The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-15
NEWS SUMMARY.


Rev Alexander Kent, Of this city, has
accepted the call rendered him by the Second
Universslist Congregation of Baltimore.
DR.. Shapleigb made post-mortem ex-
animation yesterday on the body of John
Schultz, who died suddenly at No. 52S Powell
street, and discovered that death resulted
from disease of the heart.
A meeting Of the colored residents of
the Fourteenth ward, to make arrangements
TO participate in the celebration of the adop-
tion of the fifteenth amendment was held
last night in the hall at Thirteenth and Spring
Garden streets.
Attorney General Brewster, in response
to an inquiry made by Colonel French, of
the 1st Excelsior Colored Regiment, has de-
cided that 'colored citizens can be enrolled,
organized, armed, and equipped as part of
the militia of the State"
The Coroner held an inquest yesterday
on the body of Robert H. Shanklin, colored
boy, who died yesterday at No. 619 Baker
street, from debility. Also on the body of
Edward Davis, colored, who died of hemor-
rhage of the lungs, at No. 621 Lombard
street.
"A hearing took place yesterday after
noon, before Alderman Carpenter, in re-
ference to rights claimed by a resident of
a main street, to place coal ashes in barrels
and boxes on the sidewalk of house on by
street. 1t was decided to be in violation of
the law to do this, and Unable offense for
persons living on main streets to place bar
rels or other vessels on the sidewalks of
houses situated on by-streets.
Last evening, about o'clock, an alterca-
tion took place between John Houston, re-
siding at No. COG Penn street, and Edward
Costello, living in the same house, when, it
is alleged, Costello seized Houston and bit
his under lip entirely off. The injured man
was conveyed to the Pennsylvania Hospital
by Policemen Andrew Arthur and John A.
Feeney, of the Seventeenth district, who sub
sequently started in quest of Costello and
arrested him.
The nineteenth anniversary meeting of
the Spring Garden Institute was held last
evening in the lecture-room of the same,
Broad and Spring Garden streets. General
William B. Thomas presided. On opening
the meeting the chairman made a brief
by William Welsh, Esq, was read, giving an
interesting history of the conception and pro-
gress of the idea of which this and similar
institutions are the result.
Last evening" about half-past O'clock
Kate Hill, servant in the family of Mr..
Baker, residing in the rear of the northeast
corner of Eleventh and Hunter streets, was
stabbed by her husband, Samuel G. Hill. The
parties had been separated for some time, and
Mrs. Hill had been for some months support
ing herself by going out to service. Last
evening her husband called upon her, and
being refused money which he demanded,
drew dirk knife and plunged
it into the side of the
woman, and then fed. In his flight he
threw away the knife. He was arrested few
minutes afterwards in the neighborhood, and
the knife was found in Hunter street. DR..
Cooper was called in to attend the wounded
woman, and he pronounced her in a danger
Gus condition. and by his advice she was re-
moved to the Pennsylvania Hospital about 8
o'clock.
At the hospital Mrs. Hill gave her version
of the affair, that she had given her husband
money in the afternoon to purchase what she
understood was to be a butcher knife, but
that instead of this he bought the dirk. In
the evening, when he came to demand more
money, he made proposition to her that she
should earn money in an infamous way, and
upon her resenting, she was stabbed as be-
fore stated. Mrs. Hill is about II years of
age, and has been married only two years.