Helps, Sir

ARTHUR, an English historian, born in 1817, graduated at Cambridge, and in 1859 was appointed Clerk of the Privy Council. His principal productions are: The Conquerors of the New World and their Bondsmen (1852); The Spanish Conquest of America (1855-61); The Life of Pizarro, with some account of his A ociates in the Conquest of Peru (1869); and The Life of Hernando Cortez, and the Conquest of Mexico. Died in 1875. Hemp/hill, in Texas , a N.W. co.; area, 900 sq. m. Intersected by the Canadian river. The central part is hilly; in the north and south the surface is mostly level prairie; soil , fertile, sandy loam; timbered along streams. Products. Hay, sorghum, millet, corn, and potatoes. Cattle raising is the principal industry. Cap . Canadian. Pop . (1890) 519. Henderson, in Tenne ee, a post-town, cap. of Chester co., 16 m. S.E. of Jackson, on M. & O. R. R. Pop. (1890) 1,069.