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UNITED STATES. 



English religious weekly newspaper, five pub- 

 lications in the interest and for the purposes 

 of Sunday-schools and children, one paper in 

 the interest of missions, a German religious 

 weekly newspaper, and a youth's paper in the 

 German language. The educational institu- 

 tions are : Lebanon Valley College, Annville, 

 Pennsylvania : Otterbein "University, Wester- 

 ville, Ohio; Hartsville University, Hartsville, 

 Indiana; Westfield College, Westfield, Illinois; 

 Lane University, Lecornpton, Kansas ; West- 

 ern College, Western, Iowa; Philomath Col- 

 lege, Philomath, Oregon ; Green Hill Seminary, 

 Green Hill, Indiana ; Avalon Academy, Ava- 

 lon, Missouri; Elroy Seminary, Elroy, Wis- 

 consin ; Edwards Academy, Greenville, Ten- 

 nessee; Fostoria Academy, Fostoria, Ohio; and 

 the Union Biblical Seminary, Dayton, Ohio. 



UNITED STATES. The tenth census of 

 the United States was taken during the year, 

 but the tables of statistics, excepting those of 

 population, have not been completed. The 

 following shows the population in June com- 

 pared with that of 1870 : 



The population of the cities having more 

 than thirty thousand inhabitants, compared 

 with that of 1870, is as follows : 



* Not a State in 1870. 



The table on the following page shows the 

 classification of population by race, nativity, 

 and sex . 



Few important changes occurred in any part 

 of the administration of the Government dur- 

 ing the year. Postmaster-General D. M. Key 

 retired in the month of May, and w;is appoint- 

 ed District Judge in Tennessee. His successor 

 was Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, previously 

 Minister to Turkey, General James Longstreet 

 taking his place at Constantinople. In January, 

 James Russell Lowell, of Massachusetts, was 

 transferred from Madrid to London, as United 

 States Minister, succeeding John "Welsh, of 



