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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 12, 11 July 1884, Page 3

Professor Gilliam, an authority on the subject, calculates that in the United States the white population may be expected to double every thirty-five years and the black every twenty years. In 100 years this would make the black population of the Southern States 192,000,000 while the white would be only 96,000,000, and the white population of the entire country 336,000,000. A correspondent writes to the A'atim : — Ellen Reynolds is now an inmate of MulLingar Lunatic Asylum. The poor woman's story is as follows :—ln: — In 1880 she, her husband, and four children were evicted from their holding .on Lord Ghanard's property. The holding was held in turn by Mrs. Reynold's uncle, father, and husband, each of whom found it impossible to pay the rent charged. After L\eynolds's eviction his wife and children took refuge with the woman's uncle, whose name was Hughes*, in a cabin which Lord Granard had permitted him to build on the farm. For doing this she was prosecuted sis times by Lord Granard as a trespasser, and on each occasion was committed to gaol for seven daya. Her husband was also sent six times to gaol, undergoing an imprisonment of a fortnight on each occasion. Subsequently the farm was taken by a man, for saying to whom she would never forgive him for taking the farm, she was sent to jail under the Crimes Act. She was again sent to gaol for seven days for trespass, and once more for twenty-four hours for some similar offence. Finally, without having recourse to petty sessions, an order for her committal to Mullingar gaol for Bix months was obtained, in default of finding bail to quit the premises for ever. After this her uncle's cabiu was levelled to the ground, and Hughes was sent into Longford workhouse. Mrs. Reynolds had undergone four months of her term of imprisonment when she heard of the cabin having been levelled. All reason then left her, and it was found necessary to transfer her from the prison to the lunatic asylum, where, as I have said, she is at present.