The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-30
afternoon.

a1LeTDOOn.
THE STORY OF MISSING PAPER PARCEL
An Irishman who was about to go to Whining
Ton in the boat from Arch street wharf, thought
he would take drink before the vessel started,
and he Immediately carried the intention into
effect He laid down on the side of the wharf
bundle until he returned, but when he got
back the bundle was missing. There was we'll
dressed young gentleman standing near by with
q carpet-bag in his hand. The loser of the
bundle had noticed previously that the bag was
empty, but now it was full. The inference was
that the well-dressed stranger had stuffed the
bundle in the carpet-bag, and such proved to be
the case. The man was seized and the bundle
recovered. Pending the confusion of the dis
covery and the search for an officer, the fellow
managed to escape.
A STABBING AFFRAY.-Colbert Patrick, a
colored man, in the employ of George Shank,
also colored, got drunk last night and became
engaged in dispute with his employer, which
quarrel ended in fight. Patrick drew pocket
knife during the melee, and stabbed Shank in
the abdomen, inhicting a serious if not fatal
wound. The quarrel took place in the residence
of Shank, in Granite place, at the rear of No
S29 Carpenter street. The assailant was arrested,
and has been held to await the issue of the in
juries of the wounded man, who is now in the
Pennsylvania Hospital.
DARKROOM RoUGHs.-A party of men last
night went into tavern at Front and Cumber-
land streets and ordered eight drinks of beer and
a couple of cigars and then refused to pay. The
bartender, of course, insisting was attacked by
the men and beaten. During the scuffle John
McAdoo drew pistol and endeavoring to dis
| charge it, shot himself through the hand. His
wound was dressed at the Episcopal Hotel. He
| was then arrested and taken before Alderman
Neill and held in $500 bail to answer.
FOR CITY SoLICIToR.-In addition to the paper
| already published, signed by the prominent mem
bers OF the bar, our advertising columns to-day con-
tain appeal from the representative soldiers OF
this city, urging the nomination OF General Charles
II. T. Coils for City Solicitor. The General has
hosts Of admiring friends in his party, who are de-
termined his faithful ser Hces shall be recognized.
| II nominated, his activity and energy viii add
| strength to the ticket.
DANGEROUS SITUATION. Yesterday the screams
| OF child were heard to proceed from cesspool
| in the Twenty-ninth ward. The mother hearing
| the cries reached the place to find her infant
| with its legs and body hanging down the hole,
holding on the seat with its hands. She rescued
it from its perilOus situation.
AN ORIGINAL IDEA.-Ellen Taney is a good
looking girl who lives with her mother at No.
All Gaskill street. She is seventeen years OF
age, but she was guilty yesterday of the very
| unladylike conduct of getting drunk and apply
ing to her mother the most abusive of epithets
She now pines in the House of Refuge.
AMONG THE CANDIDATES for Assembly in the
First district is Whilldin d. Halfmann, ESQ.,
whose friends are making a vigorous effort to
secure him the nomination of the Republican
party, in this district equivalent to an election
In which event the people can rely on securing
an able and active Representative.
STEALING BEER GLAssEs.-George w
Graull and WhitmOre Deal have been held il
800 bail each for stealing beer glasses from
Humboldt Park, Twentieth and Diamond streets
yesterday afternoon.
HORSE KLLED.-A horse attached to th,
milk wagon belonging to Mr.. Saddler was killed
at Broad and Thompson streets yesterday b.
falling and breaking one of the shafts portion
of which pierced the side of the animal.
SHARP FEMALE.-A negro girl named Salll'
Burton has been sent TO prison by Alderman
Morrow for robbing a white man of So WHOM
she had coaxed into house on st. Mary street
above Seventh last night.
RUM.-Martin Oliver, Irish, drunk and impu
dent, beat his wife yesterday at their residence
Front and CalloWhill streets. Officer Lex, o
the Delaware Harbor Police, arrested oliver