The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-09
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
Iron ADDITIoNAI LOCAL frEMs SEE rn1nD pAor1

cOlumns TO the statements OF both parties for
street burial ground. We give place TO-DAY TO
q letter received from one apparently well.
Dooked' which reads as follows:-
Mr. EDIToR There nave appeared lately in your
xslnaole paper OF which we are constant reader,
SeTman Lutheran Congregation, Some OF those
allow. we desire make few statements IN correc.
ton concerning our church affairs and you will please
excuse u.s. II we not able in pressing ourselves
tn the English Language as correctly as might.
swo two minister's and two or three school
teachers, and so it renamed for about one hundred
rem exactly those who now oppose our progress and
pIsneS anS md SuIy % SuH1 n % u.s. com
churches and school-honses, and make use of the
large means your fathers have left you? n YOU
would 90 so, we would have IN Philadelphia twice as
Taking this advice and yielding to the wants Of our
own people, we commenced, about fifteen years ago,
avenue a cost of about s22OOO where there is now
purchased schooi-house and lot for a church in
& @ OK VO and Thsa Sm we bought lot OF
hne church is erected but only half finished to the
large school-house last year on St. John aud Brown
TSss s9e S9S w1 gToIad Is over 5000 These
was OF the greatest necessity. Two churches, two
years ago. but not so now, when the German Dopula-
High rents have driven the poor Germans to the
outskirts of the city, therefore the want of churches
and schoohOuses in those parts of the city. We
slider 1t religious and moral duty collect those
Sernnns INTO congIegatlon ana take thelr children
out this had to make debts because the poor emf
houses with. To pay these debts, and TO finish the
churches we &c 6ndnS we propose to sell
oblgate ourselves to take out the dead and bury them
wherever the relatives wish TO have 1t DONE at
Our fOreathers have ef these properties Just for
such purposes TO help the poor emgTants TO give them
Saturday says in substance-"That the opposition OF
Kesser Gutekunst, Skinner, and others to the sale
off the battle-ground, would notbe decided, If there
msmaSeme age of the Lutheran Church sSfs; S that
manage an Establishment Of over quarter of mil,
lion of dollars that as instance Of this they spent
beneath any of our English primary schools" etc. etc
prominent citizens, it seems would like to manage
that quarter Of million tor US Wouldn,t that be
be the Itching point but doubt very much whether
emans could RaWe oTT TGe
half million of dollars, and kept and have it too.
four but nine day schools with OO scholars for
cations from more than 200 children ior admission to
them but cannot be taken IA Tor want Of room, This
know that parents take their children away from
order to learn to understand and digest what they
learned in those schools in parroike manner.
EVENING TELEGRAPH. we would say that not more
proposed to SELL and that our new buryingground is
large enough % to inter four times that number as
Three years debt about SSOOO. Since then
borrowed money, costing about SIS add this to our
first debt and you will have about the amount of our
and building. so we were going on Borrowing: and
now we hope that the amount Of our debt will be
1ully understood, and not be at all mysterious
our income from interest, rents, pew-rents. school
tax collections, and every other source, varies from
The interest on the debt, salaries two ministers
GburcSes anS Schools coa gas etc TO do al thIs
with the above income requires better hnancierlng
10e do a. and we would have no objection If those
sncS an outlay debts be paid
churches and schoohouses be builtfrom that income
do no good that would lessen our income. But
on Eighth street our burial ground viii give US the
means TO pay our debts and to build churches ana
mans The city will save thousands OF dollars by US
cSdren "" The city Will GET thousands OF dollars in
taxes by improving the Egnth street re front Tas
to remove their dead now than later, when they may
ing all the good that viii come from sale Of the
burial gIoun6 'front.' we reel o sure ina saS' SHe DEAD
lying there coul0 speak, 'neY "0Oa say f. N. l.
So much for our correspondent; and now
few words OF our own. Our Teutonle friends OF
the Democrat have been sorely exercised
because of our alleged championship of the
opposition" side OF this question. In truth,
they have even resorted TO the quaint device OF
parallels In order TO give us side thrust OF the
that some of our readers, owing to defects in
their early training, "sprechen NIGHT Deutsch;'
but for the benefit OF those who are more fortu
nate we reprint, in all its native pungency, and
with all its sweet German accentuatton, the
unadulterated and doubly distilled original
ebullition OF our contemporary, which reads as
follows:-
@anS ucriuunoert III ba8 8latt burilbcr
oaB Die @emsinOe Deuti1e Shulen inter
h6lt, oab oentlfe 2utberaner nilnl1en, ibre
6iuoer lollen Die Spro1e 9utber$ lernen,
nno eS filbrt oaS nl5 8elpiel on, iuie ,,ei'
aeutbimIb" Die GintIuftc Der &ir6e Der.
iuenoet lueroen ,,GiBt einem 9tulien Die
Sout, uub ein &ortar iprin9t beraus,
ia9tc glopoIeOu, unD ebeniO bari man bel
8situu9en tpie rer SeIe9rupb nur Die SaIt
riBeu unp Der y8nOWnOtbing" iPrn9t
berauS.
A SUCCESSFUL BURGLARY-A Down
TOWN DRY GOODS STORE GUTTED-At q very
early this morning the dry goods store OF Mr. A.
Pharazyn, No. 229 South street, was entered by
burglars The latter were evidently no appren-
tices at the business as everything goes to show
that they entered on their work with methodi-
cal GOODNESS that, 10 an outsider, would be quite
refreshing, II IL were not for the thought of the
loss Inflicted upon the poor victim. The bur
glary must have been consummated between
the hours of and o'clock. A jimmy was psed
to pry open the shutters of "A side window the
fastenings of which were very insecure. By