MISCELLANEOUS.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 948, 19 March 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mowing machines have killed 70 farmers in Illinois last year.

There are 10,000,000 cows in the United State's.

The national cemeteries now contain 317,850 graves, and 'ebver 1800 acres of land.

Three hundred and five murders in New York city last year, and nobody hanged.

The Missouri State Prison now contains 910 inmates. It is gauged to accommodate 350 persons.

It is estimated that more than onesixth of the inhabitants of the United States are owners of real estate.

Maine kept down her surplus population last year with 113 fatal acci'dents, 77 drownings, 52 suicides, and 8 murders.

The Lehigh Valley Railroad, in the four months ending November 30th, 'carried. 2,889,074 tons of coal over the road. It will interest smokers of " real Havanas," to learn that the Connecticut tobacco is of unusually good quality this year. , Nearly sixty-six and a quarter million pounds of freight were shipped last year over the Sioux City and Pacific "Railroad.

Speaking of Isaac Butt and the Home Rule movement of Ireland, the " Californian Examiner" says, that Butt's knowledge of men and things is comprehensive and minute ; so we Bhould judge from what We observe in the reports of his proceedings in his country, and this knowledge, joined to the possession of great skill as a lawyer and persuasive and logical power as an orator, promises well for the attainment of his patriotic designs. It is much to be hoped, by all sincere sympathisers with Ireland's long sufferings and admirers of the valour and worth of her children at home and abroad, that this latest effort to secure some portion of her rights may not prove abortive.