The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-23
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eron ow o,sn Correspondent
New YoRK. March %, 1870
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A somewhat remarkable sale has taken place
here within the past day or two 1t is that of
the Rice Library, one of the most interesting in |
the country. The auctioneer was the aged |
bibliopole, Mr.. John Sabin, who exerted his |
talents with great effect up to the hour of mid
night. Many of the volumes were bound in an |
exceedingly rich and beautiful manner. Among |
these which brought the highest prices were the |
"Fables Of lEsop," which brought twenty dol |
lars; 'IalSe Superior" twenty dollars; ETHAN
Aliens Account of His Capture" nearly three
hundred dollars; n Sermon before the Court of
Election at Boston in the year 1879, twenty
eight dollars the Proceedings of the Board
which tried Major Andre, sixty-seven dollars;
Andres Cow Chace, two hundred and slxty-fve
dollars. The binding of some of these volumes,
which saw and examined privately before they
were put up for auction, was very beautiful, and
caused the bevy of onnOisSe1rs around to go
into raptures over 1t.
Ten Thousand Dollars, Worth of Broken
Some time ago Miss Marietta Dickerson be-
came acquainted, at Centreport, L. L., with an
interesting widower, who had three points to
recommend him-he was positively young,
comparatively good-looking, and superatvely
blessed with three lovely children. Miss
Dickerson says that he made love to her. He
says he didn't. She says that then he became in
different to her. He says he didn't. She says that
finally he concluded to dispense with her SER
vices, and recommended her to bury the past 10
oblivion. He says he didn't, didn't didn't, didn't,
didn't. In fact he denies everything an toto.
The trial is to be resumed and probably on
cluded to-day. She lays her damages at $40, 900.
Senator NOrtou's Decrepit Old Woman.
The stroller along Broadway at any hour in
the afternoon, between and 6, must OCCASION
ally have noticed an exceedingly decrepit old
woman taking the sun there along with the guy
promenaders, between Fourth and Eighth
streets. Indeed, there Is nothing else for her to
take except she made an assault upon the
flower-stands, where little bouquets of violets
are already being sold. The back of this old
woman was almost at right angles to her legs and
the palsy rippled over her like q wave. But
Broadway promenaders are not a charitable set,
and beggars may walk from one end of that
theroughfare to another without getting enough
for substantial meal. Fortunately, however,
the right-angled valetudinarian was espied by
Senator Norton, who at that moment happened
to be summing himself in the vicinity of the New
York Hotel Whether good dinner had any
thing to do with it, or whether it was mere
lunch of ale and oysters that thus beautifully
exhaled themselves in the form of charity /
cannot pretend to determine; but certain it is
that, pitying the forlorn condition of the old
woman, he contributed a greenback from his
own pocket and mulcted his companions in an
equal amount. The consequence was that the
scaene-angled septuagenarian - for all her
angles were unequal by this time-was sent upon
her way rejoicing and with more money in her
pocket than she will probably ever make in one
day again.
Word for Journalists.
Permit me to depart for little from the
utter a word or two of protest against the habit
which clergymen and people generally who
know little or nothing of the subject practise
with respect to journalists and journalism. 1t
seems to be the prevalent idea of parties outside
of journalism that every within 1t Is de-
voted to dissipation and destruction. Even Mr..
Beecher, in his speech yesterday over the body
of the late George Wakeman, made some re-
marks which told very severely against news
paper people generally. The fact Is, that news
paper men can no more afford to be dissipated
than the members of any other professions can
The very nature of their business precludes
their being unpunctual. Take reporters,
for instance, the class who are usually
most vituperated, and who, more than
any other classes of newspaper writer's
are most exposed to the temptations of drink
and its kindred allurements. The reporter of q
big morning newspaper leads very industrious
and punctual life. In New York, and presume
in Philadelphia and all large cities, he is kept at
work from the noon of day until past the noon
of night, and if he happens TO be engaged upon
an afternoon paper as we'll his hours of toll are
still further prolonged. If he would meet with
but moderate degree of success in his business,
he has no time for drink. The nature of his
employments is such as to necessitate clear
head and the command of all his faculties To
be sure, favoritism and the possession of un-
usual talents will for time retain his place
to anewspaper man who is habitually dssipated;
but these are the exceptional cases, from which
no one has right to argue as though they
formed the rule.
MIR. ERtOn's Condition.
Some weeks ago Mr.. Dorman B. Eaton was
attacked in the street by some ruffian who, using
some instrument in his onslaught, dealt him
murderous blow in the back of the neck and
middle of the spine. He was conveyed home,
attended by his physicians, and up to this mo-
ment has been unable to zee visitors, to sit up,
or even to be read to, and has suffered agonies
beyond the experience or even conception of
ordinary sufferers. Taking advantage of this
fact, the Sun, for some enmity, the cause of
which is best known to itself, attacked this in-
offensive man, made 1t out that his sufferings
were the Just result of drunken debauch, and
through the medium of Mr.. Danas pen dealt
him blows harder to forgive than those of the
would-be assassin. The fact is that Mr.. Eaton
is as unacquainted with debauches as Mr. Dana