Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-01-19


The District Commissioners have forwarded
to the House committee on the District com
municatiOn in relation TO the public schools.
The Commissioners refer to their annual re-
ports for the past three years, in which the at
tentiOn OF Congress has been called to the re-
cnmmendation of the trustees of public
schools that school buildings owned oy the
District be substituted for those now rented
The commissioners enclose a carefully pre-
pared paper on the subject by a committee of
the school board, to which they invite atten-
uOn Accompanying are also drafts of the
several bills prepared by the trustees. prOvid-
ing different methods for raising the neces-
saEy amounts OF money for the purchase OF
SITES and the erection of the needed buildings.
The commissioners make no special recon-
mendatiOn of either of the bills. their chief
purpose in sending them in being to aid the
school trustees in having the attention of Con-
gresS called TO them, and TO the recommended
ton OF the appropriation by Congress of the
amount of 100000, estimated by the trustees
as sufficient to purchase sites and erect the
building needed for the present school wants
of the District; leaving ii to Congress to de
termine from year to year hereafter the sums
Of the schools. The Commissioners strongly
urge the importance of abandoning the plan
OF renting school houses and the erection by
the District and its ownership of all the school
buildings in the District, and this as well from
considerations of economy as for the useful
ness OF the schools.
BUILDING PERMITS
issued by the inspector of buildings: l..
Knowles, repair frame house, 1920 18th street
northwest. $50: j. +. SnOdgraSS remove a
frame between Z and + and 9th and 25t h
streets northwest, $50: John e. Click. repair
a frame dwelling. 92S lst street northeast, 800.
d. Il. Graff, remove frame between $ and I
and eth and 18th streets northwest 800: VIM.
n. EeWman. trustee, construct four two story
brlck dwellings between l. and NJ and 18th and
4S1h streets northwest. 5000.
TAN ON GEORGETOWN COLLEGE.
To-day. MeSsrs. Merrick and Morris, w. H.
Mattlngy and Mr.. Riddle. met the District
commissioners to confer with them in relation
To the legality Of taxing Georgetown college.
The subject was discussed at considerable
would pay the taxes assessed under protest,
and an agreed case to be selected as q test to
submit 10 the courts TO determine the legality.
CORRECTION.
In The statement of 1t. HOXie, published
yesterday, in relation TO repairs of street pave
mCnt. the first set of figures relating to wood
payements should be changed from Si9567S.95
To $l,OGh.1290G. In the schedule of other i'm
prOvementS needed cost should be changed
from s65I, sGO1 10 $S5l. S9l.1.
Amuscments.
National TheUter-One of the largest audi
eEctS ever assembled i'll the National Theater
greeted the StrackOsh Opera Company last
evening. Every seat was taken, and there
was scarcely standing room in any part of the
house; many ladies had to stand during the
long performance. II was estimated that there
We're between twenty seven and twenty eight
hundred people present. The gallery alone
held between seven and eight hundred, many
0f them being ladies. The opera of MignOn'
was produced in a very satisfactory manner
Miss Kellogg made a charming Flina," act
ing and singing with unusual spirit: EOZe was
beautiful and interesting as MignOn.' and
sang her arduOuS score in a conscientious man
ner, which greatly pleased her audience: and
sang the little she had to sing in manner
which served TO show family what she could
90 III Ioe more worthy her ability. Tom
karl, Comfy and Gottschalk all did we'll and
worthy OF the company and the audience. The
beautiful opera of Aida Will he produced
agnn this eYenug Next 1, week Maggie Moore
Opcr0 HOr&e.-Bryant's minstrel troupe is
one OF tse best burnt-cOrk combinations that
has appeared here for long time. The pro
gramme is we'll arranged. and keeps the audi
tnce III continual roar of laughter. They had
an immense house last night. The last per-
fOrmance viii be given tonight, and those vino
ENJOY genuine fun and a good hearty laugh
should go by all means. Next week the I'm
Gle Toms Cabin" company from New York
VII hold the boards. Mrs: Howard has per-
one hundred freedmen (men, women and
chidren.) Will appear in the plantation scene
2ain!,odge HGM.-The session of Aunt Polly
BaSSett'S "Singin' SkewI'' closes tonight
Large audiences have been attracted every
much.
Art EGterta;Rmcnt.-MrS. DR.. Newman will
hold her Oriental art entertainment again this
evening AZ her residence, 33S c st.
WeGter Comi4'te;-LaSt performance OF
" Dead to the World'' tonight. Next week
host OF new attractions.
CLARA COLEMAN AND THE WASHED POST
AGE STAMPS.-The Baltimore Gazette of this
morning says: A partial hearing took place
yesterday afternoon before Commissioner
Rogers, in the case of Clara Coleman, charged
with having washed OF cleaned postage
stamps and reused them on letters. William
ID. Tabier, letter carrier, and James f. Bell,
Superintendent of letter carriers OF the Wash
lngtOn city post office. were present. The
former testified that on the 18th instant lie
TOOK all the letters from street box in Wash
ngtOn, and after going few yards noticed
young lady put letter in. He went back. and
getting the 'etter, turned it over to the super
ntendent, as evidently the stamp had pre-
Nl0uSiy been used. The young lady was one to
whom he had handed letters at the house of
the accused, 1875 ID street. Mr.. Bell said the
letter III question was one of number handed
III by carriers having stamps on which had
been previously used. One of them was di-
rected to the board Of health. Witness said he
located where the letters came from. He
knew the handwriting of the accused Six
other letters were produced by the witnesses
addressed to persons in this city. Mr.. Stirling
stated that he would summon those persons so
as TO have the letters opened. SubpOenas were
then issued TO Mr.. ROSenheim, Charles and
Lexington: ii. Wilson, at MOmenthy's hotel,
North EuIaw street, and Mr. Affeder, at Per-
manent land company. I'd street. The further
hearing was postponed until day. The ac-
cused was recognized in the sum of ST 900 for
htl appearance.
The dune OF ErENBURG' GONE AFTER A
FIELD MARSHAISHIP.-The Baltimore Sun of
this morning says: John Henry Frederick
Schriefer, the German who. during the cOnSid-
cradle time he lived i'll Baltimore made him.
self publicly conspicuous as Il claimant of
Sl2OW,UU of the Geneva award and STYLED
himself the Duke of Epenburg, German King
Henry the Fifth, sailed from Baltimore yeSter-
day in the Steerage OF the steamship Ohio for
Germany Schriefer said he saw trouble was
brewing in Europe, and he wanted TO 30 over
take field marShalShip and help Germany
out. He desired all his title put on his steerage
ticket, and the practical steamship clerk
wounded the dukes spirits when he regis
tered him as plain Mr.. Schriefer. He is a tai
lOr ana had good place here, but his frequent
loss Of time i'll going to Washington to press
his claim for the millions on the President and
Secretary of the Treasury lost him work, and
he ended as bOxwagOn driver. He was well
known at the White House, the government
departments, TO the Baltimore Sub-treaSury
and the City Hall. He subscribed for the
whole of the city loan of $5,OOO,0OOO last year
and wanted TO fight because he didn't get it.
THE ACCIDENT TO Mrs. CLEMMER.-MrS.
Mary Clemmer, who was so seriously injured
10y her fall from her carriage at 10Th street on
Wednesday last, has slowly but steadily i'm
proved during the past two days and will
DrOba bly bp able n her friends uai in i'm no