The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-23
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From Our OlOn Correspondent
NEW YORK, April %, 1870.

Ned Buntline,
better known, perhaps, to those who attend
temperance lectures as Colonel K. Y. @. Judson,
is in the city, having just returned from Cali
fornia. He advises every one who wants to go
TO heaven and who can't get there, to repair to
San Francisco instead. He thinks that comes
nearer to Paradise than any other locality on
the habitable globe. He is not looking quite as
rosy as the mountain atmosphere and scenery
which he describes would seem calculated to
make one, but it must be remembered that he
went thither to lecture, not merely to sniff in
health and strength, and that he has been lee
turing there for one hundred and thirty nights.
There is an amusing contrast between the titles
of Ned Buntline's books and the manners of the
man. The former are wild and bloody in the
extreme, a cross between those of Reynolds and
George Lppard
Selling Out.
A rumor floats by me that Messrs. Caldwell SS
Whitney, proprietors of the Sunday Mercury of
this city, intend to sell out, and negotiating
with that view. This is one of the many news
paper changes that are brewing. If 1 wished to
invest money in journalism, | think l should
choose the New York Sunday Mercury-in pre-
ference even to Mr.. Neesers brilliant specimen
of hebdomadal literature. Its moral tone is so
elevated and pure, its advertisements so unob-
jectionable, the personal characters Of its pro-
prietors so utterly beyond reproach, and the
principle upon which its editorials are written
80 gentlemanly and conscientious. 1t is sad to
see such publication changing hands, and
thereby imperilling its hold on the community.
The spanish Ballet,
which is to appear at the Grand Opera House,
has arrived and been inspected by Mr. Fisk
who would make an excellent auctioneer in O
Circassian slave market. The troupe numbers
over fifty, but it is in an extremely de-
moralized condition from the effects of the sea
voyage. / never yet knew foreign artist who
pronounced him or herself ft for anything
within two or three days after fortnight's
voyage. Last night such of the members as
were not totally incapacitated were distributed
among the boxes and lobbies of the theatre,
catching the spirit of an American audience,
and accustoming themselves to the strange as
semblage they were soon to face. There are
nine principal GdnSeuseS and half hundred
Coryphees Owing to that sea-voyage fatigue
Just referred to, none of them will appear until
the middle of the next week.
Miss Virginia Townsend
is better known in Philadelphia as a magazinist
than she is in New York. observe, however,
that she has added her name to the list of lee
turesses who make New York and Brooklyn
their starting-points, and then commence pro-
vincial career. Her subject is rather heavy
particularly for the approaching warm weather.
being nothing less profound than "Catharine de
Medici and her Times" Her debut occurs this
evening at the Brooklyn Atheneum.
Baron Won Bulow's Wives.
A scandalous rumor ripples across from Eliza
beth City, where Baron Won Bulow is confined
to the effect that he has wives scattered promis-
cuously over the Union. The latest one that
looms up dates from Mississippi, where it is
intimated, he pursued a course similar to the
one that has brought him to grief at Elizabeth.
Rampant MIR. RushtOn.
At the southwest corner of Barclay street and
Broadway is an apothecary store known as
Rushton's. Its proprietor is Mr.. Frederick
Rushton, who has occupied it all his life, and
whose papa occupied it before him. The thirty
three years. lease expires on the first of May,
and what was Mr. Rushton's amazement to learn
that the property had been leased, after that
date, to DR.. Swan, worthy young physician
occupying rooms in the Astor House. Mr. Rush
TONS amazement deepened into rage, and soon
he became rampant. He had some canvas
painted, and upon it printed the dimensions of
his present store and the exorbitant rent he was
paying for it, compared with the much lower
rsnt he would have to pay in the new
locality he had chosen. He also printed
the announcement that in consequence of this
reduction in rent he hoped to be able to sell
his goods 1orty per cent. cheaper Than he
had been in the habit of selling them. This
canvas he fastened conspicuousy above his
store windows, in proximity to those of the
hotel, whereupon one of the porters stuck a
knife into one of the placards, was arrested
therefor by the furious pharmaceutist and
lodged in Chambers Street Police Station. Mr..
Rushton then proceeded to placard all the gra-
mite walls in his vicinity with brown paper pro-
nunciamentos acquainting the public with the
secret history of the affair, and to tear down
the ceiling of his store and pull up the pave
ments In this riotous course, however, he was
stopped by an agent of Mr.. Astor's, who
threatened to sue him for damages. The moral
of the thing is that Rushton is 10th to leave an
old spot endeared to him by the recollections
of a public which paid high price for its pur-
chases.
Miss Thompson In n New Part.
Lydia is to appear very soon in melodrama
called Mosquito, which is said TO have been
written foC her by Alexander Dumas pere. Miss
Thompson's name is so associated with break,
downs, jigs, tights, and hair tonic all of which
go towards producing a successful burlesque
that it is doubtful where she can ever escape
into loftier and purer atmosphere
A Horrible Tale.
Here is pleasant father for you, Mr. Theo
dore A. Snyder, from whom his wife applies fol-
decree OF divorce, on the ground that he was
in the habit not only of getting drunk himself
but of making his family drunk, from the boy
who had recently been put in pants to the infant
in the cradle-an interesting instance of family
inebriatiOn, which il seems he was in the hab