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converted to a horn of plenty and garden of perpetual verdure.
Among the freed people of this community there exists a listless apathy towards the formation of temperance societies or of becoming members thereof. If they are addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors either in moderation or excess. The evils inseparable from its prisoner or pernicious effects are invisible. Hence it may be asserted beyond gov't that as a community they cannot be reproached with the vice of intemperance or the disgrace attached to an individual devotee.
The middle district school under the immediate charges of Mr. M. I. E. Fitch is progressing finely and in manner alike creditable to himself and the aspiration of pupils. ardor for the possession of that knowledge which is to lift them up from the more of ignorance to a higher plane of secular and moral intelligence. But notwithstanding the ardor of the pupils or however intelligent the zeal or patient the instructing by which the teachers efforts are directed, the best results cannot be accomplished until this school be relieved of its excess of numbers in daily attendance by removal to the building delayed in completion (for a while) for the want of means.
The building in process of construction at Wicks farm will be ready for school and teacher by the 10th of the month and the same causes for delay in the Middle District in completing the school building exist there and at Prankitank, and all that can be done will be done to have them finished at an early day.
On the matter of the administration of the

Transcription Notes:
Piankitank River/district, Va