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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1874.
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POST OFFICE BUILDING,
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed from Telegrams of Accompinjing Bates.
Monday, Tov. 9. A Rome dispatch
announced that the Pope has been taken sud
denly ill.... Several prominent merchants of
Memphis, Tenn., have been arrested and
bound over to the United States Circuit
Court in the sum of $2,000 each, charged
with violating the Enforcement act in din-
charging colored men from their employ for
refusing to vote the Democratic ticket
labt August.... It has recently trans
pired that three children two girls
aged fifteen and thirteen, and. one
boy aged ten of John Martin, residing near
Fort Wayne, Ind, were stolen on the lot of
October, and have not since been heard from.
No reason for the abductions is known. The
parents have been nearly distracted over their
loss, but kept quiet in hopes of gaining a clew
to the whereabouts of the missing children. .
Several arrests have been made in Louisiana
for alleged violations of the Enforcement act.
Much excitement existed in Northern Louis
iana on the 9th caused by the previous ar.
rest by Lieut. Hodgson and Marshal Selye of
parties without warrant, as is alleged, and
by force of United States bavonets. The
Lieutenant and Marshal were subsequently
brought before Judge Trimble, at Vienna,
charged with oontempt of court in disobey
ing a writ of tiabea corpu, and fined $100
each, and sentenced to ten days' imprison
ment in the parish jail. D. M. Jewett, United
States Commissioner, had been indicted and
arrested upon a warrant, charged with kid
naping. He was bound over in the sum of
$1,000. . . .The Conservative Committee of Sev
enty at New Orleans telegraphed to President
Grant on the 8th, 6tating that the Conserva
tives had been entirely successful at the re
cent election in Louisiana, and that thousands
of colored citizens had voted the Conservative
ticket, and protesting against the further oc
cupation of the State by military forces, and
requesting their withdrawal Diphtheria is
prevailing to an alarming extent in New York
city.
Tuesday, Nov. 10. A Berlin dispatch
says the first attempt of the Prussian Govern
ment to have priests elected by the congrega
tions had taken place at Landsberg, and has
resulted in utter failure, only eleven persons
having voted. An application has been made
to the Ecclesiastical Court for the
deposition of the Bishop of Paderborn
The Third Assistant Postmaster-General in
his annual report estimates that the propor
tion of washed stamps used again in the pay
ment of postage is 5 per cent, of the value of
all the stamps sold each year, causing an an
nual loss of 1.000,000 to the revenue of the
department Licutenant-General Sheridan
has returned to his headquarters in Chi
cago from Fort Sill and the Indian coun
try. He reports that the Indians who have
been on the war-path are pretty thoroughly
subdued, having surrendered their arms and
ponies to the Government troops. He antici
pates no further difficulty in that quarter....
Prof. A. B. Smith, ex-President of the Ar
kansas Valley Collegiate Institute, publishes
in the St. Louis papers a statement in which
he says there are fully 40,000 people in Kansas
and Nebraska who are either now or will
shortly be in absolute want of the necessaries
of life A daughter of T.C. Buten, of Y'ilton
Junction, Wis., was burned to death the other
evening by a can exploding while she was
building a fire with kerosene oil.
"Wednesday, Nov. 11. A Trieste dis
patch says the Turkish authorities have cap
tured thirty of the leaders in the recent out
rages perpetrated on Montenegrin Christians
in Podgoritza.... Several of the Eastern man
ufacturers of fancv cassimercs have agreed to
stop 25 per cent, of their machinery for three
months because of the present over supply
and low piice of their productions The
vote in Massachusetts for Governor is
as follows: Gaston, Dem., 95,901; Talbot, Kep.,
80,243; Andrews, Labor Reform, 131; Gaston's
plurality, 6,058 The vote at the recent
election for Congressman in the Second Ver
mont District was as follows: Denison, Ind.,
8,2); Poland, Rep., 4,111; McLane, Dem.,
1,5:35 In the Brooklyn court on the 10th a
stay of proceedings was granted in theTilton
Beechereuit until argument should be heard
on the appeal for granting a bill of particu
lars to Mr. Beecher. A plea of "not guilty"
was entered in the libel suit of Miss Proctor
against Mr. Moulton.... A flispatch received
at St. Louis on the 10th from Gen. Pope,
through Gen. Sheridan, announces that Big
Horn, a Cheyenne chief, with twenty warriors,
ftrty-eight women, twenty-nine children and
over 200 horses, surrendered unconditionally
to Col. Hall at the Cheyenue Agency on Nov.
4. The warriors were held in confinement
Gen. Hurlbut's majority for Congress in the
Fourth Illinois District, over Farnsworth, is
1,128. The official returns in the Second Illi
nois District give Harrison, Dem., seven i a
ority In Terrc Bonne Parish, La., on the
8th, a negro Sheriff who was elected on the
compromise ticket was attacked by seven
other negroes. Simms ran from the
party three squares, and, being pur
sued, turned upon them and fired, killing
one and wounding another. Simms- immedi
ately surrendered himself, and was sent to
jail. Judge Trimble, on the 9th, at the in
stance of citizens, remitted the fine and re
voked the order of imprisonment against
Lieut. Hodgson. Selye was still in prison.
Five St Martinsville prisoners, charged with
violating the Enforcement act, have given
bonds for their appearance before the United
States Court.
Thursday, Nov. 12. A cable dispatch
says the Carlists have raised the siege of
Irun, and that the Republicans occupy the
positions held by the besiegers. An unsuc
cessful attempt has been made to capture
Don Carlos on French soil.... At the munici
pal election in Providence, U. I., on the 11th,
Thomas A. Doyle, Republican, was re-elected
Mayor. The City Council is largely Repub
lican. The prohibition question was brought
into the election, but nine out of the ten
Aldermen are regarded as anti-prohibition....
The International Typographical
Union, which has undertaken the work of pro
riding a statue or other suitable memorial
over the grave of Horace Greeley, makes an
appeal for further contributions The Chi
cago dailies announce that the Baltimore &
Ohio and the Grand Trunk Railroads have
refused to join the famous Saratoga agree
ment, whereby the Eastern lines hoped to
control the freight tariff between the West
and the East The Tribune says the
announcement that the above-named roads
" had not joined the combination was greeted
with much satisfaction by the managers of
our Western railroads, ail of whom, with a
single exception, look very unfavorably upon
the compact".... The trial for bribery of ex
Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, has been con
tinued and will go over to next April....
An Omaha dispatch says Gen. Ord has
received notice that the Commissary-General
has decided that the supplies are
barely sufficient for the subsistence of the
army, therefore no rations can be issued to
the sufferers from the grasshoppers in Ne
braska. Col. Dudley, United States army,
has completed the inspection of the grasshop
per district, and has furnished an elaborate
report of facts. Many settlers will be desti
tute of food in a few days; the buffaloes have
gone; the domestic animals are mere skele
tons, and the resources of the Nebraska Aid
Society will be entirely inadequate.
Friday, Nov. 13. Madrid dispatches
of the 12th say the Carlists lost heavily at
Inin,but succeeded in carrying off their guns.
Before leaving their positions they burned the
houses of Republican sympathizers. ...Count
von Arnim has been re-arrested at Berlin..
St. Petersburg telegrams say the Government
has decided to introduce free schools and
compel the children to attend them. A
socialist conspiracy ha been discovered in
Moscow. An unsuccessful attempt has been
made to murder the Czar, and numerous ar
rests have been made The Secretary of
the Interior has reversed the decision of Com
missioner Drutninond, of the General Land
Office, on the 23d of January, 1S74, refusing
to consider an account in favor of Nebraska
for 5 er cent, of the value of public lands
lying within her limits, included within
the reservations made by treaties with In
dians. The account will be, therefore,
at once prepared and forwarded to the
Treasury Department. This decision will
control the pending claims from several other
States At Montrose, Pa, on the 12th Daniel
O'.Mara and Patrick Irving were banged for
the murder of O'Mara's mother and sister in
September of last year. At Westchester, Pa.,
on the same day, William E. Udderzook was
executed by hanging for the murder in June,
1873, of Winfield S. Goss, his partner in a con
spiracy to defraud insurance companies....
It is said that at least 10,000 men and women
in New York city are out of employment, and
that whole families are without the necessa
ries of life.... The official canvass of the
votes for Iowa State officers has just been
concluded. For Secretary of State, Josiah T.
Young, Republican, received 107,250, and
David Morgan, Anti-Monopoly, 79,054. Re
publican majority, 28,202 The Election Re
turning Board of Louisiana met in New Or
leans on the 12th.
Saturday, Nov. 14. A report was
circulated in London on the 13th that Queen
Victoria had died. Much excitement was
caused thereby until the report was ascer
tained to be false Hendaye dispatches say
the Republican troops are in hot pursuit of
the retreating Carlists, and are burning the
houses of Carlist sympathizers . . . .The Ameri
can Express messenger on the Ureal
Western Railway in Canada was robbea
on the 13th of over $30,000 by five masked
men who boarded the train near Toronto
and gagged and bound the messenger and
baggage-man.... Information recently re
ceived in diplomatic circles in Washington
confirms the report that Spain has paid her
indemnity to England growing out of
the Virginius affair It has been de
cided that the Tilton-Beeeher suit will
not be tried before the first Monday
in December V. V. Smith, elected Lieuteu-
ant-Governor of Arkansas on the ticket with
Baxter in 1872, has issued a proclamation
declaring himself Governor, Baxter hav
ing abdicated in favor of Garland. He
claims that the new Constitution was
not legally adopted by the people
in the manner prescribed bylaw, and that he
is now the legal Governor of the State. In
his proclamation he says he does not intend
to employ force to dislodge Mr. Garland, the
newly-installed Governor, but will quietly
await a decision from the President, to whom
he has applied for aid to enable him to enforce
his claim.
THE MARKETS.
November 13, 1371.
NEW YOKK.
Cotton. Middling upland, Wtg,UHc
Lite Stock. Cesf Cattle 310.5iil:J.0O. Hogs
Dressed, $8.t?8.S"i; Live, $0.35&6.73. Sheep-
Live, St.ClXaGJIO.
Breadstlffs. Flour Good to .cnoice, s.i.u.yy.
5.75; white w heat extra, S5.753..15. Wheat No.
3 Chicago, Sl.06Itl.07; Iowa sprinj. j,i.vhiav.
No. -.Milwaukee spring, $1.0931.10. Rye cst
ern and State, 92&!Uc. Barley 1.301. 40.
Corn Mixed Western aCoat, VViUiVia. Oats
New Western, 6.&6J,4c.
Provisions. Pork New Mess, 5 r.)..S
Lard H?iai5c. Cheese 12!(3.13?Xc.
Wool. Common to extra, 4jS.8c.
CHICAGO.
Lrva Stock. Beeves -Choice, $ ".5O2fi.00 ;
pood. 4.73fio5.2.": medium, --OU3.1.50; hatch
ers' stock, 2.2.V&3.75; stock cattle, 5.50
3.U0. noss Live, $r,.30&G.75. Sheep Good
to choice, $4.75(34.50.
Provisions. Butter Choice, 31S38c. Egg?
Fresh, sM&itc. Cheese New York factory,
1516c; Western, 14i:c. Pork New
Mess, $13.01X318.50. Lard 1334'314c.
Breaustuffs. Flour White winter extra,
$..OOC?4ii.J3; spring extra, $t.i"4J5.00. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, Sti'i'ic- Corn-No. 2, 7454
75c. Oats No. 2, 4834S4c. Barley No. 2,
$1.2231.24. Rye No. 2, SryT Mic.
Wool. Tub-washed, 45357c; fleece, washed,
4047c; fleece, unwashed, 2724c.
Lumber. First Clear, $50.0052.00; Second
Clear, $l6.0o348.00; Common Boards, $11.00
12.00; Fencing, $11.0O12.00; "A" Shingles,
$3.003.25; Lalh, $2.00!&2.25.
CINCINNATI.
Brsadstuffs. Flonr $" .00&5.50. Wheat P.ed,
$1. 031.07. Corn New, 0384c. Rye 'j:394c.
Oats 53 250c. Barley $1.2iX&1.35.
Provisions. Fork Lard
13313'tjC.
ST. LOUIS.
Live Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $tu03
G.50. llogs Live, $1.7i,-7j.
BitKADSTurrs. Flour XX Fall, $1.253t.r.O.
Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.04ai.044. Corn-No.
2, New,fi9(&70c. OaU No. 2, S&53!4c. Rye No.
2, 8G!3S7c. Barley S1.1SI&1.20.
Provisions. Pork Mess, $19.253,19.50. Lard
-12!i13c.
MILWAUKEE.
Brbadbtcffs. Flour Spring XX, $5.255.50.
Wheat Spring No. 1, &iKc; No. 2, 87
87,4c Corn No. 2, 7Si79c. Oats No. 2, 4fva
47c. Rye No. 1, 90,91c. Barley No. 2, $1.20!i
31-21.
DETROIT.
Bezapstuffs. Wheat Extra, $1.18&1.18l4.
Corn 79&S0c. Oats MVJiftMc.
TOLEDO.
BRiADSTtrrFs Wheat Amber Mich., $1.074
10S; No. 2 Red, $1.051.05'4. Corn
Mixed, New, 67308c. Oats No. 1, 62363c.
CLEVELAND.
-Breaistdffs Wheat No. 1 Red, $1.111.12;
No. 2 Red, $1.05:31.06. Corn New, 6536tic.
Oats-EOasic.
BUFFALO.
Live Stock. Beeves $1.0O&6.85. Hogs
Live, $0.GO;36.75. Sheet) $4.5035.2o.
EAST LIBERTY.
Live Stock. Beeves Best, $6.503.75; me
dium, $5.503G.OO. Hogs Yorkers, $6,153
6.25; Philadelphia, $6.8037.00. Sheep Best,
$1.7535 00; medium. $4.00(34.50.
Treasurer Spinner's Annual Keport.
Washington, Nov. 9.
Gen. Spinner's report is complete and
in the hands of the printer, lie devotes
considerable space to an argument in
favor of issuing interchangeable bonds,
to bear interest at the rate of 3.63 per
cent. His arguments on this point are
in the main the same as those of last
year, except that he believes that it
would be wise to allow holders to ex
change the 3.G. for outstanding 5 and G
per cent, bonds. He says that the gicat
est objection to a metallic currency is its
lack of elasticity, and is of the opinion
that the adoption of the convertible
bond -will correct this evil. He thinks
the rate of interest will be high enough
to sell the bonds, to the absorption
of any surplus currency, at any time,
while it will be enough to force a return
of the bonds in exchange for legal-tender
notes when the business of the coun
try demands more currency. The rate
of interest at one cent a day on the hun
dred dollars would be popular with the
people, he says, because it is easy of
computation, lie argues that the con
version of the 5s and Gs into low-rate
bonds in the event oj the condition of
the currency demanding such conver
sion would result in the material reduc
tion of the interest on the public debt,
and make it payable entirely in national
currency at home, and not in gold to foreigners.
Postal Affairs Annual Iteport.
Washington, Nov. 11
IIox. E. M. Barber, Third Assistant
rostmaster-General, has completed his
annual report. It shows that during the
last fiscal year there were issued to Post
masters, for sale to the public, 632,733,000
adhesive postage stamps of the value of
$i ,2 0,24:2; or plain stamped envelopes
about 65,000,000, valued at $1,927,952; of
stamped envelopes bearing a return re
quest 52,000,000, valued at $1,733,735; of
newspaper-wrappers some 19,000,000,
valued at J220,000, and of postal-cards
91,000,000. lhe increase in value of the
ordinary issues over the preceding year
was 1.60o,4)58, or over 8 per cent. 1 hese
figures represent the cost of manufacture
added to the postal value.
It is estimated that for the fiscal year
ending June dO, 18 0, there will be re
quired to defray the cost of adhesive
postage stamps $149,704; of stamped en
velopes and wrappers $446,520; of post
al-cards $159,806; and of advertising
$115,000. I lie number of stamps, etc.,
issued each year increases at a uniform
rate of about 10 per cent, per annum, but
in consequence of more advantageous
contracts having been ellected the esti
mate for the above items is some $31,000
less than the sum appropriated for them
for the current hscal year.
l lie Dead-Letter JJi vision received dur
ing the past year 4,601,773 letters, repre
senting an actual or nominal value of
$4,63j,429, exclusive of jewelry and other
property, wliicn class of inclosures is
treated as possessing no money value
that can with correctness be determined.
One million three hundred and ninety
fwo thousand two hundred and twenty
four letters, representing $3,909,868, were
delivered to the owners or writers, in
cluding 225,893 foreign letters, which
were returned unopened to the countries
from whence they came. Of the re
mainder some 2,600,000 were either
worthless, containing circulars, etc., or
could not be delivered and were de
stroyed. The rest are filed for reclama
tion or are in the hands of Postmasters
for delivery.
1 he 1 hird Assistant strongly recom
mends that provision be made by law
for furnishing to each and every Post
master throughout the country indelible
ink and other requisites for effectually
canceling postage stamps and for post
marking. None of the postollices are
now furnished by the department with
any such articles for the protection of
the Government. Mr. Barber estimates
that the proportion of washed stamps
used again in payment of postage is 5
per cent, of the value of all the stamps
sold each year, causing an annual loss of
$1,000,000 to the revenue of the department.
The report describes the plan devised
by the Third Assistant, and approved by
the Postmaster-General, for collecting
newspaper postage under the Prepay
ment law, which is to go into effect next
January, lhis system provides, in brief,
for the prepayment by stamps affixed to
a memorandum of mailing, or, in other
words, to a stub in a book retained by
the Postmaster at the mailing office, a
receipt showing the weight of the matter
and the amount paid being given by the
Postmaster to the person mailing the
same, lhe stamps amxed to tne stuD to
be canceled by a cutting-punch. It is
expected that, notwithstanding the re
duction of rates by the new law,
this system of compulsory prepayment of
newspaper postage will yield a larger
revenue than has ever been collected.
Comprehensive inquiry seems to warrant
the belief that in the city of New York
alone not less than $600,000 per annum
will be paid, a sum which is little less
than one-half of the entire revenue from
newspaper postage throughout the United
States during the fiscal year. It is, how
ever, impossible to estimate the actual
increase for the whole country, owing to
that provision of the law which allows
free mail circulation of newsnaners in
counties in which they are printed.
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
A Chicagoan Ledgcil for Six Months In
ii Lnnatle Asylum.
In that intensely interesting and
dramatic story, " Hard Cash," in which
Charles lieade depicts many ot the out
rages which were practiced toward
patients in some of the leading private
lunatic asylums ot England, there is neid
up to general execration a system which,
although not supposed to rauuly through
out all similar institutions, yet obtained
n all to a greater or less degree at once
the most horrible and disgraceful to any
country or humanity in general. Those
who have perused the pages ot tnat door,
whereon is told the story of a man con
signed to a living tomb within the walls
of a lunatic asylum, associated with
madmen and treated like the average in
sane person who is presumed to be
dangerous, know how awful must be the
experience of a man in such a situation,
who, possessed ot all his faculties intact,
has been thus incarcerated by designing
people, either through motivesof revenge
or hopes of defrauding him out of
property.
A case has recently come to light,
wherein a resident of Chicago wras the
principal actor, which bears a strong re
semblance to the incidents in the asy
lum life of the hero of Meade's story, and
which, taken altogether, is one of the
most remarkable in American annals.
Mr. James II Weed, who resides at
No. 17 West Grove street, is a tanner by
trade, and a quiet, orderly, intelligent,
well-disposed gentleman. It is of him
that this brief story pertains. The facts
might be drawn out at great length, but
a close synopsis is sufficient to illustrate
the wrongs to which he has been subject
ed. Nearly a year ago he went to his
former home at Darien, Conn., where he
has brothers residing, for the purpose of
securing an interest in an estate left by
his mother. While endeavoring to secure
his rights in this direction he alleges that
his brothers and certain other relatives
formed a conspiracy against him, and
procured certificates from two physi
cians that he was insane. This was on
the 23d of last March. As soon as the
certificates were made out he was taken
to the insane asylum located at Middle
town, Conn. On the 27th of that month
he managed to escape, and returned to
his native heath to trouble his brethren.
He was at once rearrested, and although
he procured bondsmen who were willing
to vouch for his sanity, and who did sign
the bonds necessary to procure a writ of
luibea corpu, still, for some peculiar rea
son, ihe application for the writ was, by
some unique process known only to Con
necticut magistrates, suppressed, and Mr.
Weed was again committed to the tender
mercies of the asylum.
After his return he says he was sub
jected to the most brutal treatment and
every effort was made by his attendants
to make him what his certificates pro
nounced him an insane man.
On the 10th of May he again effected
an escape, but was not fortunate in
getting away, being recaptured the next
day and taken back to the asylum, where
he was doubly guartled and more closely
watched. He was all the time biding
his time to escape, as there was no hope
of assistance reaching him from the out
side world. He had written to his
friends, but no response came, and, well
nigh hopeless and despondent, he saw no
way left but to resort to strategy. The
opportunity came on the loth of last
month. He says that then, having suf
fered as much as it seemed possible for
any sane man to endure, he determined
to escape once more from the horrible
pandemonium. He had secreted unon
his person a key. This key he used In
one of the hall doors during a brief ab
sence of one of the keepers. The door
opened, Mr. Weed emerged into the
yard, squeezed through the fence, and
made his way through an adjacent
swamp to the railroad, lie went to High-
ney, passed that place and came to Deep
Hiver. As he was going to a drug store
in that place he saw one of the asylum
keepers in the street, but the fellow did
not observe him, and he turned to one
side and passed on. He kept on until he
reached Saybrook bridge, at the mouth
of the Connecticut River. There he met
a man to whom he told the story of his
sufferings, and who proved friendly to
him and atlorded him niucn assistance
This man furnished him money, and
with it he made his way to New London,
going from there to New York through
the assistance of another person "with
whom he became acquainted, from
New York Mr. Weed came to Chicago.
Mr. Weed says he was treated worse
than any criminal could be in State
prison, lhere are, he says, regular days
at the asylum when visitors are admitted.
and then the building is in the neatest
possible trim, and everybody who goes
through it is favorably impressed with
the order and the management. There
is another part of the institution which
is effectually sealed from the eyes of the
world. Taking his account as true, there
exists a condition of things in this Con
necticut lunatic asylum disgraceful to
the State and to humanity. He says he
was not well fed, and that a hog would
not eat what was set before hiui. All
efforts to obtain interviews with out
side friends were frustrated, neither
would the attendants permit him to take
any steps to provide for his wife or chil
dren. In a letter to a friend, speaking of
the treatment received at the hands of the
keepers, he said: "I say hell has but few
such fiends in it, but I hope there is
room for them yet down there, if there is
such a place." After his second incar
ceration he was caged with a lot of rav
ing lunatics and was kept dirty and
ragged.
One of the attendants at the asylum,
in a letter to Mr. Weed's wife, said he
never met with a saner man and could
not understand why he was kept there.
Mr. Vv eed says that the system oi gov
ernment is very loose ; that the most
shockingly disgusting and indecent liter
ature is circulated and the inmates treat
ed to exhibitions which would outrage
all sensibilities. Such literature can only
be perused with a most brutalizing ef
fect.
If the crimes Mr. Weed relates be
true, and he says they are true and that
the half has not been told, the highest
attribute of mercy that could be exer
cised toward the unfortunate insane of
Connecticut would be to shoot them and
give them at once a Christian burial.
Chicago 2'imes, JVc. 12.
Army Reports.
Washington, Nov. 9.
GEN. SHERMAN.
Gen. Sherman's annual report to the
Secretary of War shows the total number
of enlisted men in the army on Oct. 15 to
have been 26,441. It es'imates that tms
number will probably be reduced
throueh natural causes by the 1st of Ja
nary, 1875, to the 25,000 allowed by law.
It deprecates the inadequacy of so small
an army for the demands of so large an
area of territory as it has to be scattered
over, involving the necessity of
withdrawing troops from one depart
ment to meet the requirements of others
a long distance away. It compliments
the high efficiency of Gen. Sheridan and
his subordinate officers in maintaining
comparative peace in the Indian country.
It says the reports of the commanding
officers demonstrate that the small army
of the United States, called a peace- es
tablishment, is the hardest-worked body
of men in this or any country. The dis
cipline and behavior of the officers and
men have been worthy of all praise ; and,
whether employed on the extreme and
distant frontier or in aiding civil officers
in the execution of civil processes, have
been a model for the imitation of all good
men.
In regard to the removal of his head
quarters to St. Louis he sa's : " I am
prepared to execute xne uuues imu may
be devolved on me by proper authority.
Hpre I am centrallv located, and should
occasion arise I can personally proceed
to any point on this continent where my
services are needed."
OEX. SHERIDAN.
Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan, in his annual
report, touches slightly upon oen.
Custer's Black Hills expedition, which
it pronounces ; a successful recon
noissance. The country of the
Black Hills was found to be much
better than was expected, with plenty of
good timber and considerable good soil
at high altitudes, and an aounoant sup
ply of good water and grass. Some
gold was found near Harney's Peak, but
of its abundance there is ar present no
reliable information. Sufficient time
could not be given by an expedition such
as that of Gen. Custer's to prospect and
determine the quantity. Gen. bheridan
again recommends the estaonsnment oi
a large military post in the Black Hill
country.
Of the Indian troubles lien. &neridan
says: "l respectiuuy diner wun uen.
Pope as to tne chiei cause oi tnese In
dian troubles, &nd attribute it to the
immunity with which the tribes have
been treated. In all their raids into
Texas for the past three years their res
ervations have furnishel the supplies
with which to make the raids and
sheltered them from pursuit when
they returned with their scalps and
plunder. No man of close observation,
it seems to me can travel across the great
plains from Nebraska and Wyoming to
Texas, and see the established ranches
w4h their hundreds of thousands of head
of cattle, sheep and horses, together with
the families of the owners, and reasona
bly think that these people, so much ex
posed and having such valuable inter
ests, are desirous of provoking Indian
wars. There was a time, possibly, when
the population of the Indian frontier
may have been desirous of Indian troub
les, but that has passed long ago."
Hanging the Heavy Villain.
The moral effect of the sensational
drama was perhaps never better illus
trated than in a theater at Cambridge,
England, recently, where the peiform
ance wound up with a tragedy founded
upon a local murder, the details of which
were mimicked with sickening precision.
The curtain fell after the murderer had
been brought to the scaffold, and with
rope dangling above his head had " im
proved the occasion." The audience re
fused to leave, and when the orchestra
played the national anthem it was re
ceived with hisses and clamor, and the
crowded audience remained in their
places. At length the manager presented
himself and apologized for being unable
to gratify his patrons by actually hang
ing the actor who represented the mur
derer unless with his own consent, which
he was hardly likely to give. The
"gods" shouted furiously: "Bring him
out with the rope around his neck." Of
course the demand was complied with,
and after more demonstrations of their
desire to see the representative of the
murderer actually hanged the crowded
audience slowly, and with manifest re
luctance. left the house.
There are $500,000,000 invested in
cows in the United States.
FO 1ST r Ft) U RTH C0XU RESS.
SEX ATE.
Republicans in Roman; Opposition la small
enps.
errn
fntn. siissorui.
1S79. Lewis V. Bout.
Term
tniU. ALABAMA.
1SV7. J. tioLOTIIWAITE.
1ST9. G'.-o. E. Spencer.
ARKANSAS.
Powell Clavton.
b. W. Dorscy.
f'ALIFOUNIA.
Aaron A. Sargent
N ewtiin Room.
niNSEi'THl'T.
17:. Orris S. IVrrv.
1S81. Wm. W. Eaton.
DELAWARE.
Eli SaclkbtrT.
A Democrat.
FLORIDA.
S. B. Conover.
1SS1. A Democrat,
(. KOltiil A.
1S77. T. M. Norwood.
1S79. Johv B. Gordon.
ILLINOIS.
John A. Lognn.
it. J. Oglesby.
INDIANA.
O. P. Morton.
A Democrat.
IOWA.
Geo. G. Wright.
Wm. B. Allison.
KANSAS.
1S77.
1S79.
1379.
1SS1.
1877.
1SS1.
1S79.
1S77.
is; 9.
1S79.
1SS1.
1S77.
187U.
18S1. A Democrat.
NEBRASKA.
1S77. P. W. Hitchcock,
isxi. A Republican.
NEVADA.
1879. John P. Jones.
1SS1. A Republicau.
NEW HA MPS II IKK.
il77. Aaron II. Cragin.
il8;9. B. Wadleigh.
NEW JERSEY.
!lS77. F T. Frelingbnys'n
ISSl. A UEMOl'BAT.
NEW YORK.
1879. Roseoe t'oiikling.
1S81. A. Democrat.
I NORTH CAROLINA.
1877. M. W. Ransom.
1S79. A. S. Merrimon.
I OHIO.
'1879. John Sherman.
ilfOl. A. G. Tlll RMAN.
I OREGON.
1877. James .1. Keli.T.
;1S79. J. H. Mitchell.
j PF.Xsft.VASU.
1879. Simon Cameron.
.1SS1. A Democrat.
ILA. 1.
177.
1879.
1879.
1877
RHODE
Tames M. H.irvey. IS77. Henry It. Anthony.
John J. Ingalls. 1H81. A Republican.
KENTUCKY. i SOUTH CAROLINA.
1877. Jno. W.Stevenson 1877. Tbos. J. Robertson
T. V. McCreery. ,1879. John J. Patterson.
LOUISIANA. TENNESSEE.
J. Rodman West. 1877. Henry Cooper.
1879. ADE.MocRAT(,prob,:iS81. A Democrat.
MAINE. t TEXAS.
l;T79. Lot M. Morrill. 1877. M. C. Hamilton.
1881. A Republican. 18tl. Samuel It. Maxey.
MARYLAND. I VERMONT.
1879. George R.Dennis 1879. Justin S. Morrill.
181. Geo. F. tiliuunds.
VIRGINIA.
Id T . . l" 1 11 . .
1881. R. E. Withers.
WEST VIRGINIA.
1877. Henry G. Davis.
:1881. A Democrat.
I WISCONSIN.
!l877. Timothv O. Howe.
1881. A Republican.
188r. Wm. P. White
MASSACHUSETTS.
1877. Geo. S. Boutwell
1881. A Republicau.
MICHIGAN.
1.877. Thou. V. Ferry.
1S81. A Republican.
MINNESOTA.
1877. Win. Windom.
18S1. A Republican.
MISSISSIPPI.
1877. James L. Alcoru,
1881. Blanch. K. Bruce
SUMMARY.
Republican 43
Opposition 81
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Republicans in Roman; Opposition in small
caps; names 01 members 01 tne orty-imru con
gress marked with an asterisk ().
ALABAMA.
B. B. Lewis.
W. II. Forney.
Jere Haralson (col.).
J. N. Williams.
3. Paul Bradford.
4. 'Charles Hays.
5. John H. Caldwell.
6. G. V. Hewitt.
ARKANSAS.
1. L. CGalse. I 3. W. W. WiLSHiRE.
i. W. F. Slemons. I 4. Tiio3. M. Gunteb.
CALIFORNIA.
Election in September, 1875.
CONNECTICUT.
Election in April, 1S75.
delaware.
James Williams.
FLORIDA.
1. J. T. Walls (col.). I 2. Wm. J. Punnan.
GEORGIA.
1. Julian Hartridge.
2. William E. Smith.
3. Philip Cook.
4. Henry It. Harris.
5. M. A. Candler.
ILLINOIS
6. .Tames II. Blocnt.
7. W. H. Dabney.
8. A. H. Stephens.
9. Garnet McMillan.
1. B. O. Caulfield.
i. C. H. Harrison.
3. Chas. It. Farwell.
4. S. A. Hurlbut.
5. H. C. Burchard.
i. Thos. J. Henderson
7. Alex. Campbell.
8. G. L. Fort.
9. R. II. Whiting.
10. John C. Bagby. I
INDIANA
11. Scott Wire.
i. Wm. M. Springer.
13. K. E. Stevenson.
14. Jo. G. Cannon.
15. John R. Eden,
IS. W. A. J. Sparks.
17. VV. R. Morrison.
18. Wm. Hartzell.
19. Wm. B. Anderson.
1. B. S. Fuller.
2. J. D. Williams.
3. MiciiaelC. Kerb.
4. J. I). New.
B. Wm. S. Hoi.man.
i. M. S. Robinson.
7. Frank Landers.
iowa.
I 8. Morton C. Hunter.
I 9. 'Thomas J. Cason.
!K. Wm. S. Hayward.
ll. J. L. Evans.
112. And'w H. Hamilton.
13. James II. Baker.
6. Ezekiel A. Sampson.
7. John A. Kasson.
8. James W. Me Dill.
9. Addison Oliver.
1. Geo. W. McCrary.
2. John Q. Tufts.
3. L. L. Ainswortii.
4. Henry O. Pratt.
5. J.imes Wilson.
KANSAS.
1. Wm. P. Phillips, j 3. W. II. Brown.
2. John K. Goodin.
kentuckt.
. A. R. Boone. i fi J. C. Hughes.
!. John V. Bbowk. 7. J. '. S. Blackburn.
3. Ciias. W. Mii.LiKiN.i 8. Milton j. Durham.
J. PitorToii Knott. ! 9. Harrison cockrill.
E. Y. Parsons. ,10. John B. Clarke.
LOUISIANA.
1. Randall L. Gibson. I 4. W. M. Levi.
i. K. John Ellis." 5. Benj. F. Spencer.
C. B. Darrail. ; 6. C. fc. Nasn (coll
MAIN E.
.Tohn IT. Burleigh. I 4. Samnel F. Hersey.
William P. Frye. ! 5. Eugene Hale.
James G. Blaiiie. j
MARYLAND.
Philip F. Thomas. I 4. Thos. Swans.
HAS. A. RoEEIiTS. I 5. Eutt. llESKlE.
Vm. Jas. O'Brien, j ti. Wm. Walsh.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Jaiiies Biifflnton.
Benj. W. Harris.
Henry L. Pierce.
4. Rufus S. Frost.
N. P. Banks.
Cuas. P. Thompson.
MICHIGAN.
John K. Tarbox.
! 8. Wm. W. Warren.
I 9. tJeo. F. Hoar.
110. Jul. H. Seelye, Ind.
111. Cues. W. Cuapin.
6. Geo. II. Durant.
7. Omar I). Conger.
8. N. B. Bradlev.
9. 'Jay A. Uubbell.
A S. Williams.
Heurv Waldron.
Geo. Willard.
4. Allen Po-rriiR.
Win. B. Williams, j
MINNESOTA.
1. M. H. Bunnell. I 3. Wm. S. King.
2. !!. B. Strait. I
MISSISSIPPI.
Election next year.
MISSOURI.
1. Edward C. Kerr.
2. Krastus Wells.
3. Wm. II. Stone.
8. Benj. J. Franklin.
9. David Rea.
10. R. A. DeBoit.
4. Robt. A. Hatcher.11. Jons B. Clark, Jr.
5. Richard P. Bland. 12. John M. glover.
fi. Cuas. 11. Morgan. 13. 'A. H. Bcckneb.
7. John F. Phillips.
NEBRASKA.
Lorenzo Crounse.
NEVADA.
Wm. Woodburn.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Election in March, 1875.
NEW JERSEY.
C. Sinnickson, I 5. A. W. Cutler.
Samuel A. Dobbins. 6. Fred II. Teesb.
Miles Ross. 7. A.A. Habdenbebgh.
Robert Hamilton.!
NEW YORK.
Henry B. Metcalf.
J. G. SCHUMAKER.
S. It. Chittenden.
A. M. Bliss.
Edwin It. Meade.
Samuel S. Cox.
Smith J. Ely. Jr.
Elijah Ward.
Fernando Wood.
A. S. Hewitt.
Benj. A. Willis.
N. Holmes Odell.
J. O. Whitehouse.
Geo. H. Beebe.
John H. Bagley, Jr.
18. Andrew Williams.
19. Wm. A. Wheeler.
20. 'Henry H. Hathorn.
21. Saml. F. Miller.
22. Geo. A. Bagley.
23. Scott Lord.
24. Wm. II. Baker.
25. E. W. Leavenworth.
2. C. D. McDougal.
27. Elbridse G. Latham.
.8. Thos. C. Piatt.
29. Chas. ('. B. Walker.
M. John M. Davey.
31. Geo. G. Hoskins.
:. Lyman K. Bass.
33. Augustus F. Allen.
Chas. II. Adams,
Milton I. Townsend.
NORTU CAROLINA.
Jesse J. Veates. 15. A. M. Scales.
John A. Hvman. 'fi. T. L. Ashe.
A. M. Waddell, !7. Wm. M. Bobbins.
Jos. J. Davis. fi. R- B. Vance.
John L. Vance.
Ansel T. Wallino.
M. I. Southard.
John P. Cowan.
N. H. Van Vorhes.
Lorenzo Uanford.
L. D. Wood worth.
James Monroe.
James A. Garfield.
Henry B. Payne.
OHIO.
1. Milton Satler. ""11.
2. Henry B. Banning. 12.
3. John S. Savage. 13.
4. John A. Macmaiion. 14.
5. Americus V. Rice. ;i5.
tt. Frank II. llunu. jl6.
7. William Lawrence.:17.
8. L. T. Neal- ;18.
9. E. F. Poppleton. !l9.
10. Charles Foster. 20.
OREGON.
Geo. A. La Dow.
PENNSYLVANIA.
1. Chapman Freeman. 15. Jas. Powell.
2. Chas. O'Neill. lfi. Sobieski Ross.
3. S. J. Randall. ,17. John Reii.ly.
4. W. D. Keiley. 18. Wm. S. Stenger.
5. John Robbins, Jr. ,19. Levi Maish.
6. Wm. Ward. 20. Louis A. Macket.
7. Alan Wood. Jr. ;21. Jacob Tubney.
8. Heisteb Clymeb. 22. James II. Hopkin.
9. Wm. Patton. 23. Alex. G. Cociiban.
10. W. H. Blunter. . '4. John W. Wallace.
11. Frank D. Collins. 2.V Geo. A. Jenckes.
12. W. W. Keichum. ,2. Jacob Sileaklet.
13. Jas. B. Reilly. :27. Albert G. Elbeht.
14. Johu B. Packer. i
RHODE ISLAND.
1. Benj. T. Ames. 2. Latimer W. Ballou.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
1. Saml. Lee co.). 4. J. B. Kershaw.
2. K. W. Macket. ! 5. Robt. Small (col.).
3. SAMUEL McGOWAN.
TENNESSEE.
1. Wm. M'Farland. 1 6. John F. House.
2. J. M. Tboruburgh. 7. W.C. Whittuorse.
3. Geo. i. Dibkell. j 8. J. D. C. Atkinh.
4. John W. Head. i 9. Wm. P. Caldwell.
5. 'Joiu! M. Bbiuut. 10. II. Casey Yocko.
TEXAS.
1. J. H. Reagan. i 4. Roger Q. Mills.
2. B. B. Culberson. 5. John Hancock.
3. J.W.TllROCKMOHTONj 6. Gl sTAVB ScllLEK UK
VIRGINIA.
1. P. It. Douglass. ; . John R. Tucker.
2. 'James H. 1'l.itl. ! 7. JoiinT. Hakkis.
3. Gilbert!'. Walker 8. Kppa Hunton.
4. W. H. Slowell. j 9. Wm. Terry.
5. Geo. C. II. Cauell. j
VERMONT.
1. Charles W. Joyce. 3. 'Geo. W. Hendoe.
2. Dudley C. Dennison.;
WEST VIRGINIA.
1. Benj. Wilson. I 3. Frank Hereford.
2. C. J. Faulkner.
WISCONSIN.
1. Chas. (J. Williams. 5. Sam. D. Buk maud,
2. I.ucien B. Caswell. . A. M. Kimball.
3. Henry S. Magoou. 7. Jere M. Rusk.
4. Wm. P. Lynde. I 8. A. S. Mi Dill.
RECAPITULATION.
Republicans. 101 ; Opposition. 174. The States
yei lo elect will choose 17 members or the House.
EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS.
Annual Itrport of the Commissioner
ot Kilurutlon,
The United States Commissioner of F.diiev
tion has published his annual report for 1S7I5.
jolwitIistau!insr the disasters which, have
fallen upon the industries of the country, lie
states that on the whole the past year was
oue of substantial progress in educational
matters.
In Alabama the Board of Education lias la
bored under "rreat embarrassment, from t lie
dil'lculty of securing; from un impoverished
people tlie needful funds for the support of
free schools.
Arkunsus has labored under similar embar
rassment with respect to funds.
lAJUisiuna has 6triiLr;rled through the year
under kindred financial troubles with the two
uc'trhboring States just named.
lhe new State superintendent of Instrue-
tioa in Florida reports an increase of liftv-six
schools in 1S73, making-, with 113 added in
lbi'i, an addition of lb'J to the 3JI previously
existent.
Georgia, after a cessation of public-school
teaching for a year (except in certain towns),
has again set her schools in operation, and an
earnest Superintendent is doiug obviously his
best to make the new etlort a success.
South Carolina 6hows an increase of IIS free
sehools and 147 new school-houses over 187:1,
with an additional school-attendance of 7,421,
and an additional expenditure of $ 11:J,'.I81.37
for public schools.
North Carolina has merenscu by about 71
per cent, her receipts for free schools and by
about l'JO percent, the attendance of them.
Kentucky has friends ol education who
have Dressed forward, amendin? her School
law, advancing thequuliiieations of her teach
ers, improving her school-houses and taking
steps toward a general education of her
colored population.
In lrinnia, thoug-h there has been a slight
falling otf in receipts aud expenditures for
school purposes, as well as in enrollment and
average attendance, there are 501 new schools,
while a great number of school-houses were
built during the year.
The returns from lennessee arc imperfect.
but enough appears to indicate that the or
"anization of the State system has gone
steadily forward under the direction of the
Superintendent.
Maryland has lengthened her school year
sixteen days; expended for teachers' salaries
?14,000 more than in 1972; for school-houses
s7,(KM) more, and for treneral school purposes
$07,083 more; at the same time adding 12,P.W
to her school enrollment and making fair
beginnings in an etlort to trive her colored
children equal advantages for education with
the whites.
Delaware still remains without any State
supervision of schools, but in her two lower
counties some improvement is observable.
Pennsylvania shows an increase of twenty
two school districts, of 3U0 schools, of 'AM
"Traded schools, of 721 teachers, and of six
days in the average duration of her school
term, with au aggregate of school property
estimated at$2l,ioO,2lK, and a total expendi
ture for school purposes of $8,Kl2,!t(0.2-).
New Jersey reports eighty-three new school
houses, with great improvement in the con
dition of the older ones; an increase of three
days in the averasre school term; n liberal ad
vance in teachers' salaries; $74,2-14.74 beyond
172 for building and repairing- schools;
$2."K1,W.M.13 beyond for general school pur
poses, and .VvS.O40 beyond the estimated
value of school property.
New York reports a receipt of 1 1 ,.V;,
(KJ7.S0 for public-school purposes, and an ex
penditure of ?10,41t),5s.S for the same, with a
total expenditure of 1 lfl.tVi'i.CW.o? in twelve
years past. Of the grand annual expendi
ture nearly 7,000,(XX) have g-one for the sala
ries of teachers; nearly 2,iO0,M)n for building
aud improving school-houses; 174,3.'!;.2:i for
supporting eight normal schools, and $7,
ti'.W.'.H for supply of school instruction to the
few Indians in the State.
Connecticut publishes a decade-table show
ing that, though the number of children
enumerated has increased only 21,2.77 in ten
years, the increase of interest in public schools
lias been such as to raise the amount secured
for them from all sources to $l,442,t',''--u'l in
1873 against 3'.K), 454.20 in 1-H.
Rhode Island shows that in 1ST3 her towns
raised nearly $100,000 for the support of
schools, and that in 1S73 the same towns
raised over $:i00,000 for the same purpose.
The increase of schools in the same time was
207; of teachers, 'J.
The returns from Massachusetts for the
school year l71-'72 show $5,47''27.05 raised
by taxation for public schools alone. The es
timated value of school-houses in the State
was over $20,000,000 at the close of 173,
against 13,770,0')'. at the beginning of 1870;
170 high schools and fifty-eight incorporated
academies are returned.
Maine shows a smaller number enrolled in
schools, but a decidedly better average attend
ance. New Hampshire presents 222 new or newlv
repaired school-houses, 44 new schools, ;7 ad
ditional graded schools, but a diminished aver
age attendance.
Vermont, reporting biennially, makes no
statement as to public schools for 1S73.
Ohio having- chang-ed the legal school age
from 5-21 to C-21 exhibits, probably Irom 1hi
cause, an apparent falling otr in school popu
lation of bl,5tM. She raised in 17:, for
school purposes, $7,705,003, against ( 7,420,
338 fn 1872.
Michigan raised for school purposes, in
1873, 3,!:W,r2, against f 3,.r'3,47y in 1872.
The condition of the public schools is report
ed to have much improved under county
supervision.
Indiana, without giving lull statistics ior
1873, claims a net increase of school revenue
amounting to $HJ5,.VSl over 1872, with 4Wnew
school-houses, built at a cost of 872,'JOO. The
permanent school fund has been aurrnent'd
and more than the usual amount raised by
taxation.
Illinois shows a school population larger by
27,135 than in 1872, a smaller enrollment in
schools, but an average attendance nbout the
same. Her school revenue, S'.,25'.l,441, has
been $1,7.VJ,31'J beyond that of the preceding
year.
Wisconsin, for a comparatively new State,
without the aid of large and wealthy cities,
has raised for school purposes $2,028,027,
and expended for repairs of school-houses
307,9:4.
-Minnesota, out of 100,075 children scattered
over her gTeat surface, shows the fair propor
tion of 124,583 euro!'.'d in her free schools,
with about 3,358 more in pay schools. Dur
ing the past year 228 new school-houses have
been erected, at a cost of $203,311.
Iowa reports 4,510,0-88 raised to instruct a
school population nu inhering 49 1,044, of whom
347,572 are enrolled in public tchools, and li.
135 in private ones. The sum of ?1, 100,054
has been exoended in this State in the erec
tion of new school-houses and supply of
libraries aud apparatus.
In Missouri the enrollment in public schools
is 380.050 out of 073.403 children of school ajje,
and the amount raised for the support of
schools is 1.7 90.314.
Kansas has 121,000 in her schools, out of a
school population reaching: only 184,057, and
has devoted to the education if this number
1,803,008, w ith 515,071 for school buildings
and repairs, the increase of school-houses
for 1873 being 000, and that of enrollment
15.027.
Nebraska, with a school population of 03,
108, has on her school rolls 37.372, and has
raised for school purpo.-es 708,W)O.
Nevada returns 5,075 children of school age,
and in her seventy-six schools 3,478.
Educational activity in Oregon has ben
very greatly stimulated during this the first
year of the service of the State Superintend
ent. The establishment of graded-school sys
tems in the towns has not advanced as rapidly
as could be desired.
California justifies the general sense of her
importance by reporting a school population
of 141,010 and a school enrollment of 107,503,
her school revenue reaching 2,551,799, or
about 23.70 for each enrolled child. Clear
evideuee of popular favor toward her public
schools comes in the fact that within eight
years 15,204 children have been transferred
from private schools to them.
For the first time reports, more or less com
plete, have been received from nil the Terri
tories. The exhibition is encouraging, evinc
ing a desire for ediieut iomil advantages and
eltorts to secure tlicin even where present
circumstances are unfavorable.
Excluding Alaska, the Territories give nil
aggregate of 09,038 children in the schools,
and of s3s,S20 for the instruction of them.
The District of Columbia stands liret among
the Territories as respects the number en
rolled as scholars, 1tl.77'. I'tah comes next,
reporting 15,830; while in tbo uiuount raised
for educational purposes Colorado heads the
list, lu r school revenue, for a school enroll
ment of 7,450, being 257,5."7, against 22',
514 in the District of Columbia.
The most striking progress is presented In
New Mexico. This Territory Is able to report
5,304 scholars In the schools.
llwpcful progress is manifest In the growth
of special schools for the training of teachers
for our public schools. Statistics are given of
1 13 ii i iii 1 1 schools ami normal depart incuts,
having; 877 instructors and 10.020 students.
Eleven of these were established or organized
in 1873, the most notable being the Massa
chusetts State Normal Art School.
The Commissioner est iui.itcs t be population
between the ages of six mid sixteen in Ihe
thirty-seven States and eleven Territories at
about 10,228,000. Massachusetts heads the
list with an expenditure per capita of $21.74;
Nevada, 17.:55; California, 11.02; Nebraska,
11.02; Connecticut, 11.00; Rhode Island,
11.00; Illinois. 10.18. North Carolina
shows the smallest expenditure, the amount
per capita of school enumerations being llny
tive cents; Alabama, 1.21; Florida, 1.40;
South Carolina, l.Ml. Colorado heads the
li-t of Territories with un expenditure of
17.50 per capita of enumeration, Montana
coming next with an expenditure per capita,
of 0 43. In the District of Columbia the ex
penditure per capita was 9.42; in New Mex
ico, 1.77.
Allowing forty pupils to each teacher, the
number required to tench the youths between
six and sixteen years of age is estimated at
200,000. It is estimated that the public school
teachers In Massachusetts teach on an average
three years. Perhaps this period of service
would be a high average for the whole coun
try. Hence, confining the estimate to tho
school population between six and sixteen
years of age, the number of new teachers
which sh juld be prepared each year to take
up the work would be s0,000.
Ihe report presents a summary oi the sta
tistics of 1,039 schools for secondary Instruc
tion, commonly denominated academics,
seminaries, institutes, etc., Including college
preparatory schools. The numberof instruct
ors in these schools was 5,748; number of stu
dents, 131,().7; total number of volumes In
library, 559,18.8.
Ihe number or Institutions for the superior
instruction of women reporting in 1873, not
Including the live colleges for women in tho
State of New York, was 205, with 2,120 in
structors and 24,013 students; 107 of the num
ber are designed as colleges; 0,321 of the stu
dents were in the Treparatory departments,
17,207 were reported to be In regular or ad
vanced courses of study, and 1,025 in special
and post-graduate courses. The number of
volumes reported in the libraries was 213,075.
lhe number of schoolsol science (including
special scientific departments of universities)
embraced in the Commissioner's tables is 0,
reporting 050 professors and instructors, 0,.!00
students in regular courses, 533 in special
courses, 08 in post-graduate courses, 1,420 in
preparatory courses; 193,000 volumes in libra
ries, about 14,000 volumes having been added
to them during the year.
lhe nuniicr ot schools or theology in tne
country in 1873 was 110, havlng573 professors
and 3,838 students; volumes in libraries, 502,
44; increase in libraries during the year, 30,303
volumes, lhe aggregate corporate prop
erty of the schools, us far as reported, was
7,708,49S ; endowments, $5,455,007. Of the
110 theological schools and theological de
partments of colleges in the United States, 20
are I resbyterian, lb Koman catnouc, in nap-,
tist, 18 Lutheran und Reformed, 10 Protestant
Episcopal, 10 Methodist, K Congregational, 2
uusectarian, and t ciH It Unitarian, Moravian,
New Jerusalem aud Union Evangelical.
In advocating drawing in the public
schools the Commissioner says:
" Whoever succeeds in having-all the pub-lie-school
children of the country properly
trained in elementary drawing will huve done
more to advance the iii:iiiul.u tiires of the
country and more lo make possible the art
culture of the people than could bo accom
plished by the establishment of a hundred
art museums without this training-. Justus
libraries are worthless to those w ho cannot
read so are art galleries to those who cannot
comprehend them. Just us all literature in
open to him who has learned to read so is all
urt to him who has learned to draw, whose
eye has been trained to see and his lingers
made facile to execute. We have begun at
the wrong end. We asked for art galleries
when we needed drawing-schools; but the
evil is not irremediable. Let drawing be
generally taught and our art galleries and
museums, poor us they are, will at once grow
more and more valuable, for they will then
begin to be of use."
There are in the United States forty insti
tutions for the instruction of deaf mutes. The
number of instructors employed in them is
2S0. The number of inmates under instruc
tion in 1873 was 4JM.
The numberof asylums for the blind is 28,
having 545 teachers. The number of inmates
under instruction during the year was 1.010.
There are probably more than 4O0 institu
tions for orphans and homeless youths in this
country, sheltering not less than 45,000 poor
and unfortunate children. Information con
cerning 178 of these asylums is given in the
report. 1 hey were under the supervision
and care of 1,1s-! perrons and contained over
22,000 inmates, most of whom were probably
under instruction.
The number of institutions distinctively
known as Reform St liool.s which furnished
information to the bureau was '.'A. The num
ber of commitments during tne year was 0,
858. The number who received instruction in
reading in theyear was 1,075; number taught
to write, 1,008. Numberof volumes reported
in the libraries of tnese school was 27,747.
The number of Instructors In all classes of
educational institutions iu 1870, according to
the census, was 221,012; number of pupils,
7,200,038. According to the Commissioner'
report there were in 1873, in all classes of in
stitutions about which information was ob
tained, 240,032 teachers and 8,723,945 pupils.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Ax unsatisfactory meal A domestic
broil.
The press that printers like A press
of business.
Any young miss would rather have her
corsets tight than her "feller."
SoMKTiMtcs coul does not burn as well
of un evening, because it's slate.
The habit of keeping still under prov
ocation at length makes one almost lire
proof. Hashfulness is often like the plating
on spoons when it wears off, it shows
the brass.
The plainest woman alive, if she
reaches the age of eighty, will be a pret
ty old one.
Model wives formerly took a stitch in
time: now, with the aid of sewing ma
chinesthey take one in no time.
Those Detroit ladies who bleached
their hair to a blonde are bleaching it
back again. Fashion is a fickle jade.
The labor of the body relieves us from
the fatigues of the mind, and this it is
which forms the happiness of the poor.
Some of the students at Eastern col
leges can board themselves for thirty
five cents per week, but they don't feel
like tearing around much.
The man who has not had anything to
boast of but his illustrious ancestors is
like a potato plant the only good be
longing to him is under ground.
"IV) you get whipped at school now?"
asked a mother of a young hopeful who
had recently changed his place of in
struction. " No, mother, I have a better
teacher and I'm a better boy."
Dresses arc made to fit the figure
"like a glove," and t e great majority of
New York fashionable women have dis
carded corsets in order to bring about
the "eternal fitness of things:"
Hkcreation is not idleness. It is ab
solutely necessary at times that a man
fchould get out of the routine grooves of
work, that ho may grow mentally and
physically aad become nearer perfection.
