The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-14

City Anafra.
The Americus Club ball last night was a
grand success
AT stated meeting of the Sunday-school
Association Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, held last evening, the subject-"Re-
wards of Merit-Are they Beneficial" was
discussed.
AT meeting of the Finance Committee,
held last night, il was agreed to recommit to
Councils the bill asking for loan of $500, 900
for the laying of improved pavement on
Broad street. Also an ordinance to make an
appropriation for the improvement of the
meadow banks.
The Park Commissioners in their annual
report, speak of the superiority of Philadel-
phia as the seat of the projected International
Exposition, and recommend the holding of
the same in Fairmount Park.
The convention to. revise the rules for
the government of the Republican party held
an adjourned meeting yesterday. The sixth
and seventh rules were amended and adopted,
and the meeting adjourned.
Frank Warden, employed at the Assem-
bly, Building, while going home about 6
o'clock on Sunday afternoon, was attacked by
three men in Tenth street below Walnut,
knocked down and beaten with blackjacks.
1t is supposed that the attacking party
thought be was one of the cashiers of the ex-
hibition going on in the building. He was
left insensible in the street, and was taken to
his home by some citizens who found him
little while afterwards.
AT q meeting of coal dealers, held last
evening, q bill was approved providing that
after july 1871, all coal carts shall hold 2240
pounds of coal; that there shall be three in
spectors appointed who shall not be in the
coal trade, and whose business it shall be to
affix their stamp to all carts of 2240 pounds
capacity; that it shall be unlawful for any
dealer to have an unstamped cart; that the
inspector may order any vehicle to be taken
to any scale, within 400 yards, to be weighed,
and that the driver refusing to drive, and the
weigher refusing to weigh as ordered, shall
be fined.
The German Patriotic Relief Association
of Philadelphia, through its Treasurer, de-
posted yesterday in the hands of Charles
Vein, Consul for the North German Confede-
rat on, the sum of $29, ,3201S, or 81, 900
Prussian thalers, for transmission by the
steamer of to-day, for the Central Relief Com
mission at Berlin, by whom the sum is to be
distributed TO the suffering widows and or
phans and wounded soldiers. This makes a
total of 30, 600 thalers transmitted by the
organization, besides numerous private re-
mittances made by individuals
"A meeting of the Executive Committee
on Homes and Hospitals of the Presbyterian
Evangelical Alliance was held yesterday, at
which an offer was made from lady of West
fnHaoelpnla 10 donate 10 tne Alnance tnree
acres of ground in that section of the city for
the purposes of hospital for aged and indi-
gent females of the Presbyterian Church.
The committee gratefully entertained the
offer, and will take final action in reference
to it in few days. Statements were made of
q favorable character in reference to the do
nation of Rev. DIR. Saunders of the property
in West Philadelphia, and also of the subse-
quent purchase of an additional plot of
ground contiguous to that already donated,
thus giving to the Hospital Committee the
right of the entire square on which the hos
pital building is situated.