Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-02-27
lrrom our Late Editions OF Yesterday. j
From the state Capital.

TWO EDUCATIONAL BILE IN THE HOUsE-oNE RE
LATINO TO wIIMISGToN- THE REPRESENTATION
{UEATIoN-DoyER PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
SEecid' Correspondence # the CONNIE cta
DOVER, Feb. 26.
Things are not exactly becoming serious
here but decidedly lively. No less than two ed
ucational bills were before the House, to day
one for the education of the white people of the
whole State, and the other for the education oil
the colored people of Wilmington. The ilsi
named bill was introduced and read, and 800
copies ordered to be printed. have sent fol
the COMMERCIAL full copy of the bill IN advance
Of the printed ones. We shall give this import
ant bill, i'll full, Tomorrow ED
The other bill, relating to colored education
in Wilmington, was, believe, the rough draft
which was up before the Board OF Education il
your city, recently and WAS by it disapproved
and laid on the table. 1t failed to pass the House
rs nobody seemed to understand the need of it,
adoption, but the vote was afterward reconsider
Cd on motion of MIR. NOwland
THE REPRESENTATION QUESTION.
No new phase Of this question has turned up,
except that it has been found out that if provI-
sion for an additional Senator from each county
Is made, that there must be an increase of three
more members OF the House, as the Constitution
Of the State requires that the number of Scna-
tors shall not exceed one half nor be less than
one third Of the number of Representatives This
named in his bill to ten Representatives for New
Castle county. This will just make the House
tioltble the number of Senators.
v1a-TISG THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF DOVER.
yesterday morning the members Of tie Edu-
'atonal Committee Of the House. with several
other members, and SOME citizens of Dover ac-
cnlnpanied by a COMMERCIAL repreH elItatiye
visited, by Invitation of the teachers. the yari-
Oils public schools of Dover. There are -iX pub
lie schools III the town, -four of them in what 10
called the upper district and two in the lower.
The schools are partially graded. there being
one Grammar or high school, two Intermediate
and the rest primary
Mr. +. 7. Williams i- principal OF the High
school. This was the first place visited and
ihree-quarters Of an hour spent in hearing the
pupils spell difficult words write, and solve some
intricate problems in mental arithmetic Not
wlthstanding the presence Of VISITORS the pi-
pills performed very creditably, and Mr.. NOwlaId
made the little speech required on such occa-
-lons complimcnting the teacher and scholars
All the other schools were then visited in turn,
and all appeared to be in excellent condition.
BESIDES Mr.. Williams the principal OF the
drmmar School already mentioned the other
teachers are no less dererving Of praise, and de-
serving of mention probably. Their names are
Miss Ida Pennington, Miss Carrie Anderson,
Mrs. Sarah A. Bce, Mr., Herman Roe, and Mi-s
Anna Burgess.
THE VISIT WAS ruT sHoKr
by the time they had reached the last school,
tiic appearance Oh The sergeant at Arms Of the
House, who politely invited the members To at.
tend to their duty in the Legislature.
THE CLEANIER IuBrLEE
Notwithstanding that the wind blew dirmaly
and the rain came down III torrents lust about
the time for the people to go to the jubilee in tile
Court House, last night, there was tine audi
ence present and about $50 happy smiling clll-
dren beautifully arranged on raised seats Space
Will not allow me TO give it de.
tailed account, but would not
be doing justice TO the children OF Dover, and
to Mr.. Clemmer the champion 'Jubileest
il were not to say that the concert was grand
success i'll spite of the weather, and though
something good was expected, 1t far exceeded
the expectations Of the most enthusiastic.