The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-09
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J ne business nablJS ana GllentS JnaJ uf5-
tinguished the late Sir Edward Cunard, for more
than thirty years resident in this city, are
known all over the world but his social qualities
and the social esteem in which he was held are
not SO well known. He had used his thirty
years residence in the midst Of with equal
aptitude N q social as in a business sphere, and
had made himself very many friends. Though
an out-and-out John Bull in many essential Johu
Bullisms, he was yet reverencer of much that
was American, for the simple reason that it was
so. lie never carried around with him any Of
those aristocratic "airs" which are az re-
pulsive to refined republicans as the
assumptions of the pdrUenU are to the best peo-
pie of any society. His death, pronounced by
some to be apopleXy, by Others to be heart dis
ease resulted from simple cold that was ne
elected Moderate care might have pro-
longed his existence for many years, for he was
but fifty-three at the time of his death. He had
been for many years a communicate at Grace
Church, where the obsequics are To be COM
memorated tomorrow. His wife has been par
ticularly liked and distinguished among the
ladies of New York society for her gentle and
unobtrusive bearing. Sir Edward may be al
most said to have divided his allegiance between
the Queen of England and the President of the
United States, and was as good subject of both
as the discrepancies implied in such condition
would admit Of Since his death the flags of the
British Consulate have been at half-mast.
A funny, but almost fatal, attempt at suicide
has been made by another escaped convict from
BlackweLf5 Island The escaped ones name
is Fay, although i believe he has no connection
with the Davenport Brothers. Whilst walking
along Twenty-siXth street, he says he felt him
self Impressed" (as the mediums say) to take
his life precisely as the clock struck the hour of
noon. The thickness of Mr.. Fay's frontal bone
| am not acquainted with; but this has nothing.
to do with the fact that the bullet was arrested"
thereby and fattened as fiat as penny, more or
less. 1t almost rolled out upon the pavement
leaving the victim unhurt; and he forthwith an
nounced his ability to walk, andbe conducted
to the nearest apothecary shop. Since then he
is pronounced a very promising lunatic, and
bids fair to bid goodbye to Blackwel's alto
gether
Mr.. Collector Grinnell, since his return from
Washington, has been 80 badgered and beset by
offce-scekers, that rs a desperate remedy he has
reduced the number of days on which they can
be admitted to his presence to three and the
number Of hours upon each of those days to one.
No changes have yet been made, and the
thousands who have crowded around the Custom
House doors since April Fools Day are in state
of blissful philanthropic ferment and eXpec-
fancy. AS things were, only one applicant at
time was admitted; and as the same rule obtains
under the new regulation, you may imagine the
applicants state of mind and body.
Between two and three months ago two
wretched-lookiDg indices of human nature, Ed
ward Reiley and John Robinson by name, were
arrested in an obscure station-house, as accom-
plces in the celebrated Rogers murder. They
were confined in the House of Detention, which,
although it answers well for its purpose
could reasonably be expected, is neither palace
nor paradise. There they have been in SERVICE
there they are likely TO remain until Judge Ber-
nard undergOes the Just ignomlny OF becoming
recacitrant to an opinion formerly expressed
end conGesses that he was mistaken in declaring
that the real" murderer was in the possession of
the authorities. Between two and three months
is very long time for innocent men
TO be incarcerated, shut up from home and
friends, and everything that makes life enjoya-
BILE. All that has been proved against Robinson
and Reilley is that they are Vagrants. Logan
number one has been dismissed. Logan number
two has simmered down so quietly that nothing
has been heard of him. The negro boy, whose
testimony was so conflicting that it amounted to
nothing, was discharged about a week ago with
a munificent gift of few dollars Robinson and
Reilley are the last lingerers ON the edge of the
Rogers mystery, the tag-end of ex-Detectiye De-
lanoys remarkable story, and no more is known
in relation to the murderer than on the morning
when the deed was done.
it is something OF sight to stand on Burling
Slip, near the Fulton ferry-house, and watch the
scene succeeding the arrival of fruit-laden ship
from some foreign port. Time out OF mind this
has been the locality where the ships are un-
laden, and the good part of the cargo sorted
from the bad. Oranges and lemons from Bara-
Goa, figs from San Bias; bananas from Havana
melons from Casstellamare and Messina; cocoa
nuts from Nicaragua and Brazil, how they do
made thoroughly at home upon our dessert tables.
Oranges and apples are generally considered the
fitting accOmpaniments OF almonds, ralslns, and
nuts, and the banana Is, for the most part, de-
spised, or at least unnoticed. Fruiterer5 give
evidence, however, that this fruit is becoming
more appreciated this year than ever before, and
that its mellow meltingness is quite casting into
the shade the sweet acidity of the orange and
the cold-grained too pronounced" apple
At meeting of the Workingwomens Asso-
citation, held in one of the rooms of the Cooper
Institute, it transpired that building Is in
process Of erection intended exclusively for
women's offices and rooms for holding private,
| OF, if need be, public meetings. long discus
sion took place in regard to the appointment Of
| postmistresses. Miss Anthony thought it very
| well there should be such institution but did
| not think that they ought to be paid only ten
| dollars a year. This was dpr0pOs Of
| Miss Van Lew having been appointed
postmistress OF Richmond. A Mrs. Bickerdyke,
| however, backwoodswoman from Kansas, in
stanced two or three postmistresses who received
| several thousands of dollars per year. Mrs. Lo-
| zier, who is q strong-mnded doctress, and has a
| good run of custom, thought you ought not TO
| look the gifthorse in his mouths and that General
| Grant having appointed Miss Van Lew, strong
| minded women were called upon 70 feel thank
full to him. 4 Mrs. DR.. Stafford rose
| and delivered eulogium upon Mrs. BclIcrdyke,
| strong minded female angel and Mrs. Cecilia
| Burleigh, who does "the good, the beautiful and
the true" of the association, read an essay on
| ''Womanhood.n Not to throw ridicule on an
earnest organization, however, il is only fair tc
| add that the Workingwomen's Association IL
| better than any number Of rose-water Soroslses
| and that Susan the Sensible would be loved by