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MISSISSIPPI. 



MISSOURI. 



Walter McLaurin, and J. H. Askew ; Chief Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court, Thomas H. Woods ; 

 Associate Justices, J. A. P. Campbell and 

 Timothy E. Cooper. 



Finances. For the fiscal year 1892 the dis- 

 bursements exceeded the receipts by $179,955.10, 

 and for 1893 the excess of disbursements was 

 $248,545.92. Of the disbursements for 1893 

 $674,195.32 were on account of the common 

 schools. This sum added to the poll tax retained 

 in the counties, amounting to $245,823.58, makes 

 a total contribution for the support of common 

 schools of $920,018.90. 



The total assessment of real estate for 1893 

 was $113,409,358, and of personal estate $48,764,- 

 536. The State tax rate was 5 mills. 



Education. The following figures are taken 

 from the latest report of the Superintendent of 

 Public Education, covering the years 1892 and 

 1893: Number of educable children, 516,183; 

 enrolled in public schools. 334,923 ; average 

 daily attendance, 194,993 ; public schools taught, 

 5,986; teachers in public schools, 7,497; separate 

 school districts, 58; total revenues for public 

 schools, $1,392,927. The statistics for 1892-'93 

 show that 73 whites in every 100 of school age 

 were enrolled in the public schools, while fewer 

 than 60 in every 100 negroes were enrolled. The 

 enrollment of both races was 64'8 per cent, of all 

 the educable children. 



At the Agricultural and Mechanical College 

 there was an attendance of 310 pupils for the 

 session of 1891-'92, and of 262 for the session of 

 1892-'93. For the session beginning in 1893 

 there had been enrolled 242 pupils up to the close 

 of the year. The attendance at the Industrial 

 Institute and College for Girls for the session of 

 1892-'93 was 287, and for the present session up 

 to the close of the year 273. The State Uni- 

 versity contained 158 students at the close of the 

 year. These institutions are doing good work 

 for higher education. 



Charities. At the end of the fiscal year 1893 

 there were 632 patients in the State Lunatic 

 Asylum at Jackson, of whom 154 were white 

 males, 196 white females, 136 colored males, and 

 146 colored females. The main asylum building, 

 which was burned in February, 1892, has been 

 rebuilt and furnished with modern improvements. 

 In the East Mississippi Asylum, at Meridian, there 

 were 240 white patients at the close of the year. 

 All colored patients have been transferred from 

 this institution to the asylum at Jackson. There 

 were 80 pupils at the Institute, for the Deaf and 

 Dumb at the close of the year. 



Railroads. There are 2.466'5 miles of rail- 

 road in the State. The valuation of railroad 

 property for the year was $24,022,479, on which 

 a State tax of $120,110.50 was assessed. 



Penitentiary. On Dee. 23, 1893, there were 

 791 prisoners in the State Penitentiary, of whom 

 100 were white and 691 colored. This is an in- 

 crease of 238 in two years. During 1892, 266 

 convicts were received, and during 1893, 401. 

 There were 72 deaths and 72 escapes during 

 these years. The net earnings of the institution 

 for 1892 were $24,010, and for 1893, $29,961. 

 All except 125 of the convicts have been leased 

 to planters in the Mississippi delta, at $8 per 

 month for negroes and $7 for white men ; but 

 under the new State Constitution all such leases 



are prohibited after Dec. 31, 1894, when the 

 State must undertake the direct control and em- 

 ployment of its prisoners. 



Banks. There are 63 State banks, with a 

 total capital of $3,260,925, doing business in the 

 State. They have individual deposits subject to 

 check amounting to $4.399,590.96, and time de- 

 posits of $551,401.88. These several banks hold 

 in State, county, levee, and city bonds $498,968.- 

 86, and are real-estate holders to the amount of 

 $494.556.64. 



Confederate Pensions. Under the provision 

 of section 272 of the State Constitution the 

 Legislature of 1892 passed an act authorizing 

 $50 to be paid annually out of the State treasury 

 to all persons entitled to receive pensions under 

 the laws of this State, but it was further pro- 

 vided that not more than $64,200 per annum 

 should be expended for that purpose. In con- 

 sequence of a very large increase in the number, 

 only $32.25 was paid to each pensioner for 1892, 

 and the amount for 1893 will be considerably less. 



MISSOURI, a Western State, admitted to 

 the Union, Aug. 10, 1821 ; area, 69,415 square 

 miles. The population, according to each de- 

 cennial census since admission, was 140,455 in 

 1830; 383,702 in 1840; 682,044 in 1850; 1,182,- 

 012 in 1860; 1,721,295 in 1870; 2,168,380 in 

 1880; and 2,679,184 in 1890. Capital, Jefferson 

 City. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, William J. 

 Stone ; Lieutenant-Governor, John B. O'Meara ; 

 Secretary of State, Alexander A. Lesueur; State 

 Auditor, J. M. Seibert ; State Treasurer, Lon V. 

 Stephens; Adjutant-General, Joseph A. Wick- 

 ham ; Superintendent of Education, Lloyd H. 

 Wolfe; Attorney-General, R. F. Walker; Rail- 

 way Commissioner, James Cowgill ; all Demo- 

 crats; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 Francis M. Black; Associate Justices, Thomas 

 A. Sherwood, Theodore Brace, Shepard Bare-lay, 

 James B. Gantt, Gavin D. Burgess, George B. 

 Macfarlane ; all Democrats. 



Finances. The State debt is less than $7,000,- 

 000. The mortgage indebtedness on the farms 

 and homes averages, according to a United 

 States bulletin, $80 to the head of population, and 

 bears a ratio of 16-15 per cent, to the assessed 

 valuation. The number of bank failures from 

 January to September was 24; 3 resumed be- 

 fore Sept. 1. The aggregate liabilities reported 

 were $8,200,000. 



Products. Missouri grows 219,000.000 bush- 

 els of corn, 36,000,000 of oats, 20,000,000 of 

 wheat, and 13,000,000 pounds of tobacco. The 

 lead product has exceeded 100,000,000 pounds in a 

 single year, and the zinc has equaled 12,500 

 tons a year. It is first of the States in the 

 number of mules owned, third in hogs and 

 corn, sixth in iron and horses, seventh in oats, 

 ninth in sheep. 



Coal. By the report of the recently finished 

 review of the coal fields of the country by the 

 Geological Survey it appears that Missouri has 

 26,700 square miles of coal fields. No other 

 Western State exceeds this supply save Illinois, 

 which has 36,800 square miles. The Missouri 

 product reached 2.733,949 tons in 1892, and the 

 value of it was $3,369,659. Three feet is near 

 the average thickness of the coal beds of the 



