The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-23
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From Oar 0tOn Correspondent
- NEW YORK, July 80, 1870.
- NIIa.an

NA NEW IOhk, July 90, lofV'
naH .t' NIIssen.
Portraits of Nilsson have begun to appear In
music-store windows Paragraphs about Nils
son light up the columns of the little advertise
ment-sheets that beguile audiences between the
acts. Photographs of the pri'nd donna and
amiable gossip about la diUd are exchanged in
editorial offices between agents and musical
critics. The pipe is being laid, for it is settled
that Christine is to be the reigning fashion and
musical sensation in the United States for 1870
1. She is now only twenty-seven years
old. and stands in the very front rank of her
profession, shining with a steady brilliancy
beside which the fresh and wonderful glow of
even Adelipa Patti threatens to pale. She sails
from London in the Cunard steamer Cuba on
the Sd of September, and will make her first
appearance in America in Steinway Hall on or
about the 10th of that month What tenor
will support her is as yet undecided 1t is said
that Bripnoli will. The baritone is already en-
gagged His name is NJ Napoleon Verger and
he will sail ON London on the same day with
the cantatrice.
ThurIow Weed.
Thurlow Weed is writing his autobiography
and publishing in The GALAXY such snatches of
il as he can spare by the way. True, he has got
only little way yet and has between forty and
fifty years more to write up. In this, however
he will be materially assisted by his daughter
who has devoted some of the best portion of her
life to keeping in order and ready for instant
reference his extremely voluminous correspond
ence, which includes letters from very distn-
guished people in almost every part of the
world
The Knickerbocker and the Washington Com
pany being rival companies in this city, and the
commodity they deal in being ice perhaps it is
only natural that there should be Goodness"
between them. For some weeks past there has
been, but yesterday their respective presidents
met together, had long and quiet talk, shook
hands, snubbed squad of reporters who were
waiting outside, and agreed not to raise the
price to two dollars q hundred. The GOODNESS
arose in this wise. The two companies possess
between them seven depots, where they have
been in the habit of storing ice together. Before
being taken to the New ork market this ice
has to be divided, and each company accused
the other of appropriating more than its share.
The Knickerbocker shrugged its shoulders
and went on shipping, and the Washington took
out an Injunction restraining it. Then
the Washington goriously had its own way for
day or two when suddenly two car loads of
ice, in process of transportation from Shaker
Village to this city, were stopped by an Injunction
got out by the Knickerbocker Company. While
the companies quarrelled the ice melted and
there was prospect that unless they speedily
came to terms new companies would absorb the
business and furnish parched citizens with ice at
lower rate. Mutual cupidity made friends of
them, and New York is now enjoying ice at
$3.50 per hundred.
ssDig 'em Up! Dig 'em Up.''
An obscure sentiment of philosophy diffused
even through the lower orders must be the
reason for the metaphysical and contemplative
spirit. with which skulls and skeletons and the
whitened bones of random dead bodies are re-
garded when they are unexpectedly come across.
1t was all very we'll for Hamlet to poetize over
Yorick's skull. because he knew it ooas Yorick's;
but why should mount into rhapsody over a
stray death head or crossbones that l acci-
dentally dig up-say in my garden? Why should
detect myself prone to attach mystery and
romance to lonely graves and crumbling mauso-
leums? Neglected spots do not always TEEN
with hearts once pregnant with celestial fire,
and instead of adjurng the spectrums of suppo-
sittious Hampdens and Millions, it would be
much more proper to say
"Some wandering pedder that used to cry 'Old clos
And get the better OF you, If he could,
Some poor old buffer here turns up MS toes,
Who left his country for his country's good"
That would be little nearer the truth, l think
This speculation, however, may be thought to
have little real connection with the fact thai
every reporter in the city has been more or less
excited over the remains of fifteen bodies, found
by some workmen who were digging near the
southeast corner of the New Court House. Per.
haps the Coroner was more excited than any
one else, for his fees, amounting to $50 for eacf
body, he realized nearly $500 as his share of the
digging up Some say the bones are the relic
of those who collapsed from cholera in 1882
some say that they belonged to the prisoners whC
died in the old Jail that before the Revolution
covered the spot now occupied by the Depart
ment of Finance, some that they were the per
sonal property of negroes executed for variou
crimes in 1741 and the majority agree in th
pleasing conviction that the mysterious and th'
murderous are blended therein in equal proper
lions. leave you to take your pick.
ALI BABA.