Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-04-23
The American Yearbook for 1869.


The American Yearbook and Nation
al Register, published by o. ID. Case x
Co, Hartford, condenses into S24 pages
a large amount Of important information
respecting our own land and other coun-
tries.
Besides very full and complete calen-
dar tables, it includes all the important
celestial phenomena for 1869; tables of
Latitude and Longitude, and difference
Of time for $50 of the most important
places on the globe list of the presi-
dents, presidents, members of the
cabinet, judges, &c. since 1889; and of
the Governors of the states and territo-
ries from their organization.
There is an acc ONT of each depart
ment of the General Government, with
its bureaus, and chief officers and their
duties. In the state department, under
the head of Intercourse with Foreign
Nations, there is full list of ministers,
diplomatic agents, and consular officers,
with their official residences, embracing
all the places at which our government
is represented F; and of the foreign lega-
tions in the United States with the con-
suls of foreign countries, and their pla-
ces of business, including, in all, more
than fourteen hundred names.
The full account of the Treasury De-
partment, Coast Survey and Light House
Districts, the Army and Navy, the mil
itary and naval academies, with lists of
army and naval officers the operations
Of the Post Office Department; the Pa
tent Office and the Land Bureau; the
Departments of Agriculture and Educa-
ton the lists of colleges, collegiate in
situations, medical, law and normal
schools, will be of interest to many who
have not access to large number of
public documents, and who could gain
the information only by long and labo-
rious Investigation.
There is condensed account Of the
proceedings of Congress, including the
Impeachment Trial, Reconstruction in
the Southern States, and other important
matters the national debt at different
periods; receipts and expenditures of
the government; sales of merchandise !;
NJ hct e al
Public Laws.
A brief historical notice is given Of
each state and territory, with list Of
the executive and judicial officers the
number and term Of service of members
of the legislatures; an account of the f.
nances, state debt, educational, charitable
and penal institutions; and the popula-
ton, wealth and industry of each. There
is also summary of all the foreign gov
ernments, with the rulers, expenditures,
revenue, army and navy, and other i'm
portant facts regarding each country.
The statistics Of the religions of the
world give not only the general classif-
cation of different nations, but detail
ed account of thenumber connected with
each denomination in each state, and in
other portions of the civilized world.
There are miscellaneous essays upon
) agriculture; currency and finance min
D.
ling; literature. and the literary infuen-
ces of the day; and full tables of Presi-
Dental election returns with the vote in
each county for Electors since 1886
More than 80 pages are occupied with
the Record Of Important Events III 1868
and the Obituaries include notices of lac
of the most eminent persons deceased ii
1868.