The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-30
FROM NEW ENGLAND.
Decoration Dny I'm Massachusetts.

BOSTON, May oO.-Ihe observance OF Dec0ras
tion Day in Boston and Vicinity was exceedingly
imposing and interesting. Posts of the Grand
Army of the Republic are out in full force,
laden with floral tributesto the brave dead. The
weather is delightful.
LOWELL, May 30.-Extensive preparations
we're made for the celebration to-day. Monu-
ment Square, where Ladd and Whitney, killed
at Baltimore, are buried, is beautifully deco
rated. The school children will sing and the
Grand Army of the Republic march this after
noon. Business is generally suspended.
INTERESTING EXERCISES. = On Thursday
evening" the Twenty-second Anniversary of the.
Tabernacle Baptist Sunday schools will take
place at the Academy of Music. The enter
tainment which is q varied one, comprising
singing and addresses, will be decidedly inter-
esting. The soloists are w. A. Briscoe and
Mrs. Josephine Schimpf, the latter singing the
ever-popular "What will you do, Love ?" Ralph
Wells, ESQ., of New York, will deliver an ad-
dress, and the superintendent of the Sabbath
school will read its annual report. In addition
to all these attractions, the Satterlee Band,
Theobald Hermann leader, will be on hand, and
the scholars will entertain the audience with
some choice pieces of music. The full pro-
gramme for the occasion will be found in our
advertising columns.
GOLD AND SILVER MEDALs.-In the window
of Bailey 81 Co.'S iewelry stere, Twelfth and
Chestnut streets are nine medals two gold and
seven silver. They are in the shape of shield,
with Maltese cross attached by red, white, and
blue ribbon, with offshoots bearing the figure
81" and the whole surmounted by a stand Of
arms. On the reverse side of one of the gold
crosses is the inscription 'Major j. F. Tobias,
from his friends of the LIST Division P. V. NJ,
as mark of esteem." The other medal is in
scribed, captain John A. Ryan" The seven
silver ones are to be awarded to the most merito-
rious of Co. A. 4th Regiment. They have been
made under the direction of the board of
officers of the 4th, and will be presented at the
Academy on the night of the 18th of June.
RowDIEs. - Alfred Rice and George Heck,
two loafers, were ordered off the corner of Sixth
and Pine streets Yesterday by Officer McNa-
mara but refused to comply. The officer then
took Rice into custody, and was marching him
to the station house when Heck assaulted him.
A brother officer arrested Heck, and Alderman
Godbou sent the prisoners to Moyameusing.
RELEASING FEvER.-This disease has broken
out in a portion of the Eleventh ward a locality
almost as filthy as st. Mary and Alaska streets.
On Saturday family of eight persons-father,
mother, and six children, all deaf and dumb
were removed from tenement-house known as
Entwistle's, Front and Green streets and taken
to the Municipal Hospital.
RAILROAD CAsUALTY.-A young German,
name unknown, was run over by train of cars
on the Norristown Railroad yesterday afternoon,
near the Falls of Schuylkill He attempted to
take passage on the train, but, slipping, fell,
and the train passed over his right foot. He
was removed to the Pennsylvania Hospital.
BURGLARY.-Ther residence of Joseph Stod-
dart, No. $50 North Sixteenth street, was
tered on Friday night during the absence of the
family and robbed of wearing apparel, etc., to
the amount of S400. The thieves entered through
the rear kitchen.
CAPTURED.-Cbarles Scott, the colored thief
whom Constable Whitesides was pursuing when
the shooting of Truman occurred, was last night
captured in st. Mary street. He was sent to
prison by Alderman Belshaw.
LoAFERs.-Ten corner loungers we're ar
rested by the officers of the Sixth district force
yesterday.