Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-06
District Governmen. Affairs.

The number of drawback certificates, issued
by Mr.. ROOme, clerk in charge of reviSiOns Of
special assessments, up to o'clock to day were
5,.G5. aggregating 1926. .250.33, On hand await
ing claimants. S122, ,504.22.
The District Commissioners to-day appointed
Jacob F. Staub as inspector Of flour for George
town, vice John D. Robinson, to take effect at
once.
The District Commissioners have designated
Lieutenant j. w. GeSsford to fill the vacancy on
the police trial committee caused by the reSig-
nation of Major E. G. Curtis.
THE ANNUAL REPORT ON THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The annual report of the Board Of Trustees of
Public Schools submitted to-day to the District
Commissioners. states that the number of youth
OF school age (6 to II years. in the District, ac-
colored, 1884; total, 3s,s1O. Whole number of
pupils enrolled In public schools for the school
year ending June 80, 1879, waS-White, 16.0S5:
colored, 9,o45; total, 25,O3o; Increase over last
year, 2,2SS.
The average number of pupils enrolled in the
public schools for the year was: White, 49, IA;
year was 1.435. The number of teachers en-
ployed for the year was: In the white schools
261; colored, 141-total, 402. The total expendi-
lures for the support of the public schools We're
s36s. .34s.4 as. The number of schooirooms owned
is: For white schools, 142 coored 95--total, 23S
The number of school rooms now rented is 129
dhe mate en for Of the # fiscal year
S315000; wages of janitors $25 600; rent, $50 000
fuel, $4,000; repairs, $4,000; general supplies,
$1,000; Insurance. 81 800; printing 500; secre-
$1,000, interest on Linthecum loan, 81 400; school
bulldogs forswhite schools two in second divi-
SiOn $50 200; do. in the sixth division, 1000;
do, in seventh division, colored, $4,000. Total,
$611 900.
Year after year the attention of the attention
OF the District authorities and OF Congress has
been called to the urgent want OF school
buildings. Last year response was re-
ceived in the shape of an appropriation
of $4,000 for two buildings now in course of
erection in the lst and Sd divisions, but there
has been no relief afforded the other suffering
divisions. Especially deserving consideration
are the 9th and 9TH divisions.
QUEER STORY OF WIFE's DEATH.-The fact
leaked out upon the trial of Mrs, Barnes, at
Sandy Hill, that about year ago lady died in
Salem, under circumstances Which, but for a
fortunate incident, would probably have caused
the arrest and conviction OF her husband upon a
charge Of murder. 1t seems that the gentleman
had occasion to use some arsenic and purchaS-
ing an ounce of the poison, he used what he
wanted and put away the remainder in an old
bureau In the upper part OF the Woodshed. He
did not tell his wife OF the purchase, and she did
not know how he had disposed of it. A few
months afterward the lady was taken suddenly
i'll, and when DIR. Young arrived she was in a
cOInatoSe condition. She recovered conscious
ness few hours before her demise, and stated
to her assembled friends that she had been car
ried by some irresistible impulse to visit the loft
in the WoOdShed-a place she had never visited
beforehand, opening the bureau drawer found
the arsenic and ate some of it. But for that
statement her husband would undoubtedly have
been arrested and as it could have been proved
that he bought arsenic, and some OF it being
found in her stomach, he would have expert
enced great difficulty In convincing the public OF
his innocence. For some reason the cause OF the
lady's death was kept profound secret, and has
never before been published.-[T'oy Times,