Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1878 — Hangings in 1877. [ARTICLE]

Hangings in 1877.

The hangman’s record for the past year shows that eighty-three murderers were hanged in the United States. Of this number, forty-seven were white, tlrtrty-four colored^one Indian aijd one Chinaman; four were hanged Tor outrageous assaults, one for burglary, eight for wife-murder, one for silicide and one for fratricide. There were three double executions, one triple, two quadruple, and one in which six men were hanged. Not a single woman was hanged; the only one sentenced to death, Mrs. Louisa Lawsar, of Virginia, had her sentence commuted to imprisonment for life by the Governor. Friday still maintains its reputation in the black list as the favorite day on which to enforce the death penalty, more murderers having been hanged on that day-than on all the others of the week combined. Forty-seven murderers were hanged on Friday, seventeen on Thursday, eight on Saturday, six on Monday, three on Tuesday and two on Wednesday. There were live executions in January, live in February, six in March, six in April, ten in May, fifteen in June, eleven in July, one in August, five in September, none in October, nine in November and ten in December. Pennsylvania stands first in the list of the States for the greatest number of executions during the past year, South Carolina being second. The executions were distributed among twenty-five States as follows: Pennsylvania, sixteen; South Carolina, twelve; North Carolina and California, five each; Missouri, Maryland, Georgia and Virginia, four each; New York, Louisiana, Arkansas, Nevada and Tennessee, three each; Mississippi and Ohio, two each; New Jersey, New Hampshire, Delaware, Alabama, Kentucky, Texas, Utah, Dakota, Oregon and Wyoming, one each. —Springfield (Maas.) Republican.

, Between Jan. 1 and Nov. 1 there arrived at Ndw York 71,576 immigrants in 1876, and only 50,035 in 1877, a falling off this year of 21,541.

“Men should be careful lest they cause women.to weep, for God counts their tedrs,” says the Talmud.