The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-20
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The damage done in Northwestern Mime
sofa by the storm which began on Saturday, the
11th, and continued until Tuesday was immense.
MIR. George Glllaspy, the Democratic candi-
date for Governor of Iowa. says he 'cannot
agree to allow Hon. John B. Grinnell to join him
at his appointments"
The Democrats of Western New York ask
that Judge Samuel l.. Selden be nominated for
the Court of Appeals, and SAY that their section
is entitled TO one of the Judges at least.
General Candy has been appealed to by a
black man and white woman in Petersburg, Va,
who want to get married and can't because they
have been refused license.
Rev. DR.. Sears has given $500 of the Pea
body fund for the education of orphans of Vir-
ginia soldiers. The only other appropriation
made in Virginia was given to school in Peters,
burg.
By keeping the accounts of the American
Board of Foreign Missions open until the middle
of this month, the balance against the Board has
been reduced from $146,000 on the 1st of August
to $5925.
1t is reported that General Wckham, and
other prominent Wells Republicans in Virginia,
denouncc the approaching Radical Convention
as factious opposition TO the incoming State
administration.
The former townsmen of Governor Harrison
Reed, OF Florida, heartily expressed their
wishes for his future success at a reception ten
dered him in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tues
day evening.
The Tampa (Fla) Pe,ains,tla,' in recent
issue, gives the following extensive list of steam
leans, two barrels potatoes, one coop fowls, one
box gophers."
1t is the Atlantic and Pacific States Tele-
graph Company, whose two lines extend from
San Francisco to Virginia City, Nevada, and
Marysville California, which has been absorbed
by the Western Union.
The master mechanics of the leading rail-
ways of the country have held convention in
Pittsburg this week, its object being to profit
by each others experience in the construction
and operation of the roads and of rolling stock.
The German friends of Senator Carl Schurz
in San Francisco gave him parting presents
q silver set of six pieces set Of gold quartz
studs and sleeve buttons, and a colored photo
graph of himself, besides set of gold jewelry
for his wife.
Various relics have just been sold at auc-
ton in Newport, r. l., among them chair that
belonged to Cotton Mather, a clock 237 years
old, and various pieces Of furniture that date
back to period before the Revolutionary war.
An iron hammer that ''camc over in the May
flower" was also disposed of. TzEH
"A Kentucky turnpike company sought to
turn penny, honest or otherwise, by claiming
compensation from the Government for the use
of their roads by the army during the Rebellion.
Acknowledgement Hoar has given an opinion
that the accounting Office is not authorized
by eXisting'laws to allow any part of the claim,
-"One's idea of American human nature"
says the Petersburg Va.) Ilder, must soften in
contemplating the alacrity and open-hearted
generosity with which the nation responds to
heart that underlies all our isms and eXaggera-
tions beats warm and true all the while Herein
lies our great hope for the future
Mayor Hall sends this telegram to the parti-
cipants in the Humboldt celebration at Alle-
gheny, Pa.-"The streets of the metropolis are
crowded with those honoring the memory of him
who wrote his autograph upon every surface of
the physical world. Indeed, the purely scienti-
fic jubilee rivals any of recent political or hiso-
rical import"
-Ex- Governor Seymour delivered, last Thurs
day, the annual address at the Fair of the Herki-
mer County Agricultural Society. Its main
object was to present the superior attractions of
country life over the great cities, and in closing
Mr.. Seymour said that he found that the days
have come when he must seek enjoyment else
where than in the active pursuits of life. aud
that that enjoyment can be found by him only in
the country.