[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The attendance in 1884 was a little over one thousand pupils, carefully graded and in-structed by an efficient corps of twenty lady teachers. Most of these teachers are graduates of our public school. The policy of training our own teacher? has proven to be efficient, wise and just, as well asasource of satisfaction to oureitizens. TheUuion Free-School District No. 1, has a library, which now contains eleven hundred and thirty-eight volumes. In isr.6 an alphabetical catalogue of about nine hundred vol-umes was published by the trustees of the district (pp. 28, Svo). The total cost of maintaining the pub-lic free-schools of Sing Sing, for the year ending Au-gust, 1884, was eleven thousand two hundred dollars. Besides those above mentioned, the town contains five other school districts and school-houses, as fol-lows: No. 2 school-house is located near to camp-meeting grounds; No. 3, is at Whitsou's Corners; No. 4,, is at Sparta; No. 5 district has two school-houses, one being in the rear of the Roman Catholic Church, is known as "St. Augustine's School;*' the other is on the Croton road, over two miles north of Sing Sing. The school-house in the rear of the Roman Catholic Church was erected by the Rev. William McClellan, j priest of the St. Augustine parish, as a parochial school. An arrangement was subsequently entered I into with the trustees of district No. 5, bv which it was converted into a public school.