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Show The I res I do ill on Education, Washington, 7. In reply to an address of friends yesterday, President Hayes saiJ he acknowledged the importance im-portance of general education and that ho appreciated tho difficulties in the way of establishing a general school system where none existed. It should be a state inslitution, but the general government should render ren-der all the aid il could legally. Nothing Noth-ing cave him more pleasure than to . contribute as far as in his power to further and elevate the blessing of education in the south, which had experienced the loss of its school funda and the general derangement of its finances. Ho believed there was no grealer guarantee for the advancement ad-vancement and preservation of the ; country than tho intelligence of her people. The sabject would receive hie attention. |