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UNIVERSALISTS. 



UKUGUAY. 



ing statistics of the denomination in the 

 United States and British America : 



The number of meeting-houses does not in- 

 clude the union meeting-houses which Univer- 

 salists own in common with other denomina- 

 tions. The Almanac gives no statistics of 

 membership. Number of periodicals, 13. 



To the former literary institutions of the de- 

 nomination (see AMEBIOAN ANNUAL CYCLO- 

 PAEDIA for 1869) Buchtel College was added in 

 1870. By a joint vote of the trustees of the 

 Ohio Convention and the committee on edu- 

 cation of that body, passed February 16, 1870, 

 the location of the State Centenary School 

 was established at Akron (Summit County), on 

 condition that $60,000 should be pledged within 

 said county toward the establishment of such 

 a school ; which condition has been complied 

 with. Of that sum Mr. John B. Buchtel, of 

 Akron, pledged $31,000, and the remaining 

 $29,000 was pledged by other friends of the 

 cause in the county. The name of the Green- 

 mount Liberal Institute, located at South Wood- 

 stock, Windsor County, Vt., and incorporated 

 in 1848, was, by an act of the Vermont 

 Legislature, in October, 1870, changed to Green 

 Mountain Perkins Academy. At the annual 

 session of the Iowa Convention of Universal- 

 ists, held at Mount Pleasant, September 3, 

 1870, liberal offers were made from Mitchel- 

 ville, pledging twenty acres of land for a site, 

 and eighty acres more toward the buildings or 

 endowment of an academy, in that State. The 

 value of the property thus offered is about 

 $25,000. A special committee on a denomi- 

 national school was appointed to consider the 

 matter, ask for further offers of localities, and 



report at a special meeting of the State Con- 

 vention to be called early in 1871. 



The General Convention held in September, 

 1870, was the centenary celebration of the es- 

 tablishment of the Universalist denomination 

 in the United States. It met in Gloucester, 

 Mass., which place had been chosen as the 

 seat of the first Universalist society in the 

 country, and the house of its founder, John 

 Murray. The Hon. Sidney Perham, of Maine 

 (member of Congress and Governor-elect of 

 Maine),was chosen president. Delegates were 

 present from twenty States and from the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, and 242 ministers attended 

 the centenary celebration. The completion of 

 the Murray fund was urged as being of prime 

 importance. By the plan of the Centenary 

 Committee, indorsed by the convention of 



1869, the income of the Murray fund ($200,- 

 000) is pledged " in aid of theological students, 

 the distribution of Universalist literature, 

 church extension, and the missionary cause." 

 The committee to whom the "Report of the 

 Board of Trustees " was referred recommend- 

 ed that the receipts from the missionary boxes 

 at the opening of January, 1871, be added to 

 the fund, and the income from this source 

 thereafter be used for the general expenses of 

 the convention. A resolution, presented by 

 Horace Greeley, to devote the Murray fund 

 to the foundation of a Universalist publishing- 

 house, after the general plan of the Methodist 

 Book Concern, was not adopted by the com- 

 mittee. The General Convention also elected 

 the Rev. J. M. Pullman and the Eev. A. St. 

 John Chambre a committee to attend the next 

 meeting of the American Unitarian Confer- 

 ence. The next General Convention will be 

 held in Philadelphia, in September, 1871. ' 



The Universalist Register for 1871 announces 

 that the Murray fund is so nearly raised as to 

 be assured in the early part of 1871. 



URUGUAY, a republic in South America. 

 President of the republic, General L. Battle, 

 elected March 1, 1868. In 1829, Uruguay had 

 a population of 74,000; in 1836, 128,371; in 



1870, according to official reports, 387,421, of 

 which 52 per cent, were foreigners. Area, 

 71,755 square miles. The statistics of immigra- 

 tion show for 1866, 9,327; 1867, 17,381; 1868, 

 16,892; 1869,20,435. Among the immigrants 

 in 1867 and 1868 were 15,021 Italians; the 

 Spaniards and French were next in number. 

 The import duties amount to about $276,000 

 annually, but, as the other branches of revenue 

 are not very productive, the budget usually 

 shows a considerable deficit. The standing 

 army numbers from 2,000 to 3,000 men; na- 

 tional guards, 20,000 men. The value of im- 

 ports, in 1869, was $16,830,678; exports, 

 $13,386,886. Importation can only be partly 

 estimated, in consequence of the extensive 

 smuggling- trade which is carried on at all 

 points of the coast. It is the general impres- 

 sion that the aggregate value of imports and 

 exports does not fall short of $40,000,000. In 



