The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-17
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MIR. BerRh Can Stund It No Longer.

against certain New York newspaper which
contained rather funny, but by no means sour
rilous, article with regard to him. The news
paper gave extracts from supposititious diary
purporting to have been written by Bergh, and
filed with fearful lamentations over broken
legged poedles and imprisoned cats. For Mr..
Bergh's sake am sorry that he has COM
mitted this ndscretion. He is such good man
and such nice man, and has so patiently borne
such number of small spitefulnesses and
affronts, that it is pity he did not hold out in
his martyrdom to the bitter end. Or had he
chosen to take fire upon larger OCCASION he
would not have shown himself in SO ridiculous
light. But unfortunately he is one of those
men who, having schooed themselves to the
performance of a disagreeable task and the en-
durance of lcng series of petty INJURIES by
and-by take offense at some trife and visit
upon it the accumulated wrath which would
have been the just retribution of greater insults
that have been allowed to pass unnoticed. The
Newspaper against which Mr. Bergh brings his
present charge certainly deserves no very great
degree of notice in what it says. At worst it Is
coarse fun, and bears no appearance Of having
been uttered with any stronger motive than the
amusement of set of readers whose taste for
wit is not of the most delicate order.
FiliaI Feeling.
An interesting youth named Michael Hallohan,
aged about eighteen, has just been sentenced by
Judge Bedford to nine years and six months
Imprisonment, on q charge of attempting to
murder his father. The father bears the appear
ance of extreme age, and the testimony he gives
is that the youth attacked him with razor and
cut him dangerously about the neck and breast.
The provocation upon which the assault was
made was a rebuke administered by the father
for intoxication upon the part of the son. After
committing the attack, the promising boy de-
string probably to give artistic completeness to
the affair, called upon an undertaken and in
formed him that the sold man was dead, and
ordered coffin. This was doing the thing
handsomely, at any rate. In fact, young Mr..
Hallohan did the thing so very handsomely, and
exhibited such exultation in his handiwork,
that Judge Bedford saw no other resource than
that of committing him to the State Prison for
the next ten years, less six months.
Another instance of filial feeling of very
different kind is that exhibited by little girl
whose mother was sentenced in the Court of
General Sessions to imprisonment for one year
on being found guilty of extensive larcenes.
The husband is a very respectable resident of
this city; the child is pretty, intelligent, and
affectionate the family was united and happy
one, and not even the husband seems to have
had knowledge of his wfes surreptitious
cadlloes to light whereupon she voluntarily
confessed the whole of them to one of the Off
GERS, and was brought up on eight different in
dictments 1t requires nicer moral eye than
most of our courts possess to draw the line of
demarcation between robbery and kleptomania
The Haunted Heater.
A funny ghost story, which has not made its
way as yet into any of the New York news
papers, and which affects somewhat the char
acter of an uptown clearinghouse, has crept
to my ears. The house is four-story one, and
until very recently the third-story front room
was occupied by young married couple, who
would have been happy in the possession of a
six-months' old baby if they had not regarded
the baby as an incumbrance, and wanted to get
rid of it. The husband was clerk in store,
and probably did not get salary of more than
thirty dollars per week. Although married. he
had not given up his love of balls and arties,
theatres and clubs. The wife was a giddy
thing, fond of ringing many changes as pos
sible upon the rather small stock of dresses she
possessed. She also was fond of evening diver
sons, loved to shop, to gossip, to pay visits,
entertain her friends, and spend her husbands
money Between the two, poor baby had very
hard time. The father used to swear at it, and
the mother used to beat it, and the poor little
thing was very much abused and neglected.
After awhile as might be expected 1t gave up
the ghost and was buried by the hypocritical
parents who managed to screw out tear
apiece over the little coffin. Then
came the retrbution. After the fune
raj the weak-minded mother was sc
affected with nervous terrors that she declared
she could no longer sleep in the room where
baby had died. So she and her husband emi
grated to the fourth-story front room, the ONT
Immediately over the third story, the latter, il
the lack of any other boarders willing to occupy
it, being devoted to darkness and desolation
At length upon the midnight succeeding th'
day of the funeral, when the whole house wa
wrapped in profound repose, the unhappy couple
in the fourth-story front room heard sounds of
peculiar character proceeding apparently from
the unoccupied room below. With ears pricket
up and hair erect they listened Yes! sur
enough-those sounds were the plaintive wall
of a young infant; now small and remote as
smaller echo, now loud and painful, and occa
sionally rising into an agonized shrek which
seemed all the house must hear. With the col
perspiraton standing in beads upon them
they would have commenced countin
them had they been goo
Catholics-the guilty father and mother frs
sought to shut out the sounds by rolling then
selves together beneath the bed-clothes. In vair
The ghostly wailing of their dead and ill-use
child continued to be heard and at last, gettin
up in the desperation OF the moment, the fathe
plainly heard baby's shrill cry peallng plair
lively through the register. There was n
doubt about it; it came from the room below
Beside the register there it had been the custoI