Two young men named Avcry, from nrar YouD^atown, went to Wyoming to engage in cattle heiding. While hunting with Daniel
tockwell, a ranchman, they attempted, ou foot, to puss thiougb a herd of cattle, and the two you nor men were trampled out of existence. A man among ran<ro cittie ami not on h .rseback is always in deadly peril.
The Registrar-General of Ireland, Dr. Grimshaw, recently delivered a most important address on the decay oi Ireland. In liiu course of it he observed tint a people winch hal been considered one of the most piolifio was found to be one ct the most lapidly diminishing in the world within its own ancefetral limits. It was veiy probable, he added, the ln^h element in the woild's population bad increased in proportion equal to ihat ot any other ethnical element, and probably txcnecU'd m.mv ; but that inciea&rj had not taken place within the boundaries of lieland. The estimates showed that the population bud diminished from 8 200.000 in the middle of the year 1841 to 4,778 000 in Ire middle cf the year ISBB— thus proving a loss of 3,122,000. All these statements are verified by lacts and prove the inability cf England to mlc Ireland. The figures aie an unanswerable argument in f.ivour of Home Rule.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 2, 3 May 1889, Page 20
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