HITCHCOCK, KOSWELL DWIGHT. 



HONDURAS. 



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1842 served as a tutor in Amherst College, of 

 which he was made a trustee in 1869. After 

 preaching for a year in Waterville, Me., he was 

 ordained pastor of the First Congregational 

 Church in Exeter, N. H., in November, 1845. 

 He retained this charge till 1852, when he re- 

 signed it to accept the professorship of Natural 

 and Revealed Religion in Bovvdoin College; but 

 before entering upon his new duties he spent 

 a year in study at the universities of Halle and 



KOSWELL DWIGHT HITCHCOCK. 



Berlin, Germany. In 1855 he was appointed 

 Professor of Church History in Union Theolog- 

 ical Seminary. His New England education 

 was supplemented by foreign travel as well as 

 study, and while holding his professorship he 

 found time to engage in literary work. In 

 1866 he visited Italy and Greece, and in 

 1869-'70 made a tour of Egypt, Sinai, and 

 Palestine. From 1863 till 1870 he was one of 

 the editors of the " American Theological Re- 

 view." In 1871 he was elected President of 

 the Palestine Exploration Society, in the 

 organization of which he had taken an active 

 part. He published a " Life of Edward Robin- 

 son" (1863); "A Complete Analysis of the 

 Bible," which was widely circulated (1869) ; 

 and "Socialism" (1878); and co-operated with 

 Rev. Drs. Eddy and Schaff in the compilation 

 of " Hymns and Songs of Praise " and " Hymns 

 and Songs for Social and Sabbath Worship." 

 Many of his sermons and addresses have been 

 published, and, in addition to his editorial 

 work, he was a frequent contributor of essays 

 to different reviews. On Nov. 9, 1880, Dr. 

 Hitchcock was unanimously elected as the suc- 

 cessor of Rev. William Adams, D. D., in the 

 presidency of Union Theological Seminary, and 

 retained the office till his death. The degree 

 of D. D. was conferred upon him by Bowdoin 

 College in 1855, and by the University of Dub- 

 lin in 1885, and that of LL. D. by Williams 

 College in 1873. During the civil war Dr. 

 Hitchcock was an earnest and effective sup- 

 porter of the National cause. 



HOLLAND. See NETHERLANDS. 



HONDURAS, a republic in Central America ; 

 area, 39,600 square miles; population, 351,700. 



Government. The President is Gen. Luis Ba- 

 gran, whose term will expire on Nov. 27, 1891. 

 The Cabinet is composed of the following min- 

 isters : Foreign Affairs, Licenoiado Don Jer6ni- 

 mo Zelaya; Justice, Public Works, and War, 

 Sefior R. Alvarado ; Interior, Sefior A. Gomez ; 

 Finance, Sefior F. Planas ; Agriculture, Sefior 

 A. Zelaya. The United States Minister is Hon. 

 II. C. Hall, resident at Guatemala ; the Ameri- 

 can Consul at Ruatan and Trujillo is William 

 C. Burchard, and at Tegucigalpa, Daniel W. 

 Herring; the Consular Agent at Yuscaran is 

 Theodore Roehncke. The Consul- General of 

 Honduras at New York is Jacob Baiz ; at San 

 Francisco, William V. Wells. 



The effective strength of the army is 500 

 men, and there is besides a militia force of 

 3,000. 



The number of post-offices in 1885 was 33. 

 While the receipts were restricted to $2,280, 

 the expenses reached $40,453. 



Finance. The amount of bonds held in Eu- 

 rope, issued in 1869, usually called the old 

 French loan, is $25,000,000. Congress issued 

 a decree early in 1887, authorizing the receipt 

 of 40 per cent, of the customs duties in Hon- 

 duranian bonds. The home debt amounts to 

 $700,000, and the floating debt to $200,000. 



In February, 1887, the formal opening took 

 place at Trujillo of the Aguan Navigation and 

 Improvement Company's bank. This is the 

 first bank ever established in Honduras. Its 

 stock is owned by New York, Boston, and 

 Milwaukee capitalists. Its bills are similar to 

 the greenbacks of the United States, and are 

 redeemable in silver. 



Commerce. The American trade has devel- 

 oped as follows : 



Soon the new port of San Lorenzo is to be 

 opened, which, in connection with the pro- 

 jected railroad between San Lorenzo and 

 Pespire, 24 miles, will be of incalculable value 

 to Southern Honduras, since ocean-steamers 

 will have easy access to the port. 



Railroads. There is in running order the line 

 from Puerto Cortez to San Pedro-Iula, 47 miles. 

 In July, 1887, Binney & Co., of London, ob- 

 tained a concession for the construction of 200 

 miles of railway for the extension and com- 

 pletion of the republic's system. The conces- 

 sion is for 99 years. The contractors are to 

 receive a grant of public lands, the introduc- 

 tion duty free of railroad material, and the 

 privilege of preference for any other railways 

 or for telegraph lines to be constructed here- 

 after. The concessionnaires engage to offer the 

 bondholders of the French loan of 1869 the 



