Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-07


Permanent school. ........... 500 So A22,6 "a
General school .....:........... 1853 ID a. S9 3
Permanent university ....... 1888 Is 1861 IS
General university. ...... 1854 81 81, 22:5S IS
Internal Improvement land. Il27 ~ 2I7Il Is
Internal improvement. 2,l36 Is $50 81
IneDriate asylum ...... Is IL 76 al
School text books. 1y522 80 1,2S, O5
l07S92' 27O;sss IS
Revenue fund overdrawn.... 2s,7a,sl 6,2G 50
Cash balance in treasury, -, NJ, -, =, o., -, %
Nov -. ..................$ Es2,O29 43 $ 26i,lol ~
These figures, as compared with those of
two years ago, atiorda gratifying exhibit of
our financial condition. They show cash
balance at the close of the year of S264 Isl 80,
as against SIS, 1920 at the close of 1878. Of
the present balance, however, $78,644.33 be-
longs to trust funds liable to immediate in
vestment in bonds. The floating debt of
S122, 0Ol.94, represented two years ago by out
standing warrants and Overdrafts, has been
liquidated, and although the revenue fund
has been temporarily overdrawn to the
amount of 6,224669, there are available funds
at the disposal of the present legislature am
pie for all reasonable purposes. The recog-
nized State debt two years ago was $4,000
l am glad to report that $210;O60 of this
amount has been paid and the bonds Cancelled
during the period. The auditor
believes that the aggregate amounto of the sur
plus interest and sinking funds will substan-
TALLY meet the. remaining recognized State
debt of $290,000 within the next year, after
which the tax levy for interest and sinking
funds may be dispensed with. That officer,
moreover, estimates that the available funds
for support of State Institutions will leave a
surplus sufficient TO rebuild the destroyed
wing of the ST. Peter hospital, and also pay
for additional accommodations at the Roches-
ter hospital, without recourse to eXtraordi-
nary means for the purpose.
There has been an increase of SOS, 266, 50j in
the taxable property of the State within the
past two years, and the receipts from railroads
and other sources has grown to such an extent
that after the present year no tax need be
levied for the support of State institutions,
while the present tax of one and eighth-tenths
mills for general State purposes may be re-
duced TO one mill. This continued reduction
of taxation is the more satisfactory when it
is remembered that without recourse to a
funded debt extraordinary expenditures for
public buildings and relief for frontier suffer
ers have been made to the amount of A,30S,-
$40 during the past fourteen years. earnest
ly urge such judicious and well considered eX-
penditures as will insure 4 continuance Uf these
favorable results.
The action of the State Board of Equaliza-
ton, representing as it now does, all parts of
the State, continues to give general satisfac-
ton. The total taxable property is now fixed
at S,335S, 055, 543. l ask your attention to the
several statements and recommendations en-
braced in the report of this competent officer,
which cvince continuance of the same assid-
uous care which has distinguished his man
agement of the department.
EDUCATION.
The condition of the several educational in
terests of the State is clearly set forth by the
comprehensive report of the superintendent of
i,,ct
ing August 81, 1880. The valuable historical
resume contained in the last annual report is
completed by the addition of brief sketch of
the earliest public efforts in behalf of eduea-
ton, and of those of the five years. interreg-
mum during which the system was without a
separate head The few particulars thus res
cued from oblivion, however meagre, from
part of the educational history of the State,
indicate the wisdom of its founders in
looking to popular intelligence as one of the
first conditions of a durable commonwealth,
and serve as measure of growth for the proud
results of after wears
To the usual review of the several educa-
tional institutions under State supervision,
the superintendent has added reports from
various denominational colleges and parochal,
commercial and private schools throughout
the State. While there is no provision of law
requiring or contemplating reports from such
institutions, the information thus volunteered
by them is a valuable aid to the more complete
presentation of educational interests in a con-
denscd and convenient form, and it is to be
hoped that the commendablc movement thus
begun will be so generally followed in the
future, that the superintendent may he enabled
TO cmbody in each report complete exhibit
OF all the educational institutions and inter
csts within the State. The total enrolment
In our common schools, it will be seen, was
l6l, 945 in 1879, and 1S0,24S in 1880, showing
an increase of II, 4SS for the two years.
The average attendance throughout the
State during the former year was 65 per cent
of the total enrolment, while the average
length of all the schools was 6-10 months in
1879, and 47-10 in 1880. The number Of
school districts in 1880 was 1924, school
houses S,69S, and teachers 5,215. The value
of school houses and sites is given at So, 1885,
210 for 1880. Exclusive of salaries paid SUI
perinteudents and principals of high schools
in the leading cities, the average monthly
wages of teachers in 1880, S35 29-100 for
males, and S2T 52-100 for females. The total
cost OF schools for 1880 was 81 ,32S 42S. 80, be-
ing an average of S7.37 for each enrolled
scholar. A comparison of these results with
corresponding figures of former years exhibits
gratifying progress in all the branches of
common school education, land its facilities);
but it only partially indicates the improved
conduct of the schools and their better in
structiOn and higher aims, which are largely
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