The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-12
NEWS SUMMARY.


City Affairs.
EARLY last evening Robert j. Wallace, fifty
one years of age, residing at No. 224S Lombard
street. was arrested for shooting his wife, Eliza
beth Wallace, sixty-one years of age. 1t ap-
peared that she had just returned from visit to
Fairmount Park, and was about entering the
room In which he lay upon settee, when a
musket that he had within his hands was dis
charged wounding her in the forearm severely.
The wad was extracted from the wound, and IL
was thought that there was no ball or shot in
the musket. Whether the hurt was inflicted
purposely or not is not determined.
The following vessels cleared from this port
during the past week with petroleum:-Brig
Chillianwalla, for Barbadoes, with 4l17 gallons;
brig Haidee, for Kingston, with 1000 do; brig
Diana, for Antwerp, with 80 13l do; brig La
Rochelle, for Gibraltar with 81 749 do; barque
f. Reck, for Bremen with 137997 do; brig
Bloomer and barques Idolique and Providence,
for Cork, with 81 90l do. barque Cuthbert, for
Marseilles, with 9S, 100 do; barque Daphne, for
Elsinore, with S9,S0S do; making total of
S04Sl2 gallons for the week, aud 12S73, 0lS
since the LIST of January, 1859. There are now
loading ships, IA barques, and 3 brigs.
The stockholders of the Wilmington aud
Western Railroad Company have organized,
and strenuous efforts are being made to carry
out the provisions of the charter granted by the
Legislature of Delaware, and tho special act
passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature. 1t is
proposed at present to build the first section,
from Wilmington, Delaware, to Charlottesville,
in Chester county, at which point it will inter
Delaware City. The other sections of the road
will connect with Oxford, Peachbottom, Hano-
yer Junction, and Gettysburg, through the
southern counties of this State
About noon yesterday two of the prisoners
on the convict side of the County Prison made
their escape by climbing over the wall, aide
by rope formed of their bed clothing. II was
the dinner hour, when the officers were engaged
inside of the corridors, and the men got into the
yard unperceived, from which. they seem to
have had but little trouble in escaping They
were observed by persons on the outside,
and chase given. One of the fugtiyes
was captured, but a crowd of young men gath
cred around the captor and the prisoner, and by
their interference enabled the fugitive to escape.
The two escapes from the prison Immediately
previous to those just referred to were made in a
similar manner, by scaling the western wall.
The twenty-third anniversary of the Sunday
Schools of the Third Reformed Presbyterian
Church, corner of Oxford and Hancock streets,
was celebrated yesterday afternoon. Rev. Mat
thew Galley, pastor of the church, presided. a
number of anthems were sung and recitations
given by the scholars. Addresses were made by
Hon. James Pollock, Abram Martin, and the
pastor of the church.
Joseph Carter, aged six years, was run over
by a light wagon, in Washington avenue, below
Sixth street, last evening, injurng his leg. He
was removed to his home, No. j35 Washington
avenue.
Hugh Graham, aged fourteen years, was
drowned in the Schuyllill yesterday afternoon
while bathing. The deceased resided at No 40I
s. Twentieth street.
The first cargo of peaches this season wa!
shipped on the Delaware Railroad last Wednes
day. Some Of them were from Kent county, Nd