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

grandfather had saved up that his father had saved
up, and that he himself had saved up. Suspicious
Of course entertained that he had come by his
money dishonesty; but the whole family had borne
good character and on inquiry there no reason
for OBTAINING him, and his money was changed for
him into new notes. Gentlemen at Poltava told me
that such cases of hoarded-up money were very
common, and that there were often peasants who
were very rich.
Petition of "shIners-up.u
The Cleveland Pldindedler recently published the
M. Pidindealer:--will you be kind enough to give
the following petition an insertion in your paper,
and oblige the following bootblacks, and you will
never want shine;-
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. "a, 1869 TO the Mavor
and City Council of the city of Cleveland Ohio We,
the bootblacks Of the city of Cleveland, do humby
ask your honorable body to 50 far repeal the ordi-
protection, instead OF bringing us before the Police
Court for punishment. We, the undersigned, follow
the business Of backing boots as trade and call
ing. Most, if not all, of us are sons of soldiers
Many Of us lost our fathers on the battlefield de-
Tending the rights and liberty of the starry banner
and, therefore, should be protected in earning an
honest living, instead of being confined in your pri-
sons. If you take away our right to an honest
living you VIII drive us to steal the crime we
abhor) We are too proud to beg, but we must have
a living. We are driven to this course from the
fact that we are interfered with every day by the
police of the city.
Very respectfully your humble and obedent SER
wants, DANIEL HussEY,
Champion BoOtback
Then follow the names of forty-one lesser boot
blacks.
The Sultan, as is well known, is passionately fond
OF music, whence the inference is naturally drawn
that he would be likely to display certain degree
of courtesy, ahability and even cordiality in his
treatment of the eminent performers whom he fire.
quenty invites to his palace. But such is by no
means The case The celebrated violnst WleniaWs-
ki, who last had the honor Of being summoned to
perform for his Hghness delectatlon states that inn
mediately after reaching Bohna -Batche, he entered
the palace, and going through nnumerable suits of
apartments, which contained scarcely any furniture
but which were filled with eunuchs guards and par,
n w o. in
which there was nothing but piano and
a piano stool, and in which the temperature
.benumbed. The chairess room, used only
for music is between other apartments, in one of
which were number of servants and guards on
duty, while in the other the Sultan who sat in
corner, cOnCeang his sacred person behind screen
IRON the prolane gaze Of the artist In the doorway
OF this latter apartment stood the Grand Chamber
lain, who transmitted his masters orders to the art
ist as fast as he received them. Wienawski began
10 play accompanied on the piano by the leader Of
the court music, but he had no sooner finished one
tune than, without even giving him time to breathe,
the Chamberlain ordered him to continue aud in
this manner he played twenty-five tunes, one after
another without stopping: In the middle of the two
ment, when the Chamberlain stepped up, and plac-
ing in his hands two bags containing each et00 in
gold, informed him that he might withdraw.
French Semi-Idi0cy.
An almost incredible example of the state of semi
diocy into which ignorance and distrust of law may
plunge people is reported from Paris. Last Wednes-
day night gentleman residing in the Faubourg Pos-
soniere committed suicide by stabbing himself with
dagger His wife, hearing him fall, jumped out Of
bed, and on discovering what had happened called
aloud for help. servant appeared, but when he
saw the dagger planted in the body he refused to
IL & OF Try TO s5anncn % the bSod ne ed terror
fright too, and declared that the body must not be
touched until IL the arrival of the police, otherwise
unfortunate wife meanwhile had tainted After q
time two sergentsde-ville arrived, and, it is here
! that the episode becomes tragtcay grotesque The
two functionares without stopping to see whether
there any remnant Of life in the hfeless body,
declared that not finger must be laid upon it, but
that it must remain exactly where it lay, with the
dagger in it, until the commssaire arrived. At
length this representative of authority made his ap
pearance, Just one hour and half after the catas
| trophe; SO that even had the unhappy man been
still alive when his wife first called for help, which
is not at all improbable, he had had time to die fifty
| times over in the interval