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many under-graduates. The receipts of the 

 several normal schools, during the year ending 

 September 30, 1881, amounted to $8,390.58; 

 from appropriations from the State, $6,732; 

 from other sources, $1,658.58. 



The University of West Virginia is officially 

 stated to be " in a most healthy and prosper- 

 ous condition." The students attending it for 

 the year 18SO-'8l numbered 162, an increase 

 of thirty-one over the previous year, and a 

 larger number than has been in attendance in 

 any one year during the past decade. 



The charitable and other public institutions 

 of West Virginia are under praiseworthy man- 

 agement. In the State Hospital for the In- 

 sane, the construction of a northern wing, add- 

 ed to the main building, was completed early in 

 July, 1881, and immediately fitted up for the 

 reception of patients. One hundred and eight 

 insane persons, scattered before throughout 

 the State and confined in county jails, were 

 soon brought in and lodged in their new quar- 

 ters. The number of patients in the hospital 

 on September 30, 1881, was 589. From May 

 16th to October 1st, fifteen patients were dis- 

 charged as cured, six were discharged on bond, 

 and thirty-five died. The average weekly cost 

 to the State for each patient, during the year, 

 including the amounts paid for officers' sal- 

 aries, employes' wages, fuel, water, gas, and 

 other expenses, was $1.94J-. The weekly rate 



per capita for the current year the superin- 

 tendent estimates at nearly $2.50, owing to 

 the high price of all the articles of consump- 

 tion/' The aggregate expenditures of the hos- 

 pital, during the year ending September 30, 

 1881, amounted to $55,960.55. 



In the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and 

 the Blind, on October 1, 1881, there were 120 

 pupils enrolled for attendance during the sts- 

 sion, and 26 applications on file for admission 

 in the institution. The pupils in actual at- 

 tendance numbered 108, of whom 79 are deaf- 

 mutes, and 29 blind. At the last year's ses- 

 sion their aggregate number was 89 deaf- 

 mutes, 65 ; blind, 24. The cost of supporting 

 this institution during the year ending Septem- 

 ber 30, 1881, was $26,374.12, including $502 

 paid for pupils' traveling expenses, and $452.26 

 paid for insurance. 



The number of convicts in the State Peni- 

 tentiary on November 30, 1881, was 253, sev- 

 enteen among them being Federal prisoners. 

 During the six months preceding that date 

 twenty-five of the State convicts were dis- 

 charged, eleven pardoned, and six died ; of the 

 Federal prisoners, three were discharged, and 

 one died; the total number of convicts de- 

 tained in the prison on December 1, 1881, be- 

 ing 207. 



The population of West Virginia by counties 

 in 1880, as compared with 1870, was as follows : 



WISCONSIN". The State Legislature, con- 

 sisting of 24 Republicans and 9 Democrats in 

 the Senate, and 78 Republicans and 22 Demo- 

 crats in the House, met in January, 1881, and 

 adjourned on the 4th of April, after a session of 

 eighty-three days. On the 25th of January Phi- 

 letus Sawyer, Republican, was elected United 

 States Senator by a vote of 98 to 29 for James 

 G. Jenkins, Democrat, and 3 scattering. Sena- 

 tor Matthew II. Carpenter having died, Angus 

 Cameron, Republican, was on the 10th of 

 March chosen to fill the vacancy thus caused, 

 by a vote of 97 to 27 for William F. Vilus, 

 Democrat. The amount of direct appropria- 

 tions made at this session was $282,081.38. 

 There were passed 334 bills, of which 183 

 originated in the Senate and 201 in the House. 



Most of the laws passed are local in their 

 character, relating to loans from the trust- 

 funds, logging improvements, and city charters ; 

 Neenah was granted a new charter, and most 

 of the cities in the State had theirs amended in 

 many ways. 



The "anti-treat" law amended the existing 

 statute by adding the following words : 



Any person who shall purchnsi-, my l'"r, or, hy any 

 device whatsoever, procure any such, liquors or drinks, 

 for or in behalf of any person other tnan himself, to 

 bo drunk aa a beverage by such other IHTSOH, on the 

 premises, or in any public place, shall be deemed 

 puilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 

 shall be fined not less than five dollar* nor more than 

 ten dollars for each offense. 



This law Judge Mallory, of the Milwaukee 

 Municipal Court, subsequently decided to be 



