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EASTON, PA. folSaltrpl =Zll=:=Z=o=l PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1869. j_ SPECIAL NOTICES. !«r r“HE££eji°9£ lTAL - NQf. 1&18. AND 1520 , • Dtepenaaiy DOTartmCnt—Medi. j gj[ treatment and medicine fumtahod gHfiuitonri - to Fllchhurg Wlte-Poiionlne Case— Xruo Story—Py lie ana His Crime* Boston, Thursday, Feb, 11, 1869 The “Fitch ,w“e-FoiEoning Case,” which has caused , B ?®.taWßseexdtemfpt in Fitchburg and Its neighborhood lately, and has created so much talk in the Boston papers, Is rapidly becoming, to all appearances.no case at all. The sensa lional reywts pf tbfi “CAso,” which originated In one of the city evening papers and • have been copied quite extensively throughout the country, stated In effect that Mrs. Hannah Pyke, a respectable lady of Fitchburg, died sud denly from the effects ot poison- administered in lemonade andcostard Mbert d ■ ft?ke, A Kspectoble gentfetiiari of Fitchbmg; that ihe act was done beoause the husband desired to rid himself icetaster or the company of the wife so that he could marry a daughter Of the wife by a . J f ? r S er T?_ Mband ; “ at ‘be daughter, one Adelaide Evans, a young woman of about twentyreix years, of decidedly un-prepos eessipg appearance, was an accomplice or the husband, and that she was impelled to the per formance of her part in the wicked work by the knowledge that ir she was not married toPyke, the tamer of her child, her fair name, If any she bad (which, it seems, was a. matter of considerable doubt), would be Badly impaired.. This made a : very interesting story, and a really serious case: bnji unfortunately for the cause of truth, it was, notfounded, to any very great extent, on fact. ryke was arrested and lodged in JaU, and go, also, was the young woman Adelaide. The chemists brought the stomach of the lady to this city, and proceeded to analyze H? c S? I SP Ul ’ “Ed the District Attorney, Hon. W. W. Bice, of Worcester, and the counsel for ibe defendant, two prominent Fitchburg lawyers, proceeded to pick up evidence. Two weeks ago an attempt was made to have an examina tion, but it failed,as the chemists had not finished ibeir work. To-day another attempt was made but with no better success; the examination was again postponed lor two weeks for the reason that the chemists were not ready to report the reßultof the analysis. ~ Now the truth doubtless" is that the chemists have not as yet found the slightest trace of poison in the stomich.and that they do not want to give np the search without finding something. Mrs. Pyke, it seems, was a very fleshy woman. At the time of her death she was under medical treatment for a broken hip, received a week pre vious by a fall. She was led for two days, before Ler death, on lemonade and custard, and not much of anything else. Taking this fact into consideration, many find it not difficult to con -ciufie that ehe died from natural causes. The story that Pyke prepared all her food during her sickness, gave it to her, allowed no other person io have anything to do with it, audeautioned the young woman Adelaide against touching any of it, is denied in toto, and the author of it, an un lucky newspaper reporter, has been severely cen sured. J But, although he may not be guilty of the crime of murder, Pyke Is surely guilty of the crime of adultery. He admits this. The Court oom 10-day was packed by a curious crowd of and the feast they hungered for was not given. Pyke is a large, flne-lcdking, well-dressed, gen tlemanly-appearing man, and in form and fea ture resembles very much that well-known, at borne and abroad, gentleman, George Francis Train-—A’. 1". Tima . TBE BICBDEB OF SENATOR BIcCON BELL. Intense Extttement m Jacksonville, Illinois. The Chicago Journal of the 11th contains the following despatch from Jacksonville, 111.: lhe horrible mnrder of Senator McConnell, yesterday, is still wrapped in mystery, and the intense excitement throughout the commnnity in relation to the deed continues. It is the only subject of conversation upon the streets and in places of business. Or course rumor has started many absurd stories in regard to the motive of the murderer,and even as to the assassin himself, but none can be considered reliable. The most widely believed reason for the murder is that some hired assassin was sent here from abroad to murder the Benator, in order to prevent his appearance before the Supreme Court, os one oi the principal witnesses in a suit Involving property in Chicago to the amount of four or five millions of dollars, and to which his grand-children were laying claim. His testimony was most important for the further ance of their"claims. The Jury impounded by the Coroner held three sessions yesterday, and have been together all day to-day examining every member of the family, the servant girl who saw him last alive, and the milkman who de livered milk at the house about the supposed Imc of the murder. No verdict has been ren dered yet. The body of the Senator will be in terred on Friday. Additional fuel has been given the flame of ex citement by the reported arrest of one of our citizens, named Bobinson, on suspicion of some connection with the murder. The facts in the case are that he was not arrested, but is simply detained as an important witness. He was owing the General a large sum of money, due on the day of the mnrder, and was seen to leave the premises about 9 o’clock, yesterday morning, by a milkman. The note on which payment was to have been made is said to have mysteriously dis appeared, hence the suspicion. He is a young man of good character, carrying on the grocery business in the public square. [The telegraph Informs us that this man has since been found guilty by the Coroner’s iury Ed. Bullktih.J A Terrible Tragedy in Tennessee. We clip the following particulars of midnight murders perpetrated in Dyorsburg.Tenn., on the ' night of the sth, from Neats State Gazette , pub lished in that place: In our last issue, we stated that three mon- James Evans, Giles Moody and Bud Evans—wore being tried in this place, charged with horse i-tealing, and that it was supposed they be longed to a well organized band of outlaws that have for some time been a terror to this section of country. Up to Friday night their trial had not been concluded, and they were re manded to jail until the next morning, being in the custody of Bhenff Shaw and a guard of soven men. At about 1 o’clock the next morning (Sat urday) the jail was quietly surrounded by about one hundred and fifty armed men, disguised, and commanded by three officers. One half the mys terious visitors were dismounted, the remainder on horseback, nil uniformed in black trimmed with white, each man having a wide white band around his hat. Their appearance at the jail was sudden, and the Shcritf saw at a glance to resist was .madness. Ho ana his guards .surrendered, were" relieved of their arms, and, together with the jailor, placed under guard in front of the midnight cavalcade. The jail keys were secured and the prisoners taken out one at a time, each having his arms tied behind his back with a long whlto ropo, which wbb allowed to drag , the ground. After the prisoners were placed noar the sheriff and Mb guards, the men who had taken upon them* eelvea the fearful responsibility of dooming there human beluga to instant death, took np their silent march, not an unnecessary word bo* tag spoken by either party. At tho wooden bridge which spans the Forked Deer at this place they halted. A few minutes waa given the prisoners— Bud EVAnSi Giles Moody and James Evans—for Kl'- OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. CRIME. ihassachcskt rs. LYNCH LAW. P l oJ. e /A?£‘° r, ? hieh adctall eight men was allotted to each •as executioners. 'Each of the prisoners was then stationed at a different point, spar5 par , t ? w^cn the fatal’ signal was OD f? Deed their dreadful volley, Moo ?y a “ d Jomea Evans fell dead in their tracks, pierced with a dozen balls. Bud Evans ond 110 ran a hundred yards, uttering such yells na can only coino from the He :was pursued and. 2£ ro Pi °t Mr. Alfred Stevens’ reai „7£ < i.?P er ff , and b * B guard were now,re-; leased, and in ten minutes the masked horsemen, who had executed their horrible work with a stillness, coolness and military precision'that had onlif ely disappeared in • Altcr they had left, the Sheriff, together with such’ citizens as !had been .aroused by the firing. weßtftg for Squire Sampson, ■when an inquest 'was held, over the bodies, of the wero then T 9l ? - aCts - The.dead bodies • ■*® the Court-House, where a largo crowd of excited and' wondering men fe&dtra their eyes upon the ghastly spectacle until the remains were conveyed to their homes, about ten mUesifom Dyeraburg. And tended the most frightful; i tragedy Chat stains the hLstoryof the perpetrators of* which are sap posed to be non-residents of tfrfa countjr. ECBOPKAH AFFATRH 188 SPABDH BEVOLDfIOA. The nellgioas Difficulty. .The Chlna’s mall brings interesting accounts or affairs in Spain: reUelous difficulty (says * the London B?«jKTSBf S^SSPaffijSS againstllperty of conscience and of public wor ship, whrfh was recently presented to Marehal Serrano by fl committee of noble and devout la dies, may have appeared to many English read ers an ebullition or hysterical and harmless fa naticism, of no account in an esti mate of the positive and practical condi tion of affairs. The pastoral from the Cardinal Archbishop, which was read last Sunday Week in the churches of Valladolid, in which the tolera tion extended by the provisional government to heretics IB denouced as an ‘lnfamous,’ ‘extrava - P‘ onB >’ ‘criminal,’ ‘scandalous,’ and dmaUgfiant’ attempt to ‘uncatholicize’ the peoDle, may have struck English readers as a mere spent thunderbolt of ecclesiastical rhetoric. The decla ratlon ,of the Igleiia, the new clerical organ at Madri 4>„ , i lat ‘!J ere will not be wanting some who Will be sufficiently fervent In their faith to destroy (be church which, on the 9th ef Novem ber, 1868, the Minister Romero Ortiz permitted to be dedicated io heresy,’and the assertion of another clerical organ, that if men cannot be found to pull down the new Protestant church at Madrid, the women will do it for them, may excite a pitying smile in countries where reli gions toleration, is both law and custom, and where the want of unity of faith prevails, which as the Ighsia says, ‘makes England and the L nited States of America equally ludicrous in point of religion.’ THJt womks’s PBTrnoK The following le the text of IheTpeHHon Bizned oj fifteen Jthoofiand Spuufih women, and pre sented recent); to Genera) Serrano by the Mar qneF#B Of Santiago, Zugastt and Borthoealete. three Spanish ladies or title: . . “ - IX- ' * “"/ r> --v»«ui, Uu# , t.uru : ‘ •" 7 .r • Youk Excellehct: We do not ask grace or implore clemency; we demand justice. We claim (espect and protection to our rights as Catholics, as Spaniards and as women. If we hod a voice in the public assemblies or a seat in the Cortes, there we would flock to defend, even at the risk of our lives, the persecuted religion, the menaced peace of onr families and the derided faith and honor of Bpain. But we have only tears with which to weep and voices with which to mourn. JTor this reason we send to your excellency our tears and sighs, asking what we have the right ask, and what • our ex cellency has,,! the 1 obligation to respect and protect. When from the lips of our mothers we learnt the holy truths which light the way to Heaven, the only morality which teaches ue to be good mothers, good daughters, and good wives, we learnt that in Bpaiu we ought only to adore the true God. Those who, like your excel lency, wear the sword In the belt, on grasping it swore as Christians and promised as gentlemen to shed the last drop of your blood in defence of onr most holy faith—the joy of our souls, the peace of our numerous families, the banner of our country—and when those of ns who have the privilege of being mothers teach our children to ■peak, we bless our wise Iswb which will not allow that their souls can be indbetrinated in other than the beanlifhl idiom of Santa Teresa of Jesuß and of St. John of the Cros3. But now, excellentsir, we see the ministers of our holy religion going out of Spain, persecuted as criminals; we hear the sad voices ol the vir gins of God tbrnst out of their holy aisles of piety and purity. Fallen wilhontry and noise aro the temples of Jesus Christ, where we used to go and pray for the souls of our relatives and for the elicity of onr children, that the enemies of our faith offend onr ears by crying that with the stones of their rninß they will build altars for false gods. The streets and squares-overflow.with impiety, blasphemy and doubt; in papers and pamphlets the most bolv religion, which returns to man his lost dignity, regenerates the enelaved woman and makes Spam great and powerful, is insulted. This transpires, excellent Mr, this transpires, and we weak women have not arms with which we can defend onr faith against those who would destroy it. is the Christian soldier doing that he falls to defend the faith to which he swore? What is the sword of the gentleman that it does not come to the protection of the Span ish women, offended in what their hearts must love? In Spain there are none who wish to r belelve Ifc falee gods. All adore the true God. All are Catholics. Thlß the government over which you preside have recognised and confessed on divers and repeated occasions. The national will rejects, therefore,, all impious doctrines, all fuiec sects. If your Excellency and the provis ional government break Catholic unity, and give liberty to false woiehips, you twist and violate the national will, written as a motto on the flag raised by your Excellency. And, in the last place, who has given to the pro visional government the faculty to legislate on this matter, the right to remove and destroy tho fundamentals of Spanish societj? Does your Ex cellency Dot believe Hurt only the Qortes Oonstitu ytntes have power to give ns forms of govern ment, and do yon believe yon have any right to bruik Catholic unity ? Leave this, your Excel lency, to the Cortes; to the Cortes only belongs, In the system which rules to-day, the faculty of legislating. We and all good Spaniards will await its sentence tranquilly and confidently, for it is not* possible that there are in Spain so many men without taith as will bo necessary to break Catholic faith. And if in re ality the majority in the Cortes should be of tho Impious, we ourselves will go to tho Cortes, and with tearful eyes and afflicted voices will say, “Have pity on ns.and onr children; listen to your mothers and your wives; do not destroy tho ex clusive empire of the truth; do not throw down the firm base and secure guarantee of the peace and honor ofyour families; do not bring to ns the 1 advocates or error and of falsehood.” They will listen to onr laments and attend to our peti tions. Your Excellency has Children, and they are Catholics. Do not permit- impiety to enter into Spain, and, coming near to them, soil their inno cence. Recollect oven the mighty die! Those who role and Rovem the people have to give a strict account to God. Oh, that when your children go to pray at the tomb of their father they may <not recollect with horror that his hand opened the gates of his country to Impiety! Oh, that ail ®.f aE * art ! a “’ey have to ask blessings on him lor that be, in days of trial; saved Catholic unity. We havenow complied with onr duty, defend-' lDg our rights, which are the rights: of God, of our country and of our families... It now belongs xcc tncy *° comply with your;duties as (coAoJ/cro)’ fIS a ®P aE^ and as a gentleman yon many years. Madrid, Dec., 1868. >.. . Tlic Assassination of the Civil Go vernor or Burgos. .; ' . ™t ' er^ a * e ®f January 27, the correspondentof rn«ri£« d 0? T* mes wrltes fron » Madrid: Oh the morning of January 2a, toward noon, the Civil Governor, accompanied by hla highest subaltern functionary) the Secretario del Qobiorno, or Pro vincial Secretary, and by one ot tlio chief officers, of police, proceeded to the Cathedral. He found ?/ P e ?P* e ° n equate before tbeMiu- Sref, Salleti'the'Plaza del . Arzoblspo, but' does not seem to have met with any hin drance or molestation. At the. door of the church he was received' by . three • Canons and the Dean, who, upon hearing his er rand, offered to show him the way- to the- Archive. As soon as the Governor, had • crossed: the threshold of the cbnrcb, tho doors were closed, and a picket of Civil'Guards, or Gen j darmes, stationed themselves before it. One of. the officers of this force writes to his suuerior thatt he voice of the Archbishop was heard to cry for help,and that one of the beus from the steeple sounded the alarm (loeabo a arrebaib). The mob,' apparently at that signal, went round the build ing, and forced a way both into the church , and the cloister. The cries of the multi tude were “Mutra et Gobemador ! Viva la Uni tad CatoUca de Burgotr As the Governor was issuing from the door of the church which lea in to the cloister, he asked what tho people wanted: .1® d P s s n P on *J lm - “ndoa the very steps of the threshold pierced him with their daggers I (As aenbtuaron a punalazoa.) He fell, he was' seen to strive to rise, but was soon agalnover- I powered and prostrated. The murderers theja I tore bis clothes from him, struggled for the 1 paesession of those bloody tatters f ?. 8 trophies, and cut even the } limbs to pieces, “like famished wolves.” They I then threw a red scarf round the mangled body, I dragged it down the steps, and, through the I cloister, to the square before the Cathedral, I where they were fallen upon by the public force, 1 which dispersed them. The letter from which I I quote states “that the whole population had a 6t,a r® ,‘ n the crime.” The town was Im mediately declared In a state of siege. Four of tho Canons, the Dean, and other priests, with between '6O and 70 | of the populace, were arrested. The Archbishop, Doc Anastaslo Rodrigo Justo, was submitted to an idterrogatory. Tho Cathedral was closed, and will not be re-opened for public Worship till it be reconsecrated. I have been told that the Provincial Secretary, who, as I wrote yesterday, had “miraculously escaped,” hadbeen saved bv some of the Canons. X heard nothing further re- I epecting the police inspector who was reported I w ounded. I FgOig ITEW VOBK. New- Yoke, Feb. 13— It is stated tllataße imoilcan caucus In this city has prevailed upon the Tammany ring, by means of a consideration y et made public, to.secure the assent ot Governor Hoffman to the passage of a law in the Legislature abolishing the charterelec tions of December and prolonging the term of all WdD:ftS l fig, JgßfflHß, Wf refflm tbreo Republican justices in office who would otherwise go out. Governor Hoffman, it is an nounced, has agreed to give his assent to the bill. Two men, alleged to be the robbers of Benedict Brothers’ show-windows, in Broadway,'were ar raigned before Justice Hhandley yesterday, and affidavits partially implicating them in the rob bery were taken. They were both committed to answer in default of $5,000 bail each. Several parties were arrested yesterday at Staten Island and brought before Commissioner Joneß,of Brooklyn, on a charge of smuggling cigars to the value of $1 500. It has been discovered that among the numer ous other rings in this city there ia—what is more oppressive than all—a flour ring, composed of certain classes of flour operators at the Corn Ex change, whose aim is to monopolize tho trade by ruling out the flour manufacturers of this city and Brooklyn. The carving and dining-rooms of the Metro politan Hotel were the scene of a serious affray last evening, about half-past seyen o’clock, be tween several ot tho employes, daring which George Hodges (white), who holds the position ot carver, was badly injured about the head by a eluDgshot in the hands of John Jones or Richard Archer (colored). The origin or the difficulty seems to have been that the carver, who has charge of some fifty waiters, had occasion to ecDsure several 6f them in the early morning, and discharged Jones. At tho boar named some six or seven of these colored individuals, led on by Jones and 'Archer, gathered about Hodges, while he Was at his work in the carving room, and without any words, commenced to assault him, ending in tho serious assault referred to. The injured man, bleeding from his wonndß, fled from his assail ants and rushed across tho dining room, where several guests of the house were at dinner, to the tea room, followed by the excited blacks. His appearance and the evident determination of bis assailants to inflict still farther injury, caused the greatest excitement for a short time,during which an attempt was made to arre9t them, but this sig nally failed, although L. M. Sawyer,head waiter, placed himself at the door, through which thev finally escaped. AM CSISMKIVTI#. —AI tho Arch, thie evening, Tame Cats will bo per formed, with- Craig’n llarbe Uleue. —Mr. and Mrs. Barney Willlamß will appear at the Walnut, this evening, la The Fairy Circle and The Customs of the Country . —The Galton Comic Opera Company will appear at, tho Chestnut, th’e evening, in Ching-Chow-Hi. —The American announces a varied entertainment lor this evening. - $ —Tho second grand concert of tho PhilhoriSSSic So ciety will be given in the Academy of Music Weight —There will bo “a Grand Temperance Jubilee” at Musical Fund Hall to-night. —On the evening of the 18th inst. tho second sub scription concert of the Mendelssohn Society will be given at Musical Fund Hail. —On Thursday evening next at Concert Hall, Mr. Do Coroova will lecture upon ‘"Tho Spratta at Saratoga." —The second half of the regular winter term of the Conservatory of Music will begin next woek. This iustilution, under the able direction of Mr. Jefferson It. Williams and Mr. Carl Oaertncr, is still gaining in public favor, and applications from distant cities and towns ate now frequently received. Those who du o-ire a reully thorough musical education, caunot do better than to attcnd.at tho Conservatory. —On the ‘24th of February, Madame Parepa-Bosa will appear in tho Academy of Music. -j-The Age says that “ ‘rebuking’ has Its in finite varieties. The least offensive by far js the ‘cut direct,’for that ascertains one's relations at once. Then there 1b the ‘rebuke oblique,’ mani kstid in an iußune desire to find out what time of -ray it is, or to look into shop-windows,or across the street. The form, howevor.whlch is the most touching, and, therefore, the hardest to endure,is ‘the rebuke reproachful;’ the silent bowing of the bend, the austere mourning for a lost sheep from the loyal fold, the stern expression of duty per formed. Jnnins Brutus and his son—David on lAbealom—Doctor Franklin, over 'his eon - Wil- —Tbore is no logic In blackguardism or lying. But the man who uses those most' liburally and loudly will convlnco more pcoplq than ho who decehtly tells the truth. Policemen Dismissed.—Two policemen of the Second District were dismissed yesterday for lounging in the house of a flee company., Two patrolmen, of other districts, were removed for being soon to emerge from taverns. F. I. EETttERSTOK PaTilisker:; PRICE THREE CENTS. CITY BUJtiJLiETiXiT. v The Judicial Contest—Tlio Legislative Cora-' * wittee appointed to try tto contested; elSctiotH case of M. Russell Thayer vs. Thomas Gicenbadfei' 2 - se^fnn^hlc 0 DlStT . iCt COnrt iu city, ;h»mhnr h T? o ? ins f n -«ho-; Common ,Connell!.? if) b ra“R?in nn n he^w m < mltteo * 9 composed of Sena!? Lowrv i^ airma . n) ’ Brown,' Miller and Beatty* HSnte? ffi ntatlV l? Josephs ? n d w r e ’bb B ° binBoD ’ karshau;. , Al J? anderSlmp6on f s ft® contestant, and Meears; Wm A.iphp, l Deche « and George Joseph Mousley, Jr., one of the officer* nf th* i l rir n A^ le ® o yenth Divielon of the Seven-'t teenth was eiamlned, and testified to tha insularities in the conductor the clectfonln o£ ‘ foher daflt. His testimony was similar to that ' n V l6 C m ntest<^j*e< ; t * oncMeB of the city ; B&Sf offlcer8 > and already publiahediu . . Mrs. Mary McCartney, residing at No. iSfir? Bodine aUee?, tealiaed that her husbanddßobert : McCartney, died on the 15th of Jnne iMt (hS name is on the list of voters.) •-- Wm. Ray, Return InspectoroftheSevenHr Seventeenth Ward, testified tothelrre- , in.the conduct of the election in Octo- ' Jonu Dhffytestlfled that JameeMcOttigim was in time of the October electlon.and th a t Patrlcfe Glachin had moved oat of the So-,.. ventb-Dinßlon Seventeenth Ward previous to thfr7 October election. ‘(By the llstof voterd hoth ap* ;^ pear toiuwe votod.3 . t ~ , V.. Stewart McMlchael testified that' Seearai, ni-jf-'-r sassHSßa®gaffiia»fe' !~>jtf.w»ggaB^aiBag(. th^n^wi r of testified to having voted ' the Republican ticket in the Seventh division'of "' An&lf 11111 Ward, at the ,oK rtH £*te»«m»y.takeD this morning related* to ihe Seventh division of the Seventeenth Ward! ' and was the same as has already been nnblisheS: * > in the Bulletin. r " Robberies.— The office ot Ihe marble yard, of . Edwin Greble, on Chestnul street, near Seven teentb, was entered through a window this mom- The fire-proof safe was forced open, and books and papers were scattered about the roam. Nothing of any value was stolen. - q J h SJ? welUn £ °f Archibald Cunningham, No. 331 'Wharton street, was entered by boring through a rear door, about 4 o’clock this ing, and was robbed of two dozen silver spoons, ‘ and a sbawl and other clothing. v warehouse of McKnight <fc Baker, No. 2tt North Broad street, was entered last night, and ■ was robbed of some old clothing. - _The residence of Mr. H. D. HeiskeU, No. 129 North Twelfth street, was entered through a back .door, last night. The thieves carried off some napkin rings and spoons. T- W -he WiKTnn Relief Fosd.—We mako thefol- * /owing acknowledgments of contributions to the, fund for the relief of the family of James Winter; ' - •Previously acknowledged ' "(fcasf so 1 cash x? Moyameoßlng Hose Company .9. ,; Mrs. Evan 5..,,.,..,.,,.... •■ aiw Adeline Saner..; ... ~ a-ow •lames Bollock .'. 5 Q<y ~ Cookman & Bangh ...... .**, in na •fobn W. Faires. I" 's 00 W. W..Gumm.... ’ 11 no M. -McGarvey .........11 600 Nalb. Warhock ~....! 800,-; Cash 16 00 • Total ...... .st;pbo_bo ■ ‘ • The Hearings of Criminals.—The following ' ‘ instructions issued by Joseph Eueu, Chief of tho Detective Police, by order of the Mayor, were' > •’ sent to the different police stations this morning: : “ Ordered : — That all persons arrested for crime ‘ of the higher grades, such as burglaries, larcenies, day house robberies, highway robbories, pocket picking, professional thieves, sneak thieving, for geries, passing counterfeit money, fugitives ftoia justice, homicides, rape, receiving stolen goods; ' and on snch like charges, shall boforthwithaeht to the Central Police Station, S.. W. corner. Fifth <■ - f and Chestnut streets, for hearing, and together with ail the evidence had in the cases respeo- ’ lively.’ j - .■■■■ - Thieves aiid Kaeai v am.—a wo youths name Martin Flanigan and Wm. Bramble were arrested, yesterday by Policemen Clark and Frltner upon the charge of the larceny of a copper kettle front the store of T. B. Atkinson, Thirty-fourth and Market streets. The kettle was sold to Margaret Weaver, rag-dealer, on Market street, j above Thlrty-secdnd, who was arrested on the charge; of receiving stolen goods. The prisoners were 1 all committed by Alderman Manll. Till Tapping.—William Anderson was ar rested yesterday upon the charge of having robbed the money-drawer of George Jessup's tav ern, on Frankford road below Girard avenue,and was held to answer by Aid. Eggieton. James Marion, for BtfeaUng §7 from the money, drawer of a tayern at Thirteenth and Christian streets, has been held for a further hearing bv Aid. Bonsali. 1 V iolating an Ordinance Asher Blaker was arrested yesterday, at Second and Brown streets, for viqlating a city ordinance by driving hia wagon too close to another team. He was fined $5 by Alderman Becker. Fast Driving.—Lucias Mackenzie was ar rested yesterday afternoon for fast driving on Broad street. He was fined by Alderman Hood. Gifts to the Historical Society—Tho family of the late Wijliam Parker Foulke have lately presented to the “Historical Society of Pennsylvania” a yaluable portion of his library, containing rare pamphlets and booksof historical interest., On Monday evening last, Mr. Augustus G. Heaton, the artist, presented to the Boclety hia largo and boautiful painting, “Columbia’s Night- Watch,” executed by him about three years ago on his return from Paris. It Is an allegorical subject, of which the genlns of the countiy, Columbia; is the central figure. Tho Society ac cepted tide'geßeroua tribute with becoming ex pressions of recognition. Peculiarities of English Mr. Berlbold T. Steiner is to deliver a lecture at the Assembly ~. Buildings, on Tuesday evening next, on “The , Peculiarities of the English Language.” We un derstand that Mr. Steiner handles his subject with much sprightiiness and originality. The object is to procaro funds for a new charity just ' established for the benefit of the orphan children of missionaries, and deserves the hearty support and encouragement of *hn benevolent. '■ Fine Arts.—A number of paintings and crystal medallions uncalled for and passed on , previous sales, will be disposed of, without reserve, this; evening at 7j<f o’clock at Scott’s Art Gallery, 108 S, Chestnut street. They are all from the American Art Gallery, New York. Sermon to Medical Students.—The Rev. Mr. Drown,rector of the Church of tho Saviour,West Philadelphia, will addresß a sermon to medical students, at St. Luke's Church, to-morrow (Bob.' day) evening, at 7% o’clock. •' The Straits of Saratoga have Informed vs tbntT. A. McClelland, 1219 Chestnut street, it • selling the cheapest and beat Furniture in the city.. ■ .v.'r■ :.c : ;ioi & 'Vu::
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