The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-19
FASHIONABLE SUMMER RESORTS.
Notes from Long Branch.

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Notes from Long Branch.
United States Senator Oliver 2. Morton, OF
Indianapolis Ind, is at the Branch.
The yacht races can be seen with the naked
eye ell along the bank on the seaside.
There is no real pleasure yet In the surf The
water produces chilling sensation. Very few
ladies venture in it.
General Grant has not yet commenced prac-
tising in his new rowboat.
Items from Saratoga.
Union avenue is to be sprinkled at cost of
$1,000 for the season.
The Sentinel says Saratoga Springs never
looked more inviting than at the present time.
"A change has been made in the proprietor
ship of Congress Hall; Mr. H. s. Clement has
disposed of his interest," one-fourth, to Mr.. G. F.
Southgate, of Cincinnati for $4,000.
Newport News.
Madame Catacazy will be here in August.
One hundred and twenty families have
arrived.
The Ocean House will not open until the
9th instant.
The Quakers filled the hotels that were open
last week.
The water is too cold yet to make bathing
comfortable.
Count Corti, the Italian Minister, has taken
The Grand Army of the Gulf will hold
meeting and banquet at the ocean House the
9TH of July.
mammoth scale, to be built before another sea-
son near the beach.
governor John T. Hoffman has taken a fine
suit of rooms at the Ocean House, which he will
occupy in July.
The Episcopalians are holding their State
Convention at Trinity Church, and large num-
Der of delegates are in town.
Newport has determined to stop Sunday
liquor selling, but the regular eating saloons and
restaurants will be allowed to open.
Del Fosse, the Belgian Ambassador, and
Baron Baltazi, the Turkish Charge dAffaires,
lnxr ,aV1nN1 N1oft tnnG For 10 nfirn
season.
General Sheridan and Ben Butler will attend
the annual reunion of the Army and Navy of the
Gulf, which will be held in Newport on the I'd
of July.
The Ophthalmological Society of Oculists,
of which DIR. Williams, of Boston, is the pres-
dent, hold their animal convention at the same
place in August.
"A fine road has been laid out around Mian-
tonomi Hill to Coddington's Cove, which is
three miles in length and sixty feet wide. The
views of the sea and land are charming.
of 255 summer residing families at New
port, r. l., $50 are from New York, forty from
Boston, fifteen from Philadelphia, fifteen from
Providence, and thirteen from scattering cities.
Spray from Cape May.
"A number of fine equipages arrived last
Congress Hall will be crowded by the LIST of
July.
"A new style of bathing-suit is to be brought
out at the Cape this season.
The Columbia will open on the 22d inst
with some reduction In hotel charges.
Never were there SO many rooms engaged
at the hotels at this early stage of the season.
The steamer Sue will commence running
between Cape May and Philadelphia on or about
the 25th inst.
Real estate agents say that they have reuted
fifty per cent. more cottages up to the present
time this year than they had disposed of at the
same period lastyear.
"A new daily paper, to be called the Ocean
Foam, is to be started next month by two Phi
ladelphia Journalists for the purpose, it Is said,
of referring IN e1tenso to the pleasantries of
the place."
"A great many Southerners will go to st.
Catharines, Canada, this summer.
The Glen House, situated at the foot of
Mount Washington, has been sold at auction for
1000.
Lake Dunmore House, in Salisbury, Vt.,wil
be one of the places for the resort of pleasure
seekers the present season.
AT Bladen Springs Ala, a billiard saloon
has been converted into church, and good con-
gregations gather every Sabbath. This is the
only house of worship at Bladen.
-Ocononewoc is the name of the fashionable
watering-place in Wisconsin. 1t is called
tween two lakes and within an hours drive are
twenty other lakes.
yellow Springs is to have some distinguished
visitors this season. Besides Ex-Governor Ashley,
of Montana, jeff Davis and General Beauregard
are reported as going there to spend the SUM
mer. The visitors this year will be mostly South
erners and citizens of Cincinnati.
Between Long Branch and Newport there is
great rivalry, and each claims for itself the
honor of the most distinguished society. The
contest wakes warmer this year than ever be-
fore, and the arrival at either place of any
notable is heralded abroad with a flourish of
trumpets, and an II told you So" The distin-
guished Htterdteurs have decided in favor of
Newport, while the stars of the drama and of
politics are all gathering at Long Branch.