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Colored M.E. Church at Winchester, is fully qualified to teach, but lacks the ability to govern.  Her school is deficient in part of dicipline.

The school sustained partly by the Bureau in charge of Mr Oscar M. Waring promises to be a success in numbers and efficiency - Mr Waring has had several years experience as a teacher, and his school is creditable not only to himself, but to its patrons also.  As soon as a teacher can be procured, a school will also be opened at Newtown, which with those here, will be ample to meet the necessities of the people in this County.

Second Division, comprising Clarke, Warren and Page Counties.

1st.  The Freedpeople appear to be in a prosperous condition in the Counties comprising this division.  No great number being in any one place, labor is equally distributed, and all who are able to work are employed.  In Clark County the colored people are erecting a church at an estimated cost of $3000 -   

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