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EHODE ISLAND. 



RODGERS, JOHN". 



Resolved, That we will hold in contempt, as a trai- 

 tor to manhood and his race, that man who will per- 

 mit his vote to be influenced by a tender of money or 

 any other corrupting influence. 



The colored people of the State numbered 

 6,271 in 1875, and 6,592 in 1880. 



ELECTIONS. At the election held on the 7th 

 of November, the two Republican nominees 

 were elected members of Congress. 



The amendment to the Constitution of the 

 State was rejected. The votes approving the 

 amendment, instead of being three fifths, were 

 much less than one half of the whole number 

 cast upon it throughout the State. In almost 

 every town the nays were more numerous than 

 the yeas, as follows : for the amendment, 4,393, 

 and 5,125 against it. 



FINANCES. The State debt on December 31, 



1881, amounted to $2,521,500; at the same 

 date in 1882, it was $1,606,500, as much as 

 $952,000, which fell due on the first day of 

 September, having been paid. 



The receipts and expenditures during the 

 year 1882 were as follow : 



Eeceipts $888,419 34 



Balance in the Treasury on December 81, 1881.. 210,789 90 



Total $1,099,209 24 



Expenditures 774,289 80 



Balance in the Treasury on January 1, 18S3. $324,919 44 

 The deposits in the savings banks, on the 

 28th of November, 1882, amounted to $50,657,- 

 876.80, including $187, 067.49 of surplus profits 

 on hand; which shows in the said deposits an 

 increase of $1,548,948.37 over those of 1881. 

 The whole number of depositors in November, 



1882, was 112,472, showing also an increase of 

 not less than 9,481 over their number in the 

 preceding year. 



EDUCATION. The present condition of educa- 

 tion in Khode Island, with regard to the num- 

 ber and kind of her school-houses, the num- 

 ber of children of school age, and their attend- 

 ance, is quite satisfactory. 



STATE INSTITUTIONS. The charitable, re- 

 formatory, and penal institutions supported by 

 the State, and now grouped together at Crans- 

 ton, upon the land known as " the State Farm, 1 ' 

 are also under excellent management and real- 

 ize the purposes for which they have been es- 

 tablished. The number of these institutions 

 and of their respective inmates, on December 

 81, 1882, was as follows : "Asylum for the In- 

 sane, 305 ; Workhouse and House of Correc- 

 tion, 252 ; Almshouse, 221 ; Sockanosset School 

 for Boys, 138 ; Oaklawn School for Girls, 24; 

 State-Prison, 94 ; and Providence County Jail, 

 129 ; in all, 1,163. Adding the number of offi- 

 cers with their families, residing at the institu- 

 tions, the total population is about 1,250." 



The Governor states the increase in the num- 

 ber of insane persons at the asylum to have 

 been alarming for these several years, and that 

 in 1882 this increase was two thirds larger than 

 in 1881, the insane patients reported at the close 

 of the said two years having been 303 and 281 

 respectively. 



RAILWAYS. The railway lines have trans- 

 acted during 1882 a considerably larger amount 

 of business, in both passenger and merchan- 

 dise transportation, than during the previous 

 year the total number of passengers in 1882 

 having increased to 3,822,220, and that of tons 

 of merchandise to 672,391. The general ex- 

 penses incurred by them, however, the Railroad 

 Commissioner states to have so far increased 

 during the year that in their net earnings there 

 has been a decrease of $244,869.75. 



" Thirty-one accidents have occurred on these 

 railroads during the year 1882, by which four- 

 teen lives were lost, and twenty-two persons 

 were injured." 



No additional mileage has been made during 

 this year to the tracks of the railroads in the 

 State. 



RICE PRODUCTION OF THE UNITED 

 STATES IN 1879. The production of rice, in 

 the several rice-growing States, for the year 

 1879, and the average yield to the acre, as 

 returned by the census of 1880, were as fol- 

 low : 



RODGERS, JOHN, Rear-Admiral United 

 States Navy, born in Harford County, Md., Au- 

 gust 8, 1812 ; died in Washington, D. C., May 5, 

 1882. In his sixteenth year lie was appointed 

 midshipman from the District of Columbia, 

 and joined the Mediterranean squadron in the 

 frigate Constellation, under the command of 

 his father, Commodore Rodgers. In 1832 lie 

 went to the Naval School at Norfolk, Va., and 

 two years later passed his examination and be- 

 came a passed midshipman. He then spent a 

 year of study in the University of Virginia. 

 From 1836 to 1839 he served on the Brazilian 

 squadron, when he took command of the 

 schooner Wave on the Florida coast. He was 

 made lieutenant January 22, 1840, and assigned 

 to the command of the schooner Jefferson. 

 He was now occupied in hydrographic work 

 among the Florida Keys, and in conducting 

 hostilities against the Seminole Indians. He 

 joined the Mediterranean squadron again in 

 1846, and remained there for nearly two years. 

 During the three following years (1849-'52) he 

 was again on duty on the coast of Florida, in 

 fixing the position of shoals, reefs, etc., in as- 

 certaining the direction of currents, and in pre- 

 paring charts. 



In 1852 Lieutenant Rodgers joined the 

 squadron which formed the Northern Pacific 



