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GEORGIA. 



GERMAN EVANGELICAN CHURCH. 



$15,000 has been appropriated, is approaching 

 completion. 



Education. The enrollment of white pupils 

 in 1885 was 190,346; colored, 119,248. The 

 average attendance in 1885 was 209,184, which 

 was an increase over the preceding year of 

 14,149. The amount raised by the State for 

 common-school purposes in 1885 was $506,- 

 328.08, which was in excess of the amount 

 raised in 1882, $40,519.73. There was appro- 

 priated to schools in 1885 by cities and counties, 

 under local laws, $209,463.49, so that the en- 

 tire amount available for school purposes that 

 year was $715,791.57. This gives an average 

 per capita on enrollment of $1.407, and on 

 average attendance, $3.421. The total cost of 

 operating the system in 1885 was $28,011.13, 

 which was only 5*53 per cent, of the entire 

 State appropriation, leaving 94*47 per cent, 

 paid to teachers. 



The report of the Trustees of the State 

 University shows that there was, during the 

 past collegiate year, the following number of 

 students in each of the branches : 



Franklin College 145 



State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts 47 



Post-graduate 1 



Law department 11 



Total number at Athens 204 



In medical department at Augusta 139 



In North Georgia Agricultural College 139 



In Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College ... 407 

 In South Georgia Agricultural College 85 



Total in all the departments of the univer- 

 sity system, 965. This does not include Cuth- 

 bert. The Legislature provided, in the act of 

 Oct. 13, 1885, for the establishment of a 

 technological school as a branch of the State 

 University. 



Political. The Democratic State Convention 

 was held at Atlanta July 28. John B. Gordon 

 was nominated for Governor by a vote of 252 

 to 70 for A. O. Bacon. The following were 

 renominated: For Secretary of State, N. C. 

 Barnett ; Treasurer, R. U. Hardeman ; Comp- 

 troller-General, W. A. Wright; Attorney- 

 General, Clifford Anderson. There was no 

 Republican ticket in the field. 



The following is the result of the election 

 on October 6 : Total vote, 116,298 ; for Gov- 

 ernor, Gordon, 101,159; Secretary of State, 

 Barnett, 115,501 ; Treasurer, Hardeman, 105,- 

 187; Comptroller-General, Wright, 106,797; 

 Attorney- General, Anderson, 114,158. 



The last General Assembly passed two acts 

 proposing amendments to the Constitution, and 

 providing for submitting them to the people. 

 The first was an act to amend the Constitution 

 by striking therefrom paragraph 15, section 7, 

 Article III, which provides that all special or 

 local bills shall originate in the House of Repre- 

 sentatives, and prescribes the manner of intro- 

 duction and consideration of such bills. The 

 other relates to all the objects for which the 

 Legislature may levy taxes, and is an act to 

 amend the last sentence of Article VII, section 

 1, paragraph 1, of the Constitution of 1877, by 

 adding the folio wing words, "And to make suit- 



able provision for such ex-Confederate soldiers 

 as may have been permanently injured in such 

 service," so that said sentence shall read as fol- 

 lows : a To supply the soldiers who have lost a 

 limb or limbs in the military service of the 

 Confederate States with suitable artificial 

 limbs during life, and to make suitable provis- 

 ion for such Confederate soldiers as may have 

 been permanently injured in such service." 

 These amendments were ratified at the Octo- 

 ber election. 



On November 2, ten Democratic Congress- 

 men were elected. 



The Legislature, almost unanimously Demo- 

 cratic, met on November 3, and held a session 

 of fifty days, adjourning on December 22 to the 

 first Wednesday of July, 1887. The legislation 

 was mostly local and special. 



GERMAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH. According 

 to the triennial report of the President of the 

 Synod, which was made at its meeting in Au- 

 gust, this body has under its care 675 churches, 

 with more than 40,000 families and 125,000 

 "confirmed" members. The rolls showed an 

 increase of 127 ministers and 60 churches in 

 three years. The contributions of the churches 

 in 1885 had been, for home missions, $5,796; 

 for foreign missions, $8,079 ; for synodical and 

 church purposes, $41,882 ; for the American 

 Bihle Society, $460. Four ordained mission- 

 aries were employed, under the direction of the 

 Missionary Committee, in British India. Five 

 periodicals were published under the direction 

 of the Synod, in the general interests of the 

 Church, of missions, and of Sunday-schools, and 

 a sixth was projected all in the German lan- 

 guage. The payments from the Widows' and 

 Orphans' Fund had averaged $100 a year to 

 each of the families or widows its beneficiaries. 



The Synod of the German Evangelical Church 

 in North America met in Buffalo, N. Y., in Au- 

 gust, and was composed of 63 ministers and 39 

 laymen as active members. The Rev. I. Zim- 

 merman, of Burlington, Iowa, presided. A 

 new division of the Synod was made into 

 twelve districts, instead of the eight districts 

 into which it was formerly divided, and these 

 districts are to be called by the names of the 

 States in which they are situated, instead of 

 by numbers. A declaration w r as adopted dis- 

 approving the raising of church funds by 

 means of picnics, balls, and other worldly 

 amusements. The privileges of the Widows' 

 and Orphans' and of the Invalids' Fund were 

 extended to the Evangelical Teachers' Associa- 

 tion. An offer made by Pastor Fritz von 

 Schluemback, to present to the Synod the 

 buildings and grounds of a mission college in 

 Texas, was accepted, on condition that the 

 property be transferred free of debt. A propo- 

 sition from Sternenhaus College, in Berlin, 

 Germany, to receive and instruct gratuitous- 

 ly ten students for the ministry, to be sent 

 to the United States in the service of the 

 churches of the Synod, was accepted, and a 

 gift of $200 a year was voted to the college. 



