The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-06
GENERALITIES.
That's WHAT'S the Matter,


The editor of the Easton (Md.) Star ought to
have the premium as first class fool. 1t loudly
proposes that the fifteenth amendment shall be
''expunged," and that "black lines shall be
drawn around the iniquity." The Star had
better have its head sponged instead. The fif-
teenth amendment will draw black lines around
Democratic iniquity, sure enough Wilmington
Commercial.
AQueer Lawsuit.
Rochester, Mimi, has been the scene of a
queer lawsuit between merchant and dis
charged servant-girl, which terminated in the
discontinue of the merchant. The girl sued the
against her to offset it, charging her fifty cents
per night for kerosene when her ''cousin" called
to see her, and one dollar per night each night
she worked for herself after the housework was
done.
Flourens and smaIley.
Mr.. Smalley writes to the New York Tribune
as follows:-
Letters were sent to my London address for
NJ. Gustave Flourens, as stated in the Beauri
letter, but the writers, contents, or purpose of
such letters and Flourens' plans or connection,
if any, with the alleged plot, are utterly un-
known to me. j came to Paris voluntarily, on
Sunday, where shall remain, to answer ques-
tions, if any, as there is nothing in my relations
with Flourens to conceal
Another Nessus.
We believe Nessus has for long time en-
joyed distinguished reputation on account of
that little transaction of his in the shirt business
| in a man who dwells in the romantic village of
| Hopkinsville, KY. This man had the smallpox
and lived through 1t without changing his shirt.
When convalescent he gave the garment to a
colored woman to bury. But utilitarianism and
| temptation overcame her. She gave it careless
| washing, and on the following Sunday her ''ole
man" appeared in all the glory Of white ''bled
| shirt" In due time he was taken with smallpox
| and died soon after, and strange to say, so did
five others who excessively came into posses
| ssion of the fatal garment. Nessus killed his
| one man, Hercules with an effort, but this Hop
kinsvillian killed his half dozen without half
trying
| GnribaIdi ms n School Teacher.
Garibaldi has undertaken an educational work
in a quarter where it was sorey needed. The
| women of Maddelena, the island nearest his
| own, occupy themselves In making fshing-nets
| and preparing material assembling silk OBJ
| tanned from certain shell fish. The objection to
| educating the women on the part of the male
Maddelenians is, that if the women should know
more than the men 1t would be contrary to the
| DEGREES of Providence" But Garibaldi has
| opened schools for girls in Maddelena and two
other places. The first experiment attracted
| more pupils than accommodations could be pro-
vided for, since women aud boys insisted upon
| receiving instruction. After some interference
by the authorities, he has succeeded in arrang-
ing his schools SO that each girl is only taught
during half day; there are two day sessions
and one at night, and the last is attended by
boys. There are 5000 Inhabitants on these
islands and not book shop. Garibaldi asks for
aid to carry on these undertakings, and appeals
to the American people. There should be a
hearty response.
| Sarcastic Caucasian.
The editor of The Lexington (Mo) Cduca.
sian, who some weeks ago uttered wall Q
bowl, and groan of despair combined over the
ratification of the fifteenth amendment, OF
"bedamnedment," as he eloquently calls it, con
tinues to indulge in weekly spasms on the same
subject One of his later effusions is an Origina
negro melody in an awful strain of despairing
sarcasm. We present a specimen stanza:-
"Go way white man,
Don't come anigh,
| GizZard-foot and shinbones
| Chalk in de eye.
| We are now all votists,
| Ekil fore de law
| ChDg-a-ring rink aching,
| Chinga- chaW."
This is, indeed, very cutting, very bitter par
ticnlarly the last two lines, which are suppose,
to indicate an ecstatic breakdown" on th,
part of the ''dog-toothed, gibbering chunk of
vile -colored Egyptian blackness, " in view of hi
recent enfranchisement. The kind attentions O
the Caucasian are not entirely confined to tn
'lousy, deyil-worshpping chattels," and th
'yermin-swarming, flth-reeking Hottentots.
President Grant comes in for a notice as tn
'horse- house jewelry- plate and l-pup-olog
cal Gaiena sot" Lively little paper is the OGl'
, castdR.