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KENTUCKY, 



tat ion tax of one dollar on each malo 

 person above the age of twenty -one; 

 levied and collected on dogs owned or 

 by colored persons; all State taxes on 

 MI its, or on any license, collected from 

 persons; all fines, penalties, and for- 

 collected from colored persons, exoept 



c portion allowed to attorneys of the Oom- 

 iltli ; a pro rata share of the proceeds 

 in any public lands given by the United 

 - ; and all suras arising from any dona- 

 tion, uift, grant, or devise, expressly designed to 

 aid in tlio education of colored children. The 

 revenue arising from these sources is to bo dis- 

 tributed by the Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction in the same manner as already pro- 

 ed by law. Provision is made for collecting 



d distributing the moneys; county school 

 commissioners are required to divide the coun- 

 n to school districts, so that no district 

 shall contain more than 120 colored children 

 between six and sixteen years of age ; three 

 " colored school trustees " are to be appointed 

 in each district by the commissioner, to em- 

 ploy a teacher not less than three months in 

 each year, or two months if there are not more 

 than sixty children in the district, and to man- 

 age the schools generally ; it is made unlawful 

 for any colored child to attend a common 

 school provided for white children, or for any 

 white child to attend a common school pro- 

 vided for colored children; "no school-house 

 erected for a colored school shall be located 

 nearer than one mile to a school-house erected 

 for white children, except in cities and towns, 

 where it shall not be nearer than six hundred 

 feet; " colored school officers and teachers are 

 allowed to form a State association and county 

 institutes ; the State Board of Education is re- 

 quired to prescribe a course of study and rules 

 of government for the colored schools; and 

 provisions of the general school laws " deemed 

 necessary for the government of colored com- 

 mon schools, not in conflict with this act, shall 

 apply to the same, which shall be determined 

 by the State Board of Education." 



The institution formerly known as the House 

 of Reform, and subsequently converted into the 

 " Fourth Kentucky Lunatic Asylum " was de- 

 clared to be the "Central Kentucky Lunatic 

 Asylum," and $100,000 were appropriated to 

 extend and improve it, one-third to be used in 

 providing accommodation for colored lunatics, 

 to be separate and apart from those for the white 

 inmates. The Institution for the Education 

 and Training of Feeble-minded Children, which 

 had been converted into " the Third Kentucky 

 Lunatic Asylum," was reestablished for its orig- 

 inal purpose, under the charge of nine commis- 

 sioners, to be appointed by the Governor. 



The only State officer elected at the regular 

 election on the 3d of August was a Clerk of the 

 Court of Appeals. The total vote was 167,- 

 S.VJ. of which T. 0. Jones, the Democratic can- 

 didate, received 114,348, or a majority of 60,- 

 844. Ten members of Congress were elected. 



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ID the first district A. R. Boon had a majority 

 of 81,000 over Turner, Independent Donnxrat ; 

 second district, John Young Brown had a ma- 

 jority of 8,517 over Smith, Republican Ed- 

 ward R. Weir, Independent Republican, r. - 

 ceiving 757 votes; third district, Oharl 

 Milliken, Democrat, had a majority of 4,789 

 over Ooren, Independent; fourth district, J. 

 Proctor Knott, Democrat, had a majority of 

 8,581 ; fifth district, Edward G. Parsons, Dem- 

 ocrat, had a majority of 5,441 ; sixth district, 

 Thomas S. Jones, Democrat, had a majority 

 of 8,127; seventh district, J. 0. S. Blackburn, 

 Democrat, had a majority of 6,258 ; eighth dis- 

 trict, Milton J. Durham, Democrat, had a ma- 

 jority of 7,818 ; ninth district, John D. White, 

 Republican, had a majority of 629 ; tenth dis- 

 trict, John B. Clarke, Democrat, had a majority 

 of 2,908. The Legislature now stands, 81 Dem- 

 ocrats and 7 Republicans in the Senate, and 80 

 Democrats and 20 Republicans in the House, 

 making the Democratic majority in the Senate 

 24, in the House 60 or 84 on a joint ballot. 

 No session of the Legislature was begun in 

 December, as that body meets biennially. 



KIIOKAN, or KOKAN, a country of Central 

 Asia, one of the three great khanates of West 

 Toorkistan, or Independent Tartary, attracted 

 in 1874 greater attention than the other inde- 

 pendent states of Toorkistan by the ontbreak 

 of a new civil war and the interference of the 

 Russians. The country is bounded southwest, 

 west, north, and northeast, by the new Russian 

 province of Sir Darya, east and southeast by 

 East Toorkistan, and south by the Pamir pla- 

 teau and the Karateghin. The area of the 

 khanate is, according to a map published in 

 1872 by the Russian Staff-General, estimated 

 at 28,270 square miles. The population, ac- 

 cording to the concurrent opinion of the best 

 recent authorities, especially the Russian trav- 

 eler Fedshenke, is considerably below the 

 former estimate of 8,000,000, and is believed 

 not to exceed 800,000. A new crisis in the 

 history of this country appears to have come, 

 and Russia is urged, on many sides, to put an 

 end to the internal disorders by the annexation 

 of the entire country. 



A brief review of the reign of the present 

 Khan, Khudayar, is necessary to understand 

 fully the recent events. The Khan is now fifty- 

 nine years old, and by descent a Karakirghiz, 

 or Turk. If the time when his uncle, Musul- 

 inan Kul, was his guardian (until 1849), and 

 the period from 1857 to 1864, during which the 

 brother of Khudayar, Mollah Khan, or rather 

 his powerful vizier, Alim Kul, was at the head 

 of the government, are included, his reign ex- 

 tends over thirty-one years. The population 

 of Khokan is chiefly composed of the peaceable 

 Sartes, an Iranian tribe, devoted to the arts of 

 peace, to commerce, and industrial pursuits, 

 and the nomadic and warlike Kiptchaks and 

 Karakirghiz, who are of Turkish descent, and 

 inhabit the eastern portion of Khokan. The 

 undisputed rule of the Turkish tribes lasted 



