Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-10
COUNTY COURT.
Claim of the Louisville and Nashville
Road that the Memphis and Ohio
is Exempt from Taxation.
Some Additional Extracts from the
School Superintendent Report
Walsh County Undertaken.
RAILROAD MATTERS.

The County Court met yesterday and trans
acted considerable routine business.
RAILROAD MATTERS.
| The following order was made: In consid-
eratisn OF the matter of the psndiug litiga-
wherein the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company claims that the
property OF the Memphis and Ohio
Railroad Company is exempt from tax
alton, or seeks to perpetually enjoin the
assessment OF said property for taxation, it
is ordered by the court that the questions
involved in said litigation be referred to the
chairman of the court and the county attor-
ney, who shall consider the matter with
power to adjust or compromise the litigation
aforesaid on terms that may be equitable and
Just, and report their action TO the next term
OF the court. The action of said committee
is, however not to be final and conclusive
until their action and report are confirmed
by the court.
On motion of Squire Winters, John Over
ton, jr., and James Elder were added to the
committee.
In the case OF the road commissioners rs
NJ. II. Boyd, the appeal was granted.
John Walsh was appointed county under
taker
The APPEAL has already published the
important part OF the report Of the county
superintendent of schools in advance of any
action. 1t makes the following further ex-
cerpts:
have placed the certificate upon a strictly
educational proficiency basis, protecting the df-
rectors, and more especially the children OF this
county. from impostors and charlatanism; also
protecting the worthy qualified and efficient
teachers. Just here allow me to compliment my
teAeneFs. nave teachers In the county that would
in the Shareholders who continually striv-
educational
ienoy l wish TO call your attention to
TIE DISCIPLINE
of the public schools. believe the discipline in
the county schools in this county is good can
be found in any ungraded county schools in the
Union; and as soon as can supply each county
that the discipline of our schools will be very
much better than now
! WISH to call your attention TO another very
gTent defect IN our county schools mean the
visits among the schools found
UNIFORMITY IN NO SCHOOL.
In many schools found many as three and four
elGSSes in the same grade OF readers; in some
SO with arithmetics, Biographies and histories of
the United states, and writing. as a branch we'll
form any idea OF the monstrous and egregious
waste of public school funds this want of uniform
ity of school books has produced in this county
unless you test it in that infallible crucible-
figures 1t is within the bounds of accuracy to say
that from one fifth TO one-fourth of the teachers
time is
OCCUPIED WITH EXTRA LESSONS.
hld the average compensation Oh teachers per
month to be SS2.392; now one-fourth of that
would be SS.073 average waste per month per
school. Now, this multiplied by 1876, the number
OF schools in the county, you have sI097 92S,
age waste per month in all the county schools.
Our schools average more than five months but
say five months. Now multiply these last figures
by five and you have s54S96i the waste each year.
Now suppose you make your calculation from the
basis of a loss of one-fifth of the time and you
have 1891 II. This waste of time is a clear losS
an imposition on the teachers, the children and
the public, and a gigantic waste of the sacred
school fund.
Concerning colored teachers he says:
l addressed letters, or caused letters to be ad-
throughout the South informing them of our great
need of irstgrade colored teachers the conse-
quence was that at each OF my public examine
tons many from these institutes were present and
passed on the first grade At these public exami
nations lectured the colored teachers the i'm
noItance of organizing themselves into a Colored |
County Teachers Association for mutual intel |
colored teachers met at the LeMoyne excellent |
coore6 normal school in Memphis, and organized |
e'ecting complete corps of officers; when Prof. !
A. j. Steele, scholarly philan thropist, volun-
teered the OF the library the building and his
own services, Saturday in each month for |
normal work. By approval of the State superin- |
tendent shall make enrolment and average at |
tendance a requisite TO securing and retaining a
so you see that no county in the South
have the colored teachers superior if equal facili
ties REINFORCEMENT and If no unforeseen obs 'ace
intervene Shelby county colored schools will in
short time be far superior to the county coored |
schools in any county in the South, and still i'm
proving.
The court adjourned.