MICHIGAN. 



the Ontonagon district for three years is as 

 follows: 1866, 1,647 tons, 173 pounds; 1867, 

 1,509 tons, 1,110 pounds; 1868, 1,115 tons, 

 633 pounds. There was a similar falling off 

 elsewhere. 



The following are statistics of primary 

 schools : 



Average monthly wages paid male teachers. . $47 78 



tk " female " .. $21 98 

 Number of children between 5 and 20 years 



_ ofage 854,704 



Increase over last year 16,406 



Number attending school 250,996 



Increase over last year 7.835 



Average time school was taught in districts. 6| months 



Number of volumes in district libraries 87,287 



Value of school buildings and lots $4,303,472 



Increase for the year $941,905 



Teachers employed males 2,095 



females 7,535 



Total wages paid male teachers $386,125 61 



" " female " $655,84397 



Total moneys raised for school purposes $2,487,333 61 



Increase over 1867 $476,097 60 



Paid for buildings and repairs, and debts on 



same $805,705 88 



Total indebtedness of districts $643,991 49 



Number of private or select schools 219 



Pupils attending same 11,917 



The School-moneys expended were derived 

 from the following sources : 



In district treasuries at beginning of year. . $289 877 87 



Received from State two-mill tax 309,219 38 



Primary School Fund 151,066 50 



rate-bills 110,886 26 



tuition of non-resident pupils. 22,813 21 

 district taxes to pay teachers' 



wages 444,913 00 



other district taxes 625,648 53 



dogtax 24,229 00 



all other sources 499,878 53 



Total expenditures for the year $2,487,560 32 



The following are statistics of the university: 



Attendance. 



Academic Department 422 73 



Department of Medicine 358 80 



Department of Law 34.2 152 



The honorary degree of LL. D. was also 

 conferred on Professor James E. Boise, of 

 Chicago University; Professor Herbert 1 A. 

 Newton, of Yale College; and Domingo F. Sar- 

 miento, President of the Argentine Republic. 



The Legislature of 1867 made the first State 

 appropriation toward an endowment for the 

 university, by providing for an annual State 

 tax of one-twentieth of a mill on the valuation 

 of property; but coupled with the condition 

 that the regents should first appoint a pro- 

 fessor of homoeopathy in the Department of 

 medicine. The regents, believing that two 

 systems of medicine could not be harmoniously 

 taught in the same institution at the same 

 place, made the appointment, but under regu- 

 lations which contemplated the establishment 

 of a separate school at another place than Ann 

 Arbor, at which the new professor should give 

 his instruction. The State authorities, not 

 regarding this as a compliance with the condi- 

 tions of the appropriation, declined to pay over 

 the moneys raised in 1867 and 1868, and the 

 Supreme Court held that they were right in 



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so doing. The regents will appeal to the Lecis- 

 lature of 1869 to relieve them from the con- 

 dition. 



At the observatory of the Michigan Uni- 

 versity, the observer, James 0. Watson, dis- 

 covered six new asteriods in the months of 

 July, August, September, and October, tho 

 largest number ever discovered in the same 

 period by any observer. 



MILITARY COMMISSIONS. We continue 

 under this head notices of several cases in tho 

 courts, more for uniformity of reference with 

 other volumes, than because they properly 

 belong under such title. John H. Surratt, who 

 was brought to this country after his arrest, 

 was indicted by the Grand Jury of the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, as an accessory to the mur- 

 der of Mr. Lincoln. After a long and tedious 

 trial, the jury failed to agree. Another indict- 

 ment was then presented against him, charging 

 him with treason and adhering to the enemy ; 

 to this his counsel pleaded the statute of limit- 

 ations and the proclamation of July, 1868. To 

 these pleas the Government demurred, but 

 they were sustained by the court, and Surratt 

 was on motion discharged from custody after a 

 confinement of eighteen months. 



The indictment against Jefferson Davis was 

 before the United States Court held at Rich- 

 mond, the Chief Justice and Judge Underwood 

 presiding, on a motion by the counsel of the de- 

 fendant based upon the argument that, as the 

 fourteenth amendment to the Constitution 

 prescribed a punishment to those who had en- 

 gaged in rebellion, having held office before, 

 and having taken an oath to support the 

 Constitution of the United States, such pun- 

 ishment .took the place of any that could be 

 inflicted under an indictment. On this the 

 court were divided, and the case was certified 

 to the Supreme Court of the United States, 

 and, pending its hearing, the proclamation of 

 the President was issued and a nolle prosequi 

 entered in the case. 



The McArdle case came before the Supreme 

 Court, and was argued, but, before its deci- 

 sion, Congress passed a law taking jurisdic- 

 tion of the case- away from the court. 



MILMAN, Very Rev. HENBY HART, D. D., 

 Dean of St. Paul's, an English clergyman, poet, 

 dramatist, critic, and historian, born in Lon- 

 don, February 10, 1791 ; died there, September 

 25, 1868. He was the youngest son of Sir 

 Francis Milman, Baronet, the favorite court 

 physician of George III., a wealthy and ac- 

 complished courtier. His early classical train- 

 ing was obtained in the school of Dr. Burney, 

 one of the most eminent scholars of his time, 

 whose academy at Greenwich produced many 

 remarkable classical scholars. From Green- 

 wich, he passed to Eton, where his Latin verses 

 were remarkable, even among the illustrious 

 Etonians of that time. From Eton he went 

 to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was 

 a pupil of Elmsley, who, with Person and Bur- 

 ney, were the three great scholars of that 



