The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-15
GENERALITIES.
What Nexte

they are said to be some animal and vegetable
substances never before used. When reduced to
a pulp, and bleached, the completed fabric is q
sort of felt of extraordinary plianey, hexibiity,
and strength. 1t can be sewed with the needle
as tightly as woven fabrics and already table
cloths, quilts, shoes, and petticoats are In mar
ket all made from the new material.
Rather Startling.
A London firm have just obtained a patent for
a method startling to "old salts" In its origi-
nality, for catching whales by means of electr-
city. By their plan every whale-boat is pro-
vided with a galvanic battery. Wires from OPP
posite poles run down to the points of each set
of harpoons. When the whale is sufficiently
near two harpoons are thrown nearly stimuli
taneously as possible and when imbedded the
flesh of the monster completes the circuit. The
charge is expected to be sufficiently powerful to
paralyze the animal, so that the small boat may
advance and despatch him at leisure.
A Miracle Worker.
The pastor of Bohle, near Hagen, i'm West
phalia, has been working, or said to work, mira
culous cures; and omnibuses and country carts
have been conveying crowds from the nearest
stations. Men, women, children, seek cure for
cancer, epilepsy, lameness, and other ailments
that flesh is heir to, and probably with the same
result. A correspondent writes that he had OBJ
served poor woman who went to the pastor
lame in the morning carried back to the station
in a similar state in the afternoon. But If the
patients derive no benefit, the place does. From
two hundred to five hundred persons visit IL
daily lodgings are hardly to be had for money
and the inns in the neighborhood do thriving
trade.
New Railroad.
The first spike on the Wilmington and Read
ing Railroad was driven on Monday, June 2S at
Coatesville. This road commences at Whining
ton. Delaware, intersecting the PENNSYLVANIA
Road at Coatesville, and the Reading Railroad at
Birdsboro, and running to Reading. 1t is
seventy-one miles in length and passes through
one of the most fertile and thickly peopled dis
tricts in Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware
nd hX lie nh baoo
one of the great avenues by which the anthracite
and bitumnous coal will reach a shipping point
on the water The entire road will be completed
and equipped and in running order by January
1870. From the large and rich manufacturing
districts through which this road runs, it must
prove largely remunerative. 1t passes within
two miles of twenty-five towns and villages,
and by the doors of ffty-eight manufacturing
establishments, among which are anthracite fur
naces, rolling mills, cotton mills, woolen fac
tories, paper mills, foundries, grist mills, and
many Others
How SpurgeOn Looks and Preaches.
We listened to the celebrated Spurgeou at his
tabernacle last Sabbath. Six thousand people
were in attendance He gave us a good strong
orthodox discourse-so much as that may say
of it. Spurgeon is an easy extemporaneous
speaker possesses the merit OF distinct enun-
citation, and illustrates his points and enforces
his arguments by very apt and sometimes very
striking illustrations. He is not dramatic, as
supposed, but rather quiet in his style. There
is, however, magnetism in his manner after
all, in his earnest appearance, and, will say, in
his bright eye too that enchaips the attention
of his audience. He is by no means so able
as Beecher nor so graphic as Chaplin, nor
yet so logical as one two preachers of
Troy l might name, but he is really
a magnetic man, and will always draw large
numbers to hear him. In appearance he is
rather inclined to portiness, has n large and
pleasant countenance, and an expressive and
keen eye. He looks to be a much younger man
than he is, and is what the ladies would call quite
handsome. His tabernacle is in the form of an
amphitheatre, with two rows of galleries around
it, and a high pulpit set near the rear There is
no organ in the church; the people do the sing
ing in the old congregational fashion, the pastor
reading each verse of the hymn just before it is
sung. In order TO obtain seats we went an hour
and half before the beginning of services, and
were then just able to squeeze in after paying
contributions in advance for the benefit of the
church-From London Letter by j. NJ Fran
ciS to the Troy Times.
The EcumenicaI Council.
A correspondent of the Pail Mall Gazette
writes from Rome, under date of June 25:--
''The Pope is wholly taken up with the sub
ject of the council, so that he speaks of nothing
else, and seems to think of nothing else He
has already struck q medal which is to COM
memorate the event, and intends to give one to
each bishop. celebrated physician here re-
Gently said the council presented great danger
to the Holy Father, who, in his present excited
state, was not equal to meeting opposition and
might have apoplectic stroke if exposed to it,
Whether under this apprehension, or on some
other ground influential persons have sought to
get the council postponed till December, 1870,
and the Italian journals assert this has
been resolved upon The general uncertainty
about it is evidenced in the contracts made with
the bishops who have taken apartments, the
terms all requiring the payment OF months
rent in advance TO be forfeited if the council is
postponed. Nevertheless you may be assured
that the Pope, up to this time, remains firm in
his determination of holding the council next
December. He is doubtless supported in his
purpose by the same disposition in the French
Government which continues to look very
favorably on the project A few days ago the
Marquis de Bonneville had a long interview
about it with Cardinal Antonell and intimated
that the Emperor would be represented in the
council by NJ. Baroche."
Emigration from Liverpool.
An English paper states that during the past
six months the emigration from the Mersey has
been OF an unprecedented character. During
the month of June there sailed from the
port of Liverpool 36 ships, with %, 6S1 passen-
gers (under the act), of whom 8706 were Eng
lish, 907 Scotch, 5302 Irish and SIG foreigners.
OF the ships ~ sailed to the United States,
with 1889 passengers, of whom 6532 were
English 500 Scotch, 5195 Irish, and 5702 for
eigners. To Canada there were ships, with
53l2 passengers, of whom 21S3 were English, 8
Scotch, 107 Irish, and 30l4 foreigners The
following vessels sailed not under the act:-To
the United States, ships with 337 passengers:
to Victoria, 3 with l39 passengers TO the West
Indies, 3 with 21 passengers; to South America,
5 with 98 passengers; to the East Indies, with
so passengers; and to Africa, with IL passen-
gers. During the quarter ending June there
sailed under the act 76,4S4 passengers, and not
under the act 1927-malling a total of 7S411
which, when compared with the same quarter of
last year, shows an increase of 81, 1855. The
total number of passengers who sailed from the
Mersey during the last six months was 90, 200. a
soon we are to have a new musical wonder