The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-11

! - alumni INbTITUTE OF THE CENIhAh
HIGH SOHooL.-A meeting of the Alumni In
stitute was held at the Central High School on
Saturday evening when the following officers
Alexander p. Colesberry President; Richard
B. " Use, Vice. Presidents John J; Weaver, re
DoSdipg secIesTy ~ m Fraiey aTTet Treasprer
| II. B. Wilmington, Librarian.
For Board of Managers Messrs. Fraley, Buck
walter, Weaver, and Albeit were elected for
| three years; Messrs Coke, kirkpatrick, Whit
| tington, and Hogan were elected for two years;
and Messrs. Christine Stern, and McDeVlI
were elected for one year.
On the organization Of the Board, Mr.. Buck
walter was elected Chairman, and MI. coke
| Secretary. The object of this Institute, as set
forth by the President, is social and literary
| a hall will be obtained, and furnished WIN a
library. Already liberal donations OF DOCKS
In the rooms of the Institute, the members of
the Alumni OF the Central High School meet as
| friends forgetting there all differences in an
honest desire to cultivate social feelings ana at
| the same time advance the interests OF popu-
lar education, The annual meeting OF the
Alumni will be held on Wednesday evening,
when a President of the Association will be
| elected; also, Speaker for 1865.
REV. W. @. VAN METER, the indefatigable
| friend of homeless children, spoke three Tunes
| yesterday in this city, presenting the cause of
| the Howard Mission and Home for Little
tional Church on Eighteenth street; at the First
| Baptist Church, Broad and Arch Streets and at
| the Olivet Presbyterian Church. In the morn
| Mr. Van Meter speaks this afternoon and even
| ing at the Spruce Street Baptist Church. To-
morrow he leaves for Wilmington, with eight
| or ten pupils, and will proceed to baltimore
| and spend next sunday in Washing on. His
| success is remarkable. Thousands of little
wanderers have been rescued from want by his
! earnest labor.
==PAYING FOR DRINKs.-Jacob Leister has
| been long in the habit ofspending his evenings
| in the bar-room OF a tavern kept by Mr.. Dack-
eTman and by playing sTndry g games anne m OF oaTdT bi
| to quite an extent. Saturday evening he went
! to his old resort, and demanded drinks, but the
| landlord, having in view the long column OF
| unpaid articles, refused Whereat Leister said
| he would pay the "score," and fell to. com
! pletely blacking the eyes of the landlord. For
this Alderman Holme committed him in
default of $500 bail to answer.
INSANE MAN PICKED UP.-This morning,
! at an early hour, young man was found in
| Clay street, his manner and actions indicating
| insanity. When asked by the officer where he
resided he answered in Lombard street. This
he corrected again by saying he lived in Jersey;
and to q the inquiry M as to the exact place he re.
| found in his pocket, with the name OF Robert
| Wilson written on the fly-leaf He will be kept
this day, and II by tonight friends or relatives
| do not claim him, he will be sent to the Aims
| house.
| AN UNLAWFUL WARNING TO A TENANT
! James Palmer resides in Rising Sun, and occu-
| pies dwelling, part of which he rents to an old
iauS. SATURDAY h!9nI falinef, lhclJed 20 eVll
| deeds by ardent spirits, went home,and to his
| tenants apartments, and warned her to move
Immediately. This he did by kicking her
violently and increasingly until she could get
| out OF the room, Complaint was that night
| made before Alderman Good, of Germantown
| and Palmer was arrested and committed in de.
! fault OF $500 bail.
REsCUED.-Last evening Charles O'Neil,
hailing from Camden, New Jersey, came near
| shutliing off this mortal coil. He was rather
| the worse for liquor. and tumbled in the water
| at Meade alley wharf Officer Morris had OBJ
| served him a short time before, but suddenly
| missing him, went to the dock and saw hin
ana an tne @ was S R by
| cold BATH: SO much so that he was enabled 70
reach the ferry and get To his home.
| LARCENY OF Observation-Disclosures Del
! mar, aged about 5S years, was passing through
| the Second Street Market. when her optics were
| enchanted with the vision of large plump, and
| tender chickens, in defunct state. No one,
| apparently to her. watching, so she un-
| hooked them from their hooks and deposited
| them in basket and went on. 1t was, how.
ever, "no-go" with her, as she was arrested, and
| Alderman Pottinger held her to answer.
A GENERAL PILFERER.-Mahlon Kite was
| arrested on Saturday afternoon, for being con
| cerned in numerous petty larcenies He at one
time worked for Edmund Dunn, and some tools
| and other small articles were missed. sI1i
| room was searched, and a trunk found contain
ing many articles which, at different times
had been stolen, overcoats, dressed skins
cloth, etc. etc., Alderman Allen committe(
him to answer.
KEEPING DIsoRDERLY HoUsE.-No
332 Monroe street has been the rendezvous o
the dissolute, who have acted in a manner t.
give annoyance and cause disgust to the peace
broken % up' it is hoped, by the arrest Of tn
mistress thereof, Margaret Ardell, who wa
committed by Alderman Tittermary.
HANDSOME CERTIFICATE.-The Board o
Directors of the Sixteenth School Section hav
just got mp beautiful certificate of graduation
averages for scholars, to be presented to pupil
OF the jefferson Grammar School, prior TO ad
mission into the Central High and Girls Nor
| nal hiu 10 into I
gold and colors by Rawlings & Zeising, anC
is the neatest affair OF the kind we have eve
seen.
| PAWNING WASH CLoTHEs.-Mary Pealt
was intrusted with bundle of wash clothes b!
different gentlemen, to put In proper state
But instead of this she pawned them at somt
store, and never appeared with any answer Il
the owners thereof She was arrested, and tn
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