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UNIVERSALISTS. 



VERMONT. 



the Northern cities. This is probably due to the 

 fact that New Orleans is not sewered or drained 

 as are the Northern cities, and has the soil-water 

 very near the surface. 



The total number of deaths reported as due 

 to accidents and injuries is 35,932, divided as 

 follows : Burns and scalds, 4,786 ; drowned, 

 4,320 ; exposure and neglect, 1,299 ; gunshot- 

 wounds, 2,289; homicide, 1,336; infanticide, 

 40 ; injuries by machinery, 120 ; railroad acci- 

 dents,, 2,349 ; suffocation, 2,339; suicide .by- 

 shooting, 472; suicide by drowning, 155; sui- 

 cide by poison, 340; other suicides, 1,550; 

 sunstroke, 557; other accidents and injuries, 

 13,980. 



The act of Congress of August 7, 1882, au- 

 thorizes the publication of additional copies 

 of the reports of the tenth census as follows: 

 Complete set, 10,000; report on population, 

 20,000 ; agricultural, 20,000 ; manufactures and 

 mechanics, 10,000; compendium, 100,000. Pro- 

 vision is made for distribution by the Secretary 

 of the Interior to libraries, public institutions, 

 and persons named by Senators and Represent- 

 atives in Congress. The same act orders the 

 publication of 6,000 copies of the report on the 

 history of the national loan for the use of the 

 Treasury Department, and 1,500 copies of the 

 report on fish and fisheries, for the use of the 

 Fish Commission. The entire returns of the 

 census are estimated to make about 20,000 

 quarto pages. It is expected that about fifteen 

 volumes, containing an aggregate of about 

 15,000 pages, will be published. The compen- 

 dium, containing 1,800 octavo pages, was is- 

 sued early in 1883. 



UNIVERSALISTS. The statistics reported 

 by the several State Conventions to the Gen- 

 eral Convention in October, 1882, show that 

 the Universalist churches in the United States 

 and the Province of Ontario are represented 

 by a total of 778 parishes and 33,823 families. 



The Unwersalist General Convention met in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., in October. Mr. J. D. W. 

 Joy, of Massachusetts, presided. The trustees 

 of the convention reported that the receipts 

 during the year from all sources amounted to 

 $15,810. The total proceeds of the missionary 

 boxes had been $1,888, of which $908 had been 



applied by the State Conventions, and $980 

 were included in the receipts returned by the 

 trustees. The annual contributions amounted 

 to $3,424. The Murray centenary fund amount- 

 ed to $124,018. The scholarship fund had 

 increased from $10,840 to $15,101, the incre- 

 ment having arisen chiefly from the repayment 

 of loans. A committee of nine persons, ap- 

 pointed by the previous General Convention to 

 consider whether any change ought to be made 

 in the Winchester profession of faith, reported 

 that it had decided, at a meeting held in New 

 York in February, that it was expedient to 

 make some change in the second article of that 

 document, and each member of the committee 

 was requested to make a draft of the profession 

 as he would like it to be. At a second meet- 

 ing, held in Philadelphia, it appeared that four 

 of the five members of the committee were in 

 substantial agreement on the subject ; but, as 

 the committee had not had time to give as 

 close a scrutiny to the matter as it required, it 

 was decided to ask the convention for more 

 time to complete the work. The committee was 

 continued for another year. On the subject of 

 missions the Board of Trustees reported, sug- 

 gesting that if the means at its disposal were 

 to be increased, one or more financial agents 

 should be appointed. If it had $30,000 a year, 

 it could make a beginning. The gifts of the 

 last year for missionary work, including all 

 that had been raised for church purposes out- 

 side of the parishes, and excluding the income 

 of the funds and $100,000 raised for parish 

 debts and $100,000 for schools and colleges, 

 were estimated to have amounted to $45,000 ; 

 but more than $18,000 of this had been raised 

 for the church in Washington. The time had 

 come, the report continued, for the Church to 

 look toward the establishment of missions in 

 heathen lands. Its present means, of course, 

 would not permit such an enterprise, but some 

 of its people were already desirous of making 

 contributions toward that end ; and such con- 

 tributions, it was believed, judging from the 

 history of other churches, would promote and 

 stimulate the home work. Much benefit had 

 already been received from the encouragement 

 of State missionary work. 



VENEZUELA. (See " Annual Cyclopaedia " 

 for 1881.) 



VERMONT. STATE GOVERNMENT. The 

 State officers at the beginning of the year were 

 as follows : Governor, Roswell Farnham ; 

 Lieutenant-Governor, John L. Barstow ; Sec- 

 retary of State, George Nichols; Treasurer, 

 John A. Page; Auditor, E. Henry Powell; 

 Superintendent of Education, Justus Dartt ; 

 Railroad Commissioner, Wayne Bailey. Ju- 

 diciary, Supreme Court: Chief-Judge, Homer 

 E. Royce ; Assistant-Judges, Timothy P. Red- 

 field, Jonathan Ross, H. Henry Powers, Whee- 



lock G. Veazey, Russell S. Taft, and John W. 

 Rowell. Changes during the year are notic"- 3 

 below. 



LEGISLATURE. The Legislature met in biei 

 nial session on the 4th of October, and ac 

 journed on the 28th of November. On the 5t 

 of October the inauguration took place, and tl 

 messages of the outgoing and incoming Gov* 

 ernors were received. On the 7th of Novem- 

 ber, in joint session, the following officers were 

 re-elected : George Nichols, Secretary of State ; 

 E. Henry Powell, Auditor of Accounts ; Justus 

 Dartt, Superintendent of Education. On the 



