head being crushed in with an axe, in Essex street below Catharine. Mary Fraley, the mother, was arrested, and bound over to answer for the murder of the child. The Grand Jury ignored the bill of indictment.

May 18. German Evangelical Reformed Church, Thirty-eighth and Baring streets, West Philadelphia, dedicated.

May 19. Regatta of the Philadelphia Yacht Club on the Delaware River. Sixty-two boats entered. The prize for cabin yachts was won by the Eliza; the other prizes were not awarded, in consequence of violation of rules by the boats, and the race, as to them, was decided to be a draw.

May 20. The American Institute of Mining Engineers began its annual session at Board of Trade rooms, Mercantile Library building.

May 22. The steamship Pennsylvania-the pioneer vessel of the American Steamship lineleft the city upon her first voyage to Liverpool. On the fourth day out three blades of her propeller were broken, leaving one blade only which could be used. Notwithstanding her crippled condition, she arrived at Queenstown, Ireland, June 5.

The semi-centennial anniversary of the founding of St. Stephen's P. E. Church was celebrated in that church, with appropriate ceremonies.

May 24. Joseph Price, colored, was shot and killed near Fifty-seventh and Vine streets. The Coroner's jury returned a verdict that the deed was committed by Lucinda Frisby Cuff. The latter was tried for murder June 18, and the jury found a verdict of not guilty.

May 25. The Chapel of North Broad Street M. E. Mission, Broad street below Huntingdon, was dedicated.

May 27. The building of the Franklin Reformatory Home, Locust street above Ninth, dedicated.

May 30. Decoration day of Union Soldiers' Graves in Philadelphia and all over the country.

James Ward died from the effects of a blow struck by his son-in-law, Isaac C. Leech, in Barclay street above Fifteenth, on the 21st instant. Leech was committed by the Coroner's jury to answer for murder.

June 7,

The steamship Illinois-the fourth vessel of the American Steamship Company-was launched from the ship-yard of Wm. Cramp & Sons.

June 9. Annual review and inspection of the Volunteers of the First Division, Pennsylvania Militia, at Lansdowne, Fairmount Park.

June 12. The new building of the Old Man's Home, Powelton avenue above Thirty-eighth street, was formally dedicated.

Benjamin Palmer, second mate of the British bark J. B. Duffus, was held to bail to answer for the murder of John McDonough, a sailor, upon the high seas.

George F. Fulmer was found in an alley adjoining the Girard Bank, Third street below Chestnut, with a shot in his head, from which he died the same day. The Coroner's jury found that his death was caused by violence, perpetrated by persons unknown.

June 14. Regatta of the Schuylkill Navy. Prize for four-oared shells won by the Vesper, of the Vesper Club, in nineteen minutes and twentyfour seconds; course, three miles. Prize for six

oar gunwale barges won by the Falcon, of the Pennsylvania Club; time, twenty-one minutes. Prize for four-oared gigs won by the Phantom, of the Pennsylvania Club, in twenty minutes and four and a half seconds.

June 15. Corner-stone laid of St. John's Evangelical German Lutheran Church, Fifth street below Wharton.

June 18. Corner-stone laid of the Mantua Baptist Church, at Fortieth and Sycamore streets, West Philadelphia.

June 20. About midnight, two children-Ann Eliza Regan, aged four, and Margaret Mulvey, aged five years-were found locked in the closet of an empty house in Rosehill street above Somerset. Annie was dead, and Maggie nearly suffocated. They had been missing from their homes in the neighborhood for nearly two days, and were supposed to have been abducted, concealed some place, and pushed into the closet where they were found a short time before their discovery. Apparently, they had eaten nothing from the time of their disappearance, and were in a condition of starvation. The Coroner's jury found a verdict that Ann Regan came to her death from exhaustion, resulting from accidental confinement in the closet.

June 22. Broad and Diamond Street Presbyterian Chapel dedicated.

June 23. Second regatta of the Philadelphia Yacht Club on the Delaware. Prize for first-class boats won by the George Hoff; second-class prize won by the Enchantress. The wind was very heavy; several boats upset, sails were blown out and torn, with other disasters. Course: from Shackamaxon street, Kensington, to Delanco, and return-thirteen miles. Time: first class, four hours and two minutes; second class, four hours and four minutes.

June 24. Primary nominating election of the Republican party, held under the Crawford County system.

June 27. First Children's Free Excursion for summer season, held at Rockland, Fairmount Park; fifteen or sixteen hundred persons present. The excursions were continued until August 29, inclusive, seventeen of them being given, in which twenty thousand two hundred and forty-three persons participated.

June 29. Corner-stone laid of the Lutheran Church at Roxborough.

June 30. Corner-stone laid of the Protestant Episcopal Church St. Peter's, corner of Wayne street and Harvey avenue, Germantown.

July 4. The Commissioners of Fairmount Park formally conveyed to the U. S. Commissioners of the Centennial Exposition, and to the Centennial Board of Finance, at Lansdowne, in Fairmount Park, four hundred and fifty acres of land, for building and other purposes connected with the Centennial Exposition of 1876. There were present: Governor Hartranft, of Pennsyl vania, Governor Parker, of New Jersey, the Secretary of the Navy, Robeson, Secretary of War, Belknap, Attorney-General Williams, and many other distinguished persons. Secretary Robeson represented the President of the United States, and read the President's proclamation commending the Centennial Exhibition to the people of the United States and to all foreign nations, and announcing that the Exhibition would be opened on the 19th of April, 1876, and continue until the 19th of October, 1876. The

first mentioned date is the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, and the last that of the victery at Yorktown.

ence Hall.

Meeting of the Society of Cincinnati. Washington Monument Fund reported to be $92,250. July 5. Anthony Sullivan died at Pennsylvania Hospital, from the effect of falling, on the previous morning, in South street above Fifth. The Coroner's jury found that his death resulted from an assault by John Sheehan, who was held to trial for murder, but acquitted September 29.

July 5. John Rafferty was stabbed at Second street and Reading Railroad, and died July 18. The Coroner's jury found a verdict that the deed was committed by Thomas A. Black. July 8. Daniel Brown was shot and killed at Tenth and South streets by Durham Wilson, colured. The latter was arrested, held for trial, convicted of murder in the second degree October 2, and sentenced to four years' imprisonment. July 12. Street-parade of the Orange lodges; about fifteen hundred men in line.

July 13. Services in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the meeting of the first Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, held in the Methodist churches. The commemoration was continued on the 14th, 15th and 16th, at St. George's M. E. Church, concluding in the evening with a jubilee at the Academy of Music.

July 14. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company took possession of the disused track of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad, from Gray's Ferry to Ridley Junction, intending to operate the same.

July 15. The Constitutional Convention adjourned, to meet on the 16th day of September. July 22. The steamship Ohio, of the American Steamship Company's Liverpool line, started upon her trial trip, and returned on Friday, July 24.

July 23. Charles Hawk was stabbed at Watson's bakery, Front and Race streets, and died August 2. The Coroner's jury found that the deed was committed by Charles F. Dyer, who was held to answer. July 25. City Councils passed a resolution suspending the paving of Market street, in consequence of a decision of the Court of Common Pleas in the Market Street Passenger Railway case, and ordering the blocks intended to be used on Market street to be used in the pavement of Broad street.

July 31. Corner-stone laid of the Harriet Holland Mission (Presbyterian), Federal street east of Broad.

Edward Shuesterrichter murdered his wife, Mary, at 606 South Second street, below South, and committed suicide by taking poison.

Steamship Ohio, of American Steamship Company's line, sailed on her first trip to Liverpool, where she arrived August 19. Actual running time from the Capes of the Delaware to Liverpool, ten days and twenty-three hours. August 8. The U. S. Centennial Commission Exposition of 1876, out of forty-three competing plans, and awarded $1000 to each, holding the same subject to the final decision to be made October 1, and the selection of one plan from among the ten.

August 12. Very heavy rain fell, continuing on the 12th all night and until late next day. The streets were flooded, culverts were broken in and burst, the cellars and first floors of several hundred houses and other buildings were covered with water, causing great damage and loss. The portions of the city which suffered most severely were those east of Third and between George and Oxford streets, from Broad to Fifth between Fitzwater and Moore streets. The rain-fall was seven and thirty-two hundredths inches, being within one inch of as much rain as fell during the entire month of August, 1872. Rain fell for eight successive days, and the total amount for nineteen days-a little over ten inches-was greater than the rain-fall of any month during the preceding ten years, except the months of August, 1867, June, 1867, and July, 1872. The damage was very great, but beyond any means by which a reasonable estimate might be made.

August 14. An oil train ran off the track of the Greenwich Point branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Twenty-fourth and Mifflin streets. Seventeen cars were burned, with their contents, and the engineer and fireman were burned to death. Loss, $24,000.

August 17. Corner-stone laid of the Chapel of Eighteenth Street M. E. Church, corner of Wharton street and Herman avenue.

August 20. Corner-stone laid of M, E. Mariners' Bethel Church, north-west corner of Moyamensing and Washington avenues.

August 23. Francis Malone was killed at Thirteenth street above Wharton by a blow.

August 25. Evening Herald balloon ascension at Forty-first street and Powelton avenue. Prof. Light and Mr. Chism were taken up, the object being to endeavor to reach Boston, Mass., under the expectation that the current of air would carry the balloon that way. Its course was east-south-east, and the balloon was landed the same day near Little Egg Harbor Bay, opposite Brigantine Beach, on the Atlantic coast.

August 30. John Keohane was shot and killed at 1706 Callowhill street by a policeman, John S. Price. The Coroner's jury found that the shooting was accidental.

September 3. The Democratic Convention nominated a City and County ticket.

August 7. Contract signed between the Market Street and Union Passenger Railway Companies, by which it was agreed that two railway tracks only should be used on Market street by both companies.

street. The Coroner's jury found a verdict that the wound was accidentally received at the hands of Thomas Masterson.

September 7. Chapel of the North Star Mission (Baptist), Seventh street and Susquehanna avenue, dedicated.

Corner-stone laid of the Church of the United Brethren, at Mount Airy. September 8. Arrived from her trip from