Leather and manufactures of..... 15,614,407 20,242,756 Naval stores (rosin, tar, turpentine, pitch and spirits of turpentine) Oil cake and oil cake meal.. 7,165,587 7,949,647 Oils, animal 578,4451 673,941 Oils, mineral-crude. Oils, refined or manufactured. 41,498,372 56,261,567 Oils, vegetable... 7,342,112 6,097,022 Paraffin and paraffin wax. 3,569,614 4,406,841 Provisions, comprising meat and dairy products. 133,634,379 131,605,869 Seeds 2,849,145 1,592,017 Sugar and molasses... 1,991,928 1,714,275 Tobacco, unmanufactured.. 25,798,968 24,571,362 Tobacco, manufactures of. 3,953,165 4,380,361 Vegetables Wood, and manufactures of. All other articles. Total value..... Carried in cars and other land vehicles. 43,498,599 49,902,188 $793,392,599 $863,200,487 27,115,907 31,947,108 Carried in American vessels... Carried in foreign vessels.... 60,523,877 67,586,986 687,515,253 740,644,261 *Includes $730 in silver ore. FOREIGN TRADE FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1896. Denmark France Germany Gibraltar Greece Greenland, Iceland, i Italy Netherlands Portugal 2,255,731 Rumania Russla, Baltic, etc. 2,116,427 17,314 3,156,991 47,305 6,298,427 1,198,223 Russia, Black Sea. Servia Spain Sweden and Norway. Switzerland 14,080,033 | Turkey in Europe. 2,665,127 United Kingdom 169,963,434 Bermuda 522,674 British Honduras 200,212 32.954 34,905 405,741,339 924,047 571,615 Nova Scotia, New-Brunswick, etc. Quebec, Ontario, etc.. British Columbia Newfoundland and Labrador. Costa Rica Guatemala 2,080,027 3,158,059 VALUES OF IMPORTS ENTERED INTO UNITED STATES FOR CONSUMPTION AND DUTIES COLLECTED THEREON FROM 1881 TO 1895. Year. Free. Duty Dutiable. I collected. 1881..$202,557,412 $448,061,587 $193, 800, 880 1882.. 210,721,981 505,491,967 216,138,916 1883.. 206,913,289 493,916,384 210,637,293 1884.. 211,280,265 456,295,124| 190,282.836 1885.. 192,912,234 386,667,820 178,151,601 1880.. 211,530,759 413,788,055 189,410,448 1887.. 233,093,659 450,325,322 214,222,310 1888.. 244,104,852 468,143,774 216,042,256 Duty Year. Free. Dutiable. I collected. 1889.. 256,574,633 484,856,768 220,576,989 1890.. 266,103,048 507,571,764 226,540,037 1891.. 388,064,404 466,455,173 216,885,701 1892.. 458,074,604 355,526,741 174,124,270 1893.. 444,172,064 400,282,519 199,143.678 1894.. 378,968,717 257,645,703 129,558,892 1895..376,890,100 354,271,000 149,450,608 NEW-YORK STATE TAX ASSESSMENTS. Taxes levied for the support of the State Government for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1896. For tax of 1895 see Tribune Almanac for 1896, page 159. Counties. Niagara Aggregate Total tax of valuations. (2 96-100 mills 32,660,001 8,785,540 Onondaga Ontario 39,749,808 10,692,698 Allegany 13,663,400 3,675,454 Orleans Broome 29,889,560 8,040,292 Oswego Cattaraugus Otsego Cayuga Putnam Chautauqua Queens 75,009,104 20,177,449 Chemung Chenango Richmond Clinton Rockland 13,517,103) 3,636,101 Col·mbia Saratoga Cortland Schenectady Delaware 14,466,433 3,891,470 Schoharie Dutchess Schuyler Erie Seneca Essex 9,010,717 2,423,883 St. Lawrence. Franklin Steuben Fulton Suffolk Genesee Sullivan Greene 12,397,620 3,334,960 Tioga 11,881,943] 3,196,243 Hamilton Tompkins Herkimer Ulster Jefferson 29,380,962 7,903,478 Warrer Klags 541,509,429 145,666,037 Washington Lewis Wayne Livingston 24,756,634 6,659,534 Westchester 119,737,419) 32,209,366 Madison 19,230,739 5,173,069 Wyoming Monroe 132,971,332| 35,769,288 Yates Montgomery 24,730,785 6,652,582 THE TRIBUNE FRESH-AIR FUND. Organized in 1877, its object being to send children of the New-York poor into the country for a summer vacation of two weeks. Hospitable country people receive them, not as boarders, but give them food and lodging and freedom of the country grounds. The fund is dependent upon voluntary contributions. The following table shows a continued and steady growth of the work from the beginning: North Dakota-Wm. D. Walker......1883 .1892 Northern-A. C. Garrett Arizona and New-Mexico-John Mills Kendrick (Missionary) (miss.).. .1874 .1889 Arkansas-Henry Niles Pierce........1870 Texas, Western-J. S. Johnson (miss.).1888 Vermont-A. C. A. Hall. .1894 California-William F. Nichols......1893 California, Northern - John H. D. Virginia-Francis McNeece Whittle...1868 J. B. Newton, coadjutor. 1894 Wingfield (miss.) ....1874 Colorado-John Franklin Spalding....1873 Virginia, Southern-A. M. Randolph...1883 ...1889 .1892 Florida, South-W. C. Gray (miss.)...1892 Georgia-C. K. Nelson. Wyoming and Idaho-E. Talbot .1892 (miss.). .1887 Africa, Cape Palmas-S. D. Ferguson (miss.) ....1885 Illinois, Chicago-Wm. E. McLaren..1875 Shanghai, China-F. R. Graves......1894 Channing Moore Williams, late Bishop Cons. Iowa-William Stevens Perry. ....1876 Kansas-Frank R. Millspaugh. .......1895 Kentucky-Thomas U. Dudley. Kentucky, Lexington-Lewis W. Burton.... Maine-Henry Adams Neely.. ........1867 Maryland-William Paret. ..1885 Charles C. Penick, late Bishop of Cape Palmas, resigned.. Port-au-Prince. OFFICERS AND AGENCIES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN GEN ERAL ASSEMBLY. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America was founded in 1788. It is comDosed of the Synods and Presbyteries of the Church, which has a total membership of 923,904. The next meeting of the General Assembly will be on May 20, 1897, at Warsaw, Ind. Its officers are: MODERATOR-Rev. John L. Withrow, D. D., LL. D., Chicago, Ill. CLERKS-Stated Clerk and Treasurer, William H. Roberts, D. D., LL. D., 1,334 Chestnut-st., Philadelphia, Penn. Permanent Clerk, William E. Moore, D. D., LL. D., Columbus, Ohio. TRUSTEES-President, George Junkin, LL. D. Treasurer, Frank K. Hipple. 1,340 Chestnut-st. Cor. Secretary, Joseph Beggs, D. D., LL. D. Office, Publication House, No. 1,334 Chestnut-st., Philadelphia. BOARD OF HOME MISSIONS-President, John Hall, D. D., New-York; corresponding secretaries, William C. Roberts, D. D., LL. D., and Duncan J. McMillan, D. D.; superintendent of school work, Rev. George F. McAfee; acting treasurer. Varion Banks: recording secre |