The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-05
NEWS SUMMARY.
City Affairs.

The Public Buildings Commission yestsr
day referred a resolution for the contractor
of excavations to commence work to the
Committee on Contracts, to report at the
next meeting. A resolution forbidding him
to commence work until ordered to do so was
similarly referred.
The Philadelphia Presbytery has elected
the following gentlemen as commissioners to
the General Assembly S. w. Dana,
r. II. Allen, d. D., George r. Moore and
DIR. Emerson were appointed tellers; Revs.
r. M. Patterson, z. M. Humphrey, D. D.,
Herrick Johnson, d. D., principals; Revs. S.
W. Dana, d. March, d. D., W. M. Rice, d.
D., alternates, in the order Of their names;
Elders Hon. James Allison, S. @. Perkins, j.
d. McCord, principals; w. Pitkins, Hon.
George Junkin, and j. G.. Farr, alternates.
Edward Shippen, of the Citizens Asso-
citation, told the Highway Committee of
Councils some very unpleasant truths about
the horrible condition of the streets yes
terday.
DIR. Lewis having testified before Alder
man Kerr yesterday that George w. Smith
will probably recover, the defendant Thomas
Wilson was remanded to the custody of the
bail for hearing before Alderman Shoe
maker tomorrow afternoon.
The house of Mr.. De Hart, on Eighth
street, above Brown, on Sunday morning
last was entered and $1700 taken from a card
solute character, and G.. w. Prizer, who keeps
tavern on Ridge road, above Coates, the
loafng place of the son. They were last
evening before Justice Kerr at the Central
Station and have been held for further
hearing
The following gentlemen yesterday were
elected Directors of the American Steamship
Company
President-Herman j. Lombaert.
Directors Edward @. Knight, Washington
Butcher, Josiah Bacon, John Rice, B. II.
Bartol, John Price Wetherill, Henry d.
Welsh, and d. B. Cummins.
Domestic Affairs.
Municipal elections were held in several
cities yesterday, but nothing beyond local
interest attached to them.
The Senate will vote to-day upon Mr..
Sherman's 8 resolution to direct the Judiciary
Committee to report an anti-Ku-klux bill.
The time of both houses of Congress
was again yesterday almost exclusively occu-
pied in the discussion of Southern outrages
and the proposed remedy.
William Foster, of White Water, Wis
consin, shot himself at his wife's death h-bed
last Saturday night, and little hopes are en-
tertained of his recovery.
The United States steamer Worcester
from Boston, with a cargs of provisions fsI
the suffering French people, has arrived al
plymouth, and Will lmheulalely Proceoo 10
French port.
Matthias Heutz was stabbed to deatl
early yesterday morning in Cincinnati b,
George Schneider, with whom he had diffi
Guilty on the previous evening over gam
of cards.
-Postmaster- General Creswell yesterda
ordered resumption of the postal service OF
the Louisville and Lexington Railroad il
Kentucky, which has been suspended for som
time past.
Several Republican Senators have pre-
pared speeches against the annexation of Sa
Domingo, which they will, if possible, d,
liver upon the reception of the commission
ers' report, with a view of securing immediat
adverse action on the project.
Foreign Affairs.
Order is restored at Marseilles.
The supplementary Commune election
have been postponed.