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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1882. 2 A YOUNG ADVENTURER. A TUBLIC NEED. the a Church of tbe Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Alleghany avenoe and Belgrade street The Right Rev. Bishop Gross, C.

8. 8. of Savannah, Ga will preach the sermon. The Polish Catholics of this city are Invited to attend Divine service next Sunday morning at ten o'clock, la the hall at Frankf ord road and Norris street. CHAMPIONS CHICAOOED- The Canadian Hlae Agata Beatea by the Philadelphia Score, I ta The second game between the Phlladelphlas and the AtlanUos, of 8t Thomas, the champions of Canada, was played at Recreation Park yesterday afternoon, and resulted In a victory for the home team by a score of 2 to 0.

Eight hundred people witnessed the contest, which was decidedly interesting from the start, and had aa exciting finish. The Phlladelphlas were again unable to hit the puzzling curves delivered by the Canadian pitcher, and only four safe hits were made by them during the game. The Canadians showed great improvement in their fielding, but they were very weak at the bat, their record off Henderson being only three safe hits. The home nine made two runs in the second inning. McClelland made a base hit, but was forced at second by Moynahan's hit to Collins.

Henderson drove a run in by a three-base hit to right centre field, and then scored himself on Cork-hill's hard hit through Quinn. In the seventh inning muffed fly bails by eagle and Moyna-ban, and a muff of a thrown ball byCorkhlll allowed the visitors to get three men on bases, but Btapleton closed the inning by going out on strikes. Three quick double plays and the fielding of Hunter were the features of the game. Hunter made two good catches, both on long running jumps in right field. The score was as follows: Atlantic a.b.

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Collins. 2 4 01 1 5 4 1 Walkins, 3 4 0 0 1 1 1 A NICK POINT. The City Solicitor Settles a Qaestiea ef Latere te Property Owners. Registrar A. N.

Keithler has addressed to the City Solicitor a letter ot Inquiry on a point of interest to all real estate owners and builders of houses. Tbe reply of Mr. West, which opens with a full statement ef the ease about which Mr. Keithler desired Information, Is given as follows: Auoubt 17, 1882 A. N.

Keithler, Esq Registrar My Dear Bir: By your letter ot August 11, 1882, you ask me whether the Water Department can grant a permit to tan the mam on Seventeenth street to supply a house on Sterling street, on which street no water pipe is laid, without demanding the assessment for the expense of laying the water pipe on the premises for which tb oe-mlt is requested, as per par. 66, page 501 City Digest In refily thereto I have to say as follows: The language ot the ordinance of January 2U, 1855, which is par. Mi, page 500, City Digest, is this: "No permit for the use of water shall be Issued onless at tbe time of tbe application the person shall exhibit the receipt of the proper officer for the amount ot assessment (or other satisfactory evidence of the payment thereof) for the expense of laying the water pipe on tbe premises for which the permit Is requested." This provision, as I wrote you a few days since, applies only to properties in front of which tbe water pipe is laid, and not to those in front of which there is no water pipe. Tbat this is so must be evident from the least consideration of its language. It Implies that the water pipe has been previously laid, the assessment therefor made, and, indeed, a previous payment thereof, because it speaks ot tbe production ot a receipt or other evidence of payment for the ECCLESIASTICAL NEWS.

Bellgieas Motes of Interest Concerning the Different Denominations. The seventy-third anniversary of the Beaver Baptist Association will be held with the Lower Zion Church on Thursday afternoon, August 24. Rev. Dr. J.

Wheaton Smith, of this city, has returned from the provinces, and is at Squan, although he generally preaches In New York or Brooklyn on Sundays. The sew Baptist Church at Plattsburg, N. will be dedicated August 29, when the sermon will be preached by Rev. R. a MacArthar, D.

D. of the Calvary Church, N. Y. Tbe Norwegian services held on Bnnday afternoons at the Baptist Mariners' Bethel, under the direction of Mr. James Miller, have been well attended.

The number present at erh service has ranged from 18 to 40. Rev. Charles C. Karle, of Wilmington, lately graduated from Crozer Seminary, has accepted a call from the Milestown Baptist Church. Rev.

E. McMinn will preach on the next two Sundays at tbe South Broad Street Baptist Church. The pastor, Rev. P. L.

Jones expects to baptize three candidates on tbe first Sunday in September, making thirty -seven since tbe opening of the year. Rev. R. W. Perkins has decided to retain his position as pastor of the Third Baptist Church, Camden, N.

J. Rev. A. E. Rose, pastor of the North Baptist Church, Camden, N.

has extended the hand of fellowship to eight persons, and baptized six, making in all seventy-four who have united with the church since Mr. Rose began his pastorate in ApriL Rev. R. G. Lamb has accepted a call to the Baptist Church at Recklesstown, N.

Rev. H. B. Garnet, late pastor of the Baptist Church at Hopewell, N. has resigned, and intends establishing a theological book store in this city- Tbe Northern Conference of the Lutheran Synod ot Central Pennsylvania will convene in Hazleton, Pa, on Tuesday evening next.

The North Branch Conference of the Susquehanna Lutheran Synod will meet in Mill-ville, Columbia county, on the 28th last. The Lutheran Chapel at Markleton, Somerset county, wilt be dedicated on Sunday, August 27. Rev. J. F.

Shearer, of Somerset, will preach the morning sermon. Workmen are now busily engaged in putting up in St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Rev. Dr. Ootwall, pastor, a fine new pipe organ.

The new church edifice now being erected at Williamsport, will becomple'ed about the 1st of December next, at a cost of $12 000. Rev. R. F. Weidner, professor-elect of Au- fustana Theological Seminary, Rock Island, 11., bas tendered bis resignation of tbe pastorate of St.

Luke's Lutheran Church in this city. The Hon. W. C. De Paun, of New Albany, Indiana, bas declared his intention of presenting Asbury University with one million dollars, provided the citizens of Greencastle will furnish the lacd necessary for the erection of new buildings.

The Church Congress of Eisenach recommend that tbe entire German nation celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Luther's birthday, November 10, 1883. The P. Church of the Incarnation, New York city, wbich was burned early last spring, is now being rebuilt at a cost of $50,000. During the forty years which have elapsed since the organization of the P. E.

Church of the Crucifixion it bas never been in so prosperous a condition as at present. It has over 200 communicants, with 300 scholars in the Sunday school. The rector, Rev. H. L.

Phillips, is doing a good work in the parish. For its own support the church has contributed $400; communion alms, $75, and for missionary work, $150. There is great need of a parish building for church work and a new church to accommodate the growing congregation. Three properties have been purchased on Bainbridge street, above Eighth, which, with the site of the present church, will afford room for both church and parish building. The Rev.

David J. Ayres, of St. Anne's P. E. Church, Lowell, has accepted the position of assistant minister ot Trinity Cnurch, New York.

The Rev. Baker F. Folsom, of Jersey City, bss accepted the rectorship of St. John's Church, at Cold Springs, N. Y.

The Rev. J. J. bleeper, M. formerly warden of tbe Sheltering Arms, now general secretary of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Vice, has been unanimously called to the rectorship of St.

John's P. E. Church, Concord. He has also been offered a professorship in one ot the Philadelphia colleges. Tbe corner-stone ot ion's Reformed Church (German) at Ashland, was recently laid under very favorable auspices.

Rev. S. B. Schaeffer has declined a call from the Reformed charge at Jonestown, Pa. Rev.

J. S. Vandersloot has resigned the pastorate of Grace Reformed Mission, Philadelphia. Rev. D.

E. Klopp, D. has received a call from the Reformed Church at Milton, Pa. Eighty young persons have been received by rite of confirmation into the communion of the Reformed Church at Haskins. Pa.

Sixteen probationers have been received Into full membership at the Olif ton M. E. Church, and there are about fourteen more to be received. Bishop Harris, of the M. E.

Church, is expected to return on the Bteamer tbat leaves Hamburg on the 12th, and will reach this country about the 23d. Bishop Campbell, of the African M. E. Church, has given $1000 to Wilberforce University. Rev.

E. H. Gammon, of the Rock River M. E. Conference, has offered to give $5000 for a building at Atlanta, to be used as a theological seminary, and $20,000 more for endowment, if others would give $10,000 additional for the building.

Bishop Warren has pledged the $10,000, dependmg upon the Indorsement of tbe church, and bas directed the buildings to be erected. Tbe training school for ministers will be built at Atlanta, in connection with Clark University. The Presbyterian Church at Nanticoke, having been repaired and beautified, was recently reopened. Tbe foremost presbytery in the Irish Presbyterian Church is the Presbytery of Belfast. There are nearly eleven thousand communicants, and the gifts ot the people for church purposes amounted lost year to $160,000.

There is only one Presbyterian Church for the colored people in Washington, but it has 600 members. On Sunday last twelve persons were added to the Doyleetown Presbyterian Church, Rev. W. A. Patcon, pastor, seven upon profession of their faith and five by letter.

The Rev. J. L. Robertson has been called to the Presbyterian Church in Courtland, N. J.

The net numerical growth ot the United Presbyterian Church last year was double that of the year before, viz 1036 to 818. The Rev. William Needham, brother of the evangelist, Rev. George Needham, has been called to the pastorate of the Roger Williams Regular Baptist Church in Providence, I. Tbe Rev.

J. C. Price, the colored orator ot the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church, and delegate to the Ecumenical Conference, who remained in Great Britain to collect funds for the Zion Wesley Institute in North Carolina, has concluded his work and returns with about $10,000. The following is tbe order of the forty hours' devotion in the churches and chapels of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Philadelphia: August 20, twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, St Matthew's, Conshohocken. August 27, thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, St.

Thomas, Villa Nova; Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Mahanoy Plane. September 3, fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, St Bonifacius', Philadelphia; Holy Family, New Philadelphia. On Sunday morning next, tbe Right Rev. Bishop Shanahan, of Harrisburg, will dedicate Trials ef a Colored Lad Who Wants to Oe ea a Farm. For some hours on Wednesday afternoon the Fourth District Police Station, Fifth street above Race, resounded with howls.

They proceeded from a pair ot marvelously strong lungs belonging not to a victim of mania potn, but to a small colored boy, aged twelve years, who, if his own story is true, seems to have been rather summarily dealt with even for tbe heinous crime of being homeless and friendless. A Fourth District policeman picked him up wandering almlnesly about the streets in tbe early morning. He said his name was Willie Barnes, and that his home was in Charleston, South Carolina. "How did you get here?" he was asked by an Inquirer reporter. "Came on a steamer." "Were you a stowaway "A what, air?" ''Did you steal your passage?" "No, sir.

The captain let me come." "What did yon come for!" "I wanted to get on a farm." "Where did you get on board the steamerf" "At "All alone." "Yes, sir. The captain said I might" Buoyed up with the hope of "getting on a farm," this extremely young emigrant hal come on to seek his fortune amid the whirl ot Northern industry and competition. He was an orphan, he said, having lost both -his father and bis mother. He made his home with an aunt, who, though she had no children and was kind to her nephew, was in humble circumstances and found his support a burden. The boy is small for his age, with jaws almost Simian in their prominence.

He is a ot light shade, verging on the mulatto. After giving him some breakfast the officers took him round to the office of tbe Ward Association for organizing charity. There another meal was given him, which the unhappy exile described as consisting of meat and potatoes, without any bread. "They didn't give me no bread," he reiterated with tears and a deep sense ot injury. The society, as usual, hastened to wash its hands ot him, and word was sent In the course of tbe day to the station that William was behaving so badly there was no doing anything with him; would the police please resume charge of him? An officer was accordingly despatched to the charity rooms, and, as a charge ot disorderly conduct" now hung over the head ot the unfortunate little waif, he was put into one of the cells and locked up.

When questioned on his behavior at the charity rooms be admittei that be was noisy, but said that be was "only crying." What were you crying for?" asked the sergeant, who was present at the interview. '1 was crying because I got to thinking ot my friends," said William. "Your friends in South Carolina?" "Yes, sir; I have no friends here." Tee vessel on which he came landed him at New York, he said, and, according to his state-meet, be bad met with kind-hearted train hands who permitted him to ride to this city cn a freight car. He lived on what he could beg. ben he found himself actually in durance tbe boy was like a young savage, and his lamentations filled the air, disturbing the usual afternoon quiet of the station, and even the equanimity of the ofllc rs.

Howls, yells and shrieks rent tbe welkin, and affected most uo- 1 pleasantly tbe tympana of tbe listeners. He complained bitterly of being hungry, and at uppertime played a good knife and fork, repeating the exerclsn at breakfast yesterday morning. He was finally despatched to tbs Central Station and thence to tbe House of Refuge ns the best (lace for bim till communication could be established with his friends. TBE BREWERS, Steps Taken Toward the Formation of a Piotective State Assoelation. Yesterday morning a meeting of the Philadelphia Lager Beer Brewers' Association was held at No.

510 Vine street, Peter Schemm, president, in the chair. Among those present were Hermann B. Scbarraann, of Brooklyn, president of the United States Lager Baer Brewers' Association; Charles Glass, Richard Katzenmayer, of New York; Frederick Lhuer, ot Reading; Louis Biuer, of the G. R. Baits Brewing Company; Theodore Engel, ot the Bergner Engel Brewing Company; Gut-tav Miller, ot the Henry Miller Brewing Company; Frank Rothacker, of Rothacker Sons.

Mr. Scharmann characterized as a fraud the recent analysis conducted under the auspices of tbe New York Business Men's Moderation Society. He read from a circular issued by tbe United States Association addressed to the local associations. It cautioned them against an attempt to extort money from individual brewers and to injure the trade. The fact that the brewers were to pay for the analysis robbed it at once of authority, no matter bow fairly made.

The chemists selected were men of standing, who did not know what beer they were at work upon, and gave the result by letter and number, snd they declared tbat they had not, after submitting the beer to rigorous tests, discovered any noxious or deleterious ingredients. Conducted under the auspices of tbe State or municipal government such a certificate would have been valuable, not only to individual brewers, but to tbe trade. As it was, it merely gave room for malignant fanatics to say that it was virtually the brewers' own analysis. Mr. Set ar man referred to a circular Issued by the Association of Beer Brewers of New York, offering $1000 for the detection of poisonous or deleterious ingredients in the beer brewed by any member ot the association.

A motion prevailed that tbe Philadelphia Association should pursue the same course. A communication from Mr. Jacob Conrad, was read, suggesting the appointment ot a committee, consisting of five members, to invite all the brewers of tbe State of Pennsylvania to the formation of a State association, or league, for the purpose of organizing to instil into the minds of the people a healthy public sentiment In favor of liberty and justice to the malt interests of the Commonwealth. A committee was appointed to consider the advisability of organizing a State association, and report at a subsequent meeting. A committee was also appointed to arrange for a participation in the Bi-Centennial celebration.

Children's Seashore House. To-morrow will be donation day at the Children's Seashore House, Atlantic City. The house will be open to visitors throughout the day. Supplies of all kinds will be thankfully received, but what is most needed is money to meet the current expenses of this summer. Tbe applicatiots for the admission of children are more numerous than ever, and the cost of provisions is higher than usual, while the receipts from contributions are, thus far, below tbe average of past seasons, and the treasury is largely overdrawn.

Annual contributions are epeclally solicited. The Children's Seashore House and the Seaside House for Invalid Women are two distinct institutions. Contributors are requested to indicate clearly for which institution their benefactions are intended. Sins, Prompt, Thorough may be safely and truly said to be the characteristics of Dr. Jayne's Carminative Balsam.

Its merit has made it known everywhere for years as a standard curative for Cramps, Diarrhoea, Cholera Morbus and alt Diseases of the Bowels; it is besides easily administered to children, being pleasant to the taste, and ia entirely safe. Thx Liroxst Err ail Stock or Drt Goods, entAWBUoei ft Clothtib, Eighth and Market BM THE GAP LEFT BY FALSE ECONOMY. Difficulties Encounter 4 by the Police In Providing- (or Sufferers Hurt or Taken 111 In the Street-Proposed Remedy. Of the fact that it ra false economy 10 to reduce the Almshouse appropriation as to dispense with the two Philadelphia Hospital ambulances the police think they hare pretty thoroughly assured themselves. At any moment a man or woman taken ill In tbs street may be picked up by the patrolmen an! brought to one or another ot the station.

While the city ambulances were running It was only necessary to telegraph to Blockley, and in forty minutes or an hour at most-there would rattle up to the door of the most remote station house an ambulance, drawn by spirited horses, furnished with medicines and all sorts of surgical appliances, and bringing two physicians, who would busy themselves at once in making the sufferer as comfortable as possible and preparing him to undergo removal to the hospital. These excellent arrangements having been economically dispensed with, there remains one ambulance, with one horse, often Indisposed, the property, not of the city, but of the Pennsylvania Hospital. This one-horse equipage, unlike the public ambulances, has no right of way, bat Is subject to any delays that obstinacy, stupidity, carelessness or accident may Interpose to its progress, delays that, of ecu se, seem doubly and trebly long to the sufferer with broken arm or crushed foot, or knife or gunshot wound awaiting relief. When telegraphed for, even the inferior transport above described is not always to be obtained. The horse, as already stated, is an invalid, and an answer is but too frequently returned from the hospital that the solitary animal that bear the responsibility for the whole town's list of casualties on his shoulders is confined to the stable by temporary indisposition.

Even when impaired health offers no Impediment to bis usefulness the hospital routine requires before exposing him to the vicissitudes ot.going abroad, to be that his services are required only in a case strictly surgical. Do merely sick people are received, let them be as as they rimy. For assistance such cases the Police Department must rely upon the other hospitals, which have no ambulances. The police stations are certaluly not meant for infirmaries, nor the oflioers for sick nurses, yet as things are persons suddenly rendered helpless by illness must depend upon the good of Hoes of the station bouse officials, prompted oftentimes, be it said, by very kind hearts. If an officer brings in a sufferer from tbs street he mast be responsible for hiai.

If a conveyance has to be hired to take him away the station must pay tor it. "We found," said a sergeant at one of the stations, "only the other day, a man whose foot bad been crushed by some accident. We had great difficulty in getting him here, and found, on telegraphing to the hospital, that the ambulance was not to b9 had. We were obliged to hire a furniture car and send the patient away in that." In Mayor Fox's time the policeman who found an injured or sick person on his beat was authorized to have him removed to the station house or hospital at bis own expense, and every three months everybody was reimbursed for such outlays by the city. Ia other words, the great city of 1'biladplphi, the first ia extent and second in population in the Union, borrowed from a poor policeman, on a small salary, the money necessary to satisfy the demands ot common humanity, and repaid it after the expiration of a quarter of a year.

This was truly a beautiful arrangement, but it was better than the present one, under which officers may be as humane as they please at their own expense. Under the recent regime another difficulty was sometimes eocouutered in disposing of pauper sufferers, which, it is to be hoped, will form no part of the history of the new Board of Guardians of the Poor. At one of the downtown stations, not long since, a poor crazy creature was brought in, and the lieutenant, perceiving that his brain was disordered, began to think, from some demonstrations he made, that the Insane Department of the Almshouse was the man's proper sphere. He accordingly sent out tor two highly respectable physicians, one of whom lived at quite a distance. Both attended.

The insane man was examined and the proper certificate duly signed and sworn to. It so happened that the Poor Guardian for that particular district was ill, and the document was accordingly seat for signature to one of the officers of the board, who flatly refused to append bis signature, and there was nothing for it but to turn the man out upon the street again which was done. Chief Givin says that the complaints gathered among the station houses are fully authorized by the facts. For the sick there Is no admission at the Pennsylvania Hospital, though accident cases and cases of sunstroke are duly cared for at that institution. For others the police have to rely upon the other hospitals according to proximity.

The stretcher.the only alternative to tbe furniture car, the Chief can-aiders objectionable, not only as being laborious for the men, but uncomfortable for tbe patient, inasmuch as, owing to the method of transportation by hand, the sides are involuntarily closed by the bearers so as to press upon the person lying on the canvas. Tbe Chief said that he wai, and had been, for some time urging the adoption ot measures to supply this manifest publio want, adding that he hoped tbe press would assise the movement by keeping the subject in publio view. A POISONED HOUSEHOLD. Suit Brought Against Well-Known Eighth Street Confectioner. As a result ot a dessert eaten In the boarding house of Mr.

Charles C. Oyott, at No. 1921 Walnut street, on the 17th of June last, three suits for the recovery of damages have recently been instituted against William H. Bhuster, the well-known Eighth street confectioner. Among the food consumed by Mr.

Dyott and his boarders on that day were a dozen or a dozen and a halt cream puffs purchased at Mr. Bbuster's establishment. A few hours after the dinner tad been eaten trouble arose in the household. With startling unanimity tbe boarders sought their respective rooms and called for physicians. Investigation showed tbat all of tbe persons who were ill had eaten cream puffs, and as these articles had dubious reputation they were promptly fixed npon as the cause ot the mischief, and Mr Iiyott, his brother, Milton J.

Lukens, and Christopher Sawyer each entered suit against Bhaster to recover 10,000. Mr. Boaster says that bis books show that more puffs were made at the same baking as those purchased by Mr. Dyott and sold to other persons, not one of whom made any complaint. Mr.

Shuster also declares tbat a few days after the poisoning the physician who bad attended Mr. Dyott and bis boarders called at Mr. Bhuster's place, examined tbe whole process ef manufacturing the puffs and expressed himself satisfied that no poisoning could have occurred. As Mr. Dyott's bountiful board held fish, soup, meats, fruits, loss and cheese on the day in question, it is intimated that some of these other articles, or, perhaps, all of them may have been the cause of CRIMINAL COURT NOTES.

the Caaes Disposed Of la Judge Mitchell's Court Yesterday. In the new court house yesterday criminal caaes were disposed ot by Judge Mitchell, as follows: George Barton, a young man, chargsd with conspiracy to steal, was discharged. Barton came from New York, where his standing and reputation is good, for the purpose of spending bis vacation here, and seeing the sights of the city. He seems to have fallen in with a bad companion, and was arrested In a drug store at Seventh and Spring Garden streets, where he was engaged in conversation with the proprietor while his companion stole a box of soap. Barton offered to pay for what had been taken, but ha was arrested.

Judge Mitchell discharged him so that he might go home to New York with his mother and sister, who bad come on to bring him back. George Buckis, a boy, who stole a watch and other property from Ambrose Foster, was also discharged, the father of the boy agreeing to look after him hereafter. George Hibbs, larceny of two pairs of pantaloons and other property from the house ot bis brother-in-law, Samuel P. Fraley, was tentenoed to thirty days. W.

O'Grady wis convicted of assault and battery on Frauk J. Tibbitt, superintendent of Jefferson Squire. It seems there was a fight going on in the square which Tibbitt attempted to qiell. Hs arrested O'Uradyand Samuel Mclucyre, but wss struck by some of the crowd who were fighting, so that his prisoner br.ika his hold. When O'Grady was released it seems he turned and struck Tibbitt on the head with a club.

O'Grady and Mclntyre were both in the dock yesterday, but there being no evidence implicating Mclntyre in the assault he was discharged; O'Grady, however, was oouvictel, and sentence upon him was deferred. John Mclntyre, charged with keeping a disorderly house on Lombard street, near Sixteenth, was convicted. Neighbors tee tilled that disturbances were frequent in the Mclntyre houss; that brawling was carried on all night and that tbe rest and quiet of the neighborhood was destroyed. Sentence was deferred. John Mclntyre, and Kerns Fitzgerald, indicted with Mclntyre, were both acquitted.

Hsnry Mitchell and James Brown, colored men, ware sentenced to three mouths each for the larceny of $2 50 from Jusrpb Johnson. The pocket of Johnson's pants, containing the money, was cut out by tbe defendants while tbo owner was asleep. Albert Lavely, a middle aged man, wa3 yesterday convicted, before Judge Mitchell, of marital unfaithfulness. Lavely was married to Mary Mulholland, a widow with several children, quite a number of years ago. The husband was a seafaring man, and the wife managed an oyster baloon.

A stout female customer at the saloon, Mary McLaren by name, seems to have attracted the eye of Lavely, who deserted his wife about four months ago. Witnesses testified yesterday that Lavely bad introduced Mary McLaren aa his wife, and bas settled himself down pretty steadily at her bouse, No. 920 Otsego street. In his own behalf Lavely testified that the prosecution was a put up job on him by his wife an 1 stepchildren. He claims that he was merely boarding with Mary McLaren; but, on cross -exa-niua-tion, he admitted that he paid the rent of the bouse.

Tbe jury convicted Lively without leaving tbe box. Sentence on him, however, was deferred. The woman McLaren was also on trial; but, as it could not be proved that she was a married woman, the prosecution against her was withdrawn. A GRAVE CHARGE. Two Lads Accused of Causing a Companion's Death.

A body was found in the Delaware on Wed' nesday, which was recognized as that of Francis Harrigan, who had been drowned the previous afternoon. News of the discovery was at once forwarded to the residence ot the lad's mother, at No. 9 Avenue near New Market and Vine streets. The father applied for a Durial permit, but was opposed by Mrs. Harri gan, who stated that her husband had not lived Ht home for seven months, and that she wished to superintend tbe interment Yesterday morn-cg Mrs.

Harrigan, with tears in her eyes, called upon Deputy Coroner Powers and demanded the arrest of some boys whom she ac cused of pushing her son into the river. She -es in great distress, saying that her Frank was the best ol ner six children: that, although -to nearsighted as to be almost blind, he helped r0 support me iamuy oy selling newspapers, wd was highly esteemed among her neighbors. It is stated that a number of boys living in the vicinity ot Mrs. Harrigan's home have neen pushing children into the river, jumping to ineir rescue, ana, alter putting tnem out, tccompanying them home and claiming a re ward for saving tnem from death bv drown ing. Mrs.

Harrigan's story was tbat a party boys, among them her Frank, had gone to "Coolies" on the Delaware river, near Noble treet wharf, to bathe. Frank, being unable to swim, kept near shore, while the others iwam out to deeper water. When young Har rigan wanted to go ashore, two of the lads, the oereaved mother alleges, splashed water in his face, so that he mistook his direction, got into deep water ana wasarownea. rnecase will he thoroughly investigated to-day. Meanwhile bis companions deny that anybody molested Frank, and claim that they can bring vide tic a to prove that Francis Harrigan was some 'quares away from the rest when he was drowned.

A SAVING DOUBT. A Jury Lets a Young Han Out of a Tight Place. William Bheehan and Thomas Marshall, young men, who had been boarding with Carl Klungstein, were yesterday placed In the dock in the new court house charged with the lar ceny of a gold watch, $16 in money and other property valued at $48 from Mr. Klungstein. Sbeehan pleaded guilty, but Marshall, who bears the alias ot Warrington, denied any hand in the transaction, and was therefore placed on trial The testimony produced showed that Bheehan and Marshall were room-mates in the boarding house.

On one Sunday a short time ago the room of Mrs. Klungstein was entered and the articles spoken of stolen from a bureau drawer. Search was made in the room of the two defendants. When tbe door was opened Marshall was found lying npon the bed apparently asleep. Tbe searchers looked about a little, however, before leaving, and were surprised to find Sbeehan hiding himself under the bed.

Four dollars of the stolen money were found upon him. He was taken into custody, Marshall was awakened, the bed was searched and bid away under the covers were found tbe watch and the balance of the money. Whether Marshall had any band in placing the money under the covers and whether Sbeehan bad had time to tuck it away there was a question wbich tbe jury trying Marshall were made to wrestle with yesterday. Marshall claimed that he was thoroughly drunk.and had been so since Saturday night The jury, after being out for a considerable time, failed to agree on tbe guilt of Marshall, and he was therefore discharged on his own recognizance. Sentence on Sheehan was deferred.

Enslie, p. 4 0 8 4 0 Irsy, 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 Uorkery, I. r. 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 Friend.c. 4 0 2 2 10 0 Hunter, r.

4 0 2 1 0 btapleton, lb 3 0 9 0 1 Quinn, as 3 0 0 4 1 34 0 af 3 24 14 6 Philadelphia. a.b. a. Is. t.b.

r. k. Keagle, r. 4 0 0 2 0 1 Latham, 3 4 0 2 1 0 Lewis, c. 4 0 2 0 0 McCleUan, s.

3 0 11111 Moynahan, Lf 3 1 0 0 1 Henderson, 4 12 4 0 8 1 CorkmU 1 3 0 0 11 0 1 Btraub, 2 0 0 0 0 0 T. Wanning, 2 3 0 1 1 3 2 0 30 2 4 6 27 12 1 INKINGS. Atlantic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 Philadelphia 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Huns earned Philadelphia, 1. Three-base hit-' Henderson. First base on errors Atlantic, 5 Philadelphia, 5.

On called balls McCleUan, Hoy. Dalian, btraub. Left on bases Atlantic, Philadelphia, 7. Double plays Vuliin, Collins and Btapleton, Hunter and Collins, Collins and btapleton. Struck out Tray, Btapleton, total, Nagle, Henderson, 2.

Muffed fly balls Corkery, Moynahan and Neagle. Passed balls-Tray, 2. Umpire Wesley Curry. Time of game Oiie hour aud forty minutes. Motes.

The Troy and Philadelphia Clubs play to-day. Gaines Elsewhere. At Providence, vesterday, In the base Dau game Between the rrovldence ana tbe Detroit clubs on tbe eighteenth inning Providence made one run, the extraordinary game closing: Providence, Detroit, 0. At Boston Buffalo, Boston, 1. At Worcester Cleveland, 13; Worcester, 10.

At Troy Chicago, Troy, 4. At Savannah, a match game of base ball was played yesterday between the Thus. Bren-Ban Base Ball Club of New Orleans and the fc'avannah Base Ball Club. The latter were defeated by a score of nine to two. Tbe game was witnessed by twelve hundred people.

SILK CULTURE. A Buperb Piece of Black Satin Woven for the Association. Great credit Is due to the ladies of the Silk Culture Association for the perseverance they have shown in making a success that is destined to become historical as one of the earliest and most signal triumphs of combined industrial effort on tbe part ot the women of America. Every few months something new is announced from tbe journal of the society's work, and tbe intelligence always indicates that another step in advance has been made. Tbe last item is that Messrs.

Cooper Conard, Ninth and Market streets, have just completed weaving for the Women's Bilk Culture 'Association seventy yards of black satin, every thread of which was raised in various parts of the United States. It is of very nice quality, good color, and genuine silk, without mixture or adulteration with chemicals. In order to have quantity they have, to a certain degree, sacrificed its quality, the texture not being of the finest weave of fabric. The satin is for sale, and can be examined at the rooms of the association, No. 1328 Chestnut street, next week.

Tbe association is holding the interest of the community, tbe correspondence, even at this season, when the processes are over, averaging from forty to fifty letters dally. An interesting new instruction book will shortly be issued with illustrations. The school at the German Pavilion is now closed, tbe processes of culture being over for but, after October reeling will be taught at tbe rooms. Tbe association will have a handsome exhibit of floss silk and cocoons at tbe Louisville, exhibition; also a reel and reeler, which will be a point ot great interest the association is about negotiating for a steam reel, wbich they hope to exhibit at the Franklin Institute tbe coming autumn. Local Finances, The City Treasurer's weekly statement shows that the receipts were $123,599 63, and the expenditures (14,439 88, the balance on hand, including that of the previous week, being Deposited as follows: Third $243,02 62; People's $35,000 00 Central.

200,000 350.00000 Centennial. City w.nrcpuilliu Ul 7o.000 00 100,000 '00 100,000 00 100,000 00 20,000 00 200,00000 50,000 00 223,000 00 Comnionwtu 50,000 00 Union Commercial 200,000 001 Western. Consolidation W. Corn Exch'ge First Far. and Mec.

400,000 00 econd (termantown. 50,000 00 Oirard 60,000 00 Sixth. Zo.OOOlM) Keystone 00.00000 Manufacture. 100.000 00 150,000 00 Seventh 50,000 00 Eighth 75,00006 Cshindraw'r. 53 N.

$3 Penn Sinking Fund, Philadelphia National Bank Water receipts not deposited 1,130 64 Total George Matthews Coining Oat. George Matthews, one of the criminal "stars' uow in the Eastern Penitentiary, will be released from that institution In a few days, having served his sentence out, with commutation off. The commutation papers were sent to Harrisburg yesterday for the Governor's approval. Matthews is the man who robbed the residence of Archbishop Wood. One of tbe richest vestments used in the church services by the archbishop, made of purple velvet, was afterward found on the person of "Little Nell," a notorious thief, who was using it as a petticoat An Inveterate Criminal.

Chas. Spaed, who has just been received at Cherry Hill, is a convict from Perry county, enters that prison under his sixth conviction. He is a bad fellow generally, taking to horse stealing, burglary, highway robbery or sneak thieving, as the chance may offer, and not caltivating any special racket as most professional criminals do. The he section of the ordinance of January 29. 1855, which has been qaoted, has therefore application whatever to tbe issuance of permit for the use of water to properties npon streets upon which there Is no water pips, and the law as to such applications and such permit muse be sought elsewhere.

I believe it to have been the practice in the Water Department for many years to permit tbe introduction of water to properties needing it which happened to be so unfortunate as not to have tbe water pipes laid in front of them, and while I find no express authority to the Chief Engineer to issue permits in suoh a case, I do not find him forbidden to do so, but on the contrary, 1 find that Councils have given sanction and recognition to such usage in several ordinances. Bee, for instauce, P. 28, 29 and 30; page 4113 City Digest, and P. L. 36 and 38, page 405 same volume.

I therefore advise that the permit asked for should be granted. The furnishing of water to the citizens by tbe city is no part of her municipal duty to tbem (see Girard Life Insurance Company vs. City of Philadelphia, 7 W. N. p.

69), but Is simply a business in which she has chosen to engage and in which she should naturally seek and maintain all the customers she can get, and give the water fur tbe usual consideration, the water rent, to all who stek it. The whole consideration for the use of the water is the water rent, and the payment for tbe water pipe is no part of such consideration. The charge for water pipe is a municipal assessment in the nature of a tax, and must be paid by the owners of property in front of which it is laid, whether they use the water or not. While the city has a lien for water pipe, and can collect the cost thereof by suit, such a course, when payment is delayed, would, in most instances, be oppressive by reason of the large costs added, or the peculiar situation of tbe property which is the subject of the lien. Councils have, however, said by the ordinance ot January 29, 1855, above quoted, that no property in arrears for water pipe laid in front thereof shall be permitted to have the water Introduced, and this I believe to be all tbat was meant to be said thereby.

I am confirmed in the opinion I have herein expressed by tbe fact that the ordinance ot April 10, 1850, vide page 111, which required persons owning propert on streets where water pipes were not laid to pay "frontage" was repealed by the ordinance of April 1801, page 147. The effect of this repeal was to direct that no "frontage" in such cases should thereafter be charged. Very truly yours, William Nklson West, City Solicitor. OBEYING ORDERS. Why Green Fired at Knauff-Not a Deadly Attack.

Mr. Harding, the owner of the saloon in the vicinity of Eighth and Green streets, where Daniel James Green, a youug colored man, Bred four Bhots from a revolver at William Knauff, Harding's father-in-law, yesterday came into court, with his counsel, A. B. L. (Shields, and testified to matters touching on tbe fracas, wbich corroborated all that Green has said.

Mr. Harding spoke about his wife coming in and demanding money. He said trouble ensued, and tbe father-in-law, Knauff, struck Mr. Harding on the heed with with a pitcher, from the effects of which he had not yet recovered. When Knaff became dangerous, and threatened to injure Green as well as himself, Harding stated that be told Green to get the revolver and shoot Obeying his instructions Green did so, firing four shots about tbe room, none of wbich took effect Mr.

Harding said no trace ot a bullet could be found anywhere. He staled tbat Green did not fire directly at Knauff, nor could he have done so on account ot tbe proximity ot the latter. Mr. Shields claimed that Green should be liberated under the well-known principle of law that a servant had a right to protect his employer the same as a father is privileged to look after his child. It is understood tbat Judge Mitchell will libs-rate Green.

As yet no complaint has baen made against Harding. A Dumb Man's Assault. James McCauley, a deaf and dumb man, was yesterday brought before Judge Mitchell in the new Court House, charged with an assault and battery on Mr. Brown, a conductor on the Darby road line of cars. For some reason or other McCauley struck the conduotor In tbe eye, blackening it to a considerable extent, and throwing that gentleman out of employ mint for at least a week.

Borne trouble was anticipated in trying the deaf and dumb man, but a piece of paper and a pencil readily helped the matter through. MoCauley proved himself a rapid writer, and in answer to a question as to why he bad committed the assault, said that he believed he had had an honest fight with the conductor. Borne sympathy was expressed for the man, and Mr. Brown expressed his willingness to discontinue the prosecution and permit McCauley to go. The latter first wrote, however, tbat he would be careful not to trouble Mr.

Brown any more, and would behave himself peaceably hereafter. Sanitary Matters. Tbe quarantine master at tbe meeting of the Board ot Health, yesterday, reported he had detained the bark John Gibson, from Havana, Captain Allison having died in that city, and there being six seamen there sick of yellow fever in the hospital. The Lazaretto physician reported that the vessel brings a clean bill of health from Sagua, and that all are well at this time. The board gave instructions for the usual sanitary precautions to be taken.

It was agreed to make the estimate of revenue for next year $32,000 instead of $30,000, the additional $'3000 being derived from tbe proposed sale of the old tugboat if Councils give the means for the construction of anew one..