Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1887 — Crime in Ireland. [ARTICLE]

Crime in Ireland.

The statistics for crime in Ireland for the year 1886 show that the total number of criminal offenses was 223,202, or 456.5 per 10,000 of the estimated population, as compared with 231,313, or 469.7 per 10,000 of the population in 1885, showing a decrease of 8,111 in number, and a decrease of 13.2 in the rate per 10,000 persons. Offenses not disposed of summarily constituted the more serious groups of crimes, and were somewhat more numerous than in any of the three years immediately preceding, but show a decrease of 3,291 as compared with the year 1882, and the absolute number (7,315) of these offenses and their ratio to the estimated population (15.0 per 10,000) were below the corresponding averages for the three years ending with 1881. The distribution of criminal offensesis as follows: Leinster, 90,914, or 910.8 per 10,000 population; Munster, 54,387, or 408.6; Ulster, 54,257, or 311.3; and Connaught, 23,644, or 287.6. The total cost of the repression of crime for the yeilr was £2,039,025, being a decrease of £27,787 as compared with 1885. Of this sum £1,533,166 was for police, £55,473 for prosecutions, and the remainder for prisons, etc.— Notes of Ireland. It is said that the table upon which Generals Grant and Le 6 signed the famous paper at Appomattox Courthouse, which virtually terminated the rebellion, is now owned by a Mr. Gunther, of Chicago, who paid SI,OOO for it. The original owner was the widow of Major General Ord. An autograph letter from General Grant is said to establish its identity. It has been estimated that a pair of wrens destroy at least 600 insects a day. They have been observed to leave their nests and return with insects from forty to sixty times an hour. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.