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VIRGINIA. 



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School at Johnson 122 different students, and 

 the aggregate number of graduates since 1867 

 to be 262. The Randolph Normal School had 

 187 scholars at the spring term of 1882, and 

 graduated a class of 20 at that term. 



The following statistics, taken from the su- 

 perintendent's report, are interesting : 



Number of school districts 2,333 



Number of common schools 2.527 



Number of children attending common schools. . 74,000 



Average daily attendance 47,772 



Amount of money divided to districts $119,670 06 



Amount of money raised by tax 371,351 34 



Amount of teachers' wages, including board 381,607 S3 



Amount of all school expenditures 476,478 08 



Number of male teachers 653 



Number of female teachers 8,723 



THE HUXTINGTON WILL. This bequest has 

 already been accepted by the State, and that 

 fact communicated to the court before whom 

 the case was tried. 



POLITICAL. The Republican State Conven- 

 tion met in Montpelier on the 21st of June, 

 and nominated the following ticket: For Gov- 

 ernor, John L. Barstow, of Shelburne; for 

 Lieutenant-Governor, Samuel E. Pingree, of 

 Hartford ; for Treasurer, William H. DuBois, 

 of Randolph. The following are among the 

 resolutions adopted: 



Resolved, That we deprecate the one-terra practice 

 which generally prevails in the election of members of 

 the Legislature, believing that it seriously impairs the 

 efficiency of the legislative branch of the State govern- 

 ment ; that with a view to the correcting of the evils 

 which result from this practice we earnestly recom- 

 mend the voters of the State to choose for the offices 

 of Eepresentative and Senator "the persons most 

 noted for wisdom and virtue," and by successive elec- 

 tions retain them in the legislative service so long as 

 may be compatible with the public good. 



Resolved, That we recognize the paramount impor- 

 tance of popular education as an element in the high- 

 est development of the State, and favor such additional 

 legislation as the condition and wants of the common 

 schools of the State may demand. 



Resolved, That recognizing the vast importance of 

 our agricultural interests, we believe that they should 

 receive such attention at the hands of our legislators 

 as will give to our State such a thorough, practical, 

 and generous system as shall by its steady and wise 

 application most successfully develop the material 

 prosperity of our Commonwealth. 



The Republican candidates for Congress 

 were : John W. Stewart, in the First District, 

 and Luke P. Poland, in the Second. The Dem- 

 ocrats nominated George E. Eaton for Gov- 

 ernor, G. N. Bullard for Lieutenant-Governor, 

 Willard Gay for Treasurer, and L. W. Red- 

 ington and Gorge L. Fletcher for Congress. 

 William W. Grout ran as Independent Repub- 

 lican in the Second District. The Greenback- 

 ers also made nominations. At the election in 

 September the Republican ticket was chosen, 

 the vote being as follows : 



FOR GOVERNOR. 



Whole number of votes cast 51,845 



Necessary for choice 25,925 



John L. Barstow had 35,839 



George E. Eaton had 14.466 



Carlos C. Martin had 1,535 



Scattering 8 



Majority for John L. Barstow 19,830 



FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. 



"Whole number of votes cast 51 S34 



Necessary for a choice 2s',918 



Samuel E. Pingree had 85,856 



E. N. Bullard had 14,442 



John G. Jenne had 1,634 



Scattering . 55 



Majority for Samuel E. Pingree 19,578 



FOR TREASURER. 



"Whole number of votes cast 51,816 



Necessary for a choice 25 909 



William H. DuBois had '. ' ' 85*854 



Willard Gay had 14,402 



Fletcher Tarble had 1 581 



Scattering 9 



Majority for William H. DaBois 



FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. 



Whole number of votes cast 22,575 



Necessary for a choice 11,288 



John W. Stewart had 15' 688 



L. W. Kedington had 6 009 



C. W. B. Kidder had 865 



Scattering 63 



Majority for John W. Stewart 8,701 



SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. 



Whole number of votes cast 24,786 



Necessary for a choice 12,394 



Luke P. Poland had 12,795 



George L. Fletcher had 6 363 



H. D. Dunbar had 390 



William W. Grout had 4 5S3 



William P. Dillinghum had 388 



Scattering 317 



Majority for Luke P. Poland 804 



The new districts consist of the following 

 counties: First Addison, Bennington, Chit- 

 tenden, Franklin, Grand Isle, Lamoille, and 

 Rutland; Second Caledonia, Essex, Orleans, 

 Orange, Washington, Windsor, and Windham. 



The Legislature chosen at this election con- 

 sists of twenty-eight Republicans and two 

 Democrats in the Senate, and one hundred and 

 eighty-three Republicans, fifty Democrats, one 

 Independent, and two Greenbackers in the 

 House. 



On the 7th day of January, John Pierpont, 

 Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of the 

 State, died at his residence at Vergennes. On 

 the 10th of the same month the Governor ap- 

 pointed Homer E. Royce, who was then First 

 Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court, Chief- 

 Justice, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the 

 death of Judge Pierpont. He then reappoint- 

 ed all of the other Assistant-Judges, advancing 

 each one of them one step, and, to fill the 

 vacancy thus occasioned, appointed John W. 

 Rowell, of Randolph, Sixth Assistant-Judge of 

 the Supreme Court. 



VIRGINIA. STATE GOVERNMENT. The fol- 

 lowing are the State officers : Governor, Will- 

 iam E. Cameron, Readjuster; Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor, John F. Lewis; Secretary of State, 

 William C. Elam ; Treasurer, David R. Reve- 

 ley ; Auditor, S. Brown Allen ; Second Audi- 

 tor, Henry H. Dyson ; Attorney-General, Frank 

 S. Blair ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 Richard R. Farr ; Adjutant-General, James Mc- 

 Donald ; Commissioner of Agriculture, James 

 M. Blunton ; Superintendent of Land-Office, J. 

 W. Brockenborough ; Railroad Commissioner, 

 George A. Martin. Judiciary, Court of Ap- 

 peals: Chief -Justice, Robert A. Richardson; 



