The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-17

us Mrs. COldhash going 10 move ?" s the questiol
which many bachelor boarder IL asking himself
with trepidation In view of the approaching first OF
May IL Is not comfortable, when you have paid
your board regularly, and been satisfied with the
rooms, ana taken notice OF the children and not
been overbearing to the servants and not banged
the 'front.' door too much on coming home at O'Clock
in the morning-t is not comfortable under these
circumstances, to know that you will in all likelihood
be opsted out Of comfortable quarters by the
time another fortnight shall have passed over
your head, SO dreary was this prospect,
in connection with the fact of not
having the wherewithal to pay for his room and
"vittles," that Mr.. Edwin Rogers, a limp-languid
literary gentleman, committed suicide late on Thurs
day night, having borrowed ten cents to purchase
the poison with, and written his own obituary which
he conhded to the keeping Of mediumistic friend.
The suicide might have taken heart at remember
ing the parallel case of Goldsmith whose only alter
native 1t will be remembered, was TO pay his land
lady or marry her; but he preferred calling upon
Mr. Conklng, Il seedy-looking test-medium, in the
endeavor to seek inspiration sufficient to prime him
for the final act There have been quite o bunch OF
suicides this week. Paris green was formerly the
famous ''shufier-oh" but morphine is most in vogue
at present.
VIII Mr.. Charles Anderson Dana accept the post OF
Appraiser of the Port of New York ? was question
extensively asked yesterday by people who are not
intimately acquainted with him. Those who know
eving that he will not In the first place, he looks
for higher things than patry four thousand per
annum, exclusive OF ilegitimate pickings. In the
second place, he and Mr. McErath, the gentleman at
present holding that office, have been lifelong
friends, and Dana satisfied with the post,
it is in the least likely that he would accept it, to
the prejudice of his friend. He prefers editing the
Sun, and evolving meteor-like editorials from his
''interior consciousness"
On Monday evening the 7th Regiment is to cee-
brate the ninth anniversary OF its departure for the
South during the first days of the Rebellion The
preparations will be of the most liberal description,
and to this we-worn phrase the fullest meaning it
is susceptible of must be given. Not less than one
thousand ful-siZed bouquets have been ordered, it
being the intention OF the managers to present
every lady gracing the occasion. Oakley Hall is to
present the regiment with magnificent set of colors
behalf of the corporation OF the city of New York.
and Mr.. Nasts new picture, representing the depar-
ture OF the regiment, will be exhibited them for the
first time. Independent Of these arrangements five
thousand dollars have already been expended on the
decorations of the rooms; but, having used the
preston twice myself in early life, will leave
it to some else to say that the affair will be the
''moSt brilliant one of the season."
Madame Parepa, having recovered from those ills
which her lovely flesh has for some weeks been heir
to, will make her. temperance next Wednesday
evening at Steinway Hall, which will be literally
crammed with her admirers. Next autumn she is to
nave charge OF an EnBllsn opera company, ana
know OF no woman who possesses to an equal extent
the business gifts and habits that necessary to
success in that line. Madame Parepa is not strictly
speaking, artistic. She has very little of the
artistic nature. She has her eye too much on the
dollar and may be described business woman
who can sing.
Mr.. Booth has achieved another perfectly legi-
innate and magnificent success in his production of
ObeO although he has not yet appeared in the part
'IagO" which he is best fitted by nature to perform
The scenery far ahead of the meretrcious preten-
sons of White -Fawnsm and his theatre is by far the
handsomest in America and, think, in the
world. ALI BABA