34:.' 



se, hare supplemented the fund il 

 from the Slate with money raised by local taxation, 

 and wherever this has been done tin- result is satis- 



lhe great majority of the o.unti. 



it with tin- pittance received from tin H 



funl a Pittance that i- n-.i -nlVi -vide 



comfortable schoolhouses. much less pay eqpbb 



teachers. In 1896 toe average pay of teachers in 



1 supported by local taxation was $508 a 

 In the country m-hook unsupported by local ta 

 pay of teachers was $120 a year." 



The sum given fr the school fund for 1897 was 

 $1.169.943, W $8.585. which was dented < 

 se. Tin- fun. 1 was apportioned at tin- i 



fr rtipila of \>\ |>..|.iilati<. n . This was 

 r. t.t an.l :t nulls greater than in 1896. 



ml of Technology, al . Mlanla. sent ..lit a 

 class of S in June. At it- tin- class nuiu- 



At the Normal and Industrial School more than 

 180 tf^ioatioas for admission wen refused for lack 

 of accommodations in .June; 200 had applied for 

 ad minion in SeptemU-r. A course of one year will 

 be added to the normal department separate from 

 I lartment. designed to give practical 

 instruction to teachers. 



In. In-trial N-hool f.r Negroes has a fine new 

 building near Savannah, and is in charge of six 

 colored professors. In addition to the industrial 

 work in wood and metal, the literary curriculum is 

 high for a Southern negro school, and the standard 

 in all detriments is most excellent. 



The Mat.- fniversity.at Athens, had Wl indents 



in 1 ^!KJ-'U7. and graduated 87 at its ninety-sixth < ..m- 



m.-nt. in .Inn.-. -W of whom wen- in the law 



class. This institution was originally Franklin i '>!- 



leg*, and as such a fund of $20,000 was given to it 



endowment of a professorship of agriculture. 



the grant from the Morrill fund was accepted 



by the State.* College of Agricultural and .Mechan- 



ical Arts was or and the two colleges were 



united as the I'nivrrsity <>f Georgia. 



The chancellor ami the Board of Visitors recom- 

 mended that the university should be opened to 

 women. The Board of Trustees declared it-elf fa- 

 vorable to this change. i,.|j decided that it had no 

 power to act until the Legislature should take steps 

 in the matter. More about the university will be 

 found tinder the head "legislative Session." 



Kmory College graduated a class of :;; in May. 



The number of students at the State Normal 

 School has increased in two and a half years' from 

 28 to 557. The school was opened April 17. !-!:,. 

 The Legislature gm - ,t. About 



nit has IN-CH used this year for 

 bnikUncsand permanent improvements. only $7.000 

 having been specially appropriated f..r that purpose 

 nee the establishment of the school. 



A staff correspondent of the Atlanta "C..nMitu- 

 tion*' savs: "A roll call of 2:* pioneers in April 

 of 1895 has increased to the marvelous proportion 



7 in M,,lHTof 1K<7. C. "-ducat iot. of \ 

 women and young men has prove, 1 the success of 

 that plan, and what the university has feared to 

 for a hundred years has >een accomplished 

 here in a day. Co-operation has den 1 that 



students may be well housed, well fed. and well in- 

 structed for $7 a month. I was driving along a 

 country road to catch an early train.' says Sohool- 

 Commissioner Glenn. I passed a field where half 

 a doren white children were at work, and shortly 

 after came across a party of negro children g 

 to school. The whites in the field, the negroes at 

 school! My heart bled for mv race/ Hiding in a 

 railroad train/ say- . I saw a 



well-dressed negro girl who had just laid d 

 book she was reading. It was one of the Greek 



classics in the original tongue, and the girl was rv- 

 :ig " Looking out of the car winnovi I -,-i\\ a 

 white girl .n-ments but ill concealed 



her form. Sh.- \va> picking cot ton. Mv mind, in 

 horror, shrank frm a contemplation of the contrast 

 of t! as well as that of the future unless 



state I nst it nt ions.- -The building for negroes 

 at the Insane Asylum was almost totally desti 



< Jan. 9. and but little of the furniture was 

 saved. There were about l.iMM) inmates. , 

 whom died in the excitement of removal. The 

 cost of the building was $i><i nnlly, :in.i 



within the pa^ iditions have cost $80,000 



each. The ins.,', ,1.(KM>. 



The S-'Idiei-s' Home \va> ordered sold b\ 



. and in November the tru-t. . - ad\'- rl i* .1 for 

 bids, l-'unds \\n-i- raised by private subscript ion 

 and a line building was erected, with tin- e\| 

 tion that the State \v. nil. 1 accept ;ind maintain it. 

 The State refused, and the building iie\er ha 

 occupied. 



Atthe Academy for the Blind, at Macon. th- 

 !K{ in the department for the whites and '.'- in that 

 for negro children. The expense f..r maint. i 

 for each is $:{.() a month, and the expenditure f.,r 

 i-lothini; is not more than 5 for the ten inon 1 



A c..nvii-t camp at Dakota was struck by li-ht- 

 ning.Iune ','7. The men. to the numbr] 



,it supper. About > ,<-k tc. the 



lloor. :{ were killed instantly, 2 died from the shock, 

 and 20 wen- injured. 



The Penitentiary convicts number ab, 



Coin ict (amps! -Thc< ..piminted Philip 



. nl in the spring to in vest igate" the cond it i 

 t he count \ misdemeanor-convicl cam|-s <.f t he stale. 

 This report, made in August, charges d< iiniiely and 

 distinctly that the keepers of tin- misdemeanor 

 victs are guilty of these things; |J ( ,bbii.. 

 of their time allowances for good behavior: f'-rcing 

 convicts to work fourteen to twenty hours a 

 providing them no clothes; no beds; n<> heat in 

 winter: no ventilation in single rooms in summeff 

 in which three score of coir. 



giving them rotten food; allowing them to die 

 when sick for lack of medical attention: outraging 

 the women ; beating to death old men t..,. feeble to 

 work; killing young men for the mere sake of kill- 

 ing: suborning jurors and county ofli 

 duty it i- _ the wrongdoing of guards; 



cheating the State. The commissioner visit. -.1 :,] 

 chain-gang camps and inspected 1.7'.:> cot 

 Th.se included 2"i county camps. 2 municipal 

 camps and 2-1 chain ani:s operated by private in- 

 dividuals. It is to be understood that th 

 affairs applies only to part of the leased col 



AS a rale, those worked by cities and count!' 



well treated. The leased OOnvictS numbered about 

 800. A sensation \\. ; i.y the publication of 



the report, and it was further disclosed th.. 

 leasing of convicts to private individuals was 

 ist the law of the State, which declare-, that 

 Mployed upon public works and not 

 givl-n into the control of private persons. It there- 

 fell within the province of the courts t 

 that the private camps were broken up. The j 

 to whom the Governor forwarded the information 

 gathered by the commissioner acted promptly, and 

 the convicts were generally returned to the ci, 

 of public ollicers. 



Militia. A battalion of naval reserves- ha- 



ntly toth. .:'!. They held their 



first encampment in. Inly, on board the old monitor 



-.lie. "in St. Simon's Sound There were p- 

 120 men, with officers. The infantry, artillery, arid 

 cavalry companies were in camps of instruction in 

 June at Grifnn and Mcldrim. 



