The Colfax chronicle., 1890-12-20


1880
Total expenditures for public schools SIii ,sss 81
Number or schools. Neutrality-suspicious.. s74
Number of teachers. ers............. 1,zs8
Number OF enrolled pupils. 54,3l2
1859.
Total expenditures s.-...........-..... sScisSS 90
Number of schools. ...........-...... 2.276
Mum Der of teachers. rs.--............... 2,570
Number OF enrolled pupils ........... 1s2,ss3
Her schools are in session for longer
terms than the other Southern States,
save Virginia. Her teachers are better
paid than OF Alabama, tennessee, Missis-
sippi. North Carolina and Virginia. Her
public charities are better supported and
administered than those OF any of the re-
constructed commemorative. The slan-
ders of the lottery orators and newspapers
relative to the condition of the insane
asylum and the insane in parish jails hive
been entirely refuted by official uthority.
Whom the extensions now in progress at
jackson are completed, which officially
announced will be in the very near future,
there will be more than ample accom-
mediation for all the INDECENT insane in
the State. The levee fund is ample to
restore and keep in repair the leyees in
their former condition, and even the ad-
.ditional outlay to still further improve
them to an ideal system can he met by
temporary increase of taxation in certain
districts, even if the Federal appropri-
alton, which has just passed Congress
aud been approved by the president, does
not obviate this.
After the flood of 1882 the State ex-
pended in works of reparation S235, ,215,-
80; after the flood Of 1884, S24o,:357 u,
and there will be available in 1890 for
purposes Of repair and improvement over
100000, apart from the resources Of the
levee districts themselves.
The financial condition OF the parishes,
cities and towns in the State and their
advance in ten years out OF condition
of large Indebtedness is pbenomipal.
Thirty six parishes owe no debt whatever.
The aggregate bonded debt OF the LOUIS
lana parishes has in ten years decreased
80 per cent. and their aggregate floating
debt has decreased So per cent.
The value OF the bonded debt Of the
city OF New Orleans in the markets of the
world has increased 80 per cent. That
city has added more than s30,C000OO to
her assessed values. In 1850 she had 9i5
manufactures, employing S404 hands,
producing a product valued ut Sic, ,808 $50.
In the year ending Aug. 81, 1889. the in
dustrial journals estimated that she had
2i,29I hands, producing product valued
at Si4, 4,9z5,VUO. Her credit Is such that she
pays her bills in cash, and is about to re-
fund Si0,OO0.0oo OF her debt, bearing
per cent interest. into per cent bonds.
The railroad mileage iii the State has
increased from 652 miles in 1880 to ic47
IN 1889, and there are in 1890 four ad- |
ditional roads in process Of construction. |
which when completed will add over $50 |
miles more.
The crops of the State Of all kinds ex-
hibit similar increase.
The condition Of our labor is satisfac- !
tory and settled, and the relations of the |
races harmonious and amicabie.
Realizing to its fullest extent the fact |
that these benefcent results could not |
have been achieved in this State without |
the supremacy of the Democratic party, |
which represents the union Of the white |
race for the preservation of the civiliz- |
alton and morality Of the whole people. |
fully realizing also that all great qnes- |
tIons, involving the happiness and |
future of this commonwealth in the con-
dition In which it is placed, must be de- |
cided within the ranks Of that great party. /
We invoke your calm and dispassionate |
of the situation before u.s.
The Louisiana State Lottery Company.
born Of a reconstruction Legislature, ano |
whose charter is soon to expire, has moved /
10 secure new charter for period o: |
twenty-five years upon the payment IL |
the State Of an annual license largely in |
excess of the sum hitherto paid by it.
A momentous crisis, freighted with |
the political control OF the State and the
welfare OF its citizens for the whole of an
,ther generation, has thus been thrust
upon us. In spite Of oft-repeated prom