The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-10
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Prom Our O,cn Correspondent

here as you are in Philadelphia although the
President of your society for the p. G.. A. has no
recalctrant Justice of the Peace, a la Judge
Bowling, to combat with. Lolling sheep with
whecl-rasped heads are no longer carted tortu-
ringly to market; the day is past forever when
ducks and chickens were made liable to apo
plexy by being carried head downwards dog
fights and cock fights have been relegated to
realms beyond the metropolitan district; and If,
as Mr. Beecher says, there is a horse heaven,
Mr.. Bergh will certainly be saluted with halle
lujahs of neighs when he puts in an appearance
there. l am afraid Balaam would have stood
very little chance had bully Bergh's' DISPOSE
tion been prefgurcd in that of the angel who
withstood him. He (Mr. Bcrgh not Balaam)
deserves all the more credit from the fact that
his abundant means raise him far above the
necessity of performing the hard and ngrateful
labors incident to his position as president of
the society.
Another Wedding Has Been Celebrated in "A
Police Court.
The wedding was that of an English blonde
(the last of the Mohicans), professional veloci-
pedestrian, and the court was that of Essex
Market, Justice Shandley The brides name
was Miss Selma Goldman, the grooms Mr..
Daniel Parlson, and the hour of the wedding
was o'clock on Saturday afternoon. Selma
can sling around very bewitchingly upon the
velocipede Daniel is a capmaker but has never
made any caps so fascinating as the one set for
him by Selma. The attire of the bride and
groom was extremely mild Selina's toilet CON
sistng of pale-green silk, trimmed with white
lace her neck and wrists being hung with
vari-colored jewels, while Daniel had arrayed
himself in black broadcloth coat and lavender
hued pants. Judge Shandey performed the
'bless-ye- ye-be-happy-my-childre business in a
manner that would have been paternal had it
not been parochia and the auspices under
which married life began with them were not
in the least darlened by the fact that the eclipse
had already begun to shed crepuscular light,
or that the married life commenced where so
many ignominiously end-in police court.
How the Eclipse Game on.
The newsboys did not make out of the eclipse
quite so large a fortune as they anticipated
From five o'clock, it is true, until six, the price
of smoked pieces of glass steadily went up from
five to twenty-five cents. After that hour pur-
chasers were very few indeed, and when seven
o'clock arrived the urchins importuned pedes-
trians to take Il grab for nothin'.' great deal
of the humor of the occasion might be described
as vitreous bumor for the distorted views pro-
duced by the stained glass were the occasion of
superabundant jokes. When last saw Thatcher
the metropolitan astronomer and championalma-
nackest, he was on the annular track and looking
for Baileys beads. hope he found em, and if
so, that he gave EN- to the young lady who lost
her necklace.
The Famous Harry Hill,
whose notorious dance-house in Houston street
has probably wrought the greatest evil to the
greatest number of young men of any dance
house in Gotham, is going to inaugurate grand
picnic next Monday. You can imagine whom
the party will consist of. The picnic season is
now at its very height, and the number of fes-
tive clam-balles that have already been cee-
brated is beyond all computation.
On Saturday peddler of unstampcd cigars
Walked into the Lions Mouth,
and presented his head for decapitaton in the
most obgng manner possible. OF all places
in the world, his unfamiliarity with the purlieus
of the law led him into the Office of Commits
sioner Shields, on Chambers street, to whom he
presented his cigars for purchase. Commissioner
Shields is fond of fragrant Havana, but he is
fonder of laying his finger on a delinquent and
on the present occasion, perceiving that the
cigars were not stamped, he gave to some police
men standing by that legal wink which is quite
as voluminous of meaning as Lord Bolngbroke's
shrug. The result was that the peddler was en-
shrined in prison before he had recognized the
dignitary who had caused his arrest.
The first work upon the new
Post Office in City Hall Park
is to commence this morning, and it is computed
that the roofing will be laid on in the fall of
1870 Mr.. Mullett, the experimenting architect,
promises a quantity of good things. He guaran-
tees that all the contractors shall be kept to the
letter of their engagements and that there shall
be none of that fraud and delay which have
characterized the building of the new Court
House. One of its great features will be the
pneumatic railways in connection with the news
paper Offices facilitating the distribution of the
mails and the work of the post Office clerks in
the early hours Of the morning. As New Post
Office Day, tomorrow deserves a special niche
in metropolitan history
Our Theatrical and Musical Prospects
begin to brighten. The "Only Leon" has re-
turned in the City of Cork. As there was nc
conhagration during the passage, the cork un-
happily cannot be said to have been burnt. The
Tammany is to reopen next Monday with bevy
of Patagonian Pers and living monstrosities
from Terra del Fuego. The New York Theatre
is to open at an early DAY under the management
of "a lady" Who this lady is remains pro-
found mystery. hardly think the management
of the New York Theatre has penetrated it.
Miss Fiddes, whosehusband recently got smashed
by Mr.. Tayleure, has appeared as 'Fanny
Power" in Arrdh-na-Pogue, but is absolutely
ignored by the newspapers. Mr.. Lester Wal.
lack and Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Florence
are already en- route for this CITY Fanny
Janauschek is drubblng the pronunciation o.
EuOlish diphthonpS into hnr NTadoo,, H..