The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-15
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From Our o,On Correspondent

huBO IL is Impossible Tor the 0ptimlSt
to maintain his theories in presence Of the devish.
maintain that it is equally impossible for him to do
80, In presence Of this weather Every other day Is
meteorological fnultuna in pdrUo, thermometrical
epltTibts Ulttnl, an atmospheric Had in a metro
politan nutshell. Naturally inclined to believe that
everything Is for the best confess stand an nvoun-
tary pessmist before the clerk Of the weather and
do not think censurably ought to of that witty
inhdel-why are all nhdes called wltty?-Who SAID |
that he thought, were he Providence, ne could
manage things little better.
Commissioner Delano has awoke from snooze,
and proclaimed that no property seized by any Inter-
nal Revenue Oficer will be released by an order
from the Commissioner until the of1cer who made
the seizure, and the Assessor and Collector OF the
district have reported the facts in the case with
their recommendation, had ample opportu-
nifty to make such report and recommendation.
Yesterday the last races at the Spring meet at
Jerome Park rum The first race was a hurdle
$780, one mile and three quarters resulting fol-
lows-Beacon, l; Harry Booth, 2; Thompson's g. 3;
time, 3'93K. Beacon and Booth eaped the last hur-
die on the home stretch almost together with Lobe
liza, jumping over as they came down, and Thomp
sons b. g. four lengths behind Lobella stumbled as
she lande" over the hurdle and rolled over Roach,
her jo- -, severely injuring him inwardly
and breaking his collar-bone and two
ribs The second race was the Jockey
Club, handicap for all ages, two miles, 500 entrance,
$1,000 added by thelclub Plantagenet and Abdel
Kader dead heat Walden's Uncle Vic closed
up, and therest beaten OF. Time, 343. The third
race-Consolidaton premium OF $500, one and three
quarters miles for horses beaten during this meeting
was won by General Duke beating Metarie, second,
and Wiley, third. Time, 312H. The race was ex-
ceedingly close between all the horses. The three
mile race for q purse OF $1,000 was contested by
Banshee, Flora McIvor General Yorke, Fleetwing,
and Emnence. General Yorke by two lengths
from Flora McIvor. Time 5'3S&.
Everything connected with the Boston Peace Jubi-
lee is on the hundred and thousand scale. Sunday
night the Fall River steamboat took fifteen hundred
passengers among whom were Parepa-Rosa and
four hundred Peace Jubilee musicians. 1t is under
stood that the celebration will be opened with
prayer by four thousand clergymen, and we all
know that the chorus will consist Of twenty thousand
voices The footghts TO be lit by thirteen hun
dred call-bOys, but not more than five hun
dred recalls to any one artist will be per
mitted. Beneath the stage special department has
been fitted up for the reception OF catgut and the re-
placement OF broken violin strings, but more than
three hundred and 1fty-seven vionists are allowed
to fracture a chord day, for fear the audience
should fancy 1t is being got upon string don't
know what the quality OF the volinism will be, but
presumng the number OF instruments to be thou
sand would it be too much remembering that the
letter ID, numeral, represents five hundred, to
attempt to characterize 1t by the term fddle-D-D?
BY authority Of Distrct-Attorney Plerrepont a
new libel has been filed against the Quaker City, and
she is again in the custody Of the marshal The libel
unknown, with intent to cruise and commit hosti-
ties against the subjects, citizens and property OF
Hayti, with whom the United States is at peace. SO
much for Buckingham.
The materials for the track OF the West Side Ele-
waited Railway continually arriving, and the work
of laying them will soon begin The posts are up as
far as Thirtieth street. BY July the engineers
pect to be running cars over three and half miles
of the railway from the Battery to Thireth street.
The Commissioners of Charities and Corrections
intend opening a office to-day, on the ground
floor of the Plympton Buildings, at the junction Of
Ninth and Stuyvesant streets. The object to take
lists of all persons desiring help, domestic, agricul
tural mechanical or clerical, and providing for those
needing work, without charging commission. This
design, it is hoped, will obvate the roguery prac-
tised at the private intelligence offices, where the
poor of both sexes are so heartlessly swindled
The enormous rents in New York are working
marves for the suburbs At Irving ton, for Instance,
which is within hours ride of City Hall Park, land
was once considered extremely well paid FOR II 1t
brought hundred dollars per acre. 1t is now
selling at thirty times that price, and in some cases
at even forty or fifty.
Asylum for the Insane. These grounds are nearly
three hundred acres in extent. The main building
is four stories high and the cost OF the property IN
dollars. Five hundred patients Will be accommo-
dated, and the establishment will be the largest of
The European steamers that sailed from this port
yesterday took out almost more passengers than
they could hold. The Vile de Paris
crowded. and bore very precious burden OF conti-
mental pleasure-seekers-th raw material for ro-
at the spas, which is to supply euttetOnfsteS
with so much good makeup for the winter maga-
zines
Among the passengers to leave for Europe on
wednesday, in the Cunard steamer Scotia, is A. j.
Drexel, ESQ., Of Philadelphia, OF the well-known
banking firm of that name. Mr.. DreXel goes out 70
brief respite from the cares OF business, accompa-
MED by his estimable family
season at Cape May and Long Branch Hitherto
overcoats and hot stoves had been greatly in request
The first genuine bathing OF the season took place
yesterday morning.
No less than three matches at base ball came of
in the suburbs yesterday afternoon. They were be-
tween the Eckfords and Athletics, OF Brooklyn, at
the Union ground the Athletics and Alphas, at the
Capitoline and the Empires and SOcias, at Hoboken
To-day the Red Stockings OF Cincinnati, are eX
pected to play the Mutuals, tomorrow the ATTAIN
tics, and on Thursday the Eckfords. The Hay
makers are likewise expected to pay their annual
visit to the metropolis this week. ana engage our
leading clubs.
Of Mr.. Booths marriage TO hnd out all about" the
Young lady who is his wife They have dis
covered ''who was her father, who was her mother,
had she a sister, had she brother, and are pretty
dearer one, STILL than all other" In commenting
upon this gossip cynical contemporary pertlnently
asks, 'why should the public care about it? But un-
fortunately il is precisely about gossip like this that
the public cares almost than about anything else
II can tell the public something hitherto unknown,
little bit scandalous abouta distinguished person.
age am very certain OF pleasing while all my
proper and innocent attempts at recreation would
have been Overshadowed by doubt
You Philadelphians are not TO be alone to-day IN
your celebration OF the fifteth anniversary OF
the Knights Templar. St. Johns Commandery, NO.
A. The following named bodies from this city are 10
participate, viz. :-Colnmbia Commandery, NO Il
Morton Commandery, No. 4; Palestine Commandery,
No 1S: Cnur de Lion Commandery, NO. %; De witt
Clinton Commandery, No. 2I; Manhattan CON-
mandery, No 81; IvanhOe Commandery, NO. %;
Hudson River COmmandery, NO 3D.
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