The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-03
Personal.

-Colfax is an III. ID.
General Averili doesn't want Office.
Anna Dickinson and Nothing to Wear" are
A cousin Of the Menken has appeared in
London.
@GTimes is announced as about to retire from
public life
--Expressmen Adams sent $500 check for
the Gilmore benefit.
The tomb over President Buchanan's re-
mains, of Italian marble, is completed
Jonathan Reeves, n Revolutionary ''red-
coat" is living at Bath, England. His age is 1O5.
The Gar has sent Grant a small feld-piece,
with the names of the latters victories inscribed
on it.
The Swiss Government is having portraits of
Bryant, Sherman, and Seward painted for ITS
capitol
Gear Alexander's baby grandson has been
made commander of the 145th Regiment of No
Yotchurkassk.
Deacon E. Newbury, of Brooklyn, has
under cultivation two acres of bulbs, among
them 150O 600 gladiol, $4,000 lilies, and 5000 tube
roses.
-Vice-Admiral Erbentoff is coming to the
States with bran-new fleet of the Cars
j. ID. Farnsworth has given Amherst $4,000
to found two scholarships to be named after
Mr. J. N. Mccullough has been made
General Superintendent of the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne, and Chicago Railway.
John Fiske, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and J.
Harvard for the ensuing year, and w D.
Howells, Ferdinand Bocher, and W. ID. Whitney
are lecturers on Literature.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher recently married
bis niece, Miss Hooker, of Hartford, to Mr. John
2. Day. Among the guests were Mrs. Stowe,
Senator Buckingham, Governor Jewell Genera
Hawley, and ex-Secretary Weles.
Among the passengers by the steamer The
Queen, are Rev. 0. p. Allen, wife, and three
children, and Misses Richter and Reynolds, mis-
sionaries at Harpoot, Turkey. Mr.. Allen and his
wife have been absent fourteen years.
Ida Lewis is to be presented with her boat
next Saturday. General Van Zandt is to make
the speech of offer and Colonel I. w. Hhggnson
will reply for Ida. The boat is to be named the
Rescue. Now why don't some young Rhode
Islander take care of Ida? Is she to be allowed
to paddle her own canoe forever
MIR. D. o. Goods, District Attorney of Sacra-
mento, California, was recently called off from
the trial of a murderer by forged kilograms
stating that his daughter was dying. He left
the case in the hands of green lawyer and hur-
ried home, only to find his child well and hear
of the acquittal of the prisoner.
Hon. Sancho Brown, of the South Carolina
Legislature, rose to question of privilege re-
Gently, and said-"Sah, / ak dis house eff dey
gwine to low de man who jis TUX his seat to
stan on de flo OBJ dis body and talk to de Gineral
Assembage of Souf Carlina wild dat tun de crank
OBJ de univurss manner dat am so superfshent
an ondisgustiele." Mr.. Brown used to be worth
$500 before the war
SUMMER RESORTS.
The Newport Ocean House has been
thoroughly renovated, and is now one of the
finest hotels in the country.
Mrs. George Francis Train has arrived at
Newport and occupies her and elegant
mansion, which is much admired.
All the villas and cottages, at the same place.
are occupied or have been rented for the season.
The numerous drives are in good condition, the
beach even and looking very inviting, and every
thing ready for the ceason.
bay Ridge, Long islaud, has recently be-
come a favorite place of summer resort both for
families who desire to spend the season out Of
the city as well as for excVrsionists who have
only day, and not great amount of money to
spare. An excellent hotel the Dellwood House,
as well as numerous first-class boardng-houses,
have recently been established here, and the in-
dications are that they will all laYe abundant
patronage during the prevalence OF the cheated
TERM The Ridge is situated a short distance
beyond the South Brooklyn line, on the road to
Fort Hamilton, and commands an excellent
view of New York Bay Staten Island and its
surroundings. 1t is reached by twenty
minutes sail by steamer from the foot of Wall
street, New York, and it is also accessible ut all
hours of the day by cars from the Fulton and
Hamilton avenue ferries. Bay Ridge combines
the advantage of near proximity to the city with
complete rural privacy.