New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-04
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
pI-RIrc SCHOOLS IN THE SOUTH,

DISPOSITIONS
The Board of Trustees of the Peabody Edu-
cationa Fund began it's annual session. at tho fith
,vcnuc Hotel Yesterday. There were present Robert
C. Winthrop Of Boston, President Of the Board sam"e
Wctmore Treasurer the Rev Barnas sears OF 0ui"N
ton. Va. General Agent; Chief Justice Wnie the Hon.
W. NJ Evarts the Hon. Hamilton FISH, Colono Iheouoro
LYMAN. of Massachusetts,; the Hon. william Aiken OF
South Carolina the Hon. A. II. ii. Stuart OF Nrshin
c. W. Riggs, of Washington, ID. C.; General Henry X
Jackson of Georgia; General Richard Taylor OF LOUISE
ana; and surgeon-Genera Joseph n. Barnes u. . n
An Introductory address delivered by Mr. winthrop
the eleventh report was read by Dr. Sears ana the state
ment Of the treasurer was submitted.
DE- Sears in his report reviewed the work OF the last
ten years and compared the present state of popular
education in the Southern states with its condition when
the board entered upon the duties of its trust The aim
Of the board the report has been t. aid the course
of education in the South. The condition OF tns
school. and the nature OF the school system III
each State is separately reviewed. In NHEih"
in 1876 the number OF children Of Sabotage was 49,
$50 the number in school, 2Oo,067, and the cost for
current expenses S95j.655. The amount furnished 10
Virginia from the Peabody Fund was during the past
year. - 250 during the past ten years SZO 'Z0o III
North Carolina, by the constitution adopted january l.
1877 the liability OF poor white and colored chhufen
being placed together in the schooroon was removed
The amount granted to North Carolina ITO"
the fund for the past year 1900 for the past ten
wears ss7 600. The early history OF the SCHOOLS III
South Carolina is not unlike that OF North CaFOllhi
Now there evidently an honest purpose ana an earnest
epdeayor to make the public schools worthy OF tne re-
gpect and the support OF all good citizens. SCUM
Carolina was furnished, last year, Sl,3OO H0in
fhe fund and during the ten years 9Z'o1V
The efforts Of the board have not heeh sec
onded in Georgia as they have been IN other states, Dt
influential men have taken III hard To arouse e oPo
10 ulster sense OF what they owe 10 lhelf chIuIeI
Georgia received from the fund $1,000 last year. anu
ST. O62 all IL said by competent luOgts thd wy
IYOspects Of the public schools Of Florida are nov o
than they have ever been before Inns Stc
was granted last year $1,000 from the fund mas re-
ceye In the ten years S4S,45O The pubic schooi NV
of Alabama is feebY sustained, and In many respects l
work there is very dscOuragDg. The state has focelt
i'm ten wears %5j $50 from the fuud. What has Deeh s
of Alabama is applicable 10 Mississippi Wlch hs pccI
me recipent OF SOS SIS from the Peabody una IheIS
have been many serious hndrances TO the progress Oh ti
lion IN Louisiana during the last seven yeaTsprlhcip
IN owing to political TOthis state 5000 - mas peoh
given by fne board In 1871 public free schoos WERE
0penrd i'm Texas. but they met with much oPposlloh
Texas has received $lS6O0 from the fuhd lac ia" .,
1875 in Arkansas. which has been the recipient Oh
$50 GOO Is more favorable 20 public schools than was
antlcp ated. In 1876 the number oil pupils ehi"cd III
Tennessee was I9iiSO; the amount exp nutu soJo'
900 Tennessee mas received 9l9l 500 RON me board
In West Virginia 1865 the number OF children III at
tendance al public schools was only 5o,3of ilu hc
expenditures Sl67 1907 but IN 1876 there Ner- lZ5JVi
children in the schools and SJ4lO3J was expended III
the cause OF education This state has received sIO'IO
from the iund. 49,, ,.,,., ~,
Inc second and final session Of the board will be held
to-day.