Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-03-10

absent from the normal school for this cause |
shall not exceed four at any time. was call d |
mp, ana, on motion Of Mr.. Hovey, referred 10 |
Mr.. Hart caiiei mp, as unfinished business, |
the resolution offered by him In December: |
instruction to The public schools OF the his
tricf Of Columbia without authority OF this
board,s and IL was amended by providing
the public schools, they may continue to do
so during the time they have already been
paid by the pupils;s and was adopted.
the request that special teacher of penman-
ship be allowed in the Georgetown schools to
form classes in that study. The request was
granted.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr.. Packard offered a. esolution y .,,o..,,
the District Commissioners In rnr. J,rssan :
near 1 Ten snssi B. school building
mittee be appos::.sd +, take the mater in
manu-. Adopted. aDa the chair appoinfed az
y g R rn1ee dessrs. Brooke, Packard, aud
10 MT rG. Hart n loved that the superintendent
Of the nri,,es % prepare rules for the guidance
second, thi Pals Of the schools OF the FIRST,
sdo ssfme 1t the next meeting OF the board
of mr.; S' Anson presented the annual report
tendI District of Columbia and superin-
nnh, 1T of public schools. ian abstract was
hsned In THE STAR OF Tuesday,
., ar. Hovey offered a resolution reouestiny
lie chairman Of the committee on accounts
10 confer with the Commissioners. with a
. view to securing uniformity as to the ac-
THE BOARD OF HEALTH met last night.
ana the health officer presented his usual
synopsis a. the operations of his Office for the
week ending March 6th, showing nuisances
abated, 2H; causes of death investigated, IL;
cost COS OF medicines furnished by druggists 70
the poor, S734l: number OF patients treated
by physicians to the poor, 221; dead animals
removed, .. The report also shows q GUAM
10y toy c ., mar1ne products and nnwholesome
the health officer the brick house and prem
lses, No. 1912 street northwest, and the
frame shanty and premises on M street, be-
tween LIST and I'd northeast, the property of
u. Il. Stone, for being in bad sanitary condi-
ton generally, and unfit for human habita-
tlon, were condemned as nuisances Injurious
to health, and their abatement ordered On
recommendation OF the health officer, the
contract with +. B. Winter as apothecary TO
the poor for the 9th sanitary division was
annulled and awarded to Alfred Bcdeman ON
southeast corner 9Th and N streets northwest,
Amerlcus Davis was appointed apothecary
10 the 9TH sanitary division, vice Heiphen-
slime Bentley, resigned. On motion of
Dr. Bliss, the attorney of the board was di-
recsed 70 prosecute in the courts one Benja-
min kutz, living at 1928 l. street, for allie gei
violation of law by throwing the dead bOiy
OF an infant into vacant field adjoining the
Mount Ol1yet cemetery, after OBTAINING a
proper permit for the interment. Applica-
tons for positions under the board were re-
celved from Allen &. Wall and j. III. John
son and referred. DIR. Cox called up the reso-
luton previously offered by him providing
for the appointment of a committee to ex-
anime the sanitary condition of the public
buildings After discussion the subject was
referred TO Drs. Cox and Verdi and Mr.. Mar
bury.
THE CASE OF BEALL AGAINST THE BAL
TIMORE AND OHIO RAJIPOA n xy;og for
IVdiatif JOr IS OOo.-This morning, in the Cir
cunt Court, Judge Cartier, the jury in the
case OF IL. A. Beall agt. the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, found a verdict for
plaintiff for 3, 900. This suit was for dam
ages claimed to have been sustained by an
engine of defendant running over and killing
the infant child OF plaintiff, in July, 1873 at
the corner of LIST and III streets northwest IL
was IN proof that the train of defendant on
the Metropolitan railroad was coming into
The city, and the plaintiffs wife and child
being seated in one OF the Columbia street
cars. got out, and in leaving the car the
mother fell with the child, and the latter was
killed. The question was raised that as the
complainants wife was passenger on the
street car, the Columbia Railroad Company
is responsible The defendant also raised the
point as to whether she had a right to Jump
rom the street car, even If she were in dam
ger, and argued that person in a stage
coach going along the edge of precipice has
no right to jump out when there Is a chance
for the occupants to make their journey in
Court of the United States. Messrs. Cook,
Moore and Newman for plaintiff, and
Buchanan and Cox for defendants.
EXPLOSION AT THE CAPIToI-a Rio
Scare b,a Nobody HHt.-At about 23O O'Clock
YESTERDAY afternoon everybody i'm the Senate
wing OF the Capitol was startled by q dull,
heavy sound resembling the explosion OF a
deep blast, in the northwest corner of the
building near the elevator. Grave Senators
started from their seats, and every one
rushed to the elevator ON the main floor to
learn the cause Of the report. which il was
generally supposed was produced by the
fall of the elevator from the third to the first
floor. Failing to discover anything wrong at
this point the crowd hurried down to the first
floor, and discovered that the marble floor
Judiciary Committee, had been torn up by
what seemed to have been an explosion of
a gas main. A visit TO the floor UNDER
meath where the heating apparatus Is sta
TONED showed that the boilers were all right
and 1t was consequently ascertained beyond
doubt that the explosion was caused by the
bursting or large gas pipe under the floor,
but no one could account for the occurrence.
Nobody hurt
DEATH OF DIR. DARBY-Hr Ralph F.
Darby died last night at O'Clock, after a
brief illness of Inflammation of the stomach
and his funeral will take place tomorrow
afternoon at O'Clock from his late residence
IN UnfontOwn, ID. c., where the services of
the Episcopal church will be read. after
which the interment will be made in the
Congressional cemetery. Dr. Darby was a
native of Dublin, but came to this country
when young man. He first settled i'm Bos-
ton, where he conducted the drug business
for some years, and about 20 years ago he
came to this city, and for some time was
clerk IN the drug store OF Marin Palmer,
but left there TO practice medicine, and by a
liberal use of printers ink, lin advertisingD
was able TO leave quite a comfortable estate
to his wife, as also a life insurance policy for
81 600.
PROTECTION FOR THE PARKING NEEDED.
Something should be done by the District
authorities to protect the parking from being
destroyed by the droveS of cattle which