The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-13

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pound lump of pure gold taken from the mines
near Shasta. Its value is about $780, and it is
said to be entirely free from quartz or other
impurities.
An eagle was lately shot near Auburn, NY,
which measured twelve feet from tip to tip of
his outspread wings. When discovered he was
perched on fence intently watching small
boy picking strawberries.
"A hog got 'beastly drunk" in Covugton,
KY, last Sunday, by eating brandy peaches, and
after staggering about the streets and disgracing
himself for some hours, he fell under the wheels
of street car and was killed.
The New Orleans Times suggests, apropos
of the repeal of the income tax urgently de-
manded by certain Northern papers, that few
taxes should first be removed from those who
are not in the enjoyment of incomes.
General Il. E. Lee is sojourning with the
family of Samuel H.!Tagart in Baltimore, in the
hope of recuperatiDg from the somewhat eX-
hausting laboTs of his present sedentarypursuits.
He is under the medical treatment of DR..
Thomas Buckler.
-Firecrackers are going out of date, notwith-
standing the apparent magnitude of the nui-
sance. The Boston market has in some years
disposed of 60,000 boxes, but this year 10000
were sufficient and even these were brought
over from last year.
There is a rumor in well-nformed circles
that the panier is coming Off not in the man
ner in which it has been seen to come off in
every burlesque and pantomimc since the inven-
tion of that article of dress, but finally and de-
cidedly and forever.
An irreverent lawyer having insulted Judge
Pitzer, of the California bench, his honor de-
scended, seized q cane and administered to the
attorney a severe hogging. The Judge resumed
his seat and bade the whipped pleader to pro-
ceed with his remarks.
The census-takers in different parts of the
country are collecting some very curious infor-
nation. They find that the highest age attained
by unmarried women is twenty-siX years. 1t is
well to have the point at which they cease
growing older definitely fixed.
The District of Columbia was left free from
the presence of regular troops for the first time
since the early part of 1861, by the departure of
Dupont's light battery d, of the 9Th Artillery,
on Saturday last, for Newport, Rhode Island,
where it is to go into barracks.
They have some high-toned females in the
land of steady habits. Mrs. Connell, in
her house lately and forced her to drink liquor
until she was drunk. On reaching home the
poor child fell down stairs and broke her arm.
The city marshal of Augusta, Maine, was
victimized by q practical joke the other day.
Some one informed him that man was ped
ding flicker from wagon, contrary to the
Maine law. When he went to seize the con-
traband establishment he found the man selling
whips
Another batch of Chinese has arrived at
New Orleans via the Pacific Railroad, to work
on plantations. The New Orleans papers think
the Chinese element in the South will become
very large ere long, and that the Ceestials will,
in great measure, take the place of the ne
groes.
1t is said that General R. E. Lee has refused,
on behalf of Mrs Lee, to accept the annuity of
$4,000 which the trustees of Washington College
proposed to settle on her. The board, however,
has delicately intimated that it intended to have
its own way i'll the matter and endow the es-
teemed lady, any how.
They had an instance of the peril of triiing
with explosive materials way down in Province
town on the Fourth of July. An old hen
attacked torpedo, and by persistent pecking
caused it to explode and blow her own head off
Not very serious beginning in Fourth of july
casualties for Cape Cod.
ic soil hat cd bic b,,,
greatly surprised by the ceerity of railroad
travel, and made gestures denotlng the drawing
OF an arrow from bow, and indicated the flight
of eagles with their arms, to show the COMPARE
sons the speed of the railroad suggested to their
picturesque imaginations.
Trains have just begun to run over the new
bridge at Hoosic Tunnel, and passengers from
Boston can now reach Saratoga in a single day.
Four stages have been put on the line over the
mountain, and a new hotel, called the Tunnel
House, was opened on the Fourth. Some pro-
gress may be hoped for at Hoosic yet.
"A lady at a fair in Springfield, Ohio, the
other day saw what she took to be a very nice
piece of candy, and quietly put it in her mouth.
1t proved to be a miniature bombshell and ex
ploded, lacerating her mouth and shattering
her teeth in an exceedingly unpleasant manner.
Attempting to eat bombshells is dangerous
business.
The women of Connecticut had another
feld-day on Tuesday, before the Legislative
Committee, when Miss Brown and Mrs. Hanna
ford asserted that when women have the ballot
tney VIII enforce tne prOnlDltOry liquor law.
Mr. Pratt asked how they would accomplish
this, and was answered that husbands votes
might possibly be coerced.
The London theatre-goers have experienced
new sensation, which exceeds in realism and
freshness the most brilliant imaginings of Bouci-
cault. 1t seems thata Miss Elvira H., at per-
formance at the Drury Lane Theatre, was seen
to totter and fall. The curtain was lowered
then PRESENT. il rang up and it was announced
TO the audience that mother and child were
doing WELL all of which was received with frantic
| applause.
The Methodist Episcopal Church, in Cincin-
natl, is in ferment. Mrs. Eliza Van Cott
preacher by Quarterly Conference in Troy.
More than bakers dozen of the ministers of
that denomination held meeting in Cincn-
natl, on the Goth instant, and resolved against
the Rev. Mrs. Eliza as not in harmony with the
Scripture, nor to be allowed a prudential
1 measure.
"A company of Mexicans are organizing an
association at Los Angeles, CAL, for the purpose
| of establishing colonies North and South of the
city of Acapulco, in the State of Guerrero, in
Mexico. The Mexican Government guarantee
protection to such settlers, and exemption from
taxation and duties on imports of mining and
agricultural implements for five years. The
| tides to the lands are good.
The Tennessee House of Representatives
has rejected the Senate bill directing the After
ney-General to bring suit in the Chancery Court
of Nashville against the president, directors, and
stockholders of the Tennessee and Pacific Rail-
road Company, sor the recovery OF the State
bonds, alleged to have been fraudulently OBJ
tanned from the State authorities, and holding
all of the aforesaid parties individually liable.
John Langdon Libbey, the erudite librarian
of Harvard College, proposes to publish a
volume of biographical sketches of the first 250
graduates of that institution. He has been en-
int tba lab Of