AMERICAN NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 2817, 28 February 1872, Page 3

AMERICAN NOTES.

{From Recent Exchanges.) A vigorous Connecticut preacher actually kicked°his pulpit to pieces, and was with difficulty fished out of the ruins. • The Heathen Chinee is in successful operation in New York. Ah Fan presides over a Celestial gambling house there, and swindles green]Clrnamen with neatness and despatch. A St. Louis lawyer attempted to try a case the other day while lie was half drunk, but the Judge stopped him, saying: “No Lawyer can practice at two bars at the same tone. 5 ' . . , , A Kansas man sent for a clergyman to preach his wife’s funeral sermon and inchd ntally to ma»ry him, at the close of the discourse, to a young woman whom he had selected on the death of his spouse. The Pittsburg Commercial announces that great “irregularities” exist in the I hiladelphia Mint, which will soon be exposed. Let them come—the public hss become used to such little episodes. The New York Evening Mail says that many persons who 101 l back in their bandsome carriages on Fifth Avenue look as cross and solemn as if they were riding to their own funeral. ' The New York street railroads are undergoing their annual overhauling at the hands of the press. On one of them it is said that “ fleas, thieves, dishonest conductors, and other vermin have a good time ; but passengers suffer in many ways. 5