MASSACHUSETTS. 



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There were 163,851 barrels of sea-packed 

 mackerel received at the port in 1881, as against 

 129,620 barrels in 1880. The tale of frozen 

 herring received was 13,318,000, against about 

 9,000,000 in 1880, and 6,000,000 in 1879. The 

 shore fleet landed in the last five months of the 

 year 1,933,000 pounds of hake, pollock, had- 

 dock, and cusk. The shore herring catch was 

 8,632 barrels. 



The State Greenback Convention assem- 

 bled at AVorcester on August 24th ; John 

 Hawes was elected permanent president. The 

 following are the nominations: Governor, 

 Israel W. Andrews ; Lieutenant-Governor, 

 George Button ; Treasurer, George Foster ; 

 Secretary, A. B. Brown ; Auditor, Wilber T. 

 Whitney; Attorney-General, D. O. Allen. 



The Republican State Convention assembled 

 in Worcester on September 21st. "W. W. Crapo 

 Avas chosen president. The number of dele- 

 gates present was 1,038. The nominations 

 were as follows : For Governor, John D. Long ; 

 Lieutenant-Go vernor, Byron Weston ; Attor- 

 ney-General, George Marston ; Secretary of 

 State, Henry B. Peirce; Treasurer and Re- 

 ceiver-General, Daniel A. Gleason; Auditor, 

 Charles R. Ladd. 



The nominations made by the Democratic 

 State Convention were as follows: Governor, 

 Charles P. Thompson, of Gloucester; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, James H. Carleton, of Ilaver- 

 hill ; Secretary of the Commonwealth, Michael 

 T. Donohoe, of Somerwille; Treasurer, "Wil- 

 liam A. Hodges, of Quincy ; Auditor, Charles 

 R. Field, of Greenfield ; Attorney-General, Pat- 

 rick A. Collins, of Boston. 



The nominations for State officers made by 

 the Prohibition party were as follows : Gov- 

 ernor, Charles Al my, of New Bedford; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, John Blackmer, of Spring- 

 field ; Secretary of the Commonwealth, Solo- 

 mon F. Root, of Dalton; Treasurer, Thomas J. 

 Lothrop, of Taunton ; Auditor, Jonathan Buck, 

 of Harwich ; Attorney-General, Samuel M. 

 Fairfield, of Maiden. 



The result of the election was the success of 

 the Republicans, as follows: 



FOR GOVERNOR. 



Long, Republican 96,609 



Thompson, Democrat 54,586 



Andrews, Greenback 4,889 



Almy, Prohibitionist 1,64') 



Total vote 157,802 



Long's plurality 42,023 



MATURIN, EDWARD 8., died May 25, 1881, 

 aged sixty-nine. He was descended from a 

 French Huguenot clergyman who escaped from 

 France after the revocation of the Edict of 

 Nantes and settled in Ireland. Both the son 

 and grandson of this clergyman were ministers 

 of the Established Church in Ireland. The 

 father of Edward was the Rev. Charles Robert 

 Maturin, curate of St. Peter's Church, Dublin, 

 an eloquent preacher, but more widely known 

 as a poet and romance-writer. One of the 

 most successful efforts of his genius is the 

 tragedy of " Bertram, or the Castle of St. Al- 

 dobran," which had an unexampled "run " at 

 that period, being performed one hundred 

 nights at Drury Lane Theatre. The copyright 

 of this production was purchased by Murray 

 for three hundred and fifty guineas, and the 

 play brought the author one thousand pounds. 

 The poet died in 1824, leaving two sons, the 

 eldest William, now rector of All Saints' Church, 

 Dublin, and the youngest Edward, who came 

 to the United States in 1832, with letters of 

 introduction from Thomas Moore, the poet, 

 Richard Lalor Shell, and other eminent per- 

 sons in the world of letters. He entered the 

 law office of Charles O'Conor, and afterward 

 of Mr. Logan, as a student, and in due time 

 was admitted to the bar. He had graduated 

 at Trinity College, Dublin, with distinction, 

 and pursued in this country his study of the 

 Greek language and literature. The late Pro- 

 fessor Anthon, of Columbia College, recom- 

 mended him to a vacant professorship of Greek 

 in South Carolina. He resided there for some 

 years, and in 1842 married Harriet L. Gailliard, 

 of that State. Returning to New York, he 

 was engaged as instructor in the Greek and 

 Latin languages and belles-lettres in that city 

 for thirty consecutive years. He published 

 several romances, among which are, " Monte- 

 zuma, the Last of the Aztecs," which was 

 dramatized and met with much success; "Ben- 

 jamin, the Jew of Granada"; "Eva, or the 

 Isle of Life and Death"; "Roman Tales"; 

 "Lyrics of Spain and Erin"; "Bianca," etc. 

 Mr. Maturin was greatly esteemed for his high 

 moral and social virtues. His deeply rooted 

 religious principles, his remarkable knowledge 

 of the Scriptures, and his high attainments in 

 scholarship drew to him men of noble charac- 

 ter. When the Bible Union was formed in 

 1850, he was selected as one of the corps of 

 revisers, the Gospel of Mark being assigned to 

 him. 



MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, THE 

 PROGRESS OF. The improvements which have 

 taken place in the mechanical arts within a 

 few years are not easily appreciated in their 

 full effect and bearings, although the United 

 States have probably contributed more to 

 the advancement in this direction than any 

 other nation. In the annual meeting of the 

 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, at 

 New York, in November, the president, Robert 

 H. Thurston, in his address reviewed some of 



