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just been completed a new cell-building contain- 

 ing 130 cells, at a cost of $49,935, which has 

 been paid from the standing appropriations for 

 permanent improvements. The prison now has 

 a capacity for 426 convicts, and at the date of 

 the warden's report, at the close of the fiscal 

 year, it contained 356, an increase of 78 in two 

 years. The expenses were $39,595.64 for 1883, 

 and $59,989.98 for 1884; earnings, $22,913.09 

 and $33,732.30 for the same period. 



Reform School. This institution, since its es- 

 tablishment in 1868, has graduated over 500 

 boys and girls, most of whom have become, or 

 give promise of becoming, useful members of 

 the community. The report of the managers 

 shows 129 inmates at the end of the last fiscal 

 year. The expense for maintenance for the 

 twenty months ending July 31, 1884, was $47,- 

 700.95 ; of which sum $23,728.73 has been re- 

 imbursed by the counties contributing to its in- 

 mates. 



Banks. The banking statistics are summa- 

 rized as follows, the last column showing the 

 increase since 1882: 

 Number of banks... 214 36 



Capital stock (149 banks) $15,904,754 $6,553,537 



Surplus fund (84 banks) 2,300,144 699,167 



Deposits (86 banks) 27,284,1 17 4,573,812 



Loans and discounts (86 banks) 37,572,756 10,425,432 



Of the above-named banks 48 are national, 

 32 State, 6 savings, and 128 private. The fig- 

 ures given, being for less than half the banks of 

 the State, are not very satisfactory. 



Insurance Statistics* The report of the Insur- 

 ance Commissioner furnishes the following 

 comparative statement : 



TBe increase, as indicated by this statement, 

 is greater than the entire insurance business 

 of the State seven years ago. The revenues of 

 the State have been augmented by taxes and 

 fees collected through the commissioner's de- 

 partment the past two years as follows: 1883, 

 $55,194.47; 1884, $67,167.38. 



Logs and Lnmber. The following statistics of 

 the lumber interests of the State are furnished 

 by the surveyors-general of the districts named : 



FEET OF LOGS SCALED. 



FEET OP LUMBER MANUFACTURED. 



Fish-Culture. The work of the Fish Commis- 

 sion has been much extended the past two years, 

 and considerable additions made to the State 

 hatchery. The distribution among the waters 

 of the State has been as follows : 



Railroads. The total number of miles of com- 

 pleted road reported within the State, Dec. 1, 

 1882, was 3,749.13. The total number Dec. 1, 

 1884, was 4,162.22. The total earnings of these 

 roads within the State was, for the year end- 

 ing June 30, 1882, $18,805,193.16. The total 

 earnings for the year ending June 30, 1884, were 

 $23,243,466.22. The total operating expenses, 

 which amounted to $10,221,783.69 in 1882, 

 were $11,784,253.58 for the year ending June 

 30, 1884. The average earnings per mile had 

 increased from $5,642.24 to $5,924.77 in two 

 years ; while the average operating expenses 

 had been reduced from $3,066.90 to $3,004.28. 

 The taxes paid to the State on the gross earn- 

 ings during the past year were $645,735.18. 



Election. The following was the vote cast 

 for Presidential Electors on the 4th of Novem- 

 ber: Republican, 111,685 ; Democratic, 70,065 ; 

 Greenback, 3, 583 ;'Prohibition, 4,684. Judge 

 Berry was re-elected, and five Republican Con- 

 gressmen were chosen. The Legislature of 1885 

 is constituted as follows : Senate, 30 Republic- 

 ans and 17 Democrats ; House, 70 Republicans 

 and 33 Democrats. 



Gold Discoveries. Toward the close of the year 

 discoveries of gold in Lake and Cook counties 

 were reported. In a few weeks large quanti- 

 ties of land were taken up. 



MIRTACHIT. See NEKVOTJS DISEASES. 



MISSISSIPPI. State Government. The follow- 

 ing were the State officers during the year: 

 Governor, Robert Lowrey, Democrat; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, G. D. Shands; Secretary of 

 State, Henry C. Meyers; Treasurer, W. L. 

 Hemingway; Auditor, Sylvanus Gwin; At- 

 torney-General, Thomas C. Catchings ; Super- 

 intendent of Public Education, J. Argyle Smith ; 

 Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration, 

 E. G. Wall. Judiciary, Supreme Court : Chief- 

 Justice, J. A. P. Campbell ; Associate Justices, 

 H. H. Chalmers and Timothy E. Cooper. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature met on 

 the 8th of January and adjourned on the 15th 

 of March. Among the acts passed are the fol- 

 lowing : 



A number prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors. 

 in various localities ; to consolidate the Eleventh and* 

 Twelfth Circuit and Chancery Court districts ; con- 

 cerning railroad-crossings (regulating the crossing of 

 tracks by the lines of other companies) ; to prevent 

 the unlawful obstruction of water-courses ; to amend 

 the laws regulating insurance deposits ; to incorporate 



