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applicants were rejected for want of room. The 

 yearly allowance to the institution is $52,500. 

 It is estimated that there are over 800 insane 

 persons in the State outside of the asylum. 



At the State Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, 

 and Blind there were 293 pupils on Nov. 30, an 

 increase of 100 since 1883. The annual appro- 



Eriation for the institution has been $40.000. Not 

 alf of the deaf, dumb, and blind children of 

 the State can be accommodated. 



Penitentiary. At the close of the fiscal 

 year 1890 there were 1,302 convicts remaining in 

 the State Penitentiary, of whom 217 were white 

 males, 7 white females, 1,034 colored males, 42 

 colored females, and 2 Indians. The receipts for 

 the year were $202,300.46, and the disbursements 

 $113,069.98, leaving a balance of $89,230.48. As 

 the railroad work on which the convicts have 

 been employed is not permanent, the directors 

 have sought to provide means by which the 

 prisoners might, if necessary, be employed with- 

 in the walls of the Penitentiary. They have ex- 

 pended $23,780 in completing the western wing 

 of the building, and recommend the employment 

 of male prisoners therein in the manufacture of 

 tobacco and jute bagging. Having no adequate 

 employment for women, boys, and convicts unfit 

 for railroad work, the directors placed a force of 

 200 of these on a farm on the Roanoke which 

 they leased. 



Militia. The State Guard consists of 4 regi- 

 ments, 1 troop of cavalry, and 1 colored com- 

 pany, a total of 1,505 officers and men, fully uni- 

 formed and equipped. The presence of a single 

 company of the Guard at Rocky Mount this year 

 during a disturbance saved, in the opinion of the 

 Governor, more property tiian the entire Guard 

 had cost the State. 



Criminal Statistics. Under an act of the 

 Legislature of 1889, which provides for the col- 

 lection of statistics of crime by the Attorney-Gen- 

 eral, the following report was made by that offi- 

 cial early this year: 



There were tried in 1889 7,695 criminal cases. The 

 race of the offenders was 4,409 whites, 3,279 blacks, 

 and 7 Indians. Taere were 6,848 males and 849 fe- 

 males. For the 4 capital offenses of rape, murder, 

 arson, and burglary 114 persons were tried. The 

 division of these was as follows : For rape, 18 ; mur- 

 der, 59 ; arson, 6 ; and burglary, 31. There were 9 

 convictions of capital crimes, divided as follow : For 

 burglary, 2 ; arson, 1 ; murder, 5 ; and rape, 1. Of 

 the 9 criminals condemned 2 were executed, the others 

 having appealed. There were 1,227 trials for larceny, 

 the crime which furnishes the great proportion of the 

 convict population. For misdemeanors, which in- 

 clude a variety of crimes, 6,354 persons were tried. 



Railroads. In 1888 there were 51 railroad 

 companies in the State, operating 2,550 miles of 

 road and owning property assessed at $10,287,- 

 000. At the close of this year the number of 

 companies had increased to 59, the length of 

 road in operation to 3,100 miles, and the prop- 

 erty assessed to $13.674,164. 

 f Pensions. Under the act of 1889 making 

 liberal provision for pensioning disabled Con- 

 federate soldiers and their widows, the sum of 

 $87,496 was disbursed during this year to 4,051 

 pensioners, of whom 2,522 were widows. This 

 sum was raised by a State tax of 3 cents on each 

 $100, and of 9 cents on each taxable poll. 

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Political. The only State officers to be 

 chosen this year on a general ticket were 2 jus- 

 tices of the Supreme Court. The Democratic 

 State Convention met at Raleigh on Aug. 20, and 

 nominated Justices Merrimon and Clark for re- 

 election. The platform adopted is substantially 

 a reaffirmation of the principles of the Farm- 

 ers' Alliance, whose members were in a majority 

 in the convention. (See FARMERS' ALLIANCE). 



On Aug. 26, a few days prior to the Republi- 

 can State Convention, 'a conference of negroes 

 met at Raleigh, at which the political standing 

 of the race and its treatment by the Republican 

 party were plainly discussed. Resolutions were 

 adopted, which, briefly summarized, reaffirm al- 

 legiance to the Republican party, and ask that 

 the negro race receive proper recognition in the 

 distribution of patronage ; commend Harrison's 

 administration on all national questions; con- 

 demn the self-appointed white bosses who go to 

 Washington and make representations that the 

 negro, no matter whether he is recognized or 

 not, will support the Republican party ; call for 

 a committee to go to Washington to lay the 

 grievances of the North Carolina negroes before 

 the President; ask for the establishment of a 

 negro school of technology in the South; ap- 

 prove the Morrill Educational bill ; condemn the 

 State election law and jury system ; approve the 

 plan of a Southern exposition in some of the 

 Northern cities, and commend Senator Blair for 

 his work for the Blair bill. 



At the Republican State Convention, on Aug. 

 28, the differences between the white and colored 

 leaders again appeared, but a satisfactory ju- 

 dicial ticket containing the names of Charles 

 Price and W. T. Faircloth was nominated. 



The platform deplores the failure of Congress 

 to pass the Blair Education bill, denounces the 

 election law passed by the Legislature of 1889 as 

 an attempt to thwart the will of the people, de- 

 mands free'elections, sympathizes with the efforts 

 of the farmers to throw off the yoke of Bourbon- 

 ism, and also contains the following : 



We demand that our elections shall be free, that all 

 citizens eligible to vote under our national and State 

 Constitutions shall have the right to vote as they may 

 see fit, their ballots counted as cast, and a true return 

 thereof made, and while we prefer that the election 

 of all officers should be had under one and the same 

 law, yet we recognize the fact that the Democratic 

 party has instituted a system of fraud through the 

 medium of their State laws to defeat the will of the 

 people in the selection of their representatives in Con- 



Kess, and, therefore, indorse such legislation as may 

 enacted by Congress as will secure" a free vote, fair 

 count, and honest return, and thereby the prompt 

 seating in Congress of the honestly elected member. 



At the November election the vote was : Mer- 

 rimon, 142,316; Price, 99,987; Clark, 142,348; 

 Faircloth, 100,772. Members of the State Legis- 

 lature were chosen at the same time as follow : 

 Senate, Democrats 43, Republicans 7; House, 

 Democrats 102, Republicans 17, Independent 1. 

 In the congressional districts 1 Republican and 

 8 Democratic Congressmen were elected, a gain 

 of 1 seat by the Democrats. 



NORTH DAKOTA, a Northwestern State, 

 admitted to the Union Nov. 3, 1889 ; area, 70,795 

 square miles ; population, according to the cen- 

 sus of 1890, 182,719. Capital, Bismarck. 



