Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-20
District Governments Annsr~.

THREATENED OBSTRUCTION OF A SEWER.
The Chesapeake and Ohio canal company are
repairing a portion of the north wali on the
last level OF the canal near 29th street. where n
| pipe sewer discharges, and threatens to close up
the mouth of the sewer. The Commissioners
have notified the police TO cause the arrest Of
any person for obstructing the sewer and there.
by creating q nuisance. They have informed
the canal company that the necessary pipe
would be given the company upon application
10 make proper outlet.
SHADE TREES FOR THE INSANE ASYLUM
DIR. w. w. Godding, OF the Insane Asylum has
made a requisition upon the District Commits.
sioners for 300 rapidly-growing shade trees 70
plant on the grounds of the asylum for the com.
Tort OF the inmates. he suggests the Carolina
poplar or soft maple as the most suitable.
LIQUOR LICENSES.
The Commissioners have approved applica-
tions for liquor licenses from the following
Michael I. Carley and Augustus Sellhausen a
Co., and disapproved that of Dennis Mccarthy.
NEW GAS MAINS.
The commissioners yesterday granted per-
mission to the Washington gas light company
street, east side, from NJ to streets northwest:
street. north side, from Gth 10 10th streets
northwest; Vermont avenue, east side, from NJ
to streets northwest; 1lth st, from Park 10 q
street northeast; Massachusetts avenue, north
side, from 9TH to 10th streets northeast; 18th
street, west side, from c TO streets northwest:
and on Columbia road, from Oakland avenue TO
18th street, extended.
THE GEoRGETowN CONVENT PROPERTY.
Yesterday the District Commissioners made
answer to several letters from Sister Teresa
White, treasurer sister of the Visitation George
town, asking for an order ofexemption from
taxation on ten acres of land, and other lots OF
ground held by them, and which order they
had been led TO expect, they say, by verbal pro-
mise from one Of the Commissioners. In the
answer now made the Commissioners saw that
IL is not the province OF the Commissioners TO
order any property 10 be exempted from taxa
what property shall be exempt, and the as
SCISSOR taxes all property not exempt by law.
and not taxing OF other portions, Is a matter for
the assessor, and neither his action nor that Of
the Commissioners can bind their successors in
office as to what such SUCCESSORS may do Any
action taken during one tax year Is binding for
that year, and IL deyolyes upon you 10 protect
your property from any taxes In the future that
you may consider unlawful unjust, whether
such shall be imposed by either The District a..
thorities or by Congress-"
IMPROVEMENTS ASKED FOR AT IVY CITY,
Mr.. w. L. Okie has requested that the culvert
under Central avenue, Ivy City, near the fair
grounds gate, be repaired, as IL is broken and
caved in on the north side OF the road; also that
a twenty-four inch earthen pipe be laid across
Olivet street, where the branch crosses and that
Olivet street, Corcoran street and the new high
way, recently donated by him to the District,
leading from Patterson avenue into Ivy City,bo
graded and opened TO the public.
VITAL sTATIsTICs.
The total numberof deaths reported during
the week ending last Saturday was 100, Sd
being white and a. colored. The death rate
per 1000 per annum was 222S for she white,
33. OF for the colored and % for the total popu,
lation. There were Is marriages and 81 births
reported.
issued by Inspector Entwisle: +. 5. Kern, repair
brick, 1919 New Jersey avenue northwest,
S100; p. ID. Welcker, repair brick laundry, 524
18th street northwest, $50; John Sherman,
erect three three-story and basement dwellings,
Sunderland place and 10th street northwest
$4,000.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr.. w. Brahler, in a note to the Commission.
ers, requests that q sewer be laid In alley I'm
square 500 for sewerage of houses on south side
of III street and east side Of 4th street northeast
to cost $50.
Mr.. W. L. Particle has made application for
the laying OF a sewer corner 18th and Riggs
streets northwest, TO cost about $500. John
Grinder ct al. petitions for q sewer on II street
northeast, between ID and Sd streets
THE AFGHAN BOUNDARY DIsPUTE.-There n
o strong suspicion In London that Penjdeh
may already be in the hands Of the Russians.
The tories insist that these professions Of gnor.
ance are hypocritical assertions, made fn 40
cordance with the habitual ministerial policy
OF breaking bad news slowly. Tney are organ.
izing their forces for o division on . motion q
censure regarding the governments policy %.
word Russia. They claim that the government
has already betrayed the Afghans, and that its
biunder amounts to q crime, in view Of tho
fact that the selling out Of the Afghans u now
proved to have been unnecessary by the eager.
ness with which India accepts the prospect Of .
war with Russia. A dispatch from st Peters.
burg says q council of war was held this week
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