The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-04
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
Oh AppIEIoNAL LOCAL ITEMS SEE 1Ns1pn rAens.l
CITY CRIMINAL CALENDAR.
Larceny of q SkiH and Load of POta-
tOes-NegrO TiII-Tappers - Malicious
Misehief-A Stabbing Affair,


MisehieE-A Stabbing Affair,
Yesterday Harbor Policeman Grimes OBJ
served thee suspicious looking characters
pulling skiff laden with potatoes around tue
Point House. He hailed them, and on coming
ashore they could give no satsfaotorv to-
tion as to how they had oht"'-- .ntorma,
-,,eu them and locked them up
III the second District Station. 1t was alter
wards discovered that the men had taken the
boat from Chester and gone to Woodbury.,
where they stole the potatoes from vessel.
The accused were taken before Alderman litter
mary, who committed them for trial. They
gave the names OF Michael Sullivan, Philip
Morton and william Abbott
The store at Twelfth and Christian streets
was entered yesterday by four negroes, who re-
lieved the till of its contents amounting to Sll.
They then left and we're followed to Eleventh
street, where they were taken into custody.
Being given hearing before Alderman Bonsall,
they answered to the names of Joseph Stout,
William Robinson, Robert Hook, and Robert
Palmer. They were all bound over to answer.
The charge of malicious mischief was yester-
day preferred against one Patrick Clare, before
Alderman Helms The complainant alleged that
while driving horse and carriage along Ger.
mantown road he was run into by heavy We
htcle belonging to the accused, who admitted
the fact but claimed that it was accidental. The
former insisted that it resulted through the
negligence Of Clare, who was required to enter
bail for his appe arance at Court.
Last night william Wilson, a boarder at No.
923 Wallace street, was stabbed in the hip at
that place. 1t seems that party was given IN
the house. and all went along smoothly until a
late hour in the night when tracas occurred,
during which Wilson was CUT John II. John
son, who is alleged to have inflicted the blow,
was held in $500 bail by Alderman Massey.
Town TA1K.-The city is drearily moist to-
day. Our streets are mud sloughs, our cutters
running mud-burns our sidewalks GLIB mud
stretches, everything is mud; horses, vehicles,
and citizens are mud-besplattered. This, how
ever, is only the soitening of the ancient dirt
rli
effected. We will then all be clean and nice.
Old women are in tribulation over the aching
OF their pet corns, old men over their buniony
excrescences. The weatherwise complain that
the "Equinoctial" is ahead of time. Pretty
Schuylklll again washes further up its banks,
and pours It's overplus over the barrier dam.
green and fragrautly fresh; wearied, sun
blghted flowers raise their heads and open
their leaves to embrace the tricklng drops.
Bare-looted urchins plash in the rain pools,
ba1e.tooted little girls laugh at them.
A rapid youth of twenty-one was found stea
dying himself last evening against one of the
city lamp posts. On being asked by q police
man what he was about, he replied.-'Sir-I
(hic) Pm don't you know, you nig'ramus-Pm
practising the Grecian bend, / ann He was
permitted 10 finish the exercise at the Station
House.
The Republican flag raising and mass
meeting which was to have taken place last
evening at Howard and Oxford streets, has been
postponed until Tuesday evening next The
heavens spouteG so the speakers couldn't.
The Street Contractor up town would do
we'll to look after Camac and Fawn streets.
Their condition, to say the very least, is nasty
the more so, as the other streets in the vicinity
have all been swept and shovelled.
The fdU style was introduced yesterday on
Chesnut street, lady hit her foot against the
curbstone and measured her length as well as
breadth, upon the walk.
The veteran legislator, Simon Cameron, re-
turned from Atlantic City yesterday. He is
suuburned, hale, and hearty. A seaside sojourn
has renewed his yigor.
Golden ornaments are the rage upon the
heads OF ladies at the present day. 1t would be
a much greater novelty to have a golden orna-
ment in the pocket.
-"Graut and Colfax" The Republicans of
the Fifteenth Ward meet to night for the pur-
pose of organizing q campaign club.
Lady Thorn and Mountain Boy" didn't
look yesterday at Suffolk Park-but they will
on Monday next
How to see a star without going to the
theatre-run your head against lamp post.
-Unpaatable Lunch--An acquaintances
cold shoulder. You prefer other mutton.
-Resumed-The drills aud meetings for the
season OF the National Guards regiment.
"A man of spirit-He who has just taken his
tod.