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khe disbursements $3,629,668. of tin- disburse- 

 ments. Sis;s.ss.i) was for benevolent inst it lit ii His. 

 :]ti l'..r penal, etc., institutions. $29,9!li; for 

 printing and Mat ioncry, $20.:!!l-l for custodian 

 i'liilding. xi:!.~i7~> fur engineer Stale build- 

 -l.'i.l'.lt for the Atliirncy-denerars oilier. 



> alualions. I'nder the new tax law. all 

 property is reuuired to be assessed at its aetual 

 ca-h value. Under the old system tlie total 

 valuation was )j;s.YJ.:i:! I.SicJ ; under the new it is 

 ,i:;i.??7. The new law, besides thus in- 

 creasing the valuation, increases the levy from 

 l-J to is cents on the $100 for general State pur- 

 poses. The school tax remained 10 cents on the 

 *100, and was therefore made about 46 per cent. 

 greater by the new valuation. As the revenue 

 by the former system was sullicient for school 

 inn-poses, this leaves a surplus in that fund. 

 The Auditor's report surest s that 5 cents of 

 this Hi cents per $100 devoted to schools be set 

 aside for a sinking fund by which the public 

 debt will be liquidated. The debt now amounts 

 to nearly $9,000,000. 



Education. The number of children of 

 school age, as given in the returns of the enumer- 

 ation for the apportionment of school moneys, 

 wa- 776.300. and the amount apportioned $1,340,- 

 277.2S. The increase of the number of children 

 since the enumeration of 1891 is 13,767. The 

 per capita rate is increased from $1.32 to $1.67. 



At a meeting of school superintendents in 

 November great dissatisfaction was expressed 

 with the workings of the present law requiring 

 uniform text -books. It was thought imprac- 

 ticable for a central board to select books suitable 

 f<>r use throughout the State, and the only merit 

 of a large proportion of those thus selected 

 sc.-med to be their cheapness. Teachers were 

 hampered in being compelled to teach pupils of 

 dill'erent capabilities and greater and less de- 

 grees of intelligence from the same books. A 

 committee appointed to draft a resolution to be 

 presented to the legislative committee reported 

 one recommending that the law be so amended 

 that county superintendents might have the 

 power of indicating what books they desired 

 u-ed iii the schools under their jurisdiction; 

 that school superintendents might be allowed to 

 use any books they saw fit intermediating with 

 the course prepared, or supplemental to it, and 

 that the standard of books be raised. It con- 

 tained nothing radical, but suggested that if no 

 amendments could be obtained a repeal of the 

 entire law would be preferable to letting it 

 stand. 



The whole number enrolled in 1891-'92 at the 

 Stale Normal School at Terre Haute was 1,190, 

 with an average daily attendance of 613. The 

 number in the previous year 'was 1.086. and 

 in the year before that 1,009. The attendaixe 

 at the spring term of 1892 was 957. The presi- 

 dent says that I he lull capacity of I he school 

 has been exhausted. The total number of stu- 

 dents since 1870 is S.|:!.->. 



The Northern Indiana Normal School, at Val- 

 paraiso, closed in August with l.vMs graduates 

 in all departments, of whom 32 were in the 

 classical course, 597 in the teachers' course, and 

 402 in the commercial course. 



The biennial report of the State University 

 says that the attendance has been doubled dur- 



ing the past four yearn. The nuinlwr of grad- 

 in 1WJ3 will' be 77, an incren.se of 7 over 

 la-t year. The reeeipK including the appro- 

 priation, were $76,080.46; the expenditure, 



1.65. 



A gift of $30,000 was offered to Waba*h Col- 

 .it Crawfordsville. by Simon Yandes, ,,n 

 condition that $30,000 more be raised, making a 

 total sum of $160,000 given to the college by 

 Mr. Yandes. All but $10,000 having h-cn raised 

 l>efore December, the Montgomery County com- 

 missioners granted the remainder on jonditions, 

 vix., that $4,000 should be given June 15, 1894, 

 provided the commissioners were allowed to 

 award two perpetual scholarships in the college : 

 and that $6,000 should be given, due June 15. 



1 *! H !. provided the college should by that, time 

 have opened its doors to women. 



The agricultural-experiment station at Purdue 

 University, Lafayette, has instituted a special 

 winter course in live-stock husbandry, including 

 dairying and veterinary service, lectures to be 

 given not only by the regular professors, but 

 by practical farmers and stock growers. The 

 courses are open to young men and women over 

 sixteen years of age with fair common-school 

 education. Tho tuition is $5, and the labora- 

 tory and other charges $10. Two scholarships 

 are offered to each county agricultural society 

 or grange, institute, alliance, etc. The annual 

 report for 1891 shows that the Government ap- 

 propriation of $15,000 has been spent, and that 

 the balance unexpended June 30, 1890. \va- 

 $413.02, and the receipts from the sale of farm 

 products was $2,311.03. 



The Medical College of Indiana graduated in 

 March its largest class, numbering 57, including 



2 young women. 



Cities. A special bulletin gives the follow ing 

 statistics of cities having a population of 8,000 

 or more in 1890: Anderson, 10.741; Elkhart. 

 11,360; Evansville, 50,756 ; Fort Wayne, 35,393: 

 Indianapolis, 105,436; Jefferson vi He, 10,666: 

 Kokomo, 8,261; Lafayette, 16,243; Logansport, 

 13,328; Madison, 8,936; Marion, 8,769; Michi- 

 gan City, 10,776; Muncie, 11,345; New Albany. 

 21,059; Richmond, 16,608 ; South Bend, 21,819 ; 

 Terre Haute, 30,217; Vincennes, 8,853. Th> 

 growth of Indianapolis and its industries during 

 a decade appears from the table below : 



The number of persons employed increased 

 filMi; per cent., while the whole amount of 

 paid increased !s-!) ( s per cent., and thewa- 

 ciifiita from $392 in 1880 to $488 in I 



Railroads. The rej>ort on railroads for 1891, 

 given out by the State statistician in May, sh<.\\s 

 that it was an unusually prosjH-rous year, 

 ports were received from '<>'> roads, being 8 less 

 than formerly, owing to oonsolidat ions. These 

 consolidations have operated to increa.se earnings 

 and decrease ex put -es. The earnings in* : 



