The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-28
CITY INTEL Il q H " q H..

snal Oh Iu0 l%tn VI ouly lOllOWluS.
CITY INTEL LHG Il N q H.
LOCAL ODDS AND ENDs.-With a chasm on
one side and huge brick-pile ON the other, a
passage in Third street car, from Chestnut to
Market, is anything else but enjoyable.
If Mayor Fox would order his men to arrest
all persons found running wheel-barrows and
bakers carts on our pavements, he would be
doing an act of charity. The proverb says
''Charity covers multitude of SINS"
Lieutenant Prltchard is a model officer o.
and the people of the Nineteenth ward should
feel proud of him, especially the roughs and
bruisers.
"A mass meeting of Irishmen will be held at
the Academy of Music on Wednesday, May IL,
to protest against the threatened eXtirpation of
their countrymen at home, through the opera
tions of the Gladstone Coercion BILL Oh ! my
countrymen, etc.
The Squire, as proof of his friendship o.
contributed $25 towards the late jollifcation
over the fifteenth amendment.
Any person desirous of forming collection
of the physiognomies of ex-convicts, political
bummers, municipal thieves etc, should en-
gage photographer to spend an hour each day
on the Row pavement.
The colored people are jubilant, and claim
dat de celebrication of the amendment to the
fifteenth constitution was de acre of de success
of perfection"
Detective Cobb addresses his Honor by the
familiar title of "Uncle Dannie."
We this morning noticed IAN ancient
Democrat standing at MIMI ana Arcn StreeLS
viewing the demolition of the "once glorious
pile through tears of warmth and brininess.
Noticing the movement of his lips, we ap-
preached and caught the sound, 'Oh, Berrell
Berrell wherefore art thou, Berrell ?"
-Connells $1,000 is eclipsed by sherif's
attaches $1200
--Manayunk won't have the capital located
there. The people are afraid OF Connell.
Yesterday the 1870 class of Polytechnic Col
lege performed the annual ceremony of planting
ivy in the court yard of the college building.
Councils this afternoon will decide upon
the sureties of John L. Hill, Esq., Delinquent
Tax Collector.
Business in this city never was so fiat.
"A new passenger railway was incorporated
by the late Legislature-the Northern Liberties
and Penn Township Railroad Company.
fifth annual celebration by the Union League.
Numbers of our new-made citizens partici-
pated in the jubilee at Kaighn's Point to-day.
-Ex-Coroner Daniels is a legislative candi.
provement on Davis?
"A number of the State Senators have been
in the city within few days.
Chestnut street presents springy appear
Senator Connell can be seen any day riding
down Chestnut street, and all on $1,000 for the
session.
Representative Elott's expenses at Harris
burg were greater than his receipts. How about
some others of the Philadelphia delegation who
had no other means of livelihood?
Several country Representatives are now in
the city, demanding the ''dvvies" on certain
Philadelphia measures which were rushed
through the late Legislature.
1t may not be known, but ii is fact, that the
notorious Cattle bill went kiting through the
House on the Monday night when bills were
passed before the titles even could be read.
-Murtagh and Walsh, who were shot yester.
day morning, were both Democrats.
Representative Davis says if he is renomi
mated he will introduce on the opening day o.
he | I,puislatura n ranpalinO DallnOuen
Tax Collector bill.
The O'Byrne is talking of new Democratic
party.
THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT AT KAIGHN''
POINT.-To-day the negroes at Kaighn's Poin
and vicinity celebrated the ratification of the
fifteenth amendment and although not so larg,
as the display witnessed in this city on Tuesday
was equally as imposing. At sunrise there wa
salute fired, and between and II o'clock in
teresting devotional exercises were held in the
various churches At l o'clock the procession
formed at Broadway and Kaghns Point avenue
and proceeded over the principal streets. !
number of Philadelphia organizations were il
the line. Tonight there will be mass meeting
in the Court House, at which addresses will b
delivered by Colonel John w. Forney, Isaiah c
Wear, Rev. T. ID. Miller and others.
PUBLIC SALE OF ELEGANT COUNTRY SEATS
-Messrs Thomas & Sons advertise for publ
sale the very valuable and elegant country seats
mansion, 10 acres, and outbuildings, s. w
corner Old York road and Chelten avenue: man
sion, 10 acres, Asylum road, Twenty-third ward
residence and 5 acres, Mill street, Germantown
mansion, 25 acres, known as "Beechwood,
Jenkintown station, on the North Pennsylyaui
Railroad; stone dwellings and 1919 acres, Olney
Twenty-second ward; residence and acre.
Woodbury. New Jersey; mansion and cottage
715 acres, Chestnut Hill farm and country sea
1875 acres, Chester county, Pennsylvania, res
dence, Tulpehocken street, Germantown, an
others. See advertisements and handbills.
To RE AITFRED-The gentlemen wi
manage the affairs of horticultural Hall
ably are about to make extensive improvement
in its interior arrangements. 1t is proposed
build an additional gallery over the one from
ing on Broad street, and thus prevent the r
Verberation which has been SO much complain'
of. There are numerous other improvements
be made In other respects, but the one me
toned is the most important.