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402.11, while the receipts from all sources 

 were $15,369.40, which, deducted from the ex- 

 p.-ii'liniivi, shows the actual cost to the State 

 lor ouch boy to be $111.60 per year. The 

 wlmlf number of boys in school during the 

 \fiir was 474; of whom 261 were remaining, 

 September 80, 1870. During the year 115 

 boys were apprenticed and on trial, and 74 

 \\ civ released on probation. The number of 

 pupils in the Industrial School for Girls, at Lan- 

 caster, October 1, 1870, was 148. During the 

 year 896 boys were provided for in the school- 

 ships, of whom 216 were remaining at the end 

 of the year. The trustees of the Massachu- 

 setts School for Idiotic and Feeble-minded 

 Youth report the number of inmates at the 

 I'l-iriiming of the year to have been 87; en- 

 tered during the year, 26 ; discharged, 80 ; in 

 the institution at the end of the year 1870, 83. 

 The trustees say, "idiots possess the attribute 

 of educatibility." They are affected by culture 

 even more than ordinary children and youth, 

 because the less the force of individual charac- 

 ter the greater its plasticity, and the more it is 

 affected by extraneous influence. But they 

 lack the innate power of development; they 

 would grow as animals grow, were it not for 

 other influences. Considering their low start- 

 ing-point, however, idiotic children can be 

 made to progress nearly as far as ordinary 

 children ; but no reliance must be placed upon 

 their innate power of development and im- 

 provement. Every thing must be done for 

 them. Idiots are more numerous among the 

 children of the rich and of the poor than of 

 the middling classes, who suffer neither from 

 the enervation of riches nor the pinchings of 

 poverty. The pupils come mainly from the 

 actually poor. Many are of families that have 

 been deteriorating physically, and are nearly 

 run out. The stock has become vitiated by 

 various causes, among which intemperance 

 and physical excesses are prominent. 



The commission appointed to consider the 

 expediency of establishing an asylum for ine- 

 briates have recommended the passage of a 

 bill " to establish the Massachusetts Asylum for 

 Inebriates, which can be built by private sub- 

 scription ; " the institution to be managed by a 

 board of directors, a part of whom shall be 

 appointed by the Governor, and a part by the 

 subscribers to the establishment. For the re- 

 lief of the intemperate in prisons, the commis- 

 sion also recommend the establishment of an 

 inebriate asylum, for the special purpose of 

 treating cases selected from the several prisons. 

 The public schools of the State are in a 

 flourishing condition. The following are the 

 pecuniary statistics of the year : 

 The amount expended for instruction, raised 



by taxation, is $3,125,053 00 



Increa? e over last year 201,344 80 



Amount raised by taxation, including income 

 of surplus revenue, for each child in the 

 State between the ages of fire and fifteen 



ytars 11 54 



Increase over last year 70 



The Governor, in his message to the Legis- 



lature of 1871, speaks of the lack of special 

 ti-( linii al instruction as a defect in the system, 

 and recommends the establishment of technical 

 schools. Ho also refers to the fact that a 

 large proportion of the teachers are women, 

 and that their average wages are only $80.92 

 per month, and recommends an increase of 

 compensation. lie also recommends the es- 

 tablishment of a fifth normal school at Wor- 

 cester. 



The population of Boston, in 1870, was 

 250,526 ; in I860, 177,841 ; in 1850, 186,881. 



The following is the Federal census of Mas- 

 sachusetts, taken in the years 1800 and 1870 : 



MATTHEWS, JAMES M., D. D., a clergyman 

 of the Reformed Dutch Church, born in Salem, 

 Washington County, N. Y., in 1785 ; died in 

 New- York City, January 28, 1870. He gradu- 

 ated at Union College in 1803, and at the As- 

 sociate Reformed Seminary in 1807, and was 

 licensed to preach the same year. He was as- 

 sistant-professor in Dr. Mason's Seminary from 

 1809 to 1818; was preacher and pastor in the 

 South Dutch Church in New York from 1812 

 to 1840. In 1813 the South Dutch Church 

 withdrew from the Collegiate Church, and 

 continued in Garden Street till 1835, when it 

 was divided into the Murray Street Church, 

 now the church on Fifth Avenue and Twenty- 

 first Street (Dr. Rogers's), and the Washington 

 Square Church (Dr. Hutton's). From 1831 to 

 1839, he was Chancellor of the University of 

 the City of New York. From that time he 

 did not hold public office, but was active 

 in ecclesiastical affairs, maintaining up to the 

 last days of his protracted life an activity and 

 energy of mind and body almost without an 

 equal. As late as the fall of 1870, the Chris- 

 tian Union Council, which assembled in New 

 York, was organized by him, and it is said that 

 the great labors he performed in connection 

 with it were the final burdens that broke down 

 his herculean constitution. 



MoCLINTOCK, Rev. JOHN, D. D., LL. D., a 

 Methodist clergyman, professor, and author, 

 born in Philadelphia in 1814 ; died in Madison, 

 N. J., March 4, 1870. He graduated with 

 honor at the University of Pennsylvania, in 

 1885, and immediately after was elected Pro- 

 fessor of Mathematics in Dickinson College, 

 Carlisle, Pa % After an experience of several 



