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GERMANY. 



On October 31st a Confederate monument 

 was unveiled at Augusta. It was the gift of 

 the " Ladies 1 Memorial Association." Invita- 

 tions to be present had been extensively issued 

 to citizens, military organizations in Georgia 

 and South Carolina, and distinguished persons. 

 An oration was delivered by Colonel C, 0. 

 Jones, Jr., in presence of a large assembly. 

 The monument is a graceful shaft 76 feet high, 

 surmounted by a colossal figure of a Confed- 

 erate soldier standing in the position of " pa- 

 rade rest." At the base of this main shaft are 

 four statues one of General R. E. Lee, one of 

 General " Stonewall " Jackson, one of General 

 Thomas R. R. Cobb, and one of General W. 

 H. T. Walker. Each of these statues is 20 feet 

 high from the base. 



Early in the year ex-Governor R. B. Bul- 

 lock was tried twice on different counts for 

 offenses alleged to have been committed by 

 him during his administration as Governor of 

 Georgia. In each case a verdict of not guilty 

 was returned by the jury. 



The election for the choice of members of 

 Congress, held on the Tuesday after the first 

 Monday in November, resulted as follows : First 

 District Nicholls, 8,477 ; Corker, 5,031. Sec- 

 ond District Smith, 8,126; Wade, 3,642. 

 Third District Cook, 2,628; scattering 6. 

 Fourth District Harris, 10,101 ; Persons, 13,- 

 336. Fifth District Hammond, 10,269 ; Ar- 

 nold, 8,196. Sixth District Blount, 3,192; 

 scattering, 18. Seventh District Lester, 12,- 

 965; Felton, 14,315. Eighth District Ste- 

 phens, 3,355 ; scattering, 58. Ninth District 

 Billings, 10,675 ; Speer, 10,897. 



GERMANY, an empire in Europe, reestab- 

 lished January 18, 1871. The Emperor, Wil- 

 liam I., was born March 22, 1797, and was 

 married June 11, 1829, to Augusta, daughter 

 of the Grand Duke Charles Frederick of Saxe- 

 Weimar. The heir apparent, Frederick Wil- 

 liam, born October 18, 1831, has the official 

 title of Crown Prince of the German Empire 

 and Crown Prince of Prussia. He was mar- 

 ried January 25, 1858, to Victoria, Princess 

 Royal of Great Britain and Ireland, born No- 

 vember 21, 1840, and has seven children, viz.: 

 Frederick William, born 1859; Henry, born 

 1862 ; Waldemar, born 1868 ; Charlotte, born 

 1860 ; Victoria, born 1866 ; Sophia, born 1870; 

 and Margaretta, born 1872. Imperial Chan- 

 cellor (Reichskanzler), Otto, Prince von Bis- 

 marck -Schonhau sen. President of the Im- 

 perial Chancery (Reichskanzler -Amt), Karl 

 von Hofmann, Minister of State, appointed 

 in 1876. 



The German Empire consists at present of 

 twenty-six states, of which four are kingdoms, 

 six grand duchies, five duchies, seven princi- 

 palities, three free cities, and one, Alsace-Lor- 

 raine, an imperial land (Reichsland), which 

 has as yet no particular government of its own, 

 but is administered, in the name of the Imperial 

 Government, by an Oberprasident. 



The following table exhibits all the states of 

 the German Empire, the area, the population 

 according to the census of 1875, the number 

 of representatives of every German state in 

 the Federal Council, and the number of depu- 

 ties who represent each state in the Reichs- 

 tag: 



Population of Berlin, December 31, 1877, 

 1,018,818. (For the population of the other 

 prmcipal cities see "Annual Cyclopedia" for 

 1877.) 



In the following table will be found a full 



exhibit of the governments of the particular 

 states, including the names and the titles of all 

 the sovereign princes, their years of birth and 

 accession to the throne, and the name of the 

 heir apparent : 



