Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1874 — School Statistics. [ARTICLE]

School Statistics.

From the reports of the County School Superintendent it is learned that the conditions of the schoob school property, etc., in this State, at the close of the present school year, is as follows: Pupils admitted into the primary schools, 475,702: high, 13 342. Average attendance of white chrildren in primary schoob. 289,266; colored chrildren, 3,740. Average attendance in high school, 9,163. School was taught in 9,105 of the 9,158 dbtricte. The average length of school in days 113 and the number of teachers employed in both primary and high schools is 12;655. the average daily compensation of teachers in primary schoob is males, $2.08 females, $1.81; in high schools males, $4.40; females, $2.72. There are 9,129 school hou.es, of wbish 82 are stone, 1,117 brick, 7,657 frame and 279 lag. The estimated value of school property incldingschool apparatus, i 5510,373,692.58. There are 265,029 volumes en the township libraries, 1,341 having been added during the past year; There have been 479 school houses erected during the past year at a cost of $817,517.33. The average daily attendance upon private schoob during the year is 15,759. and 4,592 township institutes have been held within that time. The total revenue for tuition i 554,329,737.01, of which amount there is now on hand $1,704,413.81. The amount of special school revenue now on hand b $498,395.95.—A®.

Recently a bull was being driven along the read near No. 4 of the Delaware A Hudson Canal Company’s gravity railroad, and bee ming unma ageable. it elimbed up the Steep embankment, on treaded track. Just then a I ng train of coal ears came along at a high rate of Sptf d. The bull turned and made a pass at the train A collision followed, the bull was thrown high into the air and came d'-wn on one of the rails in front of the ears. Fourteen ears were thrown down the bank-fifty se t, and William Hraly, a car runner, was fatally njured. The other men on the train had very narrow escapes, saving themselves by jumping. ’ j _ i isp e «w jr I- 1 The wife of a colored barber at Monticello ran away from her liege lord, day before jesterday, taking their only child with her, and came to thi s city. The husband telegraphed to the officers here to arrest her which thev did. The husband arrived on the next train, and upon consultation the wom-.n was induced to return home yesterday morning.— Logansport Star.