The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-04
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breeze-What has become of Mcfarland /?
Mr.. Mcfarland resides In the Tombs-has re-
sided there ever since the celebrated homicide
which he got off last November. There he is
treated with the respect and kindness which the
unseldshness and discretion of Mrs Mcfarland
and the late Mr.. Richardson so we'll deserve.
He Is supplied with books and papers by male
and female sympathizers, and receives on the
average six feminine calls day. He has indeed
grown very accomplished in the art of receiv-
Ing and the companion-art of small talk. His
precipitancy In the Richardson affair has largely
interested in him numerous bevies of women
who have no better work to do than to express
maudlin sympathy Possibly his trial may begin
two weeks from next Monday. The chances
are, however that it will not commence until
April. Europe we'll as the United States is
to be rummaged for testimony. No trial within
average recollection has brought to light more
breezy details than this one will bring to light.
The press, the pulpit, and the stage all bear
hand in it. If the foot-lights have not in
strictly biblical sense been lamp to Mrs.
McFariand's feet and light to her path, they
have done no worse for her than the pulpit and
the press have managed to do between them.
Mr.. Mcfarland is represented as cheerful" 1
presume he is cheerful in the same sense in
which corpse is sometimes said to be beautiful.
luO luNhIldOlG CutGTluulc5S VI pTlSOueTb ID part
of the professional cant that Jenkins never
tires of.
MIR. Beecher and the Truss.
Mr.. Beecher is seldom commonplace, and he
has just been writinga by no means commonplace
note to an impudent person who has been trying
to make money out of Mr. Beechers reputation.
The impudent person has q truss which Processes
to cure any rupture that ever was or ever could be-
and fos some time past has been addressing Mr..
| Beecher letters which imply that he and that
| gentlemen have been in correspondence on the
| subject of the truss, and that Mr.. Beecher emf
| nently approves of the invention. Beecher bore
| this afiliction for some weeks-bore it like
lamb, and then at length bleated into dreadful
satire, as the following note published in yes
| terday's Times, abundantly proves. 1t is ad-
| dressed to the impudent person in question, and
reads thus
| "Sr:-You have for several weeks addressed to me
letters implying that we are In correspondence and
that am in sympathy with you in your method of
treating rupures These letters then published
! by you as advertisements. / regard your action
towards me as an impertinence, and your treatment
| OF the public as a deliberate swindle.
you % w Rs qe Of s es FnS% o own @
| other rupture 80 eminent and disgusting:
'HENRY WARD BEEcHER.
addressed to you, you are at liberty to publish"
The New Post ONCE.
1t was confidently expected that, owing to
| scarcity of funds, the work on the new post
Office would be temporarily discontinued. This
| is not, however, the case. True, Congress has
not yet appropriated the money that it was ex-
| pected to, but the superintendent gives it to
be understood that, by very careful expendi-
ture of the small fund still available, the
masonry can be continued for some little while
| longer. The Main granite still continues to
arrive. From present appearances it hardly
looks as though there was going to be any sus-
pension at all. The enclosures of the big fence
| are thronged with animated workmen.
The Fishmongers.
| When "Polonius" says to "Hamlet," "Do you
know me, my lord ?' Hamlet" replies, excel
lent well; you are fishmonger." ''Not l. my
lord" responds poor "Polonius;" upon which
Hamlet" takes him up by saying, "Then l
| would you were 80 honest man"
The Rev. j. Hyatt Smith, in address which
he has just been making at the hall of the Y. M.
c. A., in favor of the Fishmongers Association,
seems to have discovered in that body list of
virtues akin to the one which Hamlet" thus in
Inmates the lack of in the imbecile courtier. In
that address he ''piled it on" to them so thick,
that their eyes must have been dimmed with
the scales incidental to their profession for them
not to have seen what he was driving at. He
said the apostles were fishmongers; he went
back 10 the times OF the Philistines, and said
that the flshmongers of that era were held in
such high repute that the Philistines named
one of their gods the "God of Fish" As
diplomatic buncombe this eulogy was all very
well, the object being tointerest the audience in
the orators theme. The ishmongers of New
York in fact want to organize an association
here for their mutual improvement similar to the
one which has been established for several years
in London They are no despicable part of
New York population. They have about five
| million dollars invested in the business of the
city, and last year their sales amounted to ten
millions. Without precisely agreeing with Mr.
| Smith that the fishmongers constitute em
, nently virtuous and honorable profession, from
{ the mere fact that some of the apostles made
good hauls, it is only fair to concede that they
, are a sufficiently influential proportion of the
? population to warrant their interests and wishes
! | being duly considered. They want to have
| Hall and Home of their own, and If they cal
, | fin few more champions as whole-souled al
Mr.. Smith, il will not be long before they will.
The "De SOto'
is one of the friendliest and snuggest of Englsl
' eating-houses to go to, if you already hsv'
, | friends there and merely one of the mos
q expensive and culinarily capable if you have Mt
| friends, but only money. 1t is greatly affected
| by actors, artists, the better class of newspape
p | people, and theatrical hangers-on. Go in a
: | almost any time after noon, and you shall hea
the secrets of the eotiliSSes being discussed ant
a. | very great names gosspped about with free
h | dom which suggests that great man is no NOR
great man to his theatrical agent or his puff
| writer than he is to his valet. The establish