MAINE. 



MAX. 



465 



$16,829,791.52. There has been a large in- 

 crease of loans on real estate and collateral)), 



uliile the .'inn. nut on iiaim-- has decreased in 

 the sum of $414,614.75, still leaving the sum 

 of $3i8,.%:{.47, the larger part of which is in 

 notes taken prior to tin- passage of the law of 

 l, prohibiting such loun-. 



The Board and Commissioners of Immigra- 

 tion give an account of the first attempt to 

 add to the population from a foreign country. 

 A commissioner sailed from the United States, 

 April 30th, and arrived at Gothenburg Sw.- 

 den, on the 1 6th of May. On the 25th of June, 

 a colony of 51 souls 22 men, 11 women, and 

 18 children sailed from Gothenberg. On the 

 28d, just four months from the passage of the 

 net by the Legislature authorizing the enter- 

 prise, and four weeks from the time they left 

 Sweden, the emigrants were set down at their 

 new homo in the wilds of Maine, which is called 

 "New Sweden." In September, 12 other set- 

 tlers arrived from Sweden, and, in October, 20 

 more came. The colony now numbers 114 per- 

 sons, of which 58 are men, 20 women, and 36 

 children. 



A railroad war has interested the citizens of 

 the entire State, and the issue is now in litiga- 

 tion, large amounts of money and important 

 legal questions being involved. The complaint 

 comes from certain stockholders in the Maine 

 Central Railway, against the corporation, and 

 is based upon certain contracts dated May 12, 

 1870, for the leasing to the Maine Central 

 Railroad Company, by the Portland and Ken- 

 nebec Railroad Company, of its railroad, de- 

 pots, franchise, rolling-stock, and property of 

 every description, for the term of nine hun- 

 dred and ninety-nine years, and the assignment 

 of the lease, held by the Portland and Kenne- 

 bec Railroad Company, of the Somerset and 

 Kennebec Railroad Company for a like term. 

 These contracts further provide that the earn- 

 ings of both roads shall, under the charge of 

 the Maine Central, be appropriated for the lo- 

 cation and building by the latter road of a new 

 road from some point on their line in Danville 

 to a point of junction with the Portland and 

 Kennebec Railroad, and for a change of the 

 gauge of their track and rolling stock to con- 

 form with that now in use by the latter road. 



The complainants allege that these contracts 

 are in fraud of the general right of the stock- 

 holders in law and equity, and in violation of 

 chapter 57, page 81, of the revised statutes 

 of 1857, and they pray that all the defendants 

 may be enjoined against making any change in 

 the gauge or width of the Maine Central Rail- 

 road or its rolling-stock, and against the con- 

 struction of any new line of railroad from 

 Danville junction to the Portland and Kenne- 

 bec Railroad, and against the doing of any 

 other act or thing under the contracts afore- 

 said. 



The injunction was denied, and the merits 

 of the case are now being tried in an equity 

 suit. 



VOL. x. 80 A 



MAN HIB STATURE AXD BULK. The Presi- 

 dent <>f the KngliHh Anthropological Society, 

 hr. lieddou, has recently been at the pains to 

 endeavor to asm-tain the Htature and bulk of 

 the men between 23 and .MI \-ars of age in the 

 British Isles, and the n-.-ult of his observations 

 has been printed in the memoirs of that so- 

 ciety. He fixed upon the limits of age men- 

 tioned, because at the age of 23 man i- believed 

 to have attained his full stature, and at that of 

 50 to enter into the period of the decline of 

 life. The plan pursued was to forward to 

 country doctors and other scientifically-edu- 

 cated persons, willing to take a little trouble tor 

 the interests of science, a formula to be filled 

 up, requiring surname, Age, birthplace, occu- 

 pation, height, weight, and color of eyes, of as 

 many men between the ages mentioned as 

 each could examine. More wholesale statistics 

 also helped out his researches, such as those 

 furnishing the stature, bulk, etc., of the in- 

 mates in county lunatic asylums, and the offi- 

 cial recruiting statistics of the War Office. 

 His object for asking for names was to ascer- 

 tain the extent of migrations that have taken 

 place since they became general, as of Welsh 

 into Liverpool, Highlanders into Glasgow, 

 Cornish men into Devon, etc. 



The commentary made by Dr. Beddoe upon 

 the facts he has gathered together is, however, 

 lucid and ingenious. He divides England and 

 Wales into five districts, based upon the char- 

 acter of the industrial pursuits of the inhabit- 

 ants, one being manufacturing, another min- 

 ing, a third rural, a fourth more strictly 

 agricultural, the fifth being the metropolis. 

 Scotland forms a sixth district. This is his 

 general summary for Great Britain : 



When the individuals yielding these figures 

 are sifted into their respective districts, the 

 average height and bulk of the various work- 

 ers come out differently. In the Sussex 

 group the laborers stand next in height to 

 those engaged in miscellaneous out-door occu- 

 pations ; while in Kent these last fall belofw 

 clerks, miners, laborers, wood-workers, those 

 engaged in miscellaneous in-door occupations, 

 and even grooms. Again, in Kent the 80 iron- 

 workers measured are nearly at the bottom of 

 the list, as far as stature is concerned, while 

 in Lancashire and Yorkshire the 49 represent- 

 atives of that industry head it. These differ- 

 ences are explained by various suggestions. 

 The iron-workers are to some extent picked 



