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before for the same money, and in towns that have 

 not the only practical effect of the law has been to 

 give an improved system of supervision, a less bur- 

 densome method of providing and maintaining school 

 property, and more equitable educational privileges. 

 In putting the system into operation there may have 

 been cases of hardship. There were under the old 

 law, and will be under any system in a sparsely settled 

 locality. 



State Prison. The report of the warden of 

 the State Prison for the year ending May 1 

 contains the following statistics: Number of 

 prisoners, May 1, 1887, 121 ; committed daring 

 the year, 38 ; discharged, etc., during the year, 

 44; number in prison, May 1, 1888, 115 ; earn- 

 ings for the year, $15,190.98 ; expenses for the 

 year, $19.450.30; deficit, $4,259.32. 



Savings-Banks. The total number of deposi- 

 tors in the savings-banks on April 1 was 139,- 

 967 an increase of more than 7,000 within 

 the year. The average amount due each de- 

 positor was $385.36, and the average to each 

 person in the State, estimating the population 

 at 355,000, was $151.94. The total number of 

 savings-banks was 69 an increase of three. 

 Three trust companies were reported, and one 

 additional has been organized since April. 

 Twenty-five of the banks paid a 5-per-cent. 

 dividend in 1887, thirty-two paid 4 per cent., 

 five paid 4| per cent., two paid 4 per cent, and 

 an extra, one paid 3 per cent., one paid 3 per 

 cent., and three were recently organized. The 

 total earnings of the banks for the year 1887 

 was $3,645,504.71, and the total amount of 

 dividend paid was $2,361,888.95. 



Insurance. The annual report of the Insur- 

 ance Commissioner for 1887 shows the fol- 

 lowing facts with reference to the business 

 of the fire-insurance companies of the State : 

 Cash capital, $1,255,000.70; gross assets, $2,- 

 595,067.87; liabilities, except capital, $1,351,- 

 303.91 ; net assets as to policy-holders, $3,850,- 

 067.97 ; surplus as to capital, $304,044.28 ; 

 cash income, $1,544,369.95 ; cash expenditures, 

 $1,314,074.66 ; dividends paid stock-holders, 

 $49,350; fire risks written, $133,088,758.86; 

 premiums received, $1,710,804.32; fire losses 

 paid, $809,568.09. 



There are twenty-three life-insurance com- 

 panies doing business in the State. 



Statisties. According to the report of theState 

 Board of Equalization for 1887 there were in 

 the State 59,285 horses, 22,419 oxen, 94,329 

 cows, 47,476 other cattle, 155,685 sheep. Com- 

 parison with the report for the previous year 

 shows a gain of 2,445 horses, 862 oxen, 3,866 

 cows, 2,474 other cattle, and 5,172 sheep in- 

 creasing the value of the live-stock of the State 

 $499,606. 



Political. A State convention of the Prohibi- 

 tion party met at Concord, on June 19, and 

 nominated Edgar L. Carr, for Governor. The 

 convention adopted resolutions, of which the 

 following are the more important: 



We regard the system of taxation by which the 

 traffic in liquors is used to support the revenues of the 

 Government as a virtual partnership of the United 

 States in the crime and iniquity of that traffic. "We 



believe that the Government is thus made a bulwark 

 to protect and perpetuate it, and we therefore demand 

 the abolition of the system. 



We approve the enactment by the Legislature of 

 this State of the so-called nuisance law, calculated to 

 make prohibition more effective, and we call upon the 

 officials elected for that purpose to continue the en- 

 forcement of this and other features of the prohibitory 

 law, until the liquor-traffic is exterminated in New 

 Hampshire. We hold that the party in power in the 

 legislative and executive departments ot the State is 

 responsible for the making and execution of the laws ; 

 ana we therefore affirm that the Eepublican party of 

 New Hampshire is guilty of the evils of the liquor- 

 traffic in this State. With an efficient law on the 

 statute booksj with all the executive and judicial force 

 of the State in their control, they have suffered the 

 existence among us of a lawless institution, which 

 they might at any hour overthrow. We arraign 

 that party as faithless to the interests of the people, 

 and unworthy to be continued in power. We also 

 affirm that the record of the Democratic party in this 

 State is a record of opposition to temperance in legis- 

 lation and in practice, and that it is equally unworthy 

 the suffrages of temperance men. 



We believe in the right of the people to the enjoy- 

 ment of a quiet Sabbath, and we request the railroad 

 companies of the State to discontinue the running of 

 Sunday trains. We oppose the publication and circu- 

 lation of Sunday newspapers, and we call upon the 

 Legislature to pass such laws as shall be best adapted 

 to secure the people of the State from all forms of Sab- 

 bath desecration. 



The Republican State Convention met at Con- 

 cord, on September 4. Several candidates for 

 gubernatorial nomination were before the con- 

 vention, receiving upon the first ballot the fol- 

 lowing support : Hiram A. Tuttle, 209 votes; 

 John B. Smith, 187 ; David H. Goodell, 121 ; 

 Woodbury L. Melcher, 68 ; Albert S. Twitchell, 

 28 ; John A. Spalding, 14. Six ballots were 

 taken without a choice, although on the fourth 

 Tuttle received 306 votes, or within seven votes 

 of the number necessary for the nomination. 

 On the seventh ballot Goodell received 355 

 votes; Tuttle, 205; Melcher, 22; Smith, 17; 

 and Goodell was declared the nominee. The 

 platform contained the following : 



W r e heartily approve of the declaration in the Na- 

 tional Eepublican platform in favor of temperance 

 and morality ; of such laws as will best protect our 

 people from the evils of strong drink, and of the sup- 

 pression of its illegal sale. 



We invite the co-operation of all who believe in the 

 enactment of laws for the protection of our industries 

 from the competition incident to the free importation 

 of the products of the pauper labor of the Old World ; 

 of our laborers, from unjust exactions of employers; 

 of our property -owners, from the attacks of anarchy 

 and communism, and of all classes from the evils of 

 illiteracy and immorality. 



Two days later, the Democratic State Con- 

 vention met at Concord, and, on the first ballot, 

 nominated Charles H. Amsden for Governor. 

 At the November election, the Republican 

 National ticket was successful, but there was 

 no election of Governor by the people. Good- 

 ell received 44,809 votes; Amsden, 44,093; 

 Carr, 1,567. A majority of all the votes cast 

 being necessary to elect, the choice of Gov- 

 ernor will fall upon the next Legislature, which 

 will meet in June, 1889. In this Legislature, 

 as chosen at the same election, the Republicans 



