Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1839-06-06
CoNNECqTCUT SCHOOL FUND.

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The total amount of The School Fund is
$2O2s,53l 90. The number of children be.
tween four and sixteen years Of age, returned
to the ComptrOller in September last by the
2ll School Societies. was 6Ss97zs In three
school districts, containing 5S chlldrens the |
Committee certified that the Schools had not
been kept according to law, and those dis
tricts were necessarily deprived of any dlvl- |
dend from the School Fund. The whole |
number of children therefore, on which dIvi- |
dendS were directed to be paid, IS $500, At |
81 25 each, amounts to $lO4.0O6 25--belng |
about and S.4ths per cent. on the original
capital of the Fund, which was 81 ,2O0.O0O.-
The following has been the progressive IN
crease ofthe dividends for the last ten years
The largest dividends of any rear prior 10
March 1899. were s5 cents % each child: In In
the years ending March 1880. 1881 and 1852,
they were 90 cents. In 1885, 81 co.. In
1885. 81 O5. In 1887, 81 10. In 1888. 20.
And in the year ending March 1850, 81 20.
The dividends ofthe year 1928, amounted to
$72.57S. For the last year they amounted
to $lO4,9O6 %. gue
From. the returns to the Comptroller in
September 1887, and the number returned
under petitions to the last Legislature, it |
seems that the whole number of children in
the State was then in fact, S5,276. There |
were therefore about 140O children In the |
State, between 4 and 16, ON the LIST Monday
10 August last, which, from various causes,
have been omitted TO be returned.
So long as the productive capital of the
Fund continues to be vested as at present, it
may be safely calculated that twill admit of
an annual distribution from its revenue of at
least 81 IS to each child, or about $1O5,00O
annually to the Schools in the State. AS
fast as the unproductive property shall be-
come productive, corresponding increase
Of the dividends will result us d matter Of
course and in the opinion Of the Commits
sioner, can eventually reach the sum of
$40, 000.-Patriot and Democrat. 9n
Indian Murders. The following note is
endorsed on the Express way bill from Co.
lumbus, Georgia, under date Of Wednesday
last, the 18th inst. It's from the Post Master
at that place. ss ga1 49,
The steamer Siren, arrived this evening
from Appalachicola, brings information of a
horrible massacre committed by party Of
Indians, on Friday night last, on the Appala-
chicola river, about fifty miles below the
junction ofthe Chattahoochie and Flint. Sc
ven or eight individuals of both sexes were
murdered and their bodies burned. The
Siren stopped at the spot on Sunday, and the
crew and passengers inferred the remains of
the murdercd.-N. Y. Express. .F
More Indian Muraers-Wc received by
the mail boat Commerce, this evening, the
following Information 8st.f M lGaa- ssa.
A party of Is or 20 Indians, recognized to
be Creeks, simultaneously attacked the set
Elements Of Roberts, ut Stefhnulgee. John and
Roberts house, killed d little boy, and wound
cd Roberts himself who, with his wife, q man
named Aldrich, and four children, escaped.
At Smiths settlement. Il 10 supposed that
Nathan Smiths three children, Mrs. Rich.
ards and her five children, and d man. nam.
cd White, were murdered. N. Smith, with
his wife, another wonan,v and two men, eS-
capped. John Lamb was severely wounded
he recognized the Indians 70 be Creeks. Six
teen of the fugitives, men, women and chill
dren, came down on the mail boat, and are
completely destitute. Several of tho Indi-
ans were seen on the banks Of the river as
the boat. came through the narrows 2 miles
above the palachicolG Gasette.
see- HINDOO WOMEN. h8 M
The forms Of the women Of the high castles
are delicate and graceful; their eyes dark
and languishing their hair fine and long
their compilations glowing, Ms II they were
radiant and their skins remarkably polish
ed and soft. The only feature about them
that does not quite harmonize with European
notions Of female symmetry 10 the size and
projection Of their ear but. with this excep-
ton, nothing can be more 1.-the and Sylphlike
than genuine Hindoo beauty. Their dress
is very elegant, and upon fine form is more
classical than the fashionable bundles of
knots, tatters, and head dresses as broad as
the umbrella over palanquin, which gives
the bellies of America an outline, which, II
It should please nature to fill up with flesh
and blood, would certainly render them of all
created beings the most shapeless, or at any
rate the most unmeaning in shape, either for
use or ornament. The close part Of the Hin |
doc female dress is Jacket with half sleeves,
which fits tight to the shape, and covers but
does not conceal the bust, and this in females
Of rank is made Of rich silk. The remain.
der Of the dress Is the sholice, q large piece
Of silk or cotton, which il wrapped round the
middle, and contrived to fall 10 graceful folds,
till II falls below the ANGLE Of one leg, while
II shows part of the other. II Is gathered
into bunch in front, and the upper end cross
es the breast, and il thrown forward again
over the shoulder, or over the head like a
veil. The hands and feet are always adorn-
ed with rings and other ornaments, and some
times q Jewel is worn from the nose. Even
the working girls have their anclets and arm
lets of glass, tin. brass, or tutenngs and some
times Of silver. The higher classes wear a
kind of slippers or sandals, which are long,
turned up, and sometimes ornamented at the
points but the poorer classes go barefooted.
The ornaments that are worn upon the per-
som are the only costly articles in the estab- |
lishmenf ola Hindoo, but they are OF nature
not soon 70 wear out, and they never become
questionable.
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& Wharf.-The prospect Of heavy crop
Of wheat, we learn from the Rochester De-
m0cTat, was seldom more favorable at the
present moment in western New York. The
fields are heavily clothed. and present every
indication Of an abundant harvest. A crop,