The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-06
GENERALITIES.
The Strongest Argument.


The strongest argument yet brought against
the removal of the capital to St. Louis is afforded
by the figures submitted by a Mr.. Scott to the
Toledo Blade, who shows that in 1910 the distri-
button of population was as follows:-
North of the latitude of st. Louis 20, 900, 900
South of the latitude of st. Louis. 10, 800 900
East of the meridian of st. Louis. 26, O00. 900
West of the meridian of st. Louis .... 5,000,0 900
But the census of 1870 will show q great change
in these figures
How the Price is Kept Up.
Notwithstanding all the growing about the
prices of coal at Philadelphia and elsewhere, the
Philadelphians have compelled the schuylk1ll
Navigation Company to close up their locks at
Fairmount, and will not permit ton of coal to
pass through to market at any price, thus keep
ing out of the market about $4,000 tons of coal
weekly. Then why do not the press abroad
pitch into Philadelphia and Providence for thus
combining to keep up the prices of coal? This
combination is more effectual than any that
exists in the coal regions to keep coal out of the
market.-MtnerS' Journal.
Suspicious Affair.
Miss Hattie Miner, a wel-known young lady
of Elmira, New York, died few days since.
Her father had suspicious that she had come to
her death from abortion, and a coroner's inyesti-
cation is now going on. The Advertiser of that
city says:-"The medical men who made the
post mOrtem examination, and who are among
the most eminent in their profession in this Sec
tion of the country, are unanimous in the
opinion that an abortion had been produced,
and that it was that which caused the young
lady's DEATH A great many rumors on the sub
ject are afoat in the community; but we refrain
from further comment upon the sad case until
the coroners jury shall have completed their
investigation and rendered their verdict. If,
however, this young lady has been foully muir
dered, we trust the authors of her ruin and
death may be punished as their great crimes
deserve"
Vicissitude Of Fortune.
The foreman of the laborers digging at the
new Post Office site was applied to on Saturday
last for work by one who formerly gave employ
ment to a number of men and women. short
time ago the applicant for the rough manual
labor was proprietor of the BGlIindslOe Star, an
Irish provincial journal. member of the Board
of Poor Law Guardians, Town Commissioner,
etc. Owing to failure in business, and conse-
quent loss of paper and position, he emigrated
to the United States and arrived in this city in
May last since which period himself and family
have at times experienced all the sufterings that
poverty and a pardonable pride could entail.
Often the husband and father has not had
whereon to lay his head, and on several occa-
| sions he has been for days without food. His
garments and emaciated appearance prevented
| him from obtaining employment in business
Offices and his address made him be regarded
as unGt for rougher work. A person who knew
him in his prosperous days appealed to the fore
| man in his behalf, and in the afternoon a pick
| was given him wherewith to earn q livelihood
| for himself and those dependent upon him by
1
DexterIty of East Indian Thieves.
The report of the Inspector of Indian Prisons
contains the following remarks on the dexterity
of thieves in India. He says:-"Cheynes or cut
| purses are men who carry small knives as sharp
| as razors in their mouths. They frequent oa-
| zaars, and with wonderful instinct feel out the
| hooks on o ryot's person, where he has tucked
The corner of his cummerbund in which ms ms
| money is tied up, and then, with neatness sui
more wonderful, the Cheyne snicks OIL the pl'
| of cloth with his knife, and disappears with the
rupees. Then there are the Syndhyas and Burr
vars, professional burglars who mine into
zenana, coming up through the moor like
| GHOST. and with less noise. They will hlt
off and open the bangles and most
rings of the sleeping women withou
as thew came. The ordinary burglar, the Do
sadh or Bhunys, posts his confederate sentinel
| and then picsSs a hole in the mud wall OF hous'
with his sindmurry. When the hole Is sum
| cientlv large to push boy through, or to ge
throush himself he carefully inserts ghurra
stick through the hole. If the ghurra Is not I'm
| mediately smashed by blow from the inside,
for it Sometimes happens that tne lhLhate
| alarmed. and stands on his guard near the hoi I
inside, with a stick or sword, waitlhg Ior IN III
burglars head to appear-he sees tnat tne CO.'S p
is clear, and proceeds to effect an ehtrance. pu
this is clumsy work compared TO the prolessio,nS ,
thief who will cut a hole In tent; anu sVTi -,
over a sleeping watch dog without alarming i W
| animal. He carries sharp knife, WVrks naAoo @
! and oils his body, so that he Is naroiy eF'
1 taken.
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correspondent at Rome writes on the IN