The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-24
GENERALITIES.
Condemnation ExtraOrdinary-SS0,OO 900 Dam.


A Jury of condemnation was in session for a
day or two for the purpose of assessing damages
for cutting through the 'Shriver Island" They
completed their work and laid the damages at
1000. The case, as we understand it, stands
as follows:-The Cumberland Coal and Iron
Company entered into contract with the Canal
Company, by which the latter was to make two
channels from the basin to canal for the ingress
and egress of boats, and the present channel to
be closed. In order to furnish the channels
aforesaid the island must be ditched-a few
hundred feet. Said island is the property of
Messrs. McKaig & Walsh. The Canal Company
secures jury and said jury Try conclude 0n to give
two bitches through their property, although
only $4,000 was asked. That is our under
standing of the case, but the whole island would
not bring half that amount If thrown into mar
ket. There were seventeen persons on the jury.
Five of them refused to agree to any such
damages, but were willing to give reasonable
amount Cumberland Civilian.
Olive Logan and the Young Christians.
Miss Olive Logan is a lady whose business it
is to deliver lectures She engaged 1t appears,
to lecture for the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation at Iowa City on the 18th inst. But these
Young Christians, apparently not comprehend
ing in their fervent piety the nature OF con-
tract and for reasons which, whatever their
nature, can be good for nothing, sent to Miss
Olive message that they had changed their
mind, and didn't want the Logan lecture. Olive
is peaceful name, but on this occasion Olive
to the association exceedingly plain in its terms
II was as follows:-'Y. NJ. G. Al shall lecture
in your city on the 10th inst. Make your arrange
ments accordingly. I shall positively hold you
to your contract. Olive Logan" Upon this
the Council Bluff Times sagaciously observes:
''This looks to us as if the young lady was after
stamps" What shrewd Council Buffer. After
stamps! Why, of course she is after stamps.
Does the BluffiC Councillor think that Miss Logan
travels hundreds of miles, and pays away her
money for railway fares, just to lecture for the
fun of the thing? After stamps!
Another So. Lsuis DefalcatIon.
A st. Louis paper announces the prevalence
| there in official quarters of soul-harrowing
suspicion as to the integrity of the high public
| functionary known as the City Dog-Killer.
| There have been shocking Irregularities in the
| dog-killing department of the st. Louis munich
! pal government, which following SO closely
upon the defalcation of susisky, the City Trea-
surer, are enough to destroy forever all human
confidence in the powers that be out there. The
| night watchman at the pound testifes to the
most startling discrepancies between the mum.
bers reported and the dogs actually killed. and
still further, that the hero kills his dogs several
times over, stunning them one day and 'chalk'
ing it down." and repeating the process the
next day and SO long as $ the dogs last under tha
tical progression is not in favor at the Mayor
Office and the Council Chamber OF st. Louis
That city minds its multiplication table care
fully since the late Developments m In the munici
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likely to get his little bill audited and settled.
Defamation Of the Spanish Army
OF the 40, 600 recruits sent here last fall iron
Spain, not 15 0Oe can now be mustered for duty
Sickness, death, and the chances OF the fiel
have taken the rest. Volunteering is abso
lutely at an eHd, and the process of drafting ha
been tried, with what results has been seer
Thus 1t is certain the army can be no furthe
replenished from the resident population. Th
last troops sent from the old country wer
recruited with the utmost difficulty, and only upo
the most outrageous by false representation
They were told they were to come here to pu
down a seryile insurrection, and many of iheI
have told me they would have come under n
other inducement. The treatment they hay
received from the island volunteers has who'll
alienated them, and they are not now to b
: trusted. They write home, such of them as ca
write, cautioning their friends not 70 be led int
the same trap In addition TO this, have talke
with the officers of the Spanish mail steamer
who assure me that it would be utterly imposs
bic to recruit ap9!hsr erpy in Spain t9r u