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Lichfield and Ashbourn, apparently whole of July. Piozzi Letters, i. 26-32. Lichfield and Ashbourn, from June 20 to after Aug. 5. Ante, ii. 141, 142, and Piozzi Letters, i. 36-54. Lichfield and Ashbourn, from about Oct. 15 to early in December. Piozzi Letters, i. 55-69. Oxford, April; a hurried visit. Ante, ii. 235, note 2. Tour to Scotland from Aug. 6 to Nov. 26. Ante, ii. 265, 268.
Officers of the New York Life Insurance Company testified that their company had given $50,000 to the Republican campaign of 1904. An item of $235,000, innocently charged to "Home office annex account," was traced to the hands of a notorious lobbyist at Albany. Three insurance companies had paid regularly $50,000 each to the Republican campaign fund.
Lord Wellington wrote, Sept. 19, 1809, that the French army of 225,000 men had 30,000 to 40,000 sick, which is 13.3 to 17.7 per cent. The French army in Portugal had at one time 64 per 1,000, and at another 235 per 1,000, and an average of 146 per 1,000, in the hospitals through the war.
Of a total of 235,604 male citizens of voting age in South Carolina in 1890, more than 102,000 of whom were white men, only 60,925 participated in the election of November 6, 1894, at which the members of the constitutional convention were elected. Of the number thus voting only 31,402 were counted in favor of holding the convention.
Five or six of the early Popes those who reigned about sixteen hundred years ago held their papal courts and advised with their clergy in the bowels of the earth. During seventeen years from A.D. 235 to A.D. 252 the Popes did not appear above ground. Four were raised to the great office during that period. Four years apiece, or thereabouts.
The following example, extracted from the Custom House reports, may elucidate this in a striking degree. In the June fleet of 1804, consisting of sixty sail of various burthen and tonnage, there were exported, viz. 17,235 Casks of sugar. 203 Casks coffee. 442 Barrels do. 39,701 Barrels cotton. 3,399 Puncheons rum. 336 Hhds. molasses. 8,668,885 lbs. wt. coffee.
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It is difficult now to comprehend the ferocity of laws which made 235 offenses punishable with death, most of which we should now call misdemeanors. But perhaps death was better than the prisons, which were the abode of vermin, disease and filth unspeakable.
There followed the general election and the Unionist sweep. Laurier returned to parliament with a following of eighty-two in a house of 235. Of these 62 came from Quebec; and nine from the Maritime provinces.
He had through many years so persistently saved money for the Great Traveling that he begrudged money for that Traveling itself. Indeed, he planned to spend not more than $300 of the $1,235.80 he had now accumulated, on his first venture, during which he hoped to learn the trade of wandering.
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