UXIYERSALIST CHURCHES. 



URUGUAY. 



795 



The coinage of the mints, which arc at Philadel- 

 phia, San Franciseo. and New ( (rleans. for the fiscal 

 year 1896 consisted of 3.584,760 pieces of yold. of 

 the value of $58,878,490: of 20.424,529 pieces of 

 silver of a face value of 11.440.041 : and of minor 

 coins 54.321,484 pieces of a face value of $809.3:i7. 

 The law restricts the minor coinage to the Phila- 

 delphia mint. The character and value of the coin- 

 age for 1895 and 1896 is shown by the preceding 

 table. 



UXIYERSALIST CHURCHES. The follow- 

 ing is a summary of the statistics of the Universal- 

 ist Churches of the United States for 1896 : Num- 

 ber of parishes, 1.006; of families. 45.405; of mein- 

 40.441 ; of members of Sunday schools. 59.:.!7'i; 

 value of parish property above indebtedness. $9.200.- 

 321 : amount raised for parish expenses. $1.:!0'..202 : 

 for church edifices, $357.257 : amount of debts can- 

 celed. $96.966; of parish contributions to missions, 

 $09.30<i. These numbers show gain in every item, 

 the increase in the year's number of members hav- 

 ing been 1.641. The invested funds of the General 

 Convention amount to $271.014. and those of the 

 various State conventions for women's societies and 

 other auxiliary societies to $443,702. making a total 

 of $714,716. The missionary enterprises, besides 

 those of the several State conventions, include the 

 Pacific Coast Home Mission, maintained 

 Woman's Centenary Association ; the mi 

 the South, with headquarters at Atlanta. Ga. : a 

 southwestern mission with offices at St. Louis. Mo, 

 a mission among the colored people in Virginia : 

 and a mission in Japan. Two new i ' 

 were sent during the year to Japan. 



The Young People's Christian Union of 

 Church held its seventh annual natioi 

 tion in Jersey City. X. J.. July 8 to 15. 

 of the churches in the denomination have unions, 

 which were represented in the convention by dele- 

 gates from 20 States. A gain of more than 30 per 

 cent, in membership was reported. The mission 

 work assumed several years previously had become 

 self-supporting. Propositions were submitted for 

 revision of financial and missionary methods, the 

 purpose of which was to bring them into closer 

 affiliation with those of the General Convention. 



URUGUAY, a republic in South America. The 

 Senate is composed of 19 members, representing the 

 19 departments, elected indirectly for two years. 

 The Chamber of Deputies has 69 members (1 to 

 every 3.000 inhabitants), elected by direct suffrage 

 for three years. The presidential term is four years. 

 The President for the term ending March 1/1898, 

 is J. Idiarte Borda. The Ministers in 1896 were: 

 War and Marine. Gen. J. J. Diaz; Interior and 

 Justice. Miguel Herrera y Obes : Agriculture, In- 

 dustry. Instruction, and Public Works. J.J.Castro; 

 Finance. Federigo Yidiella; Foreign Affairs and 

 Worship. Dr. J. Estrazulas. 



Area and Population. The republic has an es- 

 timated area of 72.110 square miles, and a popula- 

 tion estimated in 1895 at 830.980. Of this num- 

 ber nearly a third are of foreign birth, consisting 

 of Spaniards, Italians, Brazilians. Argentinians, 

 French, and. in smaller numbers. English. Germans, 

 and others. Montevideo, the capital, has a popula- 

 tion of 175.000. The number of marriages in 1895 

 was 4.154; of births. 31.158; of deaths. 12.874: ex- 

 cess of births. 18.284. The immigration was 9.158. 



Finances. The expenditures for the year ending 

 June 30, 1896, were 13.647.924 pesos, of which 505,- 

 490 pesos were for legislation. 62.042 pesos for the 

 presidency. 117.407 pesos for foreign affairs and 

 worship. 2.213.694 pesos for the interior. 832.026 

 pesos for finance, 953,346 pesos for public works, 

 1.730.507 pesos for war and marine. 5.721.735 pesos 

 for the public debt, and 1,511,674 pesos for o.ther 



expenses. T|,, ,,. ,. n ,jj, lf , j un ,. 



::'>. 1.'7. Wta intimated j n the bud.. 

 -. and the expenditure at 1 ; 

 iidatrd debt amounted on Jir 

 101,470.102 pesos; international dei 



milled internal debt. 0.-7:.!C>u ,-.',. 



tee debt. :{.s:jd.2(is pesos; liquidation debt, IJSffi 



-: railroad debt. 94.4; - i a l public-debt 



118,479,788 



The Army and Navy. The permanent military 

 force consists of 4 battalions of rifle-. 4 regiments 

 of cavalry, and 1 regiment of artillery, hiivi: 

 total strength of 233 officers and 3,222 men. 

 police number 3,200. and the national guard about 

 20,000 men. The regular troop- are armed with 

 Remington rifles and carbines, and have 07 cannon 

 and mitrailleuses. 



The fleet consists of 3 gunboats and an armed 

 steamer, and is manned by 22 officers and 102 sailors. 



Commerce and Navigation. The special com- 

 merce for the financial year 1894 amounted 1 

 800,000 pesos for imports and 33.500.000 pesos for 

 exports. The imports and exports for ]s95 and 

 their distribution among different countries ar 

 shown in the following table, giving values in pesos 

 (1 peso=$1.05): 



The values of the principal exports in 1895 were : 

 Wool. 10.252.000 pesos; hides, skins, and leather, 

 7.:-.!00.000 pesos; meat, 4,923.000 pesos: cereals. 

 3,510,000 pesos: extract of meat. 2.029.000 ] 

 tallow, 1.844,000 pesos: live animals, 1,004.000 

 pesos. 



The number of sailing vessels in the ocean trade 

 entered at Montevideo in 1895 was 351. of 218.448 

 tons, and of steamers. 927. of 1.640.141 tons: the 

 number of sailing vessels cleared was 196. of 119,- 

 763 tons, and of steamers, 753. of 1,388.101 tons. 

 In the coasting trade. 1.652 sailing vessels, of 59.- 

 544 tons, were entered, and 1.683. of 56.782 tons, were 

 cleared, and 824 steamers, of 474,122 tons, were en- 

 tered, and 828. of 471.209 tons, cleared. The mer- 

 cantile navy in 1895 consisted of 19 steam vessels, 

 of 4,608 tons, and 45 sailing vessels, of 17,779 tons. 



Communications. The railroads in operation 

 in 1894 had a length of 995 miles, and 190 miles 

 were building. 



The telegraphs on Jan. 1. 1895. had a total length 

 of 3.904 miles, of which the railroads owned 974 

 miles. The number of dispatches in 1^94 \\as 

 383,150. 



The postal traffic in 1894 was 7.368.791 internal 

 and 6,880,495 foreign letters, newspapers, etc. The 

 receipts were 1.231.490. and expenses 1,506,610 

 francs. 



Legislation. The Chamber in May approved 

 bills for extending railroads and one for establish- 

 ing a Government bank, the old bank having col- 

 lapsed in the crisis of 1890. For the new bank Lon- 

 don capitalists interested in railroad concessions 

 promised to loan the required capital on condition 

 that compensation be paid for certain railroad con- 

 tracts. The old national bank cost the Government 



