The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-25
Enciden1alS.

Halifax is unhappy because it has no Quar-
antine hospital.
-Sypher is not to figure in Congress. All his
plans have come to naught.
Massachusetts complains that its legislators
are liable to home-sckness, and that the attack
Ca sort of relapsing fever) carries them off.
Mr.. Thurlow Weeds account of stage-coach
travelling forty-siX years ago. published in the
GALAXY is having great run through the papers.
"A great many companies have been mus
tered at Quebec to repel the Fenians, but they
average only thirteen men each, exclusive of
officers.
"A Cincinnati hotel-keeper dresses all his
walters in full naval uniform, probably to re-
mind them that they must be constantly on the
watch for boai ders.
OF the 140 members of the Mississippi Legis-
lature, ninety-seven are natives of the Soothern
States, eight are natives ct New York, and ten
of New England.
An ex-soldier in Sacramento has been
charged 800 in gold by San Francisco claim
agent for collecting back pay due him amount
ing to 800 in currency.
During the eight months ending March l.
1870, the New Dominion received IS, 633 O6S
from customs and 81, 1873, 571 from excise duties
Its expenses were 50, l26, 461.
The Massachusetts House of Representa-
tlves voted two to one against woman suffrage
The women themselves, we are told, took no
interest in the movement started in their behalf.
"A candidate for alderman in Newport, r.
I, announced that if he was elected beefsteall
should be seventeen cents pound and wages
81 day. His wages and his beefsteak?
One member of the Mississippi Legislature
says that he is an Old-line Whig, another that
he is Henry Clay Wing, third that he is an
old Rad, while a fourth prociaims that he goes
in for my country and her people"
The Ohio Legislature at its late session,
passed only seventy-two general acts and the
! Columbus State Journal says that there was
! less buncombe legislation and less of the mis-
! chievous special tinkering business than at any
other session within the memory of the Oldest
! inbabitant.
! The San Francisco Society of California
Pioneers has been presented with the first bar of
| tin made from native ore in the United States,
! and regards it as the most appropriate and
/ unique addition which could be made to It's
cabinet of specimens of the mineral wealth of
! Pacific Coast.
Surviving officers OF the staff of Stonewall
jackson have published an appeal for funds 10
! place monument over his remains, and say
that such memorial of love and respect, more
than all others, meets with the cordial approba-
! tion of Mrs. jackson.
The Census Marshals in Wisconsin are
mostly one-armed or one-legged soldiers, and a
! Wisconsin soldier who lost an arm during the
war and 'knows how to sympathize with them,
has sent an artificial arm to be presented to one
Of the onearmed appointees in Dodge ce''0tv.
The widow of Sir John Franklin arrived in
| San Francisco by steamer on the 18th inst,
having gone thther for the purpose of satisfy
ing herself as to the authenticity or correctness
of the reports published several months since
relative to the discovery on the southern coast
of certain documents, which seemed to promise
another clue to her husbands fate.
On Thursday woman servant fell through
the elevator, distance of five stories, in the
Lacede Hotel, St. Louis, and was fatally in
iured. On Monday boy fell from the fifth
story of building in Cincinnati, and was killed
On Tuesday morning lodger in the Van Rensse-
laer House, in Albany fell from tfth-story
window and was killed.
The Portland Argus says that Mr.. John A.
Poor of that city strongly resembles the late
General Thomas in personal Appearance and
that at one time when in Washington he was
invited to examine new portrait of General
Thomas, and several gentlemen present, after
ipp it Hwitb tbe oEipinal MS tbey @ snnposed
declared it capital likeness. One gentleman
expressed his qualification at the correctness o
the likeness, having never before, MS he said
enjoyed the pleasure Of seeing Genera
Thomas in person "