The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-07

The deaths at Mobile, from yellow fever,
during the months of August. September and
October, of this year, were 160. as compared
with 634 for the same period of 1889.
&C. ID. Catch, the physician who was one of
the witnesses to the assassination of President
Lincoln, and the first to examine the wound and
declare it mortal, died last week at Milford,
CleImont county, Ohio.
A few days since, at Toledo, Ohio a man
named Gilbert, who had abused his wife in a
shameful manner, was so affected by the report
that she had commenced a suit for divorce that
be became quite insane, started out of his house,
and has not since been heard of.
-Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., who makes the splendid
stories for the New York Ledger, in which the
hero always wears lovely hat with big plume
in it, and the heroine has a wicked mother
participates in the local politics OF HYDE Park,
Mass.
"A complete historical record Of the civil
war, compiled from Southern newspapers, and
extending from December, 1860, to December
25, 1868, has been offered for sale by the owner
to the Charleston Library Society 1t is COM
prised in thirty-seven volumes, each Of which
is furnished with an index.
An Irish police officer in the West, who
was recently found enjoying his pipe over a
smoking bowl of whisky-punch gave as an ex-
cuse to his superior officer that he had been
pursued by ghost, and would have died in a
cold Precipitation but for the heating influence
of the whisky.
"A sailor named Joseph Tibble, who was in
o small boat on Lake Huron at the time of the
late earthquake, states that the waters seemed
to boil, that small Jumps of mud were thrown
into the air, and that thousands of fish came to
the surface and jumped about rs If being pur-
sued.
"A boy about fifteen years of age, son of a
man named McDermott at Auburn Mass, was
eight feet from tip to tip, and would have been
killed but for the timely aid of an uncle: who
was obliged to beat the fierce creature to death
in self-defense.
-LIndependent, paper published at Quebec,
says il is reasonable TO suppose from the inya-
sion of France by the Prussians that Canada
may be at any time oyerrun by American sol
diers, if the present opportunity be not fully
availed of to put the country in a complete
state of defense by the erection of Notifications
at all the principal points along the border line
The career of the Cincinnati Base Ball CLUB,
better known as the "Red Stockings" was com
menced in 1869. During that season the picked
nine met the best clubs of the East and West,
and out of seventy contests were not once de-
feated. Their recest run of il-luck has been
attributed to the demOralizing influence of poll
tics, but next season they are determined tC
sink all differences of opinion, and make a last
effort to regain their lost laurels.
The debut of Mrs. Joseph Ames as lee
tuTer, at Boston, the other night, from the ma
ture of her subject women who Work VS.
Women who Talk" drew together a large and
fashionable audience. IL was generally expected
that she would take sides with those OF her seN
who are against an extension OF the franchise Il
women, and there was, consequently a goo(
deal of surprise manifested when she came on
boldly as an advocate of female suffrage. Sht
is represented as handsome, self-possessed, anC
'auite at home with her audience
Some citizens of Tennessee recently gaN'
practical evidence of their determination not Il
be swindled by railroad gamblers. Twenty 0
these individuals, who had been detrauding tn
white and black employees of the Nashville an,
Chattanooga Railroad were suddenly pouncet
upon at one OF the stations on the line, au'
lashed with horsewhips until they called alou,
for mercy and promised speedy reformation
of tho,, Hohits. 1t seems to lie that little 0
this kind OF justice miss' not be out OF piac
nearer home.
The Governors of Minnesota, Iowa, Ne
braska,, Missouri, Kansas, Michigan, and Wis
eOnsin have united in a request 10 the E&ecu
tive of each State in the Union to appoint fou
delegates to a convention, to be held al Ind
annapolis on the esd of November for the pur
pose of considering the best means of protect
ing immigrants from fraud, and furnishing theI
with cheap, comfortable, and speedy transport
alton in transit. Boards of Trade and organize
immigration societies are invited to appoin