Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-01-25

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Sites buildings and repairs --------.---- 1899 81 |
Fuel, and all other contingent expenses 49,. 267 1926 a
Total 80, 2,76O, ,s2S 81 |
The following table shows the encouraging |
progress made by our school system during the |
past six years; ALSO comparison between the
last two years:
1855. 1850 1s6O
No. of youth enumerated s2O,s2l se5,ol4 s9l ,sil
Average daily attendance 3l5,s51 35O,390 4O5,592
Amount paid to teachers s1775ss 81 So $50
No. of school houses 1880 1920 10,422 |
Value school houses s2229oll S4,4Ool22 81 227
No. public high schools OIL ISL 161
Teachers high schools - 1876 203 $40
Pupils enrolled .----.--- 1922 10,5lS 1878
These facts satisfactorily show that our school
system is rapidly demonstrating its excelencies.
The steady increase in the number Of children
in attendance upon the schools the improve
Inent in the qualifications of teachers, the num-
Der and character of the high schools of the
State, and the great improvement in the archi-
lecture of the school houses, are indicative of
pervading educational interest among the people
l do not deem it necessary to recommend any
essential modification of the school law. The
small appropriation which the Commissioner re-
commends for the encouragement of Institutes
in the more sparsely settled counties would,
doubt not, be productive of good.
THE STATE LIBRARY.
Connected with the subject of education,
invite your attention to the report for this year
of the Commissioners of the State Library, in
which they make some suggestions which are
entitled to your consideration.
The State Library has now been instituted for
forty three years. The entire expenditures for
its increase and preservation, including salaries
to November Is, 1860, have been $58,544 ST.
The whole number of registered books is %, 1893
The people of Ohio having provided liberal
! Al 4 Al O.
not only appropriate, but imperative, that while
the common school furnishes that instruction
necessary to a fair knowledge of the methods
and means of intellectual service an institution
! should be fostered which is capable of collect
ing and preserving the appliances most approx
cd for the practical application of those methods
and means.
| Libraries are not merely respectable evidences
| of intelligence nor are they only placess of de-
posit for public records. They are workshops
wherein the highest achievements of the human
mind are prepared for, or wrought out. The
Ohio State Library has become, in a respectable
degree, workshop for writers of books of his
| toric value, and it would be a source of Just
pride to the people Of the State, if it were so
supplied with books as would afford an oppor-
tunity for any citizen TO execute whatever intel
lectual engagement his tastes or his business
| might require.
Such appropriation as the finances of the
! State permit, for the finishing of the Library
Hall and for the increase and preservation of the
| Library, by means of accessons and by cata-
logue, are respectfully recommended.
| The suggestions of the Library Commission
ers respecting exchanges of Ohio laws, reports
1 and documents, with sister States, and with gov
ernments and societies of Europe, deserve con-
sderation. The Librarian has given particular
attention to that branch of his duty and ought
not to be deprived of any reasonable means Of
promoting such exchanges. Interchange of laws
and public documents encourages that inter.
course of nations which most eminently contri-
: butes to thorough acquaintance with the char,
acteristics of their people. This, the Fedora
,, Government literally recognized when it au.
: thorized the free transmission of all public re.
cords between the States; and in that spirit W.
; may encourage thorough interchange, as vel
with foreign nations, as within the Union.-
Many of the most valuable accessOns made Il
the Library within the last five years have beer
, by means of international Exchange.
BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS.
The benevolent institutions of the State con
tinue to make ample returns for the patronage
: they have received. l take great pleasure in re
ferring you to the Reports of those entrused
with their administration, showing their opera
tions during the past year, and their presen
condition. Accompanying these Reports, yol
will be gTatifed to find the first Annual RepOr
$ of the Hamilton County Lunatc Asylum, whicl
i promises to be one of the most valuable and sue
$ cessful institutions of its kind in the country
No provision having been made by law, fo
printing this Report, transmit it to the Sen
n ate in manuscript.
5 1t will be seen by reference to a carefully pre-
pared table of institutions for the Insane in tn
II United States in connection with the subject {
: recoveries of lunatics, forming n part of tn
= very valuable Report of the Superintendent {
;, the Central Lunatic Asylum, that that Institu
T. ton has for many years maintained postio
in advance of all similar institutions of tn
United States in the proportion of its recoverie
G upon the number of patients committed to il
II care. This fact is attributed by the Superin
e, tendent in small degree, to the policy of tn
i State in requiring all its inmates to be maintain
ed at the expense of the State, and all chroni
: and incurable cases to give place, when necesss
IS ry, to those that are recent and hopeful.
e Whilst this is a gratifying evidence of th
l. wisdom of our State policy in respect to the ad
'e ministration of our Asylums for the insan
d does not the fact that the chronic and incurab
e cases must give place to those that are receI
Is and more hopeful, suggest the duty of the Stat
D1 to make some suitable provision for the custod
d and care of the incurable insane? Would n,
al the erection aud maintenance of an asylum Il
so benefcent purpose be in accordance wit
d, the humane spirit of our Constitution and Il
N benevolent sentiments of the people.
"a OHIO MEDICAL COLLEGE.
tel beg leave to call your particular attention
the accompanying report of the Trustees of Il
Medical College of Ohio. The finances of Il
institution are seriously embarrassed, and legi
e. lation is asked for by the Trustees, to enab
OF them to relieve the college from its difficulties
y OHIO PENTENrIARY.
Te 1t gives me much pleasure to call your attei
ID ton TO the report of the Directors and Wardt
v of the Penitentiary. The management of Il
r. Institution during the past year has been high
In satisfactory. The law rewardng the good COZ
lr duct of the convicts, by shortening their tern
al of sentence, has been attended with eneouragir
te results upon the discipline of the Institutions
is Under its stimulating influence the prisoner
ic for the most part cheerfully perform the tasl
s. assigned TO them, and faithfully discharge
Mt their duties to the institution.
e, The number of conyicts in the PeDitentia
as on the first day of November last was 932;
or whom 379 were received during the year
the same period 2s3 were discharged by the e
3. piration of their sentences, by pardon, and |
in Judicial process Five were sent to the Refor
o. School, and nine died.
OF The cash receipts and cash earnings Of the /
II stintion for the year were $979O5 so. The a
le tual expenditures during the same time we
ts $97, 1910 26, leaving cash balance in favor