The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-01

Holt county, Mo-, advertises for sch 90
teacher with plenty of muscle.
"A Montreal man has been fined 81 for an
aggravated assault upon man who interfered
to prevent his beating his sister.
"A dog, which was shut up in q church in
Taunton, Mass, for five DAYS, made sad havoc
with the hymn-books in the vain search for
something to appease the pangs of hunger
Some commotion has been caused in some
Western cities by the publication of statistics
from the census reports, giving the amount of
real and personal property of large owners.
The wedding trip of a rural couple in Con-
necticut consisted of a ride into New Haven in
their own wagon, and then trip over the street
railroad from one end to the other and back
again.
Poultry of all kinds is now cheaper in
Boston than it has been at this season for many
years Good turkeys sell for Is and 90 cents,
chickens at II and 90 cents, and frozen lots still
lower.
twenty wives of Wolcottville recently took
sleigh-ride to Winsted without their hus-
bands, and in their bills at the hotel were
charged with box of cigars and basket of
champagne.
"A blast in Vermont quarry, last week. in
which seventeen kegs of powder were used,
threw a block of marble forty feet long, thirty
feet wide and eighteen feet deep, thirty feet,
and broke it into innumerable pieces.
"A man is now on trial in Jefferson City,
Mo-, for numbering another by hitting him in
the head with a stone at a political meeting
eighteen years ago. He escaped to California,
but recently returned, and was recognized.
Judge Linton II. Stephens has been making
a speech in Augusta, Ga, in which he pro-
claimed the reconstruction measures to be q
nullity, and counseled his hearers against ac-
cepting the situation
"A far Western paper recently appeared with
two columns blank, with the exception of the
note:-"By Telegraph-Special Dispatches to
the Pacific Tribune. This is where the tele-
graphic news ought to be; but as we didn't re-
ceive any we can't put it here"
Miss Sarah Wilson, who gave $50, 600 to tn G
Wilson Female College, near Chambersburg,
died last week at the age of seventy-fve
years. She had given large sums for other good
purposes. She left an estate valued at about
$059 900, and died intestate.
We cannot vouch for the truth of the state
ment that Democratic editor out West de-
clares that of course we don't want San Do
mingo, because it is only big rock, situated
south of Florida, in the Mediterranean Sea-
being a hilly climate, and unable to support life
with any degree If comfort.
There are said to be very few deaf and
dumb colored persons In Virginia, so far as is
known, there is but one negro thus afflicted. In
the Illinois Asylum there are two deaf mute
colored young girls who found their way
thither during the war, nobody knows whence
or how.
An up-country paper, two weeks ago, asked
its readers:-"Has there been clandestine mar
riage In town during the past week? Madame
community had speculated upon the mysterious
affair for week, and at least five couples had
been pointed out as undoubtedly the parties
alluded to, this vile newspaper came out and
said that the item had no foundation whatever,
and "Uas only given publicity in order to bring
before our people a forcible illustration of the
fact that we are prone, as people, to gossip