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There were 122 Chinese, 1 Japanese, and 2,054 

 Indians in the State in 1890. 



Education. During the past two years the 

 enrollment of educable children has increased 

 nearly 6,000, and the increase in average attend- 

 ance falls but little below that number. For 

 the same period the increase in number of teach- 



ers employed is 431, and in salaries $59,590. 

 Within the past two years more than 700 school 

 buildings have been erected. The estimated 

 value of public-school buildings in the State is 

 $1.129,615. 



Nearly every city or town in the State having 

 a population of 1,000 or more is a separate 

 . school district, and maintains a public school for 

 eight or nine months in the year. In addition 

 to these, many high schools have sprung up. 



At the State University during the school 

 year 1890-'91 there were 217 students in the 

 collegiate department and 23 in the law depart- 

 ment : at the Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 

 lege there were about 275 students ; at the In- 

 dustrial Institute and College (for girls). 307 

 students; and at the Alcorn Agricultural and 

 Mechanical College (for colored), 238 students. 

 The State Normal School at Holly Springs has 

 an enrollment of about 200 students. 



Charities. The accommodations of the State 

 Lunatic Asylum at Jackson were increased dur- 

 ing the year by the erection of a new building 

 for the colored insane, which will accommodate 

 400 patients. The 75 colored patients in the 

 East Mississippi Insane Asylum were transferred 

 to it on Dec. 19, making a total of 550 patients 

 in the Jackson institution. The buildings at 

 Jackson will now accommodate about 825 

 patients. 



At the East Mississippi Asylum, at Meridian, 

 there has been a daily average of 246 patients for 

 the two years 1890-'91. There are also many 

 insane in the county jails and elsewhere. 



At the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb 

 there were 81 pupils at the close of the year. 

 The cost of the institution to the State in 1891 

 was about $18,000. 



Penitentiary. On Dec. 3 there .were 543 

 prisoners at the State Penitentiary, of whom 54 

 were white and 489 colored. The average num- 

 ber during 1890 was 456, and during 1891, 509. 

 The institution is now managed by a State 

 Board of Control, which directly superintends 

 the labor of prisoners. During 1890 the car- 

 riage-making industry employed a considerable 

 number of prisoners within the walls, while the 

 remainder were engaged in farming. During 

 1891, in addition to carriage-making and farm- 

 ing, a portion of the prisoners were making 

 brick for the addition to the State Lunatic 

 Asylum at Jackson. The Penitentiary is not 

 only self-supporting, but during 1890 the State 

 derived from it an income of $19,000, and dur- 

 ing 1891 an income of $29,295.44. 



Pensions. Since 1888, the first year in which 

 the State appropriated money to pension Con- 

 federate soldiers, the list of pensioners has in- 

 creased from 1,000 to 1,284, in 1890. The first 

 year the fund appropriated was $21.000, and 

 each pensioner received $21 ; in 1889 the num- 

 ber increased, but the appropriation was the 

 same, and the amount paid each was $17.85. 

 For 1890 the fund was increased to $30,000, and 

 the pensioners obtained $23.36 each. 



Confederate Monument. Early in June a 

 monument to the Confederate dead of Missis- 

 sippi was unveiled at Jackson in the presence of 

 a large concourse. United States Senator E. C. 

 Walthall delivered an oration on the Confeder- 

 acy, and an address upon the life and character 



