National Republican., 1883-01-26
THE COMMISSIONERS.
Current transactions ne the Various Dis
trict Offices.

Tho district revenues will he decreased
$4,000 by the repeal of the clause in the
license laws of the district taking off the
license from commercial agents, and will have
q bad effect upon the business of regular
licensed dealers
A delegation of Sevcnth-street merchants,
headed by w, w. Burdette, called on the com
missioncrs yesterday to ask that the side
walks on the west side of Seventh street, be-
tween u and Pennsylvania avenue, and
between G and K streets, be paved with the
same material MS the other sidewalks on that
street. The left petition signed by seventy
signatures.
The commissioners have sent the new po-
lice bill to the President with their approval.
There are no indications of smallpox ex-
isting in the city, and DIR. Townshend thinks
there Is no danger.
Mr.. 9. G.. Willard, proprietor of the Ebbitt,
has written the following TO the commissions
ers: Being informed that there is an intcn-
tion to erect more telegraph poles and tee-
graph wires or poles and wires for the use of
the telephone or of the electric light, on L
street or Fourteenth street, or both, adjacent
to the Ebbitt house aud recalling the fact
that the fearful destruction of human life in
tho burning of the Ncwhall house, Mt Mill
waukee, was occasioned in u very great meas
ure by the numerous wires cncircling that
structure and preventing the use of
ladders or blankets by the fire COM
panies, desire respectfully, but most
earnestly and emphatically, to pro-
test against the erection of any more poles
or telegraph wires in the neighborhood OF the
Ebbitt house and against the continuance
there of the poles and wires now existing. A
mere glance will satisfyan one of the danger
of the proposed extension of these wires; and
while, warned by the disaster at Milwaukee,
/ am engaged in increasing the numerous
safeguards now in use at the Ebbitt house, l
deem it my duty to call your immediate at
tention to the proceeding, the direct effect of
which would bc to nullify these precautions.
If disaster occurs from this cause il will not
be because attention has not been directed to
the cause in time"
During the week ending Jan. 90, 1888 there
were 80 deaths reported in the District of
Columbia. OF this number % were white
males % white females, 10 colored males, and
- colored females, giving n death late of
2l.66 per 1000 per annum for the total popu-
lation, 1852 for the white and 277l for the
colored population.
The diseases by classes wero as follows:
Zymotic, o; constitutional, q; local, 81 ;-te-
velopmental, IL Violence 8.
The chief catlses of death were scarlet fever,
@; diphtheria, 2; typhoid fever, accidents,
4; Judicial execution, congestion of lungs,
] heart disease, 4 pneumonia, Z; bronchitis,
3 consumption, 22. SiSty-scvcn deaths oc-
cured in Washington, 3 in the county, and 10
in hospitals and other public institutions 36
were natives of the District of Columbia, 80
of other parts of tho United States ~ were
foreigners, and the nativity of unknown.
OF the decedants, 90 were under years of
age, and 10 Were over G0years Of age. Eighty
births were repOrted-27 white males, 26
white females, 10 colorcd males, and II col
ored females. Six still births were reported
white and three cOlored; ii marriages were
reported-9 white and colored.