Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-07

twenty-three dollars and seventy-fouI cents (S2, ,023, 123. "A. For the year ending on that day it's income was one hundred and nine teen thousand six hundred and eighty dollars and five cents ($119, 0.O5), and it's disburse- ments Gncluding the sum already mentioned as having been paid to towns for support of D bile schools) one hundred and thirty theu- sand five hundred and eighty dollars and eighteen cents (S130, ,5S0.1S).
 The number of pupils in the Normal school on the 30th day of November, 1885, was one hundred and seventy. So large a number had not been in the school at the corresponding date in any year since 1859.
 The expenses of the institution for the year ending on that day were nineteen thou sand eight hundred and forty-fvs dollars (S19,S45.)
 At least three hundred of it's graduates are now teaching public schools in this State.
 The act of 1885 "concerning evening schools" requires school visitors to certify annually to the comptroller f'the average number of scholars attending such schools within the year next previous to the first Monday of March, but prescribes no rule whereby such Beverage number" shall be de termlned. The ambiguity thus existing in the act causes confusion and should be rem edied
 l concur in the recommendation of the Board of Education that section 4th of chap ter 4th of title XI of the general statutes be so amended as to permit boards of school visitors to appoint as s'acting school yisi- tors" persons not of their own number.
 NATIONAL GUARD.
 The National Guard, numbering two thou sand three hundred and thirteen officers and men, continues to maintain high standard of discipline and efficiency, and is believed to compare not unfavorably with any similar organization in any other State of the Union.
 During the past year it's condition has been improved by the disbanding of two inefficient companies and the organization, in Stam- ford, of a remarkably good one
 The armories at Bridgeport and New Lon don have been finished. Your attention is particularly invited to the part of the adju- tant generals report which speaks of armo- especially in relation to provision for an armory at Hartford.
 In the item of one hundred and forty thou sand six hundred and fifty dollars and sixty six cents (s140, $50. 66,) already mentioned as being charged on account of expenses of the National Guard during the year ending November Both, 1885, are included fifty thousand dollars expended upon armories (1rostly upon the construction of armori ss at Bridgeport and New London) together with other sums not constituting ordinary annual expenses of the National Guard, go that the actual amount of the ordinary expenses of maintaining the force during that year was eighty-two thousand and twenty-tw two dollars and twenty-five cents 1882, ,022, 25, ,)-being twenty-four thousand three hundred and dollars and siXty-two cents (S24, 396 .62) less than the corresponding amount for the year next preceding.
 The military communication tax for the past year will exceed one hundred and one thou sand dollars (S101 ,000,) )-of which amount one hundred thousand three hundred and eighty nine dollars and ten cents (S100, ,389.- 1O) had been collected on the second day of last December.