The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-20

rom Our Orn Correspondent.
New YORK oct. 70. 1870.
tgH..s, nro.wr

"Tom Brown
"Tom Brown'-in other words, Nr. Thomas
Hughes, author OF 'Tom Browns School DAYS
IS on Friday evening to deliver lecture in
this city. II is the only lecture he will have
delivered in New York during his entire visit
to this country. The appearance will take
place at Cooper Institute, and the subject treated
of is 'Work and Wealth" 1t has been stated
shat on Saturday he sails for England, but his
friends in this country will scarcely believe this
rumor to be the truth. His visit to the United
States has been characterized BY remarkable
quietness. He has kept at bay the aggressive
interviewer: he has dehed the jenkins
who would have deifed him: and he
has put into practical operation the
principle that an Euglishman's house (including
rooms at hotels) is his castle. Even the New
York Bohemians have been able to make nothing
of him whatever. Such newspaper men as have
seen him are the celebrated men, only, of the
press of New York and other cities. And yet
the corner which he fills in thousands of hearts
Rall over the Union is SO large as adequately to
account for the unusual anxiety there is to hear
{him. Cooper Institute will be thronged by such
numbers as are seldom convened in anY one
kbuilding. Whatever he was to lecture on he
swould be sure to draw an immense audience, for
the people are going not so much to hear the
lecture as to see the man. They want to grow
famiEar with the countenance of the man who
made them familiar with Tom Browns. | think
If Mr.. Hughes had announced that he intended
TO give series Of readings from the two books
Through which he first became known to Ame-
rica, his success would have been at any rate a
Sereat pecuniary one.
S'1rs. General Anderaon."
! If Mrs. General Anderson ever travels your
way, look out for her-that is, if you can iden-
Nifty, under the new alias she will have chosen,
the audacious female who, under that name,
has lately been creating such havoc here among
khotel-keepers and real-estate agents This
fascinating fraud in the grenadine dress and the
plaid shawl appears to have been almost ubiqui-
tous, to have practised etiquette upon principles
Sof duplicity, and to have endeavored to rain
| ruin upon innocent heads wherever and when
lever she thought she discovered opportunity.
She is q sort of miss Gwit," with a past career
crammed with guilty secrets and future that
she probably intends to pack equally full of
Icrime. The latest story told about her is that
several months ago, while residing at an up
town hotel, and paying her board and lodging
no one knows how, she became intimate with
the wife of the hotel proprietor, and through
that lady obtained an Introduction to q fashion
liable milliner. Soon after this she obtained, by
some mysterious means, the use of
Ia handsome team, and, invested with
{>the gorgeous prestige which the chariot
conferred upon her, drove up to the milliners
door, entered the sill-and-satn teenlng apart
{'ments, and proceeded to order an extensive and
Inexpensive wardrobe. She ordered dresses
which, when completed, would have cost nearly
fifteen hundred dollars, and by her eloquent and
| artistic CAB managed to convince the milliner,
for the time being, thatit was all right. After
the loquacious impostor had gone, the fashion
able milliner took good square "think," the
! result of which was determination to fill a
part of the order and then to insist upon pay
ment before the rest of the order was complied
with. Thanks to this business way of conduct
ing the matter, the fashionable milliner saved
her bacon. | mean to say that she intercepted
the approaching hand of ruin. Mrs. General
Anderson had no money, and so the dresses
were taken back by the boy who had been sent
with them.
80 woman ! in our hours OF ease
You are the very deuce to please;
But when 1reSSmaker5 want what's due,
An Interesting dead-beat you "
quote from memory, but believe that this
retains the split of the original.
IiGuGrng Up.
I There is no objection to q mans drowning
! his sorrows in the intoxicating bowl so long as
N he don't get drunk under the operation, aud so
long as the bowl is paid for. / feel sorry for
q
4 who killed Richardson-but still cling to the
opinion that when q man carries about him o
\ bundle of papers relating TO the divorce he is
trying to get from his wife, he ought to take the
bowl behind the door or some other convenient
1, place, and get drunk quietly and undemon-
l stratively as possible. Mr.. Mcfarland has not
b done this. Yesterday he was deserted on Thir-
tieth street, near Woods Museum, in such a
1 condition as was but little calculated to
I strengthen sympathy with him against the present
Mrs Richardson Why should people who are
n hopelessly unhappy SO often to 'liquor-up'
h under their afiliction? Unanswerable question !!
What passion ever grew more shallow because
the potations became deep? 1t is prosaically
true that abslnthe makes the heart grow fonder,
and the man who is in love grows fearful over
his cups. If report is to be believed, McFar-
land still seems to think he is deeply injured.
If he chooses to get tight he is probably no
! worse than other men are who love drink; only
the circumstances of his position render it pecu-
liarly unfortunate that he should do so in q
public manner, and under such conditions and
with such accompaniments as render it impossi-
BILE for decent and unprejudiced people to retain
great deal OF sympathy for him. ALI BABA.