Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-19
Condensed Locals.

The street lamps will be lighted tonight
at $40 p. M. and extinguished at 3 a. m.
The NJ. P.s OF the 4th police precinct are
charged with permitting oarele ~ waste of
water at that station, and Col. Lubey has
cut OF their cooling drinks.
The grand jury OF the December term Of
the Criminal Court reconvened this morn
ing, and in two hours examined twenty-six
witnesses in jail cases.
Timothy Costello has entered suit against
the District government before Justice T. j.
Shea for damages alleged TO have been sus-
tanned TO his carriage by reason OF a detec-
tive road in the county.
The annual statement OF the National Me-
uOpOlitan Fire Insurance company, filed
yesterday in the Office OF the Recorder OF
De6ds, shows: Chartered capital, 500 600;
capital paid mp. 500 600; Indebtedness, none.
Hibernia Society. No. I. has elected John
L. Daily as aid TO the chief marshal during
the present year; HiOernia, No. 2. has elected
Michael Fitzgerald to similar position,
and EDWARD McQuade has been elected by
the members of ST PatTicks order.
Mr.. +. Il. Browning, the youngest son of
MI r. W. BIowDtng, was yesterday admit
ted 10 the bar of the Supreme Court of the
District, ON motion of Mr.. EnOch TOtten,
and on the report Of the examining CON-
mIttee.
The emi-annual written examinations of
pupils III the Sd, ith. 5th, 9Th. and sth gram
mar grades Of the cOiorC schools Of WASH
JTgton and Georgetown took place yester-
day under thesupeTvision of Superintendent
Cook, assisted by the principal in charge of
the several buildings in which the examina-
lions were held.
John Pope Hodnett made his speech TO-
day before the District Committee. He was
Informed that the committee did not see how
they could help him TO secure the pay alleged
to be due the w0Tkingmen ne represented.
Mr.. HCdnett asked If the members had read
his petition, when IL was asceTtained that
tie document mad not yet been sent TO the
committee.
From McConreII's Junction News Depot
We have early copies of The GGldTy and 60
dely'S LCC,l's BscE for February; from u. A
BIosnan we have the February number OF
Toe CG.tobc Hcrd, the leading article of
which is "A Sequel OF the Gladstone Con
troveTsy.' It baS, also, a temperate article
upon the school feature OF the Presidents
message.
THE ANERl CAN CoLONIzATION SOCIETY
met last night 81 the New York avenue
Presbyterian church. After PRAYER by Rev.
Dr Samson, the secretary, Rev. Mr.. COppih-
ger. read the annual report, showing re-
sources or the year. S2I .ZjO.2S; total disburSe-
meBts, 30 Zs0.-,j. The report also states that
bark with 2 emigrants from America had
arrived st Liberia on the 18th December.
Since the last annual meeting OF the society
there have been sent to Liberia % emigrarts
The last batch of emigTants contained two
licensed ministers in the II. +. church. Those
cO!OniZed since the war mum Der 10, and a
Total from The b ginning amounting to zoos.
exclusive OF 5,'2j Iecaptured ex-Africans-
maklrg grand total OF 2O,s20 persons who
weIe.given homes in Liberia. The report
states tEPt Increasing numbers OF cOlOred
FeCp'e OF the United States are turning their
attention TO emigration 10 Africa; that the
cultivation Of ginger, coffee, arrOw-rOot, &c,
IN Liberia, would make the cOlonists self.
sustaining; that the bark Liberia took away
OF neT recent trip larger quantities of these
products than was ever before exported in
any one vessel from the republic; refers TO
the origin and progress OF the hOstiiitieS be-
tween the LibeTians and the GrebOeS, in
which the IibeTiaus were finally successful:
sets fCTth the measures taken by the United
States government TO sustain the Liberian
government in its fight with the barbariaus
"A n fCF
of the republic Of Liberia has virtually SUD-
pressed the slave trade on that coast; and
concludes with the statement that, although
the work Of the society has been great, IL has
Of hundreds of millions in the interior of
Africa who have never heard OF the work of
CIVILIZATION, or the benefits OF the Christian
religion. and il is for this work that the Ep-
Getty Is coz tiEued. Addresses were then de-
livered by Rev. Mr.. Grammer and Rev. Or.
Buddingtol.