The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-07
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From Our Ol0n Correaponden.


whose disadvantage seems to be his supreme
suitabeness for small tea-party, is probably
the subject of as many malicious newspaper
paragraphs as any mayor that this city ever had.
But the worst thing his enemies have been able
to cay against him is that he attaches his mono
gram--and very whimsical monogram it is-to
official documents, and in his political speeches
makes references to actresses which would better
become the lips of theatrical critic. And why
should those who envy him be fond 20 recaulng
the time when he wore shabby coat and was
glad to write fugitive articles at five dollars per
week If that time not very long ago,
more credit to him. and is it not better to have
for once for mayor a literary man with literary
mans weaknesses, than an uubroken succession
of political bummers whose only merits consist
in taking strong pull at the wires and long
pull at the whisky
RIousehoIo Music.
There is family in Fourteenth street which
has been much annoyed by music, but within
the last day or two the bane has turned to
blessing. member of the family bought
couple of canaries which plped unto each other
sweetly. When their twitterings were over the
family was surprised to hear something like
faint echo of the entire performance rising and
falling in small swells from some unknown
quarter. 1t was like canary-bird music poured
in at the large end of funnel and coming
out at the small, or like a song that had been
roared out by giant taken up and diminu-
lively initiated by q mannikin. For some
minutes the assembled family listened in silent
amazement, until one of the children exclaimed,
''Why, If that amt the mice" True enough
the mice it was, and since then mouse-muslc
has become an institution with the family, and
the birds and the rodents vie with each other.
The sound of mouse-music is something like
hot hv
wet rim 0 "a goblet.
MR. Beecher in Court.
Mr.. Beecher recent complimentary and
recommendatory lettc 10 the truss-man, repub-
lished in the Sunday Mercory, has necessitated
Mr.. Beecher's appearance in court, together
with the high-toned proprietors of that copsci-
entious and independent Sabbath paper. Owing
to the absence of Justice Shandley in Albany,
however, the case was postponed until next
Tuesday week.
''SomethinR for Himself"
1t is not often that marriage ceremony is
performed by Judge Cardozo in the new Court
House or anywhere else. One was performed
there, however, yesterday afternoon, the victims
being handsome German nearer thirty than
twenty and an equally handsome Germaness
few years younger. Judge CardoZo summoned
to his countenance Voluptuous beam for the
occasion, and bless-yo be-happied the couple
with as much unction and self-possessien as
though it was an everyday occurrence with
him. After the ceremony was over the BRIDE
groom, with face shining with an uxorious
grin, asked the clerk what the fee was, to
which that self-sacrifcing functionary replied,
''Nothing."
sob, very well Then nj give you something
for yourself" said the happy man, delicately
laying upon the desk greenback, the denomina-
Of xuhi ich yyaa Inv hn oil Of
official documents that bubbled around and
closed over it..
The clerk bushed with joy. 1t was not often
that ten-do.lar perquisite came his way. AS
soon as the crowd was gone his hand strayed
among the documents and fshed up the note.
1t would buy box at the theatre, it would pur-
chase champagne supper, it would go towards
seal ring. Thoughts like these flashed through
him as his fingers crushed the crisp pa.er, but
they were rather quickly dspelled, as it proved
to be one-dollar note
Morphined to Death.
A singular case of collusion between doctor
and druggist has come to light. A day or two
ago q fireman named O'Heil, suffering from the
effects of strong drink called on Dr. Bronson
for q prescription. The doctor gave him one
which was so written that it could be prepared
only by the druggist to whom the doctor di-
rected ONeil to apply. In other words the
prescription, and others which O'Neil subse-
auently got of DIR. Bronson, were expressed in
hieroglyphics decipherabe only by the doctor
the druggist, and one or two of the druggists
clerks. After taking several of these doses the
patient got worse another physician, DR.. Froth-
ingham, was called in, and he pronounced
O'Neil dying and gave no hope of being able to
do anything for him, in consequence of possess
ing no clue to the ingredients of the doses the
patient had swallowed Upon application to
the drug store the apothecary absolutely refused
to deliver up DR.. Bronson's prescriptions or to
give any information in regard to them. ONeil
died, and the coroner's jury sat, and it has been
discovered that Bronsons prescriptions contained
undue proportion of morphine, quite beyond
the quantity usually administered in similar
cases. Plainly O'Neil, who was not so bad that
his life might not have been saved was NOR
pinned to DEATH and DIR. Bronson has been
"censured!"
Feminine CRlebs.
Once upon time Cglebs was in search of a
wife. Yesterday, in Jersey City ferry-boat, a
feminine Celebs was in search of a husband,
and no one has yet succeeded in persuading her
that she did not find him. Upon getting upon
the boat she observed desirable young man,
upon whose chin the tender whiskers had Just
begun to sprout, and she determined that he
should be her husband. Unfortunately, the
female Celebs was notvery prepossessing, being
lOp-sidsd as to feature and protuberant as to heI
upper teeth. less confident woman would