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States, 1 life and accident insurance company. 

 The amount received directly for taxes by the 

 State Treasurer from the fire-insurance com- 

 panies was $375 in 1879, and $300 in 1880, 

 making a total of $675 for the two years. 



The following is a comparative statement of 

 the condition of schools in Delaware at the 

 end of 1878 and 1880 : 



The aggregate value of school property in 

 the State for 1880 is set down at $440,733, 

 made up as follows : School-houses, $331,260 ; 

 school - grounds, $75,669: school furniture, 

 $33,804. 



For the benefit of colored children of school 

 age, the Legislature of 1881 has enacted a law 

 u supplementary to the existing act to encour- 

 age the education of the colored people." It 

 appropriates $2,400 of State money ($800 to 

 each of the three counties) annually, to be 

 paid in October to the Treasurer of the Dela- 

 ware Association for the Improvement of the 

 Colored People, and to be distributed by him 

 in proportional sums among such colored 

 schools in the several counties as have been 

 kept open for at least three months in the 

 year, and have been attended by at least twenty 

 scholars each. The school-taxes paid by the 

 colored people are to be expended within the 

 hundreds in which they are raised. 



To provide for a participation of the Dela- 

 ware militia and State officials in the cele- 

 bration of the centennial anniversary of the 

 surrender of the English army at Yorktown, 

 Virginia, on October 19, 1781, the following 

 preambles and resolution were passed by the 

 two Houses of the General Assembly of 1881 : 



Whereas, At a meeting of the Governors of the thir- 

 teen original States, held in the city of Philadelphia, 

 in 1879, in the old Independence Hall, it was de- 

 termined to celebrate the surrender of Cornwallis at 

 Yorktown; and 



Whereas. It is an event in which the people of 

 Delaware feel a profound interest on account of the 

 significance of the result, achieved by the patience, 



endurance, courage, and patriotism of our colonial an- 

 cestors ; and 



Whereas, It is proper that the remembrance of the 

 hardships and perils incident to the Revolutionary 

 struggle should be preserved : therefore, be it 



Resolved, That the Governor be and he is hereby 

 authorized to make such arrangements as he shall 

 deem necessary for a proper participation of the State 

 officials and the militia in the celebration of the cen- 

 tennial anniversary of the surrender at Yorktown ; 

 and to defray the expenses thereof he is hereby au- 

 thorized to draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer 

 for a sum of money not exceeding $2,000. ' 



The First Regiment of Delaware six com- 

 panies of infantry with band and drum-corps, 

 attended the celebration at Yorktown. 



Extracts recently published from official rec- 

 ords of the votes polled in the State for the 

 election of her two Congressmen in 1812 and 

 1880 may show the growth of Delaware in the 

 number of voters, and proportionally in popu- 

 lation, during the sixty-eight years intervening. 

 In 1812 the aggregate vote cast for her Repre- 

 sentatives in Congress (two scattering votes 

 included) was 14,809, distributed among four 

 candidates, as follows : Henry M. Ridgely, 

 4,193 ; Thomas Cooper, 4,183 ; David Hall, 

 3,221 Richard Dale, 3,210. The first two 

 named of these competitors were awarded the 

 certificates of election to represent Delaware 

 in the Thirteenth Congress ; their official term 

 being then three years, reduced to two years 

 in 1818. In 1880 the votes polled in the State 

 for her Congressmen numbered 29,420 ; all of 

 which, except 122, were almost equally divided 

 between two candidates E. L. Martin 14,966, 

 and John W. Houston 14,332 who received 

 their certificates of election to represent Dela- 

 ware in the Forty-seventh Congress. 



By the new general apportionment of State 

 representation, based on the returns of the 

 United States census of 1880, as fixed by the 

 act of Congress, passed in March, 1881, and to 

 be in force " from and after the 3d of March, 

 1883," Delaware loses one of her two Repre- 

 sentatives in the Lower House of the Federal 

 Legislature, the said act entitling her to one 

 member only. 



DENMARK, a kingdom of Northern Eu- 

 rope. The reigning sovereign is Christian IX, 

 fourth son of the late Duke William of Schles- 

 wig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, appoint- 

 ed to the succession of the Danish crown by 

 the Treaty of London of May 8, 1852, and by 

 the Danish law of succession of July 81, 1853. 

 He succeeded to the throne on the death of 

 King Frederick VII, November 5, 1863. He 

 was married May 26, 1842, to Louise, Princess 

 of Hesse-Cassel. The heir-apparent is Prince 

 Frederick, born June 3, 1843, and married 

 July 28, 1869, to Louisa, only daughter of 

 King Charles XV of Sweden. Their children 

 are three sons, born in 1870, 1872, and 1876, 

 and three daughters, born in 1875, 1878, and 

 1880. The second son of the King is King of 

 Greece. The oldest daughter, Alexandra, is 

 wife of the Prince of Wales ; the second, Dag- 

 mar, wife of the Czar of Russia; the third, 



