Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-24
District Government Affairs.

,tdPtdlH SdIlutl h. IhoInaSOn, commanding
| me Union Veteran Corps of this District has
IN ide requisttion upon the District Commis-
slolerS for fifty (50) Springfield breach loading
rlheS, c9rtride boxes. belts, plates. gun slngS.
CNps, company organized On the 18th day of
April last. The Commissioners have honored
the same.
BIDs WERE OPENED
IL the of1lce OF the Commissioners TO-DAY for
Tie reconstruction and strengthening OF the NJ
street bridge across Rock Creek as follows
PIT Surg Bridge Co. T. NJ Nelson, agent plan
No. !, 1862 No. 2, =, 52I. King Iron BridgeCo
D. W. Horton. agent, 81, 40 50 043. No award
was made
CONTRACTS AWARDED FOR DISTRICT SUPPLIES.
The committee on bids having under consid-
Grafton bids for general supplies to be furnished
the District during the next fiscal year. have
recommended further awards of contracts TO
Lowest bidders. as follows: For glass. paints aud
vaTnlsh, Martin Butler. at s3I3.90 lumber and
guiding materials, George A. Sheahan, at
S5l53.62; forage. X. c. Hewitt $40 $50; fresh and
salt meat John r. Kelly and j. T. varnell
Ice; Great Falls Ice Co.. lamp posts and miseel-
laneous castings, Geo. White 4 Co.; fuel, john
son Brothers, s22, 66S.25.
VITAL STATISTICS.
The total mortality In the District for the
mouth of May, $780, was 346 ian increase OF 50
as compared with corresponding month OF last
year. and 50 more than the average number OF
deaths for the month OF May for the past six
years. or at the rate OF "a per 900 per annun
the mortality OF the white population was 1854
or at the rate OF 1926 per 900 per annum while
That OF the colored was 1S2. or at the rate OF
80. The mortality as compared with the month
or April last shows an increase OF 81 or g. i6 per
cent. Phthtsis pulmonalis, or consumption, in
creased from g. to a; diseases Of the nervous
from SO to &c; bronchitis, from II TO I; disea seS
OF the digestive organs increased from Is to %:
BrlgntS disease, from to 5; accidents and ner-
ngence, from 10 II. The average daily NOR
lallty was ll.l6. In comparing and examining
the ages OF decedents, 1t Is found that of the
whites, 6l.i9 per cent. were years of age and
over; 54.2' per cent. were 20 years and over, and
43. 20 per cent. were 40 years and over OF thu
coiOred, 80 per cent. were 5 years and over:
1901 per cent. were 20 years and over. and Is az
per cent. were 40 years and over, showing a
percentage In favor Of the whites at each OF
these periods OF life as follows: 49, 49, 1926. and
1892. OF the total 346 deaths, lis, or 80. ri per
cent. were under year OF age; while the total
mortality under years OF age was l59 or 46 per
cent There were 29I births reported, an an
nual birth-rate OF 2091 per 1,6OO.) OF these
olrthS ~ were white males, Il white females. "A
coiorea males, and 60 colored females, "a birth
rate OF lI.l6 per 900 per annum for the white
population, and IS for the colored0 showing a
decrease OF total population by excess OF deaths
over births OF 60, the white population decreas.
IL L. py II, ane eolored by As. In but % cases
were poth parents natives OF this District. and
10 u beth were foreign born; ITO OF the births
were reported by physicians, and 1875 by mid
p WIVES; Marriages reported 49, There were 10
slde the District. and IA transfers: II white and
~ coiored were buried at public expense
. ihk EEkAAN-AAERICAN BANK.-The con
uolIer OF the currency. MIR. Knox has levied
an assessment equal TO the full amount OF their
paid up stock on the shareholders of the Ger
a nlan, Amerlcan National Bank, payable In two
equal 1nstalments, on July Is and Aupust * n
VIII Yield. II all paid, sl35, 900. or equal TO
dividend OF 80 per cent, to the creditors. Nr
heyser. the receiver, is as confident now AS
ever OF being able to pay out an ultimate diVl.
dend OF 100 per cent.
KNOCKED Down WITH . Grin -yeo,ara :.
ternoon Officer Mcdonald, OF the sixth preeinct
IOund coiOred man named Daniel vailor I'm an
unconscious state on the Glenwood road. near
Me3Ilens slaughter house, and took him TO the
station house In a wagon. Dr. Walter wac call.
60 ana discovered wound on the side of his
heaG, which was afterwards found to have been
inLilcteo with q club by Robert Poor, white
subsequently Officer Sullivan arrested Poor and
locked him W. The wound was ascertained 10
De slight. but Poor was taken 10 the Police
Court this morning and find SIS for a Common