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policies, insuring $30,231,199. The premiums 

 received by the companies amounted to $811,- 

 397.11, and losses and claims paid to $441,- 

 622.18. 



The taxes paid to the State amounted to 

 $14,172.89, and the expenses of the Insurance 

 Bureau were $9,761.82, leaving a surplus of 

 $4,555.98 placed to the credit of the State rev- 

 enue. 



The amount of whisky produced annually in 

 Kentucky since 1862 is as follows: 



YEAR. Gallons. 



1863 857,739 



1864 472,092 



1865 832,272 



1666 513,720 



1867 514,400 



1868 403,568 



1869 7,018,306 



1870 11,082,082 



1871 5,870,002 



1872 5,203,071 



1873 5,244,663 



YEAR. Gallons. 



1874... .. 6,982,709 



1S75 9,399,338 



1876 6,245,717 



1877 7,889,151 



1878 6,371,965 



1879 8,111,781 



1880 15,011,279 



1881 31,869.047 



30,386,456 

 Total 150,280,258 



The State Commissioner of Agriculture gives 

 the following statement of crops for 1882 : 



The valuable deposits of coking coals, which 

 have added such wealth to Pennsylvania and 

 West Virginia, have been traced and identified 

 in the valleys of the Cumberland, the Ken- 

 tucky, and the Big Sandy, of a thickness of 

 seven or eight feet. 



The report of the Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction shows that in the white depart- 

 ment, at the close of the year ending June 30, 

 1880, there were 6,177 school districts, an in- 

 crease over the previous year of 109 districts. 

 In these there were 6,136 schools taught, an 

 increase over the previous year of 101 schools. 



The number of children enrolled in cens'us 

 reports for that year was 478,554, an increase 

 over the previous year of 1,684. The highest 

 number attending school was 245,358. There 

 was a difference of 66,526 between the census 

 of children as reported to the superintendent, 

 and the census as taken by assessors and re- 

 ported to the auditor, the former being that 

 much in excess of the latter. The total aver- 

 age per capita for that year from all sources 

 was $2.08 + . 



In the same department for the year ending 

 June 30, 1881, the number of school districts 

 was 6,244, a gain of sixty-nine districts. The 

 number of districts in which schools were 

 taught was 6,189, a gair of fifty-three. The 

 number of children enrolled that year was 

 483,404, a gain over the previous year of 4,850. 

 The highest attendance reported was 238,440, 

 showing a decrease of 6,918. The difference 

 between the number of children reported to 

 the superintendent and that reported to the 

 auditor for the year was 79,957. The total 



average per capita for that year was $2.24+, 

 an increase of 0.16 + . 



In the colored department for the year end- 

 ing June 30, 1881, the number of school dis- 

 tricts was 804, an increase over the previous 

 year of thirty-one districts. The number of 

 schools taught was 718, an increase of twenty- 

 one over the previous year. The number of 

 children enrolled was 70,234, an increase of 

 3,670 over the previous year. The average 

 attendance is not given. The per capita for 

 these years was 58 cents, an increase over the 

 previous year of 10 cents. 



POLITICAL AND TEMPERANCE CONVENTIONS. 

 The Democratic State Convention met in 

 Frankfort on the llth of January, and nomi- 

 nated for Clerk of the Court of Appeals, Cap- 

 tain Thomas J. Henry, of Morgan County. The 

 following is the platform adopted : 



1. The Democracy of Kentucky, in State Conven- 

 tion assembled, reassert their devotion to the princi- 

 ples of the party, national and State, as enunciated in 

 the platforms promulgated by the last National Con- 

 vention held at Cincinnati, and the State Convention 

 at Louisville, and relying on the intelligence, justice, 

 and patriotism of the people, fearlessly appeal for the 

 continuance of their support. 



2. That the recent interference of the Federal Ad- 

 ministration in the local politics of the States, and the 

 efforts, by the dispensation of its patronage, to ma- 

 nipulate and control State elections, are deserving of 

 the severest denunciation. We declare such practices 

 to be in the highest degree degrading to the civil ser- 

 vice, obstructive to reform, and dangerous to the lib- 

 erties of the people. 



The nominee had been a Confederate officer, 

 and his nomination intensified a feeling which 

 had been some time growing among the Demo- 

 crats of the State who were supporters of the 

 Union during the war that the organization of 

 that party was in the hands of Confederates, 

 and was used to ostracize Unionists. Colonel 

 E. T. Jacob was placed in nomination by the 

 dissatisfied element, and was supported by the 

 Eepublicans. Captain Henry encountered fur- 

 ther opposition from an indiscretion committed 

 early in the canvass. 



A Temperance Convention of the ministers 

 of Kentucky was held in Lexington on the 15th 

 of February and the following days, which 

 adopted the following resolutions : 



Resolved, That while we give our vigorous support 

 to all just means and efforts to suppress intemperance, 

 even when these means and these efforts are imper- 

 fect, yet we believe that the only righteous and logical 

 and only thoroughly effectual end to be aimed at is 

 the prohibition by law. State and Federal, of the 

 manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors for the 

 purpose of drinking : and that we will in all our ef- 

 forts always keep this final aim in view. 



Resolved, That we regard as a most efficient means 

 of success, in the war against the great evil we are 



ighten and direct the public 

 mind and awaken and stimulate the conscience of the 

 people. 



Resolved, That it is the opinion of this convention 

 that the liquor-traffic in its results is subversive of the 

 great purposes of the Church, and should not be toler- 

 ated by the churches in their members. 



