The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-17
POLICE STATIONS.
InvestIgatIons Into ,he Necessity for Wore.

This morning Mayor Fox, Chief of Police St.
Clair A. Mulholland, and the Joint Council Com
mittee on Police, Colonel Glenn, chairman, pro-
ceeded in carriages on tour of inspection of
our station houses with this object-of discover
ing what districts were most urgently in need of
new ones. The committee mentioned has now
under consideration an ordinance appropriating
1926, 900 for new stations in the Third, Fourth,
Sixth, Eighth, Twelfth, and Sixteenth districts,
another for the accommodation OF the
Schuylkill Harbor officers, who will
soon be without place to lay their heads, their
old quarters, the Rialto House, being on the
verge of destruction to make way for a beauti
full landscape, and sub-station at Chestnut Hill.
There is no question but what these improve
ments are needed. Many of the stations have
been indicted by the various grand juries as
nuisances, and the Board of Health has often
memoraliZed Councils to order new ones as a
measure of sanitary precaution. If in the win
ter time some of these tplaces are unendurable
by reason of the fetid odors which arise
from the overrunning sinks and the
total want of any conveniences, how much more
horrible in summer! We have but four or five
preserving the health of the people who live in
their vicinity, and for the sake of the credit of
the city, let the rest, which are unsightly in
appearance, utterly devoid of comfort, and
which battle all efforts to keep them clean, be
supplanted quickly by new structures.
TANGLED.-Our readers will remember the
celebrated Bailey desertion case, which took up
the time of our courts last summer. 1t has been
transplanted in another shape to Delaware.
During the session of the Legislature of 1869
Elisha j. Bailey, surgeon in the United States
army, applied for divorce from his wife, Susan
Cornelia Broome- Bailey, whol was a daughter
of the late Hon. Jacob Broome, formerly mem.
Der of Congress from the Fourth district of
Pennsylvania, now represented by Judge
Kelley. The bill was at at first defeated in the
House. but subsequently reconsidered, passed,
and finally became law. Mrs. Bailey, hearing
of the proceedings of the Legislature, and being
somewhat surprised to find that bill of divorce
had passed, as she alleged, without her know
ledge, Immediately made her appearance at
Dover, and through her representations, and the
influence of friends, had a bill passed through
the Legislature repeating the former act di-
vorcing her and her husband, Surgeon Bailey,
although her marital infdelity was admitted.
Mrs. Bailey then used her influence with
General Sherman and other officers of the army,
| and had Surgeon Bailey arraigned before a
| court-martial, which acquitted the Surgeon of
| all charges brought against him, although the
| whole weight of the Government officials, from
| some occult influence. was brought to bear in
her favor, to the great scandal OF the old regu-
| lars, who deplored the decay OF the esprit de
| corps. She then brought suit against the Sur
| geon in the courts of Philadelphia for main
| tenance which resulted in a dismissal of the
| suit for want of jurisdiction, he being citizen
| of Wilmington Delaware. Surgeon Bailey then
| went before the Delaware courts and made
application for decree of divorce from Susan
| c. Bailey, the summons, on account of the
| defendant residing beyond the limits of the
| State not having yet been served. Thus matters
| stood until the Legislature of 1871 convened,
when Surgeon Bailey again made appl-
cation for the passage OF an act to
repeal the repeating act of 1869. Tue
| bif meeting with favorable consideration,
| unanimously passed the House of Representa-
tives on Tuesday morning, when Mrs. Bailey
again made her appearance at Dover and sue
ceeded in having the vote by which the double
repeating act was passed reconsidered and the
further consideration postponed until Wednes-
| day. the 18th instant, when the bill finally
| passed the House by vote of IL TO 8. The bill
now goes to the Senate, where its fate is yet un-
| certain, In order that the Doctor may keep
cool, the President General Grant, has detailed
Surgeon Bailey to Alaska, where the Frigid Zone
begins and where Loves young dream, torrid as
it may be- ceases to charm. Mrs. Bailey hopes
that the Indians may put an end to the Drctor,
and the Doctor is praying for station at the
from, If he can only escape the attachments
which Mrs. Bailey proeures from the courts.
THE 'STAR" COURSE OF LEoTUREs.-The
next lecture of the Star" course will take place
on Monday, when Mr.. A. Miner Griswold, better
known as "the Fat Contributor" will give his
| views on "Injin Meal" Mr. GrisWold is one OF
the funniest lecturers in the country, and his
humor is as refined as it is original. Those
who attend on Monday evening may expect a
great treat AZ the conclusion of Mr. Girls
wold's lecture Mr.. H. V. McCully, the we'll
known elocutionist of this CITY, will recite Brel
Harte's poem of ''The Heathen Chinee" and O
series Of stereopticon views illustrative of the
poem will be exhibited.
THE members of the Central Association o.
Pennsylvania Democrats viii hold grand jubi
lee at their clubhouse, No. 1014 Walnut street
| tomorrow evening, congratulatory of the
recent victory in New Hampshire. Grdna'
Il h-hoVvl will be ON hand.