The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-20
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Trsm Our OOa Correspondent

NEW YORK, Dec. 20 1869.
The romantic history connected with
Mysterious Coal HEAVIER
has furnished the most recent sensation in
Jersey City, which we affect to call suburb"
of New York, and which consequently furnishes
ne with not a few New Y Yorlxisms. The mysterious
soal-shoveller's name is Charles Kabzinslsy.
As his name imports, he is Pole by birth, and
perhaps that fact alone is sufficient to account
for his not performing in opera Russo during its
recent season at the French Theatre here. No;
the medium through which he gained his living
was nearer akin to the register of furnace than
10 the register of a voice, and from morning to
night he might be seen in the streets Of Jersey
City, shovelling in coal. Perhaps his ad-
dition to this caloric profession was due to
his having formerly stood fire sowe, for his rank
was that of a colonel, and he had served with
distinction in the army. In the Posen insurrec-
tiOn of 1869 he was aide-de-camp to his uncle,
who commanded brigade. His father and
uncle were captured and sent to Siberia; he and
his sister escaped to Prussia, where they found
friends, and whence he wandered to this coun-
try. Upon his arrival he sought for employment
In vain, and though he was acquainted with five
languages, he was obliged to take to coal-heav-
ing (by which he realized the fabulous snm cf
twenty-five cents day) to save himself from
starvation. He drifted from one depth of desti-
tuition to another, and finally was admitted to
the dodgers department at police neauquarJefs,
Jersey City. There he remained until last Satur-
day morning, when he was offered situation as
a teacher of languages by gentleman for
whom he had done some chores, and who had
been struck by the dignity of his demeanor.
New Postage Stamps.
Il is not generally known that nearly all the
postage stamps made for the country are manu-
factured in New York, in the upper stories of
Cooper Union, by the National Bank Note Com
pany. More than four hundred millions were
last year sent thence, and very few were stolen
in process of manufacture. In answer to the
complaint of the public in general with regard
TO the quality of the stickng-gum used in the
last issue of stamps the company begs leave to
explain that the trouble arises from the super
salivary use made of them by that public The
gum 10 just as adhesive rs that formerly in use,
but is of so light color that people suspect
is on, and moisten it too much. That's what's
the matter. The designs of some new
poetage-stamps having been decided
upon, the company will very shortly
prepare the plates from which they are to be
printed. The smaller denominations will pro-
badly be ready by the first of February. Changes
have been made in some of the busts of public
characters. Hamilton, for instance, is presented
without his pigtail, which has been for so many
years his honored appendage on postage stamps;
and jackson is left out in the cold, 80 to speak,
for he is denuded of that historical coat which
has swathed his figure for time beyond the
memory of the Oldest post-ofiice Vet. Those
who have seen the new designs pronounce them
superior to the present postal frauds both the
color and execution of which are so offensive.
Indiana Indulgence.
From evidence which was elected on Satur-
day before Judge Ingraham, of the Supreme
Court, it seems that Mrs. Eliza Gowan, the
plaintiff, has been indulgng in that Indiana
pastime known as divorce, during the absence
of her husband in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Mr..
John Gowan the defendant is engaged there in
the management of an extensive iron business.
During his residence at Pittsburg, his wife, since
July last, has been living at her fathers house
in this city. Last evening Mr. Gowan received
a telegram from a friend (also a resident of New
York;, to the effect that the knowledge had Just
come to him that Mrs. Gowan had furtiyely OBJ
tanned divorce that allowed her one hundred
dollars q month alimony, and granted security
on Mr.. Gowan's real estate here, to the amount
of nearly six hundred dollars. Mr.. Gowan
severates that he never received any other in
timation of the divorce, either by publication
or otherwise; that his wife's father Mr. j. c.
Daily, is the real instigator and procurer of the
divorce; that the evidence taken before the
referee was perjury; and that the allega-
tions of adultery against him evidenced are
demonstrated to be ntruthful by the fact that
he can prove himself to have been elsewhere at
hour specified as the one in which suppostitious
adultery was consuminated. In the face of these
facts Judge Ingraham has granted an order
calling on the plaintiff and all the parties to
show cause why the proceedings and the decree
of divorce should not be annulled.
- "".+ The Fat Mems Ball.
This long-promised affair is to come of this
evening 1t was at first intended to make it a
fancy-dress ball, but the limited number of ficti-
tous or historical characters who could with
any proprety be ponderously represented pre-
vented the realization of that idea. After Henry
the Eighth, Daniel Lambert, Falstaff and the Car
diff Giant had been represented, there certainly
seemed room for very little further choice. l
propose to go there this evening" and to prepare
you an account written the spot, with the
terpschorean flesh-pots gyrating round me in
state of perspiring pinguidity, and hope my
Impressions may crafty the PantagrueliaA appe-
tite of your many readers. ALI BABA.