San Mateo County Gazette Redwood City, San Mateo County, California Saturday Morning, February 11, 1860, Vol. 1 No.45 Notice to Creditors In the County Court of the County of San Mateo, State of California - In the matter of the petition of PATRICK WARD, an Insolvent Debtor. Pursuant to the order of the Hon. Benj. F. Fox, Judge of the said County Court, notice is hereby given to all the Creditors of the said Insolvent, Patrick Ward, to be and appear before the Hon. B.F. Fox, County Judge aforesaid, at the Court Room of said Court, in Redwood City, County of San Mateo, on the seventeenth day of March, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty, at ten o'clock A.M. of that day, then and there to show cause, if any they can, why the prayer of said insolvent should not be granted, and an assignment of his estate be made, and he be discharged from his debts and liabilities, in pursuance of the Statute in such case made and provided; and in the meantime all proceedings against said insolvent be stayed. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court, on this 7th day of February, A.D. 1860 B.G. LATHROP, Clerk SCHOOL STATISTICS - From the report of the State Superentendent (sic) of Public Instruction, we make the following interesting extracts: At the close of the year 1858, the total number of children in the State, between four and eighteen years of age, was forty thousand five hundred and thirty. At the close of 1859, the number has increased to forty-eight thousand six hundred and seventy-six, of which twenty-five thousand three hundred and forty-eight are boys, and twenty-three thousand three hundred and twenty-eight are girls. On the first of January, 1859, the total number of children, under four years of age, was twenty-three thousand five hundred and fifty-eight; on the first of January 1860, the number was twenty-eight thousand three hundred. The total number of children under eighteen years of age, was therefore sixty-four thousand and eighty-eight in 1859, and seventy-six thousand nine hundred and seventy-six in 1860 - an increase of twelve thousand eight hundred and eight-eight. The total number of children in the State, who were born in California, was in 1859, thirty-three thousand five hundred and forty-six; in 1860, forty-one thousand four hundred and fifty, showing the number born during the year 1859 to be seven thousand nine hundred and four. The number of orphans in 1859 was one thousand nine hundred and six; in 1860, two thousand three hundred and fifty-four. The number of deaf and dumb in 1859, was thirty-nine; in 1860, forty-two. The number of children attending private schools in 1858, two thousand four hundred and twenty-two; in 1859, four thousand and eighty two. The number of children attending schools, public and private, in 1858, was twenty-two thousand two hundred and forty-four; in 1859, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and one. The number of organized School Districts in the State in 1859, was four hundred and eleven; in 1860, four hundred and sixty-three. During the year 1859 the number of private schools increased from fifty-five to one hundred and twenty-six. The total number of schools and colleges in the State was four hundred and eighty-seven in 1859 - six hundred and forty-nine in 1860. In 1859, the total number of teachers employed in the public schools was five hundred and seventeen - in 1860, seven hundred and fifty-four. Of the latter five hundred and thirty-six are males, and two hundred and eighteen females. The total amount expended for school purposes during the year 1859, was $427,000.70. Eight counties (San Francisco, Sacramento, Sonoma, San Joaquin, El Dorado, Yuba, Santa Clara and Butte) with twenty thousand six hundred and nineteen children between four and eighteen years, being less that one-half of the schoolable children of the State, contributed, for the support of schools, the sum of $289,775.95, or nearly seven-tenths of the whole amount. In other words, have paid twelve dollars and twenty-six cents for the education of each child, while the other counties, thirty-three in number with twenty-five thousand and fifty-seven schoolable children, have paid but five dollars and forty-seven cents per child. The total amount of State school funds apportioned by the Superintendent of Public Instruction during the year 1858 was $53,404.95, and during 1859 it was $72,349.52. The apportionment of January 1860, amounted to $44,770.89. DISTRICT COURT REPORTER - We have received a copy of a bill introduced by Mr. Anderson, to provide for the appointment of District Court Reporters, whose duty it shall be to make complete stenographic reports of all the proceedings and evidence upon trials in District Courts, and afterwards to write them up in full, and when not engaged in those Courts to be subject to the call of County Judges to render the like service in County Courts and Courts of Sessions. This is one of the most high-handed attempts to create lucrative offices for political hangers-on, that we have noticed for many a day. SHEEP IN CALIFORNIA - From a careful estimate, by one engaged in the business, it is computed that there are now three hundred thousand head of sheep in this State. The largest flock by any one firm, is that of Flint, Bixby & Co., San Juan, Monterey county, who own about twenty thousand, nearly all of which are of American stock, and a few bucks are full blood merino, among them the well known French merino buck whose fleece, of the growth of fourteen months, weighed forty-two pounds after being washed. To see other old newspapers, visit http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php