NETHERLANDS. 



533 



ra, tho Nebraska City and Northwestern, 



nitik, passing from Omaha down ilic Mi 



i: is or to Kansas, and connecting with tho 



Atrhison, Leavenworth, and St. Louis, thu 



i;n>\\nvillo and Fort Kearney, the Nehama 



Y.ilN-v Road, and the Northern Kansas and 



Southern Nebraska, from Hiawatha, Kansas, 



1 1 > Falls Oity, Nebraska. 



Tho State election of Nebraska occurred 

 on the second Tuesday of October. The Dem- 

 .i.-nts had nominated tho following ticket: 

 Governor, John II. Croxton; Secretary of 

 l';.r;m Kn.irlund; Treasurer, Jacob Val- 

 Attorney-General, William II. Hunger; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, Richard 

 Brown; State-prison Inspector, A. J. Conk- 

 ling. The Republican ticket, which was the 

 victorious one, was as follows: Governor, 

 David P. Butler; Secretary of State, Wm. H. 



James; Treasurer, Henry A. Kccnig; Attorney- 

 General, Geo. H. Roberts; Superintendent of 

 Instruction, J. M. Mackenzie; Prison Inspector, 

 Chas. H. Goald. The total vote for Governor 

 was 8,129, of which Butler received 2,851, and . 

 Croxton 278. There were 4,700 votes cast for 

 member of Congress, of which John Toffee, the 

 I U i'uMican nominee, received 4,486, and George 

 D. Lake, the Democratic candidate, 214. The 

 Legislature is strongly Republican in both 

 branches. 



NETHERLANDS, THE, a kingdom in Ea- 

 rope. King, William III., born February 19, 

 1817; succeeded his father, March 17, 1849; 

 heir-apparent to the throne, his son William, 

 Prince of Orange, born September 4, 1840. 

 The area and population of the kingdom, ac- 

 cording to the census of December 81, 1869, 

 were as follows : 



Births and Deatlis. 



027; Groningen, 37,895; Arnheim, 32,479; 

 Harlem, 30,887; Maestricht, 28,741 ; Leeuwor- 

 den, 25,689. The area and population of the 

 Dutch colonies were : 



Census of December 31, 1869. 



Marriages. 



The population of the large cities, according 

 to the census of December 81, 1869, was: 

 Amsterdam, 274,931; Rotterdam, 121,027; the 

 Hague, 92,021 ; Utrecht, 60,428 ; Leyden, 40,- 



