Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-26
trlNrEREsT1Ne STATISTICS
Brought Out at the Educational Session
of the Late Conference.

The Nashville American Of the
18th inst. contained the followinl
proceedings of an educational session
OF the late Conference. The LEAF
CHRONICLE he's many readers who
will be greatly interested in the sta
tistics herewith appended. Says Tho
Americans:
There was no vacant room in The
Tulip-street auditorium last nigh
when the evening session of tht
conference met. The gallery wa.
also full and a number stood through
the proceedings.
The religious services were con
Quoted by Rev. A. T. Goodloe.
Mr.. D. @. Scales, secretary, reported
the full organization of the Board o.
Trustees OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, and their readiness
to receive any requests, now, legally
The church had now legal corpor.
ate existence. Ordered printed in
the minutes.
DIR. Kelley explained that hundreds
of thousands of dollars 10 property
Wiled to or decided to the church had
been lost because the church had had
no legal existence. Now all property
decided or willed to the Board OF
Trustees would be legally and un-
equivocally the property of the
church.
The Board of Education, through
j. e. Harrison, submitted the follow.
ing:
Question 33-"What are the educa-
tional statistics?"
Vanderbilt Universiiy-74 officers
and teachers, 40 students, 100000
endowment, $975,000 in property.
Nashville College for Young La
dies-30 teachers, 8 lecturers, AIS pu-
pills, $1,000 endowment, $l25, 200 in
property.
The Webb School, teachers, 240
pupils, $4,000 in property, $4,000 in
library. -
Tennessee Female Colleges teach
ers, ia pupils, $4,000 in property.
Martin College-11 officers and
teachers, "a pupils, $4,000 endow-
ment, $4,000 in property,
GAINESVILLE Female Academy-lG
teachers, 1913 pupils, $15,O00 in prop
erty.
Howard Institute-5 teachers, 16t
pupils, $4,000 in property.
Wall & Mooney's-3 teachers, 16s
pupils, IS, 200 in property.
Soule College-11 teachers, 12(
pupils, $4,000 i'll property.
Savannah District High School;
teachers, lOS pupils, So, 500 in prop
erty.
Total-l63 officers and teachers
1894 students, $93S,0O0 endowment
and 81 ,2l3, 300 in property. This il
an increase over the past year OF s.
teachers, 533 students, 5000 i'm en-.
dowment and 1927 400 in property.
The report proceeded to speak o
each Of these institutions more in de
tail, giving much Information about
the course of study ana other point
of interests. Reference was also
made to the desirability OF religious
education; the territory within the
limits of the conference was wei
supplied with good secular schools
The resolutions recommended tha,
the scholarship donated for another
year to the conference by the Ten
nessee Methodist, bepIlt in the hands
of the Commissioner of Female Edu
cation; that the conference confirm
the election OF Mrs. E. q. Buford &c
the principal of the GAINESVILLE te
male Academy; and request the pre-
siding bishop to appoint Rev. w. w
Martin to the chair of Hebrew in the
Vanderbilt University; Rev. w. f
Wilson to the presidency of Tennes
see Female College; DR.. II. NJ. San.
ders TO tho presidency of Martin Col.
lege; Rev. Geo. l.. Beale to the Webt
School, and Rev. j. e. Harrison
Commissioner of Female Education