The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-24

"A Boston photographer defantly advertises
nat ne Will take pictures on Sunday.
"A Richmond audience loudly applauded
when John Wilkes Booths name was men toned
in their theatre on Friday night.
The will of the late James Reed, bank pre-
sident, of Boston, gives $4,000 to benevolent
associations of that city.
"A Chicago paper says that John Boyle's at
tempt to shoot his wife, in La Sale, ILL.,, on
Wednesday, was miserable failure.
-Haa Dijiganean, of San Francisco, has been
fined 10 for assaulting woman who called her
hard names.
"A Baltimore physicians family of eight
persons was poisoned on Saturday, 1t is thought
malioiously by servant. No deaths resulted.
III her poem" tells the trath, Buffalo
woman has buried her love con the stormy
strand of the deep, dark ocean of mad despair"
The anti-ntcotlan crusaders are eXultant
over the discovery of a London infant three
years OF age who Is paralyzed from habitual
smoking.
Miss Lena Leland, young lady residing in
Pamela, Miss died very suddenly on Thursday,
Dec. 29, just one hour before the time set for
her wedding.
"A Connecticut paper reports that Gordon
W. Burnham has recalled the gift of the bust of
the late Bishop Brownell which he made to
Christ Church, Hartford.
The Washington University in st. Louis
caught fire from the furnace Saturday night,
and narrowly escaped total destruction. Loss
S2500.
Henry J. Niles, prominent lawyer and
lnuuCHbldL D6ulOCTdIlC pOIllcluu Ol OTDdDa,
Ohio, has become hopelessy insane through
the failure of man whose legal adviser he was
in speculations in New York.
"A bill is to be introduced in the Michigan
Legislature to create q State Insurance Depart
ment, which shall be charged with the eXecu-
ton of all laws relating to Insurance. The Sc
cretary of State now attends to such matters.
-Hot-headed politicians in the South of one
party or the other, are insisting that Governor
Scott, of South Carolina, Governor Davis, of
Texas, and Governor Bullock, of Georgia,
should be impeached. Wiser counsels will
doubtless prevail
The Legislature of Ohio is again being petit
toned to accept the plot of ground at North
Bend, Ohio, which contains the neglected grave
of William Henry Harrison, aud to improve it
in manner worthy of his memory and of the
State.
General Schenck declined the banquet ten
dered him in Cincinnati, saying that he is SO
busy with the preparations for leaving for Eng
land that he cannot even visit his home in Day
ton, Ohio and that he has considered it best not
to accept any public demonstrations before his
departure.
There is negro debating society in Balm
bridge, Ga, the las meeting of which was de-
voted to discussion of the question whether
education or money is the most beneficial to
community. The advocates of the education
side of the question won the priZe-S20 in gold.
At the next meeting they will decide whether it
is to the interest OF the laborer to work for
wages or a part of the crop.
Some young men in Bangor, Maine who had
heard marvellous stories of the number of pick
erel caught thereabouts through the ice, and
started out the other day to do little ishiug
themselves, told an inquisitiye country cousin,
whom they met on the way, that they had not
included an axe in their otherwise complete out
fit because there ''were lots of people fishing
there last winter, and they could fish through
last years holes"