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MARYLAND. 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



corn, using the production of 10,000 acres of 

 tomatoes and 5,000 acres of corn, the out-door 

 labor on which amounted to $200,000, and in 

 the canning establishments to $900,000, besides 

 $135,000 paid for cans. In Cecil and Kent 

 Counties the canned - peach trade is rapidly 

 growing. The parties interested in this trade 

 are strenuously opposed to any increase in the 

 duty on tin, and have appointed a committee 

 to go to Washington to confer with the Com- 

 mittee of Ways and Means on the subject. 

 There are more than 120 establishments for 

 preserving fruits, vegetables, oysters, etc., 

 which consume 20,000,000 tin cans per annum, 

 and, together with the dredging of the Chesa- 

 peake, in whicli 1,000 schooners and 3,500 

 smaller craft are employed in securing and 

 bringing to market 2,000,000 bushels of oysters, 

 $30,000,000 of capital and 34,000 hands are 

 employed. In . the manufacture of " fertil- 

 izers," of which upward of 300,000 tons are 

 made annually half the consumption of the 

 United States 2,500 hands are employed in 

 27 factories. The cotton-mills in the vicinity 

 of Baltimore drive 125,000 spindles, and em- 

 ploy 4,000 hands in the manufacture of sail 

 and tent cloth, netting, twine, drills, etc. Mr. 

 John G-arrett, President of the Baltimore and 

 Ohio Railroad Company, has obtained a liberal 

 charter from the United States Government 

 for the construction of an ocean cable, to be 

 operated in connection with the system of 

 land telegraphs of the Baltimore and Ohio 

 Company. Under the charter, no amalgama- 

 tion with any existing cable -line can be 

 made. 



There has been a great falling off in the 

 quantity of sugar imported into Baltimore dur- 

 ing the year, as compared with 1881 and pre- 

 vious years. The amount received was 4,470 

 hogsheads, 9,054 bags, and 120 tierces, which 

 is nearly one half of the quantity imported last 

 year, and most of this was forwarded to New 

 York and Philadelphia to be refined. Busi- 

 ness men in Baltimore differ as to the proper 

 means to be employed to revive the trade. 

 Some favor the continuation of the Dutch 

 standard as the means of determining the 

 quality of the sugar, with an ad valorem duty. 

 Others consent to the use of the polariscope in 

 settling the saccharine strength of imported 

 sugars ; while many favor the adoption of a 

 specific duty per pound on all grades, which 

 would allow the admission of the higher or 

 grocery grades. The heavy business once 

 done in refining sugars in Baltimore has been 

 transferred to New York and Philadelphia, 

 and little hope of its restoration is felt or ex- 

 pressed. At one time the sugar-trade of Balti- 

 more amounted to $25,000,090. 



The late Thomas Wilson, of Baltimore, be- 

 queathed $500,000 for the establishment of a 

 tk Sanitarium," where the sick children of the 

 poor can be taken during the summer, and 

 receive the benefits of pure air, good food, and 

 proper medical attendance. The class of chil- 



dren to be treated will be mostly under two 

 years of age, and in most cases the mother 

 will accompany her child ; but if there be 

 other children, under five years of age, who 

 can not be left at home, they will be taken 

 also. All expenses are borne by the institu- 

 tion. The trustees have purchased 170 acres 

 of land on the line of the Western Maryland 

 Railroad, nine miles from Baltimore, and 600 

 feet above mean tide, and are erecting the 

 necessary buildings, in the expectation that 

 this charity will be operative during the sum- 

 mer of 1883. Mr. Wilson also gave $100,000 

 to the " Thomas Wilson Fuel-saving Society," 

 the object being to aid poor sewing-women in 

 procuring sewing-machines, or other mechan- 

 ical aids, and to sell fuel to deserving poor at 

 a low rate. During this year 200 deserving 

 poor women have been aided in getting sewing- 

 machines at a price somewhat less than the 

 wholesale factory rate, they undertaking to re- 

 pay the society in small monthly installments. 

 About 1,400 tons of coal have been sold to 

 worthy indigent persons, at half the dealers' 

 retail price. The trustees are only permitted 

 to use the income of the funds. The principal 

 is kept intact. 



The Johns Hopkins Hospital, the founda- 

 tions of which were laid in 1875, is progress- 

 ing steadily toward completion. There are 

 now twelve buildings under roof, and it is 

 expected the institution will be finished and 

 ready for occupancy in 1885. The amount of 

 the endowment was $3,333,330, of which $2,- 

 036,028.75 is in bonds and stocks, and $1,375,- 

 542.07 is in real estate. The expenditure up 

 to December 31st has been $1,304,167.31. The 

 trustees intend that it shall be " the model hos- 

 pital of the world." 



MASSACHUSETTS. STATE GOVERNMENT. 

 The State officers during the year were the 

 following: Governor, John D. Long; Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor, Byron Weston; Secretary of 

 State, Henry B. Peirce ; Treasurer, Daniel A. 

 Gleason ; Auditor, Charles R. Ladd ; Attorney- 

 General, George Marston; Adjutant-General, 

 A. H. Berry ; Secretary of Board of Education, 

 John W. Dickinson ; Secretary of Board of 

 Agriculture and State Librarian, John G. Rus- 

 sell ; Insurance Commissioner, Julius L. Clarke. 

 Judiciary, Supreme Court : Chief-Justice, Mar- 

 cus Morton ; Associate Justices, William C. En- 

 dicott, Otis P. Lord, Walbridge P. Field, Charles 

 Devens, William Allen, Charles Allen. 



LEGISLATURE. The Legislature convened on 

 the 5th of January and adjourned on the 27th 

 of May. During the session 274 acts and 61 re- 

 solves' were passed. Having sat one hundred 

 and forty-three days, a longer period than any 

 of its predecessors since that of 1874, when a 

 prorogation was made on the morning of July 

 1st, and a term equaled by those of but ten of 

 the fifty Legislatures of whose duration there 

 is a record, the General Court of the year 1882 

 added but little to the Public Statutes, because 

 of the recent revision of the General Laws; its 



