The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-19

Picagune, conducted by the industrious
and pains taking Daniel bennett, the
following interesting facts in relation
to our State:
Mississippi in 1879 had l0l, ~ farms, /
with sn area Of Is. SS5, 462 acres These /
farms had 5,216. 9S7 acres under I'M /
provement. and about 1e, 600, 600 acres In !
wood or lands notimproyed. This State
in 1879 had 1479 manufacturing estab- |
lishments -mechanical and manufacture /
ing indEstries-sman and large; the
aggregate capital, 81, 727 600; hands en-
ployed, $500; value of products, $7,5ls.
302.
The value of farms and farm nipple
ments and machinery in 1879 was $97.-
| 730, 551; farm products, same year, $685.
701, s44; value of livestock on farms,
$24, 2S5,717.
The population Of Mississippi in 1880
was lis, 59T. OF these, AS, 39S wire
white. $50, 29l eolored, 1857 Indians and
81 Chinese. There are 1895 foreign
born persons in the State.
The area of the State of Mississippi is
80, us, $40 acres, about one sixth in cul-
tiyation.
VAST AND INVALUABLE RESOURCES.
The soil, forests, and water-power of
Mississippi are of immense value. Labor,
capital and skill may draw from these
and her mineral resources almost
boundless aud endless wealth. The
numerous mill-sites, some of them rank
ed among the finest on the continent,
are at present of but little benefit to the
State, or to individ uals. Thrifty vii
lagos will spring up around these when
| factories are established on them.
The mineral wealth of Mississippi
will be unveiled after its agricultural
and manufacturing interests have re-
ceived proper attention.
EDUCATION GEEAT-.Y NEEDED.
Mississippi has the diversity of rich
soil, genial climate, water-power, forests
of timber, navigation and railroad facil-
titles, mind and muscle, which, turned
to proper account, may make the State
vastly wealthy and prosperous to the
end of time; and she may have the
means and raise her own teachers to
give all the children of the State from
generation to generation the kind of
education most needed by every person
of both sexes. Instead of seventy-four
million dollars annually from her agri-
cultural and manufacturing industries,
and many millions from her livestock,
she may have ar income of five hundred
million dollars annually from all of her
industries when her people are all well
educated, industrially educated, and all
of her resources well developed.
Here is table from the census of
1880 which shows the youthful multi
tude that will control and give character
to Mississippi, in less than quarter of a
century:
SCHOOLS = POPULATION AND ATTEND
@NcE.
Whole number of school age Is to 81
years., 419,963. This number is made
up of white youth of school age, $780,
$50; colored youth of school age, $780,
433.
The white people pay most of the
taxes, probably nineteen-twentieths, the
colored people get most of the school
money.
In appears that large numbers of
white and colored persons of school age
are not enrolled:
Whites enrolled in public schools. lol sos
Colored enrolled in public schools. Ia, 633
Average monthly enrolment, white 81, 454
Average monthly enrolment, col -. los, TIA
Average daily attendance, white. 74,647
Average daily attendance, colored. SAY
In 419,963 persons of all colors of
school age in Mississippi the whole
average daily attendance is but 100, 064.
After providing sufficient school
fund to pay the teachers, laws should
be enacted making attendance at schools
compulsory, as in Germany, Massachu-
sets and other places.
Mississippi has white teachers en-
plcyed ..,........3, 314
Colored teachers employed. ......2 ga
Number of men teaching ......... 1872
Number of women teaching ,486
The whole receipts for public schools
in 1SS0-S1 were SIG ,343; in 1SS1-S2,
$958, 221.
A In Massachusetts, the number of men
teaching in the public schools in 1880
were 1874; women 1927.
. The average pay of male teachers was
z $50 81 month; women teachers $38 49
per month.
NORMAL sCHooLs-INDUsTRIA SCHOOLS
FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL, ETC.
: Mississippi has one of the best agri
). cultural colleges in the South (if not the
o very best) al Starkville, with a large
g number of students from rich and poor
t, families, all working and pursuing theil
e course of studies side by side, under ex
cellent discipline and with an honorable
ambition to excel
The State Female Industrial College
= at Columbus will be in operation IN
October, and it has good prospects Of
success.
The Alcorn University and A. and AI
College at Oakland has 125 students
If 1t is for colored youths, and they have
he industrial instruction, as at Starkville
S The Tougaloo University, for colorec
n students of both sexes, has about Isl
n students. The State gives an annua
ne appropriation of $4,000. The school wa
~ establis1 ned by benevolent Northern
al people.
re The Shaw University, at Holl,
Springs, for colored students, is doing
good work in educating colored youth
is Since 1868 the State has received $40,
y 600 from the Peabody fund.
the Iuka Normal Institute, for boil
sexes, gives special prominence to tn
re training department.
Of Natchez Seminary, for training teach
lr ers and preachers for the colored people
p is under the care of the Baptist HON.
Mission Society. Removed to Jackson
;. The Union Female College, at Oxford
4 reported, in 1879 so, a normal depart
: ment.
There were in 1880 in Mississippi
eleven school for the superior instruc
1t ton of young women. All showed ad
vanced English studies, and most o
them classical studies of four years.
b. The University of Mississippi, at Or
n ford, admits students of both sexes; an
e lhe highest honors were conferred on
e young lady of Mississippi in june las
It The Bishop Green Associate Missio
In Training School protestant Episcopal
is located at Dry Grove.
The Institution for the Education q
the Deaf and Dumb is located at Jacl
se son. It has a department for colore
OF mutes in a separate building a mil
oss from the city. Several industries al
or taught in the institution.
GU The Mississippi Institution for the Ii
is struction Of the Blind is located
Gle Jackson. 1t gives instruction in brool
making, chair making, mattress maxim
and upholstery.
A BRIGHT FUTURE.
y The people of Mississippi are poo
~ the farmers and most of the other De
- pie Of the State have to live on prime
it Piles of the closest economy, but tn,
Ne have laid the foundation for graz
) success ard almost unlimited veal
and prosperity for generations yet u
!. born. They are doing more for poste
ty than for themselves. They "
saddle no heavy debts upon comil
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