The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-16
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"A DOSJOu uTuRRlbL WuO gave lduUaDuLu
instead of rhubard, and killed his man, has been
fined $3.50.
The proposed revision, by the English
bishops, of the King James version of the Bible
may remind some commentators that Elijah is
the only one of the prophets who was literally
translated.
The Galena Qll.) Gazette narrates how three
young men, who ascertained that certain
young lady had engaged herself to each of them,
fiercely quarrelled about it for several months,
and then agreed to wait upon the girl in body
and ask her to take her choice. But the girl
quietly informed them that it was quarrel of
their own, in which she was not particularly in
terested, and that they must settle 1t among
themselves. Whereupon they retired and set
tied the difficulty by drawing lots, and the win
ner married the girl last week. The bride de-
cares that she got the one that was her choice
| from the first.
Mrs L. Morris, Justice of the Peace for the
| county of Sweetwater, Wyoming Territory,
| decided on the 14th ult. her first case. It is
said that the lawyers who argued it exhibited
| quite as much embarrassment as the lady Off
clal. She had however, an advantage in point
| of age and weight of opinion. as she Is more
| fat than fair and nearly 60. The questions In
but the functionary exhibited her self-denial by
| deciding that the court had no jurisdiction In
| the matter. Her husband is of Jewish
nationality. While such fortune as this is
offered by the West to the Israelites,. the mlen-
mum will be indefinitely postponed If it has to
be preceded by the return of the tribes to
| Jerusalem.
"A well-known citizen of Topeka, Kansas,
has at his business office two large slabs of red
sandstone, containing, 1t is said, three we'll
defined impressions from the feet of human
| being. They have attracted much attention on
| the part of Topekans, and are to be submitted
to scientific investigation. If what they purport
to be, humanity will be antedated or geology
upset Only the minuteness of description, and
the respectability of the names mentioned, re-
lieve the suspicion that somebody has been
reading Footprints" and "Old Red Sandstone, ~
and got things slightly mixed. Just such dis
covery was once made In Connecticut, but .
more careful examination showed that the
tracks had been made by biped indeed, but
one that had wings. The stones will be the sub
ject of profound scientific interest even though
the footsteps should be those of "Plato's man
The amusements of q community are an
index of its civilization. Cock fighting at the
North is confined to the roughs; at the South II
was the pride and pleasure of the ''chivalry.'
1t yet finds favor, we regret to say in Georgia,
and the papers of Augusta glow with the &C.
counts of recent match in which 81 cocks on
either side were ptted against each other in sue
cession, the imam" being won by the odds of O
single fight. The stake was $500, and the in.
terest excited may be judged from the opening
sentence of the description in the Chronicle ano
Semtinel:-"The birthday of G.. Washington
| and the parade of the Augusta Fire Department
are not the only great events which occur OF
the 22d of February" We suppose that Geor
gians did justice to their fire department, as il
was on the spot, and could demand its honors
but it's pity about G. w. The encounter o.
| the cocks, we are further informed 'caused the
| glories of Trenton and of Yorktown to fade
South Carolina-for 1t was an affair of States
was represented by the champion rooster. 1t il
not the only occasion in which the Game CocI
State has raised q dust in which the landmarks
| of history were temporarily obscured.
| -"Ods bullets and blades"-but they came
very near having a duel in Omaha! Mr.. McBay
believed that one Tom Todd had said thinet
| about Mrs. McBay, Sdeth Nothing but Tho
| blood of Tom could suffice Tom retracted IN
toto when Mob. talked of shootng didn't say
il, didn't mean It, didn't believe it-in point o.
fact was so insulted by the suggestion that h,
had said It, that he wanted to challenge Mob
His feelings were wrought upon by tht
thought that McB. had thought that he, T. It.
had thought anything of the sort about Mrs
Mob, that he proposed to exchange shots IoI
the river bank. McB., thus challenged, selectoC
in preference a hotel as the rendezvous, but de
manded q written cartel. Herein was a diff
Guilty; Todd was not an expert in using the pen
and consented that McB should indite the chal
lenge. which was written accordingly as follows
"OMAHA Neb Feb Esd T0-This Ia to sertify that
Thomas Tod do propose to challenge N McBay I
mt at me at the st Nicholas Hotel with shott gu
at the hours OF one o'clock. THOMAS TODD"
But before the appointed hour MeB. took
different view of the matter, and thought
might be more honor to his family If his day
were long in the land. He proceeded to tn
Office of a Justice had Todd arrested on til
, strength of the challenge, and bound over I
ties will use the shotgun" only in pursuit {
/, "meat" of the ordinary kind.
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