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women) were held in the jails to await trial or 

 examination, and 3,686 were sentenced. 



The Commissioners of Prisons, as directed 

 by the Legislature of 1884, prepared for use 

 as the State Prison the buildings in the city of 

 Boston formerly occupied as said prison, and 

 the warden transferred all the prisoners, about 

 450, that had not been removed to the Massa- 

 chusetts Reformatory. The work of repairing 

 the workshops and setting machinery is still 

 going on, and, contracts for all the available 

 men having been made, the regular course of 

 management will soon be established. 



The proceeds received by the State from all 

 contracts, for the labor of the convicts for the 

 year ending Sept. 30, 1884, amounted to $70,- 

 117.45. For the year ending Dec. 31, 1884, 

 $33,472.13, allowed for overwork, was credit- 

 ed to the accounts of 529 men. 



The Reformatory. The experiment of a re- 

 formatory for male prisoners has been suc- 

 cessfully inaugurated at Concord. About 140 

 men are now in the institution, and a consider- 

 able increase is certain. No proposals for em- 

 ployment have been accepted, but various in- 

 dustries will soon be introduced. In most of 

 the essential features, this institution adopts 

 the system that has been so successfully in 

 operation at the Reformatory for Women. 



Homoeopathic Hospital for the Insane. The 

 trustees' of the Westborough Hospital have 

 been appointed, and the plans submitted by 

 them for the alteration of the buildings and 

 the necessary additions thereto have received 

 the approval of the Governor and Council. 

 These plans apparently answer the wants of 

 the hospital in due provision for the treatment, 

 comfort, convenience, and safety of 325 pa- 

 tients, and for the physicians, officers, and at- 

 tendants. Satisfactory estimates show that the 

 work will be completed within the appropria- 

 tion of $150,000 already made. It is hoped 

 that the hospital will be ready for occupancy 

 before the end of 1885. 



Lyman School for Boys. The Governor is of 

 the opinion that this school should be removed 

 to some location other than that designated in 

 the act of the last Legislature, and in that view 

 the trustees of the school and the trustees of 

 the Westborough Hospital concur. 



The school, under its present system, will 

 not require for its use a large tract of land or 

 costly and extensive buildings. The number of 

 inmates is reduced by the laws regulating com- 

 mitment, probation, transfer, and discharge. 

 During several years past the average number 

 has not exceeded 135. Of the 124 boys that 

 left the institution during 1884, the average 

 time of detention was thirteen months, and no 

 one had remained longer than three years and 

 four months. 



Other Institutions. The following are other 

 State institutions: State Almshouse, Tewks- 

 bury, with an average of 1,014 inmates in 

 1884 ; State Primary School, Monson, 421 ; 

 State Industrial School for Girls, Lancaster, 



METALLURGY. (!RON AND STEEL.) 471 



65 ; State School for the Feeble-minded, Bos- 

 ton, 141. 



Ciyil Seryiee. On this subject the Governor, 

 in his message to the Legislature, in January, 

 1885, says: 



The Civil Service Commissionrs, appointed undere 

 the provisions of an act passed by the last Legislature, 

 have prepared rules which have been approved by the 

 Governor and Council and which will go into opera- 

 tion on the 30th of March next. Under the authority 

 given them by the act, the Commissioners have lim- 

 ited the application of these rules to those branches of 

 the service in which a considerable number of persons 

 are employed, and in which there is the strongest 

 temptation to use the appointing power for personal 

 or partisan purposes. The system proposed is be- 

 lieved to be perfectly plain and practical, and well 

 adapted to show the relative fitness of applicants for 

 the public service and to secure impartiality in the 

 selections for appointment. The statute now in force 

 seems to be ample in scope and power for present 

 needs, and an extension of the system may be secured 

 by the adoption of other rules. 



Political. The following were the candidates 

 of the different parties for State officers : 



Republican. 



Governor George D. Robinson. William C. Endicott. 



Lieut-Governor. I Oliver Ames [James 8. Grinnell. 



Governor, ft ... Julius H. Seelye 



Lieut.-Governor. Henry II. Faxon 



Secretary 



George Kempton 



Treasurer Charles R. Knight. . . 



Auditor. 



. ; William W. Sherman 



Matthew J. McCaffrey 

 Albert R. Rice. 

 John B. Sweeney. 

 Nathaniel 8. Gushing. 

 Israel W. Andrews. 

 A ttorney-Gen'l..; Samuel M. Fairchild. [Thomas W. Clarke. 



At the election on November 4, the Repub- 

 lican ticket was successful. The following was 

 the vote for Governor : Republican, 159,345; 

 Democratic, 111,829; Greenback, 24,363 ; Pro- 

 hibition, 8,581 ; scattering, 34. 



For Secretary of State, the vote was : Re- 

 publican, 163,148; Democratic, 108,378; Green- 

 back, 24,214 ; Prohibition, 8,334 ; scattering, 6. 

 The vote for presidential electors was: Re- 

 publican, 146,724; Democratic, 122,352; Green- 

 back, 24,382; Prohibition, 9,923. Democrats 

 were elected to Congress inthe Fourth and Sixth 

 Districts, and Republicans in the other ten. 

 The Legislature of 1885 consists of 34 Republi- 

 cans, 5 Democrats, and 1 Independent Republi- 

 can in the Senate, and 166 Republicans, 76 

 Democrats, and 3 Independents in the House. 



MENTHOL. See DRUGS, NEW. 



METALLURGY. Iron and Steel. The ' Regia " 

 process for the manufacture of iron and steel, 

 as described by its inventor, Mr. John Lewth- 

 waite, consists chiefly in scattering upon the 

 metal, when it is completely melted, as equably 

 and gradually as possible certain mineral ores 

 in a finely disintegrated or granulated condi- 

 tion, in proportions which are to be determined 

 according to the character of the result sought. 

 The effect is an electro-chemical combination 

 under the operation of which the metal be- 



