The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-29
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Mad dogs are raging in New Orleans.
--EE-Secretary Stanton made his will in July. |
Peoria ILL.,. Is oyerrun with rats. Aud yet |
Peoria looks askant at the Chinese.
Montreal has subscribed $4,000 for a statue
of the Queen.
-Chinamen are to dig the Cape Cod Canal
when il is dug
DIR. Sears has returned to New Orleans from
Texas.
The shoe towns in New England are going
ahead faster than any others. There is nothing
like leather
President Grant, on Christmas morning.
sent Rev. j. P Newman 800 for the benefit of
the poor of Washington.
"A Pennsylvania Democrat opposes the an
nexation of Canada, because if there is another
draft he will have no place to go to. -,
"A coal;digger in Pittsburg, will delve
no more. He has gone to Wisconsin to receive
$780, 600 recently left him by rich uncle.
Most of the Bostonians have been at times
on the road to Brighton, and now Brighton is on
the road to Boston. 1t wants to be annexed.
The Toledo Blade has the fullest faith that
within twenty years the valley of the Maumce
will be the seat of vast manufacturing in
terest.
Mr.. Joseph Kidd died in Brunswick county,
Va, on the 18th inst, at the age of 10l years,
II months and "A days. He is the Oldest Kidd
on record.
The season has opened auspiciously for the
Maine lumbermen. Camp-tres burn brightly
day and night, and the forests resound with the
woodmans AK.
"A portion of the Christmas dinner of the
convicts in the Kentucky Penitentiary was
huge OK, contributed by Mr.. h. {. Dorsey of
Pawtucket, L. l.
Like the remains of the feast in q banquet
hall are our distant exchanges, which come
with long articles headed-Christmas presents;
where to buy them.
The annual commencement exercises of the
Albany Medical College took place on Thursday
evening last. Twenty-eight NJ DIS were sent
out on their pilgrimage.
"A man in Stockbridge, Mass, got a pre-
scrption for rheumatism last week, and, with
sublime indifference to all directions swallowed
| the whole at dose. He died.
The Atlanta Neoo Era says that scarcely
Western train leaves that city without bearing
| with it q number of Georgans who are bent
upon seeking fortunes in other States.
Some leading citizens of st. Louis are taking
| steps towards the holding of a Worlds Fair in
| that city in 1871. They not only want the
| national capital but to take from Washington
| its present pet project.
| "A Vermont Horse Stock Company" has
| been formed in the hope to bring back to Yer
| mont some of Its ancient prestige for producing
| serviceable and noble races of horses like those
| of the Morgans and Black Hawks.
| "A young man, upon whose face the small
| pox had just made its appearance, was walking
| upon the streets of New Orleans, on Tuesday
last in search OF place in which to findrefuge.
| He finally took the street car for the hospital
| Three of the jurors in a recent trial Mt To-
ledo who are over 20 years old, feel rghteously
been compelled to eat at the jail, and to sleep
on the floor of the court room, with only mat
ting carpet under them, and an army blanket
for covering.
| "A Missourian of Kansas City left pair of
| boots tied behind the saddle of his horse as he
| stepped indoors to ''llquor." When he returned
the boots were gone, but in their place note:-
| ITO the Owner-I take these boots because
am barefoot, and it is cold as h-ll. When 1
get abel will pay you for them sure Keep
dark and see if don't"
| "A Colorado woman has written q letter in
| dignanty replying to card from her husband
warning all persons not to trust her on his ac-
| count. She says that for a week he did not
| come near her, but was drunk, and that she
| thought he was not fit companion for any
woman, an opinion, she remarks, held by his
| former wife, who left him ION account of his
disagreeable disposition"
"A lawyer in Bangor, Maine, who wanted tC
get his Christmas turkey cheap, selected q fine
looking one, and inquired of the gentleman
from the rural districts if it was young, anC
being answered in the affirmative, asked him
he would take his oath OF it. Nothing 10th, the
poulterer assented, and the oath was admins
tered by the sprig of the law, who then de
manded dollar as his fee.
, "A lady in Williamsport, in this State
while dying from consumption last weel
, informed her mother, and subsequent.
her physician and her pastor, tha
she suffocated her step-child las
. summer, by holding her hand over it
mouth to keep 1t from crying. Her husband
: however, says that he was present with tn
; child when it died, and that the circumstanc
= could not possibly have occurred as his wifi
!, described, and he ascribes the idea to imagina
ton, her mind being much weakened by long
= continued suffering.
The Boston Traveller, of Saturday, kindl
= gives the following information:-After ''eigf
; successive cold quarters of month, or beloN
their average the third quarter in Decembe
= was very warm or seven and a sixth degree
v above its average temperature, yet this thir
quarter, from some unknown cause, has been, o
= the average of the last forty-ive years, th
: coldest quarter in December nearly two degree
a colder than the fourth, and very nearly as col
- | as any in January or February"