The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-19
CITY INTELLIGENCE,

IHHUNAN TREATMENT OF A WrFB.-A shoe
maker, named Charles Emmon, was arraigned
before Alderman Welding on Saturday, upon the
charge of ill-rcatiug his wife. The facts and
circumstances Of this case develop a picture Of
horror. The parties live on Sixth street, near
Spruce. II is alleged that the husband has been
in the habit Of whipping or beating bis wife. To
use the language Of some Of The neiRhbors, they
fight like "dug and cat the woman Of course on
the defensive. The whole neighbOrhOOd has
frequently been annoyed because Of the quarrGls.
IL SENS that the wIie Is made 10 work on the
uVpers Of boots aud shoes SO steadily, and for
su,h q length OF tine, as 70 exhaust nature
hh she happen to duze over her work At q
te hour in the night or eply IN the morning,
crack a'Or gside o her bead would slart'e and
awaken bCrHRaiu 10 a world Ol misery. lfsickng-s
sho uld overcome her, this would b. signal for
beau = Htthe hands of her husband.
On Tbursd,y night last q quarrel en'uod, in
which Shc at mptod self defense. The bus1and
received % blow alongside OF the head, for which
he thrust BIZ wife in'O q room ana there KEEP her
imprisoned until Saturday morning Thn neigh
hCIs, not bearing any noise for the previous fsry-
tiELt hours, we're su p'oous lhnf something un-
uSuai bad happened perhaps she had been Killed.
An gpplI, alton was made 10 the legal AUTHORITIES,
ard Reserve Officer Rawlings, in Cumplnv with
some Of the nCighbur., entered he house, which
had been locked up. for some time They found
he lmpfi-l ned woman almost dead, she not hay
ing had any thing Co Cat or drink for more tIan
fOrty-cight hours. Her condition excited the
livelest interest Every attention was paid 70
her that The ccessiies Of the re luired, AMI
In he afternoon her husband WAS arrested. H.
WIS committed in default Of $1,000 baIl to answer
at court.
lands SATURDAY EVENING LUCrURE.-T.an-
dis lecture, on Saturday evening, was like cter.
nity-it had neither beginning nor erd. At
halfpast O'Clock we saw three boys, one or two
ladies, and two or three gentlemen, on the steps
Of Concert Hall. Lands was there, too; lands
had just stepped upstairs to tell the jsuior 10 put
out the lights. The eleven people who constituted
the entire com munity interested in Lands expo
silion Of he Sunday Car Question, and who mad
asstmhltd Bt Concert Hall to hear that eXpO,i-
tiun, had precipitately left. why Lands did not
deliver bis lecture remained unexplained. Why
not deliver ii be had eleven people to hear
him He tad eleven distinct proofs that his com.
phmentary tickets We're not wasted.
HIS tickets were printed, his placards were out,
Concert Hall engaged (and paid for, it is to he
prtsumed), people bearing complimentary tickets
came pouring IN as thick As angels yisits-tteu
why not deliver the lecture Crowds we're
rushing 20 the theatres, the circus; crowds were
rushing to hear Wendell Phillps--why WIS poor
Lands left out in the cold Can it be because
TIE EVENING IELEGRAPH Is read, and rs expo
sitiOns adopted OF COurse MT, or course we
will believe any thing else than this. we may be-
pnrdnDed for entertrinng the private opinion that
Lands must have lett his gutta-pgrCOa invention
at bon e, and had gone back for It, At any rate
Concert Hall was abandoned on Saturday ngut,
and Lands was left out in the cold.
WHAT lr COsTs TO LlvE.-In the memorial
addressed to City Councils by the school-teachers
relative to an increase Of pay, the following state
ment is given to show that the actual cost of liv
ing has increased TO from two and half to three
times what it was previous to the war. Thus -
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