The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02
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ulary torch had not been applied to it,
"A man in Waterbury. Conn, who en-
gagged carriage on Friday morning TO attend |
funeral in the afternoon, subsequently |
countermanded his order because ''the woman |
wasn't dead vet.
Hon. Henry Wilson's history of the rise |
and fall of slavery in the United States is |
TO be comprised. in three volumes, and the |
hrst, it is expected, will be ready before the
meeting of Congress.
democratic papers in Mississippi assert
that the State Democratic Executive Com
mlttee stand divided-eleven to nine-upon
the proposition of supporting the National
Union Republicans.
The farmers in Kansas are Boosting of
their enormous potato crop the present year,
and local paper reioices with them ''because
tney are excellent food for hogs and cattle,
and splendid for railroad laborers.
There is a conscience-stricken individual
IN Boston. On Sunday night he threw under
the door of the Office of the Treasurer of the
Boston and Providence Railroad a note with
$1,000 inclosed, saying the money belonged
to the company.
"A California paper reports that there were
$4,000 tons Of wheat lying in sacks along the
banks of the Sacramento river in Tehama,
Butte, Sutter, Coluia, and Yelo counties, on
the lst Of August, and that 10000 more were
to follow, making 10000 tons as the yield of
five counties.
The officers of the New Hampshire State
militia held q meeting in Concord one day
last week. and determined to keep mp their
present organization even at their own ex-
pense. The Legislature. at its recent session,
cut off the usual small appropriation for the
maintenance of the militia.
Nearly S11 900 worth of bank checks aud
bonds were found by boy in an upright
boiler in front of the boiler works of Fall
River, Mass, on Thursday. They were in
wallet bearing the name of Mr.. Southland
Bryant, of Boston, and it was ascertained by
telegraph that they belonged to him.
The little town of Arthur, in Canada was
enlivened by the liveliest ght it has witnessed
for many day, on Monday week. The spec
tators were dissatisfied with the performance
of Norths circus, and a row resulted in which
one of the circus men was stabbed and a
number of others more or less injured.
"A correspondent at Honolulu complains
of Prince Alfred's wish to see that last relic of
barbarism among the natives, lenau in
cluding the disgraceful hula-hula dance, and
observes that perhaps the fathers of these
dancers were the very men who killed and
eat his illustrious countryman Captain Cook.
"A newspaper published in Concord,
n H., reports that large body of black
ants were seen few days ago in the highway
between London and that city, formed in
severe battle was fought by them, which
lasted nearly an hour. after which both sides
were occupied in burying their dead.
Mr.. ID. Stanley Mercein, a native of New
York, died at his residence i'll Easton, Penna.,
on Sunday, after short illness, aged fifty
eight years He was son of Thomas II.
Mercein, at one time Comptroller of the city,
and one of the Committee of Defense during
the war of 1912, and was a son-in-law of Hon.
James T. Randolph of EaStOn
The official call for the assembling of the
New York Republican State Convention in
Syracuse, the 29th of September, makes
some changes in the apportionment of dele
gates, but they affect only two districts. The
Fourth district of Oneida will have three
delegates, instead of four, as first published,
and the Third district of Onondaga is entitled
to four instead of three delegates.
Mrs. Stowe has found a champion in
John Neal of Portland, Me-, who has, it is
said, facts in his possession to corroborate
her statements. The Boston AdCertjSer says,
''Mr. Neal was present at Lord Byron fune-
raj, and acquainted with his friends, and
his "reminiscences will soon appear in the
public prints, and form fit sequel to his
already published Wandering Recollec-
tons.
The Baltimore Gazette is, fortunately, al
most alone in its expressed desire for the con.
tinuance of sectional prejudices and animosi
ties IN tins country In an article laudatory
of the schools in Maryland, it says;-
''There are many and cogent rea
sons why we should give the pre-
ference to our own institutions of learning,
and foster and encourage that sentiment Of
local attachment which make us proud of oul
city and State, and in sympathy with the sec
tion to which we belong.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Ad0ertiSer pro
claims that the great issue of State rights i
far from being dead; and it maps out tn,
battle yet to be fought, which is to force al
acknowledgment from the North that tn
legislation of the last four years has beer
illegal and unprincipled; that the people ar
supreme over their own institutions and tn
Federal Government subject to their authC
rity, and that the men of the South, as well a
well as those of the North and West, are sove
reign in the control of their own domestic rt
lations and firesides.
The Augusta (Ga) COHstitytioB0iivt
willing that Andrew Johnson should go to tn
Senate, but it wants him to go there as
Tennessee politician, and protests against hi
going as a representative of Southern sent
ment. 1t tells him that he was a
ways against Southern sentiment an
Southern rights as long as 1t VIZ
the fashion TO be so, and that sooner or late
the South will have some of her faithful son
to represent her-'younger men who hav
drawn inspiration from her grand prophets
and whose baptism was in the blood Of a gle
rious though baffied revolution"
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