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WEST VIRGINIA. 



ties, and a full vote cast, the general result 

 could by no possibility be changed." After 

 considerable discussion on the Governor's 

 message, the bill was passed again over the 

 Governor's veto, by both Houses on the same 

 day: in the Senate by a vote of 18 to 9, and 

 in the House, of 37 to 19. 



The November election resulted in favor of 

 the Republican electoral ticket. The Grant 

 electors received 32,315 votes, and the Greeley 

 electors 29,451 ; Republican majority, 2,864. 



The receipts and expenditures of the State 

 during the year ending October 1. 1872, were 

 as follows: 



Balance in the Treasury, October 1, 1871 $128,677 77 



Received during the fiscal year ending Sep- 

 tember 30, 1872 741,556 16 



Total $870,233 93 



Expended during the fiscal year ending Sep- 

 tember 30, 1872 586,781 90 



Balance in Treasury, October 1, 1872. ... $283 452 03 

 Amount due school fund and general school 

 fund, October 1, 1871 273,180 66 



Leaving in the State Treasury, October 1, 1872. $10,271 37 



The estimated expenditures of the State, 

 under the new constitution, are set down, for 

 1873-'74, at $277,245.88, and $225,696, re- 

 spectively ; showing, in each case, a saving ot 

 more than $100,000 in comparison with the 

 disbursements annually made for general State 

 purposes for several years past. 



For the support of free schools, a large 

 amount of money is annually raised in West 

 Virginia. The State fund distributed this year 

 amounts to $232,215. Adding to this the 

 money raised by township le vdes, reckoned to 

 be at least double that sum, makes a total of 

 about $700,000 ; some $200,000 of this money 

 belong to the fund for building school-houses ; 

 which leaves about $500,000 for the support 

 of free schools, or an average of $2,000 for 

 each district in the State. The number of 

 youths enrolled for 1872, in the State, was 

 170,031, of which number about one-half at- 

 tend school. 



The University of West Virginia is under 

 the exclusive control of the State. It has a 

 permanent endowment of $100,000. One of 

 its most interesting features is the " Cadets' 

 Corps." The commandant, under whose direc- 

 tion and conduct this " corps " has been placed, 

 is an officer of the United States Army, de- 

 tailed for that service. He recommends an 

 increase in the number of cadets, the additional 

 cost required by such increase being incon- 

 siderable. 



The State Hospital for the Insane is over- 

 crowded. Of 150 patients, in whose behalf 

 applications for admission were made within 

 the year, 87 were admitted, and 63 refused for 

 want of room. 



The Institution for the Peaf and Dumb and 

 the Blind is under excellent management, and 

 in successful operation. There were, in all, 

 67 pupils in attendance during the year, of 

 whom 55 were deaf-mutes, and 12 blind. 



In the State penitentiary there remained 

 109 convicts in confinement on the 1st of Oc- 

 tober, 1872. Their number on the 1st of Sep- 

 tember, 1871, was 105, and 92 were received 

 into the prison in the course of the year. Dur- 

 ing the same period, 27 were discharged, 10 

 pardoned, 6 escaped, of whom two were re- 

 captured, and 7 died. 



The Legislature, by an arrangement pre- 

 viously agreed upon between the two Houses, 

 adjourned on the 21st of December, 1872, to 

 meet again on the 10th of January, 1873. 



According to the census of 1870, of the total 

 population (308,424) ten years old and over, 

 there were engaged in all classes of occupa- 

 tions, 115,229 persons, of whom 107,076 were 

 males, and 8,153 females. There were engaged 

 in agriculture, 73,960, including 73,725 males, 

 and 235 females ; in professional and personal 

 services, 16,699, including 9,636 males, and 

 7,063 females ; in trade and transportation, 

 6,897, including 6,888 males and 9 females; 

 in manufactures and mechanical and mining 

 industries, 17,673, including 16,827 males and 

 846 females. 



The State contained 2,580,254 acres of im- 

 proved land, 4,364,405 of woodland, and 1,- 

 583,735 of other unimproved land. The cash 

 value of farms was $101,604,381 ; of farming 

 implements and machinery, $2,112,937; total 

 amount of wages paid during the year, includ- 

 ing value of board, $1,903,788; total (esti- 

 mated) value of all farm productions, including 

 betterments and additions to stock, $23,379,- 

 692 ; orchard products, $848,773 ; produce 

 of market-gardens, $69,974; forest-products, 

 $363,668; value of home manufactures, $615,- 

 412 ; of animals slaughtered or sold for slaugh- 

 ter, $4,914,792 ; of all live stock, $17,175,420. 

 There were 90,479 horses, 2,139 mules and 

 asses, 104,434 milch-cows, 18,937 working- 

 oxen, 178,309 other cattle, 552,327 sheep, and 

 268,031 swine. The chief productions were 

 3,395 bushels of spring, and 2,480,148 of winter, 

 wheat, 277,746 of rye, 8,197,865 of Indian- 

 corn, 2,413,749 of oats, 50,363 of barley, 82,916 

 of buckwheat, 2,046,452 pounds of tobacco, 

 1,593,541 of wool, 31,449 bushels of peas and 

 and beans, 1,053,507 of Irish, and 46,984 of 

 sweet, potatoes, 6,093 gallons of wine, 5,044,- 

 475 pounds of butter, 32,429 of cheese, 144,- 

 895 gallons of milk sold, 224,164 tons of hay, 

 3,939 bushels of clover-seed, 3,868 of grass- 

 seed, 1,031 pounds of hops, 82,276 of flax, 2,393 

 of flax-seed, 490,606 of maple-sugar, 780,829 

 gallons of sorghum, and 20,209 of maple, 

 molasses, 376,997 pounds of honey, and 9,917 

 of wax. 



The total number of manufacturing estab- 

 lishments was 2,444, using 509 steam-engines, 

 of 17,136 horse-power, and 683 water-wheels, 

 of 10,195 horse-power, and employing 11,672 

 hands, of whom 10,728 were males above six- 

 teen, 287 females above fifteen, and 657 youths. 

 The total amount of capital invested was $11,- 

 084,520; wages paid during the year, $4,322,- 





