life-insurance company, and 4 national banks. Two large flouring mills, a plow factory, steamradiator works, foundries, stove works, cigar factories, and numerous thriving industries are found here. The city has a large retail trade, being one of the chief agricultural centers of the richest section of central Illinois. Its wealth of shade trees has given it the name of "the Evergreen City," and it is sometimes known as "the Rochester of the West," owing to the fact that 6 large nurseries are located here, one of which covers 600 acres. The city of NORMAL is practically a part of Bloomington, though it has a government of its own. The two are connected by street cars. The State Normal School, with more than 600 pupils, is located here, as is also the Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home, with 400 inmates. Normal is the greatest Normanhorse shipping-point in the country; it is surrounded by hundreds of acres devoted to the cultivation of small fruits, and thousands of crates of strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries and tons of grapes are shipped annually. Bloomington is on the highest land in the State and is remarkably healthful and pleasant.

Brockville, the chief town and county seat of the united counties of Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. It is on the north bank of the St. Lawrence, at the foot of the Thousand Islands, midway between Toronto and Montreal. Brockville has a population of 9,000, and possesses extensive iron foundries, agricultural implement works, glove works, dye-wood mills, edge-tool works, etc. It is the market town of a rich and prosperous agricultural and dairying district. The Brockville Cheese Board is the most important in the province, 200 factories being represented at its weekly meetings, the annual average value of whose output is more than $2,000,000. It has some of the finest public buildings and business blocks in the province. The assessed value of the town is $3,565,084, and there is exempted property to the value of over half a million more. The total bonded indebtedness of the town is $175,000, which includes the outlay for a fine system of sewerage just completed, aid to railways, etc. There is a Holly system of water works, electric fire alarm, a paid fire brigade, and a salvage corps. There are 2 electriclight companies and gas works. The educational institutions include the Collegiate Institute, business college, art school, 5 public schools, and a kindergarten. There is also a Mechanics' Institute, with a library of over 4,000 volumes, a Roman Catholic separate school, and a convent school for young ladies. There are 12 churches, 2 daily and 2 weekly newspapers, 3 banks, 10 hotels, a general hospital, and a Roman Catholic hospital. The town has a divisional headquarters on the Grand Trunk Railway, and is the southern terminus of a branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the southern terminus of the Brockville, Westport and Sault Ste. Marie Railway. It is connected with the American system of railways at Morristown, N. Y., on the opposite side of the river, by a ferry boat capable of carrying five cars. A company has been organized to build a railroad bridge across the river at this point, and a part of the preliminary work is already done. Brockville is an important lumber-distributing point.

Canandaigua, a village and the county seat of Ontario County, New York, on the southern and western faces of two low-lying hills at the foot of the lake of the same name, at the junction of the Northern Central, a branch of the Pennsyl vania system, and the Auburn branch of the New York Central Railroad, at the northern terminus of the lake steamboat lines, the outlet of the lake trade. The population in 1890 was 5,847. There are 2 flouring mills, spring-tooth harrow and chill plough factories, iron works, a brick yard, a brewery, 2 planing mills, gas works, and a grain elevator. The town has 7 churches, 2 opera houses, 3 hotels, 3 banking houses, and 3 weekly papers. The Union School, Boys' academy, Granger Place School, Upham School, and parochial school afford exceptional educational facilities. The closing decade has witnessed many marked improvements in the business, social, and intellectual advantages of Canandaigua. There are extensive water works, a street-car service, and an arc and incandescent electric plant. The village authorities maintain a thoroughly organized voluntary fire department, and have recently equipped it with an electric fire-alarm system. They also maintain a well-equipped police force and an efficient streets department. There is a commodious clubhouse, while the Masonic, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and several mutual insurance societies maintain lodges. The union of the public schools with an adjoining district and their reorganization have produced a marked effect upon the attendance and the facilities of instruction. The Board of Education have in process of construction extensive additions to their buildings. The New York Central Railroad has recently completed one of the handsomest stations on this road at a cost approximating $35,000.

Carthage, the county seat of Jasper County, Mo., on Spring river, in the southwestern part of the State, at the crossing of the southern branch of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the main line of the St. Louis and San Francisco road. The county seat, which was located in 1842, during the civil war was entirely deserted and destroyed, but three houses being left when peace was declared. The census returns for 1890 show a population of 8,962, an increase in the last decade of 4,795. Taking in the population of the proposed addition, which has not yet been admitted, would swell the figures to 10,000. One hundred and seventy-six residences were constructed during 1890, and yet the supply falls short of the demand. The enumeration of school children in the spring of 1890 showed 3.310. The valuation of school property was $200,000, and the assessed valuation of the city $1,806,079, which is about one third of its actual value. The city is provided with a new central high school, a central building, 4 ward schools, and a colored school, employing 36 teachers; a college under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church, a private seminary, a Catholic convent, a commercial college, and a school of music. The schools are well supplied with philosophical appliances, and there is a public library containing 4,000 volumes. The city has a complete line of water works (with thirteen miles of mains), five miles of street railway, electric light, and gas. The railroads have made extensive im

provements in side-tracks, buildings, etc., preparatory to building three new lines, already surveyed, that will center here. The notable buildings are the city hall, an opera house, a new theatre, 4 large hotels, and 14 churches. There are 5 banks, and 4 weekly, 3 daily, and 3 monthly papers. The city has two parks and finely shaded streets. Its manufacturing industries include 4 flouring mills, a foundry and machine shop, 2 woolen mills (one of which turns its entire product into clothing in a separate building), wagon and carriage factories, dynamo and electric-light apparatus, bed springs, windmills, brooms, an ice factory, lime kilns (with a daily capacity of 875 barrels), brick yards, a plow factory, an extensive pottery plant, and stone quarries, which supply neighboring cities with hundreds of car loads. More than $100,000 are invested in this industry. There is a fair ground on which the improvements cost $26,000. The freight shipments and receipts for 1889 were 13,520 cars. The mineral output of the county for 1890, in zinc and lead ore, aggregates more than $4,000,000. The mines in close proximity to Carthage, less than a year old, yield' $6,000 weekly. Jasper County has fine agricultural lands, and an immense fruit product.

Cedar Rapids.-A city of Iowa, on both banks of Cedar river, near the center of the county of Linn, 225 miles west of Chicago. It is one of the largest cities in the State, and ranks among the first in commerce and manufacturing. East and West Cedar Rapids are connected by four iron highway bridges, which cost $140,000, and by three railroad bridges. It is regularly laid out, and has an opera house, a Masonic library, and a Young Men's Christian Association building. The charitable institutions are the Home for the Friendless, Old Ladies' Home, and St. Luke's Hospital. The population in 1870 was 6,000; in 1880, it was almost 11,000; in 1890, it was 18,000. The city is governed by a mayor and 18 aldermen. The fire department consists of 10 companies and 50 fire policemen. There are 6 banks, 2 daily papers, and 5 weeklies. The city is lighted with gas and electricity. It has water works of almost unlimited capacity. The system consists of 3 large engines and 3 artesian wells, furnishing 1,300,000 gallons a day. Cedar Rapids is an important railroad center. The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway system has here its shops and general offices. They employ about 500 men, in building engines, coaches, freight cars, etc. The Chicago and Northwestern, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railways are also of importance to it, as the main line of these great systems runs through the city. T. M. Sinclair & Co's. packing house employs one thousand men. The oat-meal mills, boiler works, elevators, linseed-oil works, Star wagon works, pump factory, plow factory, broom factory, woolen mills, cracker factories, planing mills, and machine shops are the principal manufactures. The Farmers' Insurance Company was organized in Cedar Rapids. There are 11 public schools, including a high school, presided over by 89 teachers. The enrollment is nearly 4.000. There are 9 large brick buildings, some of which are among the finest in

the country. The valuation of school property is over $226,000. Coe College, under the care of the Presbyterian Synod of Iowa, was organized in 1881. The Cedar Rapids Business College is one of the largest and most successful in the State. St. Joseph's Academy has steadily grown in favor, and each succeeding year adds largely to the enrollment list of pupils. The first house of worship was erected by the Presbyterians in 1850. Of the organizations and missions the Presbyterian Church has 4; the Methodist Episcopal, 3; Protestant Episcopal, 2; United Presbyterian, 2; Congregational, 2; Catholic, 2; Christian, 2; United Brethren, 2; Evangelical, 2; and the Lutheran, Bohemian Catholic, Jewish, and African Methodist Episcopal, 1 each. valuation of church property is over $417,000.

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Charlottesville, a city and the county seat of Albemarle County, Va., at the intersection of the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Piedmont Air Line Railroads, in the central portion of the State, equally distant three hours by rail from Washington and Richmond. A charter has been obtained for another railroad, making a second connection southward. There are 16 passenger and 60 freight trains daily. The population in 1870 was 2,838; in 1880 it was 2,676; and in 1890 it was 5,562, an increase of 2.886 (107.84 per cent.). Charlottesville possesses a fire department, and water works supplying water from a reservoir six miles distant in the mountains, with pressure of gravity to throw a stream 100 feet above the highest houses, gas and electric lights, street cars, and a steam dummy line under construction. The drainage is good. Albemarle County, containing 755 square miles, produces fruits, tobacco, corn, wheat, oats, and hay. Vine growing was first attempted near Charlottesville in 1870, $50,000 capital being invested and 7 negroes employed. At present there are 28 vineyards near the city, which contains 3 wine-cellars, and the annual output of wine in the county is 100,000 gallons. Albemarle County wines were awarded the silver medal at the Paris Expositions of 1878 and 1889. About one fifth of the wine is consumed in Virginia. There are also 1 soapstone and 2 slate quarries in the county, the former worked successfully since 1883. Charlottesville's manufactures include woolen mills, with capital of $250,000, employing 110 persons, a knitting, a spoke-and-hub, and a slate-pencil factory, agricultural machine works, planing mills, 2 flouring mills, 3 sash, door, and blind, 3 cigar, 2 carriage and wagon, and 1 ice factories, and 2 bottling works. There are 2 banks, 2 building and loan associations, and 3 weekly newspapers. The University of Virginia, with an outlay of $1,500,000, established by Thomas Jefferson, is at Charlottesville, and stands at the head of the free-school system. There are 30 professors and 500 students. The Miller Manual Labor School, having an endowment of $1,500,000, for the benefit of the city and county, is near the city. There are also 2 large male schools and 2 female institutes. The churches number 14. There are 2 depots and 3 hotels, 2 larger hotels being under contract. The average annual rainfall is 35 inches, and the death rate 11:02 per thousand. Monticello, the home of Jefferson, is within 3 miles of Charlottesville.

Clinton.-A city, the county seat of Henry County, Mo., 227 miles west of St. Louis, 78 miles from Kansas City, and 75 miles from Fort Scott. The population in 1870 was 1,640; in 1880, 2,869; in 1890, 4.721. It is a railroad center, is crossed by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the Kansas City, Clinton and Springfield branch of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf, the Kansas City and Southern, and the survey of the St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado. Its assessed valuation for 1889 (not half its true value) was $1,259,220. Large coal fields are found in all parts of the county; mines of the best quality of bituminous coal are worked within a mile of the city; and fine quarries of building stone are operated within the city limits. Clays of the best quality for stone ware, sewer pipes, and the finest vitrified brick, and mineral paints are found within the city limits. The city has 2 flouring mills, one having a capacity of 300 barrels daily, and a third under construction of 500 barrels daily; 2 potteries, one having a capacity of 1,250,000 gallons of ware a year, and a furnace to reduce iron ore is being built; 1 daily and 3 weekly papers, 5 banks, steamfitting works and machine-shops, 2 carriage factories, 2 broom factories, 3 steam corn shellers, 2 steam corn-meal mills, and an elevator; 3 hotels, 9 church buildings, Young Men's Christian Association rooms and public library; the Clinton Library Association and library of 425 volumes; gas and electric-light plants and a street-car line. The Odd Fellows, Masons, Knights of Pythias, Knights Templars, fire companies, hook-andladder companies, and other societies maintain organizations. There is a fine system of water works, with gravity and force combined, which cost $100,000; ten miles of mains, supplied with clear, pure water that rises from an artesian well 840 feet deep into the reservoir, in a volume sufficient for a city of 50,000 inhabitants. The macadamizing of the public square and business streets in the most substantial and expensive manner and other street improvements have recently been completed at a cost of $48,000. The public-school building, one of the finest in the West and the largest in the State, cost $49,000. Clinton Academy, founded in 1879, chartered in 1885, is open to both sexes, has an average of 100 students, a library of 300 volumes, and the usual apparatus. Baird College was founded in 1885, and with its apparatus cost $65,000. It was opened for pupils Sept. 29, 1885, is amply provided with all the appliances for thorough work, and has an attendance larger than that of any similar institution in the State. Clinton's great artesian mineral well, one mile from the public square, flows 800,000 gallons a day of clear, pure, white sulphur mineral water, through an iron pipe 8 inches in diameter, from a depth of 800 feet below, to 12 feet above the surface of the ground. It is fast becoming celebrated as a watering place, and has hot and cold sulphur baths, and a fiveacre lake supplied from the mineral well.

Columbia, a city, the capital of South Carolina and the county seat of Richland County, slightly west of the center of the State, in latitude 33° 59′ 58′′. The city is on a promontory of granite 200 feet above the east bank of Congaree river, at the junction of the Broad and

the Saluda, and 336 feet above sea level. Columbia was established as the seat of government of South Carolina in 1786. It was incorporated in 1787, and the Legislature met there two years later. The streets are from 100 to 150 feet wide, with three rows of shade trees. Much wealth was expended upon its attractions before the civil war, and there are many beautiful residences, surrounded by large gardens in which flowers bloom nine months in the year. It has become a resort for Northern invalids afflicted with pulmonary complaints. The annual mean temperature is 67°. During the war, the business portion of the city was destroyed by fire, but it has been rebuilt. Columbia is the most important business point in the middle section of the State. Six railroads enter the city and a seventh is being built, which will place it on the shortest line from New York to Jacksonville, Fla.; $350,000 have been expended by the State and city in opening the Columbia Canal, which is nearly completed, and which, it is estimated, will furnish 15,000 horse-power in the corporate limits and will make Columbia a great center of cotton factories. The population in 1870 was 9,288, half of whom were colored; in 1880 it was 10,036; and in 1890 it was 14,508, an increase of 4,472 (44.56 per cent.). The assessed valuation of real estate and personal property is upward of $4,500,000. There are 3 banks, with aggregate capital of $200,000. In 1890 there were in operation 3 cotton-seed-oil mills, 1 cotton factory, a bent-wood furniture factory, iron foundries, steam and planing mills, a boot and shoe, a hosiery, and 2 fertilizer factories, a cotton compress, granite quarries, and many smaller industries. There are churches of all denominations and mission chapels in various parts of the city. In addition to the public schools for white and colored children are the Columbia Female College, with an attendance of 150, and the South Carolina College for Women; and for colored persons, the Benedict and Allen Institutes, with aggregate attendance of 350. The University of South Carolina, founded in 1801, covers an area of 20 acres. The library has a fine building, and contains nearly 30,000 volumes. The students in all departments number 250, and tuition is free. There is a Presbyterian Theological Seminary, established in 1830. The public buildings are the State House, of granite; the post-office and United States court house; the State Lunatic Asylum, occupying 3 principal buildings, with a small theatre attached capable of holding 500 persons; and the Penitentiary, occupying 20 acres. There are two monuments, one to the Confederate dead, and one to South Carolinians who fell in the Mexican War, the last in the shape of an iron palmetto tree. The State Agricultural and Mechanical Association holds annual meetings at its property in the suburbs of the city.

Corning, a city and the half county seat of Steuben County, N. Y., 292 miles west of New York city, 134 miles east of Buffalo, and 93 miles south of Rochester. The city is on the main line of the New York, Lake Erie and Western and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railways. The Fall Brook Coal Company's system of railways brings it within easy reach of the bituminous coal fields of northern Pennsyl

vania. Its railroad facilities make it the outlet of a vast mining, agricultural, and lumbering region. The population in 1890 was 8,553, an increase of 11 per cent. since 1880. The village of Corning was incorporated in 1848 by Erastus Corning, of Albany, and was named after him. It was chartered as a city in 1890. The valuation of property is nearly $3,000,000, which is much under the actual commercial value. The bonded debt is $50,000. The city is lighted with electricity, and its main business streets, to the extent of more than a mile, are well payed. It has a system of water works, now leased, which will revert to the city in sixteen years, and there is also a complete system of sewerage. There are 2 banks; 7 churches, with an aggregate membership of about 3,000; 4 public schools, with an enrollment of 2,000; a free library; 1 daily and 1 weekly newspaper and 1 bi-monthly journal. The only public building is the court house. In the manufacture of tobacco Corning does a business of $100,000 yearly. Other products of importance are beer, flour, stoves, and foundry work of all kinds. Nearly 1,000 persons are employed in the making or cutting of glass; and one of the establishments received the grand prize at the Paris Exposition in 1888. The aggregate trade of the city in a year is estimated at $3,000,000. A feature of the city is a handsome stone tower, containing a town clock, the gift of Erastus Corning to the municipality.

Cortland, a village, the county seat of Cortland County, N. Y., at the intersection of the Syracuse. Binghamton and New York and the Elmira, Cortland and Northern Railroads, 47 miles by rail from Binghamton, 37 miles from Syracuse, and 70 miles from Elmira. The population in 1870 was 3,066; in 1880, 4,050; in 1890, 8,708. The village is lighted by 50 arc lights of 2,000 candle power each and 700 incandescent lights of 20 candle power each, and is supplied with spring water, both for domestic and fire purposes, distributed through 15.2 miles of mains, using 120 hydrants. The Union system of telegraphic fire alarms is in operation. The Cortland post-office is rated in the second class. The following is the statement of its business for the year ending June 30, 1890: Received for postage, $20,749.35; salaries and expenses, $11,205.77; net revenue, $9,543.58; money-order business, $76,486.57; volume of business for the year, $97,235.92. The force consisted of 4 clerks and 6 carriers. Three newspapers are published in the village. There are 9 churches. The Franklin Hatch Public Library, opened in 1888, has 3,000 volumes. The Young Men's Christian Association also supports a public reading-room. The Cortland Normal and Training School was opened March 3, 1869. The grounds and building were contributed by the village at a cost of about $100,000. Since the opening of the school there have been registered 3,243 normal students, of whom 1,212 were men and 2,031 were women. The whole number graduated is 797. The public-school system of the village was established in 1880. Seventeen teachers are regularly employed, with an average attendance of nearly 900 pupils. The importance of Cortland as a manufacturing center may be seen from the following table of incorporated companies and associations doing business there:

There are 3 national banks with an aggregate capital of $350,000 and a savings bank. A street railroad 3 miles long connects Homer with Cortland. On Aug. 21, 1890, the village was struck by a tornado, which did damage to the amount of $15,000.

Dallas, the county seat of Dallas County, Texas, on the right bank of Trinity river, in the northeastern part of the State. 315 miles from Galveston, 215 from Austin, and 265 from Houston. The population in 1880 was 10,358; in 1890 it was 38,140, an increase of 27,782 in the decade (268.22 per cent.). The assessment of the city in 1880 was $4,100,340; in 1887, $11,908,346; in 1888, $13,811,659; in 1889, $21,560,417; and in 1890, $31,556,350 on a basis of 60 per cent. valuation. The total debt of the city is $1,518,600, and the tax rate $1.50 on the $100. The number of buildings constructed in 1888-'89 was 743, at a cost of $2,998,788; and in 1889–90 769 buildings were constructed, costing $4,260,030. The railroads running into Dallas are the Texas and Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the Houston and Texas Central, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fé, the Dallas and Waco, the Dallas and Greenville, the Texas Trunk, and the Dallas, Pacific and Southeastern. There are also telegraph and telephone facilities. The total of wholesale and retail trade of the city in 1889 was $27,050,000; in 1890 it was $40,710,000. On Jan. 1, 1890, there were 13 miles of street railway in operation, with 5 miles in course of construction and 2 rapid transits. There are 40 miles of paved streets and 60 miles of sidewalks. During the past four years 14 miles of street have been macadamized, 12 paved with bois d'arc, and 44 miles of cement sidewalks have been constructed. There are 22 miles of sewers, which cost $200,000.- Electric lights and gas are in use. The water works are of the pump and reservoir system, together with an artesian well, and there are 45 miles of mains costing $500,000. There is a fire alarm, with

205 hydrants and 3 cisterns. There are 11 banks, the capital and surplus being $3,840,000. The clearings for eight months of 1890 were $80,383,756.08. The aggregate of loans of 22 European and American agencies is $10,000,000 yearly, and there are 8 local and 2 branch building and loan associations. There are 44 churches and 14 public schools, and the total valuation of school property is $227,600; 76 teachers are employed, and the enrollment is 4,685. A classical course can be taken in the high school. There are 19 private schools and academies, including 4 business colleges, 1 school of fine arts, a convent and Catholic parochial school, and an Episcopal college. A university is also in course of erection under the auspices of the Christian Church. The manufactories in operation in 1889-190 numbered 127, employing 2,700 hands, with capital to the amount of $3,780,000. The capacity of the cotton and woolen mills is 14,000 yards daily, and the daily consumption of cotton is 25 bales. A grain elevator has been erected, with a capacity of 1,000,000 bushels, and there are 4 flouring mills, with aggregate capacity of 2,000 barrels a day. A meat-packery is under construction, to cost $300,000. Other establishments are for the making of wearing apparel, harness and saddlery, mattresses, spring beds, and show-cases, and there are 12 lumber yards, 8 planing mills, and 2 sash and door factories. The total number of business concerns of all classes is 1,700, of which 29 are wholesale agricultural implement houses. The State fair is held annually at Dallas, the grounds covering 120 acres, with race-track. Three parks have a total area of 290 acres. A county court house is under construction, to cost $350,000. There is a city hall, a county jail, a United States court house and post-office, an opera house costing $60,000, a Merchants' Exchange, an Armory Hall, a Christian Association, a Hebrew Society, and other halls. The hotels number 32, and a large one, 7 stories high, is under construction, to cost $500,000. There are 2 daily and several weekly newspapers. Dallas County has an area of 900 square miles and a total railroad mileage (in 1889) of 169:46 miles. The assessed value of the county, real estate and personal property, in 1888 was $26,856,750. The production the same year was: Cotton, 29,186 bales, valued at $1,225,812; corn, 2,294,440 bushels; wheat, 978,500 bushels; oats, 1,708,000 bushels.

Danville, a city of Pittsylvania County, Va., on Dan river, 66 miles above its confluence with the Staunton to form the Roanoke. It is 65 miles from Lynchburg, 141 from Richmond, and 236 from Washington, on the Richmond and Danville Railroad, which at this point branches into several divisions. Other roads are the Atlantic and Danville and the Danville and New River, and others are in contemplation. The city is connected by an iron bridge with North Danville. The population in 1870 was 3,463; in 1880 it was 7,526: in 1890 it was 10,285, an increase of 2,759 (36-66 per cent.). The total amount of tobacco brought in leaf to Danville in eighteen years is 500,000,000 pounds, valued at $60,000,000. The total tobacco trade of 1885 was $7,707,348, of which $5,554,599 was sold in leaf and $2,010,084 manufactured. In 1838 5,300,000 pounds were manufactured; in

1889, 7,582,000 pounds. In 1890, 160 large brick buildings were employed in the business, with 3 others under construction, and 6,000 persons are employed. Of the laborers employed in the tobacco business, nine tenths are negroes. Whites are employed in the cotton factories to the number of 1,200. The capital invested in mills, aggregating 40,000 spindles, is $1,500,000. There are 2 grist mills, 1 large flouring mill, 3 cooperages, 2 iron-working establishments, 1 furniture, 2 candy, 2 sash and blind, 1 ice, 1 chair, 2 box, and 1 buggy factories. Power is supplied from a canal 3,500 feet long. The water and gas works, the electric-light plant, and the fire-alarm system are owned by the city. The rate of taxation for all purposes is 1.65 per cent., and the assessed valuation of property in 1885, including North Danville, was: real, $5,513,357; personal, $2,298,400. Danville has 8 banks, with aggregate capital of $1,000,000, and 6 building and loan associations. There are 1 daily and 3 weekly newspapers and 3 hotels. A tabernacle has been recently erected capable of holding 5,000 persons. The private schools are Roanoke Female College (Baptist) and Methodist Female College, with the Danville Military Institute. A home for the sick is maintained by the churches and by charitable citizens.

Davenport, a city of Iowa, the capital of Scott County, on west bank of Mississippi river, opposite the cities of Rock Island and Moline in Illinois, with which it is connected by free bridges. Between these three cities, on an island in the river, is the national armory and arsenal, on which the Government has expended $10,000,000 in buildings and improvements. Davenport is 168 miles west of Chicago, 318 east of Omaha, 332 north of St. Louis, and 397 south of St. Paul, as the river runs. It is regularly laid out, and has many imposing buildings, prominent among them being the court house, recently erected at cost of $175,000; the Rock Island Railway car shops, $200,000; the Masonic Temple, $75,000; and Turner Hall, $85,000. The population of Davenport, according to the Federal census of 1880, was 21,831; according to the State census taken in 1885, 24,999; in 1890 it was 28,500. Davenport has 4 national banks and 3 savings banks. The number of savingsbank depositors exceeds 10.000, and the aggregate of their deposits is more than $6,000,000, which is four fifths of the amount deposited in all the other savings banks in Iowa. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Burlington, Cedar Rapids, and Northern, and the Rock Island and Peoria Railways compete for the business of Davenport, while the Mississippi river provides water communication with the West and Northwest. The product of the Davenport factories in 1889 was valued at $15,000,000. The number of manufacturing establishments exceeds 200, and the articles produced include lumber, glucose sirups and sugars, agricultural implements, malt, clothing, cigars, crackers, candies, blank books, and furniture. The saw mills cut 100,000,000 feet of lumber yearly, and the grain houses and elevators handle grain to the value of $10,000,000. Davenport has an excellent system of water works, with 33 miles of mains and 320 fire hydrants. It has