The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-14
NEWS SUMMARY.



The 1fty-tbird anniversary OF the INDECENT
Widows and Single Womens Society was
celebrated yesterday at the Home, Cherry street,
above Seventeenth. Rev. William W. Newton
presided, and opened the meeting with religious
exercises. The Treasurer aud Committee of
Expenditures presented their annual reports
showing the receipts of the year to have been
$26, 1858.
The annual meeting of the Ladies' Deposi
tory Society was held yesterday, at the Insttu-
tion, No. 1876 s. Eleventh street. The receipts
OF the year accounted TO $l962'72, and the ex-
penses Sl9116 go. The deposits were $685.
and payments for work $40 630 upon which
there was discount of $62013.
.Ibe report states that the small discount
charged upon the work is not sufficient to pay
the salaries of the agents employed to give IL
out, leaving the balance, with the rent of the
store and all other expenses, to be disbursed by
the society. The whole profit of the work goes
to the depositor, who can thus live by her labor,
and supply herself and family with some of the
comforts OF which misfortune has deprived her.
The managers, therefore, appeal to the benevo-
lent to aid them in their efforts.
The annual report of the Managers of
Wills Hospital contains the following informa-
tion;-
During the year the number of patients re-
ceived was 1877 remained from the previous
year-total indoor patients, 215 Discharged
2Ol. vi the latter there were cured 100; inn
proved, So incurablc, II; died, 1; not treated s.
Number OF outdoor or clinical patients 3105
Surgical operations on house patients, 157; dis
pensary 261-total, 41S; of which &C were for
cataract, 30 for strabismus, the remainder being
for various diseases. The above is an increase
of about Is per cent. in the number of Dispen-
sary and indoor patients. House expenses,
S5655'S6; salaries and wages, S1S48'90; medical
department, $69294 real estate, $913'76-total,
$9l1146. Receipts for board of patients,
$135S.38. The securities received from the sale
of building lots have been deposited in the City
Treasurer's Office.
The Fourth Anniversary of the Sunday
Schools of st. Andrews Evangelical Lutheran
Church, Broad and Arch streets, was celebrated
last evening, in the presence of large congre-
cation. During the evening number of beau
tiful offerings were made by the different
raised about $500 for benevolent and other pur-
poses. 1t is the intention of the congregation
soon to build house of worship for their better
accommodation.
"A further hearing was had yesterday after
noon, before U. s. Commissioner Hibler, in the
case of Nathan Kuhn, charged with purchasing
goods to defraud creditors. Several creditors
were examined who testified to the purchase of
goods by the defendant, and to his present in
debtedness to them; and one of them, in refer
ring to the Sheriffs sale of Mr.. Kuhns goods,
said that though doing business in the same neigh
Dorhood he had no knowledge of it, and did not
hear bell rung There was a further postpone
ment of the hearing until Tuesday next.
The anniversary of the Society for AGED aud
lnfrm Colored Persons occurred yesterday. The
annual report of the institution states that so
piled three years since There are now In
the Institution % persons, whose ages range
from 60 to so years, The receipts. including
admission II es, interest, ETC.. were $3337 34 and
expenses, including taxes and water rent
$27%O'65; balance on hand, $616'69.