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arations are now in progress for the erection 

 of a greenhouse to enable the professors to 

 give practical illustration of the habits of plants, 

 and their propagation from seeds and cuttings. 

 It is also designed to erect workshops, and to 

 furnish them with a steam-engine for practical 

 instruction in mechanical pursuits. The fac- 

 ulty is devoting its entire energies to secure 

 to the students a knowledge of practical agri- 

 culture and the sciences immediately connected 

 with it. The study of the ancient languages 

 is left optional with the pupils. Students are 

 daily instructed in agriculture in the field, and 

 some of them pay a portion of their expenses 

 by their labor on the farm. 



The number of inmates in the Deaf and 

 Dumb Asylum is 90. The number of boys 

 in St. Mary's Industrial School is 382 ; and 

 the number in the House of Refuge is 233. 



The operations of the Fish Commissioner 

 are beginning to show successful results. The 

 total number of California salmon hatched and 

 planted aggregates 1,644,304. The investiga- 

 tions of the year have added twelve species of 

 fish, making in all 202 species now known to 

 exist in Maryland waters. 



Congress at its last session appropriated a 

 gum of $25,000 for the survey of a route for a 

 ship-canal to connect Baltimore with the ocean. 

 Among the various routes proposed for the 

 Delaware and Maryland ship-canal are the fol- 

 lowing : one which will make the Choptank 

 River, entering the Chesapeake below Cam- 

 bridge, about 50 miles from Baltimore, a part 

 of the canal as far as Indian Creek, from which 

 point it shall run in a direct line to the upper 

 fork of the Nanticoke, and then to Broadkiln 

 Creek, three miles above the breakwater, the 

 whole route being about 40 miles in length ; 

 another, to strike the St. Michael River, 40 

 miles from Baltimore, at Royal Oak, and to go 

 from there to the Choptank, above Lord's 

 Landing, thence to Cabin Creek, and thence 

 directly across to Broadkiln Creek; a third, 

 from the Sassafras River to Deep Water Point, 

 making use of Blackbird Creek, which route is 

 35 miles in length ; a fourth, and the most di- 

 rect route, by Chester River to Queenstown, 

 28 miles, and then straight across to Broad- 

 kiln Creek at the breakwater, 55 miles. It is 

 claimed that a canal connecting the Chesapeake 

 and Delaware Bays will shorten the distance 

 from Baltimore to the ocean about 225 miles, 

 thereby benefiting the foreign trade of Balti- 

 more, and of New York and Philadelphia as 

 well. 



The shipments of Cumberland coal during 

 1873 amounted to 1,050,632 tons, being an in- 

 crease of 101,094 tons over the amount of 1877. 



The election on November 5th was only for 

 members of Congress, and resulted as follows : 

 First District Henry, Democrat, 11,420; Gra- 

 ham, Republican, 10,348. Second District 

 Talbot, Democrat, 9,818 ; Milligan, Republi- 

 can, 7,594; McCombs, National, 1,271. Third 

 District Kiramel, Democrat, 11,676 ; Thomp- 



son, Republican, 4,908. Fourth District 

 McLane, Democrat, 11,064; Holland, Republi- 

 can, 6,671; Quigley, National, 627; Gittings, 

 Independent Democrat, 398. Fifth District 

 Henkle, Democrat, 12,558; Crane, Republican, 

 9,677. Sixth District Peter, Democrat, 12,- 

 437; Urner, Republican, 14,168; Resley, Na- 

 tional, 1,907. 



The Legislature of 1878-'79 was divided as 

 follows: 



The refusal of the State judges of election to 

 comply with the demands of supervisors who 

 held their office under appointment through 

 the United States Government, led to many 

 cases of conflict of jurisdiction in the city of 

 Baltimore. A case came before the United 

 States Circuit Court in January, 1879, in which 

 two judges of the third precinct of the Seventh 

 Ward were tried for interfering with Super- 

 visor John T. Biggs, and refusing to admit, 

 though requested by the supervisor, Special 

 Deputy Marshal Arthur Young into the poll- 

 ing-room during the counting of the ballots at 

 the Congressional election, November 5, 1878. 

 They were found guilty by the jury after in- 

 struction on the law by Judge Bond. He said 

 it was not necessary to set forth in the indict- 

 ment the purpose for which the deputy mar- 

 shal entered the polling-room, and consequent- 

 ly it was not necessary for the Court to decide 

 whether the deputy marshal could enter the 

 room of his own motion and without being re- 

 quired by the supervisor to do so. But if in 

 this case the supervisor called in the deputy 

 marshal to assist him in keeping a tally list of 

 the voters, then the Court is asked to say 

 whether the marshal could be properly called 

 in by the supervisor for this purpose. It is 

 admitted by the Attorney-General that the su- 

 pervisor has by law certain duties to perform ; 

 and if the keeping of the tally list is one of 

 these duties, surely the supervisor could call 

 upon the deputy marshal to assist him in it if 

 he required his assistance for that purpose. 

 But the Court is asked to decide that this was 

 not a duty of the supervisor, and not a duty 

 for which the assistance of the deputy marshal 

 could be demanded, and consequently his en- 

 trance to the polling- room for that object was 

 unauthorized by law. The supervisor is not 

 required to keep a tally list, but it is his duty 

 to superintend the count and tally list, and to 

 verify the accuracy of the poll list kept by the 

 clerks. To this end, if he thinks he ought to 

 have the help of the deputy marshal, he is en- 

 titled to have it. The Court must therefore 

 say that it was within the authority of the 

 supervisor to call in the deputy marshal to as- 

 sist him in keeping a tally list, as he had to 



