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I.oUSlANA. 



. and when the bids were. 



in November, it was found that Uuids aggre- 

 gating $1.122.000 were onVn-d. more than half 



r and above. The Board of Li. pi. 

 purchased $200300 at an average pr 



The levee bonds are also in favor, as shown by 

 the fat t that th. -rain Levee B<>a 



damned $22,000 of its first issue at par. in June. 



Judicial Meei-io,,.-A ,-ase that had b 

 the courts for rears was set tied in August. The 

 mkof Shrevejx.rt refused to pay 

 its taxes of 1890, on the ground that the assess 

 ment wa- ill.-iral and excessive; that the police 

 jury sitting as a board of reviewers had aBsosscd 

 the st -k of the bank, which was in I'nited 

 States bonds, exempt from taxation : and that 

 * ' the -t.M-k "f the bank at a higher 



rate than the tax of individuals was in violation 

 of the Constitution of the I'nited States. A 

 rule to comjH-1 the bank to settle or produce its 

 stock for seizure and sale was tried and sustained 

 and made absolute. 



Kd neat ion. The latest report of the public 

 schools available is that for 1894, made to the 

 !',.ard of Kducation, Oct. :',!. 1 si*:,, by th.- 

 State Superintendent. The enrollment was 155,- 

 926, and the average attendance 109,435. The 

 total number of public schools was 2,746, an in- 

 crease of 101 over 1893. The white schools 

 numbered 1,921, and the colored 825; 3,421 

 teachers were employed, of whom 2,506 were 

 white and 915 colored, one third of the force of 

 white teachers being men. 



The average annual expenditure for a puj.il is 

 $4.89 for tuition; including the whole cost of 

 the system, it is $6.91. The average length of 

 school sessions in months is: White, 5*69; col- 

 ored, 4-66. The total receipts of the year 1894 

 amounted to $1.166.995.01, against $982,1 l'J.71 

 in 1893 and $1.1M.!M.V,2 in 1892. 



most prominent increases in revenue are 

 noticeable in the gains of current school funds 

 accruing from the State tax, amounting in 1894 

 to $213.549.62 ; but there was a slight decrease 

 of revenue from the poll tax, which yielded 

 $95.028.25. The amount realized from jury 

 taxes has gained steadily, showing in 1894 a gain 

 of 4 per cent, being $143,364.58. 



Another large source of revenue for 1894 was 

 the corporation or municipal tax, though most 

 of the $343.681.01 reported was levied by the 

 city of New Orleans. The interest from the sales 

 of sixteenth sections has increased perceptibly. 

 The amount paid to the school boards in 1894 

 was $44.273.88. Other receipts are from rent of 

 school lands and such miscellaneous sources as 

 fines, donations, sale of ferries. etc.. and in a few 

 eases loam. The aggregate of these in 1894 was 

 *.'- ;' > 



The expenditures amounted to $:. 

 and the total for the last five years, ISOO-'M in- 

 . $3.ia44W7.75. The late Legislature ap- 

 ied $1,500 to aid the work of teachers' 

 " of wl K* 14 of one week 

 held in 1894- v5. 



Thr Sut. Normal School in ten years has sent 

 oat 167 graduates. 





a Chautauqua at Huston, on the 

 Vicksburg. Shreveport and Pacific Railroad. 

 The grounds occupy 15 acres and the auditorium 

 JjOOO, There Is a large hotel, a natatorium, 



and a bath house supplied from the - 



springs. It has been in 



and had lo:i pupils enrolled in IM'-V 



1'rodiicts. A new process for niinii.. 

 phur. the Frasrh method, ha- been put in ,',j ,. n ,. 

 tion in Caleasieu Pari-h. at Sulphur ('it v. T|L 

 i- the lir-t time that sulphur ha- I r.-n HquefiS 

 in the earth and removed m a molten -ta 

 as an engineering fent it i- one of ti.. 

 novel. The peculiarity of the Milphur <i. 



-u aeronnl of the qnicksan.; 

 them, and the enormous quantities 

 in the sulphur-bearing rock it-elf, n 

 tempt- at mining this sulphur by orl 

 impossible. A I" r hole \\a- sunk. Mich 



111 pumping oil. Superheated 

 introduced under pressure, and t! 

 liquefied and removed by pumps, like oil. 



The cott'.n crop for the year endu 

 showed a large increase over that of the \ 

 ing year, the Gulf States showing' a gain 

 587 bales; but the prices were lower, tin- a 

 at New Orleans being 5*92 cents. The crop of 



I ."Ui-iana alone was placed at 600,000 ba 



The consumption in all the mills in th< 

 was 14-l..'Wt bales more than in the previous* 

 ; in Loui-iaiia the gain was H.l . 



The Cotton Growers' Convention, h. 

 Shreveport in January, strongly a<: 

 tion of the cotton acrca. 



crops, and establishment of mills and factories*. 

 ana resolved further "that it is the sense < ' >.. 

 onvention that the legislatures of the cotton- 

 grow ing States make appropriations with. 

 of creating a fund to DC paid to tin 

 inventor of a plantation cotton -seed -oil mill." 

 The Cotton Bale Convention adopted measapi 

 looking to uniform and improved baling. 



The outcome of the rice crop this yea 

 discouraging. The extreme high rate , f f, i-j.- 

 which the Southern Pacific Railway i- charging 

 on rough rice is eating up from 'J."i to^opei : 

 of the value of rice. It appears that t! 

 rice is greatly injured in the -ale by the | : 

 of red grains in large numbers, which i^ 

 failure to renew the s. 



According to the annual sugar I 

 Bouchereaa, which is the recogni/ed an 

 on the sugar crop of the State, tin yi- 

 '95 was 855,384 short tons, which" i- |,y far th- 

 largest sugar production in the h 

 Btale. La~t season'fl crop wa> ma.le in 4-u su- 

 gar houses, as against 906 nouses in oj 



ago. Each of the sugar houses in 

 tion last season, however, averaged a pr- -. 

 of 220 long tons. 



The sugar-planters have been kept in si. 

 this year by the varying prospects for p.: 

 of the bounty on the crop of 1*!M. 1 

 January came the decision in the Mill- 

 ing Company's case adverse to their dan 

 ('...in of Appeals of the District of Co 

 decided not only that the law aut! 

 ut of a bounty on su-n ha- 1 

 repealed, but that, "in addition, the 

 bounties and sub-idie- by act of Congres- 

 OTI Iy wrong in principle, but finds no war: 

 the* Constitution. In March the arnendn 

 the sundry civil appropriation bill, appropriat- 

 ing $5,000,000 for payment for the u 

 bounty claims of 1893 and eight tenths of a cent 



