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power; and by organizing and directing the 

 trade and industry of the community for his 

 own advantage, he accumulated immense 

 wealth. 



YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA- 

 TION. The Twenty-second Annual Interna- 

 tional Convention of the Young Men's Christian 

 Associations of the United States and the Brit- 

 ish Provinces met at Louisville, Ky., June 6th. 

 Mr. J. T. Farwell, of Chicago, 111., was chosen 

 president. The report of the Executive Com- 

 mittee reviewed the growth of the associations 

 from 1865; when they numbered only 65 isolated 

 bodies, to the present number of more than 

 1,000 organizations, bound together under In- 

 ternational, State, and Provincial Commissions, 

 with more than 150,000 members. In 1865, 

 there was not an association building; now 

 there were 48 such buildings, valued at $2,000,- 

 000, and other property owned by the associa- 

 tions, raising the aggregate value to $3,000,000. 

 The expenditure of the committee during the 

 year had been $16,000 ; adding to this the ex- 

 penses of the State organizations and associa- 

 tions, the whole amount of expenditure had 

 been almost $500,000. Eight thousand three 

 hundred men had been provided with employ- 

 ment. The average weekly attendance on the 

 Associational Bible Classes was 8,123. Special 

 attention was given to the consideration of the 

 work of the associations in the South, where 

 efforts in organization had been prosecuted for 

 several years past. When these efforts were 

 begun, there were but two associations in the 

 South; now there 1 were 150 associations, with 

 strong State organizations and many active 

 working members. Attention was especially 

 directed to the work in behalf of the colored 

 people. Report was made from Canada that 

 the number of associations in Ontario and Que- 

 bec had increased from 44 in 1876 to 59. 



Mr. Anthony Comstock, secretary of the 

 Society for the Suppression of Vice, at a special 

 meeting held to hear him, made a report of the 



success of hia efforts for the suppression of ob- 

 scene literature. He had seized and destroyed 

 the plates for 163 out of 173 books published 

 in the United States since 1878, and 24 tons of 

 literature, and 1,200,000 pictures, photograph- 

 ic plates, cards, etc. Only four acquittals had 

 been had in cases of 200 prosecutions which 

 had been instituted by him. 



The Thirty-second Anniversary Meeting of 

 the Young Men's Christian Association of Lon- 

 don was held April 19th. Mr. J. G. Shepherd 

 presided. The report of the secretary em- 

 braced the review of the history of the institu- 

 tion for more than 30 years, showing that the 

 number of societies had now increased to 2,048. 

 extending all over the world, and distributed 

 as follows: in London, 28; in the English 

 towns and rural districts, 289 ; in Scotland, 

 63 ; in Ireland, 11 ; in the British colonies and 

 possessions, 13; in France, 43; in Belgium, 

 18; in Germany, 243; in Holland, 294; in 

 Spain, 4 ; in Italy, 6 ; in Switzerland, 140 ; in 

 Sweden, 3 ; in the United States and North 

 America, 982; in China, 2; in Syria, 3; in 

 Japan, 1. The formation of societies in some 

 of the business houses of London was men- 

 tioned. The 6nancial statement showed that 

 the receipts of the association for the year had 

 been 3,123, and that a deficiency existed of 

 575. The number of new members received 

 during the year was 860, and the total number 

 of members was 5,440. 



The Young Men's Christian Association of 

 Scotland held their Annual Meeting at Edin- 

 burgh in July. The Executive Committee re- 

 ported that returns had been received from 67 

 associations, four more than had reported in the 

 previous year. The total number of members 

 in the reporting associations was 12,148. Fifty- 

 eight associations had classes for biblical study. 

 Prayer-meetings were now held in 46 of them, 

 and 26 associations were carrying on evange- 

 listic work. The total number of associations 

 was 95. 



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ZIMMERMANN, APALLON ERNICSTOVITCH, a 

 Russian general, was born in Livonia, in 1825. 

 He commenced his military career in 1843 as 

 a lieutenant in the Fourteenth Hussars of 

 Mitau. After having passed through the Acad- 

 emy of the General Staff, he was attached in 

 1848 to the general staff, and in the same year 

 conducted several works in the departments 

 Archangel and Olonetz. In the following year 

 he was attached to the General Count Berg, 

 whom he accompanied in his expedition to Hun- 

 gary. From 1861 to 1854 he was in the Cau- 

 casus nnd took part in the expeditions against 

 the rebellious tribes of that region. Upon the 

 breaking out of the Crimean War he was on 



the Armenian frontier as chief of staff of the 

 Akalzik division; but in 1854 he was ordered 

 to the Crimea, where he served in Sebastopol 

 until the surrender of that fortress. In 1860 

 he was sent on an expedition against Khokan, 

 in which he was successful, gaining for him- 

 self the rank of major-general. In 1862 he be- 

 came chief of staff of the military district of 

 Vilna, and as such took part in the suppres- 

 sion of the Polish insurrection. He was cre- 

 ated lieutenant-general in 1868, and on Febru- 

 ary 19, 1877, was appointed to the command 

 of the Fourteenth Army Corps, with which on 

 June 21, at Braila, ho waa the first to cross the 

 Danube. 



