton had always
been a dear old thing and that if she had known
what to do with her money she would have left
it to this one and that one who held to her the
attitude of relations-in-chef These relations
therefore got together, held an indignation
meeting, called in another undertaken, and insti-
tuted free fight over the remains. If the poor
soul in her coffin had only been in a trance and
had retained her consciousness she might have
learned better though more bitter lesson in
that brief space than in all the rest of her life
put together. Undertaken No. was routed, but
it was not until late hour, when an anti-demon-
straton was got up by another bevy of the
dec4ased's money-made friends and the burial
w9s indefinitely delayed.
Ching, the Chinese Giant,
made his first appearance in this city yesterday
morning at II, at Woods Museum. l shall
not be able to give full account of him here.
1t would take too long letter There was so
much of him to see. 1 took him in parts His
hours of reception were from II to / in the
morning. from 3 to in the afternoon, and from
6 to 9 in the evening. The first of these inter-
walls devoted to his legs, the second to his
body, and the third to his head aud arms.
entertain liberal views of him. They may be
said to be large. 1t has taken me considerable
time to make up my mind about him. 1t took
me long time to come to the end of him, so of
course it was late ere arrived at a conclusion
Chang is married. So is his wife. They twain
are cne fesh-allowng for his size, say one and
q half. He speaks English-broken, Of courses
but then he looks as though he could break any
I. thing. His pig-tail is the pluribuS unurl of
jg-tails. He evidently goes the whole hog
)ne wonderful thing about him is his incessant
His wife, Kin-Foo, commenced by loving him
very much, but it is understood that he has
grown quite out of her affections.
At house in Thirteenth street a certain enter
tainment is in progress which has hitherto been
kept quite secret. 1t is doubtful whether the
entertainment will take with the public, or whe-
ther the entertainers will not be taken by the
police To be perfectly frank, the performance
is o little worse than that which has hitherto
been known as the
Nude Drama.
The entire costume of every young woman
who assists in it consists of one garment which
fits her like pink silk skin, and into which she
gets by inserting her lovely little feet into the
neck of the garment. Thus habited she be-
comes a living statue of unsculptured flesh, that
fashionable Pygmalions may sigh for-not alto
gether in vain. Seven of these Observation-Disclosures
are understood to be at this present moment in
this city, waiting for an engagement" fully
convinced of the sanctity of their art, devout
believers in the divinity of materialism.
am at loss to account for the tiattering
notices which
Miss Agnes Ethel,
the protege of Matilda Heron and debutdnte at
Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre, has achieved. She
is young but not pretty, and not overwhem-
ingly promising. She is simple and natural
but she is also angular and awkward. The
undue congratulations she has received place
her in position dangerous to herself, and that
is the danger she of is the last to perceive
observe that the
Lecturers Are in the Field
again. Josh Billings will take $75 for a nights
lecture; so will Mark Twain. Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe accepts of 800. Olive Logan will take
what she can get-or wait for it. Cough, who,
if he had not become a temperance-lecturer,
might have done good deal of good to the
world by the warning furnished in his inebrlety,
takes half the house. The season will soon set
in, and to the old staff of lecturers several new
ones have been added. ALI BABA.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.