The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-25
The Peabody Fund.
Report OF the General Agent


Sears, gives an encouraging review of
the general condition of public schools
IN the southern states, and says the en-
couraging circumstances vastly FREEDOM
mate over diseonraging. There is one
class of men, says the report, whose in
terest is to be dreaded, who do not pro
fess to be unfriendly to common schools,
but reluctantly consent to let the expert
ment be tried, provided it be done
cheapIy not considering, probably not
caring, that such condition is fatal.
The effect would be in more than one
state TO create widespread dissatisfac-
ton among people who, having paid
their school tax, find that private schools
have been broken mp or reduced TO
weakness or indifference, by the removal
Of SO many pupils, and that for want of
sufficient funds no respectable public
schools have taken their place So far
as the education of the children OF. q
state is concerned, the two systems CO.
existing are chiefly efficient IN weaken
ing each other. Either to be prosper
GUS requires all the money that is paid
for both. r- Men will not be satisfied to
be reduced to the necessity OF setting
up schools of their own, or of -sending
their children from home after having
contributed their share to the public
school fund. Such are the results of
what people are pleased to call economy
in expenditures for public schools.
The report goes on tolrefer to schem-
ing Legislators, and shows how the voice
of the people has frequently been
raised against them, and insists that
superintendents should not be frequent
ly changed, and says he must wait
time for the results of a change from
private to a public system Past pre-
judices are coming to be regarded as
amiable weaknesses, and there are men
enough in the southern states who pro
nounce for abandoning the antiquated
system of private schools.
The following statistics are taken
from the report Virginia Public
schools in the state for the year ending
August 1, 1872, is 1896, and school
population 411,O21 persons, of whom
247, 7,OO2 are white. The amount appro-
priated was $50, 500.
North CaroIina-The condition of
public schools and education generally
is far from satisfactory. Alarming IN
difference on the subject among The
common people, and a want of union
and hearty cooperation among public
men; amount appropriated s12, 40.
South Carolina-Few schools reported
throughout the year. An application
was made for Charleston as follows:
The legislature at its last session appro-
priated over $500, 600 for educational
purposes. Not one dollar of this amount
has been received from the treasury,
and the result has been that nearly all
public schools in the state have been
closed. Amount paid $50 s
Georgia Efforts thus far TO establish
a public school system resulted in com
parative failure fund contributed S10-
100 to II schools. 77a. a sr7EeaU
a-Three-fourths of the youth
of the state are yet unreached by the
educational system, but the ratio is
rapidly changing the fund contributed
S8, 600 in aid of IA schools. . 7araa
Alabama-Of a population of one
million. 384, 900 can neither read nor
write of the voting population there
are 1000 blacks, and 170 900 whites
who cannot read and write; the state
funds paid S6O,617 during the year and
the Peabody fund $7.0O0to 5 schools.
Mississippi There are 1850 public
schools; average attendance 125,OGO,
and 400 private schools with 14S, $50
pupils enrolled; expense Of common
schools 81 ,136, ,988, and the Peabody
fund contributed $4, 450 to aid 8 schools.
Louisiana .89O was contributed to
aid schools
Texas-In the unsettled state of school
matters, the trustees did not feel iusti-
fed in making donations. -
Arkansas-Nu1nber of children of
school age 194, ,344; number of persons
attending school 80, 1853; teachers 2,O95;
amount paid teachers 1856, 1926, and
amount contributed from Peabody fund
S, 800. '- -s #a a- ?. -a
Tennessee-Nunber Of children of
school age about 100000; school fund
g., SO, 500; amount available for schools
$3.50, 900 and the Peabody fund con
tributed in aid of SO schools S25, 600.
West Virginia - There are 1900
schools in operation, run at an expense
of three-fourths Of a million annually,
and $50, 900 in the graded and high
schools; Peabody fund contributes
| S15, $50
Total contributed to all the states
Sl30, o4O- -tz &c., .r- LID
PRoPoeATIoE OF SoUED.-A locust
/ may be heard one-sixteenth Of mile
a wren, weighing half an ounce, and
naiddling-sized man would be as heavy
a. four thousand OF them,r could be
heard about as far. But if the voice OF
/ either bore a proportion to the mass Of
matter employed IN its production a
man could be heard one thousand miles,
favored by brisk wind Avessel at sea
few years since, when one hundred
and sixty miles from land, heard dis
tinctly the thrilling musie OF band
playing on shore. There must have
been a peculiar condition of the atmo-
spbere at the time, while the broad sur
face of the sails were equivalent to
great external ear to arrest and con
verge the aerial unduiations.
IT has been shown by careful investi-
cation that the amount of heat received