The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-01-17
he several States received the follow

Alabama ........ 500. ..................S $500
Arkansas ................ ......... ...... AGO
Georgia 1850
Louisiana. ....................... ........ 5000
North Carolina ............. 80. ......... $500
South Carolina. .... .......... 10000
Tennessee IA 600
Texas. $500
Virginia ........................ 1900
West Virginia Observation-Disclosures. AGO
Total ......................... ...... SCI. 500
The appropriations from the Peabody
Fund to the State of Virginia for the
year were: For scholarships:
Nashville Normal College. ........ ...... 81, 500
Normal School, Fdrmvlle. Va. 49,. 1000
Normal School, Hampton. Va . 500
Institutes OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 2,00O
Virginia had full representation this
year at tie Nashville Normal College.
Five of our fourteen students graduated
in the Glass of 1888. one of whom. Hugh
S. Bird, was recently elected professor of
Pedagogics Of William and Mary College.
Two members of the Normal School at
Farmvile. Va, are graduates of the
Nashville Normal school.
| Prof. Buchanan says: All vacancies in
the scholarships allotted to Virginia have
been filled. These scholarships. as the
educational advantages they afford become
better known. are more highly appreciated
and more eagerly sought after. This year.
although there were but FIVE vacancies to
be filled, there were fifty.four applicants
for them. and forty-four entered the com.
petitive examinations held at different
points in the State.
There are 227 pupils at the Female Nor
NAL School at Farmvile, and the school is
| in IA prosperous condition.
OF the Hampton Normal school, Prof.
Buchanan says: There is need of a
larger number of we'll trained and compe
tent colored teachers for our cOlOred
schools. The Institute at Hampton Is
doing most valuable work in the direc
ton of supplying this need. Upon official
inquiry made last year, il was ascertained
that 27l colored teachers in the public
schools If the State we're educated at
! Hampton. Thus this institution. besides
its other imp )rtant and valuable work, is
| making a large and much needed contri-
button to the teaching force of our public
schools.
Seven Peabody Institutes were held in
| Virginia during the year just closed And
a number of the State and county insti-
tutes were held also. The Peabody insti-
tutes were held at Alexandria, Cape
Charles City, Estillville, Liberty, Mar
| tinsville, Roanoke, and Staunton. The
attendance was 1,22s- zoos white. 220
coored, and the cost to the fund was
$207l II.
| Provision of Jaw is made for five
weeks normal for colored teachers, at the
Virginia Normal Collegiate Institute at
| Petersburg.
Prof Buchanan gratefully acknowledges
and appreciates the generous appropria-
tions made from the Peabody Fund, for
promoting the efficiency and usefulness
of our school system, by giving such lib
eral advantages in improving the teachers
in the schools
| Hon. A. II. II. Stuart of our city was
appointed chairman of the Executive
Committee. Hon. J. L. M. Curry, of
| Richmond, Va, was unanimously chosen
GenI Agent. position he resigned about
two years ago, to accept the office OF Min
| lister to Spain.
1t was ordered that the next meeting of
the trustees be held in New York City.
the first Thursday of October, 1859. The
annual meeting of 1888 was then dissolved.
Great interest is felt by the Beard OF
Trustees in the Winthrop Training
school for teachers, for the benefit of the
Young women of South Carolina. estaL
ished in the city Of Columbia. South Car
DINA Nov 10. 1886. The school is named
| in honor of Hon. Robert {. Winthrop,
| who has been President Of the Board of
Trustees of the Peabody Fund since its
! organization. We notice In its Board of
Trustees Prof. Edward S. .]oynes. of Vir-
giua. The faculty, except the superin-
tendent. is composed of ladies.
| From an address before the Winthrop
School by Hon. j, p. Kennedy Bryan, of
|
beautiful tribate to the noble man, whose
generous nature inspired and organized
these noble charities
"Besides many minor contributions and aids
! ia worthy Objects public and private. am unit
inc TO over S2U 800 his chief public benefac-
tinns were;
900 to found the Peabody Institutes and
! libraries In hts native town.
ISL 900 coo to found the Peabody Institute in
Baltimore with Its great iDrary.
$50 COO to Washington College. Va.
..s2 500 600 for homes for the homeless poor of
London. in 1862.
$50 600 to Harvard College for an institute
of archaeology
1900 to Yale College for a school of physi-
cal science.
"s3sOJ 0oo for TIE promotion ofgeneral educa-
tion In the South given in 1887 and 1869.
"This phiianthI opy aston ished the world and
touched the heart of mankind and he We 8 hon
ored as a b ene:actor of humanity. The Queen
of England rendered him title, which he de-
clined while absent on a visit 10 America, the
c,fizens of London reared to his honor the
noble statue near the Roy al Exchange and the
hank cf England the Pope warmly welcomed
him to Rome; the Empress Of the Frengh Wed
with Englands Queen in heartfelt tribute;
tho Congress of tine United States, represent
ina ali his fellow countiymen, greeted him
with homage in thsir vote of gratitude; and
the southern people in their calamity, by their
simple. genuine, and grateful welcome, glad
dened the heart of their bepefaeiQl at the hos
nitable and gracioae White sulphur SPRING.
"ae died In London in 1869. within few
months ofhls completion of his great Southern
benefaction. England and Engiands Queen
watched with tender solicitude at his dying
he'd Westminster Abbey. the epltome of a
nation IS hist ory,' opened to receive his remains
as temporary resting place.
..The British nation sent Her Maiesty's stately
man of.war to bear his body to his home across