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teachers of the State during the year was 

 $4,991,070.87, of which sum $2,013,606.98 

 was paid to male and $2,977,463.89 to female 

 teachers. 



There were 893 of the school districts which 

 had libraries, the total number of volumes be- 

 ing 59,278, 5,285 of which were added during 

 the year. 



There were 1,003 private schools in the State 

 during the year, with a total attendance of 

 67,380 pupils, 32,614 male and 34,766 female. 

 The number of teachers was 1,789, of whom 

 698 were males and 1,091 were females. 



The financial statement shows the total bal- 

 ance and receipts to be $10,537,296.23. The 

 total expenditures were $8,043,430.61, and the 

 amount of loans of district funds was $89,- 

 710.53, leaving a balance of $2,404,155.09 on 

 hand. 



The Supreme Court, in a case decided dur- 

 ing the year, holds that colored children, under 

 the Constitution and laws of the State, can not 

 be excluded from the public schools provided 

 for white children. 



RAILROADS AND CANALS. The report of the 

 Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commis- 

 sioners, for the year ending June 30, 1882, 

 shows an addition during the year of over 493 

 miles to the aggregate of railroad lines in the 

 State, of which the largest amount (83 miles) 

 was constructed by the Wabash lines. The 

 aggregate length of main lines and branches of 

 roads operated in Illinois is 27,475*81 miles, 

 of which 8,541-38 miles are in the State, mak- 

 ing, with 394-65 double-track and 1,527-67 

 side-track, a total of 10,463-70. This is largely 

 in excess of any other State in the Union, 

 Pennsylvania coming second with 6,690 miles, 

 followed by Ohio, New York, and Iowa, each 

 with over 6,000 miles, all other States falling 

 below that amount. 



The forty-six roads operated in the State did 

 an aggregate business during the year of $189,- 

 362,978 an increase of over thirteen and a 

 quarter millions since 1881, and nearly $84,- 

 000,000 since 1878. Of the aggregate receipts, 

 $42,782,977.63 was from the passenger depart- 

 ment and $126,767,839.73 from freights. The 

 gross earnings from Illinois business amounted 

 to $57,396,287.58, while the total expenses for 

 operating, taxes, etc., were $37,628,704.77 for- 

 ty-one companies making a profit of $18,879,- 

 058.63, and five sustaining a loss of $111,475.82 

 net profit, $18,776,582.81. The aggregate 

 operating expenses of all the roads doing busi- 

 ness in the State were $119,757,996.06, against 

 a gross income of $189,362,997.63 a net in- 

 come of $69,357,001.57. Over $30,000,000 

 was paid for interest on bonded debt, and be- 

 tween eleven and twelve millions for rentals 

 and other extraordinary expenses, leaving a 

 balance of nearly $29,000,000 applicable to the 

 payment of dividends, of which 14 roads paid 

 out $21,203,335.07. 



The whole number of passengers carried by 

 Illinois roads was 45,953,045, of which 13,088,- 



032 were through and 32.865,013 were local 

 about half the latter being in Illinois. The 

 tons of freight were 78,093,59217,694,769 

 being through and 60,398,823 local; the Illi- 

 nois business comprised 10,250,946 tons, and 

 of the through freight 24,783,811 tons were 

 carried in Illinois. The leading roads show 

 a material increase of freights during the 

 year. 



A noteworthy feature of the report is the 

 evidence which it presents of the gradual sub- 

 mission of the roads to the schedules of freights 

 and fares prescribed by the commission, and 

 the moderate though steady reduction in each, 

 amounting in the aggregate to millions of dol- 

 lars the result in large part of putting the 

 railroads under judicious control. 



The report of the Canal Commissioners sets 

 forth the operations of the Illinois and Michi- 

 gan Canal, and the Illinois and Little Wabash 

 River improvement, for the year ending Novem- 

 ber 30th. The commissioners state that the 

 canal was opened for navigation March 13th, 

 and closed N ovember 30th. The receipts for the 

 year exceed the disbursements by $4,177.56. In 

 1880 the expenditures exceeded the receipts 

 $13,646.73, and in 1881, $5,601.63. The re- 

 ceipts and disbursements for the several years 

 the present commissioners have had charge of 

 the State works have been as follow : 



Balance on hand December 1, 1876 $46,489 49 



Keceipts for the six years 680,941 10 



Disbursements for the six years 677,307 63 



Amount on hand December 1, 1882 50,122 96 



In regard to suits, the commissioners say the 

 suits for 1881 that were brought by the St. 

 Louis and Peoria Packet Company, and by Huse, 

 Loomis & Co., for the collection of tolls at the 

 Henry and Copperas Creek locks, are still pend- 

 ing. The plaintiffs aver that the Illinois River 

 is a national highway, and should be free from 

 tolls. The commissioners claim that, by virtue 

 of powers vested, they have a right to collect 

 tolls levied. Both of these suits are of the 

 greatest importance, not alone to the State of 

 Illinois, but to the commerce of the West. 



STATISTICS. The publication of the results 

 reached in the tenth census reveals an astound- 

 ing increase in the number of deaf and dumb, 

 the blind and the insane, in this State, as in 

 the country at large. For the latter the State 

 has four asylums, which do not contain one half. 

 It may be said that no former enumeration of 

 the afflicted classes has been so complete, and 

 that the increase referred to has been more ap- 

 parent than real. However this may be, the 

 numbers reported in Illinois in 1870 and in 

 1880, respectively, are as follow : 



