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E MORNING HERALD.
1-NO. 20.
WILMINGTON, DEL., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1875.
ONE CENT.
_RY OF THE NEWS
fever is raging badly in Pitto
A Lincoln was mysteriously shot
[ork on Sunday morning by per
Eown.
L & Butterfield, the largest deal
[er-board in New York, suspend
Lit yesterday. '
liiversary of the fall of Mexico
Debrated by the veterans of the
war, in New York, this after
egates have already commenced
t Syracuse, New York, to attend
icratic State convention, which
e there on Thursday,
r. Grover, a farmer of Franklin
bnnsvlvania, was shot and killed
L since, while sewing wheat.
Ir is suspected of the deed.
Irrational cricket match,between
fdelphia and C%padian teams,
yesterday afternoon, at German
i Philadelphians winning the
Lklyn, yesterday, Judge Gilbert
latthe Board of Education, by
[he Legislature, has entire con
e public schools, and a right to
k- take in colored pupils.
km Cooper Engine Company, of
eruon, Ohio, has made an assign
11 the indebtedness can be paid,
will be a balance left, to be di
jr:g the common stockholders.
tgraphic Dispatches are furnished to
tig Herald, by the American Press
«, over the Atlantic ami Pacific
k Co's wires.
file Weather 'In-day.
!«' England, the Middle States, and
tc regions, clear or partly cloudy and
weather, Easterly to Southwesterly
! slowly falling Barometer.
From Uat In a Coal Mine.
p, Sept. 13.—Eleven persons per
iSuturday last from poisonous gas
lonington Wood Colliery, Shrop
iited Mates Fives (New.)
In, Sept. 13.—In United States
put bonds, the new fives have ad
sliade and are quoted at 1051^,
1)5 3-16 at the close on Friday.
Pedcstrlantsm,
lug, Sept. 13.—In the four linn
foot race between John Stokes of
i and Martin Nolen an Irish pedes
latter won in forty-two and a half
Indicted for Murder.
Iohk, Sept. 13.—The Grand Jury of
punty have indicted Wm.Delanccyj
be schooner Josephine E. Potts,for
|er of Capt. Laurance, master of
ll while lying in Cow Bay, about
p ago.
■Haiikrapt's Statement.
PRK, Sept. 13.—Messrs.Schuchartd
latemcnt will he ready about Wcd
[The report on the streets that the
p firm have out a large amount of
lot true. The amount out is small.
mocratlc Mate Ceaveiition.
k>RK, Sept. 13.—A Syracuse special
Sovernor Seymour and Governor
|1 be in town during the Democratic
Ivention, which assembles Thurs
erc will be a strong inflation party
nvention, and should the country
support inflation, a contest on tills
ipeeted.
knhlo Escape^From Wreck.
p" i September 13.—The steamship
f irgiuia arrived atGrcencreek today
P'S condition. Last Monday her
rs were struck with consternation
Edition of the vessel, and preferred
• the boats. A heavy fog prevent
ing oi observations for nine days.
Ri rival is due to the excellent disi
fi® captain and crew.
he Move incut in Erie.
kept. 13.—Erie shares, in which
cRve speculation was developed on
mve lost a good share of the ad
•cd In them. On Friday, at one
"g tlie day, they were quoted at
fhe street dealings on Saturday
i 'nnde at various prices, ranging
anl 17J4". To-day they
M'l-G a decline of 2
arc
per cent. In
■'* S*»!e DcnioeralC'c
lonvenflon.
" E , September. 13. - Prominent
8 irom the Interior of the State-are
0 ft ttend the Democratic
couvcn
"day. The name of Lucius Rob
entloncd for the comptrollershlp,
son N. Fitter and John Bigelow
ioned in connection
with the office
r y of State. It is too early to as
e eoling of the currency question.
WASHINGTON.
NEWS FROM THE CAI'ITaL
The Nluliilppl i rouble*.
Washington, Sept. 13.— It Is probable
that the President will return to Washing
ton to-morrow or next day, when a Cabinet
meeting will be held to consider the Missis
sippi troubles and determine what action
shall be taken on the demand of Governor
Ames for Federal interference.
Attorney General Pirrepont this morning
telegraphed to the United States Attorney,
at Jackson, Miss, to inform him, without
delay, of the present condition of affairs in
that part of the State. He also telegraphed
to Governor Ames that he had forwarded to'
the President at Long Branch, by special
messenger, all the .telegrams In regard to
the troubles, and now awaited the farther
action of the President.
Negro outbreak In North Carolina.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 13.—On Sa
turday night, 11th Inst., at the engine house
of the Gastongald Mining Company, which
is situated two miles from the villiage of
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, a crowd
of White and Black men were engaged In
gambling. Some dispute having arisen
about the money, a negro named Alex.
Brutton jerked off his coat, drew a knife
and swore lie was not afraid of any white
man living and knoeked down a white man
by the name of Milton Ewins. He cocked
a pistol on a white man named Jno. Northy,
iwhen he was knocked down by a white man
with a stick. They then dispersed and
raised a crowd of about twenty-five, and on
Sunday morning assembled in the public
road. Between Kings Mountain and the
mine, tAey came upon six white men who
were passing, but did not find the one's they
were looking for. This morning, the 13th,
a crowd of negroes went into the engine
house again and finding a white man by the
name of Pat Rainey, beat him. badily with
dubs. They are now marcliiug and armed
between Kings Mountain and the mine*
sw'earing that they will have vengance to
night, and that they mean war.
Locations of the Lghthouses.
Washington, D.C., Sept. 13.—The Trea
sury Department is makingpreparations for
the early establishment of the life-saving
stations authorized by Congress for the Pa
cific roast, aud the Commission designated
for the purpose have selected sites for them
as follows ; At Neali Bay, upon the Indian
Reservation; at Shoal Water Bay, upon the
Light.IIouse Reservation; Cape Disappoint
ment, upon the Military Reservation; Cape
Areago, upon Light-House; Property at
Humbold Bay, upon Light-house property
for the station designated in the act for
Point Reys. The site selected Is near Dux
berry reef at Bolivas Bay for the stations
authorized. To be established between Point
Labos and Point San Pedro, a site Is selected
near the beach of the southwestern extrem
ity of the Golden Gate Park. The Park
Commissioners of San Franeisco have grant
ed the use of the land for the purpose. The
stations designated for Point Conception
will be located about two miles cast of the
light-house, at what is known as Coxo Har
bor. It is expected that all the stations,
except that at Shoals Water Bay, and at
Point Conception will be manned by volun
teer crews, the one at Neali Bay by Indians.
The Indians there are very peaceful and
friendly, and are expert surfmen. Regular
crews will have to be stationed at the two
stations named above. Proposals will soon
be invited for the construction of the station
houses.
Tint Bed Cloud Investigation.
Washington, Sept. 18.—The Red Cloud
Commission expect to finish their examina
tion of witnesses in Washington by the close
of the present week. Mr. Samuel Walker
will continue his testimony this evening.
Professor Marsli and Comiesioner of Indian
Affairs Smith were present at the Commis
sion rooms to-day.
The latter will some time this week oc
cupy less than an hour in making his state
ment. Professor Marsh desires the personal
attendance of several m. ore witnesses, among
them Mr. Brevien, now in Michigan, who
was telegraphed for this morning. Mr.
Brevien has sent a statement, but Professor
Marsh desires him to lie interrogated.
No more witnesses are to be examined
besides those already summoned unless
their names shall be furnished during the
day. Mr. Bosler,-a beef contractor, was ex
amined as to the purchase and delivery of
cattle by him, under the Foreman contract,
for the year ending with the 3d of June last.
The entire number of cattle purchased
was 29,820, The number delivered at the
Red Cloud,-Spotted Tail and other agencies,
.was "28,006; the diffelefice between these
warrants having been lost by stampedes,
(theft'of Indians, etc. For the cattle deliv
ered, the Government paid $700,850.
The cost of the cattle, with the expense of
delivery, was $551,851, and deducting inter
est bn account and incidental expenses,
w^gs a net balance of profit to the contractor
of $180,000. With regard tothe contract for
1873, every head of cattle receipted for was
delivered.
Murdered at Hla Work.
Pittsburg, Sept. 13.—Elias W. Grover,
a farmer of Fayette county, Pennsylvania,
while sewing wheat on his farm a day or
two ago, was shot and killed, three halls
lodging In hisbreast. The victim's brother,
Horace L, Grover, is suspected of the mur
der, but he denies being guilty, aud says be
prove an alibi. Alpbius Grover, a brother
of the two, was murdered on the same spot
a couple of years ago by Jacob Stincss.
Fraudulent- Bnalnmi Proceedings.
Baltimore, Sept. 13.—Abraham Mtden
thal, a Chicago jeweler, was arrested here
on Saturday, charged with larceny, and hav
ing secretly left Chicago after removing all
the stock from his store, amounting to sev
eral thousand dollars, inclnding over fifty
watches, and other articles left with him for
repair. Mulcnthal waived an examination
here, and consented to return to Chicago
without a requisition. He left last night for
that cl y in charge of a Chicago detective.
Where and How the Dividends are
to be Paid.
Washington, Sept. 13. —Mr. Leipold,
one of the Commissioners of the Freedman's
Bank, says the Commissioners have author
ized no persons to act for or to represent
them in the matter of paying dividends, and
that they prefer to deal with the depositors
direct rather than through any self-constitu
ted agents. They propose to dispense with
all agents at the branches, and to pay divi
dends from the Washington office direct.
They cannot 6ay when they shall be able to
declare a dividend of the $600,000 required
tc pay twenty per cent. There is now on
hand the sum of $515,000.
International Cricket Match.
Germantown, Pa., Sept. 13.—The first
meeting of the International Cricket Tourn
ament, which is to occupy this week and a
portion of next, commenced to-day. The
attendance was very large. The captain of
the Canadian team, Rev. Thos. D. Phillips,
was detained by business aud his place is
supplied by F. W. Armstrong at the bat
and by D. M. Eberts in the field. The game
was announced for 11.30 A. M., but it was
13.20 P. M. before play was commenced.
The Philadelphians won the
position at the bat. Taa^f* ire was Mr.
Rhoades for the Philadelphians, and Mr
Scott for rhe Canadians. There was some
very fine playing.
s aud took
The Foui teentli Amendment la
Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, Sept. 13.—Judge Gilbert to
day reederod a decision in the matter of the
application of William F. Johnson, (col.,)
to compel the principal of a public school
to admit his son. The boy had been excluded
from school by the principal by order of the
Board of Education. Judge Gilbert decided
that the Board of Education by an act of the
State Lcglstature has entire discrltion of all
public schools in the city; that the Four
teenth Amendment has not application to
the case of Johnson; the claim can't be sus
tained In law and therefore denies the mo
tion for a mandamus. There are schools
specially provided for colored pupils, but
Johnson contended he had a right to choose
any school notwithstanding the regulations
of the Board of Education. •
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in
The .Grand Treaty Meeting.
Omaha, Sept. 13.—The Bee ha6 the fol
lowing special:Red Clqud Aflency, Sept. 11,
via, Fort Lawrence. The representative
Chiefs of all the Missouri river Indians
ca me here to attend o grand treaty meeting
of the Council Commissioners to-day In re
lation to the particular ground or locality
where the Treaty should he held with tha
Indians. The speakers contenced that the
Commissioners had promised them that
Shadron Creek midway between this and
rhe Spotted Tail agency showed by the place
where the Council was to be held, thus re
moving all cause of jealousy between the
tribes of Indians headed by Spotted Tail, and
Red Cloud.. The Commissioners thought
an interpeter replied that they were willing
to meet the Indians half way by holding the
Council on White Ctay creek, some eight
or ten miles from here. The Indians replied
that when the Great Father sent for them,
they asked him to meet them,
Crime In Kansas—Outlaws Captured.
Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 13.— John Day
ton, Owen Rooney and Henry Long Calt,
the latter a mere boy, entered the saloon of
the Railroad House, a disreputable place
on the Shawnee road, outside the city limits,
yesterday afternoon, and aftqr r
Charles Corlat, who was In charge
place, and trying to lock him up-in a room
from which he escaped, fired several dait*
through the house, and 'then went up stairs
and assaulted the women there. Meanwhile
Carlot reached the town and notified the po
lice of the outrage, and four officers rode
out to the scene. They were fired upon by
the ruffians, an 1 Detective McKnight Mae
badly wdunded in the leg. Tlie officers re
turned the fire, but without effect. They
then closed with the desperadoes, and a
fierce hand-to-hand fight ensued, with
clubbed pistols, resulting in the capture of
the ruffians, who were disarmed and brought
to town. Considerable money, supposed to
have been taken from the house, wae found
in their possession.
and have always counted that my home
since : I came back from San Francisco in
ioi-a t , • . T _
1866,1 think, prior to January, 1874,1 was
living at No. 71 Willetts str6et, New York;
I was then a member of the police force of
New York; was appointed August 5,1873;
my connectiou with the police continued
until January 3,1874, when I was discharg
ed, nominally because I failed to report a
lottery office, but really because I would'nt
subscribe $10 towards a political association,
after I teft the police force I removed to
Philadelphia, in the latter part of January,
with my family; I came to better my con
dition; I took apartments in the house of
iny sister, Mrs. Mosher, at No. 335 Monroe
street; after I came here I done nothing of
any account; I was seeking employment all
the time I was here; I went to a great many
places to look for work, and answered many
advertisements, but failed in every instance;
I then moved to New York, sometime in
April; I done nothing in New York
up to the middle of May; was
seeking occupation up to that time;
in May I went to selling moth powder;
I met two men, named Morris and Thomas
Richards or Richardson, going through the
CHARLIE. ROSS.
THE TRIAL OF WESTERVELT.
nE TAKES THE STAND—SCENES IN COURT.
The trial of Westervell was continued
yesterday morning, before Judge Elcok,and
the examination of Mrs. Westerveit, was
concluded. The balance of her testimony
was in substance as follows :
At the time 1 had this communication
with Mrs. Manning, I was living at No. 363
Madison street; something else than wLat I
have already stated may have been said,
but I don't remember ; my children where
going to school up to .the last Friday in
June, 1874; they stopped going then because
vacation began and lasted till the first Mon
day In September.
Westerveit, himself, took
testified that he was born in Patterson, N.
J. Had twelve brothers and one sister,
Martha, who married William Mosher. He
married on the 34th of September, 1853; I
was in the army, in the 15th New York
Volunteer Engineers, for two years, com
manded by Colonel Murphy; I came back to
New York after I had been at San Francisco
the stand, and
Bowery ; Morris told me he was going into
the business and I agreed to join them ; we
went and bought the ingredients, Morris
paying one-halt and I the other of the ex
peuses. . We went to Newark, Morris,
Richards and myself; I returned home that
evening and went back to Newark the next
day, going home again in the evening; I was
alone that day; I sold it in Jersey City after
that, and in New York and its suburbs ; at
first I was successful; 1 was successful in
Jersey for ten days or two weeks; I
next came to Philadelphia, to the best of
my knowledge on the night of June 33d,
1874; I came in the 7 p. m. train from New
York, and went directly to my sister's house
335 Monroe street; the Morrises had told
me they had never sold in the city of Phila
.delpkia, but in the suburbs, and I didn't
like peddling in New York; the
the morning following my arrival I went
be; I returned to 335 Monroe street between
4 and 5 o'clock; nothing occurred that
I recollect; we sat out in iront of the door
2S3S
I went out selling the moth powder and in
the direction oi' Fifteenth street, below
Chestnut; returned to Monroe street be
tween 4 and 5 o'clock, we was sitting out in
front of the door, Douglass and myself; I
had told Douglass and Mosher that I was
going back to New York; that day I had
done poor and got discouraged; towards sup
Mosher said to me, "come and tike a walk;''
we went up towards P ourth street, and down
towards Washington avenue, and turned off
one of the other streets, I don't know the
name of it, and then he showed me this
horse and wagor; remained there long
enough for him to feed and water the
horse, and then returned to 335 Monroe St.,
and got supper; left there to return to
New'York that night in the 11.40 train
from 5V cst Philadelphia; that after
noon, while sitting in front of the door, and
after.telling them 1 was going back to New
York ; he told me there was a woman owed
him 85; he afterwards came out with the
letter and said.he told me that he had told
her to send it to my house, and that he was
living in New York ; lie told me to mail it in
New York, and lie had dated it a day ahead;
I done so; I gave it to my wife next day; the
letter was sealed when Mosher gave it to
rae; I never read it until I went to Raundput
with Officers Sellick aud Titus; on my visit
to my sister's house in June, I saw no one
particularly but the neighbors; a, family by
the name of Lyon lived there then, aud I
think 1 saw Mrs. Lyon; her little girl was
constantly' in Mrs. Mosher's; Mrs. Lyou
asked me how my wife and family were get
ting along, and I told her that the children
were going to school every day, in Madison
street; the last night I was. here the night I
went to Now York, my sister, Mosher, Doug
lass and myself went up and spent the even
ing at Gilbert's, at the corner oi Eighth
street and Girard 'avenue ; stopped there
$ilitil about half-past 10, I should judge ; I
went from there to take the train to New
jflfork ; I had my boxes with me ; I arrived
New York on the molting of the 36lh;
between that date and the 1st of July I can't
recollect anything occurring that impresses
a particular date upon my mind unless it
was a conversation with my wife in refer
cnee to the rent; it occurred previous to the
firstof the month; it might have been the
day before; we pawned some geo is to pay
the rent; I brougbV some money with me
from Philadelphia, but very little, for I had
my fare to pay; Imight have had some $3
aud over ; on the 1st of July I was at home
In New York, in my own house; I recollect
the landlord being there that day ; couldn't
say what time it was, but I was lying in
bed ; I can't say that 1'was confined to my
room all that day, but I don't recollect go
ing out, though I may have done so ; tothe
best of my knowledge I was not out of New
York city that day; on the second he was
in and out of the house; there were da; s
that I went out to the moth powder, I
•« 1
but I couldn't tell the days they were;
I was looking to get on the police again,
but I can't fix. a certain day nor a certain
hour; the 6th day of July is fixed in my
mind for the reason that it was the day fol
lowing the picnics; it was my wife's birth
day, aiffi I being very tired did not go out of
the house; I was not in Brooklyn at any
time on that 6th day of July ; didn't take a
horse car at the City Hall, Brooklyn, that
day nor any other day ; never recollect get
ting into a Brooklyn horse car at the City
Hall.
Q. Were you on that day, or any other
day, seated in a Brooklyn car with a child,
very fair, dark eyss, light curly hair, about
four years of age. having a brown linen suit
on, over which was a long blue linen sack,
the child having no hat on ? A. No, sir.
I never remember riding in a Brooklyn ear
with a child, unless it was in 1870, when'I
was living in Brooklyn, with my own little
girl, and I don't rem.ember riding with them,
but I may.
Q. When did you first see Mrs. Peer? A.
Can't tell the day, but think it^tvas in the
latter part of June of this year.
Where ? A. At the prison; she came to
the door of my cell.
Q. That was the first time? A. Yes,
sir, and the only time, except seeing her
here.
'Did you have any conversation with her?
A—I did; the conversation wa6 com
menced by Superintendent Perkins,
Mr - Hagert objected to the conversation if
it was intended to contradict Mrs. Peer, as
her attention was not specially called to it
in her examination in chief.
The question was then admitted in the
following shape;
Q —Had you any conversation with Mrs.
Peer at the County Prison ; If so, what was
said by you and her ?
A—She told me that she was visiting the
different institutions; that she had been
down South, and that she was on her way
to New York city, her home ; I told her
that I lived in New York city, and that - iny
wife and children were there" at that time ;
she asked me where I lived, and that she
would call and see them ; I afterwards
learned that she did call; she gave me
three tracts, the only ones that I saw with
her; 6he took dewn my wife's directions on
a sort of a folding tablet; a curd like; I was
getting dinner at the time, an unusual hour
for visitors, and I should judge she re
mained there about fifteen minutes; I was
not in Philadelphia at any time during July
187i; I was never in Germantown at any
time, and don't know the way to go to it ; I
think it is the suburbs somewhere
Q—You have heard the testimony of
Henry McDowell—is it true or false !
A—It is as false as false can be ; I never
saw the man until I saw him on the witness
stand.
f)—What whiskers, if any; did you wear
during 1874 ?
A—I wore nothing but a moustache; I
wore a side whisker in 1870 for about three
months, and I never wore one after that
until abont three weeks previous to my com
ing on here in April last; the time I was
kept here,
Owing to the failur, of the afternoon pro
ceedings to reach us we are unable to give
them tb our readers.
„.„ v TJtwv mr'r
THEY I ALL OLT.
They had been neighbors for some time
and they never said a word when their
Ilttlc boy® fought battles over the fence with
dead cats and rotten cabbages. One never
had roast turkey without the next-door
"»*«■ ■ »**».
a tempting way upon a plate, and covered
over with a snowy-white napkin. There
^ae only one thing neighborly that they
" vcr dd ' a d that ' as to borrow each
other's plug hats or razors, and the women
never borrewed a cupfull of sugar or a flat
iron from one another. They lived in on,
8w ® et neighborly bliss until two months ago,
an< * that was the time they fell out. One
of them came home drunk, and he yelled
ok, " Hurrah for Valentine." That was
more than his Whiteley neighbor could
stand, and there were no more choice bits of
turkey aud chicken, covered with white nap
kins, passed over the back fence. The
Whiteley man in muddy weather tramped
over the Valentine man's steps, and the Val
entine man reciprocated. In the evenings
they sat on the front porches and made
.what is vulgarly termed " snoots" at each
other, and as the Valentine party were more
bountifully gifted by nature with noses than
the other's they had the advantage. But
everything has to have an end, and so did
this. The Valentine man put some tacks
in the rug on the steps of the Whiteley.
man, and it was upon this that
the unfortunate man took a seat. He clear
ed a space of about fifteen feet before he
struck the pavement, and W'hen he did, he
bounced up again about three feetr. At that
moment he heard a*snicker and then another
-snicker, and spied that Valentine man in
his passage with a face as red as a boiled
lobster, and his whole body shading with
laughter. . He went for him and there was
a fight, but it did not last long, as the w ife
announced that it would be but fifteen
minutes before the.' polls closed, and they
both ruslied off to vote. Itrhas been settled
now though that Whitcly is the. best man
and they are good neighbors again.
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IX THE TOILS.
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carpenters, Butlers and men of other
trades on the high horse.
..... , . ..
0,8 cblle > Boss Mu y° r - votftd de dira '
ocrat ticket straight out and no split, bnt
dat man dar of my own color too, jected
a( jq sa jj I te one dum purtty 15th mend
. - - T 1
meni * an ^ ® al( t * were, a Kangaroo, yer
Honor." Thus 6poke Howard Rice against
Charles Johnsan, and justice was awarded
to Howard and buuishment to Chas., by the
Une ami costs upon the latter for his disor
derly patriotism.
One Winfield Butler, who danced a few
hornpipes over 3d street bridge 'Death the
silver moon, but to the annoyance of that
celestial and the neighbors around was fined
cost and $50 security. Mary Carpenter for
Cm same deed, payed the same penalty.
Geo. Lighfoot and Sam'l Jones, for as
sault and-battery on Wm. Denby, was
lightened of $5 anl costs, with 8200 to keep
the peace. So cudeth. .
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BOARD OB EDUCATION.
REGULAR MEETING LAST EVENING—ROU
TINE BUSINESS —A NEW METHOD OP
KEEPING THE SCHOOL ACCOUNTS—VACA
TION OP NO. 5— ORDERS DRAWN, ETC.
The Board of Education held its regular
session, last evening, President Shortlidge
in the chair.
The Committee on Teachers reported that
Miss Mary E. Jackson had been removed
from No. 7 and placed as third assistant in
No. 4. The Committee did not recommend
the appointment of any one -to the vacant
position in No. 7. Report adopted.
On motion of Mr. Eckel, Chairman of
the Finance Committee, the Treasurer of
the Board, was authorized to go to New
Castle and draw the money to the credit of
the Board placed there by the State Auditor
as the cashier requests that the Board
might not draw through tbp city banks.
The Insurance Committee reported vari
ous policies renewed on certain of the pub
lic schools.
The Committee on coal reported a supply
purchased and placed in the cellars of the
schools.
The Committee on purchasing a heater
for No; 15, reported in favor of awarding the
contract to Jos. Bartlett & Son, of Philadel
phia, to be put in for $300.
t^Mr. Roberts objected to going to Philadel
phia for beaters when the Board might have
purchased of a Wilmington firm, whose
members pay tax.
Mr. Frock thought that Messrs. Bartlett
& Sou's bid the best, but thought that the
firm would put the beater in through Mr.
Robinson, their agent in this city.
The matter excited considerable discus
sion, and the report was referred back to
committee, with instructions to have the
heater put in by Mr, F. Robinson, if he
would do it for $300.
The committee on altering rooms in Nos.
3, 4, 8, 10 and 13, reported such rooms al
tered and repaired. Adopted.
Mr. Baird moved that Mr. Samuel C.
Chester be allowed to photogragh the
scholars of the public schools in groups.
Adopted.
Mr. Woolley introduced a resolution,
whieh provides for the appointment of a
committee to appraise the property of the
Board, and arrange a new method of keep
ing the books of the board in their account
with the schools, and made a few pertinent
remarks in favor of the resolution. The
proposed new method provides for the keep- •
ng of a separate aecount with each of the
schools, and giving them credit for the
amount of property which each school rep
resents. Mr. Woolley stated that the ac
counts of most of our larger cities—the pub
lic school accounts—are kept in the manner
suggested by the resolution.
The resolution was adopted by a vote of
15 to4 .
The resolution of the City Council direct
ing the board to vacate No. 5 school-house
by November 1st was read, and Mr. Eckel
moved that the matter be referred to the
Committee on Teachers, with instructions to
have it vacated with all possible dispatch,
which'was adopted.
The Treasurers monthly statement for
August, was read as follows :
RECEIPTS.
Balance,
Sale of Mortgage Bond, $3,442.35
Rent of School No. 13,
City Taxes, 1874,
" " 1875,
$16, 339.50
5.00
514.13
13,883.04
$33,167.42
expenses.
Bills Payable,
Repairs,
Incidentals,
Fund Account,
Rent,
$5,000.00
48.08
34.03
11.40
80-00
$5,168.50
Balance,,
$37,999.43
ORDERS DRAWN.
During the evening the following orders
were decided to be drawu : Chas Alexan
der, $4.50; Philemma Chandler, $33.74;
James Curren, $1.50 ; Commercial Printing
Co., '$8.46; Boughman, Thos. & Co.,
$4.03 ; James Bradford, $190.63; Gapell &
Bro., $8S8; W. II. Foulk, $3; Adam
Grubb & Son, $4.13; T. B. Hizar, $18.78;
Dennis Renny, $4."5; William A. Mills.,
$34; L. W. Palmer, $11; R. Pany, Jr.,
$2.30; Pay Roll. Janitors, $134.74; Pay .
Roll Officers, $183.34; Jno. Peoples, $383;
Allen Ruth, $70.95 ; Chas. Smith, $95 ; E. '
G. Shortlcdge, $165; Speakman Bros, $4.&1; -
Springer, Morly & Gause, $3; Every, Eygn- .
ing Publishing Co., $7.68 ;, Chas. Warner &
Co., $2,189.53; Wooly & Van. Trump,
$78.50 ; Granville Worrell, $30,32 ; Lewie
Zebly, $9.93 ; Martha Brook?, $5.
BALL AND BAT.
THE QUICKSTEPS OFF^EoV READING.
There Is much feeling, both in this city
anl iu Reading, over the game of base ball
which will be played in the latter city to
day, between the Quicksteps and the
Actives. The home nine will leave this
morning at 6:30 from 'the Reading depot,
arriving in Reading about noon. The game
will commence at 4 o'clock. The Quick
steps will play the following men : Hindel,
catcher; Laffcrty, pitcher ; Geary, 1st base;
Fowzer, 3d base ; Fisher, 3d base ; Stid
ham, 6hort stop, and Splain, Kelly and
Stock in the field. A Igrge number of
mingtonians will accompany the club to
Reading.
Wil
Afit US EM ENTS.
SHERRY'S NEW YORK COMPANY'.
Last evening, Sherry, with ills New York
Theatre Company, appeared at our Opera
House, for the first time this season. The
performance was excellent In every respect,
and deserved a better audience than wit
nessed it. The entire company Is first-class
In every respect, and the small audience
whieh assembled to see it last evening, were
more than gratified, and it is to be hoped
that a good attendance will be present this .
evening. We regret that limited space will
not allow us to speak now at length of the
most successful rendition of John Brough
am's comedy drama, the Red Light, but we
advise all friends of the drama to go this
evening.