The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-01
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
[For Additional CITY Intelligence see BJm Pogel

n NEW IAVlNG FOR bHOAD
The work of paving Broad street, from Jefferson
to Oxford, with the Nicholson pavement, Is TO
be commenced at once. AZ this mode OF paving
is new to our city, we give the following de-
scription ofit:-
Alter the street is loyelled of, course OF
inch boards, well coated with tar, Is laid down.
Upon the boards are set blocks OF three-lnch
thick pine planks, cut In Lengths of six inches.
They are placed on end in lines across the
street, the blocks being one inch apart, and
separated by pine strip three inches deep, aud
which Is set up and nailed TO the inch boards.
forming the platform. The inch space between
the line OF blocks Is then blled in with gravel
screenings and hot coal tar poured into II,
after which the screenings are well rammed.
The surface Is then covered with screened
gravel and hot tar, when it Is ready for use.
Its cost is about three dollars the square yard.
This kind of pavement has been In use IN
Chicago during the past nine years, and Il
street In New York has recently been paved
with it.
Scratching" A MEDICAL STUDENT
A further hearing was had yesterday, before
Alderman Beitler, in the case OF johnson Kelly,
charged with being concerned IN the robbery OF
Robert Collins, medical student. At the former
hearing Collins testified that, after meeting the
defendant and others at public house in Wal
nut street, and having few games OF cards,
they got into a carriage, and were driven to
restaurant in Locust street, and from there to
the neiehborhood of the Baltimore depot, where
the robbery took place. Yesterday the keeper
of the public house in Walnut street. and the
bartender at the Locust street restaurant, tes-
tilted that they saw Kelly with Collins on the
night referred to, and that they left together
Collins testified that johnson Kelly was in the
carriage " hen he was robbed, but he could not
say whether he was active in the robbery or not.
The accused was committed to answer
OPERATIONS IN JEwELRY. - Another
charge was preferred yesterday at the Central
Station against Joseph Myers and Theodore
Harris who were bound over on Thursday to
answer the alleeed theft of several gold chains
from the jewelry store of E. Kretzmar.
Charles Kuhn, in the jewelry shop OF B. f.
Duboce, testified that on Thursday morning the
defendants entered the shop in company with
third man, and asked to see some gold sleeve
buttons. A case containing gold chains was on
the counter showcase at the time, and be left 1t
there while he turned TO the window to get the
seeve-buttons. As they were wanted with
Masonic marks upon them, which they had not,
no purchase was made. After they left it was
discovered that a chain and three sleeve
button the whole valued at $3.50, had been
distracted. The accused were held in $4,000 bail
for trial.
REPUBLICAN NoMINATIoNs.-The Re
publican members OF City Councils met IN
caucus yesterday afternoon, to nominate Heads
OF Departments, The following were placed in
nominal ion: William w. SmedSey, Chief Com
missioner of Highways; Henry b. Bobb and
Nathan Spering, Assistant Commissioners o
High ways; Charles DXey, Commissioner OF City
Property; Frederick Graeh, Chief Engineer Of
the Water Department. Jonathan H. Pugh,
Commissioner OF Markets. Charles s. Smith
Superintendent OF Estates; Samuel $. Gavin,
Agent OF Girard Estates. The only change made
was in the selection of Mr.. Graef in place of Mr..
Bifkinbine, the present Chief Engineer of the
Water Department. The vote was:-Graeh, 81
Birkinbine, 10. Charles DiXey had c)mpe
titor for Commissioner OF City Property in
Charles W. Zimmerman. The vote was: :-Oixey,
80; Zimmerman, "a.
The PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.-Thef fol-
lowing table exhibits the number of foreign and
coastWise vessels that arrived in this port dur
ing The month of November, as compared with
tie same period in 1866