The number of depositors in these banks during the year increased 7,512, the total number being 95,487, of whom 76,602 were depositors of sums not exceeding $500 each. The average amount to the credit of each depositor was $308.87. STATE INSTITUTIONS.-On December 1, 1881, there were in the Insane Hospital 450 patients (240 men and 210 women); admitted during the following year, 194 (114 men and 80 women); in all, 644; discharged, 183 (103 men and 80 women); remaining December 1, 1882, 461 (251 men and 210 women). The hospital has been in operation forty-two years, during which 5,953 patients have been admitted and 5,492 discharged. Of the latter 2,272 recovered, 1,089 improved, 979 did not improve, and 1,154 died. The daily average number of patients for the year 1881-'82 was 449. The number of prisoners in the State-Prison November 30, 1882, was 147, a falling off of 37 since the corresponding date of 1881. There is a marked increase in the number of life-sentences. In 1870 the number was 10, or 6 per cent of the whole number of convicts; in 1876 it was 18, or 10 per cent; now the number is 36, or 25 per cent. The net cost to the State for the past two years above earnings has been about $90 per annum to each convict. The manufacture of shoes, being a losing business, has been abandoned, and that of carriages increased. During the eight years that the Industrial School for Girls has been in operation, 148 girls have been admitted to the institution. Of this number, 81 are now in good homes provided for them, 8 have been returned to friends, 2 sent to the Orphan's Home at Bath, 3 have escaped, 6 have been dismissed and 4 have deceased, leaving 44 now in attendance. The average attendance for the years 1881 and 1882 was 39 and 40 respectively. The commission appointed to investigate the State Reform School found the buildings and other property in good condition, the boys well fed and comfortably clad, but the discipline harsh, the punishments extremely severe in some instances, and the mingling of bad and depraved boys with the better class of boys in the institution an evil of large proportions. Very little complaint is made of the care bestowed upon the sick. The whole number of boys who have been received into the institution since it was opened is 1,711; 1,034 were committed for larceny, 190 for truancy, and 104 for being common runaways. Number of boys in school December 1, 1881... committed the past year.. Whole number in school during the year... discharged.... allowed to go on trial.. indentured died... illegally committed.. Number of boys remaining, December 1, 1882. 113 The total receipts from December 1, 1881, to December 1, 1882, were $21,742.60; expenditures, $21,716.40. EDUCATION.-The number of scholars in the State in 1881 was 213,927; in 1880, 214,656; a decrease of 729. The whole number attending school in 1881 was 150,067; in 1880, 149,829; an increase of 240. The decrease in the number of children of school age has been constant since 1870, with the exception of one year, and in eleven years amounts to the aggregate of 14,240. While there has been a decrease in school population, there has been a steady gain in attendance upon the schools. The number of school districts in the State is 3,966; 39 towns have abolished the district system. There are 4,308 school-houses, 3,039 of which are reported in good condition. During the year 57 schoolhouses were erected, at an aggregate cost of $95,347. The estimated value of all the school property in Maine is $3,026,395. The number of male teachers employed in summer schools is 305; male teachers in winter schools, 2,257. Number of female teachers employed in summer schools, 4,638; in winter schools, 2,431. Total number of teachers in summer schools, 4,988; in winter schools, 4,688. Of these teachers, 457 are graduates of normal schools, and 4,713 of them have had previous experiThe average wages of male teachers per month, excluding board, is $28.23; of female teachers, $14.52. The number of towns electing supervisors was 274, an increase over 1880 of 22; number electing school committees, 223, a decrease of 19. The total school resources for the year were $1,047,229. Of this amount, $706,521 came from town treasuries; $316,439 from the State, and $24,269 from local funds. The amount expended for common schoolscurrent expenses-was $965,697, leaving an unexpended balance of $81,532. ence. The average number of scholars per teacher in the summer schools throughout the State was 24, and 26 in the winter. This includes both graded and ungraded schools. There are 101 towns in the State where free high-schools are maintained, an increase of 15 over 1880. The total cost of these schools was $69,469, of which the State paid $16,910. The State Agricultural College has an endowment from the national Government of $232,500, yielding an annual revenue of about $7,500. It has received from the State $187,218. It has buildings, grounds, library, apparatus, farming-tools, stock, etc., valued at $145,000. It has required from the State, in addition to the income from the national endow21 ment, less than $3,500 a year for the purposes 4 of instruction and for all current expenses, and has graduated 180 students and given instruc tion to 201 other students in special or partial courses varying from a single term to three and a half years. The present freshmen class numbers 18, a number estimated at less than one half what it would have been if free tui110 tion had been maintained. 2 143 6 22 1 2 2 Maine Central (to Bangor via Augusta, inclusive of Portland and Kennebec, 63 miles)... Maine Central (Cumberland via Lewiston to Waterville).. New Brunswick (Aroostook River).. New Brunswick and Canada (Houlton branch).. Newport and Dexter (Maine Central).. Norway Branch (Grand Trunk).. Old Orchard Junction... Ocean Street Horse.. Orchard Beach.... Portland and Kennebec (Maine Central). Portland and Ogdensburg.. Portland and Rochester. Somerset and Kennebec (Waterville to Skowhegan, Maine Central). St. Croix and Penobscot.. Eastern Maine. Dexter and Newport. 18,000 00 European and North American. 552.462 42 Great Falls and Conway 45,045 82 Aroostook River. Atlantic and St. Lawrence.. Bangor and Piscataquis... Belfast and Moosehead Lake... Boston and Maine.. 150,000 00 886,000 00 8,500,000 00 12,450,623 48 8957.658 74 8887,815 45 $119,848 29 $8,484,000 00 85,484,000 00 $3,000,000 00 $8,484,000 00 Houlton branch. Sandy River.. 15.212 24 12.747 00 Somerset. St. Croix... St. Croix and Penobscot. Orchard Beach. 5,465 24 126,688 24 921,628 87 69,256 56 879,050 44 187,000 00 50,000 00 450,000 00 165,500 00 921,628 37 878,069 19 70,132 89 Machiasport Railroad. The following new railroad corporations were organized during the year: Kennebunk and Kennebunkport Railroad. The road to extend from a point near the drawbridge which divides Kennebunk and Kennebunkport village, to a point in the line of the Boston and Maine Railroad, near the depot of said road in Kennebunk. Length, about four and a half miles; gauge, four feet eight and a half inches. Monson Railroad Company. Extending from the depot of the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad, called Monson station, in the town of Abbott, to the village of Monson in the town of Monson, through the towns of Abbott and Monson. Length of road, about six miles; gauge, two feet. Green Mountain Railway. Between some point in the town of Eden, or Mount Desert, and the summit of Green Mountain in Eden, afore said. Length, about one mile; gauge, four feet eight and a half inches. The Bridgton and Saco River Railroad Company was organized in 1881, but its line was not located till 1882. At the close of the year it had nearly completed the whole line from Bridgton Center to the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad in the town of Hiram, a distance of fifteen and a half miles. Gauge, two feet. STATISTICS.-The number of establishments devoted to the lumbering industry are 848, employing 9,839 men, and the total value of all products in 1880 was $7,933,868. Maine holds the rank of seventh State in the Union in the value of her lumber products, the States of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, New York, Ohio, and Indiana, in the order named, taking the lead. Maine stands at the head of the great fishing industry of the country. In 1880 the number of persons employed in the industry was 12,662; the number of vessels engaged was 606; the capital invested was $3,454,302; the value of fishing products in marketable condition was $3,739,224. The value of the same products in 1870 was only $979,610. It is estimated that the number of the inhabitants of Maine who are largely dependent upon the fishing industry for a livelihood will not fall short of 48,000 men, women, and children, which is equal to about 7 per cent of the population, and when to the result of this labor are added the expense of transportation and profits of handling, and the product is in the hands of the consumer, it represents an industry of nearly $7,000,000. The gathering and storing of ice is comparatively a new industry in Maine, but is a profitable one, and gives employment to many. The ice harvest on the Kennebec River and vicinity, in the year 1880, amounted to 1,000,000 tons, an increase of 750,000 tons over 1870. The following table, giving the tonnage of vessels launched, exhibits the ship-building of the State for four years: The total catch of the Maine fishing-fleet during the year 1882, a total fleet of 289 vessels with a crew of 2,785 men, 71 being on the Grand and Western Banks and 218 on the New England shore and George's Bank, was 73,806 on the former grounds, and 221,911 on the latter, being a total of 195,717 quintals. The total catch of mackerel for the New England fleet was 349,674, of which 119,547 is credited to Maine vessels. The following statement represents the fisheries according to their value: Herring-fishery (including the sardine industry), $1,043,753; mackerel-fishery, $659,304; cod-fishery, $656,753; lobster-fishery, $412,076; hake-fishery, $278,336; haddockfishery, $225,393. The entire lobster catch of Maine for the year is found to be 14,234,182 pounds, of which 4,739,808 pounds were sold fresh, and 9,494,284 pounds were put up by the 23 canneries located in different parts of the State. The fishing industry of all kinds of Maine includes 600 vessels, of 17,632-65 tonnage, with 8,110 fishermen and 5,920 boats. There are 2,961 curers, packers, and factory hands, and a total of 11,171 persons engaged. There were 202,048,499 pounds of fish taken, of a total value of $3,614,178. The total capital invested is $3,375,994. In 1882 the sales of liquor at the various authorized agencies in the State amounted to $58,817.42. The sales in the principal cities and towns were as follow: Auburn, $2,398.80; Bangor, $8,036.10; Bath, $2,730.83; Brunswick, $1,574.85; Bethel, $3,044.94; Farmington, $1,462.26; Gardiner, $1,199.40; Hallowell, $1,001.68; Hartland, $1,294.27; Lewiston, $3,834.05; Machias, $2,962.17; Portland, $19,500.86; Rockland, $2,005.14; Waterville, $1,638.77. PARTY CONVENTIONS.-The Republican State Convention met in Portland on the 13th of June, and nominated the following ticket: For Governor, Frederick Robie, of Gorham. For Representatives to Congress, Thomas B. Reed, of Portland; Nelson Dingley, Jr., of Lewiston; Charles A. Boutelle, of Bangor; Seth L. Milliken, of Belfast. The platform adopted contained the following resolutions: 1. The right of every qualified voter to cast his ballot and have it honestly counted is a fundamental principle of republican government which must be maintained by law impartially enforced. The majority thus determined must rule and the minority must submit. 2. Free schools must be maintained and universal education secured as the basis of national security and prosperity. 3. American industries and labor should be protected against the unjust competition of the product of cheap foreign labor by a protective tariff. 4. American shipping and ship-building should be encouraged by the modification of our navigation laws so as to discriminate in favor of, and not against, our shipping interests, and by such other assistance as the Government may properly render a great national interest. We protest against the persistent efforts of the friends of free trade, or misnamed "revenue reform," to grant American registry to foreign-built ships, as certain to destroy our ship-building industry. 5. The only full legal-tender money authorized by the Constitution to be coined or issued in time of peace is gold and silver. The dollar of the one should be coined so as to possess the same intrinsic value as the dollar of the other, and all paper currency should be redeemable in the one or the other. We deprecate the efforts made to overthrow the present banking system of the nation, securing as it does to the people a currency convenient, uniform, elastic in volume, of equal value in all the States, and absolutely safe from loss in the hands of the holder. 7. We are unalterably opposed to the abolition or reduction of the internal revenue tax on liquors, and demand that all possible reduction of taxation shall be made on necessaries and not upon luxuries. 9. We refer with confidence and pride to the general record of the Republican party, in support of the policy of prohibiting the traffic in intoxicating liquors, the wisdom and efficiency of which legislation, in promoting the moral and material interests of Maine, have been demonstrated through the practical annihilation of that traffic in a large portion of the State; and we favor such legislation, and such enforcement of the law, as will secure to every portion of our territory freedom from that traffic. We further recommend the submission to the people of a constitutional prohibitory amendment. tective tariff; condemn the policy which has shut our markets against return freights, and made the international carrying - trade impossible in competition with the ships and products of lower-taxed countries; demand of Congress the establishment and maintenance, at all times, of a currency of general credit, always convertible into and in value equal to specie, adapted to the wants of commerce and the business of the country, and suited to existing circumstances; protest against the substitution of the greenbacks by the bills of banking corporations; demand the abo lition of imprisonment for debt; declare in favor of exempting wages from the trustee process; demand that the ten-hour law be made applicable to all classes of labor; condemn the Executive Council for rejecting nominations made by the Governor, on the ground that such action was unconstitutional, illegal, and subversive of the popular will; indorse Governor Plaisted for the dignity with which he has surrounded his high office, and for his devotion to the Constitution, and express pride and pleasure in his renomination. A concluding resolution authorizes the State Committee to call conventions to fill any vacancies in the congressional ticket, and, when an apportionment shall have been made, to appoint district committees. The straight Greenbackers nominated Solon Chase for Governor. W. T. Eustis was nominated for Governor by the Prohibitionists, and Warren H. Vinton by the Independent Republicans. ELECTION RETURNS.-The election in September resulted in the choice of the Republi can candidates. The vote was as follows: For Governor: Total vote cast, 138,567, of which Frederick Robie received 72,724; Harris M. Plaisted, 63,852; Solon Chase, 1,302; W. T. Eustis, 395; Warren H. Vinton, 270 scattering, 24. Robie's plurality, 8,872. For Congressmen: Thomas B. Reed, 72,925; Nelson Dingley, Jr., 73,017; Charles A. Boutelle, 72,386; Seth L. Milliken, 72,495; Joseph Dane, 63,554; Daniel H. Thing, 63,722; George W. Ladd, 63,381; Thompson H. Murch, 63,568; W. F. Eaton, 1,280; B. K. Kalloch, 1,276; Eben O. Gerry, 1,250; Benjamin D. Averill, 1,273; James M. Stone, 556; Henry Tallman, 283; Joseph E. Ladd, 232; Nathan G. Axtell, 284; Charles E. Nash, 257; Daniel Stickney, 184; scattering, 36. The Republican candidate for Governor, Colonel Frederick Robie, is a graduate of Bowdoin College, in the class of 1841. He afterward graduated at the Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, and was engaged in the active practice of his profession until the outbreak of the war, in 1861. In that year he was appointed paymaster by President Lincoln, served until the close of the war, and was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for meritorious service. He was elected to the State House of Representatives from Gorham seven times, was Speaker in 1872, and again in 1876, was a member of the Council under Governor Washburn, and was chairman of the Council during Governor Davis's and Governor Plaisted's administrations. Through his influence the Normal School at Gorham was established, and he contributed liberally toward the fund necessary for the erection of the building. In 1878 he was one of the commissioners to the Paris Exposition, and during his absence was made one of the constitutional candidates for Governor, by an agreement among the leaders of the Republican party, and was voted for as one of the candidates for Governor by the Republican Republicans.. members of the Legislature of 1879. The Legislature chosen at this election is constituted as follows: Fusionists.. The Fusion (Democratic and Greenback) State Convention met in Lewiston on the 27th MANUFACTURES OF THE UNITED of June, and renominated Governor Harris M. STATES. The table below shows the statisPlaisted. For Congressmen, Joseph Dane, tics of manufactures in the United States as Daniel H. Thing, George W. Ladd, and Thomp-ended May 31, 1880. It includes every estabreturned by the tenth census for the year son H. Murch, were nominated. The resolutions condemn the purchase of votes, assessments of Government officers; demand civil-service reform to the extent of abolishing the spoils system; accuse the Republican party of undermining the foundations of all political morality; destroying the sanctity of the ballot, debauching the people, and paving the way to centralization and empire; demand taxation for revenue only; condemn the appointment of tariff commissioners, on the ground that they are prejudiced in favor of the present iniquitous pro lishment of mechanical or manufacturing industry which was returned at the census as having had during the census year a product of $500 or more in value. It does not include manufacture of fishery products, quartz-milling, petroleum-refining, the manufacture of gas, manufacturing by steam-railroad compsnies, nor the operations of the various navyyards of the United States: The United States. 601,214 898,494 253,852, $2,790,272,606 2,025,885 531,639 181,921 $947,953,795 $3,896,823,549 $5,869,579,191 A comparison of the above totals for the United States with those returned by the census of 1870 shows the following: Number of establishments.... Average number of hands em- Males above 16 years.. Total amount paid in wages 1870. 252,148 1,615,508 828,770 1880. 253,852 181,921 to May 31, 1870-which constituted the census year, was almost exactly one fourth (25·3) per cent. A premium on gold of one fourth is equal to a discount on currency of one fifth. For purposes of comparison, therefore, the values of 1870 should be reduced in that ratio. $2,118,208,769 $2,790,272,606 It is a noteworthy fact that in the face of a large increase in the number of hands em2,025,335 ployed in manufactures, of the amount of ma531,689 terial consumed, and of the value of products, the number of establishments shows hardly an appreciable gain from 1870 to 1880, notwithstanding an increase of 30 per cent in population. This is attributed by the census authorities to the well-known tendency to the concentration of labor and capital in large shops and factories. "The establishments of 1870," says the report, "showed eight as the average number of hands, and $8,400 as the average amount of capital; those of 1880 showed 10.7 as the average number of hands, and $10,992 as the average amount of capital. A good example of the effect of this cause is found in the coopers' trade, where, with a reduction in the $775,584,343 $947,953,795 $4,282,825,442 85,869,579,191 $2,488,427,242 $3,396.923,549 Gas, which is excluded from the returns of 1880, is included in those for 1870. The number of gas-works returned in 1870 was 390; capital invested, $71,773,694; value of products, $32,048,851. In all comparisons between values reported in 1870 and in 1880, it should be borne in mind that the values of 1870 were expressed in a currency which was at a great discount in gold. The average premium on gold during the twelve months-June 1, 1869, |