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The morning report of Colonel Bailey's regiment, the Forty-ninth Tennessee, for January 14th, was 680 effectives out of an aggregate of 777. His last morning report before the surrender was 393 effectives out of an aggregate of 773. Major Brown's estimate gives this regiment 372 engaged.

To Spain the Emperor first turned his attention in 777, when he was invited by the discontented emirs on the north of the Ebro to free them from the Caliph of Cordova. More substantial work was done in Spain during the last years of the reign. Navarre declared for the Franks and Christianity; the eldest son of Charles captured Tortosa at the mouth of the Ebro , and founded the Spanish Mark.

There is very little known of the private affairs of Veronese. He signed a contract for painting the "Marriage at Cana," for the refectory of the monastery of St. Giorgio Maggiore, in June 1562, and that picture, stupendous as it is, was finished eighteen months later. He received $777.60 for it, as well as his living while he was at work upon it, and a tun of wine.

Mythological Phars. ii. 715; iv. 549; vii. 144. Theb. ii. 81; iv. 140; xii. 224, 270. Theb. i. 370; iii. 255; vi. 777; vii. 864. The Winds Aen. x. 856. Phars. i. 498. Theb. i. 194; iii. 432; v. 704. The Boar Aen. x. 707. Theb. viii. 533. Trees Aen. ix. 675. Phars. i. 136. Theb. viii. 545. Birds Aen. v. 213; xii. 473; xi. 721; vii. 699. Theb. ix. 858; xii. 15.

He had obtained plenty of good observations of 777 stars, but thought his catalogue should contain 1000 stars, so he hastily observed as many more as he could up to the time of his leaving Hveen, though even then he had not completed his programme.

The president came back from the debating room with a paper, and read as follows: "April 28th, 188-. By His Imperial Majesty's ukase No. The Criminal Court, on the strength of the decision of the jury, in accordance with Section 3 of Statute 771, Section 3 of Statutes 770 and 777, decrees that the peasant, Simeon Kartinkin, 33 years of age, and the meschanka Katerina Maslova, 27 years of age, are to be deprived of all property rights and to be sent to penal servitude in Siberia, Kartinkin for eight, Maslova for four years, with the consequences stated in Statute 25 of the code.

In Virginia, beginning with 1871, the colored children enrolled for successive years numbered as follows: 38,554; 46,736; 49,169; 54,945; 62,178, 65,043; 61,772; and 35,768. In South Carolina the enrollment from 1870 was, 15,894: 38,635; 46,535; 56,249; 63,415; 70,802; 55,952; 62,120; and 64,095. In Mississippi, beginning with 1875, the enrollment was 89,813; 90,178; 104,777; and 111,796.

Percentage 22.22 21.71 20.76 21.90 25.97 20.81 16.49 22.23 Graduated in Second Decade 447 391 281 306 524 777 435 943 Deceased 55 49 36 40 88 107 59 127 Percentage 12.30 12.53 12.81 13.07 16.79 13.77 13.56 13.46 Graduated in Third Decade 523 481 389 351 526 958 483 1,036 Deceased 17 15 13 11 35 38 15 59 Percentage 3.25 3.11 3.34 3.13 6.65 3.96 3.10 5.69

Just nine days later the King Edward VII, a pre-dreadnought of 16,500 tons, collided with a mine in the North Sea and soon foundered. She was a second-line ship of heavy battery and carried a crew of 777 men, all of whom were taken off before the big craft sunk. This was one of the few instances in which there was no loss of life from mine or torpedo explosions.

Three years afterward, in 777, he had convoked at Paderborn, in Westphalia, that general assembly of his different peoples at which Wittikind did not attend, and which was destined to bring upon the Saxons a more and more obstinate war. "The Saracen Ibn-al-Arabi," says Eginhard, "came to this town, to present himself before the King.