Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-10-18
Board of Education.

SPECIAL MEETIkG-To ATTEND THE oENTEN-
NAL IN A BODY.
special meeting of the Board of Educa-
ton was held last evening, called by the
President, to take into consideration the
propriety of attending the Centennial in
body tomorrow.
Upon the inquiry of DR.. Buck, MIR. John
son detailed the arrangements that had
been made, but said that the car provided
for the Millard club would probably not be
more than half full, and chat the other half
might be occupied by the Board.
Mr.. Baird moved that the Board attend
the Centennial In body.
Mr.. Zebley was in favor of going, but he
thought that the Board had been very much
slighted by the Railroad Company The
Board had been the first to move in observ.
ing Delaware Day, and by their action the
schools had been closed, allowing 100
teachers and 1000 children the privilege of
attending the Exhibition if they
wished to-, and he had no doubt
that by the action OF the Board, at least 500
you'd patronize the RAILROAD Company
He hoped chat all who went would go as
citizens, or in any train they wanted to go
in, and ask no favors from the Railroad
Company.
Mr.. johnson corrected Mr.. Zebley, and
said the citizens had made arrangements
for public meeting, before the Board had
taken action, and he would assure the Board
that no slight was intended by the Railroad
Company.
After long discussion, the motion of
Mr.. Baird was adopted
W. II. Cloward, the Clerk, was instructed
to procure suitable badge for the men,
bers of the Board, and Messrs. Moore, Buck
and Baird, were appointed committee to
make all other necessary arrangements.
Mr.. Roberts offered a resolution proyid-
ing for the closing of the public schools on
Friday next.
This led to a spirited debate, during which
a burlesque amendment offered by Mr. Fer
ris, to close the schools until the 10th OF
November in order to give the teachers
chance to attend the Centennial, was voted
down.
Mr.. Zebley vigorously opposed the reso-
luton, and hoped the reporters present
would publish the yeas and nays upon the
resolution, that the public might see who
voted to close and who did not
The resolution was lost by the following
vote.
Yeas.-Messrs. Baird, Buck, Chandler.
Fraim, Furry, and Roberts.-6.
Nays.-AIessrs. Curry Eckel, Ferris,
Frock, Heisler, Jenkins, johnson, W. ).
Morrow, Moore, L. W. Palmer Pierce,
Ruth, Taylor, Zebley and Shortldge.
On motion of Mr. Baird the Board agreed
to meet on Thursday morning, at their
rooms, at 7 o'clock, to fall in with the City
Council and march to the depot.
DEATH OF AUDITOR BEGGs.-Joseph L
.Beggs, City Auditor, after growing worse
for the last few days, died this morning at
20 minutes before 10 o'clock. He was in
the 61st year of his age. Mr. Beggs was
born in this city, and commenced life as a
blacksmith, but developing a talent
for music, he left his trade and devoted his
time to teaching instrumental music, in
which he was very successful. He never
held any office until elected to that of City
Auditor. He leaves wife and three chil
dren, the latter all grown. One of his sons,
living i'll Freedom, Ohio, to whom a tele-
graphic dispatch was sent ON Monday, ar
rived this morning, few moments before
his fathers death.
The MEXICAN CIRCUS TRoUpE.-This or
ganization of performers has received high
praise where it has been showing. Their
gymnastic feats are said to be original and
novel, and the ease with which they go
through their wonderful trapeze perform
ance shows them to be masters of their
profession. They will commence their ex-
hibition in this city at 4th and Lombard
Sts., this evening, and continue every even
ing during the week. wire ascension will
take place this evening at o'clock, and an
other on Saturday afternoon at l o'clock
Children's matinee on Saturday at p. m.
A CENTENNIAL PASSENGER RoBBED.-Last
evening, an old gentleman, passenger in
one of the Centennial trains from Balti-
more, while stopping at the depot, informed
special officer Legg, that he had been
robbed of his pocket book containing a sum
of money and his ticket. Search was made
in the car, but nothing could be found of
the missing property.
THE BANKS To MoRRow--Al the Banks
will be closed tomorrow with the exception
of the First National The latter on ac
count Of some particular business, which
will admit of no postponement, will be par
tally open in charge Of one clerk.
Mrs. Rufus Benson, of Camden, Me-,
committed suicide by taking arsenic yester-
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