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 DENVER 15,000. It occupies :i series of plateaus rising . !V..in the river, and fact's the mountains, commandini: a P" ? nd I: is built principally of brick, ,| in the vicinity. Five railroads 1'aciiie, the Colorado Central, the and the iMiv.-r and Kio is the commercial centre of !o an.l the adjacent country, and its riant. The receipts of freight for II months ending Nov. 80, 1871, over the
 * thi> point, vi/. : the Kan>as Pacific,
 * 1'acitie and Kansas Pacific railroads,

ated ^ r,i,.vl,r.90 Ibs. For the same of 1^7-J they were 88,539,710 Ibs., of which 27,390,560 were agricultural, 5,091,640 animal, :..l:;s,.V)0 forest, and 1,759,710 mi-
 * ro.lucts, 8,456,060 manufactures, and

mi-cellaneous. The amount of >hipped over these lines for the same in 1*71 was 7,031,842 Ibs.; in 1872, ,620 His., of which the principal items grain, 1,220,560 Ibs.; flour and meal, 284,720 ; cattle, 8,532,200 ; beef and pork, 232,790; hides and wool, 1,669,120; coal, 605,600 ; ore, 3,111,270 Ibs. The arrivals of passengers in 1872 were 11,250; depar- tures, 6,794. The shipments of coin and bul- lion by express during the year amounted to $1,295,411, viz.: gold bullion, $1,212,934; silver bullion, $19,760; gold coin, $62,717. The sales of merchandise in 1872 were in the aggregate $13,039,000. The value of manu- factures was $1,394,000. The most important establishments are 6 breweries, 1 woollen mill, !'. Hour mills, 1 iron foundery, 2 planing mills, 1 terra cotta foundery, several carriage facto- ries, and a turning shop. The Denver smelting and refining works, in process of construction, rupy a brick building 55 ft. wide by 200 ft. long, with capacity for 40 tons of ore a day. There are three national banks with an aggregate capital of $400,000, and deposits, Dec. 27, 1872, amounting to $1,215,570 65, and a savings bank. The branch of the United States mint is employed in the melting and i^'of bullion, which is returned to de- - in the form of bars with the weight and fineness stamped upon them. The aggre- gate deposits of domestic gold to June 30, 1873, were $6,357,275 49 of which $5,761,- 487 29 were from Colorado ; the product was $6,451,213 08 in gold bars, and $19,879 43 in brer bar-. The number of deposits of gold and silver in 1872 was 1,741, valued at .529 45. The city is divided into four and governed by a mayor and eight MMtB ipplied with water through pipe, and i> lighted with gas. The value .Me property in 1871 was $6,772,908- (it the close of IS7-J it excreded $8,500 OOo' an- :',! hotels mid a theatre. The fol- tli" public schools ! " r ll " "^ s q<t. 30, 1871: number iMl age (5 to 21), 1,1 r.s- number of nhooi^S; teachers. 14 ; pupils eii- DE PEYSTEE rolled, 982 ; average attendance, 413. There were 6 private schools, with an average at- tendance of 250. A public school building has recently been erected, at a cost of about $70,000, which will accommodate 500 pupils. The territorial library contains more than 2,500 volumes. The newspapers and periodi- cals published here are 4 daily, 1 semi-weekly, 4 weekly, and 2 monthly. There are 8 churches, viz. : 1 Baptist, 1 Congregational, 1 Episcopal, 2 Methodist (1 colored), 2 Presbyterian, and 1 Roman Catholic. The first cabin was erect- ed on the site of Denver in 1858. DEOD15D (Lat. Deo dandum, a thing to be given to God). A superstitious practice pre- vailed in England from the earliest time until very recently, whereby a chattel which had been the immediate instrument or cause of death to a human being was forfeited to the king, to be applied by him to pious uses. Om- nia qua moment ad mortem sunt Deo danda (all things which are the moving cause of death are to be offered to God), is the rule stated by Bracton. It is supposed by Blackstone that the origin of this practice was the religious doctrine of making expiation for the souls of such as were carried off by sudden death. A singular distinction was made between an infant and an adult, viz. : that an infant falling from a cart or horse not in motion, there was no forfeiture ; whereas in the case of an adult the horse or cart was a deodand. Yet if a horse or other animal should of his own motion kill either an infant or. adult, or if a cart should run over him, in either case the animal or cart was for- feited as a deodand. Another rule equally inexplicable was, that when a thing not in motion was the occasion of a man's death, only that part which was the immediate cause was forfeited ; but if the thing was in motion, then the whole was forfeited ; as, if a man was run over by a cart wheel, the whole cart was a deodand. It made no difference although the owner of the chattel was not in fault. The law of deodand was not applied in cases of felo- nious homicides, and it is now abolished by statute 9 and 10 Victoria, c. 62. D'EON, Chevalier. See EON. DE PEYSTER. I. Johannes, one of the early settlers of New Amsterdam (now New York), born in Haarlem, Holland, in the beginning of the 17th century, died in New York about 1685. He was of a French Huguenot family, filled several offices under the Dutch govern- ment in New Amsterdam, and was one of the last to take the oath of allegiance to the British crown. He was subsequently at dif- ferent times alderman, deputy mayor, and mayor. At his death he was one of the richest citizens in the colony. II. Abraham, eldest son of the preceding, born in New York (then New Amsterdam), July 8, 1658, died there, Aug. 10, 1728. He was a merchant, and amassed considerable wealth. Between 1G91 and 1695 he was mayor of New York, and subsequently became chief justice of the