The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-29
NEWS SUMMARY.
Cifv Annirs.

james Hickey, aged eighteen years, residing
in Haddington, West PHILADELPHIA, had ooth
legs and one arm broken yesterday afternoon,
by falling out of the third story window oil the
paper mill of Cooper Co. He was removed 10
The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of
the city of Philadelphia, consisting OF Mayor
McMchael, Mr.. Lyndall City Controller, and
MIR, John Welsh, held their annual meeting
yesterday at the office Of the City Treasurer and
$SS7 ITO 9 CITY loan s9as had Issa pee9
aud also $269, 294'1l of loan redeemed during
the same period by the City Treasurer, making
the total amount cancelled $666, 394 IL.
George w. Knight, who plead guilty to the
charge OF executing a false bond by which the
payment of the tax on distilled spirits was
evaded and was sentenced. on the first OF Feb
ruary to one years imprisonment has been
pardoned by President Johnson. Contrary TO
the usual practice In the United States District
Court, Knight was not sentenced to the Eastern
Penitentiary, and he has been since the SEN
tence was passed on the untried side OF the
County Prison.
their monthly meeting last evening. The OPEN
ing exercises were conducted by Peter b.
Simons, Esq.,, President of the Association. An
essay upon the subject of Making the Prayer
meetings Attractive" was read by the Rev.
Alfred Taylor. The question, Can Prayer,
Young Men ~ was debated by number of the
members. Seventy.eight new members were
elected. During the evening resolutions were
J. Parvin, and condqling with the family OF the
deceased. ....-
The philadelphia Tract and Mission Society
distributed during the present month SO, 1877
English, S341 German, aud 16l French tracts
over two-thirds of the city, through Mission
aries, IS superintendent and 800 Tract Visit
ors; 5000 tracts of this number have been
given to the seamen along the Delaware and
Schuylkill. These visitors gather the children
into our Sunday and other schools, supply the
Bible to the destitute, meet the bodily wants Of
the masses through the City Mission and Union
B nevolent Society, and in the temperance
cause by circulating the pledge and temperance
tracts. Mission meetings aresestablished as far
as possible in each section, to which the resi-
dents OF such section are invited to attend who
do not go anywhere to church, and thus are
eventually drawn to hear the Gospel preached.
Samuel Nicholson, aged seventeen years,
yesterday afternoon stepped into the cashiers
room of the National Exchange Bank, and
stated that he desired to wait for his father,
who he said was one of the principal deposit
tors. On desk were a large numb Der of 500
coupon bonds. The cashier turned his back for
an instant and on facing about noticed that
the pile of bonds was considerably disarranged,
The youngster, after sitting awhile, remarked
that as his father did not seem to be coming he
would take his leave but the cashier sus specting
that he had stolen some of the bonds. turned
the key in the door, Nicholson asked what was
the matter, when the cashier discovered one OF
the bonds lying at his feet. Calling in police.
man, Samuel was escorted to the Central Station,
where he bad hearing last evening. He was
committed for trial.