The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-06


Gail Hamilton's ''model conductor" has left
the railroad and Is to ascertain whether he can
keep a hotel in Cincinnati
THE citizens of Pittsburg, Pa, decided by q
majority of 4416, in total vote of only 5222,
that they we're not yet ready to be taxed to lay
out and support public park. W.L
The semi-annual meeting of the National
Academy of Science commenced at Northamp-
ton, Mass, on Tuesday. PAPERS were read by
Professor Arnold Guyot and Professor Wolcott
Gibbs, of Cambridge. ..-
The New Orleans Times says that long
trains of Texas cattle, with keen, long horns,
stalwart frames, and rather s<ittish ways, may
be seen almost daily moving northward on the
jackson Railioad.
The Washington Republican of yesterday
says that the President has appointed Walter E.
Gresham, of Indiana, United States District
Judge to fill the vacancy occasiOned by the
death of Judge Mcdonald of indianapolis.
james T. Close a Republican member elect
of the House of Delegates of Virginia, died of
cancer of the stomach, at his residence, near
Arlington, on Wednesday morning. He was of
Northern birth, but had resided in Virginia for
the last twelve or fifteen years.
The official vote of Kentucky at the August
election as declared from the Office of the Secre-
tary OF State, is as follows:-For State 1reasu-
rer, James w. Tate, Democrat, S2,617; f. Rum
sey Wing, Republican, "a, ,759; for the School
tax, 7S,2OS; against it, 81, 275.
The old men of Portland, Me-, whose age
ranged from 65 to %, had an excursion and
Cldu1DdhC Ou luGSudy. luGN uluuSCu IuGLl-
selves and created an appetite by leap-frog and
such amusements, and after dinner they organ
lied themselves into an aged Brotherhood"
Boston estimates the capital employed in
the hide and leather business in Massachusetts,
at S2O, ,OOO,OeO The amount of sales of leather
etc, In Boston last year reached $35 600 600, and
during the same period about 40, 900 foreign
hides were imported into Boston.
The Hartford Courdnt says there was con-
siderable frost in that vicinity on Wednesday
mOrninU. and altlOuUh SpriOuS 0amapp
| done the standing tobacco crop, the cultivators
| were very lively during the day cutting and
gathering in from the fields in order to be on the
| safe side.
The Milwaukee (Wis) Sentinel is again
| urging the abolition of the office of Vice-Presi-
| dent. In case of the death of the President il
| would have the Secretary of State act as Presi-
| dent until new election can be held. 1t would
| have the people vote directly for President, and
| the Senate elect its own President, to serve for
two years.
| The Knoxville Press and Herald says that
Calvin Langston, who is in Jail in that city under
| sentence of death. convicted of the murder OF
two women and a boy, and who has appealed to
| the Supreme Court, is fast becoming hopelessly
insane. He imagines that the victims are con
| tinually around him, and always upbraiding him
| for his horrible cruelty to them
| The Mayor and one of the citizens of Full
ton, H., have had little contest, in which they
| Mt first confined their demonstrations to alter
nately laying down and tearing up sidewalk Oh
| suCCcSSlNc uityS. rlndlly inc Mayor aSSdulIcC
| the citizen, and then went before justice ant
pleaded guilty. He was fined $5, which cor
| respondent of the Chicago Times says
| deserved rebulle for tyraunical overbearing
| browbeating, and official all-sufficency.
| The Peabody Library at Post Mills (Thet
| ford), VT, has just received from George Pea
| body large oil painting of himself. The po
| sitOn is standing with face front and full face
| view. The right hand is thrust into the breas
| of the buttoned coat, the left holds paper OF
| which may be read, in imitation of Mr.. Pea
| bodys handwriting:-''T the Chairman of the
Peabody Library Post Mills Village, Vermont
| George Peabody"
| samuel Scott, of Dayton, has been selected
as the Temperance candidate for Governor o
Ohio, in place of j. E. Ingersoll, declined. II
| accepting the nomination he says that for tn
last twenty years he has advocated the prin
ciples of prohibition, and that he believes tn
time has fully come" when temperance me
should vindicate this doctrine at the ballot-boX
| "A new professorship has been established il
Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, supported b.
a gift of $25, 600 from Thomas Beaver, Esq, o
Danville. The incumbent of the chair is t
| have charge of the Department of Biblica
Literature. Rev. DIR. Dashiell, the new Pres
dent has assumed his position, and the munif
| cent centenary collection makes the endoWmer
| of the college now about quarter OF u million
Dr. Franklin's fund of G1000, which h
| wied to Boston in 1891, and expected to il
| crese to E131 900 in hundred years, amounte
to only $133, 1896 on the LIST of January las
| and at this rate of increase will not reach thi
amount at the appointed time. DIR. Frankli
| directed that it should be loaned in small sun
| to young married artifcers; that G1OO, 900 shoul
| be expended for public works in 1891, and I'll
| remainder continue on interest another hundre
| years, when a portion was to go the city an
| some G., 900 900 to the State