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language and science, 2; civil engineering, 14; me- 

 chanical engineering, 5; electrical engineering, 10; 

 agriculture, t> ; special courses, 6 ; a total of 35 in the 

 mechanic arts and agricultural courses. The number 

 of students enrolled this year is 10 per cent, less than 

 last year, partly because of the hard times and partly 

 because a large percentage of those who applied for 

 admission were rejected in the entrance examination. 

 The total number of graduates since the reorganiza- 

 tion of the college is 150. 



At the meeting of trustees in March an inves- 

 tigation was ordered, charges having been made 

 that the affairs of the college were conducted 

 with great carelessness. The result was a com- 

 plete vindication of the management of the col- 

 lege. 



Militia. The last Legislature not having 

 made sufficient provision for supporting the 

 militia, some of the companies have disbanded. 

 This leaves the others in better condition, so 

 that the State still has its National Guard. 



The Boundary Commission. The report of 

 this commission has been filed. Following are 

 the main statements : 



The surveyors were instructed to make a prelimi- 

 nary survey to determine a curve, which,,beginning 

 at the intersection of a true 12-mile circle from the 

 spire of the courthouse at New Castle, with a due 

 east line extended from the northeast corner of Mary- 

 land, would pass as near as practicable through well- 

 authenticated points in the line of 1701, and intersect 

 Delaware river at a point previously identified as 

 being the original boundary line. 



The preliminary survey developed the fact that, 

 owing to the inaccuracy of the original survey, no 

 single curve could be made to pass through all the 

 points previously agreed upon. A compound curve, 

 to be composed of 2 arcs of nearly equal length, was 

 suggested by the surveyors, and when marked upon 

 the ground was found to conform very closely with 

 the old line of 1703, and to follow the lines of existing 

 holdings and jurisdictions in the two States as near 

 as was Relieved to be practicable. This line was for- 

 mally inspected by the joint commission, and on 

 April 11, 1893, was unanimously approved. The line 

 has been marked with enxluring monuments. 



Judicial Decision. In the case of a suit 

 brought by the widow of a fireman to recover 

 damages for the death of her husband in a rail- 

 way collision, the Superior Court granted a non- 

 suit, on the ground that the only carelessness 

 proved was that on the part of a fellow-employee 

 the brakeman and flagman of the colliding 

 train who neglected to obey the rules of the 

 company in regard to signaling, and that the 

 company could not be held responsible for the 

 negligence of its employees, if it had made suit- 

 able rules and provision for carrying them out. 

 Political. The Democratic State Convention 

 met. Aug. 28, at Dover. The platform expressed 

 loyalty to the principles of the Chicago platform 

 of 1892, and satisfaction at the repeal of the Fed- 

 eral election laws and of the McKinley law, at 

 the same time condemning 



The small number of Senators who, elected to the 

 United States Senate as Democrats, professing a be- 

 lief in Democratic principles and adherence to Demo- 

 cratic faith, refused to obey the demands of the peo- 

 le unmistakably expressed in the election of 1892, 

 eserted their party, and, with the Eepublican Sen- 

 ators, succeeded in retaining, to oppress the people 

 and deprive them of the full measure of their rights, 

 some of the provisions of the unjust and fallacious 

 tariff principles enacted into law by the Republican 

 party. 



In accord with the National Democratic platform 

 of 1892, we declare that u we hold to the use of both 

 gold and silver as the standard money of the country, 

 and to the coinage of both gold and silver without 

 discriminating against either metal, or charge for 

 mintage, but the dollar unit of coinage of both met- 

 als must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, 

 or be adjusted by such safeguards of legislation as 

 shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two 

 metals and the equal power of every dollar at all 

 times in the markets and in the payment of debts ; 

 and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept 

 at par with and redeemable in such coin. 



On State matters it commended the Democratic 

 Administration, urged all Democrats to vote in 

 favor of a convention to revise the State Con- 

 stitution, insisting that the work of such con- 

 vention shall be submitted to the people for rati- 

 fication before becoming operative ; favored lib- 

 eral appropriations for the State water ways and 

 harbors ; and declared belief in the Democratic 

 principle of rotation in State and county offices. 



The ticket placed in nomination was as fol- 

 lows : For Governor, Ebe W. Tunnell ; for Rep- 

 resentative in Congress, Samuel Bancroft, Jr. 

 * The Republican convention met, Aug. 21, at 

 Dover. The resolutions expressed belief in pro- 

 tective duties, favored restricted immigration, 

 denounced the revenue bill passed by Congress, 

 and said : 



We hold that the provisions of the bill in favor of 

 the interests of the sugar trust, framed in pursuance 

 of a corrupt bargain made by Democratic leaders, im- 

 posing a duty on raw sugar as well as discriminating 

 in favor of refined sugar is an outrage upon the 

 American people, imposing an unnecessary burden 

 upon them, and that such legislation must be cor- 

 rected as soon as possible. We denounce the income 

 tax, provided for in the bill, as unequal, unjust, in- 

 quisitorial and contrary to the spirit of American 

 institutions, and we demand its repeal. We de- 

 nounce the futile efforts of the popular branch of 

 the present Congress and of the executives to open 

 to the world the American markets for coal and iron 

 as absolutely ruinous to our mining industries. 



We favor bimetallism, and demand the use of both 

 gold and silver as standard money at such ratio and 

 under such conditions as shall be fixed by interna- 

 tional agreement. We believe that the commercial 

 welfare of the world is seriously prejudiced by the 

 dislocation of the parity of value between silver and 

 gold, and that full prosperity will not be re-estab- 

 lished until silver is restored to its proper place as a 

 money metal of equal debt-paying power with gold 

 in the currency of the nations, and we urge such a 



Solicy upon the part of the United States as will 

 Daily bring about this most desirable end. 



On State affairs the resolutions made, among 

 others, the following declarations : 



We denounce the partisan legislation of the Demo- 

 cratic party in the re-enactment of the odious delin- 

 quent tax laws, applicable to the counties of Kent 

 and Sussex, as done with the avowed purpose of de- 

 feating the will of the majority of the citizens of 

 these counties. 



"We denounce the present system of the qualifica- 

 tion of electors in force in our State as framed and 

 used as a cloak for defrauding our people of the right 

 to elect their own officers, and we demand its imme- 

 diate repeal, and that no other useless hindrances to 

 an honest election be devised for purely partisan 

 purposes. 



We denounce the legislation which gives to the 

 Democratic majority of the Department of Elections 

 for the city of Wilmington the power to appoint the 

 Republican registrars and judges of election, thus 



