The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-23

h Yesterday afternoon, Stephen Rosson,
eight years Of age, fell overheard at Spruce
street wharf, Delaware, and was drowned.
The body was recovered and taken to the
house of the parents, No. 324 South Front
street.
The cornerstone of the new building
about to he erected for the Northern Dispen-
sary of Philadelphia, on their lot, Coates
street. near Sixth, was laid yesterday, in the
presence of the managers. The building will
be ~ feet front, three stories high; first story
of Franklin stone.
Miss Ann Shorter, colored, residing at
No. 1922 Addison street. aged 40 years, was
badly burned about the body last evening,
while filling coal oil lamp near the gas. Her
clothes were also burned almost entirely off
her person. She was removed to the Penn
sylvania Hospital.
"A fire broke out about 12 o'clock last
night in the distillery on Kent street, above
Twenty-fifth, owned by Daniel Barker. The
FIRE, which is supposed to have been the work
of an incendiary, originated in the rear of
the first floor of the structure, which is q two
story affair, built of brick The building
was entirely consumed. The loss is about
$4,000, covered by insurance.
The annual meeting of the Episcopal
Divinity School was held yesterday afternoon
in the Church of the Epiphany, at Fifteenth
and Chestnut streets. A. r. Edmunds pre-
sided. After devotional exercises the report
of the treasurer was made and adopted. An
election for officers was held, resulting as fol-
lows:-President, Rev. Percy Brown; Vice
Presidents, Revs. j. S. Reed, E. H. Porter,
and r. N. Thomas; Secretary, Rev. Wash
ington b. Erwin; Treasurer, Rev. ]. II. Ec-
cleson; Executive Committee, Revs. Samuel
4. Smith, Joseph r. Moore, S. B. Shines, and
r. A. Edwards.
james A. Freeman, auctioneer, sold yes
terday at noon, at the Exchange, the follow
ing:-Share Mercantile Library, So; the 1-16
share in the schooner Pathway, 1915; the !
share in the schooner @. E. Elmer, $500; the
4 share in the schooner Hattie Page, 1915;
the share in the schooner l.. @. @. Wishart,
$3.50; silver ground rent of $35 per annum,
$51O; two-story brick house, No. 947 Winton
street, lot IA by so feet subject to $36 ground
rent, $691' five acres Of meadow land near
Point Breeze, $4,000; IL acres and improve
ments, Passyunk road and Twentieth and
Mifflin streets, $500 per acre, $1S, ,O)O; three
story brick, feed store and dwelling, S. w.
corner of Second and Dickerson streets, lot
16 by 67 feet, $4,000; building lot, Dickerson
street, west of Second, 16 by 81 feet 1915;
45 acres, Bethlehem turnpike, / mile from
Penn Lynn Station, N. P. R. R., $67O; Is
acres and improvements, Greenwich Island
road, First ward, $4,000; two-story brick
dwelling, No. 1914 Woodbine street, lot II
by 3S feet, $3.50; curry-comb manufactory,
Hancock and York streets, lot ~ by 100 feet,
$4SOO; goodwill, stock, engine and machinery
of the above factory, $500. On Tuesday
evening, at the hall of the Fair Hill Land
Company, Ninth street and Girard avenue, the
following lots in the Twenty-ffth ward
. lots corner of Sixth and Indiana streets, each
IS by68feet 1Oa inches, 1926 each, $1O52; LOT
west side of Fifth street, between Somerset
and Clearield streets, IS by ~ feet $516; 1
lot adjoining, same size, $515; 3 lots, same
size, $49S each, $1494; 3 lots, same size,
$497 each, $1491; lot, same size, 1896; 4
lots on the east side of Fifth street, each Is
by 100 feet, between Somerset and Clearfield
streets, $645 each, $3.50; lots on the east
side of Fifth street, same size, $641 each
$45O1; lots on the east side of Fifth street
same size, SOL each, $512S; 6 lots on the
east side of Fifth street, same size, $64S each
S3SSS; lots on the east side of Fifth street
same size, $651 each, $1953; 3 lots on the
east side of Fifth street, same size, $63!
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