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BRUNSWICK ADVERTISER.
BRUNSWICK,
GEORGIA.
FROM ALL SOURCES.
The widow of ex-President Johnson
Is very feeble from asthmatic trouble.
Wm. B. Astor owned 3,000 houses
in New York, and left a fortune valued at
$50,000,000.
Tn th« nssf bmisft of representatives
there are 181 democrats, 98*republioaas, 61 i ,r ’,r r0 j a!K:< !i , I* UB oHc,
liberal 4 indeperT/tantT dc «! n * d s an “ stm incomplete,
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The soldiers of the United States picture was finished in September.'—N.
World.
The New York Herald states that
the death-rate of that city has increased to an
300,000 francs ($60,000) the latest work of
Slclssonier, which is now on its way to this
country. It represents a regiment of French
cuirassiers going into battle and saluting
their chief, Napoleon I., who is seen standing
on a bill in the center of the scene. The
troop.'of horsemen covers almost the whole
foreground, the nearest figures being about
eighteen inches high. The excited and war
like appearance of the soldiers, in marked
contrast with the cool and dignified exterior
of the great Napoleon, is said to be admir
ably portrayed. This painting, the largest
Moissonier has yet done, being five feet long,
was begun in the latter part of 1865. In 1867,
when the work was farfrom being completed
the whs one red I50,v00 francs lor it !•-
air. rrobasco, of Ciuoiumtii. Tu» 08W was
was
Report of the Commissioner of Edu
cation.
The fifth annual report of Gen. Eaton, com
missioner of education, gives the following
statistics:’
Statet. Tef* Total*
School popnlation„„„.......13,736,672 139,378 13,876,050
Enrolled In public schools 8,030,772 69,209 8,090,931
Average daily attendance. 4,483,073 33,489 4,621.654
No. children between 6 and 16 pears old.... 10,636,674
No. teachers employed 241,300
Total Income, pnbiic schools’(States) 4 81,277,636
Total income, public schools (Territories). 831,219
Total . 8 82.158,905
Total expenditures (sites, hnildisgs, fur
niture) Stajes .................... .„....* 11,362,239
iiittir*', Territorfes.7.7.."..T”*’*.’.".7,.. iw.w ’
PARAGRAPHS OP THE PERIOD,
Total......
15,043,903
army have deposited of their scanty wages
during the past year, with the paymaster
general, $325,256.
The Prussians are evidently growing
tired of so much warlike preparation by
their government. Last year there were
80,000 desertions from the army.
A newspaper is defined to be a wb
dow through which men look out on all that
is going on in the world. It is an infolding
encyclopedia, an unbound book, forever issu
ing and never finished.
Mr. Thomas, of Chicago, is the next
man who has a motor which will “supersede
the use of steam.” Thomas has the same
trouble as Keeley. His power bursts every
barrier and oozes out of the pores of the metal
box when he attempts to confine it. It would
be a relief to find bne motor-man who can
really box up his power.
Some aping Americans are trying
to introduce fox-hunting into New Jersey. If
the New Jersey farmers are properly pro
vided with shot-guns, this demoralizing imi
tation of the English will be speedily put
down. The stage-coach imitation, in which
a crowd of feeble-minded New York Ameri
cans ride to the races and imagine they are
true Britishers, is all that the country ought
to be called upon to endure at once.
A good man may “ go off half-
cocked,” but a good gun never does, and
amateur sportsman should make a note of
this last fact. An experienced person says
in the Boston Advertiser“ It is a universal
rule with men who are accustomed to fire
arms to keep the hammer at half-cock, as
then it is impossible to discharge. A blow
from the rear would break the lock before it
could strike the cap, and that is next to an
imposibility, there probaly never having been
a single instance of the kind.”
The contested election cases in the
house will exceed in numler those of any
previous session for many years. Ike clerk
of the house has already received notice of
fifteen contestants, and the papers in many
of the cases hove already been filed. The
contests are in the following districts; 1st
and 2d of Alabama; 2d, 3d nnd 6th of Illi
nois ; 13thof Indiana; 9th of Kentucky; 3d,
4th and 5th of Louisiana; 4th of Massachu
setts; 1st and 2d of South Carolina; 2d of
Virginia, and 8th of Wisconsin.
. In Wm. B. Aster’s death the people
of New York lose a public benefactor. Mr.
Astor fully carried out his father’s purpose of
giving to New York a magnificent library,
and supplemented the elder Astor’s dona
tions to the Astor library in a very handsome
manner. This great collection (now number
ing 150,000 Volumes) and the superb building
which contains it form an enduring monu
ment to the public spirit and taste of both
father and son. Their millions have not
been selfishly applied.
The Pacific Mail Steamship com
pany has brought an action against the state
of California to test the constitutionality of
of the law which forbids the landing of
criminal or immoral Chinese at San Fran
cisco. This law has obliged the steamship
company frequently to carry back celestials
to their native land. The case is before the
United States supreme court, and will be
argued in Janaary. It is thought that (he
president, in ills forthcoming message, will
touch upon this vexed subject of Chinese
immigration. The California law has had
little effect in pre venting the influx of
Chinese.
In the forthcoming report of the
postmaster general, he recommends a repeal
o! that portion or the amended postal law of
last Besson which increased the postage on
transient newspapers. He does not, how
ever, recommend a repeal of any other por
tion of the provisions relative to third-class
matter. It nos been found that the revenues
of the department, from the package mall,
have increased, notwithstanding the fact that
the rates were doubled. Before this increase,
the government darned merchandise pack
ages beyond the Mississippi at a lost. The
increase of rates gives a profit on pack
ages east of the Mississippi river,and.payB
expenses and a little more through! to the
Pacific coast.
Mr. A. T. Stewart has bought for
alarming extent, owing to deficient drainage
and Impure drinking water, which have the
effect ti making the whole city a very breed
ing place of malaria with the concomitant
typhoid fever. The Herald gives the follow-
comparative table of death-rates in thirteen
of the large cities of the world, from the
sixth report of the Massachusetss board of
health for 1874:
Estimated
Deaths
New York....
Population
per 1.000.
27.61
Philadelphia
19.54
Brooklyn
24.46
St. Louis
. 16.27
Chicago
20.31
Baltimore....
350,000
21,14
Boston
23.60
Paris
1,851,792
21.01
London
21.04
Berlin
32.03
Vienna
31.0*
Bombay
29.00
Calcutta
25.00
General
Sherman’s report.
— The
nual report of Gen. Sherman, after statin^
the geographical limits of the various com
mands, says the aggregate strength of the
line of the army according to the last re
ports received, is 1,540 officers and 25,031 en
listed men, made up as follows: Five regi
ments of artillery, 270 officers and 2,504 men
10 regiments of cavalry, 422 officers and 7,20(i
men; 25 regiments of infantry, 848 officers and
11,000 men, available recruits, hospital
stewards, ordnance sergeants, etc., 33,201.
During the past winter troops in the depart
ments of Missouri and Texas were employed
in arduous and severe winter campaigns
against the Kiowa, Cheyenne and Comanche
Indians on the Staked Plains, that have for
years been engaged in depredations on the
Texas and Kansas frontier, resulting in their
disarmment and subjection to authority. If
military commanders can have control over
supplies needed by these Indians, as they now
have over their persons, I am convinced, by
a recent visit, that a.condition of peace can
be maintained. The Sioux Indians have re
cently made incursions into northern Ne
braska, mostly to steal cattle and horses' from
the farms along the Pacifie railroad and north
of it. Gen Crook is of the opinion that an
army noting defensively oaunot prevent these
incursions, and suggests that troops be sta
tioned in the midst of the Indians so as to
watch and prevent them leaving on a pre
tense of hunting. This is impracticable unless
the army can have supervision of the neces
sary supplies of these tribes within the re
servation; which is now not the case. The
reports of several commissioners, which have
under military escort recently been engaged
In exploring the country ana in negotiating
with these Indians, will throw much light on
this subject. Generally speaking, the damage
to life and prosperity t>y the Indians is be
lieved to be less during the past year than in
any former year, and the prospect is that as
the country settles up it will be less and less
each year until all the Indiausare established
on small reservations; but until they acquire
habits of industry in farming or stock-raising
they will need food from the government, be
cause the game on which they have hitherto
subsided has diminished rapidly.
To Tell the Age op Sheep.—A
sheep’s front teeth the first year are
eight in number, appearing all ofasize.
Second year the two middle ones are
shed out and are replaced bytwo much
larger than the others. Third year two
very small ones appear—one on either
side of the eight. At the end of the
fourth year there are six targe teeth.
Salaries of superintendents........ $ 924,
Salaries of teachers (States) 46,201,609
Salaries of teachers (Territories) 502,286
Total .» .$ 47,623,633
Miscellaneous expenditures (States) 4 11,609,159
Miscellaneous expenditures (Territories).. 93,936
Total 8 11,703,695
Total expenditures for schools (States) 8 74,169,26'
‘ ' ' Terri tori)
Total expenditures forscbools (territories)
Total....;..
803,121
Total value of buildings, sites, etc. (States )8464,130,947
Total value of buildings, sites, etc. (Terri
tories) i. 1,572,500
Total 8165,753,447
COST OF SCHOOLS PEB CAPITA.
The following table shows the per capita
rate of expenditure during the year as ar
ranged:
111
States and
Territories
9.8. -
§.52-33
fljll
j iM
$14.43
8.75
Hl»i
!s-| s L
••
|
: S3 r
i st-V
$20.45
14.15
18.85
18 53
19.66
12.00
21.62
14.93
13.03
18.02
14.17
13.73
10 70
19.13
?M
ill?
Massachusetts $14.70
Ohio 11.40
Louisiana.....,..,,..,.. ,. 11.00
Nebraska 10.72
lthode Island 10.40
Connecticut 9.47
Vermont 7.04
Now York 6.94
Iowa 6.63
Michigan 6.83
New Jersey 3.82
Indiana 5.70
Illinois 5.6O
Maine 4.94
Maryland 4.51
Wisconsin 4.16
West Virginia 4.14
Minnesota 4.06
Missouri 3.00
Mississippi 2.89
Tennessee 2.09
Virginia 2.02
South Carolina 1.95
Alabama 87)3
Jeorgia .63
(ew Hampshire
Florida
District of Columbia. 10.70
llontana 7.90
Colorado 7.23
Arizona 4.41
mtail 2.73
Cherokoe Nation 7.40
NOBMAL SCHOOLS.
The commissioner presents in this report a
much fuller exhibit than has previously been
made of .the conditton of the normal schools
of the country. In 1870 only 53 reported; in
1871, 65; in 1872,98; in 1873,143; in 1874,
124. These schools had in 1874,966 instructors
and 34,405 pupils. Normal schools are now
supported in all the states except Nevada and
the District of Columbia. The graduates for
the year numbered 1,832, of whom 1,386 are
engaged in teaching. ’
UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES.
and.uulvewities reporting 343
1 oiicges and universities not reporting 10
Umber of Instructors - 3,783
: umber of students 66,692
alue buildings, grounds, etc,, (303 report
ing) .. .839,170,223
Value productive fund 23,060,309
income from (163 reporting) 1,341,890
. loeelpts from tuition (168 reporting).,.... 1,768,929
611,606
1,99),333
13.50
11.55
10.83
7.80
9.30
9.02
7 82
3.72
9.17
6.80
6.62
5.70
4.54
3.40
5.08
4.23
1.95
7.05
6.59
18.93
15.63
13.84 ‘
33.23
5.09
15.29
porting)
Amount scholarship funds (53 reporting)...
ttnjbor of students in colleges. 26,315
umber of students in schools of science 5,035
Nnraber In schools of superior instruction for
women.................... 17,255
Total................ 48,855
(umber students preparing for college 11,855
(umber students in academies 7,817
(umber stndents in preparatory schools 4,606
Number stndents in preparatory sclentllic
schools ............... 1,534
'Don’Pedro, of Brazil, will bring
$200,000 worth of diamonds when he
conies to visit this country. He is.
going to give them away to young men
who part their hair in the centre.
Troy has a wrinkled, sallow old man
who, being about to seek a young wife,
inquired at a drug store for “the man
as enamels faces, so’s to make ’em look
pooty.”
An auctioneeiyat a late sale of a.i-
tlqv.iti™. put up a helmet with the fol
lowing candid observation; “Tula,
ladies and gentlemen, is the helmet of
Romulus, the Roman founder, but
whether he was a brass or iron founder
I cannot tell.” •
If you in lager find no bliss, and
loathe cigars—no child to kiss—no
wife to love—no gal to hug—don’t
seek oblivion in the jug; and if you
.$ 74,974,388 haven’t any sister, just ask some chap
to lend you his, to spark for a little
while—then “ splice,’’ and all the rest
will come in nice.—St. Louis Times..
Montgomery Queen has purchased
100 African ostriches, and is about col
onizing them on his place near Hay-
woods, a small town fifteen miles from
San Francisco. It is his intention to
raise ostriches solely for their plumage,
each bird yielding over $200 worth of
feathers yearly. He has invested
$100,000 in the enterprise.
Tomato Honey.—To each pound of
tomato allow the grated peel of a lemon
and six fresh peach leaves. Boil slowly
till they are all to pieces, then scpieeze
them through a bag. To each pound
of liquid allow a pound of sugar and
the juice of one lemon. Boil together
half an hour, or until they become a
thick jelly. Then put them into glasses
and lay double tissue paper over the
top. It will scarce])' be distinguished
real from honey.
We live in a land that is fragrant with
flowers, <
In a world that is fair to behold,
With its starry blue sky and its green shady
bowers,
And its riches more precious than gold;
But the people are very peculiar indeed,
And oft to extremes they will run,
With appetites sharp and no bounds to their
greed,
They must have whole hog or none,
The whole hog or none,
The whole hog or none,
They must have the whole hog or none.
Where She Was.—In a Baker
street car yesterday some men were
talking about the nerve of William
Tell in shooting an apple off his son’s
head. To vex an old lady .who was
listening, one of the men said:
“That whs Mr. Tell; but what did
his wife amount to—why doesn’t his
tory mention her ? ”
“I’ll bet a huudred dollars!” called
the old lady in an excited voice, “ I’ll
bet a hundred dollars that she sat up
half the night before patching that
boy’s browsers so he’d look decent to
go out!”—Detroit Free Press.
9.23
5.47
8.93
8.79
26.76
17.79
2.56
6.99
24.06
Totfl... , - 25,039
Every State reports one or more school of
science; twenty-seven states report schools
theology; twenty states report law schools;
twenty-seven states report regular schools of
medicine.
RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS.
The Catholics have eighteen seminaries,
144 professors, and 1,238 students; the Bap
tists have 16 schools, 53 professors, and 638
students; the Presbyterians have 15 schools,
“ professors, and 294 students; the Congre-
fUnaliata have 8 schools, 50 professors, and
2 pupils; the Lutheran church has 13
schools, r>2 professor?, 426 students: (■'-
Fifth year all the front teeth are large. Protestant Episcopal has u schools,pro-
— - * 0 lessors, nnd 294 students; the Methodist
Sixth year all begin to show wear—-not
till then.
A Good Dentifrice.-—Dissolve two
ounces of borax in three pints of boil
ing water; before quite cold add one
tablespoonful of tincture of myrrh and
one tablespoonful of camphor. Bottle
» use; Add ond wine-
the solution to half a pint
of tepid viater,and use it daily. It
preserves and beautifies the teeth and
arrests decay.
Episcopal church has 7 schools, 58 professors,
'and 321 pupils; the Reformed church has 3
schools, 12 professors, and 89 students; the
United Presbyterians, Christians and Free
Baptists have 2 sehbols each; and die Urn*
tartans, African Methodists, Cumberland
Presbyterians. German Reformed. Methodist
church, south, Moravian 1 , Swedenborgian,
Evangelical, United Brethren, and Umver-
salists have one each.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
A strong solution of carbolic acid
and water, poured into holes,, kills all
the ants ft touches, and the survivors
immediately take themselves off.
Virginia Slaves at their Old
Master’s Grave.—As soon as the
funeral services at the new-made grave
of Col. Thomas Jefferson Randolph
was concluded, and before the grave
was filled up, a veteran negro stepped
forward and asked if there was anv
objection to a service by his people.
He was told that such a tribute would
be acceptable to the family, and then a
scene that should go down in history
was enacted. Quietly Mr. Randolph's
former slaves assembled around him,
! and then swelled up from a hundred
’negro voices that most pathetic of
hymns:
“ Am I a soldier of the cross,
A follower of the Lamb?”
A gentleman who was present says
that in his whole life, extending over
seventy years, he never witnessed any
thing so touching. When the last
notes died away amid the oaks of Mon-
ticello. there was not a dry eye in the
vast assembly—Richmond, Enquirer.
The juice of ripe tomatoes will re
move the stains ot walnuts from the
hands without injury to the skin.
