The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-11
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From Our oton Correspondent
New YORK, Aug. IL, 1869.
PIclle Your PeRches.

that is. At the West Washington shambles thew
are selling for fifty cents basket. 1t is in vain
that sellers make desperate efforts to keep the
price up. Political economy, like water, will
find Its level, and the cheapness at which
peaches in New York are now selling illustrates
that fact Yesterday West Washington Market
was crowded with peach purchasers The middle
men were nowhere at all, and the producers
and not the frauds who intercalate themselves
between them and the purchaser, got far over
the worth of their produce. The quality of the
fruit was also very fair, and, therefore, pre-
suming that the harvest around Philadelphia is
as rich as the one here, repeat my impressive
adjuration, "Piclle your peaches Now is the
time"
The fine building which is to be occupied by
the
Young Mems Christian Association
is near completion. From what ! can Judge
from q survey of the rooms to be used as
gymnasia, reading-room, lecture-rooms parlors
closs-rooms, etc, should think they would be
abundantly impregnated with religious gloom
regret to state that the project at first enter
tanned of a Believers Bowlng-alley and a
Christian Cricket club has died out, and that the
president of the association has frowned upon
the idea of a smoking-room and insisted upon
that apartment being converted to spiritual
purposes. He will not have that temple desc
Grated by the fragrance of the Cigar of Sin
which, like Dead Sea fruit, turns to ashes on the
lips Especially when well smoked): no matter
what brand they may be of, for him
they are only brands to be
plucked from the burning, and he plucketh ac-
cordingly. The building will be ready for occu-
patton in October. There is no truth whatever
In the report that a private theatre was at first
intended to be inbuilt with the institution. The
officers very properly frowned upon the notion
at once, even when it was proposed to call it
the 'Oratorio,' and limit the representations to
theological subjects. There has been a great
deal of feverish talk about the inexpediency of
making provision inside the building for such
amusements as might tempt the censure or
the sneers of cynical world. The association,
however has unnumbered well-wishers even
among those who not avowedly religious;
but its lack of clear convictions of duty and of
independence in action has attached to some of
its members a ridicule that is not altogether
undeserved.
The IrrepressibIe De VivO,
who has five weaknesses, viz: an addiction to
velvet coats, cane whose handle is a figure
head strongly suggestive of Francois Ravel, the
custom of presenting to newspaper people pho
tographs of himself in striking attitudes, love
of the ''pitty guhls," and an uncomfortable
tendency to shed tears at the mention of his
idoized countrywoman Ristori-this gentle,
genial, and joyous creature has gone to San
Francisco to ''lay pipe" previous to the advent
there of Signor Brignoli. An obliging con-
temporary explains that he will be gone only
twenty days. Gratifying intelligence delicious
life to breathe melodious breath of tenOri and
prime donne, to 1utter perpetually between the
sanctum and the side-scenes, and alternately
supplicate puffs and disseminate passes what
can existence confer more charming than that?
'Tis said, however, that no man is hero to his
Udlet-de-chdmbre; and presume even Brignoli's
agent sometimes discovers that his temper is
not always as smooth as his voice.
The COmmunipaw Cattle Yards
would poison us with rinderpest if they could.
They try it on periodically, once in three months
at the very least. Sometimes she cattle-plague
makes its appearance in beasts from the West.
This time it has announced itself in several hun
dred head of cattle just arrived from Florida.
Such cattle! Pharaoh's lean kline were prize
cattle compared with them. Some of them had
evidently tasted neither food or water since
leaving their native shores. The Communipaw
Cattle Yards were consequently one large death
bed, where horrors almost human in their in
tensitv were endured by dumb beasts Person
ally Mr.. Bergh was not in attendance, but his
agents were. Used as they are to scenes of
were well-nigh overpowered by the eX-
tent and intensity of the brute misery
that met their eyes. Starvation, thirst,
yermin. and fetid air had combined to do the
work of death. And these are the cattle whose
flesh was to be offered for sale in the markets o
this city, and would have been so offered but for
III the prompt intervention of Mr. r. p. Black, of
New Jersey, who had received from the Legisla-
ture of that State a commission as Inspector OF
4 Stock. At first there seemed some disposition
TO dispute his authority, but the lynN-eyedness
of the sanitary police of this city will probably
defeat all efforts to palm off upon the dcad-meat
market this grstle and bone that Florida has
sent lis. The beasts will either be sent back
thither or their hides will be stripped and theiT
4 corcasses be delivered up to the rendering tank
What is known as the
E'StOOp I.ine,''
tho demarcation indicated by the projection Of
B the front-doOr steps, or ''stoops, as they are
A called here, is the utmost verge that the owner
II of booths and stalls are permitted TO encroacl
,non the sidewalks. Even this is illegal unless
the Mavor gives a permit and the owner or occu
T nant of the building before which the stall o
4 booth is located does not object. Consequently
4 all that immense swarm of newspaper and fruit
stands which surround City Hall Park, th'
81 Astor House. and kindred localities, are illega
81 in the intensest degree, and only continue OF
sufferance of the public and the police. SOM
dav or other we shall see them all disappear, II
company with the forest OF projecting signs
like mushrooms in a storm. The projecting
"A sign nuisance is growing worse every 81
months. Every haberdasher Vles VIII
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