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gious excitement, 6 ; spiritualism, 4 ; loss of 

 property, 4 ; embarrassment in business, 3 ; 

 sunstroke, 2; apoplexy,!; fright, 1; jealousy, 

 1 ; suppressed eruption. 1 ; unknown, 33. Of 

 the number in the asylum at the end of the 

 year, 49 were supported by the State ; 304 re- 

 ceived $1.50 a week each from the State, and 

 forty paid their own expenses, or were sup- 

 ported by friends, at the rate of from $4 to $7 

 a week, according to accommodations. 



The State has no institution for the deaf, 

 dumb, or blind, but supports 56 pupils at the 

 American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, at 

 Hartford, Conn., at a cost of $1.75 each per 

 year; three pupils at the Clark Institution 

 for deaf mutes at Northampton, Mass., and 

 eight pupils at the Perkins Institution for the 

 Blind, in South Boston. 



There were 174 convicts in the State-prison 

 at the beginning of the year, and 164 at the 

 end. The earnings of the prison for the year 

 amounted to $36,509.70, and the expenses to 

 $28,66 1.77, leaving a profit of $7,847.95. The 

 principal trades carried on in the prison are 

 the making of shoes, harnesses, and carriages. 

 There are 140 boys in the State Reform School, 

 of whom 46 were committed during the year; 

 28 of them far larceny. An Industrial School 

 for Girls was incorporated by the last Legis- 

 lature, but has not yet been established. 



The College of Agriculture and theMechau- 

 ic Arts has been in operation four years, and 

 graduated its first class in August. The num- 

 ber of students now is 71, of whom 32 belong 

 to the freshman class. There are accommo- 

 dations for 125 students. The college is lo- 

 cated at Orono, and has a farm of 370 acres, 

 with all the buildings and appliances needed 

 for theoretical and practical instruction. The 

 new Normal School building, at Castine, for 

 which $20,000 was appropriated by the last 

 Legislature, has been completed. 



The immigration of Swedes has continued, 

 and the number of immigrants of that nation- 

 ality is now about 1,300, one-half of whom 

 are at the colony of New Sweden. These colo- 

 nists have built 100 houses, eight barns, one 

 saw-mill, and two steam-shaft mills. They 

 have a school of 70 or 80 pupils, in which Eng- 

 lish is exclusively taught. The colony owns 

 17 horses, 16 oxen, and 76 cows, and has paid 

 the Stsite $2,040 for supplies during the year. 



According to the census of 1870, of the to- 

 tal population (493,847) ten years old and over, 

 there were, engaged in all classes of occupa- 

 tions, 208,225 persons, of whom 179,784 were 

 males and 28,441 females. There were en- 

 gaged in agriculture, 82,011, including 81,956 

 males and 55 females ; in professional and 

 personal services, 36,092, including 20.683 

 males and 15,409 females; in trade and trans- 

 portation, 28,115, including 27,880 males and 

 235 females ; in manufactures and mechanical 

 and mining industries, 62,007, including 49,265 

 males, and 12,742 females. 



The State contained 2,917,793 acres of im- 



proved land, 2,224,740 of woodland, and 695,- 

 525 of other unimproved land. The cash 

 value of farms was $102,961,951; of farming- 

 implements and machinery, $4,809,113 ; total 

 amount of wages paid during the year, includ- 

 ing the value of board, $2,903,292 ; total (esti- 

 mated) value of all farm productions, includii 

 betterments and additions to stock, $33,470," 

 044 ; orchard-products, $874,569 ; produce oi 

 market -gardens, $366,397; forest - product 

 $1,581,741 ; value of home manufactui 

 $450,988 ; of animals slaughtered, or sold fo 

 slaughter, $4,939,071; of all live-stock, 

 357,129. There were 71,514 horses, 33G mule 

 and asses, 139,259 milch-cows, 60,530 working 

 oxen, 143,272 other cattle, 434,666 sheep, 

 45,760 swine. The chief productions were 

 274,593 bushels of spring, and 4,200 of winter, 

 wheat; 34,115 of rye; 1,089,888 of Indian 

 corn ; 2,351,354 of oats ; 658,816 of barley ; 

 466,635 of buckwheat ; 1,774,168 pounds 

 of wool ; 264,502 bushels of peas and beans ; 

 7,771,009 bushels of Irish, and 354 bushels of 

 sweet, potatoes; 7,047 gallons of wine; 11,- 

 636,482 pounds of butter; 1,152,590 of cheese; 

 1,374,091 gallons of milk sold ; 1,053,415 tons 

 of hay; 5,255 bushels of clover-seed ; 3,859 of 

 grass-seed ; 296,850 pounds of hops ; 5,435 of 

 flax, and 227 bushels of flax-seed; 100,805 

 pounds of maple-sugar; 28,470 gallons of 

 maple-molasses; 155,640 pounds of honey. 



The total number of manufacturing estab- 

 lishments was 5,550, using 354 steam-engines 

 of 9,465 horse-power, and 2,760 water-wheels, 

 of 70,108 horse-power, and employing 49,180 

 hands, of whom 34,310 were males above six- 

 teen^ 13,448 females above fifteen, and 1,422 

 youth. The total amount of capital invested 

 was $39,796,190 ; wages paid during the year, 

 $14,282,205; value of materials consumed, 

 $49,379,757 ; of products, $79,497,521. 



The whole number of newspapers and" peri- 

 odicals was 65, having an aggregate circula- 

 tion of 170,690, and issuing annually 9,867,680 

 copies. There were 7 daily, with a circulation 

 of 10,700; 1 tri-weekly, circulation 350; 47 

 weekly, circulation 114,600; 1 semi-monthly, 

 circulation 700 ; 8 monthly, circulation 42,840 ; 

 1 quarterly, circulation 1,500. 



There were 3,334 libraries, having 984,510 

 volumes: of these, 1,872, with 450,963 vol- 

 umes, were private, and 1,462, with 533,547 

 volumes, were other than private, including 

 136 circulating libraries, with 100,273 volumes. 



The total number of religious organizations 

 was 1,326, having 1,102 edifices, with 376,038 

 sittings, and property valued at $5,196,853. 

 The leading denominations were : 



