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which the resources of the State were fully dis- 

 cussed and a warm welcome was offered to re- 

 spectable immigrants. The German-American 

 Association of Virginia was represented by Dr. 

 Paul Menzel, and other interested foreigners 

 urged the attention of the people to turning the 

 tide of immigration from the West to the South. 

 A society for the promotion, of good roads was 

 also formed. The report of the Association of 

 Engineers showed that the bad roads in the 

 State cost $2,478,918.97 more than the total tax 

 collected in the State, or for each unit of popu- 

 lation $2;58 per annum is lost. In spite of its 

 great advantages, Virginia increased only 9'48 

 per cent, in population from 1880 to 1890, less 

 than any State in the Union except Maine, 

 Vermont, and New Hampshire. Of the 502,917 

 immigrants that came to the United States in 

 the year ending June 30, only 583 were bound 

 for Virginia. Only 1-1 of the "population is for- 

 eign born. The immigration Convention de- 

 cided that, to produce different results, it should 

 advertise the resources of the State, remove the 

 impression that the school facilities are poor, 

 have good roads, and send out agents to those 

 countries from which immigration is desired. 



Gold. A gold mine in Buckingham County 

 which was opened and worked successfully half 

 a century ago has been reopened, and by the 

 cyandine process is giving a satisfactory yield. 

 Some of the selected and picked ore taken from 

 the Borker mine yielded $ 100.000 in one year. 



Appomattox. In the county of Appomattox 

 there were two villages of that name. One was 

 Appomattox railway station, and the other the 

 place of Gen. Lee's surrender. They were two 

 miles apart, and much confusion resulted in the 

 Post Office Department as to the delivery of the 

 mails. The Postmaster-General therefore or- 

 dered that old Appomattox Courthouse be called 

 Surrender, and the railway station, which is also 

 now the county seat, be called Appomattox. A 

 remonstrance from the press throughout the 



North and South and wide discussion ensued. 

 When the authorities learned the temper of the 

 people the original names were at once restored 

 to the two places. 



Monuments. In Fredericksburg, on May 10, 

 the National Mary Washington Memorial As- 

 sociation raised and dedicated a monument to 

 the memory of the mother of Washington. It 

 is a plain white marble obelisk 50 feet high, 11 

 feet square at the base. On May 22 a monu- 

 ment was dedicated in memory of the private 

 soldiers and sailors who perished on the side of 

 the Confederacy in the civil war. The site se- 

 lected was a commanding one on Libby Hill, in 

 Richmond, and the statue, of which William L. 

 Shepherd was the artist, is of heroic size and in 

 bronze. In Boydton, Nov. 24, the corner stone of 

 the monument to the Confederate soldiers of 

 Mecklenburg County was laid. 



The presidential mansion of the Southern 

 Confederacy, afterward the headquarters of the 

 army of occupation, and later a public school, 

 was bought by the city of Richmond and turned 

 over, on May 28, to the Ladies' Confederate Me- 

 morial Library Society, to be used as a museum 

 of Confederate relics. 



Political. There were two questions before 

 the people at the election in November, 1894 : 

 first, to elect congressmen ; second, a constitu- 

 tional amendment concerning the trial of petty 

 larceny cases without the intervention of a jury. 

 There" were three parties in the congressional 

 field the Democratic, the Republican, and the 

 Populist. The Democrats carried the State by 

 2,500, electing 9 out of 10 representatives, the 

 only Republican elected being Gen. James Walker, 

 of the Ninth District. At the election the Walton 

 or Australian ballot was used for the first time. 

 Its workings were successful among intelligent 

 voters. The question regarding the trial of petty 

 larceny cases without the intervention of a jury 

 and relegating them to the justice court was 

 overwhelmingly carried. 



W 



WASHINGTON, a Pacific coast State, ad- 

 mitted to the Union Nov. 11, 1889; area, 69,180 

 square miles. Population, according to the cen- 

 sus of 1890, 349,390; estimated in 1894 at 410,- 

 000. Capital, Olympia. 



Government. The State officers during the 

 year were : Governor, John H. McGraw, Repub- 

 lican ; Lieutenant-Governor, Frank H. Luce ; 

 Secretary of State, James H. Price ; Treasurer, 

 Ozro A. Bowen ; Auditor, Laban R. Grimes ; 

 Attorney-General, William C. Jones ; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, Charles W. Bean ; 

 Land Commissioner, William T.Forrest; State 

 Printer, Oliver C. White ; Adjutant General, R. 

 G. O'Brien; Chief Justice, R. 0. Dunbar ; Asso- 

 ciates, T. C. Stiles, John P. Hoyt, T. J. Anders; 

 Superior Judge, Mason Irwin ; Senator, Watson 

 C. Squire; Congressmen, John L. Wilson and 

 W. H. Doolittle f Secretary of the Board of Health, 

 Dr. George S. Armstrong; State Librarian, M. 

 Gilbert. 



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The Legislature meets biennially, on the first 

 Monday of January in odd-numbered years. 



Finances. The State Treasurer's report for 

 the quarter ending June 30, 1894. represented 

 business of unusual importance. Total receipts, 

 $525,035.57; disbursements, $519,408.71; cash 

 balance, $251,651.65. For the quarter ending 

 Sept. 30 the cash balance was $290.819.70. The 

 fiscal year begins and ends March 31. The 

 Treasurer's balance on Oct. 31. 1894, showed a 

 total cash balance, distributed among the vari- 

 ous funds, of $275.890.17. 



The State Board of Equalization has appor- 

 tioned to each county the amount of tax to be 

 paid the State to meet the expenses for 1894, 

 giving a total of $048,870, at the rate of 2'868 

 mills. The total amount of real, personal, and 

 railroad State property was estimated at $226,- 

 245.182. 



The receipts of the Auditor's office were in- 

 creased in May by payments of the 2-per-cent. 



