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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-12-16
Annual Report of the superintendent
Of Public Education.

Of Public Education.
The annual report of this officer for the
past fiscal year has been printed and will
be presented to the Legislature in January.
In looking over it as hurriedly as we do we
are only able to give in brief its most import
ant points. Before doing SO, however, we
take occasion to remark that it reflects
great credit upon our present superintend-
ent of public instruction, DR.. VIM. Fl.
Ruffner.
The enrolment of scholars the past
year was 160,S59 against 168, 1897 the year
before. a decrease Of 5,51s.
The average monthly pay of teachers
has been increased from $29.86 in 1872 to
s32 in 1873. The number of school
houses built during the year, and the large
increase in the aggregate value of school
property, evince the purpose of the people
to build up the public system solidly and
permanently.
The financial condition is, more satisfac-
tory than it has ever been. The state tax
on property for school purposes is as large
as It ought to be at any time.
In the three years that the public
school system has been in operation up to
the 1st Of November, one-third of the
county superintendents have resigned their
Office, or 81 out of 98.
The prosperity Of the higher institutions
during the past year has exceeded that Of
any previous year in the history Of the
state and now we have the satisfaction oi
seeing Virginia leading not only her South.
ern sisters in the work of higher education,
but leading the whole thirty-seven states ol
the Union. 4ga Afs1 s{5s9
Estimated yields of local tax levied fol
1878-'74, s46l ,314.r-.-ss--zs zs5
Number Of public schools in the state
White, 2,787 colored, 909-total, 8, 1896
Number Of pupils enrolled: White. 113,
1858; celored, AZ 500. Average daily at
tendance: White, 400; colored, 26,
466. Whole cost Of public education. pei
month, per pupil in average attendance
In cities, So; in counties, $l.61. Mum
Der of teachers in public schools in state
White males, 2, 1873; white females, ,195
colored males 251 colored females, 128--
total, 3,757. Number of county superin
tendents, 81; city superintendent, 6
Number of school-houses, 3,414. Value
of school property, 1924 4,638.
The number of scholars in Virginl
colleges the past year was 2,070, of thi
number 1,207 were Virginians.
| The following shows the number Q
students belonging to each state who wer
attending college in 1872, in proportion t
the white population, and the whole popu
lation:
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SPAIN.

MADRID, December 16.--The Imperial
reproaches the United States for permitting
meetings for organizations against Cuba,
in New Orleans.
The insurrectionists are decreasing.
BAYoNNE December 16.-The official
journal of the Carlists announces that the
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OUR thanks are due to Senator Ferry,
of Michigan, for his persistent demands
upon Congress to give the people more
money and break up the present outra-
geous monopoly. He is man of rare
powers, young and strong, and will occupy
large place in the future Of the country.
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THE proposition Of Secretary Richard
son to increase the taxes on spirits, and to
tax tea and coffee, is a most unfortunate
one every way at this time. It has been
fifty met by Congress in the PROPOSE
tion to recast the estimates for the
current year. We have plenty Of leaks
to stop. Twenty millions out of the fifty
millions now uselessly spent on the army
and navy can be saved, and we would be-
gin there. Smaller economies would soon
make up the forty million deficit. 70 sys
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FOREIGN.
ENGLAND.

Terrible hurricane tn Shehield-Great
Destruction of Pr0perty-Many Per-
sons .KtlIed-Intense Excitement-
Etc.
LONDON, December 16.-A dispatch
from Sheffield says that city was visited
to-day by terrible storm. The wind blew
hurricane. A large number of buildings
and chimneys were blown down and many
persons were killed. One immense chim-
ney crushed the building and the boiler
located therein. The boiler exploded,
killing and wounding several persons
In consequences Of the great excitement
in the city and the dense crowds which
| filled the streets but few details could be
learned at the time the dispatch was for
warded.
Ex-Empress Eugene is visiting Queen
Victoria at Windsor Castle to-day.
FRANCE
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FRANCE.

LONDON, December 16.-A Paris spe-
cial says the Conservatives are dismayed
at the Republican success in the recent
elections.
The Paris correspondent of The Times
says Bazaine intended to put himself at
the head Of the Alfonsists had his SEN
tence been commuted by banishment.
PARIS, December 15.-It is rumored
that in consequence of the Republican
successes in the late supplementary cleo
tions for members of the Assembly, the
Right will propose an alteration of the suf'
frage law, depriying 100000 persons OF
| franchise.
The steamer Bicton has been lost in the
Mediterranean, with twenty-five lives.
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Ir is mentioned as a significant fact that
The steamer Ohio, which left Philadelphia
for Europe few days since, took out
/ 200 car wheels of American manufacture.
The total shipment of wheels to Europe in
1871 was but 2,3i7; in 1872 AGO; and
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1873,
1876. tits expected that the figures for
1874 will show heavy increase in this
particular article.
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A FORTUNATE STATE.--The state
treasurer Of Wisconsin reports that state as
being practically out of debt. The state
proper owes to its educational fund
81, ,233, 800, and to outsiders only SIS, 100,
which latter sum it is ready to pay on de-
mand. tsss st5s Is -
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The above tables have been compiled
from the best sources, and present facts
which are remarkable. Scotland was the
first country in modern times to establish
universal education, and has to-day pro.
badly the best educated population IN the
world. 1t is said that her college attend
ance is one to every 1000 of her popu.
lation. Germany comes next in the edu-
cational list, and she has at college one to
$500, whilst England, heretofore without
universal education, but with upper schools
Of the first order, has only one college
student to $500 of her population.
1t is worthy of note that when the white
population alone is considered, Virginia
has larger proportion Of her sons in
superior institutions probably than any
state or country in the world! And even
when the entire negro population is inclu
ded in the estimate, she is the first on this
continent, and second only to Scotland
among all nations Without having fol.
lowed the calculation into past years
my knowledge of the general facts
leads me to believe than our state has
been entitled to this distinction for many
years, and that Virginia has had for |
generation or more, and that she has to
uay, larger propoItlon VI Aiehly euucatet
men than any other state or country upor
earth! How this came to be so, and wha
effect ithas had on her character as a state
and in giving her the commanding infiu
ence which she so long welded among th'
states, the superintendent does not now in
quire. 3 :
What stronger evidence could be pre-
sented of the love of Virginians for th
higher branches Of learning than the fac
that it cannot be equenched, or even PARTIAL,
suppressed, by the pinching poverty whic
now overspreads the state?
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BANKRUPT NOTICES.
u,HIs Is TO GIVE NoTICE-rhat q


T,HIs Is TO GIVE NOTICE-That on the
l. 18th day of November, a. d., 1878, a warrant
In bankruptcy was issued out of the District
Court of the United States for the Eastern Dis
trict Of Virginia. against the estate of
Jones Plummer, of the county of Dinwiddie
and State of Virginia, who have been
adjudged bankrupts on their creditors petition;
that the payment of any debts, and the
delivery of any property belonging to said
banlfrupts, to them or for their use. and the
transfer Of any property by them, are forbidden
by law; that meeting of the creditors of said
bankrnpts, to prove their debts and choose one or
more assignees of their estate, will be held at
court of bankruptcy, to be holden at Richmond,
Virginia, before w. w. Forbes, esq, regis
ter, on the 9TH day of January, a. d., 1874, at
10 O'Clock a. DAVID B. PARKER,
no 26-W2w u. S. Marshal.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
UNITED STATES, for the Eastern District
In the matter Of Richard E Boulware. bank
rupt--in bankruptcy.
At Richmond Va, this 18th day of Nov'r, 1878.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Please take notice, that a petition has been
presented to the Hon. John @. Underwood, Judge
of said District Court, in Bankruptcy, by Saml
A Swami, assignee the estate Of said bankrupt,
to sell the real estate belonging to said bank
rupt, free from all liens and encumbrances
thereon.
This is to give notice to all persons interested
that in the terms of said petition an oader has
been issued by the Judge aforesaid, for all per.
sons who may be interested in said estate. to APP
pear before Register w. w. Forbes, at his Office
in the said city of Richmond, on the 9th day of
Nov, 1873, at 10 o'clock a. M, and show cause If
any you have, why such order should not be,
granted. SAMUEL A. SWAMI,
no 12-W2w Assignee.
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Items.

Items.
NINE VESSELS laden with oysters ar
rived in the dock yesterday.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY tierces
lard for Glasgow, Scotland, $50 tierces do.
and 80 tierces grease for Philadelphia,
were transmitted from Cincinnati via Ches-
apeake and Ohio Railroad to the wharves
Of the company for shipment.
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JUDGE KELLEY wisely opposes all
additional taxation in the present condi-
tion Of the country. He advises, a loan
to meet deficiencies, rather than a tax
upon tea and coffee. the only luxuries of
the poor.
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RELIEF OF MRS. GENERAL CANDY.
The bill introduced in the House yester-
day by Mr.. Coburn for the relief of the
widow of General e. r. s. Candy provides
for the payment during her natural life Of
the sum OF 81, 900 annually.
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january.

SPECIAL COURT OF APPEALS
Toney VS.. Selden; fully argued by Colonel
Cabell and John Howard, esq.,, for de-
fendant in error, and Major Stiles for
plaintiff in error, and submitted.
Whitlocke vs.. Cooke, will be called to-
morrow.
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BY virtue and in pursuance of decree OF the
United States District court for the Eastern Dis
trict of Virginia, dated December Sd, 1873, In
the matter of s. Lichtenstein, bankrupt, we,
the undersigned, as Special Commissioners, ap-
pointed in said decree. will sell at public auction
on the premises, on MONDAY, THE 9TH
DAY OF DECEMBER, 1873, at o'clock p M
that valuable HOUSE AND LOT, situated IN
the city of Richmond. on the corner OF Main
and Nineteenth streets, fronting on Main street
twenty feet and eight inches, running back on
Nineteenth street one hundred and sixty five
feet. and including house now occupied by DR.. f,
D. shultz, being portion of the above property
TERMS .-one-fourth cash; the balance al
six, twelve and eighteen months, secured by me-
gotiabe notes. with interest added atrate OF six
per cent and the title retained until all the pur
chase money is paid.
JOHN. s. WISE,
JACOB COHN
| de1e-tds. Special Commissioners.
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NEW YORK.
Financial.

FImRmcfAI
New YORK, December 16.-Stocks
active and irregular. Money Z bid. Gold
l12s. Exchange, long 9s; short 10.
Governments strong. States strong.
Marine
NEW YORK, December 16.-Arriyed,
City of Galveston, Crescent City, Holland.
Arrived out, Gaelic, Oceanic, Abyssinia.
Olympia.
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ENTERED.-The German brig Orian,
Captain Suhkan, from Liverpool, has en-
tered this port laden with salt; also the
schooners Lizzie Mayor and W. F. Green
from Windsor, Nova Scotia, with plaster.
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SENT ON.-Hardin Washington was sent
on to the grand jury of the hustings court
by Justice White to-day for stealing gold
watch, chain and charm, of the value of
800, the property Of j. W. Dennis.
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CALIFORNIA.


The GenatOrships.
SAN FRANCISCO, December 16.-The
Democratic caucus nominates j. P. Farley
for the long and Judge Hoger for the
short term. Both are claimed as anti
railroad men.
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oFFICIAL.

- CITY COLLECTORS OFFICE,
RaFs gsfs asg RICHMOND, Nov. 29th, 1885,
aEINHIs OFFICE WILL BE OPENED DAILY
q il sfrom 8 o'clock O. m. to O'CLOCK p. N
from. the 18TH to the slst DAY OF DECEMBER
inclusiye, for the purpose of receiving from any
person who has already paid one-half only O
the city taxes charged to him the remaining
half; and that f ix,q
$50 TEN PER GENT.
will be added to the amount OF said remaining
half OF the tax charged in every case where thu
party assessed shall fail to pay said remaining
half within the time SO limited"
aBut in case any person having failed TO pa.
iu the MONTH OF JUNE one-haif OF the cit.
taxes dns from such person, shall fail to pay tn
whole thereof on OF before the 3lSr DAY o.
DECEMBER, there shall be added y
M TWENTY PER CENT. ssaEsi
upon the amount of tax so remaining due"
The collector respectfully calls the attenuo
ofthoss parties who have so repeatedly promise
to settle their bills tother than the haifpai
bllls), and on which he has been SO ienien
that should he now fall to call on them by IN
18TH OF DECEMBER, and they fan to pa
during the month of December, that he VIII
compelled under the duties of his office to collie
in JANUARY BY LEVY. with the addition
TWENTY PER CENT. ,sia saes
as .1ss4 Il a JOHN f. REGNAULT, 81
de Jim Collector.
.
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n < WILL PAY FOR SIX COPIES OF
@D the WEEKLY STATE JOURNAL fol
one year.
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de l6-tds.

L. II. CHAsDLRR. ALFRED MoRTos
CHANDLER & MORTON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
GoRsgR BANK AND TENTH STsHKTs,
RICHMOND. VA.
oc 2S-dAswtf
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CITY NEWS.
AMUsEMENrs TONIGHT.

yIReIsrA pERA-HeusE.-The Pilgrim Exhi-
bition. ssgs
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EIEETINGS.

FIRSTNATIONAL BANK OF RICHMOND
RIcRMoND, VA, December IS, 1873. }
THE REGULAR ANNUAL MEETING OF
- the stockholders of this Bank will be held
at their Banling-Ho on TUESDAY, JAM
UARY Is, 1874, at 10 o'clock m.
lA@4 s. A.GLOVER,
de lS--2awt ianl3 Cashier.
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POLICE CoURT.--Justice White dis
posed of the following cases in this court
to-day
Lucy Melton, abusive language, dis
charged.
Coles Nash, abusive language, fined 50.
j. Moody, creating disturbance in the
street, fined S2.
George A. Tabb. unlawful assault. fined
| $3.50.
Percy L. Carrington, abusive language,
fined $1.00. t1
F. H. Bayne, selling or offering for sale
goods. wares, &c., without license in vio.
lation of the city ordinance, fined $50.
Berry Shields, burglary, continued unit
| tomorrow.
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CHRISTMAS Toys, wholesale and retail,
PHILIP WEBER, 1919 Main street. has the largest
stock OF Toys in the city. Call early and get
your Christmas supplies. Also, manufacturer
of Willow Ware, Willow Baskets, Cane Chairs,
ood Cattaas a-7
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THE HEBREW Festival OF DEDI-
festival began Sunday
evening and will continue until next Mon
day. 1t is the anniversary of the day upon
which the armies of Antiochus Epiphanes
were driven from Judea by Judas Macca-.
bees with his small band of followers, and
when an end was put to the despotic rule
of Antiochus in Palestine. The festival
especially commentaries the purification
of the Temple at Jerusalem after its desc
Grafton by the Syrian monarch, and as
such it is observed for eight days among
orthodox Hebrew families by the lighting
of candles each day Of the festival during
the evening services. The festival was
ushered in Sunday evening by the custom
ary prayers in the synagogues and private
dwellings of the Israelites. Hymns of joy
and gratitude are .recited at the morning
and evening service, but the festival no
being enjoined in the Pentateuch and be
| longing to post-bibical history, it is no
considered as important as the othe
Hebrew holidays. E4k*
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BY J. Thompson Brown,
Real Estate Agent and Auctioneer,
1ll5 Main street.
COMMISSIONERS SALE

VALUABLE REAL ESTATE, CONSISTING
ORA BRICK STORE ON MAIN STREET,
AND HOUSE ON NINETEENTH
STREET, IN THE CITY OF
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
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HO! FOR CHRISTMAS AND NEW
YRAR.--I have some fine Old Rye Whisky OF
different brands. which will sell in suitable
quantities from barrel down to a gill. Also,
Southampton Apple Brandy, New England and
Jamaica Rum, Fine Fish Gin, made after the
old Dutch style, Port and Sherry Wine. Also,
Irish and Scotch Whiskies. I would also add,
that have some Old French Brandy, and many
other liquors too numerous to mention.
JoHN X. MALLoY, wholesale and retail liquor
dealer, corner Main and Twenty Third streets.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
p@ CHARLES LUMSDEN,
$40 MAIN STREET.

respectfully call the attention Of everybody
to the fact that they can. have WATCHES.
CLOCKS, SPECTACLES and JEWELLERY
REPAIRED, in the best manner and on reason
able terms, at $40 MAIN STREET, opposite
the Spotswood Lot, by
des-eodst CHARLES LUMsDEN.
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de l-M2w
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-17
GUNP0wDER IN A HAY NOW.

CHURCH WAR FOLLOWED BY AN INDIcT,
MENT FOR ARSON.
Quiet Railway was startled yesterday
by the news that Col. Henry Potter had
been indicted ON charge of arson.
There had been whispers of an investi-
cation by the Grand Jury of Union
county, in session in Elizabeth, but the
result was scarcely expected. Col. Pot
ter is accused of burning his house and
attempting to burn his barn in Linden,
Railway suburb, on the 9th of last
May, for the purpose of swindling the
insurance companies. The main sup
port of the prosecution is the testimony
of John Milford, who swears that he
ran into the barn while the house was
burning. He says that he saw mar
row strip of scorched grass leading to
the barn, and smelled burning powder.
Upon entering he saw a lighted fuse
running into a hay NOW, the burning
end then projecting about two feet.
He stamped it out, and found that the
fuse led to package OF gunpowder I'M
der the hay. The house was destroyed,
with portion of the furniture. The
amount of insurance greatly exceeded
the loss, and had been effected with five
companies. Col. Potter put in claim
which the companies declared to be ex-
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS.

Horse cars will be discontinued from
Waverly Junction to Lyons Farms dur
ing the Fair, from eight a. m. to six p.
m. On Monday, cars will run to the
r'aiI grounds every hour, commencing
ct eight o. M, last car leaves Fair
grounds at six p. m. On Tuesday half
hour trips will be made. On Wednes-
day every twenty minutes, and continue
until the Fair is over. Between Eliza
beth and Elizabethport, on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, every fifteen min
utes. st
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orbitant, and which he refused to sub
stantiate upon oath. Finally it was re-
duced, and q settlement made. With
out waiting to be arrested, Col. Potter
presented himself yesterday forenoon OF
the court of General Sessions in Eliza
beth, and pleaded not guilty. Counsel
lors Stone and Jackson of Newark ask
ed for his release on bail, which was
fixed at five thousand dollars, and he
returned to Railway with number OF
friends.
The social standing and wealth of
Col. Potter have gained him much re-
spect in Railway, where he has lived
eight years. In the war he commanded
the Seventy-first New York volunteers
and one of the Sickles regiments, and
his left hand was incurably MANNED by
the bursting of shell. His war record
secured him position in the custom
house, which he still holds. He is a
vestryman in the Episcopal church Of
Railway, and is fairly entitled to be
called leading citizen. His friends
strenuously assert that his persecution
is the result of an old church and social
quarrel between him and Judge Savage,
another leading Rahwayan, and Presi-
dent of the late international Fire In.
surance Company. Judge Savage was
also vestryman in the Episcopal
church, and the feud is said to have
grown ont of quarrel over the selec-
ton of new minister. Another lead
ing villager named Claddock is accused
by the Colonel's defenders of trumping
up the charges to satisfy long stand
ing grudge. Claddock and Potter have
frequently quarreled and commenced
suits upon tho most trivial grounds,
such as tearing down fences and cutting
children. Judge Savage and Claddock
were among the witnesses before the
grand jury.
The village, as represented by the
oracles of the stores, barrooms, and
depots, is divided into factions.
eff Col. Potter had set the fire." was
one decided summary of the case heard
by reporter, do you suppose the in
surance companies would have paid his
claim They are. fast enough, every
body knows, to contest a point, and
they made thorough examination at
the time. 1t was settled that the fire
caught from stove pipe
But how do you get over the fuse
and the gunpowder in the barn ?"
asked an adhercnt of Judge Savage.
Don't you happen to know" was
the ret ,rt, "that John Milford is Clad
docks servant, and that the District
Attorney was Claddocks adiutant in the
army ?"
"But don't believe Judge Savage
would make false charge"
So comment runs, and Railway is in
uproar