The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-12-06

A Taunton Mass, bee-keeper seems to have
had rather ''sweet thing of it," During the
past year he raised and sent to market u ton
weight of honey.
The novelty of woman of forty-fye run
ming away with youth of nineteen was re-
Gently witnessed by the loungers about the rail-
road depot at Detroit. Mich.
Richard Shello, of Logansport, Ind, having
failed in an effort TO induce barber to cut his
throat with a razor retired in disgust from the
shop of the latter, and swallowed enough arse
mic to kill dozen men.
Captain Norman Hurd, one of the last of
the veterans who linked their fate to the Re-
public of Texas, died recently at Galveston. He
was born at Middle Haddam, Conn, on the 3lst
of March, 1885.
The Troy Press asks what has become
Of the Ellsworth Monument Fund? "The SHOWS
of ten winters adds that journal, 'have fallen
on his grave, and yet the life service of loyalty
has not crystallized into a monument to mark
the spot"
"A Port Huron, Mich. dealer has just re-
turned from Liverpool, where he made con-
tract deliver 10 600 barrels of apples at SIS per
barrel. He realized net profit on the transac-
tion of 81 rs per barrel.
Colonel Henry c. Wilcox, of Fall River,
died suddenly at the Massachusetts General
Hospital a few days ago. The deceased COM
manded colored regiment at New Orleans at
the time General Butler was relieved by General
Banks.
Two hundred and fifty-six feet of pier, up
to the water-line, have already been constructed
at Chicago with the $50, 600 appropriation made
during the last session of Congress. The whole
work of building a harbor refuge, tits estimated,
will cost $249, S75'52
Mrs. Flynt, the plaintiff ia the celebrated
Flynt-Coolidge dress-making case at Boston,
has abandoned her exceptions to Judge Reeds
rulings, on which it would have been possible
TO carry the case to the Supreme Court, and has
accepted the amount awarded by the jury, with
costs.
"A Minnesota paper, in referring editorially
to the after-dinner speech of an admirer and
subscriber, says-"Mr. Barlow's inimitabe
style of elocution and gesticulation knocked
into a cooked hat the most sublime, powerful,
and successful tragic efforts of Forrest, Ma
cready, Murdoch, Booth, and Fechter."
California seems to be still overstocked
with young men who find it very difficult to
secure situations. A gentleman recently writing
from San Francisco says:-"There is not
solitary opening III the State of California, vast
as it is, for another book-keeper clerk, sales
man, half-educated doctor, mning-stock
broker, or general adventurer.'
A smart travelling salesman for a CONNER
cial house in New York, who made the acquaint-
ance OF a beautiful young lady of Cincinnati, at
an Eastern watering place last summer. recently
| stole a march upon her dilatory lover by sud
! denly appearing in the native city his of
charmer and marrying her in less than hour an
! after arriving.
! A petition to the Legislature of Michigan,
! asking for the passage of law to prohibit the
! tying of the feet or legs of animals for trans
portatiOn, is at present in circulation for sigma
ture throughout that State. The object is to
compel butchers and market men to provide
cages or crates for conveying cattle and sheep
! from one point to another.
The old-fashioned German custom of ad-
yertising the hetrothal of young people was
recently renewed by Teutonic family residing
at Cleveland, Ohio, in the following announce
ment which appeared in the Akron GermdRid:
THE betrothal OF our daughter Andrea with
the printer, Mr.. w. Miller, in Akron, Ohio, is
hereby given notice of. H. Cent? and wife
Andrea Cent?, Wilhelm Miller, betrothed."
THE indianapolis newspapers appear to be
rather badly exercised in an endeayor TO dis
cover the standing of a mysterious individual
who settled down there some time since anC
started an immense Wholesale cracker establish
ment in partnership with a worthy young citi
zen. The individual in question halls from
Boston, but having absented himself from busi
ness for some weeks past, his creditors have
begun to grow suspicious and declare that if h'
does not soon return they will brand him as the
central figure in a swindle OF no mean proper
tions.