The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-12
GENERALITIES.
Wooden Rails.


fourteen feet long, six inches deep, and four
inches wide, with the thin edge uppermost. The
engines run on these roads weigh from ten to
twenty tons each, and cost from $6500 to $4,000;
while the construction of such roads, where
timber is plenty, is about $4,000 per mile ex-
elusive of bridges.
Elisha's Dollars.
Elisha Sprague stands in danger of having to
pay the damages OF 100000 to the sentimental
Amanda Craig. Sheriff Fischer has levied upon
lots Nos. 8, 7, 8, g. 10 and II in Fort Dearborn
Addition, except four feet on lot No. 6 in the
Illinois Central subdivision of the Sprague pro-
perty, and it is advertised for sale on August 27.
The very 'goists" where Elisha sat inditing his
loving epistle to his "Amandy," and whence he
evoked the Divine blessing on thar 2 harts and
soals," are to be sold to meet the demands of
"poihc gustus' That's enough to make his
"arisplace" break out afresh. Probably he
would now be willing, like his illustrious name
sake of old to go up in "a charryot of fire.
chicago tribune.
The VIII of Rufus Lord.
The will of the late Mr., Rufus L. Lord,
Lord Bond Robbery repute, was last week
admitted to probate in the Surrogate's Court
Mr.. Lords property was computed to be owe
54,O00,000, of which legacy OF $4,000 is, by the
terms of the will, given to st. Lukes Hospital;
$4,000 to the American Bible Society, and $4,000
to the New York Juvenile Asylum. Various
sums, ranging from $1,000 to 100000 are be
queathed to the nephews and nieces of the de-
ceased of whom there are about %, and their
CnlluTGn, SIN III nulllDSr, receive GlU,UUU GaCl,
The deceased left surviving four brothers and
one sister Two of the former, Gordon Lord,
and Eleazer Lord and the latter, Lydia Perkins,
are entitled to legacies of $1,000 each per an
nun, payable quarterly. The remainder of the
property is bequeathed to David N. and Thomas
Lord.
Emigration TO Georgia.
Georgia. which is the Yankee State of the
South, is holding out inducements to immi-
grants, especially to Germans, and the First
German immigration and Manufacturing Com
pany" has Just been established with a capital
stock of S5O,0O0 divided into 500 shares of 81
each. The intention is to settle a colony in the
pine region of the State to invest the capital in
land and machinery, and to manufacture tar,
ship pitch 'beer pitch,' and turpentine from
pine, and pyrolgneous acid and tannin from
oak. No shareholder can own more than
twenty-five shares, as the design is to make the
company cooperative, and to identify every
labOrer with it. The success of this company
will lead to the establishment Of others on the
same similar plan.
The Oneida Community.
Says Mr. Noyes, in the CjrcUldr:-''We re-
ceivcd a call this week from the veteran socialist,
NJ. Victor Consderant. He called on us sixteen
years ago, before starting his experiment in
Texas. He is now returning to Europe, and
wished to see our growth before leaving Ame-
rica. The mansion house and the old mill
were almost the only remnants of the place of
his recollections. Why said he, 'when
visited you before, you were rustics and lived
poorly, but now you have become princes and
live in palaces At the time of his former visit
Mr.. Newhouse made traps in n little room at one
end of our old country blacksmith shop, and
they were scarcely known outside the Oneida
town from the Saguenay to Frazer's river Mr.
COnsiderantis probably the pureSt Representative
alive of Fourier's ideas"
A German Custom.
\ letter from Weimar says they have two very
pretty customs there connected with the cree
nf n q lVyn We
drives the first nail into one of the timbcrs and
an inscription is made upon the wood bearing
the name and age of the child, date OF erection
etc. Then when the house is raised, a few
planks are laid for flooring in an upper story
when the master builder, his workmen, and all
well-disposed friends assemble to sing a song of
praise to God for the safe accomplishment thus
far of their undertaking. Then band of music
plays, numerous bottles of wine are drunk, and
there are speeches, tOasts, and huzzas from stem
tOrian German thrOats.
Collapsed.
We have been informed, on good authority
that Mr.. Joseph, Nickerson, the principal
creditor of the German Ocean Steamship
Company, has reduced his first offer
of 900 for the boats Erie and Ontario to
$550000. The natural query is, why did the
company refuse to take the bid made at auction?
If the directors think that the public have lost
sight of the matter, they are mistaken. 1t is
now two years since the Ontario was ready for
her first voyage; the Erie has never left her dock
a year and half ago the Ontario made her last
trip from Boston. A million and a half of capi-
tai is lying idle all this time, and not the first
approach to good reason given for such man
agement. 1t would be well to have the speeches
delivered at the launching of the Ontario re-
peated, and contrast the difference between now
and then.-BOStOn TrGUelIer.
Drowning their Offspring.
Mr.. Anderson, Swede of Louisville, Scott
county, Minnesota, has two daughters, one of
the age of fifteen years, and the other eighteen,
each of whom became mother, one on the
l4th OF June, and one on the 22d OF July last.
| The young girls were both single, and Sc
managed to conceal their condition that even
! their mother did not suspect them. Each in heI
! turn retired alone short distance from theil
| residence, where the birth took place, and each
| one, upon becoming mother, deliberately threw
! her child in the Minnesota river one of which
has been since found, after having been in the
water some three or four days. The mother o.
| the child found is understood TO have confessed
that before throwing her child into the river she
strangled it to death The heartess and inhu
man young mothers are in the hands of the law
| st. Paul Press, 7H.
! A Democratic Monkey.
AS John Addila an itinerant street musician
| was catering to the musical tastes of a crowd o
| youngsters yesterday morning, on West Balt
| more street, with hand-organ, cOlOred boy
| named Charles Guyton attempted to enhance the
| amusement by catching Addilla's monkey by his
caudal appendage and roughly twisting it, JockC
| not relishing such familiarity, turned upon his
tormenter and bit him upon the left hand
Charles yelled terribly, and caused the arrest o
| the monkey and his master, Justice Bride re-
| ferred the matter to the Criminal Court Addilla
previous to being disposed of by Justice Bride
was with the monkey, locked up in the Western
Police Station, and during that time severa
colored persons were brought in for being dis
| orderly, and as they passed the room where
Jocko was confined he sprang at them an(
| squealed terribly when he discovered that al
iron grating prevented him from getting at hi