The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-13
with power to increase that amount.
fFor fourteen months.
tFor thirteen months.

HON. NJ P. WILDERs LECTURE ON FRUIT,
GROWING IN CALIFoRNIA.-The Hon. Marshall
P. Wilder and party from Boston arrived at the
Continental Hotel last evening. Mr.. Wilder has
just returned from Amherst and Dartmouth Col
leges, where he has delivered his lecture on
California before the literary societies of those
institutions, by particular request, and with
much commendation. Hon. Horace Capron
Commissioner OF Agriculture, has sent to the
HORTICULTURAL Society, from the department
at Washington, several wax models of
from the gigantic pine trees and other
curiosities OF this kind, to be exhibited at Will
der's lecture tonight. at Horticultural Hall,
which promises to be grand ovation, as half
the house has been taken by members of the
Horticultural Society, and tickets for the re-
naming seats are selling very rapidly. Those
who intend to be present at the lecture should
secure front seats at once at Dreer's, No. TIA
Chestnut street. and at Mr.. Gould's Piano Rooms,
No. 923 Chestnut street. The Park Commis-
sioners have invited Mr.. Wilder and party to
visit Fairmount Park, on Friday afternoon
when Messrs. Vaux and Olmstead, the cele-
brated landscape gardeners, will be present,
and the beauties of the park will be exhibited
to this distinguished guest.
MISSION WORK IN THE CITY.-From letter
addressed by the lady in charge to the supern-
tendent of the sewing school at Mission Chapel,
No 225 South Ninth street, we learn that the
school was started on the 10th of December last.
The note SAYS
or the fifteen children who promised to attend
only three were present. But we were not dis
couraged; our trust was In God. On the following
Saturday, there was an increased attendance, and
every successive week has added to the number,
until we now have eghty-siX scholars. No more can
be received for want OF room. Most of the children
are from the neighborhood of the mission. With
them have come faithful teachers. Materials in
sufficient quantity hsve also been supplied by kind
frends. The object is to benefit the children spirit
ually, as well as teach them to sew.
We have found the sewing school to be door to
the Sunday-school, OF which number Of our girls
are regular attendants.
Our school will close on the last OF April when the
devoted teachers whose desire is, as 1t always has
been, to crafty as well as to instruct, will give the
the best sewer and each girl is to have the garments
she has made during the winter. Besides, one or
two beautiful hymns are to be sung by the girls, and
the ten commandments are to be repeated In con-
cert.
A MAN ASSAULTED AT NINTH AND CHEsNUT
STREETs.-Last evening about 10 o'clock Mr..
John K. McDonough was conVersing with
friend at Ninth and Chestnut streets, when he
was approached by man named John Charles,
who after uttering some insulting epithet, struck
Mr.. McDonOugh blow on the cheek. A friend
of the assailant, called John Nespy also assisted
in the assault. Mr.. McDonough defended him
a police officer. Nespy was before Alderman
Jones this morning, and has been held in $500
bail.
Charles, after striking the blow managed to
escape, and has not yet been arrested.
FIGHT ON CHEsNUT STREET. = Alexander
Purple, last nlgnL on CneSnuL street, near
Ninth was assaulted by another man named
James Mead. Purple was knocked to the pave
ment, bleeding profusely from wound on the
side of the head, which on eXaminotan proved
to be of small consequence. The affair caused
much excitement, and stories were banded
around the streets that a ''bloodY tragedy" had
been enacted, two men murdered" etc., ETC.
Mead has not been arrested. The parties are
well known in the vicinity.
The MUSICAL entertainment this evening in
Camden, at Morgan's Hall, promises to be a
success. The programme is we'll arranged, and
under the direction of Professor H. A. Clarke
will doubtless give to our friends great satisfac-
tion.
THE ASSAULT ON KENDIG.-Peter Ehrenberg
better known as "Pete Pretzel," an ex-Demo-
cratic policeman, instigated by one of the noto-
rious brothers Burns, was the one who made the
brutal attack on private officer Kendig recently.
he is in the lookup awaiting hearing.
INDEeENoY-John McDary was Yesterday
arrested at Howard street and Girard avenue
by Officer Smith, of the Tenth district for inde-
cency In the streets. The accused has been
held in $1,000 bail by Alderman Shoemaker.
TRIPPING FIRE-A foul chimney caused a
trihDg fire this morning in house in Irwin's
court, a small thoroughfare running west from
Twenty-thiTd street. and above Spring Garden
street.
CORNER LoUNGERs.-Four corner loungers
were arrested last night at Twenty aud
Brown streets and two more at Sixteenth aud
Callowhill streets. The parties have been placed
under bail.