MAINE. 



MANLY, MATTHIAS E. 527 



Under the new railroad-tax act, the assess- 

 ments on the several companies operating the 

 railroads of Maine were as follows : 



Bangor and Piscataquis $207 00 



Boston and Maine 17,243 35 



Bucksport and Bangor 46 75 



Knox and Lincoln 615 56 



Portland Horse 982 20 



Portland and Ogdensburg 660 42 



Portland and Rochester 1,159 87 



Rumford Falls and buckfleld 67 54 



Somerset 51 98 



St. Croix and Penobscot 51 82 



European and North American 8,040 88 



Sandy River Valley 28 13 



Eastern 16,786 29 



Maine Central 20,772 25 



Grand Trunk. 9,569 66 



Aroostook River. 2012 



Houlton Branch 17 30 



Orchard Beach 1119 



Total $71,278 26 



The Governor and Council assessed the fol- 

 lowing tax upon the telegraph companies in the 

 State, as required by law : 



Maine Telegraph Company $1,250 



Western Union 2,500 



International 1,250 



American Union . 125 



Atlantic and Pacific 125 



Montreal Telegraph Company 500 



Total $5,750 



The following table exhibits the amounts as- 

 sessed on express companies : 



NAME OF PARTY ASSESSED. b^""^"^.^ Tai> 



American Express Company $150,000 00 $1,125 00 



Canadian Express Company 25,000 00 187 50 



Hoyt & Company 2,000 00 15 00 



Merchants' Express Company 11,541 00 86 55 



Charles O. Milliken 4,00000 8000 



Prince's Express 7,539 61 56 91 



Sandy River Express Company 500 00 8 75 



Saco, Biddeford and Boston 8,000 00 22 50 



United States Mail and District Ex- 

 press Company 2,00000 1500 



Swell's Express Company 5,000 00 87 50 



According to the census of 1880, Maine had 

 employed in cotton manufactures 696,685 spin- 

 dles, and 11,319 hands. 



In 1870 there were about 250,000 tons of 

 ice harvested on the Kennebec River, at a cost 

 of about a dollar a ton. The amount has grown 

 annually, until it reached its maximum in 1880, 

 when 1,000,000 tons were stored on the Ken- 

 nebec and its vicinity. Last winter, owing to 

 the intense cold weather which prevailed all 

 over the country, and which made a good ice- 

 crop on the Hudson, and in the ponds in Massa- 

 chusetts and New York, but about 600,000 tons 

 were stored on the river, at a cost for harvest- 

 ing of from fifteen to twenty-five cents a ton. 



The cut of lumber on the Penobscot waters 

 during the season reached 150,000,000 feet or 

 more. There is an overstock of 60,000,000 

 old logs, and the cut. of 1882 is estimated at 

 over 100,000,000 feet. In 1879 the hay-crop 

 of Maine was valued at $11,500,000, and all 

 other crops of the State at $7,250,000. 



A State Temperance Convention was held 

 early in the year, at which the following reso- 

 lutions were adopted: 



1. The great advance of the temperance movement 

 in Maine is largely due to a recognition by temperance 

 people of total abstinence as the indispensable basis 

 of all permanent work. 



2. Thirty years' trial of prohibition, interrupted by 

 a two years' trial of licenscj has demonstrated to the 

 satisfaction of a large majority of our people that pro- 

 hibition is the most effective legal policy ever devised 

 to restrain the dram-shop evil and increase the effi- 

 ciency and permanency of those moral agencies on 

 which temperance progress mainly depends. 



3. To remove the question of prohibition from the 

 field of partisan politics and give it the strength 

 which attaches to all principles settled by a solemn 

 vote of the people, incorporated into the fundamental 

 law, we respectfully but earnestly request the Legis- 

 lature to submit to the people a prohibitory constitu- 

 tional amendment, as prayed for by a large number 

 of petitioners. 



To the Honorable, the Legislature of Maine : 



The Maine State Temperance Convention, now in 

 session at Augusta, most respectfully represents to 

 the Honorable, the Legislature, that it is desirable, 

 as far as possible, to remove the liquor question from 

 the arena of party politics. To the convention, it 

 seems to be a particularly suitable mode of doing 

 this, to submit the question of prohibition to a direct 

 vote of the people, on a proposition to incorporate it 

 into the Constitution. The convention, therefore, 

 most earnestly prays that the following proposition 

 may be submitted to the people at the earliest time at 

 which it can be legally done, viz. : 



The manufacture, lor sale, of intoxicating liquors 

 of whatever kind ? is and shall be for ever prohibited, 

 except the manufacture of cider, which is remitted to 

 the discretion of the Legislature. And the sale of in- 

 toxicating liquors, of whatever kind, is and shall be 

 for ever prohibited, except for medicinal and mechan- 

 ical purposes and for the arts, which shall be provided 

 for by law, through suitable agencies appointed for 

 that purpose. Tlie sale of cider may be permitted 

 under such regulations as the Legislature may pro- 

 vide. And the Legislature shall from time to time 

 enact such laws with whatever penalties may be 

 deemed necessary for the entire suppression of the 

 manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, with the 

 exceptions and conditions herein specified. 



A meeting of lawyers was held at Augusta 

 on April 25th, and a State Bar Association was 

 formed. 



The population of the State by counties, in 

 1880, as compared with 1870, was as follows : 



Androscoggin. 



Aroostook 



Cumberland . . 



Franklin 



Hancock 



Kennebec 



Knox 



Lincoln 



Oxford 



Penobscot . . . 

 Piscataquis... 



Sagadahoc 



Somerset 



Waldo 



Washington . . , 

 York... 



The State. 



1HSO. 



1870. 



85.S66 

 29,609 

 82,021 

 18.807 



53,208 

 80.828 

 25,597 

 83,488 

 75,150 

 14,408 

 18,803 

 34.611 

 84.522 

 48.843 

 60,174 



626,915 



MANLY, MATTHIAS EVANS, born in Chatham 

 County, N. C., April 13, 1800 ; died at New 

 Berne, N. 0., July 16, 1881. He was the son of 

 Rev. Dr. Basil Manly, an eminent Baptist di- 

 vine of Alabama. After graduating at a uni- 

 versity he studied law with his brother, the 



