The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-01-16

by citizens of several of the adjoining
States for the same services, and are
unreasonable and excessive, and ought
to be reduced.
MOB LAW.
1t is to be regretted that in a few
localities the county jaiIs have been
violated by the removal and murder of
prisoners by armed mobs The power
with which the Executive is clothed
has been employed to bring these out
laws to trial and punishment, and the
local authorities are exhibiting a COM
mendable zeal in their efforts to dis
cover the authors of the eutrages.
The provisions Of the Criminal Code
are adequate for the punishment of
jail-breakers and murderers all that
is wanted is the development of pub
lie sentiment that will stimulate and
give courage tOlOcal officials
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Under the authority Of the act ap-
proved March 26, 1877, providing for
a State Board of Health, commits
stoned Drs. j. D. Plunkett, T. A.
Atchinson and J. NJ. Stafford, of the
county of Davidson, DR.. +. NJ Wight,
of the county of Hamilton, and DIR. r.
B. Maury, of the county of Shelby.
Recent events have demonstrated the
importance of a more efficient Organi-
zation of this Board. 1t tshould be pro-
vided with money and with authority
to publish and enforce intelligent sani-
tary regulations. Earlier attention to
this subject, it is believed, would have
secured a more general immunity to
the State from the late fever epidemic,
and saved many citizens from the suf.
fering and destitution of which they
were the helpless victims. The cholera,
in epidemic form, has made It's APP
pearance on the eastern coast of China,
at a point with which the United States
maintain close commercial relations,
Its march, SO far, is upon It's usual
line Of travel, and it will be criminal
negligence in the State if no measures
are adopted to exclude it from her
borders. The obligation of the State
to protect the person and property of
the citizen is not more binding than it
is to protect him against the ravages Of
epidemic diseases, and there Is GER
tainly no burden for the taxpayer that
will be carried with so much cheerful
ness as that created for the prCserva-
ton of the health of his family.
A State so desolated as Tennessee
Io, LII
and threatened as it still is by these
terrible plaques, should appropriate
not less than $4,000 per annum for
the current work of the Board of
Health, and clothe it with authority
to quarantine the whole or any part Of
the State against infected points.
TIE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The enumeration of the children of
the State within the ages of six and
eighteen, for the scholastic yesr end
ing August 81, 1877, shows, whita,
32O,935; colcred, III, ,523; grand to-
tai, 482, ,45S. The plumber enrolled in
the schools for the s, me period was,
white, III ,535; colored, 43 ,043; total,
214,578; which was an increase of
33 ,463 over the enrolment of the pre-
vious Scholastic year, The enrolment
for the scholastic year ending the 31st
Of August, 1878, shows an increase of
II per cent, over the previous year;
the average daily attendance upon the
schools for 1877 was 142 ,266, an in
crease of 1888 over the year 1876,
with further increase of 18 per cent.
for the year 1878; the number of
schools for the year 1877, was 1904,
which was an increase of S07 over the
year 1876; the number of teachers em.
ployed for the year 1877 was 5,001, an
increase of IS over the previous year;
and | am gratifed to state that the
improvement in the character and
scholarship of the teachers employed
is very marked.
The public schools received for the
year 1877, from the teS162 ,2S0 %;
from the counties. S244,503 80; from
other sources, $71 1923 g; total, s71S,-
423 48, a decrease as compared with
the year 1876 of $120, 81 81; but the
Superintendent shows an increase in
the receipt of school money for the
year 1873 to be nearly ten per cent,
with promising increase for the next
year. The private sGh1pis IN the State,
exclusive Of universities and colleges,
number about 1000, with 1900 teach
ers and an enrolment of about 80, 600.
There is in the State not less than 49,
600 persons within the scholastic age,
who were not enrolled in any school,
public or private, for the past year.
This result is somewhat chargeable to
the indifference of the parent or guard
ian, and very often to a poverty that
demands the services of the child at
home; but while this large per cent. of
the children of the State is not enrolled,
it does not follow that the same chill
dren have not been heretofore, or will
not hereafter, be enrolled. Very near
ly all of them have been in attendance
upon the schools at some time during
the past six years, and have acquired
something in the way Of an education;
the same facilities for all the children
Of the State are provided, and the re-
suit shows q steady increase in the en-
rollment and attendance. Our school
system is pre-eminently a wise one; its
success is assured, and its results are
full of encouragement to the friends Of
popular education.
STATE NORMAL COLLEGE.
The Peabody Trustees feel that they
/ have exhibited unusual liberality in
establishing the College in Tennessee
and in providing the money for the
maintenance of the Faculty, and l
agree with them in the belief that the
time has come for the State to extend