The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-09
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Chester county, had one of his hands badly
Acerated yesterday in factory at Parkes-
burg. Both sufferers we're admitted into the
Pennsylvania Hospital.
Rev. J. Conkey, Of Shamokin, has &C
oepted the call extended to him by the con-
gregation of the Sixth Presbyterian Church,
Spruce street, above Fifth, and will enter
npon his duties the first Sunday in March.
George Richards, driver on the Tenth
and Eleventh Streets Passenger Railway, had
one of his hands crushed yesterday by Car
wheel passing over it at Eleventh and Thomp-
son streets. He resides at Tenth street and
Montgomery avenue.
The Fidelity Insurance, Trust, and Safe
Deposit Company yesterday elected the fol-
lowing directors:-N. y. Browne. Clarence
H. Clark, John Welsh, Charles MacaleSter,
Edward w. Clark, Alexander Henry, stephen
A. Caldwell George +. Tyler, Henry G. Glib
son, j. Gillingham Fell H. Pratt Mexican.
The Buck Mountain Improvement Com
pany, on Monday, elected the following
officers:-President, william P. jerks; Secre-
tary and Treasurer, Samuel Wilcox; Directors,
William p. Jenks ID. Clark Wharton, II.
Rundle Smith, Charles 2. Bayard, Henry l..
Cav.
The Colored Peoples Union League met
last evening. The object of the meeting was
to take action upon the passage of the fif-
teenth amendment After an address by the
the Pennsylvania State Equal Rights League
in the celebration which is to take place the
fourth Tuesday after the official announce
ment of the passage Of the amendment.
Yesterday serious casualty took place
on the Washington avenue railroad. William
Willingmyer, nine years old, whose parents
reside at Third and German streets, was run
over by freight train, and had one of his
legs terribly crushed. He was removed to
the Pennsylvania Hospital, where amputation
Of the inj jured limb was thought necessary
IL was said that the accident occurred through
lad pushing young Willingmyer upon the
track.
"A meeting of the Board Of Managers of
the Baptist General Association was held at
the publication house, Arch street, below
Sixth, yesterday afternoon. The report
showed that during the year there had been
commissioned by the board forty persons to
preach the Gospel, who occupied the pulpits
of sixty-one churches, their labors having ex-
tended through twenty-one counties of the
State. The receipts of the association for the
year were 81, ,043, and the expenses, $12, Jas.
"A meeting of the Lyle Monument Associa-
ton was held last evening to make arrange
ments for dedioating the monument on the
22d of February. programme was re-
ported, but not acted upon, owing to the fact
that the association was in the dark as to
whether the companies intending to partici-
pate would turn out as companies or send
delegations. The programme was then laid
over until next meeting
The Magdalen Society celebrated its
sixty ninth anniversary yesterday. The an
nual report showed the following:-The num-
ber of inmates at last report was %; admitted
since, 30. During the year there were placed
at service, 81 dismissed at their own request,
4; returned to friends, 6; discharged for i'm
proper conduct, 4. The present number of
the family is 30. One death occurred among
the inmates during the year. The ages of the
applicants for admission range from II up to
40 years.
The will of the late Horace Binney, Jr.,
was admitted to probate yesterday afternoon
The provisions of the will are all of q private
or domestic character, the deceased leaving
no public bequests of any description. He
leaves all his household property and the
house in which he resided to his wife, during
the term of her natural life, and the residue
of his estate is to be divided between his wife
and children. His father, the venerable and
greatly respected Hon. Horace Binney, his
wife, and some of his other relatives, are con-
stituted his executors.
The Philadelphia Association of the
Alumni of Brown University, Providence, r.
l., gave a banquet last evening at Angus
tins number of toasts were given and
responded to. There were number of dis
guests were Rt. Rev. Thomas NJ. Clark, ID. D.,
Bishop of Rhode Island; Rev. George W..
Samson, d. D., President Columbia College,
-. O.; Rev. Justin r. Loomis, ID. D., Presi-
dent University at Lewisburg Hon. Charles
Thurber, of Brooklyn Professor John l..
Lincoln, Ill. D., of Brown University; and
Rev. Lemuel Moss, d. D., editor National
Baptist.
The Board of School Controllers met
Yesterday afternoon. report from the Com
mittee on Property was received in reference
to the charge of furniture having been i'm
properly removed from school houses in tn,
Seventeenth Section. The committee con
denim in the strongest terms the gross care
lessness with which the affairs of the Seven
teenth Section have been managed. The.
say that parties charged with the removal o
goods referred to attend the sittings of tn
committee. resolution was adopted re
questing the Directors of that section to re
turn an inventory of the articles removed from
the several school buildings when the chang
took place on the opening of the Ludlo'
School.
The following resolution was referred to
special committee
Resolved, That the Legislature be requested I
enact law, with proper restrictions, requiring thS
all children residing In the city OF Philadelphia, an
not attending any public, parecDlal, or prNaI
school, shall through their parents or guardians ;
required to attend some public school IN the sal
city, for the period OF at least six months In eac
year.
The Committee on Property reported i
favor of the purchase of a lot OF ground o
the southeast corner of Twenty third and Je
ferson streets, for school purposes. The CON
mttee report that the lot, which has fror