The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-01
GENERALITIES.
ExnlntintOlSy.

Washington correspondent tells this story |
"The evening after the .irst election Of Charles |
Sumner to the Senate Thaddeus Stevens said to a |
MASSACHUSETTS, man, who called upon MIN, who is
this Charles sumner? know nothing about him
haps, Ralph Waldo Emerson, was the reply. Soon
after Caleb Cushing came into the room, and Mr.
Stevens put a similar inquiry to him. Mr.. Gushing
replied, Charles Sumner is man of the greatest
mind in Massachusetts, excepting Charles Francis
Adams, who combines the grasp and energy of his
grandfather with the learning and experience Of his
Madness in France.
Every five years a census is taken in France of the
number of unatcs and idiots in the empire, and the
statistics gathered since 1851 prove that madness is
increasing at rate out OF all proportion with the
growth in the population. In 1851 the total number
of idiots and unatics was reported at 4625 In 1886
distinction was made, for the first time, between
idiots and lunatcs, and the census counted 5269 OF
the former and 35021 of the lattertota 80 300 In
1861 the total had risen by 2394 the numbers being
AZ $50 lunacs and al 1925 idiots making in all S42l4
The next census was not taken till 1867, and the re-
suits have only recently been 0hicialy published
They show new increase of 6465 on the returns of
1861, the idiots numbering 39,953, and the lunatics
50,126 total, 9O,6I0.
A Terrible Disaster.
The disaster caused at Konigsberg by the fall of
bridge during the festivities given in honor of the
King OF Prussia september ), resulted in the loss
of fifty lives correspondent Wrtes:-
"Whether from spirit OF mischief or that it was
really fact am unable to assert but suddenly
cry was raised that the bridge was on fire. That the
bridge was fire either then or Immediately after
wards can assert to be the case The pressure to
| get of caused the railing to give way, and some
hundred people, should say, were at once prccpi-
| tated into the water. do not wish to harrow your
readers with the cries of the women, etc Suffice is
to say that the music in the gardens continued the
| fireworks went up, the people looked at one
another and wondered what had happened until, as
| if by magic, the music ceased, the brilliantly ilumi
mated gardens became suddenly dark, the news
spread like wildtre that really 1t was true that in
the midst OF all this rejoicing some hlty Souls had
gone into the presence of their Maker, and sadness
! came upon the scene"
The Rev. Thomas King.
1t gives us the greatest joy to inform the Ameri-
| f,atf inu lnfn pf tha
| is now the Rev. Thomas King, of Wales; that in
stead of pounding he now breaches, and that he only
| Welsh newspapers of Thomas eXhortations, and, as
should presuppose, his style is stated to be Very
gage only in knocking down sin, getting the head of
the devil in chancery letting his right fly at inquity,
ring against all ev-doers and sending sinners gene
rally to grass 1t is pleasant to read OF this beautiful
ending of an ill'spent life; and for retired pugst
it is decidedly more creditable than the usual re-
| source OF opening liquor shop, keeping gambling
| saloon, or becoming Democratic Congressman.-N.
| \. 1T{bu7le
Packer Don't Pay.
| A new argument in favor of the election OF Asa
| Packer to the Governorshp Is presented 10 the
| the taX0gatherer is around Asa Packer is not.
| Though he is believed to be worth from twelve TO
twenty millions, he is said to pay no taxes Ths is
| now nresented 10 the Democrats in Pennsylvania as
subtle argument I'm favor OF Packer III the PACKERS
OF the pa PaSS S Darty nav "a % snyGg In ISIS one Of
1 The German towns returned its taX-leyy WIN tne
Il endorsement :--"The community OF 80 ana 90 mas
declared for the revolution and henceforth pays nc
axes Revolutions Of this sort at least IT. never &C
backword. 1t is now for the democrats @ o. & rehHsg H
taxes" "Eiect Packer and eject assessors Under
the beneacent rule of Packer fhe taX-gatherer goes
| round mt ALL it will be mainly for his own amuSe
| ment as MIR Sampson Brass conceived the world u
| he an orb which ''has its revolutions and various
| games of that sort ~. T. POST
| How Peasants Hoard.
A correspondent in Russia writes =
Only a few weeks ago peasant, shab0Iy CLOTHED
and llterate, came into the treasury at foiIaga
money for the new issue. He was asked how mucl
he had ana he said he did not know tnat ne ana III
wife had counted all one day and all the DAY atteI
and had not fnished An officer was sent to assist
and the peasant took up board from the lioor an
showed bundles OF notes packed away IN Varou
| things, which ON being counted amounted 70 aDou
I eighty-sx thousand rnbes There were some NV
. | thousand more in gold and silver. lie was aske
! where he had got so much, and ne sald that M