The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-21
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In an action against an editor for libel an
Illinois jury has awarded the plaintiff three
quarters of cent.
The oldest house n Richmond, Va once
the headquarters of Washington, was struck by
lightning on Friday evening.
Somebody suggests that the descendants
of the signers of Declaration of Independence
should meet on the Fourth of July, 1916.
"A Boston Sunday School teacher ca lady, OF
course), has not been absent from her class a
single Sunday during the past forty-six years.
"A high-minded Connecticut man took no.
BILE way to vent his malice against clergyman.
Fe went into his garden and pulled up all his
vegetables.
There is a tide in the affairs of men which
taken at its flood leads on to fortune. Massa-
chusetts man, who has for some months sold
patent medicine, has just in the nick of time
turned undertaken.
The Cincinnati Gazette reports that
unless the Observatory In that city is speedily
supplied with funds it must be abandoned,
and the glass, one of the best in the country,
sold.
The New Orleans Times asserts that some
sad news received recently dropped like
great stone into the well of a worlds heart,
and splashed the water into its eyes,.
Nearly fifty guests at the principal hotel
in Los Angeles, CAL, were poisoned recently,
and three employees in the hotel have been
arrested on suspicion. The guests were all
very sick. but fortunately no deaths occurred.
"A Boston woman refused to permit her
husband to go on a fishing excursion, 'be-
cause he was very apt to be drowned when he
went upon the water, and, moreover, did not
know how to swim any more than goose"
"A movement in Boston, in 1890, to erect a
monument to the dead soldiers of the Revolu-
tion, was opposed by their surviving comrades,
who contended that they should blot out as
nearly as possible all the unpleasantness of the
war.
MIR. Joshua w. Ballou, an aged citizen of
Sullivan, Ohio, while standing at the bedside of
his sick wife few days ago, fell suddenly to the
floor and died. His wife, hearing him fall,
raised herself up, though very weak, and seeing
him lying dead, sank back and within an hour
died.
The Baltimore American suggests to the
colored people of Maryland that, instead of
sending complaints to Congress that they are
not permitted equal rights with the whites on
railroads and steamboats,, they wait the remedy
which time and the necessities of travel and
business will inevitably bring.
The Indianapolis Journal compliments the
colored people who have removed to that State
on the perseverance and success with which
they have applied themselves to learning, but
tells them that they manifest a want of thrift
and economy and too great tendency to extra
vagance.
"A wedding in Bridgeport, Conn, was inter-
rupted for moment the other day by an appa-
rently sane gentleman who stepped up to the
bridegroom at the altar, tapped him on the
shoulder and said in an audible Whisper
"Before this little affair goes any further, |
would like to know one thing-who will build
the fires z"
The Chicago Times remarks that to recall
the frequent injustice of the worlds verdict, we
have only to remember the severity with which
Mr.. Dickens was treated Gin Chicago y because
of alleged heartlessness towards lady living in
that city, and the subsequent development which
revealed his freedom from any blame or respon-
sibility in the matter.
Senator Revels has brother living in Nash
vile, Tenn, who was educated by the American
Colonization Society as physician, the inten-
ton being that he should, go to Liberia The
war broke out, and he did not leave the United
States, but, with commendable spirit, he went
to X and paid back every cent that had been
expo ned by the society on his education.
-kenator Brownlow has published a card in
Tennessee explaining his action in relation to
the School Fund of the State, and saying that
although those who seek to make political capi-
tai by connecting his name with it may call
witnesses to the stand from now till doomsday,
they will, If they stick to the truth in nowise
connect him with the improper use of a single
dollar.
"A Michigan man, who some time since
separated from his wife after several years of
married life, recently advertised under an
assumed name for wife, and as it happened the
woman answered the advertisement Letters
passed, and finally they met, with mutual sur
prise. But all ended happily, as they resolved
10 forget the past, and to try again. determined
TO be happy together.
A Terre Haute paper states that a small
boy in that neighborhood, who had seen q
seight-o hand performer pass a crooked wire
through his cheek undertook to initiate him
with piece of telegraph wire. He succeeded
in getting the wire fast in his nose, and was
compelled to apply to surgeon to aid in re-
moving it. The wire was extracted with some
difficulty and the young man returned home
resolved 20 retire from the show business.
The Indianapolis Journal publishes card,
which 1t says is the announcement of Hon.
James Hughes of Monroe county and Wash
ington city, once Democrat, lately Republi-
can, and now in state of "betweenity, wait
ing for third party to float along within his
reach, that he will be an independent candidate
for Congress in the Sixth district of Indiana
wanting no nomination, expecting no election,
and disclaiming all party support.
The Detroit Tribune gives long statement
OF the railroads now in process of construction
in Michigan, and shows that very few of them
can be built unless some plan is devised to over
come the the present effect of the decision of
the Supreme Court of the State respecting mu-
nicipal aid. Persons interested in the roads con-
tend that the progress of the State has been
seriously interrupted, and that it will be set
back twenty years If these enterprises are de-
feated.
The Baltimore American gives an account
of some magnificent charities contemplated by
John Hopkins, an esteemed citizen of Baltimore
A university, a hospital free to ali without
respect to race or color, and an asylum for
colored orphan children are the institutions that
he intends to make the objects of his benevo-
lence. The amount which Mr.. Hopkins intends
to expend in the building and endowment of
these institutions will be several millions of dol
lars.
The Chicago Post, alluding to the manner
in which the late proclamation by Governor
Holden, OF North Carolina, is treated by the
Democratic press, expresses the hell af that