The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-23

Very little work is being done at the
Philadelphia Navy Yard at the present time.
Parker Pillsbury is visiting Charleston,
5. c. 1t is his first visit. He might not
have been cordially welcomed there a few
years ago.
Bangor, Me-. will celebrate the centen-
NAL anniversary of its settlement on the Both
inst. An address will be read by Hon. John
~ G0direy, and poem by Rev. Charles Car
roll Everett.
Friends of the Luzerne pa Asylum for
the care OF disabled miners and their families,
ask the Avondale Committee to make an ap-
preparation of $4,000 from the funds sent
them to endow it.
Mr.. George Peabody is visiting Mr.. John
w. Garrett, President of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad at his residence about three
miles from Baltimore. His health improved
during his stay in Massachusetts.
Senator Sherman opposes the repeal of
the Income tax, regarding it as the fairest
tax that can be levied. 1t is said that in a
recent speech he expressed the hope soon to
see all our internal taxes repealed, except the
tax on whisky, tobacco, and incomes.
"A family which was residing in Lynn,
Mass, at last accounts, has, during the past
sixteen years, lived in sixteen different towns
and cities, and has occupied twenty eight diff
ferent houses. During this moving period
the wife has become the mother of eleven
children.
Mr.. George S. Bennett, a native of Au-
burn, and for twenty-seven years local editor
of the Cincinnati EHQUilel, died on Saturday
aged 50. He was private Secretary of Gen.
W. II. Harrison, when the latter was a candi-
date for the Presidency, and was the pioneer
local editor on the Cincinnati press
The Utica HeydLd saysIthat until the Re-
publican organizations in the city of New
York combine to fight the common foe, the
party of the State must remit them to tutelage
and discipline, and convince them that the
claims of Metropolitan factions must be sub
ordinated to those of the Republican party.
1t seems to be thought by Pennsylvania
Democrats that all the Republicans ought to
vote the Democratic ticket, merely because
the chairman of the Republican State Cen
trail Committee, whose opportunities for
obtaining an education in early life was not
great, sometimes makes a mistake in spelling
Rev. S. NJ Freeland, of Detroit preached
a sermon on Sunday in favor of the restora-
tion of capital punishment in Michigan. He
declared that the reformation of the criminal
is of no consequence in the eye of the law;
that the law is an avenger, a scourge, a terror
to evil.doers, seeking justice and not refor-
nation.
Rev. Barnes Sears, agent of the Peabody
Fund, says that it was the falling off of in
come and its discouraging effects that in
duced Mr. Peabody to increase his gift to
the South. He adds that that portion of
their plan which secures the vigorous CO.
operation of the Southern people brought him
to this decision.
The committee to investigate the charges
made by Senator Sprague in reference to the
disposition made of the Agricultural College
lands granted to Brown University, met in
Providence on Monday, but when they LEANED
that the notification sent to Mr.. Sprague's
Office had not been forwarded to him, they
| adj ourned to future day.
The recent encampment of Massachu-
setts militia, near Springfield, was productive
of more disorder than is gratifying to those
citizens who cherish pardonable State pride
The Boston Adoertjser says that license tool
the place of discipline, drill became farce,
and the money of the State was squandered
in a gigantic and disgraceful frolie
THAT Governor Chamberlain, of Maine
! the correspondent of the Boston Journal il
rash enough to say, will make wise and iu
dicious selection for United States Senator
regardless of any outside pressure, is very
naturally expected ''by those who have in his
| Judgment unlimited confidence. That CORE
| spondent is certainly on the safe side.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail says that
Professor Cyrus Northrop has written a for
NAL letter declining the position of President
of the Alabama State University, and it asks
the Board of Regents to elect at once Pre-
sident and Faculty that will give satisfaction
| to the people in Alabama who have sons tC
educate, and not merely crafty a few whimsi
| cal radicals.
The Democratic papers in Georgia are
loudly condemning Governor Bullock fol
committing the sentence of Henrietta Greer
! the black woman who killed a little white
| girl for three dollars and twenty cents, to i'm
prisonment for life. The Macon Journal say
that since her incarceration she has learned
to read and write extremely well, that she
can repeat the whole of the Church catechisn
ce1J0tim, and is fully acquainted with the
Nicene Greed, the Ten Commandments, an(
the Lords Prayer, and can explain them all
clearly and intelligibly. The Journal wants
| her executed at once
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