, 1874-11-09

earnest Superintendent Ia doing obviously bis
beat to mako the new effort 3 SUCCESS. 1u tho
have boon established, with normal classos oyory
Saturday for tho whole body Of toachern III each
towu,-lo9 academies and highrschools.
South Carolina shows an increase Of % FREQ
achoola aud 147 new sclool-louHca over 1872,
with IN additional chool-atterdence Of 7.421,
md AL additional expenditure Of s113,98l.s7 tor
public schools.
North Carolina has increased by about II per
cent her receipts for free eohools. and by about
100 per cont tho attendance Of thou1.
KontuckY hos friends OF education who have
pressed forward, Amending her School law, ad-
vauoing The qualifications Of ler toaoherB, ln1-
proving hor schoot-housoB. and taking steps
toward general education Of her oolorod popu-
lation.
In Virginia, though thoro has been slight
faing of In rocepts and expenditures for
school purpoaes aB we'll ~ in enrolment and
average attendance, thera arc 501 NOW schools,
while great number OF sclool-houses built
during THO year, and largo increase in tho
1axations Of both political parties in tho last
canvasB to show that the purpose OF tho people
Is to build up the public school sybton solidly
and permanently.
The returns from 1ennessoe hro imperfect,
but enough appears to indcate TINT tho orgaui-
zation OF the State syetom hns gone steadily for
ward under tho direction Of the Superintendent.
M1nDLK AND NORTHERN STATES.
Maryland has lenEthoned her school year et1-
teen days: expended for teachera sslarica e14,-
mora, and for gonoral school purposes 1888
more at tho Bamo timo adding Il, 1888 to hor
scbool enrolment aud making fair beginnings
in an effort to give her colosod children equal
advantages for education with tho whltaa. Dol
aware still romans without any State super
vision of schools but in hor two lower counties
some improvement ia observable. In Whining
ton. hor chief town, .rcll-organized School
board reports one now school-houBe, 800 addi-
tional sEttiugs for pupils, an inozeaso Of at1
oda Of instruction and provision for the oduca-
ton Of col0rod childr0n-
PennBylvania shows IN increase of twenty-two
school districts, Of 906 schools, Of 809 graded
average duration Of her school-tern, With III ag
gregate of school property estimated at $21 49,.
200, and total expenditure for Bchool purposes
of a8, ,8t2. 900.25. a largo new normal school,
With capacity for boarding 500 pupils. and in
str,ltting 800, has haen added to the Hi1 preyt-
ouay existent. and threo moro are In progress.
Now Jorncy reports oighty-tlireo new SCHOOL,
houses, with groat improvement in tho condition
Of tue older oucs; an incrcase Of three days IN
the nyorngo school-term; liberal advance in
building mud repairing schools; s293, 9D8.13 bo-
yond for general school purposes. and $685., ,040
beyond for tho catinatod value Of school prop
erty.
New York reports receipt Of $11. .556, ,037.80
for public school lurpoaeH, and ~ expenditure
ture ol Sill, G,G52 930.57 in twolvo yoars past. or
tho Grand a,'uunl expenditure, nearly $1,000, GOD
lluvo gone for tho salaries OF teachers nearly
50, 2,co0,o00 for building and improving nchool-
houses $l74,330.29 for supporting eight nor
NAL schools, and 57,69n.o4 for supply Of school
instruction to tho few Indians i'll tho State. Nor
mal~Echool training iu New York City has tho
great additional facility Of Ii new normal cnllogo
building, costing $350, 600, md accommodating
1,50o pups. Secondary instruction has boon
&125.0DD to al8 academies, III which G1ss puni's
out Of u ,421 pnrHuo classical Or higher English
studies; superior IL given BY twenty-iive univer-
stiles aud colleges, which number 3 $50 students
il college cassea proper aud 1.507 in preparatory
rrofessonal is provided for IN fourteen thcolog-
Eea!, fourteen medical. six scientific. ant1 four
law schools, with $500 atuduuis.
MEM ENGLAND sTATEs.
Connecticut publisher decade-.nblo showing
that. though tho number of chiltEren enumerated
crease of intorost in public kcho. liz las baon
such as to raiEe the amount socurcd for them
from all sources to IL 40 6o9. .o1 III 1873 against
$500. .454. ~ ip 1864.
NIodo Island shows that in 1868 hor towns
raised noarly $10a0O0 for the support OF schools,
aud that 10 1879 tho san1a towns raised over
s900, 900 for tho aane purpose. Tho increase Of
schools ia the sa1no time was 207' Of teachors.
98.
Tho returns from Massachusetts for the
echool.yeAr lS7l-'7a show s., ,476 927 G5 rarcd by
taxation for public schools aloao. Tho ostlmat-
cd yaluo # suhool-lonAoH in tho EtGte was over
1000 900 at the close of 1873 asaiuHt s13, ,770,
UG9 vt Tho beginning OF ls70; 176 high schools
turned.
Maine shows smaller number enrolled In
Bchools, but o decidedly better average attend