The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-30
OITY INTELLIGENCE.
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Executive Board was read to the contributors.
From this document we learn that the opera
lions OF this praiseworthy institution during
the past year were as follows
The contributions Of the year amounted to
from Friends and others in England and Ire
land. The total contributions made to the
ton have amounted to 500, ,280. In addition to
the money received from abroad, packages
"Birmingham and Midland Freedmenis Aid
Association" OF which packages of the value
OF SN,7ll contained ready-made garments and
material, shoes, blankets, etc. This large sup.
ply OF clothing, with some stock remaining
from last year. has enabled us to relieve large
amount of suffering, without encroaching on
the funds of the treasury, further than to pur-
chase few hundred pairs of shoes, for which
urgent appeals were received from every
In the distribution of fclothing the practice of
having the garments made up previously to
sending them TO the South has not been fol.
lowed. Sewing schools having been established
at many places, all the material received has
been sent to them TO be cut out and made up
therein, under the supervision of suitable per-
sons. During the severe winter weather food
and fuel were furnished to many who had no
means of providing for themselves Accounts
from Yorktown speak of over one hundred
families in THAT district thus receiving
The articles distributed during the year con-
sisted of 393 pairs of blankets, 20, 1877 garments,
II ,632 yards OF material, 1874 pairs of shoes, and
S43 pairs of stockings. The freedmen who have
been the recipients OF his substantial aid were
those of the District of Columbia Alexandria,
Richmond, Petersburg, Fredericksburg, Win
chester, and Danville, and the country sur
roundir g them In Virginia; Wilmington, Beau
coast and interior OF South Carolina:
Natchez, Mississippi; and New Smyrna, Florida
Large supplies OF seeds were also distributed
by the agents of The Association at Yorktown
and Danville. Virginia, and at various points
vice TO many families in distressed circum.
stances.
A property OF eighty acres, near Yorktown
Va, has been purchased, and the Mission
House and school buildings removed thither;
but some difficulty has arisen concerning the
ment; The schools of the Association
measures taken to sell the real
estate there, as it is believed that the
elsewhere. In addition to this the Association
has purchased property, and made improve
at various points in Virginia and North Caro-
lima, at a cost OF $3.50 In these two states
ana resnIar onerafinn The seIsries oS ssnei
colored teachers In Maryland have also been
paid. Not less than six thousand children are
In attendance at the various schools OF the
a large amount of substantial and religious
e literature has likewise been distributed during
the year, including 10000 copies of the British
Work man" and "Band of Hope Review;" 6O39
copies the Holy Scriptures or parts thereof;
156.36S copies of tracts, hymns, etc; $3.50 hymn
books; 59O2 books of other kinds and 512 vau-
able books to the libraries of the more advanced
schools at Danville, Greensboro, and Yorktown.
Such is the good work which this Association
commend itself, not only to the Friends of this
and aid to the suffering freedmen OF the south.
The officers of the Association for the cur
PresidentoSamuel Hiles. Secretary-John
B. Garrett. Treasurer-Richard Cadbury. Exc
6. Cope, Anthony NJ Kimber, Benjamin
Coates, William Evans Jr, James Whitall
Cadbury, Joel Cadbury Jr, David Scull, Jr.,
Caleb Wood, James e. Rhoads, Yardley War
w Biddle. Henry Bettle, Marcellus Balder-
ston, Thomas Scattergood
OK Their WAY TO THE "ETsRNAL CTY."-
The Cunard steamer Java sailed from New York
o Tor anroRe WSo are on
their way to Rome 70 participate IN tne I'M
posing o be of
Peter will there be celebrated on the 18th OF
fNe Rev Bishop Wood, of this city, and the follow
ing OF his clergy:-Very Rev z; !; d e Garter, NI
p Rev, Nicholas cantgel Rev Michael had f. Mar +
Shanahan, Rector OF the Diocesan Seminary
The Bishop and his ISTty %ere o eM @
and the following Philadelphians:-Very Rey.
DR.. O'Hara, " g.; Rey r a; a stanton; 6 Key' "A a.
j McConomy. and Fathers Welsn' o'heilly' Ell
Tn addition to various interesting and valua.
lle articles Bishop Wood takes with him as q
oresent D1e To- the Pope, 6O369, of which sum
ks9 2S0 was contributed by the Catholic
churches OF this city alone.
AscrNs,oN THURsDAY.-To-day is Ascension
Thursday, memorable day In the Episcopal
a. memory of ChrisL's glorious ascension into
Heaven on the fortieth day after His resurrec-
fo1'-r -rhich reason the Paschal Candle Is taken
away a. the end of the Gospel, TO SIGNIFY the
same The .aachings of the above Churches are
Ihat the faithful Christian should detach hlm'
self from earth s slser me br1 an tbs day
and invoke upon himself, eV 1erVent prayer
fhe grace to overcome every otfncuity IN INT
Svav Of salvation. Services We're hello ms morn
ing in all the churches OF the oehoHlination'
named.
srEA11NG LEATHER.-This morning Ofhcel
Groom. of the Fourth District, arrested ont
thief Johnson was at the time placing larg'
roll of leather consisting or nXe large PleceSs
1Inon the platform of q car at Third ana Arcl
streets This morning the proprietors OF snog sno
hefore the door OF theirsestablishment, thre
rolls of similar kind. soon after one wa
fonnd missing. A little examination proVs1
that the missing one as thhb -! -
noon.
ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO KmL.-Rober
McFadden who halls from Spring Mllis, yesteI
tsn,t visited the residence of an aged woman
nayned Meeney, on Montcalm sCreet, nea
Gatharine, From some cause unknown ne use
fIreatening language. and then foiloWed u
his declarations with violent ASSAULT ne wa W
sao,1 arrested and was held TO await hearln
0r Ihe charge of assault with lnJent 70 XII
S,t the woman not wishing 10 proseoul
McFadden on the latter portion OF the cpaIg'
he was committed In DEFAULT Oh coS's ioi Ooi"
drunk.
St1oHr FIREs.-Last evening, little aIte
o,cIocx a fire was discovered IN tne upppt
9torv of a dwelling No. 3l36 Market streeI ~ ~
aavsyes hrolxe out Of a dormre window, ana aiIt
1tsaovarv were effectually exttngulsned oy
Taw buckets of water we'll applied. NO alari