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Samuel Badlam,
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Inventory of Stock, Wood, Hay, Coal, Provisions, Farming Imple- ments, &.c., February, 1859.
10 cows and heifers $300 00
4 ladders
$6 00
1 horse
. 100 00
1 lantern 50
8 swine 100 00
saddle and bridle 1 25
hay chopper 6 00
6 chairs 4 50
1 horse cart
34 00
2 wagons 52 00
1 sleigh
10 00
300 lbs. pork 33 00
350 lbs. beef . 24 50
100 lbs. bacon 10 00
70 lbs. lard . 8 75
1 drag
2 00
scythes, snathes, rakes and forks 10 00
7
turnips 3 50
3 ox yokes . 3 00
6
66 beans 12 00
7 manure forks
5 00
3 garden forks
2 00
4 hoes
2 00
1 pair fetters.
1 00
5 lbs. tea 2 00
ox chains
62
70 lbs. coffee
7 00
halter, blanket, &c. 3 00
lot posts and rails 20 00
cart saddle 2 00
112 lbs. soap
7 56
beetle and wedges
3 00
8 baskets 4.00
stone tools
00
4 iron bars
3 00
4 axes
3 00
hatchets
00
4
66 66 in woods 24 00
iron square seed sower
00
4 66 refuse 4 00
2 shovels
25
hard coal 32 50
16 tons English hay . 240 00
spade
1 25
2} " salt hay 25 00
1 grind stone
11 00
1 bbl. onions 2 00
6 lbs. tobacco 1 68
cheese 00
1 wheelbarrow
3 00
buffalo robe 3 25
3 ploughs
14 00
120 lbs. rice 4 80
2 horse sleds 10 00
1 harrow
10 00
20 lbs. sugar
2 00
carpenters' tools
5 00
brush hook
75
Amount of inventory, $1,713 16
SAMUEL CURTIS, LEMUEL TORREY, JAMES TIRRELL,
Overseers of the Poor.
hens and turkeys 12 50
1 ice chest .
6 00
patent balances 25 00
winnowing machine 10.00
1 harness 15 00
2 draft harnesses 10 00
1 roller
6 00
65 bushels potatoes , 00
20 66 carrots 5 00
100 cabbages .
4 00
50 bushels corn 50 00 flour 2 00
6 bushels meal 6 00
10 lbs. butter 2 50
wood saw and horse 2 00 grease and ashes
lot manure . 200 00
5 cords pine wood
30 00 .
4 hard . 32 00
19
66 pine 66
57 00
hay poles
1 00
1 hand hammer tackel and runner
75
.00
crackers 1 50
4 00
25
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STATISTICS
FURNISHED BY THE TOWN CLERK.
Marriages Registered in the Town of Weymouth, in 1858.
Jan. 10, George H. Bicknell and Adeline M. Curtis, Weymouth.
Feb. 9, Cyrus B. Josselyn and Delana Litchfield, Hanover. 17, Henry Lawler and Sarah H. Gowell, Weymouth.
Mar. 4, George Wells and Melissa B. Irish, Weymouth.
24, Issac Thomas and Jane Holbrook, Weymouth.
30, Wm. A. Herrick, Boston, and Harriet P. Emery, Weymouth. 31, Lorenzo Torrey and Laura J. Williamson, Weymouth. April 18, William H. Taylor and Rutha A. Thaxter, Bridgewater. 26, Parker N. Lawrence and Mary Ann Pidge, Weymouth.
29, William A. Shaw and Harriet P. Reed, Weymouth.
May 2, Luther J. Copeland, Braintree, and Caroline Allison, Wey- mouth.
9, Havillah W. Dumps, Bridgewater, and Jane Harden, East Bridgewater.
23, Greanleaf C. Day and Lydia J. Richmond, Weymouth.
26, Charles M. Harlow and Laura Ann French, Weymouth.
27, George D. Groves and Levesta T. Curtis, Weymouth.
1, Jacob W. Rice, Bridgewater, and Mary F. Gonzales, North Bridgewater.
June
7, Otis R. Shaw, Abington, and Lucy M. Whiting, Hanover. 26, Abial H. Chase, Weymouth, and Margeret A. Conley, Buffalo, N. Y.
30, Russell T. French and Emeline Belcher, Randolph.
July
2, Cornelius Sullivan, Boston, and Margeret Medonne, Wey- mouth.
4, William E. Loud, Weymouth, and Susan M. Tirrell, A bing- ton.
4, Benjamin L. Cady and Mary Loud, Weymouth.
4, George H. Ryder and Mary B. Bates, Weymouth.
13, Charles S. Huntoon, Charleston, S. C., and Eliza M. Thayer, Weymouth.
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July 18, Nathaniel Merchant and Harriet S. Thomas, No. Bridgewater. 20, Leonard Loud and Martha J. White, Weymouth.
Aug. 13, John Canny, Weymouth, and Susan F. Sargent, Charlestown. 21, James W. Brown and Sarah Jane Mitchell, Weymouth.
Sept. 29, Henry F. Noyes and Isabella Sherman, Weymouth.
Oct. 10, Adnah G. Leach and Lucretia L. Taylor, Weymouth. 31, Newton Thayer and Maria S. White, Randolph.
Nov. 14, Franklin Derby, Weymouth, and Nancy Hollis, Braintree. 14, Thomas Smith and Margeret Gibney, Weymouth.
14, T. Austin Pool and Melvina Frances Pratt, Weymouth.
24, William H. Blaisdell, Abington, and Sarah L. Wilder, Hing- ham.
25, Leander C. Lovell, Weymouth, and Lucy E. Whiting, Boston. 25, Isaac F. French and Margeret E. Smith, Weymouth.
28, Elbridge W. Burrell, Hingham, and Ann F. Pratt, Wey- mouth.
Dec. 20, Ziba Ellis, Weymouth, and Martha Ann Dodge, Hingham.
25, Edward F. White, Braintree, and Permelia J. Garnett, Wey- mouth.
29, James H. Clapp and Lizze E. Humphrey, Weymouth.
BIRTHS.
Number of births registered,
235
Number of births, where both parties were American, 138
Number of births, where fathers were American and mothers were foreign, . 2
Number of births, where the mothers were American and fathers were foreign, 11
Number of births, where both parties were foreign, 84
235
Number of births, where both parties were natives of Weymouth, 40
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Deaths in Weymouth in 1858.
AGE.
Date.
NAMES.
Disease.
Where Born.
Years.
Months.
Days.
Jan. 1,
Addison Chessman, Nehemiah Lovell,
47
10
4
Liver Complaint,
2,
Mary H. Poole,
23
1
Child-birth,
5,
Nellie N. Bates,
1
1
Scrofula,
8,
William Callaghan,
8. Andrew Fennell,
14,
Mercy Tufts, Jacob Bates,
57
2
5
Pleurisy Fever,
15,
Hugh Ellis Pugh,
1
17
2
Typhoid Fever,
17.
Sarah E. Lovell, Sarah D. Taylor,
3
3
Canker,
19,
Chloe Holbrook, Rebecca Trufant,
78
14
Liver Complaint
21, 22,
Cyrus Blanchard, Lydia D. Lovell, Jeremiah McCarthy, Mary R. Parrott, Roswell Trufant, Lydia Pratt,
37
-
Consumption,
31,
Feb. 1,
4,
Daniel Hunt,
79
11
10
Old Age, .
7.
Hannah Hersey,
20
-
Fits,
Gravel,
Unknown,
8.
James Powers,
18
6
-
12,
Edwin F. Hunt,
27
8
15
19,
Rboda J. Bates,
61
- Inflammation,
19,
Betsy Holbrook,
68
22
Tumor,
Mar. 5,
Michael Dwyer,
18
6
Abscess on Lungs,
Ireland.
5. 6.
Patrick Henry Burke, Sarah Pool,
6
1-
Inflammation,
15,
Ellen H. Collier,
51
-
16 Consumption,
17,
Lemuel Paine, .
72
6
19,
Edward Condrick, Susan Londergan, Sarah Nash,
2
8
15
Scarlet Fever,
66
20
2
-
2
Scrofula,
Boston.
5,
22 Liver Complaint,
Weymouth.
13,
Sarah Shaw,
85
1
-
Fever,
Abington.
22.
James White,
53
1
Dyspepsia,
Scituate.
May 7, 10,
Olive Nash,
82
8 14
16.
William Pratt,
72
11
13
Old Age, General Debility,
Abington. Weymouth.
22, June 3,
Teething,
66
12,
Everett A. Thayer, . John Manuel, .
75
6
1
Old Age,
France. Eliot, Me.
July 7, 9,
Consumption,
Weymouth
9. 9,
1 1
8
Cholera Morbus,
66
22,
Prince E. Thayer,
27
1
78
4
1 Lung Fever,
27,
Charles Thayer,
1 86
2
18
30 Consumption,
Abington.
8,
Emma A. Cushing,
-
1
1 Fits,
Weymouth.
12,
IIonora Mulvey,
30
1
1 Fever,
Ireland.
15,
Thomas Moran,
1
8
- Scarlet Fever,
Weymouth.
19,
John G. Rogers,
62
25
Cancer on Stomach,
N. Hampshire.
9.
Ziba Chessman, - - Goldie, .
74
-
7,
6
Consumption,
Weymouth.
Bridgewater. New Bedford.
Samuel Pool,
1
Weymouth.
1
25, 27, April 4,
Sarah Ann Weeks, Elizabeth Tufts, . Henry A. Torrey,
42
8
10
Unknown,
Weymouth.
29,
Seth Gannett, .
48
1
Margie Drury,
Frederick E. Barker,
4
-
Scarlet Fever,
13,
18.
12
1-
Consumption,
Hingham.
50
8
22 28
Dysentery,
66
22,
Catherine Healy,
1 Cholera Infantum, Dropsy,
22,
Philip Torrey, .
6
1
Cholera Infantum, Old Age, .
Abington. Weymouth. Bridgewater.
30,
Relief Ager,
Aug. 5,
Belinda Stetson,
66
0
Inflammation, Fever,
Marblehead. Abington. Weymouth.
23,
82
-
Old Age,
6.
47
6
Heart Disease,
Treland. Weymouth. 66
57
4
6,
68
Typhoid Fever,
Abington.
10
17
Drowned,
Weymouth. 66
24.
43
Lung Fever,
Hingham. Weymouth.
46
9
Heart Complaint,
2,
1
1
60
12
1
16
Teething,
16
83
Influenza,
6,
Hingham. Braintree. Weymouth. Ireland.
11
16,
Joanna Fogerty,
Ireland.
12
-100
-
66
Ann Emily Nason, Deborah Sprague, Ester Chessman, Frederick F. Osburn, Thomas Cook,
37
Suicide,
2
21
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Deaths in Weymouth-Continued.
AGE.
Date.
NAMES.
Years.
Months.
Days.
Disease.
Where Born.
Aug. 20,
John P. Peterson,
48
11
Consumption,
27,
Sally Hawcs,
33
25
Cancer,
Sept. 4,
6,
Calvin Joy, .
60
7
Tumor, .
Unknown,
8.
Willie Bates,
3
19
Canker,
9. 9,
Martha Cleverly, .
44
Heart Disease,
11,
Mary Holbrook,
32
3
11
Old Age,
18,
Hannah T. Reed, .
87
1
9
18,
Ellen B. Derby,
1
5
27
Dropsy, .
26.
Noah Tirrell,
75
4
14
Consumption.
66
29,
Everett H. Hunt,
5
4
Liver Complaint,
30.
Patrick Fitzgerald,
Ebenezer Totman, Jr.
35
4
4
Thrown out of a wagon,
Oct. 1
George A. Lovell,
Mary Blanchard,
53
1
6.
James Cullen, .
1
4
Whooping Cough, Insanity,
Boston.
6.
Elizabeth B. Shores,
29
1
Heart Disease,
Weymouth.
10,
Jennie Florence,
Mary Nash,
35
3
1
Heart Disease, .
13,
John Cushing,
65
11
-
16,
Ruth Kingman,
87
8
1
19,
Elizabeth West,
1
14
Bowell Complaint,
19,
Edmund D. Taylor,
68
Consumption,
Braintree. Weymouth.
22,
Ann Maria Pyne,
1
Whooping Cough,
30,
Ellen Wright,
28
10
Convulsions,
30,
Amos H. Tirrell,
11
Whooping Cough,
Nov. 5,
Cyrus C. Nash,
7
Consumption, .
5,
Olive J. Raymond,
1
10
Whooping Cough,
11,
George A. Pugh,
3
12
Inflammation of Bowcls, Consumption, .
66
13,
Charles D. French, Ann Londergan, Susan Gurney, Thias Bayley,
1
4
1
Dysentery,
Heart Complaint,
7,
Horace T. Gardner,
2
Canker,
16,
Hannah Pratt,
76
11
-
19,
Lucy Bicknell,
67
4
1
24,
Elizabeth Briggs,
72
2
4
Old Age, .
26,
William Coolidge,
71
5
-
Fever,
27,
Rebecca Bicknell, Mary O'Connell, Mary Crowley,
1
10
1
11
-
-
Hannah Crowley,
1
11
66
66
-
George O. Smith,
3
14
Brain Fever,
Lucia Anna Tirrell,
16
1
25
Canker,
30.
Annie P. Sweeting,
11
28
Lung Fever,
Consumption, Rupture,
Hingham. Weymouth.
6.
Rebecca C. Alline,
63
23
Cholcra Infantum,
11,
Typhoid Fever,
66
20,
James White, Riley,
4 Infantum,
22,
Hattie C. Pool,
Liver Complaint, Cancer,
30,
Julia Mitchell,
1
Ireland. Weymouth. Hingham. Weymouth. 66
12,
Mary Kennedy,
11
16
17,
Dec. 6,
18
70
15
Dropsy, .
Influenza,
Inflammation of Bowcls,
Abington. Weymouth. 66
-
Unknown,
Cholera Infantum,
66
Quincy. Weymouth. 6
1
11
Apoplexy,
48
1191721478113 1 9 2 7 4 7 3 3
1
21,
2 一4一42 14
14
Fever,
66
66
9
28
3,
Orrin P. Munroe,
2
8
1
Disease on Brain,
Scituate. Hingham.
Braintree.
Weymouth.
30,
Sarah S. Beals,
62
Consumption,
Charles J. Conner,
15
Duxbury. Braintree. Weymouth.
66
6
Influenza, ·
66
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OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF WEYMOUTH,
FOR THE YEAR 1859.
Noah Vining, Jr.,
Selectmen. Z. L. Bicknell,
Ebenezer H. Richards.
Town Clerk.
J. Austin Rogers. Treasurer.
Gillman Burrell.
Assessors.
Noah Vining, Jr.,
Samuel Reed, Samuel Burrell.
Overseers of Poor.
Samuel Curtis, Lemuel Torrey, James Tirrell.
Constables.
Francis H. Tilden, William Stoddard, Jacob N. Bates.
School Committee for Three Years. E. S. Potter.
Highway Surveyors.
Charles Humphrey, James Lovell, A. B. Wales, James Tirrell,
Jason Holbrook.
Prudential School Committee.
B. F. Pratt, James Humphrey, Francis S. Torrey, Joseph Curtis, James Lovell, George Reed, Roscius R. Walker,
Stephen Bates, William White,
Martin K. Pratt, James P. Terry, Jacob N. Bates,
Quincy Pool.
Surveyors of Wood, Lumber and Bark.
Noah Stowell, Jr., J. Austin Rogers, John Thomas,
Richard Blanchard, W. H. Thomas,
Reuben Loud, C. H. Allen,
Leonard Gardner, Joshua Binney,
Franklin Derby, Joseph Harding, Sydney Tower, B. F. Shaw,
Joseph D. Gardner, Haskill Boynton, William G. Nash, M. M. Blanchard, Thos. H. Humphrey,
Roscius R. Walker, Warren Thayer,
Tilley Willis, Theron Wales.
William Bicknell, William Seabury, Lot W. Bicknell, Hervey Cushing, J. C. Ford, J. E. Rice,
Cyrus Washburn, Josiah Richards, S. S. Foye,
F. H. Tilden, E. Knights, Jason Pratt, Ira Curtis,
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Field Drivers.
Albert Clark,
William F. Hunt, Edmund Holbrook, Benj. Hallowell,
D. H. Vining,
William Hunt,
N. W. Torrey, Turner Torrey,
Charles Pratt,
Robert Cushing, Lucius S. Bates, Abram Bates,
Leonidas F. Pratt, John G. Burrell,
Thomas A. Hunt, Isaac F. French,
Joseph Foye,
William Pierce, Francis Tirrell,
George M. Hawes, D. Franklin Reed, Thomas French, Charles H. Loud, Nehemiah Thayer, Daniel S. Parker, William H. Manuel,
Albert Loud,
Reuben Loud, Jr.,
James Lovell, Lemuel S. Merrett, Freeman B. Vinson, James Holbrook,
Charles Raymond, J. J. Pool,
William Field, Livingston W. Loud,
Joseplı Burrell, Richmond A. Hol- Harrington Smith, Calvin Packard,
B. F. Richards, brook,
Robert Nash, Edward C. Sinclair.
William F. Leach, E. Everett Hayden, Daniel White,
Fence Viewers.
Thomas Humphrey, Cottington Naslı, John Bates, Warren Thayer.
Fire Wards.
Henry Newton, Lot W. Bieknell, E. Knights, Warren W. Barker, James Tirrell, Asa Holbrook, Appleton Howe.
Pound Keeper. Francis Tirrell.
Weigher of Vessels. William Rice.
Tything Men.
George W. Dyer, Isaac Lawrence, J. E. Hartshorne, J. B. Howe, Thomas Bieknell.
B. F. White,
Auditors. Loring Tirrell, E. S. Beals.
Tax Collector. Cotton Bates.
Sealer of Weights and Measures. George W. Pratt.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF WEYMOUTH.
The School Committee of the town of Weymouth respectfully present to their fellow citizens the Report of their services, and of the progress and condition of the Public Schools, for the year ending March 14th, 1859.
On entering upon the duties of the present year, the Board found their labors very much increased in the distribution of responsibilities which had heretofore been assigned to a larger number.
In presenting this report, we would congratulate the town upon the general flourishing condition of the schools.
In the improved system of instruction ; in the punctuality, average attendance, and proficiency ; in the commendable deport- ment of the pupils ; in the diligence, energy and efficiency of most of the teachers ; and in the interest and co-operation of parents,- there has been marked improvement, giving very gratifying evidence that the cause of education among us is making hopeful advancement.
We are happy, fellow citizens, in commending these schools to your care. Your generous appropriations,-and, we trust, your increasing interest in their behalf,-afford sufficient assur- ance that you require no persuasion from us to induce you to continue to cherish and watch over these institutions, at once the pride of the present and hope of the coming generation.
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HIGH SCHOOL.
It affords the Committee no slight degree of pleasure to report that the High School is in a prosperous condition, and is making good progress. At no previous period in its history, have the facilities for instruction been so great as at the present time.
The school opened the first term, March twenty-eighth, with sixty-four pupils.
It was ascertained, after the school had been in operation a few weeks, that the number of classes, and consequently cor- responding number of recitations, imperatively demanded an assistant teacher. Steps were immediately taken to supply this lack, and in course of a week or two, Miss Mary Poor was elected to this post. She was employed sixteen weeks, at an expense of one hundred and twenty-four dollars. Thus the school, under the management of the principal and his able assistant, has given entire satisfaction to the Committee. We have invariably found the order perfect, and a diligent and successful application to study.
Had we needed additional evidence of the qualifications of Mr. Fletcher for his important and responsible station, it has been abundantly furnished by the manner in which he has sustained himself, executing with distinguished success the duties of his office through the past year. And in this con- nection the Committee would remark, with much satisfaction, that in the execution of her duties, Miss Poor fully realized their expectations, and they feel confident that this responsible and important post was entrusted to good hands.
The examination in each study was conducted with much care, either by or under the direction of the Committee, and was such as to test fully the attainments of the classes. In the languages, the questions were very many and minute. In the mathematics, the recitations were of admirable correctness and promptness ; the English studies exhibited a good acquaintance with the subject- matter, as well as with the text-books.
The number of pupils in the different studies during the term lias been :- In Arithmetic, thirty ; Algebra, forty ; Natural Phi- losophy, ten ; Book-keeping, seven; Geometry, four ; Physical Geography, thirteen ; Rhetoric, ten; English Grammar, and . analysis, sixty ; Latin, thirty-two ; French, three ;- with fine
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specimens of composition and declamation. The average attendance through the term has been fifty-six and one-sixth.
The second term of this school opened August 30th, with fifty-five scholars ; and it is no small praise to say, that it has more than sustained its former character for thoroughness, efficiency, and success.
After a few weeks, as in the previous term, Mr. Fletcher was obliged, on account of his overtaxed strength, to ask for an assistant teacher. Fortunately, with very little delay, the services of Miss R. V. Humphrey, of Dorchester, were secured for fifteen weeks, at an expense of one hundred and ten dollars and twenty-five cents.
Miss H. has given evidence of superior scholarship and acquit- ted herself finely as an assistant teacher. Thus the school has been favored the past year with an able board of teachers- teachers who have familiar knowledge of all the required studies, aptness to teach, of impartial justice, self-control, patience, energy, proud of their profession, and filling their stations with honor.
The closing examination gave most positive assurance that the High School is not a thing of name merely, but of reality. Thus Mr. Fletcher, to whom this important trust was com- mitted, has proved himself to be a gentleman of eminent ability, and a teacher of signal success. It is needless to say, we hope his valuable services may be retained.
The number of pupils in the several studies the last term has been :- In Arithmetic, thirty-two ; Algebra, thirty-three ; Book-keeping, five ; Geometry, four; Rhetoric, five ; Astronomy, ten ; French, three ; Latin, twenty-one; English Grammar, forty ; Chemistry, thirteen. Declamations- and compositions semi-monthly during the year.
In the presence of several hundred spectators these classes sustained themselves most admirably through a protracted and critical examination. The average attendance during the term has been forty-eight and one-half.
FIRST DISTRICT .- The Grammar and Primary Divisions in this District have enjoyed the advantages of the same excellent teachers for several successive terms.
Miss J. Frances Vining, in charge of the Grammar depart- 5
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ment during the past year, has fully sustained her well-deserved popularity as an able, successful, and acceptable teacher.
This school, under the management of its present instructor, has established an excellent reputation for good order, proficiency and a good spirit, ranking with the best of our Grammar schools. This is perhaps quite as evident in the ordinary, every-day appear- ance of the school, as at the examinations, showing a desirable uniformity and regularity in its discipline.
This school, for several terms, has been growing in the estima- tion of the Committee, and never has it stood higher than during the past year. The examination at the close of each term was, in a high degree, creditable to the pupils and honorable to the teacher.
The exercises in reading, spelling, and defining, were very commendable. Recitations in Geography, Grammar, Arithmetic, and the higher Mathematics, were admirable.
Summer term, twenty-two weeks. Whole number of scholars, 44. Average attendance, 37 and a fraction.
Winter term, sixteen weeks. Whole number of pupils, 36. Average attendance, 31 and a fraction.
The Primary School was given in charge to Miss Sarah E. Loud. This school, we believe, has been very faithfully and successfully conducted,-the teacher giving evidence of skill and devotedness.
The school has steadily improved during the year. The gov- ernment of this school is mild, yet sufficiently effective.
A pleasing relation exists between the teacher and pupils,- a relation that gives promise of a delightful future.
The appearance of the school at the several examinations was particularly gratifying to the Committee.
The exhibition of her first class, in reading, spelling, defining, and also in Greenleaf's Primary Arithmetic, elicited the hearty approval of the Committee.
The parents and friends of this school evince a lively interest in its welfare, and a large number was present at its close.
Summer term, twenty-two weeks. Whole number of scholars, 44. Average attendance, 37 and a fraction.
Winter term, sixteen weeks. Whole number of scholars, 55. Average attendance, 43 and a half.
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Intermediate School .- Summer Term .- Miss Nancy A. Tirrell, teacher. Length of term, twenty-two weeks. Whole number of scholars, 45. Average attendance, 36.
The condition of this school is not, in all respects, what the Committee would have it. The pupils in this department, con- sidering their age, fall somewhat below the average attainment. Though the teacher possessed many excellent qualities-amiable, correct, and lady-like in her deportment-yet there was a want of life and animation in the exercises generally.
The recitations, in the several branches, indicated a superficial course of study rather than that thoroughness which is so much to be desired. The discipline of the school was not sufficiently firm and elevating to command the respect of the pupils, and secure the hearty approval of the Committee.
Winter Term .- Miss Elizabeth T. Jones, teacher. Length of term, sixteen weeks. Whole number of scholars, 44. Average attendance, 38.
The Committee feel obliged to remark, that, considering the experience and literary attainments of the teacher, she has not fully answered their expectations. The school has not afforded that exhibition of order, self-respect, and thoroughness in their . studies, so essential to success. And, consequently, the exam- ination was not satisfactory to the Committee.
They could not regard the closing exercises with favor- though they believe the teacher was ambitious and persevering.
SECOND DISTRICT .- Summer Term .- Length of school, six months. Whole number of scholars, 45. Average attendance, 33.
This school, during the entire year, has been under the charge of Miss Eliza French, an able and accomplished teacher, who had previously rendered much valuable service therein. Possessing in a large degree the confidence, and co-operation of the parents and children of the District, her labors in the school room have been attended with marked success. Her task, it is true, has ·not been a light one. The school being a mixed one, composed of scholars of various ages, capacities, and attainments, a syste- matic classification has been impossible, and the number of classes and studies has greatly exceeded what is desirable in any one school. But the teacher has nobly struggled to surmount these obstacles, and with a good degree of success. It has been
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her endeavor not only to teach things, but principles also-not only to assist her pupils in acquiring a knowledge of the contents of text books, but also to aid in the development and culture of their minds and hearts. And consequently a healthful, moral influence has been exerted upon the children committed to her care.
The order of the school has generally been good, and the system of instruction, as a whole, such as to meet the approbation of the Committee at their several visits.
The examination at the close of the summer term though not faultless, was quite satisfactory to the Committee and friends in attendance.
Some of the exercises, particularly in the highest classes in Reading and in Arithmetic, are worthy of special mention, as possessing rare excellence.
The Winter term was eighteen weeks in length. Whole number of scholars 50. Average attendance, 40. The school this term fully sustained the reputation it so justly earned in the last. It made indeed a better appearance at the close-the old scholars having made commendable proficiency, and several new and advanced ones had been added to their number. The exam- ination gave much satisfaction. The exercises as a whole were fully up to the average, and some of them-as in Arithmetic, Algebra, and History,-were worthy of much praise ; for they are seldom surpassed in our Grammar schools.
THIRD DISTRICT .- The Grammar School of this District, is under excellent training, and exhibits delightful evidence of the skill and devotedness of the teacher. Of this school we are happy to remark, under the care of Miss Susan J. F. Pratt, who has been continued through the year, that it is in a very successful and satisfactory condition, and is working out for the education of a large number of the youth, important and pleasing results.
Miss Pratt possesses many excellent qualities as a teacher. We have been particularly pleased with her characteristic industry, thoroughness, aptness in teaching, skill in awakening the young mind, and in securing attention, her ability to govern, her exact- ness, earnestness, and hearty love of the employment, rather than of its mere emoluments. In this school, we believe the intellect- ual and moral culture of the pupils, was conscientiously observed
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and happily promoted. The examinations of this school exceeded the expectations of the Committee.
The exercises in Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar, History, and Composition, were particularly excellent and elicited the highest commendation of the Committee. It affords us particular pleasure to state, that thirty-three pupils, had neither been absent or tardy during the term. The examinations were witnessed by a large number of interested friends.
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