The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-16
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organizing saving society to cut wood for poor |
widows this winter. To be eligible to member |
snip young man must be unmarried.
Work is slack at the Trenton potteries and |
several OF them have been put on half-time. 1t |
is feared that some of them will be compelled to |
close entirely next month.
All Coon and Ah Gun beat Ty IIee over the |
head with an iron bar, in San Francisco on the |
evening of the 4th, and were arrested although
Ty Hec is n woman.
Ex-senator Thomas Parsons. of Rochester
fell from the platform of q car on the Great
Western Railroad, on Wednesday, and fractured
his ankle.
"A. doctor in Washington county, Indiana,
bought coffin in New Albany last week saying
he had long thought he ought to have it ready
in case of his sudden death. He had it sent to
his home and kindly requested his wife to lineit.
-Robberies of freight cars are frequent on the
Hudson River Railroad. The other night some
thieves cut hole through the top of a car on
the northerly bound train, descended into it, and
tumbled out over $4,000 worth of goods.
Lieutenant General Sheridan's health has
much improved, and he is now able to ride out.
lie expects to he able to attend the reunion of
the Army of the Cumberland in indianapolis,
lnd on the 18th and 10th instant.
"A Dubuque young lady who has been con-
fined in the Iowa Insane Asylum for fourteen
months because she would not marry the man of
her cruel parents choice, has been ascertained
to be very mad but not insane
The Chicago Common Council on Thursday
evening adopted a resolution declaring that,
whereas the habit of smoking in open council
is unbecoming gentlemen and legislators"
smoking should be stopped
BY the recent fire in Topeka, Kansas, all
the books and papers of the Land Office there
were destroyed, but all business, up to the first
of last month, had been reported to the depart
mept ct Washington.
getting up petitions to the Legislature for a law
TO forbid railroad corporations from charging
extra fare when tickets are not purchased at the
Office.
The ships Ontario and Chieftain, which left
New York within two days of each other, passed
Cape Horn together and arrived ut San Fran
cisco on the 4th instant, the Ontario making the
passage in l5S days and the Chieftain in 100.
An association has been formed in Spring
field Greene county, Mo-, the object of which
is to devise means for removing to some
suitable burylng ground the bodies OF the
Confederate dead buried in that county and
vicinity.
j. K. Bear, the agent of an express COM
pany. who absconded from Brownsville, Neb.,
some time since, with $4,000 of the COM
pany's money, has just written back that he is
very sorry, and that he intends to refund the
money.
-Canastota in Madison CO., NY, has haunted
house, the unquiet spirit which frequents it
being described as an old gentleman with a thin
face, dressed in brown clothes, and enveloped in
q blue light which reveals a horrid cash in his
throat.
The Republican management of the affairs
of the State of Michigan has resulted well. The
Detroit Tribune says it has fostered all of Michi-
gans interests with a generous hand and yet
has reduced the rate OF taxation, paid off half n
million of debt, and provided for the payment of
halt million more within month.
The Daughters of St. Crispin have now
twenty-four lodges in this country fourteen
being located in Massachusetts. The largest
lodge is at Rochester, with about 700 members.
The Lynn Lodge has only 460 members although
1900 or 1900 women are engaged in manufacture
ing shoes there.
ZIse Satara and Zun Zow Matsmulla, two
youths from Japan, reported at the United States
Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md, and we're
assigned to duty in accordance with an act of
Congress authorizing two such youths TO enter
the Academy as midshipmen, at the expense OF
their own Government.
"A writer in the Chicago Legal Ne,oS urges
the holding of "annual meetings of members oil
the legal profession from every part of the
United States, for the discussion of law reforms,
similar to meetings held by members OF other
learned professions both in this country and in
Europe
A gentleman of Buffalo has engaged to per
form the following feat-A cork will be loosely
placed on the neck of an ordinary bottle, and on
the top of the cork bullet will be rested. The
gentleman will then undertake, at distance OF
twelve PAGES, to fire pistol so that four times
in ten trials he shall shoot away the cork, and
drop the bullet into the bottle.
-WoOyeno Kantoc no Kami, Special Commits
sioner, and Meewah Sukeyeegie, Vice-Commls
sioner, from the Government of Japan to the
Hawaiian Islands, sailed from San francisco, OF
the 9Th inst. for Honolulu, to inquire into thu
condition of some Japanese laborers employed
upon sugar plantations, and to insure then
proper treatment.
That able-bodied man from Central New
York who reached Newark a week ago with hi
invalid wife on a wheelbarrow, returning on hi
toilsome journey home from Gettysburg, ha
somehow got back to Trenton again, with hi
wife, wheelbarrow and two children, and ha
applied for quarters in the Poor House for tn
winter.
"A writer in the Boston Journal of Chemis
t,-u takes the ground that the practice of evapo
rating water upon stoves and furnaces Is no
conducive to health or comfort, asserting tina
atmospheric air cannot be dried up or burne
up" by any heating apparatus in use at the pre-
sent day and that while heated air has large
capacity to hold yapor than cold air, none OF II
natural moisture is expelled from it by heat.
"A woman in Grand Traverse county, Mich
told her husband who came in and found he
giving the child something to eat from plat'
that 'the little soul would be in heaven in te
minutes and she wouldn't live great while
Mt the same time eating some OF the preparatlo
herself. 1t proved to be strychnine. The hu
band ran to a neighbor Tor help and when l
came back the child was dead.
During his visit to Boston Pere Hyacintl
left his autograph in the visitors register in IL
Massachusetts, Historical Society's rooms in Il
following form:-"Fr Hyacinthe Loyson, Pari
France corde petit pldctddm sub H6e'fdte qu
etern" Thus he adopted the motto OF the Sta
of Massachusetts, with the substitution OF u
word oOrde (hearD for ense (sword):-"With Il
heart (instead of the sword he seeks tranqu
repose under the protection of liberty
The San Francisco Alta says that the sily
'snugget" presented to the Pope by gentlemi
from California is composed probably of silv
from every mine on the coast. 1t is siXte'
inches long eight inches wide, six and ha
inches deep, 998 fne--or say, nearly pure
weighs 3SS58I ounces troy, or 266 pounds avo
dupois: value $50l3'7S inscribed:-"D