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schools during the year was 190, in the latter, 

 it was 65. 



The numher of students in the State Univer- 

 sity, in 1872, was 253. The addition of a law 

 and a medical department was in contempla- 

 tion. The estimated cash value of the prop- 

 erty of this institution is reckoned at $224,000, 

 exclusive of 46,080 acres of land donated by 

 the General Government for an endowment 

 fund. 



The condition of the State Agricultural Col- 

 lege appears to be very satisfactory. The 

 number of students in it, during 1872, was 

 447, against 293 for the previous year. Be- 

 sides the native scholars who represented 

 twenty-seven counties of the State, there were 

 students at this college from Colorado, Illi- 

 nois, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, 

 Ohio, and Texas. 



In the Asylum for the Insane the patients 

 numbered 103, filling the capacity of the 

 building to its utmost limit, and the trustees 

 aver "that not more than one-half of the 

 applicants have been admitted, for want of 

 room." 



The State Asylum for the Blind, and that 

 for the Deaf and Dumb, are excellently con- 

 ducted. The number of pupils enrolled in the 

 latter during 1872 was 68, of whom there re- 

 mained 65 in attendance at the end of the 

 year, an increase of 17 over the number of the 

 previous year. The present building of this 

 institution is inadequate to its wants. The 

 current expenses of the Asylum for the Blind, 

 in 1872, amounted to $10,100. 



In the State Penitentiary there were 333 

 prisoners confined, 159 of that number having 

 been received into it during the year 1872. 

 Out of these 159, there were 93 convicts under 

 the age of twenty-five years. 



A bill concerning convicts was introduced 

 and passed in the Senate of Kansas, at the ses- 

 sion of 1872, which seems to be worthy of 

 notice. It enacts that "prisoners convicted 

 of murder be confined in the penitentiary 

 for one year, and then only be hanged on the 

 warrant of the Governor." The House of 

 Representatives also passed the bill, on its 

 third reading, by a vote of 50 to 25. 



There were 574 libraries, having 218,676 

 volumes. Of these, 364, with 126,251 volumes, 

 were private, and 190, with 92,425 volumes, 

 were other than private, including 4 circulat- 

 ing libraries, with 6,550 volumes. 



The total number of religious organizations 

 was 530, having 301 edifices, with 102,085 sit- 

 tings, and property valued at $1,722,700. The 

 leading denominations were : 



The statistics of pauperism and crime were 

 as follows : 



Number of persons supported during the year 



ending Juno 1, 1870 361 



Cost of annual support $46,475 



Total receiving support June 1, 1870 336 



Native 190 



Foreign 146 



White 105 



Colored 85 



Number of persons convicted during the year. . . 151 



Number of persons in prison, June 1, 1870 323 



Native 262 



Foreign 67 



White 202 



Colored 60 



The number of persons engaged in all classes 

 of occupations was 123,852, of whom 117,343 

 were males and 6,509 females. Of the popu- 

 lation (258,051) ten years of age and over, 

 there were engaged in agriculture, 73,228, of 

 whom 72,918 were males and 310 females; in 

 professional and personal services, 20,736 

 15,286 males and 5,450 females ; in trade and 

 transportation, 11,762 11,736 males and 26 

 females ; in manufactures, mechanical and 

 mining industries, 18,126 17,403 males and 

 723 females. 



KEIGHTLEY, THOMAS, an English historian 

 and classical writer, born in Dublin, October, 

 1789; died in London, November, 1872. He 

 received an ordinary education at a country 

 school, and entered Trinity College, Dublin. 

 He was intended for the bar, but delicacy of 

 constitution and other considerations changed 

 his plans, and in 1824 he settled in England, 

 in order to devote himself to literary pursuits, 

 becoming a voluminous contributor to the ed- 

 ucational literature of the day. He was the 

 author of histories of England, Greece, and 

 Eome, and abridgments of the same for 

 schools; "War of Independence in Greece," 

 1837 ; " History of the Eoman Empire," 1840 ; 

 " Notes on the Bucolics and Georgics of Vir- 

 gil," 1846; "History of India," 1847; "Epis- 

 tles and Satires of Horace, with Notes and Ex- 

 ercises," 1848 ; "Mythology of Ancient Greece 

 and Italy," also an abridgment ; "Fairy My- 

 thology," 1851 ; " Scenes, Events, etc., of the 

 Times of the Crusaders," 1853; "Account of 

 the Life, Writings, and Opinions of John Mil- 

 ton," 1855. He also translated from the Dutch 

 an edition of Shakespeare's plays, in 1864, and 

 published " The Shakespeare's Expositor " in 

 1867. 



KELLY, WILLIAM, an eminent citizen and 

 political leader of New York, born in New 

 York City in 1807 ; died in Torquay, England, 

 January 14, 1872. His father, one of the po- 

 litical exiles from the north of Ireland, was a 

 prominent and successful merchant, and his 

 three sons, of whom William was the second, 

 were well-educated, refined, and courteous gen- 

 tlemen. The brothers were for some years in 

 business together, and, being very successful, 

 were able to retire on ample fortunes while 

 yet quite young men. But they did not retire 

 to lives of indolence. The elder and younger 

 brothers died some years since, and William, 



