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and the Rev. C. H. Irwin, for the British colonies. 

 Reports on Church work in Europe included the 

 treatment of the special topics " Protestantism in 

 Italy," by the Rev. Prof. Em. Comba ; " The Stund- 

 ists in Russia," by Ilerr Consisterialrath Dalton, of 

 Berlin ; " The Greek Evangelical Church," by Dr. 

 M. D. Kalopothakes ; " Evangelistic Work in Bel- 

 gium," by M. le Baron Prisse ; " France and Prot- 

 estantism," by the Rev. H. Hallard ; " The Gospel 

 in Germany To-day," by the Rev. C. Correvon ; " The 

 Reformed Church in Germany," by Court-Preacher 

 Brandes ; " The New Austrian Marriage Laws," by 

 the Rev. Vincent Dusek ; and " The Gospel in East- 

 ern Europe," by the Rev. Ferdinand Cizar. In the 

 discussion of the work of the churches in America, 

 Dr. William Cochran spoke of their work of home 

 evangelization, Dr. W. H. Hubbard of the work 

 among the freedmen, and Dr. R. M. Russell of their 

 foreign missionary enterprises. The last speaker 

 showed that there were 57 missionary societies in 

 the United States and Canada, employing 17,306 

 workers in the foreign fields. Concerning the co- 

 lonial aspects of Church work, papers relating to 

 the churches in Australia, New Zealand, South 

 Africa, Canada, and the West Indies were pre- 

 sented. The Rev. Dr. J. Marshall Lang, of Glasgow, 

 was chosen president for the next council, which is 

 to be held in Washington, D. C., in 1899. Resolu- 

 tions were adopted concerning the barbarities in 

 Armenia, and in favor of international arbitration. 

 It was shown in the discussion on foreign missions 

 that the Presbyterian churches are doing more than 

 one fourth of the whole Protestant mission work 

 among the heathen. 



RHODE ISLAND, a New England State, one of 

 the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution May 

 29, 1790 ; area, 1,250 square miles. The population, 

 according to each decennial census, was 68.825 in 

 1790; 69,122 in 1800; 76,931 in 1810: 83,015 in 

 1820; 97,199 in 1830; 108,830 in 1840; 147.545 in 

 1850; 174,620 in 1860; 217,353 in 1870; 276,531 in 

 1880 ; and 345.506 in 1890. By the State census of 

 1895 it was 384,758. Capitals, Providence and New- 

 port. 



Government. The State officers in 1896 were : 

 Governor, Charles W. Lippitt ; Lieutenant Gov- 

 ernor, Edwin R. Allen ; Secretary of State, Charles 

 P. Bennett ; Treasurer, Samuel Clark ; Attorney- 

 General, Edward C. Dubois ; Adjutant General, 

 Frederick M. Sackett ; Auditor, A. C. Landers ; 

 Superintendent of Education, T. B. Stockwell ; Com- 

 missioner of Roads, Charles F. Chase ; Railroad 

 Commissioner, E. G. Freeman ; Chief Justice of the 

 Supreme Court, Charles Matteson ; Associate Jus- 

 tices, John H. Stiness, Pardon E. Tillinghast, George 

 A. Wilbur, Horatio Rogers, W. W. Douglas all Re- 

 publicans. 



Finances. A deficiency of $90,761.75 was left 

 from 1895. The receipts for the first eight months 

 of 1896 were $1,162,086.43, and the expenditures 

 during the same time were $868,257.30. Other de- 

 tails concerning the finances may be found under 

 the head " The Legislature " in this article. 



Valuations. The valuation this year was $359.- 

 549,451, arid the tax was 18 cents on the $100. The 

 valuation of real estate in Providence was $133,438,- 

 060 and of personal property $40,936,300. 



Banks. The national banks in Providence, at 

 the close of business July 14, made reports show- 

 ing that the individual deposits amounted to $14,- 

 935,370.74, an increase of $1.117,912.62 compared 

 with the statements dated May 7, when the last 

 previous call was issued. The loans and discounts 

 were $28,381,348.44, an increase of $584,031.36; 

 surplus and profits, $4,083,580.54, a decrease of 

 $26,280.83 (mainly due to July dividend disburse- 

 ments) ; due from reserve agents, $2,710,940.03, an 



increase of $315,024.68; money reserve, $1,288,- 

 202.28, a decrease of $47,907.69. 



The voluntary liquidation step of the Traders' 

 Bank since the last call reduced the number of 

 active banks to 24. 



Education. The Legislature made the following 

 appropriations for education : For public schools, 

 $120,000 ; support of State Normal School, $20,000. 

 and for traveling expenses of normal pupils, $1,500; 

 teachers' institutes, $500 ; lectures and addresses to 

 be given under direction of the Board of Education, 

 $300 ; evening schools, $5,000 ; the School of De- 

 sign, $3,000 ; for purchase of school apparatus, 

 $o,00() ; for the education of blind and of imbecile 

 children, $10,000; for free public libraries, $6,000; 

 for the State and law libraries, $2,250 ; for the sup- 

 port and maintenance of the College of Agriculture 

 and Mechanic Arts, $10,000 ; for the support and 

 maintenance of the Institute for the Deaf, $15,000, 

 in addition to the moneys received by them which 

 shall have been paid into the treasury ; for the 

 Rhode Island Historical Society, $1,500; for the 

 Newport Historical Society, $500. 



The College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 

 at Kingston, graduated a class of 6 in June. 



At the one hundred and twenty-eighth commence- 

 ment of Brown University, in June, about 110 were 

 graduated. 



In February, 1895, a committee of women was or- 

 ganized for the purpose of raising funds to erect and 

 furnish a building for the Woman's College in con- 

 nection with Brown University. It was desired to 

 raise $75,000, and during the first year $22,000 was 

 secured. In one of his reports the dean says : " So 

 far, the Woman's College has maintained itself with- 

 out endowment. It is no longer an experiment. It 

 affords the best solution to the problem of admitting 

 women to Brown, including all the advantages of 

 co-ordinate education and coeducation with few of 

 the disadvantages of either." The first steps toward 

 the formation of a woman's college in connection 

 with Brown University were taken in September, 

 1891, when the university opened all its examina- 

 tions to women. Since the vote of the corporation, 

 in June, 1892, opening all its degrees to women, the 

 growth has been very rapid. 



Charities and Correctional Institutions. 

 The Legislature made an appropriation to the board 

 of $225,000, in addition to the moneys provided by 

 law. Other appropriations for these purposes were : 

 For the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 

 Children, $2,500; for the Prisoners' Aid Associa- 

 tion, $500 ; for the Society for the Prevention of 

 Cruelty to Animals, $1,000; for the relief of Union 

 soldiers, sailors, and marines, etc., $12,000; for the 

 support and maintenance of the soldiers' home and 

 the inmates thereof, $20,000: for necessary expenses 

 of secretary of the State Board of Soldiers' Relief, 

 $1,200; for jailers' fees and for board of persons 

 confined in jail, except in Providence County, $2,500 ; 

 for State Home and School, $20,000. in addition to 

 such sums as may be received from the sale of prod- 

 ucts from its farm ; for the support of the indigent 

 insane, $8,000. 



At the Rhode Island Hospital there was an aver- 

 age of 146 patients. The whole number admitted 

 was 2,283. Of these 1,676 were treated gratuitously. 

 For the year the expenditures were $74.390.57, and 

 the receipts $70,092.10, leaving the deficiency $4,- 

 298.47. 



On the State Farm, at Howard, about 300 are pro- 

 vided for. In the State institutions at Cranston the 

 number of inmates March 30 was : House of Cor- 

 rections, 236 : Asylum for the Insane, 632 ; State 

 Almshouse, 329 ;' State Prison, 141: Providence 

 County jail, 253 ; Sockanosset School for Boys, 262 ; 

 Oaklawri School for Girls, 30. April 14 the total 



