The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-05
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
ToR ADDITIONAL LooAL IreNa gnn rIrrn eAanl


MEETING OF THE BOARD OF GUARprANs-T
stated meeting OF the Board Of Guard ans was
held yesterday afternoon, President Erety in
the chair.
The Steward reported collection for house
receipts as S96'87.
The Outdoor Agent reported the amount col.
leGted for support cases AZ $22525
The Board OF Visitors reported the February
expenses as follows;-Coal, $597O'70; Wood,
$79l's2; Groceries, 1851 90; Medicines, S2s8'74;
Sl0,952'69
Relief was furnished to-Americans, 268s:
Foreigners, 3639; Child1en, 7956-Total, Ia, 2Sl.
The nativity of those relieved was-Germany,
5O3; England, l77; Italy and France, 80; Penn
sylyania, 763; Ireland. 2s57; Wales and Scot
land, AZ; Philadelphia, 1903; United States, $50;
other foreign localities, 2S.
MIR. Brown presented resolution requesting
the Commissioner OF Markets to notify the
Guardians of the time and place of seizure, and
the names of the parties from whom short
weight butter is taken.
The resolution was amended by emitting the
return of the names and was then agreed to.
The Treasurer reported that he had paid into
the city treasury S2O93'9l.
1t was stated that there are now in the House
one hundred and ftty-two white and thirty
COlOred soldiers.
Messrs. Whitall, Server, and Field were ap-
pointed Committee to advertise for proposals
for coal for the House, not exceeding three
thousand tons in quantity.
house as follows:-Number in the House at II
o'clock NJ, March 2, 1896; same time last year.
1921; decrease, 25. Total men, 1887; total
women, 1859.
Admitted within the last two weeks. 1sO;
births 10; deaths, 30; discharged, 165; eoped,
so; indentured l; number of persons granted
LODGINGS within the last two weeks, 2O6; number
granted meals 54l.
The inmates of the house are classified as fol-
lows:-Healthy males un Ter sixty, l2l; working
mems wing, 655; number of men reported em-
ployed, 450. Total men and women in insane
department. less assistants, 666 Adjourned.
ANNIvERsARY.-St Johns NJ. +. Church
was filed to oyerAowing. on Sunday afternoon,
the occasion being the Sixth Anniversary OF the
Juvenile Missionary Society attached to the
Sabbath School. The exercises were opened
with prayer by the Pastor, after which the pro-
gramme, which had been prepared for the occa-
sion, was regularly gone through with. Several
divines we're present, and brief addresses made
by them to the children. The SecIetarys
report was read, and listened to with no little
interest. The receipts during the past, says the
report, from the different bands and circles
composing the Society, have been over S2l7, all
of which had been expended in way we'll
calculated to advance the cause of Christianity
in the heather lands very materially. After
the award of few testimonials, the assemblage
was dismissed with the benedictlon. One of
the most prominent features Of the occasion
was the singing by the children. They per.
formed their part well, rejecting no discredit
whatever upon the merits of their instructor.
A SINGULAR CAsE.-A German named John
Sauers, living in Deyitts court, Seventeenth
Ward, hung out q flag yesterday. He fought
throughout the war, was wounded, and receives
apension. Yesterday was the day for the pay
ment OF pensions, and in honor of it he dis
played the national bunting. About o'clock
IN the afternoon party of five men passing
his house saw the flag, and, with some trouble,
tore it down. Sauers fired upon them with
a pistol from the second-story window, and
George Hunspur, one of the quintette, received
ball in his leg, where, at last accounts, it
still renamed. Sauers was arrested and held
in $4,000 to answer, by Alderman Shoemaker.
FATAL ACCIDENT.-Mr. John Cope, Assistant
Superintendent of the Philadelphia and West
Chester Railroad, met violent death yesterday
afternoon. He was entangled between two cars
of train at the new depot, Thirty-frst and
Chestnut streets, and was mashed so fearfully
that he survived but five minutes His body
was taken to his home, at the corner of Thirty
first and Oak streets. The Coroner held an in
quest. The testimony showed the case TO be
purely accidental.