The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-06
NEW YORKISMS.
FSom Our oVn Correspondent.

noon.
Picture to yourself John Brougham in that
position, and, so far versatility and geniality
10, you have pretty correct picture OF our new
Mayor. He can compose songs and sing them
write farces and act them, tell good whisky and
swallow it, and tell good stories and make his
hearers swallow them. Finally, If he is as ready
in the manufacture of new edlcts as of witty
editorials, there is no knowing what height of
moral purity New York may attain at last.
Richard B. Connolly and George W. Mclean
will continue in their respective posts of Con-
troller and Street Commissioner.
The Board of Councilmen have wound up
1865 work with the wholesale passage OF
number of Himsy resolutions.
During December nearly ST, 600 were col
lected in taxes and during the last three months
over $40, ,000,OO
1t may not be generally known by Philadel-
phials that there are
TWO PROTESTANT sISTERHooDs
In this city, the Sisterhood of the Holy Comma
nion and the ssterhood OF St. Mary. The home
of the first Is ST. Lukes Hospital. The Sister
hood of st. Mary occupies three houses, one in
West Forty.sixth street, another, the Sheltering
House at the corner of One Hundredth street
and Broadway, and the third, the House of
Mercy, at the foot of Eghty-sixth street, North
river.
A few of the Episcopal churches have lst.erly
been paying much attention to the subject of
the establishing Of sisterhoods and brOtherhcods
for the relief of the poor and wretched. Fore
most in this direction among Episcopal clergy
men is Father Morrill,, the much berated
ritualist of st. Alban's. The Brotherhood, or
Sodality, formed by him has been in existence
for little over a year. During that time its
members have from their own resources ex-
pended on charitable objects about $500. They
propose shortly to render themselves still more
useful by the erection Of house, called Clergy
House, Immediately beside their chapel. The
Clergy House is to be their headquarters-a sort
OF charitable and religious telegraph dre-alarm
and police station.
NEW TEMPERANCE HALL,
restaurant and readngroom have just been
thrown open. They include four rooms in all
public hail. free read1ng-room, committee
room, and restaurant. The first three are
free to the public by day aud night. In the
restaurant the best OF refreshments are pro
missed at cost prices, the refreshments of
course excluding spIituous and malt liquors of
every description. Meetings are to be held
or free lectures of some kind delivered every
night.
number of scenes consequent upon
SUICIDAL MANIA
of which have been witness. The most of
them have been in New York, and the majority
of those ir New York have had foreigners for
their principal participants. Gustav, German
youth, who plays the little drum in an orches-
ira, is in love with his cousin Hildegarde, a
married woman, whose husband, captain OF
oil FRO 10 oh tap
months in the year. Hildegarde is partial to
her cousin, but wanting TO be true to her
husband, permits Gustav to g) just so far, and
only a little bit further than he ought
The husband is expected home; Hu-
degarde is in tears, and upbraids her
cousin for having been irresistible. Gustav COM
poses set OF verses in which he uses German
adjectives OF fourteen syllables, aud otherwise
distributes poetic justice all round by walk
ing into East River and being fshed up aud
taken to the Morgue, There is wailng aud
gnashng of teeth, and tender hell of anguish
in Hildegarde's breast, when the officers find
her out next morning aud request her presence
at the coroners inquest, for the identification
of the body; and thus the story reduphcates
itself from time to time. This generalization,
let me hope, will spare the reader, for to day at
least, the expectation of any of the painful de-
tails of recent suicides here.
HOW TO GO TO HAMBURG
most eXpeaitiously aud at the least expense
was the question asked of Messrs. Bierwirth
Rochall, merchants OF this CITY, by three
fashionable and good-looking youHg men, whose
subsequent disappearance seems to have been
simultaneous with the disappearance of a GER
tain tin box containing 100000 in bonds. Ali that
Bierwirth d Rochall know about the matter
is that the bonds are gone, and that the only
party presen: in the Office where the bonds re-
posed consisted OF the three fashionable and
goodooking young men before mentioned :.
This makes the third or fourth successful bond
robbery to great amount that has been perpe-
trated during the last three months. The police
are "working it up" Messrs. Bierwirth &
hochall are worked up already
The present regime of
POLICE MAGISTRATES
gives not unnatural dissatisfaction to certain
classes OF honest Taxpayers. These have lately
held meetings, the object of which is to petition
the Legislature to remove such incubi, and
appoint successors who have greater claims to
legal lore and integrity of character.
THE TAMMANY
opened last night to such gush OF Gothamites
as soon filled the large hall. The Impressions
one retains of such a jam, chatter, and buzz are
apt to be misty. OF one thing the public is sure,
and that is that 1t has a new style of amusement.
No one OF the numerous features of the pro-
gramme lasts more than three-quarters of an