The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-07
HncidentaIs.
its columns

-feople IN ODlO are again talking ABOUT
erecting monument over the remains of Presi-
dent Harrison.
"A Chicago paper reports that the 'straw-
bail' men are getting their just deserts in that
city. Can it mean that they are threshed? ,.
Princeton College boys have organized
rowing club of twelve which will go into
training soon. ~
The Old Settlers of Buffalo had their seventh
annual festival last week. It was eminently
successful and agreeable, and closed up In o
blaze of glory on Saturday.
There is a lively little paper in North Caro-
lima, to wit, the Hillsboro' Recorder, which in
the exuberance of its enthusiasm exclaims:-
"Peabody In heaven cannot be honored by
greater power mortal than General Lee on
earth" -
The Hartford Courdnt learns that parties
who have been making examinations of the
monster bird and animal tracks in the old sand
stone at Turner's Falls, Mass claim to have
discovered human footprints, clearly and well
defined, indented in the same strata with those
of animals and birds.
Several young persons out in Oregon, wish
ing to do good, have determined to give ball,
and devote the proceeds either to the purchase
Of a new bell for the church or library for the
Sunday school. They are undecided between
the bell and the books but there is not a mo-
ment's hesitation about the ball. q
"A Chicago paper, after remarkiug that
although 1t "has been said that frailty is the
proper distinctive appelation to apply to the
weaker sex, perhaps fickleness would have been
widow in that city ''who plighted her troth to
five lovers and married only one"
"A life insurance company in Hartford re-
celved, on Friday last, from an agent in Michi-
gan, an application for policy of insurance on
the life of q man who says In the application,
and physicians confirm him, that his heart is on
his right side. But one similar case has come to
the knowledge of the officers of the company
out of the thousands of applications made for
life policies. Ia each policy was granted.
The Savannah Republican reports that
complaints of a lack of sufficient force to carry
on the plantation interests the present year
come from every part of Georgia. 1t says many
of the negroes have died; very many have
| hocked to the railroads now building; the towns
| have absorbed good share; some have hired or
| bought lands and gone to work on their own
| account, and the women, as general rule, have
| wholly deserted the fields. AID
The fifteenth amendment declares that ''the
right of citizens of the United States to vote
shall not be denied or abridged by the United
States, by any State on account of race, color
or previous condition of servitude;" and q
genius, editor of an obscure Kentucky paper,
advises the Legislature of that State to enact a
law providing that mo person shall be elector in
this Commonwealth who has wool or kinky hair
on his scalp" and that any person who shaves
| or otherwise removes the wool or hair from his
| head, so as to deceive the judges of election,
| shall he indicted and punished, as provided by
law for fraudulent voting.
| Rev. Alfred Anderson, prominent colored
preacher of Knoxville, publishes unique card
in the Knoxville Whig, warning the public
against q colored brother named DIR. j. B. Young.
| The latter is said to be graduate of Cambridge
| University, England, and has been shining
| light of radicalism in Tennessee for a number of
| years. Anderson alleges that he caught his
wife and said Young in fagrdnte delicto and
| winds up his card thus-'I have, therefore, put
Mary E. Anderson away from my bed and board
for life, resigning all claims and rights to her to
the mogul Doctor j. B. Young. Colored friends
of my sex look out for your families; the bull is
loose."-N Ndshuile Special.
1t is said that along all the principal routes
of travel in Italy slips of paper on which these
names are printed are pasted in the hotel re-
| gisters;- " " -a-- -.t.-. ----
A. B. Observation-Disclosures, Philadelphia;
B. G. Observation-Disclosures, Philadelphia
Y. X. Observation-Disclosures, Philadelphia
Miss Observation-Disclosures, Philadelphia:
| Master Observation-Disclosures, Philadelphia
If the head of this family can't change hi
name without the authority of fresh clause il
the Constitution, it is clearly the duty of the
woman suffrage advocates to waive their claim
to a sixteenth amendment and give it to him.