Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-29

for term Of one or more years that they
may full y complete their labors so well AID
eSonomieally begun. In reference to The bill
say: 1--WE beg leave to say ii is too
volCmirous, creating too many boards and
bureaus, multiplying officers. &c. We de-
sire simplicity and economy in orr District
government. Finally. we believe the i'm
TOrtance OF the bill demands more tine and
present short session of Congress. and es-
pecially in view of the multitude OF bills
anu important business now on the table OF
this Congress pressing for immediate pas
sage. Therefore we desire TO have action on
said bill ard report deferred to q more appro-
priate season or session; and In no car-
we desire any demoralizing Die %. s,o 90
tiOns.' 'rlct elec-
RFPLENIsHING THE JURY Box-Messrs
Bacon. Mitchell, Cook, and Saul, ap-
pointed Thy the Supreme Court, on
December 9Th last, as commissioners to
select the names from which Jurors are to be
drawn, in place of the commissioners ap-
pointed in 1871, TO act in place OF the officers
named in the act rela ling to jurors, met at
the City Hall to-day iOr the purpose OF re-
plenishlnS the box. These gentlemen together
made lists of the names of taxpayers,
Messrs. Bacon and Cook, for Washingto ION,
making one of 400 names, Mr.. Mitchell SO
names nom Georgetown and Mr.. Saul 10
from the county; and after collectively
crltizing each list ard agreeing on
each name. which was deposited
in the jury bOX-they fist having carefully
removed the ballots remaining over from
last year and destroying them. This having
been done, they also placed the lists in the
box ard locked il. After giving the box a
good shaking. Mr.. Meigs insisting that the
Old directions
To he well shaken
Before taken
be followed, they delivered the box to the
Clerk. ard il was placed under lock aud kew
in his offices. 1t is thought that the Court in
General Term will order grand jury to be
drawn in few days.
THE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCTA-
TIoN-EditOr Star Your issue of to-day has
an EDITORIAL, which / am sure you will be
willing 10 correct, so far as il gives the time
and circumstances of the organization of the
National Educational Association.
Ihls association. at first called the Nation
al Teachers Association, was organized in
Philadelphia. the 26th day of August 1867 ,
and held its first annual anniversary in Gin
clnnati. Ohio, i'm August, 1885, and its second
anniversary in this city in 1859. With the
exception of two years, during the late war
II has kept up its annual meetings regularly
with growing interest, until now it is
strong and influential holy. Through its in
huerce and action in 1850, the first efforts
were made to induce the Congress of the
united states to establish bureau of educa-
l0n. and 1t kept up its appeals to Congress
until the department of education was es-
tablished. March 2. 1861.
Yours. respectfully,
January %, 1876. II. RICHARDS.
THE CUsHMAN ENTERTAINMENT
inclemency of the weather should not deter
any ore from attending the brilliant enter
tairment 70 he given at the Congre ratiOnaI
church this evening. The auditorium is one
of the most rOOmy and comfortable in the
city. Miss Cushman's efforts to plea Sc her
audience on this occasion will doubtless be
unstinted and il will be the regret of many
who may fail to attend that they missed this
opportunity of hearing her
As WILL Re SEEN by the advertisement
in another column, VIII. Carleton kas ac-
Cepted the invitation extended to him to re-
peat his lecture, "The Golden Horse" and IL
will take place at Lincoln Hall on Saturday
evening. We are requested to state that the
lecture viii he2in promptly at quarter before
O'Clock, in order 10 enable Mr. Carleton to
reach the evening train,