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crease during the calendar year ending Dec. 31, 

 1894, of $102,449.644, the change in detail being 

 shown by the following table : 



UNIYERSALISTS. The statistical returns 

 of the Universalist churches published in the 

 ' ; Universalist Register "' for 1895 give the 

 following numbers : Of State conventions and 

 missions, 44 ; of parishes, 1,022 ; of families, 

 46,673; of churches, 792 ; of ministers, 766; of 

 members, 46,188 : of Sunday schools, 702, 

 with 58,721 members ; of church edifices, 835 ; 

 value of church property, $9.482.032. The 13 

 schools and colleges return 159 professors and 

 teachers, 1,462 students, and property estimated 

 to have a value of $3,784,500. The General 

 Convention meets biennially, its next meeting 

 being appointed to be held at Meriden, Conn., 

 Oct. 23. 1895. The funds of the convention, as 

 reported at the district conferences in October, 

 1894, aggregated $263,889. They are: The 

 Murray Centenary fund, $126,294. the income of 

 which is used in aid of theological students, the 

 distribution of Universalist literature, Church 

 extension, and the missionary cause ; the Theo- 

 logical Scholarship fund, $46,721, for loans to 

 theological students; the Church Extension 

 fund, $11,539; the ' Gunn Ministerial Relief 

 fund, $12.729; the Ada Tibbetts Memorial 

 fund, $9,260 : the Waverly (Iowa) fund, $800 ; 

 the G. L. Demarest Reserve fund, $14,000 ; the 

 William H. Ryder fund, $25.000, primarily for 

 ministerial education; the "T" fund, $8,060, 

 to be added to the Theological Scholarship fund ; 

 the Henry P. Porter fund, $1,000 ; and the 

 Guaranty fund, $291. The aggregate increase 

 of the convention funds during the convention 

 year 1893-94 was $1,329. The Board of Trus- 

 tees are authorized and directed " to provide for 

 two or more Universalist Church conferences, to 

 be held at central locations, in the years inter- 

 vening between the regular sessions of the con- 

 vention, not for ecclesiastical, legislative, 

 financial work, but for the purpose of considering 

 important questions relating to religion, morals, 

 and education. Three such conferences were 

 held Oct. 23-25, 1894, at Lowell. Mass., Bal- 

 timore. Md., and Chicago, 111. Other depart- 

 ments in Universalist Church work are repre- 

 sented in the Sunday School Library Commission, 

 the Woman's Centenary Association, the Young 

 People's Christian Union of the Universalist 

 Church, which maintains a post-office mission, 

 and the Universalist Historical Society, which 

 has a library of about 3,000 volumes, besides im- 

 portant manuscripts and papers. 



URUGUAY, a republic in South America. 

 The Senate is composed of 19 members, elected 

 for six years by suffrage in two degrees. The 

 Chamber of Deputies has 69 members, elected 

 by direct suffrage for three years. The Presi- 

 dent for the term ending March 21, 1894, was 

 Dr. Julio Herrera y Obes. 



The area of Uruguay is estimated at 69.000 

 square miles, with a population of 793,000. The 

 number of marriages in 1893 was 3,394; of 

 births, 28,119 ; of deaths, 13,282 ; excess of births, 

 14,837. The number of immigrants in 1892 was 

 11.871 : of emigrants, 8,827. 



The receipts of the Government for the year 

 ending June 30, 1893, were $17,348,130, of which 

 $8,598,833 was from customs, $1,730,924 from 

 direct taxes, $428,936 from indirect taxes. $1 ,1)00,- 

 780 from the national bank, and $1,408,354 from 

 stamps. The expenditures were $15,024,334. The 

 debt on June 30, 1893, amounted to $103,820,489. 



Commerce and Communications. The im- 

 ports for 1893 were valued at $19,672,000, and 

 the exports at $27,682,000. The principal ex- 

 ports and their values were : Hides and leather, 

 $8,530,000; wool, $7.678,000; meat, $4.881,000; 

 beef extract. $1,706,000; tallow, $1,563,000; ani- 

 mals, $710,000; hair, $347,000. The trade with 

 the principal countries was as follows: 



There were 973 miles of railroad at the end of 

 1892. The telegraphs had a length of 2,930 miles 

 on Jan. 1, 1893. The number of messages in 1892 

 was 224.267. 



Presidential Election. A President to suc- 

 ceed Dr. Herrera was to be elected on March 1, 

 1894. The canvass began in November, 1893, 

 when the elections for Deputies took place. The 

 official candidates were then elected in the ma- 

 jority of cases ; yet when the Chambers met on 



chosen candidate, and 3 ballots were taken, in 

 which none of the candidates received a majority 

 of the votes. Popular excitement ran high, and 

 troops were kept under arms. Dr. Ellauri had 

 been President before, and was deposed by a 

 revolution on Feb. 15, 1875. Dr. Tajes was an 

 avowed Socialist, and therefore repugnant to the 

 commercial and property-own ing classes. When 

 the Chambers met again on March 2 and a ballot 

 was taken, Dr. Ellauri was declared elected ; but 

 as his adversaries assumed a threatening atti- 

 tude, he refused to accept the office. On the third 

 day Tomas Gomenzoro, who was put forward as 

 the Liberal candidate, received a majority of 

 votes, though not enough to elect. The mem- 



