The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-26
NEWS SUMMARY.
IHfr Annfrn.


At the recent annual session of the State
Council, Junior Order u. A. NJ, the following
representatives were elected to the National
Oouncil;--Charles II. Kurtz, John ID. Olous,
John d. Goff, James p. p. Brown, and Ben
jamin s. Reiff.
The closing exercises Of the night school
held at the City Institute, northwest corner
of Eighteenth and Chestnut Streets were held
last night. A large number of persons we're
present and took great interest in the cere-
monies. Addresses were made by several
gentlemen.
"A meeting was held last evening at the
City Institute, Eighteenth and Chestnut streets,
TO appoint delegates to the National Conven-
ton, TO assemble at Pittsburg on the Sd of
March, with view to alter the Constitution
Of the United States, so as to recognize God
and the Christian religion. Rev. Francis
Church was called to the chair.
An adjourned meeting of the opponents
Of Independence Square as a site fer the pro-
posed newpublic buildingswas held last evening
at Merrick and Market streets. Mr.. Poulterer,
chairman of the committee to visit Harris
burg, stated that he had visited that city on
Tuesday, but the bill, that alone could have
been acted upon that day, was objected to,
and laid over for week. 1t will come up
on Tuesday next. He then read the bill
which forbids forever the erection of any
public buildings on Independence Square.
Addresses were made on the subject by
number Of gentlemen and the meeting ad-
journed.
AT o'clock yesterday afternoon the Board
of Directors of City Trusts assembled at
Girard College to take formal possession of
that institution. All the inmates and scholars
of the college were gathered in the chapel,
and after the usual religious exercises, led by
Professor Allen, the President of the board,
Mr. Ailliof,n Walch oda on addraqa lie
Honor the Mayor, and the President of
Select Council, being unavoidably absent
from the city, Professor Allen made re-
sponsive reply on behalf of the officers Of the
college and himself personally. Addresses
were also made by William b. Mann, Esq,
General Louis Wagner, and George H. Stuart,
Esq, and at their close the congregation, after
singing the hymn Crock of Ages" was dis
missed. The Girard Cadets, with the College
Brass Band, Captain Henry Oliver, command
ing, was reviewed as regiment.
The alarm of fire last evening, about
half-past ten o'clock, was occasioned by the
burning of several frame houses adjoining
the extensive cotton and woollen mills of
James Nolan, on st. John street, below Ger
mantown road, in the Fourth district Four
of the houses damaged were respectively oc-
cupied by Joseph Foil, Mrs. Myers, William
Bartt, and Mrs. Wasthyler. The fire is sup
posed to have originated in the loft over the
engine-house of the mills, and the flames
frem thence rapidly communicated to the
roofs of the adjoining frame houses on De
Wits court. The gable ends were burnt out
of some half dozen of these buildings, and
had not the iremen been promptly on the
ground the result would have been most dis
astrous. As it was, the flames were extin-
guished in time to save both the dwellings
and the cotton mills.