Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-08

property of the citizen is not more binding
than it is to protect him against the ravage
of epidemic diseases, and there IS certain
ly no burden for the tax payer that will b.
carried with so much cheerfulness as tha
created for the preservation of the health Of
/ his family.
A State so desolated as Tennessee ha.
been by cholera and yellow fever, ant
| threatened as it still is by these terrible
plaques, should appropriate not less thar
! ten thousand dollars per annum for the cur
rent work of the Board of Health, and clothc
! it with authority to quarantine the whole OF
any part Of the State against infected
points.
THE FUEL+C SCHOOLS.
Tie enumeration Of the children Of the
State within the ages of six and eighteen,
for the scholastic year ending August 31st,
1871, shows, white. 320,935 colored, ILL.,
523; grand total, 1872, 458. The number en-
rolled in the schools for the same period
was, white, III ,535; colored 1908; total,
2I4.576; which was an increase of 80, 463
over the enrolment for the previous seholag-
tic year The enrolment for the scholas-
tic year ending the Dist Of August, 1878,
shows an increase Of fourteen per cent.
over tie previous year; the average daily at
tendance upon the schools for 1877 was
10. 266, an increase Of 1888 over the year
1876, with p further increase of eighteen per
cent. for the year 1878; the number of
schools for the year 1871 was 1904 which
was an increase OF 807 over the year
1876; the number of teachers employed for
the year 1877 was 500l, an increase of 10
over the previous year; and [ am gratiied
TO state that the improvement III the char
acteg and scholarship of the teachers en-
ploycd IS very marked.
The public schools received, for the year
1877. from the State Sf62, 2S0.2s: from the
counties, S244,JG3.32; from other sources,
&II ,923.22; total, Sill, Apis, q decrease
as compared with the year 1876, Of $780,
3ll.67; but the Superintendent shows an
increase in the receipt Of school money for
the year 1873 10 be nearly ten per cent,
with promising increase for the next year.
The private schools in the State, exclusive
Of Universities and Colleges, number about
900, with 200 teachers and an enroll
ment Of about 10000. There are in the
State not less than l75, 000 persons within
the scholastic age, who were not enrolled in
any school, public or private, for the past
year. This result is in some cases charge
able to the Indifference of the parent or
guardian, and very often to a poverty that
demands the services of the child at home;
bat while this large per cent. Of the children
Of the State Is not enrolled, it does not fol-
low that the same children have not been
heretofore, or Will not hereafter, be enrolled.
Very nearly all Of them have been in at
tendance upon the schools at some time
during the past six years, and have acquir-
ed something in the way of education: the
same facilities for all the children Of the
State are provided, and the result shows
steady increase in the enrolment and at
tendance. Our school system is pre-emi-
nently wise one; its success is assured,
and its results are full Of encouragement to
the friends of popular education. The only
recommendation l make concerning it is to
repeat one made by q committee appointed
by the State Teachers Association to the
40th General Assembly, of which one OF
my most distinguished predecessors, Ex-
Gov. Neil S. Brown, was Chairman, that it
be ''let alone"
The Teachers Institutes and Conventions
Of County superintendent held in the sew
eral Congressional Districts, and presided
over by the State observation-disclosures attend
ed by many of the best teachers and think
ers in the State. These Institutes have ele-
waited the standard Of teaching, and have
added much to the popularity of the school
system.
For the satisfactory condition fthe pub
lie schools during the past four years, the
people of the State are mainly indebted to
the present able State Superintendent He
has been efficiently supported by many of
b,YA&
sibilitY of a successful administration Of his
has deyolved on himself and
he has met it corscientiously and earnestly.
cheney that viii not fail to command the
commentator Of all friends Of education.
STATE NORMAL COLLEGE.
This college closed it's tbirI an
nuaI term on the 291h Of May, 1878 |
It's buildings, grounds, principal Ii
brary and a portion of tbs funds are |
furnished by the University of Nash |
vile, but The principal fund for its
support comes from the Trustees OF |
the Peabody Education Fund; the /
State has never made n contribution |
TO it. One hundred and eight stu-
dents, Of both sexes, were IN attend
ance during the past year: eighty
nine were from Tennessee, nineteen |
were scholarship students, from Vir-
ginia, Georgia aud Florida, and to
each these scholarships The Peabody
Trustees appropriated two hundred
dollars for tie support OF the students
o whom they were assigned; Tuition
2 free 10 all. Fer the current year,
here are in attendance, thiriy-eight
Peabody scholarship students, with
eight or ten 10 arrive; naey represent
ali of the Southern States, except the
This College is dedicated
% the exclusive education Of teachers,
md from personal observation, and aG-
iuaintaBce with President Stearns