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Territorial governments 202,150.00 287,350.00 292,350.00 282,600.00 90,200.00 80,450.00 + 9,750.00 Independent offices 2,638,695.12 2,400,695.12 2,492,695.12 2,128,695.12 + 146,000.00 + 510,000.00 + 364,000.00 District of Columbia 13,602,785.90 11,884,928.49 12,108,878.49 11,440,346.99 + 1,492,907.41 + 2,162,439.91 + 668,532.50

In Jerusalem he saw all that Arculfus saw, and nothing more; but he had previously visited the Tomb of the Seven Sleepers, and the cave in which St. John wrote the Apocalypse. Bernard proceeded to Palestine in the year 878.

For one reason or another, on Adams's part certainly on account of his humane feelings and general business inefficiency, the collectors fell every year a little behind in the collections, and one day found themselves declared on the official records to be indebted to the town in the sum of 9,878 pounds. This indebtedness Mr.

In his "Memoirs," vol. ii., Sir John Dalrymple has published a curious official report of the numbers of Catholics in England, in the reign of William of Orange, found after his death in the iron chest of that vigilant monarch. Conformists. Papists. Non-Conformists. Province of Canterbury, 2,123,362 93,151 11,878 Province of York, 353,892 15,525 1,978 Totals 2,477,254 108,676 13,856

New York.......... 6,415.90 17. Philadelphia...... 5,480.75 32. Baltimore......... 7,117.00 36. Washington City... 6,878.55 40. Richmond.......... 12,385.21 42. Charleston........ 6,775.00 43. Havana............ 4,666.17 45. Havana............ 2,931.95 47. New Orleans....... 12,599.85 48. Natchez........... 5,000.00 60. Memphis........... 4,539.56 61. St. Louis......... 7,811.85 62.

51,000,000 sq. miles the dry surface of the earth x 27,878,400 the number of sq. ft. in 1 sq. mile = sq. ft. 1,421,798,400,000,000 being 531,326,600,000,000 square feet less than would be required at the end of the ninth year.

Alfred, the greatest of the early English kings, was driven by them into the swamps for a while, but in the year 878 A.D. he conquered an army of them in battle and persuaded one of their kings to be baptized as a Christian. Alfred was obliged to allow them to keep the eastern portion of England, a region called Danelaw, because the law of the Danes was obeyed there.

By reference to the report of the Secretary of the Treasury it will be seen that the aggregate receipts for the last fiscal year amounted to $52,312,979.87, which, with the balance in the Treasury on the 1st July, 1850, gave as the available means for the year the sum of $58,917,524.36. The total expenditures for the same period were $48,005,878.68.

By reference to the report of the Secretary of the Treasury it will be seen that the aggregate receipts for the last fiscal year amounted to $52,312,979.87, which, with the balance in the Treasury on the 1st July, 1850, gave as the available means for the year the sum of $58,917,524.36. The total expenditures for the same period were $48,005,878.68.

In his royal villa at Chippenham, on the left bank of the gently-flowing Avon, sat King Alfred, buried in his books. It was the evening of the 6th of January, in the year 878, a thousand years and more backward in time.