The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-05
NEWS SUMMARY.
City Affairs.

City Affairs.
"A meeting Of the master bakers was held
yesterday afternoon at the public house
corner of Eleventh and Fitzwater streets,
George Ludy, chairman: William II. Pollok,
secretary. The chairman stated that the
meeting had been called to form q Bakers
Union, and fix a standard price for bread.
TIL committee appointed at a previous meet
ing presented a report recommending that
the organization be known as the Bakers
Protective Union Of the City and County of
Philadelphia, to be composed Of such bakers
as carry on business in the place designated.
Appended to the report we're a series of re-
solutions, fixing the price of bread for stores
at - and 7 cents, and that furnished to
families at 4 and 8 cents per loaf.
The Board of Aldermen reassembled yes
terday afternoon, and selected canvassers for
the Seventh and Eighth wards.
"A meeting of journeymen bricklayers
was held last evening at the hall Eighth and
Locust streets. Several persons we're init
ated as members of the Bricklayers' Union,
making the membership 442. Business was
represented to be brisk, q number of new
buildings being under way, and alterations
of old structures into stores being made.
Wages were said to be higher at present in
some of the n~eighboring towns than they had
been for several years past, owing to the
great number of new buildings being erected.
The alarm of fire last evening about 7
o'clock was caused by the burning of a shed
in the rear of Lennig's feather renovating
establishment, Lombard street, above Third.
AT . o'clock last evening an alarm was
reated by the burning of a quantity of straw
at No. 1343 Olive street.
The alarm at half-past Q was caused by
the partial destruction of the cabinet shop of
Thomas g.. Clyde, rear of No. 1912 South
street. The loss is estimated at $1,000; par
TALLY insured.
AT the fire yesterday afternoon, on Lom-
bard street, the Chief of Police directed the
arrest of thirty-six boys on the ground and
around the fire apparatus. Orders are to be
issued to the police to arrest hereafter all
boys running with fire apparatus or found at
q fire.
The steam frigate Powhatan, which ar
rived at the Navy Yard last December, and
was placed out of commission and dismantled,
is to be Immediately fitted for service, by
order of the Navy Department. Stripped of
her rigging and disarmed, the Powhatan has
been lying out in the stream. She is a side
wheel steamer, and was built at Norfolk in
1850. Her length over all is 270 feet, beam
AZ feet, and depth 10 feet. Her last arma-
ment consisted of II guns. She is of $500
tons burden, has two engines capable of 1900
horse power, and her coal bunkers are of 800
tons capacity.
Bishop Wood has recently made a number
of changes among the clergy. Rev. t. W.
Power has been removed from st. Mary's,
South Fourth street, to the pastoral care of
st. Dominick's Church, at Holmesburg; Rev.
p. A. Lynch, late pastor of Holmesburg, has
been transferred to the pastoral care of st.
Marks Church, Bristol, and Rev. Edward f.
P~endergast, late pastor of the latter place,
has been appointed to the pastoral care of the
church at Allentown; Rev. James P. Martin,
late of st. Anne's, Port Richmond, succeeds
Rev. T. W.. Power at st. Mary's. The Other
appointments are as follows:-Rev. William
Herman, d. D., and Rev. John j. Doherty
have been appointed to the Cathedral; Rev
Henry Reilly, from st. Francis to the pas
toral charge of the mission at Shenandoah
Schuylkill county, Pa; Rev. Nicholas Bow
den, from st. Canicus' Church, Mahanoy City
TO the pastoral charge of st. Joseph's
Church, Downingtown, Chester county
Pa; Rev. Francis Quinn, appointed to st
Anne's; Rev. Thomas Bolger, appointed t.
st. Anne's; Rev. John Burns, appointed to st
Patrick's, Pottsville; Rev. Patrick Daily, ap
pointed to st. Francis. From the change
as made by the Bishop the Catholic clerg
have no appeal.