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ALABAMA. 



ALFORD, IIEXRY. 



scliool during the same period was 77,139, of 

 whom 31,098 were white males, 30,226 white 

 females, 7,502 colored males, and 8,313 colored 

 females. 



The number of persons, 10 years old and up- 

 ward, who cannot read, is 349,771 ; who cannot 

 write, 383,012, of whom 870 are foreign. Of 



those who cannot write, 7,429 are white males, 

 31,001 white females, 91,017 colored males, and 

 98,344 colored females, above the age of 21. 



The following table gives the population of 

 the State for the year 1870, together with the 

 assessed value of all property, State taxation 

 and debt : 



ALFORD, Very Rev. HEXBT, D. D., Dean 

 of Canterbury, an English clergyman, poet, 

 biblical critic and philologist, born in London in 

 1810 ; died at the deanery, Canterbury, January 

 12, 1871. He was educated at Ilminster Gram- 

 mar-School, Somerset, and Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, where he took the usual degrees. 



In 1834 he became Fellow of Trinity College. 

 He had published in 1831 a volume of "Poems 

 and Poetical Fragments," which was folknved 

 in 1835 by " The School of the Heart and Other 

 Poems," of which repeated editions have been 

 called for. From 1835 to 1853 Mr. Alford was 

 Vicar of Wymeswold, in Leicestershire. In 



