Amanal stilles--The tanca levied for the year 1 anospted to $11,54.670.21, viz.: 41.150.34; county and county tas. 6000207, insane-tax, $239,071.$120.28.07; county school ut, tot school tax, $4,114,***, $459.474.86; special tax, judgment múd bond tax, t The 049.89; corporation-tax, $741,503.51. total of taxes for 1882 was $12,201,493.69 The length and assessed value of railroads Jan. 1, 1883, were: Length, 6,792 miles; value, $28,832,739.70. The following statement shows the number of live-stock, and the assessed value, for seven years: Value of mules. Number of sheep. supporting Pendence, nt, $18,780.91, or a total of $55,607.12. very county in the state is represented. Dubaque furnishes the largest butober, 48. July 30, 1883, there were 550 inmates at Independence, and at Mount Pleasant 472. The increase since that period is 214. Both institutions are overcrowded, yet this does not include the entire insane populations of the State; for, a few years 140, fo Cometered became the hospicurables were removed vad poor-houses. 4th of November the Reessful. The following is electors: Republican, peratic and Greenback), For Secretary of Prank D. Jackson, Renew Dubey, Democrat, Length, north and south, including porticces, 363.8 feet; length, east and west, 246-11; length, north and south fronts, 175; length, east and west fronts, 115:3; height to top of cornice, 92-8; height of top of stonework on dome, 1714; height of top of outside stone balcony, 2191; height to top of ball of main domu, 2955; height of basement story, floor to floor, 131; ht of office story, floor to floor, 230; height of story, floor to floor, 22.9; height of third $1.670.154 218.429 8845,827 1,654,708 $3,899,301 $40,914,886 1,634,913 2-5,228 1.553.199 801,752 1,5-1,956 349,359 1,596,878 486,531 1,719,661 489,407 1,702,182 401,429 290,520 2,250,800 4,404,750 41,417,40 830,945 2.813,220 8,475,228 40,650,68 457,967 2,460,898 4,727,642 45,484,287 546,998 2,219,402) 4,479,860 46,872.911 562,712 2,069,847) 4,218,187 51,145,878 479,287 1,895,044 4,074,265 52,782,420 story, floor to ceiling, 209; square feet of ground cor cred, 54,850; above the level of the sea, 1,151; house, floor, 74 x 91-4; height, 47-9; library, floor, 52'6 x 108 4; height, 44-9; Supreme Court room, floor, 34.5x 50-2, height, 28-9; diameter of rotunda, 66-8. Fourdation granite hewed from Iowa bowlders; yellowstone catne from St. Genevieve, Missouri; gray-stone came from Carroll county, Missouri. Total cost to October 1, $2,362,531.00; height to top of finial, 275 feet. ITALY, a kingdom of southern Europe. (For details relating to area, population, etc., see "Annual Cyclopedia" for 1883.) Government. The King, Humbert I, born March 14, 1844, the eldest son of Victor Emanuel, succeeded to the throne Jan. 9, 1878. During the cholera season of 1884 he distinguished himself by visits to the infected cities, and personal inspection of the hospitals and means of relief. The ministry is: President of the Coun cil, Signor Depretis; Interior, Signor Morana: Finance, Signor Magliani; Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs, Signor Gianuzzi-Savelli; Forcign Affairs, Signor Mancini; War, Signor Ricotti, since Oct. 24, 1884; Navy, Admiral Racchio; Public Works, Signor Gelana; Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce, Signor Grimaldi; Public Instruction, Signor Baccelli. The United States Minister in Rome is William W. Astor, and the Italian Minister at Washington, Baron S. de Fava. The Italian Consul-General at New York, G. B. Raffo. Finances.--At the close of the fiscal year, ended June 30, 1884, Italy owed 11,000,000,000 liro, 2,000,000,000 of which represented the floating debt, not paying interest; there were therefore 9,000,000,000 consols, on which the annual interest amonnts to 442,312,977 lire; 435,904,897 thereof at 5 per cent. interest, and 6,408,080 at 3 per cent.; and there was, besides, the 5 per cent. interest on the debt due to the Holy See, which interest amounts to 3,225,000 lire. The budget for the fiscal year 1883, which estimated an income of 1,310,000,000 lire, is shown to have produced in reality an income of 1,334,000,000, or 24,000,000 more, while the expenditure was 1,333,000,000, instead of the estimated 1, 808,000,000. The budget for 1884 was as follows: Foreign Affairs. Public Instruction.. Interior EXPENDITURE. War... Navy. Agriculture.... Total...... ........ .......... ........... Lire. not on the cattle on which the credit-bank is to have secured a first mortgage. The loans will have to be made for at least three years, but 24,804,705 not to exceed thirty years, nor the interest 5 889,474,880 182,550,000 per cent. 524,224,245 Army. The standing army numbers 750,765 72,502,000 men and officers; the militia mobile, 341,250 128,850,185 25,811,258 men and officers; the reserve, 5,281, and the 220,758,842 territorial militia, 1,021,954-constituting a 1,562,975,065 joint force, in time of peace, of 2,119,250 men. In time of war Italy can place in the field 690,Lire. 000 men of the line; 300,000 militia mobile, 174,916,298 and 1,000,000 territorial militia-together, 83,451,687 1,990,000 soldiers. 786,465,978 7,218,787 184,659,068 The Government having resumed the tobacco monopoly from the Tobacco Régie Company, and having to pay it 68,000,000 lire for to bacco, etc., a loan was made at 3.60 per cent., payment to be made on April 1, 1885, instead 82,427,541 Navy. There were launched in August, at 64,060,550 Castellamare, the ironclad Ruggiero di Lau252,867,867 ria, and in December the ironclad Francesco 57,645,549 Morosini; to be followed in March, 1885, 11,966,104 by the Andrea Doria three line-of-battle 1,555,676,829 steamers of the first class, built after the There were outstanding, Sept. 30, 1884, 255,- Acton model; and there were building in the 344,600 lire in treasury notes, the circulation spring of 1885 the Italia and the Lepanto. When these formidable men-of-war are all being greater by 10,936,500 than on June 30 of the same year. afloat, Italy will have 15 vessels of the first class, 10 of them ironclad; 14 second class; 18 third class; 11 transports, and 43 torpedoes. The Ruggiero di Lauria cost, with armament, 19,000,000 lire or francs; the Duilio the Dandolo, when armed, will cost between as much; and the Lepanto, the Italia, and 22,000,000 and 24,000,000 each. The Duilio is to carry four 100-ton guns. Out of the 10,802 sailors and marines, and 567 officers, by whom the Italian navy is manned, there will be doing active service on board ship in 1885, 396 officers and 9,028 men, a proportion A novel arunknown in any other navy. rangement is the having in readiness so-called notice. The navy was commanded and offireserve ships," to sail at forty-eight hours' cered on Jan. 1, 1885, as follows: one admiral, Prince Carignano; 4 vice-admirals, 10 rearadmirals, 104 captains, and 362 lieutenants; 10,300 sailors, and 1,987 gunners, men for torpedo service, and engineers. num. of on Dec. 31, 1885, a saving of 1.40 per cent., as the Tobacco Régie Company was being credited interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per anA 100,000,000 lire loan having been voted by the Chamber in December, 1884, and the bill also having passed the Senate on Jan. 11, 1885, for the sanitary improvement of Naples, and certain public works to be there undertaken for the same purpose, it was proposed to place on the market 5 per cent. bonds, to run sixty years, dating from January, 1886, and to be gradually paid off by a sinking fund. During the first ten months of 1884, the movement of the precious metals in lire was as follows: The Red Sea Expedition. -For several years there has been rivalry between the Italians, French, and Egyptians, to secure the trade between their possessions on the Red Sea coast of eastern Africa, and Abyssinia and the Galla countries. The Italians have acquired a settlement at Assab, and the French farther south at Abok. Both settlements are poor, the coast being a complete desert, while the flourishing countries inland, especially Shoa, are difficult and expensive to reach, the freight on camels' backs being very high, and transportation, a distance of 400 miles, very slow, so that it sometimes takes months to reach a market from Assab. Valueless as the latter is as a settlement, it has, nevertheless, been retained, because during the colonization mania that has seized upon the French and Germans, Italy, without any other colony, considers it in her political rather than commercial interest to obtain a firm foothold somewhere near the |