The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-16
GENERALITIES.


Bad for Anna.
Here IA what NJ L. LimOnin writes TO the par|
Reresi about Anna Dickinson :-"This young lady
rsssably good-looking, and has considerable nuenc
IN tpeskng, but as general thing, ner ssn
ing to. grew decidedly ndgetty after hearing he
for fifteen minutes"
Base BaIIists AdmOnished.
Cincinnati falling to get Craig-Sprague sensatoaH
the grand jury there has been Investigating BAG
ball, and makes the following presentment agains
the Red Stocking Club -"While we, as good cid r.
zens, congratulate our young men CRed Stockings
on their victorious career over all competitors e.
the United States, we would at the tm# #
warn them, and all others who participate In "a
such exciting genes, to do so with moderation and
that they be careful not to violate the laws Of God q
man."
Romance and Addiction.
Here is personal item about the famous Mr.
SOuthWOfth that Will be relished by the numerou|
readers OF Ledger literature Mrs Southworth lived
on steep hill street at Georgetown, and rattes of
her peculiar fctons at the rate OF twelve or hftee
columns week. Some time ago she was taken VIII
the smallpox and while the ulcers were hideousW
and plunged into the labyrinths of serial romanceN
She makes six thousand dollars year. has engaQet
ments offered or pending in London and Paris ma
spent TWO years in Europe and has educated he q
children handsomely She is herself without educaS
ton, and is native Of Maryland.
Western Journalistic FelIcities.
The following will give idea OF how cour
teously the journals Of the Far West deal with eac
other:-
The Kansas City Times man thinks of himself "a
constantly that he spells asylum with double s.
The bushwhacker who scribbles locals for the|
Kansas City Times VIII spend the warm season IND
the Sn Hills. II he don't go wen make him.
The critter connected with the Kansas City Jour-
nal IS man whom we pity, but cannot help. They
say he was born In Cambridge and is our cousin. WEI
are sorry for Cambridge. and have ordered gunnyl
sacks and ashes for to get into If he proves be
kin. Let us hope for the best.
We have just been shown some manuscript writ
ten 10y BlOss OF the Cincinnati Enquirer It looks az
though a spider had got drunk and dipped his feet
in INK, and was dragging out q miserable existence
crawling sheet of paper in search OF his friends
who had all deserted him.
improvements I'm Floridn.
Since the close of the war, the people OF Florida
have been working earnestly to retrieve their losses
This they are doing slowly but surely. Work is now
being done on the St. Johns Railroad, which, when
completed, will run from Tocoi on the St Johns
river 40 miles above Jacksonvlle) to St. Augustine,
will be only 14L miles in length Relative to IL the
Jacksonville Florida) Union remarks:-
This company, under its amended charter has the
Johns river to St. Augustine, for the term OF twenty
years. within twenty miles Of the present line OF
their road we learn that 1t is the intention of those
most interested in this enterprise to have the road
in successful operation again, and through TO st.
Augustine, by the 1st 10Th Of November 1t is in
tended to stock the road with handsome and COM
Portable cars and locomotives, and to land passen-
gers in ST. Augustine from Toco after the arrival OF
steamers, in forty minutes.
story of French Morals.
An attempted murder at ST. Denis, Paris recently
brought to light an extraordinary example OF do
mestic immortality At the corner OF the Rue des
woman named respectively Sennery and Muret.
The latter had daughter aged fifteen years ard
nd ana Sennery TOOK IL INTO MS mead 10 marry her.
The woman gave her consent, but the girl, who was
at boarding-school, refused, knowing that the man
cohabited with her mother; being, however, impor-
tuned by her parent, she at length consented,
but on condition that she should remain at the
school and complete her education. The marriage
took place, and on the evening, as arranged the
bride returned to her school, and the bridegroom
with her mother to the wine shop That state OF
things lasted about three weeks, but Sennery at
length got tired of his equivocal situation, and
csed his marital authority to force his wife to return
to the conjugal domicile, and she was obliged to
submit. AS may be imagined peace did not reign
long in this polygamous household quarres arose
daily between the man, the mother, and daughter
and few evenings back, after fresh dispute, the
husband fred pistol at his wife, lodging ball in
her chest. She was removed to an hospital and is
at present in satisfactory state; while the assaant
was arrested.