626 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



Annuity for right of way 10,00000 



Escheat 5,86995 



Fees of public officers 44,177 23 



Kemnded cash 634 10 



Dividends on stock owned by the Commonwealth 560 00 



Conscience-money 13 75 



Miscellaneous 4,363 05 



Total $6,775,430 19 



The expenditures for the same period 

 amounted to $6,708,690.22, including : Ex- 

 penses of government, $1,592,084.52 ; loans 

 redeemed, $506,000 ; interest on loans, $374,- 

 704.50 ; purchase of United States bonds, 

 $969,812.50; common schools, $1,080,409.92; 

 charitable institutions, $600,773.71; soldiers' 

 orphan schools, $351,101.18 ; penitentiaries, 

 $224,297.25 ; State Industrial Reformatory, 

 Huntingdon, $87,500 ; House of Refuge, Phila- 

 delphia, $40,500; Pennsylvania State Reform 

 School at Morganza. $57,300; National Guard 

 of Pennsylvania, $215,324.83. 



The following statement shows the indebt- 

 edness of the State on Dec. 1, 1883 : 



FUNDED DEBT. 



Three and one-half per cent, currency loan . . . $2,580,000 00 



Four per cent, currency loan 8,540,000 00 



Five per cent, currency loan 7,923,700 00 



Six per cent. Agricultural College scrip 500,000 00 



Total interest-bearing debt $19,543,700 00 



Unfunded debt and debt upon which inter- 

 est has ceased : 



Belief notes in circulation $96, 158 00 



Interest-bearing certificates unclaimed 4,448 38 



Interest-bearing certificates outstanding 13,038 54 



Six per cent. Chambersburg certificates un- 

 claimed 148 66 



Domestic creditor 25 00 



Five per cent, bonds on which interest has 



ceased 21,814 70 



Six per cent, bonds on which interest has 



39,950 00 



Public debt, Dec. 1, 1883 $19,718,783 28 



The total number of taxables in the State is 

 1,141,349, and the total value of all real estate 

 is $1,598,430,041. The value of real estate 

 exempt from taxation is $110,000,126. Of 

 this aggregate, $80,697,201 is in Philadelphia. 

 There are only four counties whose valuations 

 are less than a million each, and these are Sul- 

 livan, Pike, Fulton, and Cameron. The horses 

 and mules over four years of age number 434,- 

 365 in the State, and the cows and neat-cattle 

 number 675,842 the value of the horses being 

 $21,790,526, and that of the cattle $1 1,587,315. 

 The tax laws are exceedingly faulty, and the 

 burdens imposed under them are very un- 

 equally distributed. 



Schools. The following statistics are from 

 the report of the superintendent for the year 

 ending June 4, 1883 : 



School districts in the State 



Schools 



Graded schools 



Male teachers 



Female teachers 



Average salaries for male teachers per month. 

 A verage salaries of female teachers per month 



Average length of school term, in months 



Number of pupils 



Average number of pupils 



Cost of tuition $5,193,691 74 



2,227 



19,542 



7,897 



8.600 



13,414 



$87 03 



$30 05 



7'02 



957.680 



Cost of building, purchasing, and renting $1,858,139 20 



Cost of fuel, contingencies, debt, and interest 



paid $2,154,505 71 



Total cost for tuition, building, fuel, and con- 

 tingencies $9,206,330 65 



Expenditures of all kinds $9,335,359 90 



State appropriation $1,000,000 00 



Estimated value of school property $30,199,636 00 



Political Conventions. The Republican State 

 Convention met in Harrisburg on July llth, 

 and nominated Jerome B. Mies, of Tioga 

 county, for Auditor-General; and William A. 

 Linsey, of Allegheny county, for State Treas- 

 urer. The platform declared for a protective 

 tariff ; distribution to the States of surplus in 

 the national treasury j full redemption of the 

 trade-dollars; civil-service reform; reform in 

 the State government; and commending the 

 administration of President Arthur. 



The Democratic State Convention met in 

 Harrisburg on August 1st, and nominated, for 

 Auditor-General, Robert Taggart, of Warren 

 county ; for State Treasurer, Hon. Joseph 

 Powell, of Bradford county. The platform 

 declared for civil-service reform, by electing 

 good men to office ; for such imposition of 

 import duties as will "prevent unequal bur- 

 dens, encourage productive industries at home, 

 and afford just compensation to labor, but not 

 to create or foster monopolies " ; that the sur- 

 plus in the national treasury should be applied 

 to payment of the debt ; that internal taxation 

 should be abolished ; that public lands should 

 be reserved for actual settlers; that "the ad- 

 ministration of Gov. Pattison has vindicated 

 the pledges of reform upon which it was 

 elected"; that "the action of the Legislature 

 in passing laws to protect honest working-men 

 from being brought into competition with con- 

 vict-laborers is to be recommended " ; and that 

 "tax laws of the State should be carefully 

 revised, and so changed as to make them bear 

 equally upon all classes of property." 



Temperance. The third annual State Conven- 

 tion of the Constitutional Temperance Amend- 

 ment Association was held in Bellefonte on 

 May 24th and 25th. The resolutions adopted 

 contained the following passages : 



That we hold up to public reprobation the vote by 

 which the House of Eepresentatives not only so 

 wantonly disregarded the respectful request of such 

 a large number of their voting and non-voting con- 

 stituents for the submission of a prohibitory amend- 

 ment to the decision of the sovereign people, but also 

 by so doing struck a dangerous blow at the sacred 

 right of petition ; . . . that we appoint two delegates 

 to attend the annual convention of the Superintendents 

 of Common Schools of Pennsylvania', and also the 

 State Teachers' Association, in order to press upon 

 these bodies the importance of introducing into the 

 schools instruction on the nature of alcohol, and its 

 effects upon the human body and character. 



Election. At the election in November, the 

 Republicans were successful. The vote was 

 as follows: for Auditor, 319,106 Republican, 

 302,031 Democratic, 6,602 Prohibition, and 

 4,452 Greenback; for Treasurer, 321,050 Re- 

 publican, 300,999 Democratic, 6,687 Prohibi- 

 tion, and 4,431 Greenback. 



PENSIONS, INCREASE OF. See page 248. 



