The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-28

Inrv Annirn.

"A stable on Nicholson street. above
Cherry and below Seventh street, was damaged
by fire to the extent of about $500, early
yesterday morning.
On Saturday afternoon forty of the Mint
employees were discharged, in consequence of
orders received from Washington. About
one-half Of the number are ladies'.
The taxes received on Saturday last at
the Receiver of Taxes Office amounted to
$165, ,O9S SO; previously received, 1928, 5S5'52
total for five days, 81 ,093, ,GS4'1S, an increase
on the first FIVE days of last year of $207, 900.
The captain of the bark Isaac II. Davis
had further hearing before United States
Commissioner Clarke on Saturday, upon the
charge of cruelty to q seaman, and was dis
charged from custody.
The dedication of Christ Methodist Epis-
copal Church, Thirty y-eighth and Bridge
streets, took place yesterday. The opening
discourse was delivered by Rev. Bishop
Simpson, DID,, Rev. r.. T. Ives, of Auburn,
N. Y, and Rev. II. A. Cleveland, pastor of
the church oficiated in the after part of the
day
Mr. James N Galley, of this city, National
Councillor of the Order of United American
Mechanics, has issued proclamation to the
effect 'that the Sth day OF July next will be
the twenty-ffth anniversary of the organiza-
ton of the order, and that the State Council
of Pennsylvania, having recommended that
the day should be appropriately observed
therefore it is recommended that general
celebration of the day be held by the various
councils in such manner as they may deem
appropriate"
On Saturday evening Special Officer
Wood. with bench warrant issued by one of
the Quarter Sessions judges in his pocket, at
tempted to arrest Frank Moran, who was on
the point of leaving for Baltimore. The
charge against Moran is that he kept gam
bling house. The latter left the depot in the
custody of Wood, but when an opportunity
presented itself, broke from the officers
grasp and made off down Washington
avenue.
An inquest was held yesterday by the
Coroner upon the body of Mrs. Sarah
Ritchie, aged AZ years, who was burned to
death on Saturday night last, at her residence
on Somerset, near street. From the testi-
mony it appeared that she was seen on Frank
ford road in the evening marketing. After
wards, and about ten o'clock, Bernard Greeu
and his son, while passing the deceaseds
house, discovered it to be fire. They
broke in and extinguished the flames with
bucket of water, and then found the body of
deceased burned to crisp, with a broken
lamp near it. The lamp is supposed to have
exploded.
The annual commencement of the Penn
sylvania College of Dental Surgery was held
ing last. Degrees were conferred upon the
following named graduates:-J. Fred, Bah
cock, Maine; Charles H. Bagley, Pa; Edward
F. Barnes, Mass; Henry E. Beach, Va; Fran
cisco 4. Brunet Cuba George I. Carpenter,
ILL.,; Charles p. Coffee, Ohio; Frank l.. De
Gour, Pa; E. Rubi0 y Diaz, NJ. D., Cuba;
Charles E. Edwards, Pa; Thomas H. Gilpin,
Md; Augustus V. Hartlevan, Pa; Ferdinand
Hasbrouck, Pa. John Hellings, Pa; w. H. 1.
TD,,ie I,,l@o
Samuel +. Howland Mass; Jay H. Johnston,
Pa; George w. Klump, Pa; o. L. De Lalande,
M. D., France; Jonathan L. Leet, Pa; Will
liam A. Marler, N. c.; j. Henry Mease, Pa;
Charles w. Meloney, Del; Gustavus j. r.
Miller, Pa. Jose NJ Portuondo, Cuba; Alfred
Reaud, France; Augustus j. Rederich, Iowa;
Granville L. Robb, Pa; Charles H. Scott,
Ohio; John Sheldon, N. Y; Melville 9. Sim,
Ohio; George w. Smith, Pa; James G. Tenn
pleton, Pa; James L. Turner, Md; Charles
Tyson, Pa; John d. Ware, N j.; M. Minor
Worrall, Pa. Seneca B. Brown, Indiana; H.
II. Martin, Pa; j. B. Prescott, N. H.
AT an early hour on Sunday morning a
fire broke out in the boarding house of G. p.
Williams, No. 1103 Girard street. 1t began
in the cellar, and burned through the parlor
and rear portion of the second-story floors,
and up the stairways and along the passage
ways from the cellar to the garret. All the
rooms in the house are more or less damaged
by the flames and water. The furniture in
the house, valued at $4,000, is fully insured
and not totally destroyed, though what re-
mains is badly damaged. Mr.. Williams was
in New York at the time. Mrs. Williams, her
daughter, aged about seventeen years, and a
son, aged about thirteen years, when
awakened. found their exit by the stairway
cat off by the fire, and escaped by means Of
sheets rolled into rope from the window OF
the second STORY hack room thew Occunied
into small back street. In making the
descent, Mrs. Williams, who is in delicate
health, fell and was severely injured The
other inmates of the house-two servant girls
and two male boarders-escaped without in
jury