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IMMIGRATION, PAUPER. 



$111,834.80; Institution for Feeble - Minded 

 Children, $201,261.28 ; Soldiers' Orphans 1 

 Home, $158,660.58; Charitable Eye and Ear 

 Infirmary, $71,242.67; State Reform School, 

 $305,933.75 ; Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, 

 $544,453.66. The Northern Hospital is at El- 

 gin, and from Oct. 1, 1886, till Sept. 30, 1888, 

 712 patients were under treatment, of whom 

 189 were discharged. The Eastern Hospital is 

 at Kankakee, and during the same time 2,121 

 patients were at the hospital, of whom 512 re- 

 ceived their discharges. The Central Hospital 

 is at Jacksonville, and 1,401 persons were at 

 that institution during the time mentioned, of 

 whom 478 were discharged. The Southern 

 Hospital is at Anna, where, from Oct. 1, 1887, 

 till June 30, 1888, 732 patients were treated, 

 of whom 102 were discharged. It is estimated 

 that the insane increase at the rate of 1,300 to 

 1,500 each year in Illinois, and efforts are being 

 made to revise the lunacy law so that greater 

 stringency shall be used in committing those 

 alleged to be insane. The Institution for the 

 Deaf and Dumb is at Jacksonville. On June 

 30, 1888, there were 531 pupils on the rolls, 

 and since the previous report of Sept. 30, 1886, 

 there had been admitted 77 new students, 24 

 graduated, and 88 removed. At the Institu- 

 tion for the Blind, likewise situated at Jack- 

 sonville, there were during the nine months 

 ending June 30, 1888, 171 persons enrolled, of 

 whom 97 were males and 74 females. In June, 

 1888, six students were graduated and certifi- 

 cates of proficiency were issued to those who 

 had taken the workshop course. The Soldiers' 

 Orphans' Home is at Normal, and '611 inmates 

 were there during the time between Oct. 1, 

 1886, and June 30, 1888; and 255 were for 

 various reasons removed during that period. 

 The other charitable institutions referred to 

 were, according to the Governor's last message 

 to the Legislature, " wisely, humanely, and 

 economically managed by the various boards 

 of trustees and superintendents charged with 

 their care." 



Railroads. During 1887-'88 there were sixty- 

 one railroad corporations, controlling and oper- 

 ating 13,000 miles of road, including 346 miles 

 built in 1888, giving steady employment to 

 56,000 persons, the aggregate of whose wages 

 exceeds $33,000,000 a year. The estimated 

 total cost of construction and equipment of all 

 the roads exceeded $330,000,000; and they 

 carried, in 1888, 32,000,000 passengers at an 

 average rate of 2'29 cents a mile, the total 

 income of the passenger department of these 

 roads for 1888 amounting to more than $17,- 

 000,000. They transported in the same year 

 more than 53,000,000 tons of freight, at an 

 average charge of one and six tenths cent (1 *6) 

 a ton a mile, the total income from which was 

 about $39,000,000. The total amount of the 

 operating expenses of all the roads amounted 

 to more than $38,000,000, contributing in the 

 way of taxation for State and local purposes 

 $2,739,612. 



LiTC-Stock. The acts of 1885 and 1887, cre- 

 ating the board of live-stock commissioners, 

 was a timely and prudent effort upon the part 

 of the State to protect the lives and health of 

 domestic animals. The board appointed to 

 carry the law into execution reports to the 

 Legislature the complete extirpation of con- 

 tagious pleuro-pneumonia in the State. The 

 returns of local assessors show, for 1888, lor 

 purposes of taxation, the following number 

 and value of domestic animals : 



The practice of assessing all property in this 

 State by local assessors, at one third or one 

 fourth its actual or cash value, indicates that 

 the real value of the domestic animals above 

 enumerated would exceed $150,000,000. 



Political. At the presidential election there 

 were cast 370,473 votes for Gen. Harrison; 

 348,278 for Mr. Cleveland; 7,090 for Mr. 

 Streeter ; and 21,695 for Gen. Fisk. The fol- 

 lowing Republican State officers were also 

 chosen: Joseph W. Fifer, for Governor; Ly- 

 man B. Ray. for Lieutenant-Governor; Isaac 

 N. Pearson, for Secretary of State; Charles 

 W. Parey, for Auditor ; Charles Becker, for 

 Treasurer ; and George Hunt, for Attorney- 

 General. The congressional delegation in- 

 cludes 13 Republicans and 7 Democrats, repre- 

 senting a gain of one for the Democrats over 

 the representatives sent to the Fiftieth Con- 

 gress. The Legislature includes in the Senate 

 35 Republicans and 16 Democrats ; in the 

 House, 80 Republicans and 72 Democrats. 



IMMIGRATION, PAUPER. The war of the 

 American Revolution virtually put an em- 

 bargo upon immigration for seven years, and 

 the European wars that immediately followed, 

 and continued almost without interruption un- 

 til ]815, checked, for a whole generation, the 

 movement across the Atlantic. Scattered 

 notices from shipping-lists furnish the only 

 basis for estimates as to the number arriving 

 previous to 1820, and investigators differ con- 

 siderably in their estimates. As shrewd a 

 guess as any seems to be that of 250,000 immi- 

 grants from 1775 to 1820, which was made by 

 Dr. Loring, of the United States Statistical 

 Bureau, some years ago. Since 1819 the law 

 of Congress has required that all who come to 

 the sea and lake ports should be registered at 

 the custom-houses. Their names, ages, sex, 

 nativity, occupation, and destination are ascer- 

 tained and reported to the National Govern- 

 ment. The State Department, at first, and the 

 Treasury Department latterly, have published 

 annual reports of the number and character of 

 the immigrants. So far as these documents 

 go, they may be received with confidence; 



