Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-02-26
From she srn,e Capital.

TWO EDUCATIONAL BILLS IN THE HoUsE-oNE ne
LATINO TO wILMINaToN-TEE REPRESENTATION
QUESTION DOVER rUBLIc SCHOOLS.
81 ecial corra,p1ndsnes Of th3 co',me -ciat
DOVER, Feb. 26.
Things arc not exactly becoming "serious
here but decidedly lively. No less than two ed
ucatioral bills were before the House, to day,
one for tho education of the white people Of the
whole State, and the other for the education of
tho coored people of Wilmington. The first
named bill was introduced, and read and 500
copies ordered to be printed. / have sent for
the COMMERCIAL full copy OF the bill in advance
OF the prIuts ones. We shall give this import
ant bill, i'll full. tomorrow. ED,
Tie other bill, relating to colured education
in Wilmington, was, believe, the rough draft
which was up before the Board of Education in
your city, recently, and was by 1t dlsapproved
and laid on the table. 1t failed to pass the House,
as nobody seemed to understand the need OF its
adoption, but the vote was afterward reconsider
ed, On motion Of Mr.. Nowland.
TUE REpREs kHTATIoN QUESTION.
No new phase of this question has turned up,
except that It has been found out that If provl-
siuu ior All additional Senator from each county
ls made, that thero must be an increase of three
more members Of the House, as tho CONSTITUTION
of TIC State requir' that the number Of Sena-
tors shall lot exceed one half nor be less than
one thnd of the number OF RepIesentlves. This
ia What made MI. BALDWIN increase the number
named III his bill to ten representatives, for New
Castle county. his will just make the House
double the number of Senators.
VIZ TING THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF DOVER.
Yesterday morning the members OF the Edu-
cational Committee OF the House, with several
other members, and some citizens OF Dover, ac-
compamed by a COMMERCIAL representative,
VISITED by invitation of the teachers, the vari-
on. public schools Of Dover. There are six pub
lie schools III the town, four of them in what is
called Tie upper district. and two III tile lower.
Tue schools are partially graded, there being
one Grammar or high sclool Two intermedlate,
aud the est primary.
Mr.. f. r. Williams is principal of the High
School This was the first place visited and
three quarters of an hour spent in hearing the
pupils spell fficult words, write, and solve some
intrcate ploblems i'll mental arithmetic. Net
witlslandlng the presence Of visitors, the pu-
pills performed very creditably, and MI. Nowland
made The little speech required on such occa-
eions complimenting the teacher aud scholsrs.
All the other schools were then visited in turn,
and all appeared to be in excellent condition.
Besides Mr., Williams the principal of the
Grnimar School already meutioued the other
teachers are no less deserving of praise, and de-
serving of mention prob bly,. Their names are
Mis- Ida Pennington, Miss Carrie Anderson,
Mrs. Sarah A Bice, Mr. Herman Roe, and Miss
Auna Burgess.
TIE VISIT WAS CUT SHORT
by the time they lad reached the last school,
the al pearance OF the Sergeant at Arms of the
House, who politely invited the members to at
tend to their dnty III the Legislature,
THE cLEMMEN JUBILEE.
Notwithstanding that tho wind blew dismaly
and the Ialn came dowirin torrents just aboui
the time for the people to 90 to the jubilee i'll the
Court House, last night, there was fine andi-
emce present ard about $50 happy smiling chill.
dren beautifully arranged on raised seats Space
will not allow me to give it de-
tailed account, bat wonll not
be doing iusuce to the Children of Dover, and
| to MIR. Clrmmer as the champion "Jubileeist'
ii were not to say that the concert was grand
sacce.s in spite of the weather, and though
| something good was expected, 1t far exceeded
S. II.