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DENMARK. 



low prices of the season are said to have made 

 the crop, on the whole, unprofitable. 



The peach crop of the year has to be esti- 

 mated from the shipments on the various rail- 

 roads and lines of water-transportation. It is 

 placed at 3,392,293 baskets, including 2,124,102 

 shipped by rail, 948,518 by water, and 319,675 

 which were canned, dried or otherwise cured. 



Among the new enterprises of the year is 

 the projected construction of a branch of the 

 Delaware division of the Philadelphia, Wil- 

 mington & Baltimore Railroad, from Dover 

 to Rehoboth. The line has been surveyed, and 

 its early construction is probable, although 

 there is considerable opposition to it, on the 

 ground that it will give a practical monopoly 

 of transportation in the State to one company. 



As there was no session of the Legislature in 

 January, 1878, other official reports are want- 

 ing, since they are made to cover periods of 

 two years. 



Statistics of the free schools of Delaware, 

 from December, 1876, to December, 1877, 

 showing the whole number of children between 

 the ages of five and twenty-one years, the 

 number attending schools, and whole amount 

 of school property, are as follows : 



Whole number of white children between the ages of 



five and twenty-one years in New Castle County 16,760 



"Whole number, etc., in Kent County 6,862 



"Whole number, etc., in Sussex County 8,227 



Total 81,849 



Whole number of white children attending free schools 



in New Castle County 11,056 



Whole number, etc., in Kent County 4,905 



"Whole number, etc., in Sussex County 6,437 



1870, 1872, and 1876 ; and a daughter, born in 

 1875. The King has a civil list of 500,000 rigs- 

 dalers, and the heir-apparent 60,000 rigsdalers. 

 The present Ministry was formed on June 11, 

 1875, and was, at the close of 1877, composed 

 as follows : President of the Council and Min- 

 ister of Finance, J. B. S. Estrup ; Minister of 

 the Interior, E. V. R. Skeel ; Minister of Jus- 

 tice and Minister for Iceland, J. M. V. Nelle- 

 mann ; Minister of "Worship and Public In- 

 struction, J. C. H. Fischer; Minister of Foreign 

 Affairs, O. D. Baron Rosenorn-Lehn, appointed 

 October 11, 1875 ; Minister of War and of the 

 Navy, General J. C. F. Dreyer, appointed July 

 28, 1877. 



The area of Denmark proper, inclusive ol 

 lakes, is 14,753 square miles ; of European de- 

 pendencies (Faroe Islands and Iceland), 40,268 

 square miles ; of American possessions, Green- 

 land, St. John, St. Thomas, and St. Croix, 759,- 

 000 square miles. The population* was, in 1870 

 and 1876, as follows: 



In the budget for 1876-'77 the receipts were 

 estimated at 48,085,953 and the expenditures 

 at 46,695,071 crowns. The public debt on March 

 31, 1876, amounted to 181,773,245 crowns. 



The following table exhibits the value of 

 Danish commerce in the year 1875, value ex- , 



DENMARK, a kingdom in Northern Europe. 

 Reigning sovereign, Christian IX., fourth son 

 of the late Duke William of Schleswig-Hol- 

 stein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, appointed 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 31, 1853 ; succeeded 

 to the throne on the death of King Frederick 

 VII., November 15, 1863; married, May 26, 

 1842, to Louise, daughter of Hesse-Cassel. Heir- 

 apparent, Prince FrederickriTOm June 3, 1843 ; 

 married, July 28, 1869, to Louisa, only daughter 

 of the late King Charles XV. of Sweden; off- 

 spring of this union are three sons, born in 



The imports and exports were divided aa 

 follows among the different classes of goods : 



The movement of shipping during the year 

 1875 was as follows : 



* For population of the divisions of Denmark proper ana 

 the several dependencies, see AJTXCAL CYCLOPAEDIA for 1S76. 



