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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (ABBOTT ABBEY.) 



Education. The number of schools increased 

 from 2,292 to 2,305 ; the pupils enrolled, from 

 98,710 to 100,555; the number of teachers, from 

 2,351 to 2,399 ; the number of normal-school trained 

 teachers, from 499 to 616. At the same time the 

 amount voted by the school sections, or boards, in- 

 creased $35,000, and that granted by the province 

 was increased $14,970. In 1895 the number of 

 teachers who had been in the service of the prov- 

 ince from five to seven years was 210, those from 

 seven to ten years were 255, those from ten to fif- 

 teen years were 202, those from fifteen to twenty 

 years were 113, and there were 110 teachers who 

 had been twenty years or over in the service. 

 There were 95,027 pupils in the common schools 

 an increase of 2,500 in the year and 5,528 in the 

 high schools, also a considerable increase. The 

 total expenditure was $811,804. There was an in- 

 crease in the number of school libraries from 55 

 to 90, and of volumes in them from 6,537 to 8,274. 



Minerals. The production of minerals during 

 1895 was a little less than in the previous year. 

 The coal areas extend over 635 square miles, and 

 the workable thickness of the coal is from 25 to 70 

 feet. Lack of capital has hitherto prevented devel- 

 opment, and the production in 1895 was only 2,089,- 

 245 tons, with an export of 633.041 tons less bv 

 38,000 tons than in 1894. The production of gold 

 increased from $358,839 to $431,184, making a total 

 of $11,000,000 since 1802. There are 35 localities 

 in the province where workable gold deposits have 

 been found, and about 4,000 persons are engaged in 

 the industry. The richness of the lodes varies from 

 $3 to $16, while the general average of production 

 has been $14.50. Iron ore, gypsum, and limestone 

 are also produced in the province. 



Railways and Public Works. During 1896 

 the Dominion Coal Company's railway from Bridg- 

 port to Louisburg was completed, the line from 

 Yarmouth to Tusket along the coast advanced, 

 and the South Shore Railway between Yarmouth 

 and Glenwood was partially completed. Under the 

 auspices of the Government 26 steel bridges and 16 

 wooden bridges were built, and repairs to 141 

 bridges of all sorts were effected. Tourist travel 

 over Nova Scotian railways increased in 1895, as 



did also the freight carried. The following are the 

 oih'cial figures of the railways under provincial con- 

 trol : Return from passengers carried in 1894, $272,- 

 512 ; in 1895, $295,875 ; from freight in 1894, $416,- 

 403; in 1895, $497,077; from mails and sundries in 

 1894, $75,540 ; in 1895, $105,229 ; total in 1894, 

 $764,455 ; total in 1895, $898,181. 



Agriculture. There were 83 agricultural socie- 

 ties in the province in 1895, with a membership of 

 4,597, an annual subscription of $5,356, and Gov- 

 ernment grants of $8,000. During the year the Gov- 

 ernment also paid $2,400 to creameries, $2,000 to 

 a horticultural school, and $2,913 to an agricul- 

 tural school, and employed a special official to look 

 after the farming interests. Fruit culture was 

 very successful. Seven new creameries were started 

 and received the first annual grant, poultry raising 

 increased, and the making of butter improved in 

 quality and quantity. 



Interprovlncial Trade. There was a larger 

 shipment from Nova Scotia to the other provinces 

 this year than in the previous years. Montreal, 

 Sorel, Quebec, and Three Rivers were the receiving 

 points for coal, and the General Mining Associa- 

 tion, tlie Dominion Coal Company, the Cape Breton 

 or Burchell Company, and Pictou were the points 

 from which the coal was sent. In 1895 the General 

 Mining Association shipped to the four St. Law- 

 rence ports just mentioned 115,432 tons, and dur- 

 ing the past season 119,035 tons; the Dominion 

 Coal Company, 454,513 tons in 1895 and 547,773 

 tons in 1896; the Cape Breton or Burchell Mine, 

 6,080 tons this year, but none in 1895 ; while from 

 Pictou 66,571 tons were shipped in 1895 and 33,- 

 569 in 1896. This shows a grand total of Cape 

 Breton and Pictou coal to the St. Lawrence during 

 the past season of 706.457 tons, an increase over 

 1895 of 69,938 tons. 



Miscellaneous. The registered seagoing ton- 

 nage of the province in 1895 was 2,422.018, a de- 

 crease from that of the previous year. There was 

 little shipbuilding, although Nova Scotia possesses 

 large deposits of coal, iron ore, and flux in close 

 proximity to each other. The gross indebtedness 

 for 1S95 was $3,346,899, and the assets, not includ- 

 ing public buildings, were placed at $1,358,806. 



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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN, FOR 1896. Ab- 

 bott, Austin, lawyer, born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 

 18, 1831; died in 'New York city, April 19, 1896. 

 He was the second son of Jacob Abbott ; was grad- 

 uated at the University of the City of New York in 

 1851 ; and was admitted to the bar in 1852. Join- 

 ing his elder brother, Benjamin Vaughan Ab- 

 bott, he engaged in the practice of his profession, 

 in literary work, and in legal compilations. He 

 was associate counsel with William M. Evarts for 

 the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in the Tilton- 

 Beecher trial, and was one of the counsel for the 

 United States Government in the trial of President 

 Garfield's assassin. In 1884 he began lecturing in 

 the law school of the University of the City of New 

 York, and since 1891 had been dean of the school. 

 He received the degree of LL. I), from the uni- 

 versity in 1886. Dr. Abbott was active in promot- 

 ing international arbitration, international peace 

 congresses. Indian rights, the Young Men's Chris- 

 tian Association, and many public and chai-itable 

 measures. His publications included 2 novels, 

 written in collaboration with his brother, " Cone-cut 

 Corners" (1855) and "Matthew Caraby" (1858); 



and, besides many legal contributions to periodi- 

 cals, "New Cases, mainly New York Decisions" 

 (17 vols., New York, 1877-'86) ; "Official Report of 

 the Trial of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher" (2 

 vols., 1875) ; " Reports and Decisions of the New 

 York Court of Appeals" (4 vols., 1873-'78): "Di- 

 gests of New York Statutes and Reports of the 

 United States Courts and of the Laws of Corpora- 

 tions : Reports of Practice Cases " (33 vols., 1873), 

 continued in annual supplementary volumes ; 

 " Trial Evidence " (1880) ; " Brief for the Trial of 

 Civil Issues before a Jury" (1883); "Brief for the 

 Trial of Criminal Cases'" (1889): and "Brief on 

 Questions on the Pleadings in Civil Cases" (1891). 



Abbey, Henry Eugene, operatic manager, born 

 in Akron, Ohio, June 27, 1846 ; died in New York 

 city, Oct. 17, 1896. He received a public-school 

 education ; became his father's partner and suc- 

 cessor in the jewelry business ; and began his ca- 

 reer as a manager at the Akron Theater in 1869. 

 In 1870 he took the Akron company on the road ; 

 in 1871 took charge of the newly erected Academy 

 of Music in Akron; and became manager of the 

 Park Theater in New York city in 1877. Within a 



