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CAMERON, J. DONALD. 



CARNE, COUNT DE. 



PRODUCTS. Quantity. 



Tonnage movement of Southern Pacific 



Kailroad 451,854,741 pounds. 



Deposits in savings-banks $72,500,000 



Banking capital $150.000,000 



Corporation dividends disbursed $23,000,000 



The total acreage of wheat in 1876 was 

 2,169,000 acres, and the yield 24,776,000 cen- 

 tals ; barley, 613,000 acres, 10,066,000 centals. 

 The gold yield for 1876 was estimated in No- 

 vember at $20,000,000. 



The census of school-children, for the years 

 1874 and 1875, was as follows : 



ATTENDANCE. 



NATIVITIES. 



Of 22i,633 children in 1874 and 252,301 in 

 1875, the nativities were : 



SCHOOL STATISTICS. 



The value of school property*in 1875 was 

 $5,068,678.30; receipts from all sources for 

 school purposes, $3,390,359.30; apportionment 

 per child, $19.76. 



CAMERON, J. DONALD, Secretary of War, 

 is the eldest son of Senator Simon Cameron, 

 of Pennsylvania, and was born in Harrisburg, 

 about 1830. Until the present year, he has 

 never held public office, but for ten years 

 past has taken a prominent part in Pennsylva- 



nia politics. For a number of years he was 

 President of the Northern Central Railroad of 

 Pennsylvania, in which position he was suc- 

 ceeded by Colonel Thomas A. Scott, when the 

 Pennsylvania Railroad Company obtained a 

 controlling interest in the Northern Central. 

 Mr. Cameron was a prominent member of the 

 Republican State Convention which met at 

 Harrisbnrg in March, 1876, and by it was 

 chosen as the head of the Pennsylvania dele- 

 gation to the National Convention which as- 

 sembled in Cincinnati in June. May 22, 1876, 

 Mr. Cameron was nominated by President 

 Grant as Secretary of War, and was promptly 

 confirmed by the Senate. The new Secretary 

 is regarded as a man having administrative 

 abilities of a high order. 



CAPERTON, ALLEN T., was born near 

 Union, Monroe County, Va. (now West Va.), 

 November 21, 1810; died in Washington, 

 July 26, 1876. He graduated at Yale College 

 in 1832, and studied law at Staunton, Va. He 

 was for several years a member of the Virginia 

 Legislature, his last term in the Senate being in 

 1859-'60. He was a member of the Constitu- 

 tional Convention of 1861, and opposed seces- 

 sion until the beginning of hostilities. He 

 was elected to the Confederate States Senate, 

 and served till the fall of the Confederacy. 

 He was chosen to represent West Virginia in 

 the Senate of the United States for the full 

 term beginning March 4, 1875. He was a 

 member of the Committees on Claims, Rail- 

 roads, and the Revision of the Laws of the 

 United States. 



CAPPONI, Marquis Gixo, the last repre- 

 sentative of an illustrious Florentine family, 

 born September 14, 1792; died February 3, 

 1876. In 1847 he was created Senator of 

 Tuscany, and after the proclamation of the 

 Constitution of 1848 he became Minister of 

 State and President of the Council. In the 

 following years he resolved to give up public 

 life, but afterward accepted a position as a 

 member of the commission governing Tuscany 

 in the absence of the grand-duke. His con- 

 tributions to Italian literature are numerous. 

 He wrote a number of articles for the " Italian 

 Anthology" on Florence, which were sup- 

 pressed in 1832. In addition to these various 

 publications he dictated, after he became blind, 

 an important work under the title of " Frag- 

 ments on the Subject of Education." He was 

 also one of the principal editors of the " His- 

 torical Archives," published in Florence. His 

 biography was written by Montazio (1872). 



CARNE, LOTTIS MABOEIN, Count DE, an 

 eminent French publicist, born February 17, 

 1804; died February 13, 1876. He entered 

 the diplomatic service at an early age. In 

 1839 he was elected to the Chamber of Dep- 

 uties, where he was a follower of Lamartine. 

 He opposed many of the points of M. Guizot's 

 foreign policy, but in the year 1847 accepted 

 the presidency of the Commercial Department 

 of Foreign Affairs. From this he retired after 



