The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-15

Less paid by pupils % 90
ss23 90
| In the Home School there are 81 pupils.
The e&pe nses for the month OF january,
| including matron physician, provisions,
extra beddii g &c., are. $685. "a
Or which there has been received and pledg-
: CD LII charleston. ....................... 473 0U
S193 "a
Add amount needed for school. .......... 323 90
Total needed. .s516 "a
| REPoRTER'S CRUMBS. - The velocipede has
made its appearance in our city.
| To-day the reorganization of the police force be-
| gins.
| "Whitmans $4,000 White Fawn'' will appear at
the Hihernian Hall, Thursday evening.
Gains paper. the Record, scores the idlers who
daily lounge around the courthouse.
| St. Valentines day-as far this city is concern.
ed,-isa I" izzle.''
Yesterday, the first Sunday in Lent, the churches
| were we'll attended. :
| gold pencil, picked up in the street some days
ego. is still at the Guardhouse awaiting an owner
| The yacht Fire Fly LETT the haroor Saturday and
| went south.
| The commission appointed by the Legislature to
examine the colored pilots recently appointed began
| its duties Saturday
The police force Will be paid off to-day
The side walls ofthe new store on East Bay corner
OF Prioleaustreet are going up The building, when
| completed, will have substantial iron front.
The oratorio will take place Thursday evening.
| The new organ of st. Philips Church will UNDERGO
formal trial OIL Friday night, and then be turned
over to the church.
Apetition circulated on Saturday in behalf of
the Sisters of Mercy, addressed to Council prayn ng
MD for the orphans under their charge.
Little ChalSOn the florists son Tho r,,, o,,ar
by the city time ago. has lost but one lev
| and is getting we'll.
co,ored man had at in one of the city cars YES
terday.
The Sisters of Marcy cutivating truck farm
in Rutledge-street with apparent success.
| Aplank road on Rutledge avenue is much needed
no doubt the property owaers in the vicinity would
| assist in its construction.
The assets of the Charleston Savings Institution
will be sold at tho old PostoHce tomorrow
The repairs authorized by Council on the Mariou
Eng'ne House have begun. and will include length
ening of the lower story, with two wings on the
| front; alss, cupoa with open work and ba-
| lusters. aN
Last n ght about nine O'Clock there was a heavy
| fall Of rain in this city.
THE CATHOLIC ORPHAN AsYLUMs.-For the
fret time eince their establishment, the two Catholic
| Orphan Asylums (male and female, of Charleston.
ore about TO appeal to the city government for as
Y tanee. We learn that the good Sisters are com
PEELED to this step with reluctance. and only under
the pressure ofeore necessity. The following reti
ton has been very numerously signed by the
friends and we'll wsherS of the Asylums among the
| taxpayers. and las copies have been left ut the
newspaper otices) we doubt not that large numbers
| of our humane citizens generally will add their
i signatures to the memorial.
THE CITY OF CHARLESTON.
| To the Honorable the Mayor and Aldermen IL, Cam.
mon CosncH assembled:
The memorial Of the undersigned taxpayers of
the city aforesaid humbly and respectfully showeth
that the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy body poll
tco and corporate instituted for charitable pur-
poses have been established in this city since 1899
have been engaged in attending the sick and main
tanning and training the orphan. Soon after the
estaDnshmen OF their order in this city, they OPEN
ed female orphan ASYLUM which has ever since
been filed to it's entire capacity This asylum they
I nave nave been enabled to keep up only by the most
| ing under the most difficult embarrassments. And
they have bad to depend for s support chiefly upon
their own efforts and the charitable donations OF the
"a hol1c Citizens Of Charleston.
AS long as there was room tor another. no orphan
ever applied in vain for admission to their asyium
They have clothed. fed comforted and trained upon
IN average, sixtyfve every year from the foundation
Of their institution to this day. At no time have
these ladies' had under their care and tuition less
than fifty OF these little ones while at other times the
number ofther little inmates has exceeded seventy
4 Besides this female orphan asylum o boys orphen
asylum has been opened III Cannon-street, contain,
ing twenty-one boys. This established June 5,
| 1867. -
The present year there maintained in these two
asylums eighty'six orphans. male and female
Your petitioners as Introductory the prayer thsy
have now to mike do not propose address to your
fornsorable BODY an argument. but simply to lay
and facts, the best argument for an enlightened
odlns fr occasion that the claim of these
ore on ..a has ever been brought be-
oFe Councii and your pettSoners hone that Fl NAV
be favorably considered. ~ i1opo 'n"' ~ nlay
They would not now obtrude on y.-.r bororah,o
body but the reduced state in which thae. Ia;a
have been left by various adverse circumstances an
ing and slacs tho war imperatively demand relief
such relief is now indispensable to them
Finally. your petitioners pray that in the annual
appropriation by the city for the relief Of the or
I phan. certain sum may be allowed this charitable
body that they may be encouraged IN the holy work
they have undertaken, and that in the adminietra-
tion OF our city affairs fair equal and impartial tus
tce may be dealt out alike to all OF its citizens. and
Your memorialists, as in duty bound will ever pray
sc.