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LENOX, JAMES. 



1,589,131 native and 59,468 foreign born ; 1,- 

 377,077 whites and 271,522 colored, the latter 

 number including 50 Indians and half-breeds, 

 and 10 Chinese. The population of the prin- 

 cipal cities of the State is reported as follows: 

 Louisville, 123,645 ; Covington, 29,720; New- 

 port, 20,433; Lexington, 16,656; Paducah, 

 8,376. 



The preliminary report of the census on the 

 cereal acreage and product of the State shows 

 the areas given up to the different crops, and 

 the aggregate yield of each, as follows : 



The Democratic State Convention, meeting 

 at Lexington on the 17th of June, elected dele- 

 gates to the National Convention, and adopted 

 the following platform: 



The Democracy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, 

 in convention assembled, do declare : 



1. Tor freedom of the ballot. 



2. For home rule. 



3. For the supremacy of the civil over the military 

 authority. 



4. For no tariff that lias protection for its effect. 



5. For reform in the administration of the Federal 

 Government. 



6. We declare that the action of the Republican 

 party, whereby the verdict of the people as rendered 

 in 1876 was reversed and their will thwarted, was a 

 crime against the Constitution ; a crime against the 

 people ; a crime against established precedents, and a 

 crime against civil liberty itself; and the people of the 

 United States owe it to themselves and to their insti- 

 tutions to see that this wrong shall not go unrebuked. 

 We do further declare our unfaltering trust in the abil- 

 ity of Samuel J. Tilden as a leader, his patriotism as 

 a citizen, and his fitness for the position to which he 



was indubitably elected, but, having confidence in the 

 wisdom and .judgment of our delegates to the Cincin- 

 nati Convention, we leave them free to exercise their 

 best discretion with reference to all matters that come 

 before them. 



7. To the extent of the powers of this body we in- 

 struct our delegates to vote as a unit on all questions 

 and in all matters before the Cincinnati Convention. 



8. We favor the retention of the two-thirds rule, 

 and direct our delegates to give it their support. 



In the Presidential election the Hancock and 

 English electors received an average of 148,715 

 votes; the Garfield and Arthur electors, 105,- 

 961 ; the Weaver and Chambers electors, 

 11,423 ; and the Dow and Thompson electors, 

 257. 



KIMBERLEY, JOHN WODEHOTTSE, Earl of, 

 Secretary of State for the Colonies, was born 

 January 7, 1826, and educated at Eton and 

 Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B. 

 A., in 1847, taking a first class in classical hon- 

 ors. He succeeded his grandfather as third Bar- 

 on Wodehouse in 1866, and was raised to the 

 earldom for political reasons in 1866. He held 

 the post of under-Secretary of State for Foreign 

 Affairs, under Lords Aberdeen and Pahnerston, 

 from 1852 to 1856, when he was appointed 

 Ambassador at St. Petersburg. He returned 

 from Russia in 1858, and resumed his former 

 position as under-Secretary of State for foreign 

 affairs in Lord Palmerston's second ministry. 

 Retiring in 1861, he was sent on a special mis- 

 sion to obtain a settlement of the Schleswig- 

 Holstein question. He was appointed, in Oc- 

 tober, 1864, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, in 

 place of the late Earl of Carlisle, and retained 

 that position until the resignation of Earl Rus- 

 sell's second administration, two years later. In 

 Mr. Gladstone's former administration he held, 

 office from December, 1868, to July, 1870, as 

 Lord Privy Seal, and from 1870 until 1874 as 

 Colonial Secretary. 



LENOX, JAMES, the founder of the Lenox 

 Library, died in New York on February 18th. 

 He was the son of Robert Lenox, of Philadel- 

 phia, who moved to New York at the close of 

 the Revolutionary War. He married a daugh- 

 ter of Nicholas Carmer, and purchased from 

 the corporation of New York a farm at the 

 Five Mile Stone. It covered about thirty acres 

 in Fourth and Fifth Avenues, near Seventy- 

 second Street. He purchased twelve acres on 

 one side at a cost of five hundred dollars, and 

 repented his bad bargain in buying the same 

 number of acres on the other side, from the 

 estate of his friend, Archibald Gracie. at $10,- 

 700. He was far-seeing enough to bequeath 

 it, from " a firm persuasion that it may at no 

 distant day be the site of a village," to his 

 son on conditions that prevented its sale for 

 many years. At the time of his death, in 1830, 

 he was considered one of the five wealthiest 



men in New York. James Lenox, his only 

 son, was born in August, 1800, at his father's 

 residence, No. 59 Broadway. He was edu- 

 cated at Princeton College, and while there 

 developed a taste for literature and art, which 

 became the absorbing passion of his life. He 

 studied law, but never practiced it. He went 

 abroad shortly after his admission to the bar, 

 and immediately began the collection of works 

 of art and rare books, the foundation of his 

 famous library. In 1863 the Commissioner of 

 Streets began to cut streets through the Lenox 

 farm, in pursuance of the plan of creating Cen- 

 tral Park. In 1868 Mr. Lenox's property had 

 so enhanced in value that he began to carry 

 out his long-cherished plans. The Presbyterian 

 Hospital was founded, and endowed with the 

 land between Madison and Fourth Avenues, 

 and Seventieth and Seventy-first Streets. He 

 made further donations to it, amounting to 



