The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-03-09

,iianisns are gathered from various |
sources. Most Of them are answers 10
vurstioms that everybody 10 continually
asking every body else. aud confain In
formation thu, everybody il supposed 10
know and don't:
The Democratic vote OF the las, State
was 2l3.lJf the Republican
z0s, ,o6O.
Indiana has 4,728 drinking saloons.
The present tax duplicate Of Indiana
polls is e60.OOO,uDO.
There are $500 squtre miles 10 In
diana.
The interest on the debt ~ counties
and cities In Indiana amounts TO ) I .800,-
100 per annuD.
In 1855 the total valuation or real and
personal property ~ ludi-ns was k279.-
'3U2 2Ds, IN 1876 II was a5.6.474 loo: in
li67- II Is ssa4 72O.4iO net gain in
twenty wears nf <575 s8s. .28I -over t29,-
u01p0c per annu,n.
Indiana has aboni 1000 miles OF rail
road, worth about $4,000 900.
The present annali expenses Of the
different Asylum Directors amount 10
~. .3o9.
!. There are Cos prisoners in the Prison
North.
\ The local indebtedness Of the State
amounts 10 e2o,00O.Vc0.
The vote oi The State al the last cleo
ltiou was 10000.
The taxable polls ia the State amount
10 10000.
The net cos. cf maintaining the House
of Refuge las, year was $2s,639 ~.
\ There are e,307 school houses in the
Estate.
Il There are G79.23D children in the
Estate. 10.261 oil whom are colored.
n In 1876 there were II .la4 more child
'-rcn in the State than im 1875.
There are 4.a22 persons Ia the State
unable to read or write.
4 There are 1881 school children in In.
eldianapolis.
There are 1917 white and "a colored
school teachers in the Stale.
= On an average, male teachers are pait
e nearly twice as much assfemslc teacher
ein Indiana.
e The schooi honscs in Indiana ar,
(, VALUED NJ ll,5ss.s93
\ There are 49, log school houses lett il
the State.
The average paw Of teachers 10 town
dis So 81; Ia townships 81 80; in citie
|, 50 -.
VI During the last nine years there ha
','bccn expended annually in buiidin;
y school houses $c7i, COO.
I, Tho total School Fund in 1875 wa
'r.lss,s s,s7o.s72.
al Three thousand new teachers have {
c -lbc supplied annually to fill vacancies b
4 resi- ignations. &c.
Drl In 1876 the rcvcnuc ot the Norther
c-IPrison in cxccss1of expenditures wa
t~IS9.525 -.
hr In 1876 twenfy-four convicts wer
."pardoncd bv the Governor out Of th
'r Northern Prison.
y, or the 523 convicts In the SoutLcr
Prison $50 were farmers.
There are SO life convic,s in II
Southern PrisoM
l. or the 523 convic's in the Sou'Aer
NJ Prison. hut li5 were Of intcmrrrs'
o.lhahits: 12I were temperate, 2yl ceel
As |siDmal drinkers.
rt In the southern Prison. 293 convic
u. are single men. 1s6 married, 81 widow
'nders md divorced.
Al nnf 100 OF the Southern coryic
cAn r,i or write, or do both.
in N argc portion OF prisoners In Il
IN, pcniIruiary are convicted between Il
. A.c .. 20 and z6 years.
There are 81 prisoners in the Souihc
prison on charge Of murder in iis d.fie
ent degrees.
III the Southern Prison, ~ convis
lwcre pardoned out By the Governor
II. ISIS; s. liz all pardcncd.
4 But four convicts escaped from 4
;--two prisons in 1876. one from Z
or- Northern, three from tho Southern.
ie-l Nine convicts died IL lie prisons
re-Il576 six in tho Southern Prison, thr
Ia the Northern.
The total Indebtedness Of the Southe
thePrison is ellis. .339 20.
the There are 81 life convicts ia the Nor
MY crn prison.
'ii, Ofthe convicts in the Northern Pris,
~ lOl were farmers. one "dcal-bcat .
ms ans /. sewing machine"
~. ~ or The convicis in The Indiana priso
1na las are from Ohio.
ia or tho 6Os convicts In The Norths
574 can read and write. ~ :
the|read only. aud al can do neither: