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schools, 203 ; closing of the Normal School, 

 204; a Training School, 204; returns of towns, 

 204 ; expenditures, 204 ; absenteeism, 204 ; 

 law of the State to prevent the evil, 204 ; 

 State debt, 204 ; charitable institutions, 204. 



IX. Public affairs, 202 ; finances, 202 ; debt, 

 202; expenditures, 202; claims, 202; militia, 

 202; public schools, 202; Sheffield Scientific 

 School of Yale College, 203 ; banks, 203 ; in- 

 surance, 203 ; charitable institutions, 203 ; 

 State Reform School, 204; State-prison, 204; 

 recommendations in Governor's message, 204 ; 

 meeting of the Legislature, 205 ; ratification of 

 the fifteenth amendment, 205 ; resolutions of 

 the Democratic State Convention, 205; Re- 

 publican resolutions, 206 ; election returns, 

 206. 



X. Finances, 205 ; value of property, 205 ; 

 revenue, 205 ; claims, 205 ; banks, 205 ; rail- 

 roads, 205, 212 ; statistics, 206 ; recommenda- 

 tions in Governor's message, 207; schools, 

 207 ; charitable institutions, 207 ; State reform 

 schools, 208; State-prison, 208; jails, 209; 

 militia, 209; resolutions of Republican State 

 Convention, 210 ; Democratic resolutions, 210 ; 

 election returns, 211 ; proppsed amendments to 

 constitution, 211, 212; Legislature, 211 ; State 

 capital, 212 ; pisciculture, 212 ; female suffrage, 

 213 ; United States census, 213. 



XI. Statistics of population, cities, valua- 

 tion, agriculture, 231 ; births, divorces, etc., 

 231 ; Democratic nominations, 231 ; platform 

 231, 232 ; Republican nominations, 232 ; plat- 

 form, 232, 233 ; fraud in election, 233 ; com- 

 mittee appointed by Legislature, 233 ; report, 

 233, 234; inauguration of Governor Jewell, 

 234 ; address and recommendations, 234, 235 ; 

 one-capital question, 235 ; new State-House at 

 Hartford, 235, 236 ; consolidation of New 

 York & New Haven and Hartford & New 

 Haven Railroads, 236, 237; adjournment of 

 the Legislature, 237; work done, 237; finances, 

 237 ; banks, insurance companies, 237 ; rail- 

 roads, 237 ; education, . 238 ; militia, 238 ; 

 pisciculture, 238, 239. 



XII. A Temperance Convention, 216 ; nom- 

 ination of candidates for State officers, 216 ; 

 platform, 216 ; convention of the Labor Re- 

 form party, 217; candidates nominated, 217; 

 resolutions adopted, 217; Republican Conven- 

 tion, 217; nominations, 217; platform, 217, 

 218 ; results of the election, 219 ; finances, 219 ; 

 revenue and expenditures, 219; tax for the 



coining year, 219 ; taxable property, 219 ; town 

 and city indebtedness, 219 ; savings-banks, 

 219; State banks, 219; insurance companies, 

 219 ; losses of Connecticut insurance com- 

 panies by the Chicago fire, 219, 220 ; life-insur- 

 ance companies doing business in the State, 220 ; 

 school fund, 220 ; free-school law and school 

 statistics, 220 ; Normal School, 220 ; State 

 scholarships at Yale College, 220 ; the govern- 

 ment of Yale College placed in the hands of the 

 alumni, 220 ; accommodations for the insane, 

 220 ; School for Imbeciles, 220 ; American Asy- 

 lum for Deaf and Dumb, 220 ; statistics relating 

 to the blind, 220 ; Industrial School for Girls, 

 220 ; Reform School for Boys, 221 ; statistics 

 relating to the same, 221 ; penitentiary, 221 ; 

 the Governor's views on the pardoning power. 

 221 ; amelioration of the penitentiary system, 

 221 ; recommendations by an examining com- 

 mittee, 221 ; statistics of crime, 221 ; number 

 of births, 222 ; of marriages, 222 ; of divorces, 

 222 ; of deaths, 222 ; railroads, 222 ; fisheries, 

 222 ; election of United States Senator, 222 ; 

 action on the question of two capitals, 222 ; 

 resolutions adopted by the Democratic and 

 Liberal Republican parties, 223 ; statistics of 

 manufactures, 223 ; of churches, 223 ; of libra- 

 ries, 223 ; of newspapers, 223 ; cotton-manu- 

 factures, 231, 232. 



XIII. Republican State Convention, 238; 

 nominations, 238 ; resolutions, 238 ; resolutions 

 of Labor Reformers presented, 238 ; substitute, 

 238, 239; the subjects of other resolutions, 

 239 ; Democratic and Liberal Republican Con- 

 vention, 239; nominations, 239; resolutions, 

 239 ; resolutions of Labor Reformers adopted, 

 240; Temperance Association, 240; resolu- 

 tions, 240; election, 240; State debt, 240; 

 revenue, 240 ; expenditures, 240 ; taxable prop- 

 erty, 241 ; school fund, 241 ; savings-banks, 

 241 ; trust companies, 241 ; operations of in- 

 surance companies, 241, 242 ; schools, 242 ; 

 insane hospitals, 242; Deaf and Dumb Asy- 

 lum, 242 ; Industrial and Reform Schools, 243 ; 

 State-prison, 243 ; county jails, 243 ; proposi- 

 tion to amend the constitution, 243 ; amend- 

 ments proposed, 244; rate of interest, 244; 

 question of two capitals, 244 ; vote of the peo- 

 ple, 245 ; other acts of the Legislature, 245 ; 

 vital statistics of the State, 245 ; propagation 

 of fish, 245 ; the railroad interest, 246 ; its 

 details, 246. 



XIV. Assembling of the Democratic Con- 



