The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-13
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Our 0lOn Correspondent

Death Of n nIiHer.
n never rains but IL pours; it never necrologi-
showers without there being a mortuary
few weeks ago / recorded the death of
mysterious miser Lyman Allen by name; a
days since / was under the necessity of
Obituarizing Mr.. Thompson, a miser in art; to-
day am impelled TO ask you to deplore with
me the demise of Mr.. Edward V. Tardy, who
died on Saturday, worth fifty thousand dollars,
and who during the last thirty years of his life
has lived upon the garbage gathered from the
cutters. He and his sister, who was quite as
talented a miseress, in her way, as he was a
miser in his. lived together in wretched
basement in Greenwich avenue. Though in the
enjoyment of ample means, theyspent the dayin
investigating the cutters, ash-barrels, and waste
boxes of the city with hooks and made profit
able living as garbage gatherers alone. Some
weeks ago Miss Tardy fell sick, and to save
the expense OF a physician, her devoted brother
had her taken to the Bellevue Hospital where
she died. Soon after he became an invalid him
self, and would literally have starved to death
on his wretched pallet in the Greenwich avenue
basement, had he not been discovered by
former friend - one of those chums whom
misery often makes-a sort of Machiavellian
Good Samaritan. at once cynic and philan-
thropist. He it was who conveyed him to his
residence upon Sixth avenue, where Mr..
Tardy died, leaving all his money to a great
nephew. The circumstances of his death, and
the penurous habits of the latter half of his life
derive some interest from the fact that his uncle
was once French Minister to this country.
MOrmOnIsm in this City.
Mr.. BrighamY Young, Jr., and three of his friends
are now in this city, conducting themselves as
becomes much-married men away from home.
j hear that Mr. Young has been for some days
in Philadelphia, and you are of course aware
that the reputed reason of his extended visit
there is that his third wife, nee Fenton, has Just
returned thther from Utah and refuses to go
back again. 1t is stated that the lady is dis
gusted with what she saw of married life there.
The position of the welded women she pro-
hounces degrading. They have no will of their
own. They learn their husbands maxims by
heart and repeat them by yrote, like poll parrot,
and this is quite sufficient to account for the
lady's contempt for pretty pol-ygamyl Mr..
Young is understood to have gone to Phadel-
pnia for the express purpose of recalling her to
her senses, and of offering to her father lucra-
tive position in Utah if he could be induced to
go thither.
lie Pere Hyacinthe.
1t would have been strange indeed if lie Pere
Hyacinthe should have left this city-as he did
on Saturday in the steamer Pereire for Hayre-
without incurring the charge Of Deing humbug
He behaved too modestly to suit the genius of
New York. There is not an interviewer" in
New York who speaks well of him. Every
species of bribery was tried upon him, and all
failed He snubbed New York and was snubbed
by Boston, and in both sets of circumstances he
maintained his equanimity. The eloquence of
his lecture at the Academy was more picturesque
than any mise en- scene yet presented there.
Cannot "charity" be said to have covered a
multitude of "scenes"
L.O.R.
On Saturday night, at a certain number in
Bleecker street, secret society, called the Law
and Order Regulators, held its first meeting 1t
is composed of reformers who, perceiving that
the times are out of joint, are determined to set
them right, and make them double-jointed, so
as to do an extra amount of work. They erect
themselves into Vehme-Gericht to Judge
judges, execute criminals, free innocent pri-
sOners, and arrest sentenced fugtives. They
intend to reform society, to snatch the false
weights from the scales of justice, and strike the
leaden shoes from the feet of the law. When
sentenced prisoners, on their way from the
court room to the penitentiary, cease to escape
when judgment is not suspended against delibe-
TaJc mlTu6TeTs, WuGu LuG DCICu ana Jnc pulpit
are not afraid to speak the truth and shame the
devil, you mGy be sure that the L, o, r. is at
the bottom of the matter.
Bowling on Drunkenness.
Judge Bowling has been delivering himself OF
some happy and severe remarks in regard to the
new regulation by Superintendent Kennedy, by
virtue of which persons arrested overnight for
drunkenness are detained in durance until after
8 o'clock next morning, instead of being brought
before the magistrates several hours earlier, as
was formerly the custom. Owing to the new
edict, bummers and gentlemen are herded
together and marchedin public ignominy through
the streets, to their own disgrace and confusion.
Justice Bowling evidently sides with the wine
bibbers-a although it is not through the fellow
feeling" that is said TO make ''us wOndrous
kind"
Russian Opera.
Neither Paris nor London has yet had Grssian
opera. That novelty is reserved ior this city,
and will be first enjoyed here next Wednesday
night, at the French theatEe. The season will
comprise six nights and one matinee. The first
opera viii be ASooId's Tomb, a sufficiently
frigid subject, The sale of seats promises to be
very large, and in fact the manager will do
Russian business ALI BABA.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.