614 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



PERSIA. 



$5,000 for a like institution at "Wilkesbarre ; 

 $23,000 for the Pennsylvania Training School 

 for Feeble-minded Children at Media; $23,000 

 for the House of Refuge in Philadelphia ; and, 

 for the same establishment in Western Penn- 

 sylvania, $25,000. 



The number of applications for pardons of 

 criminals during the year was 1,240, of which 

 62 were granted ; the commutation of sen- 

 tences for good behavior in prison, in accord- 

 ance with the law of 1869, has effected favor- 

 able results in the conduct of prisoners, and 

 in maintaining wholesome prison discipline, as 

 has this year been exemplified. 



Considerable discontent has been manifested 

 by the employment of United States troops at 

 elections without the consent of the local and 

 State governments ; this was done at the Oc- 

 tober election in Philadelphia. 



An election was held for the choice of Con- 

 gressmen and members of the State Legisla- 

 ture, when thirteen Republican and eleven 

 Democratic members of Congress were chosen. 

 The classification of the Legislature for 1871 

 is as follows : 



Sanate. House. Joint Ballot. 



Eepublicans 16 56 72 



Democrats 17 41 61 



Dem. Majority.. 1 



Eep. Majority. . . 12 11 



After the taking of a general census this 

 year, a revision of the census of Philadelphia, 

 ordered by the department, to test alleged er- 

 rors in the previous enumeration, gives a total of 

 674,022, an increase of over sixteen thousand. 



Pennsylvania gains in population more large- 

 ly than any State except Illinois, which has an 

 increase of 828,265, since 1860. Pennsylvania 

 comes next, 605,328, followed by Missouri, 521,- 

 000, Iowa, 502,602, and New York, 490,119. 



Of the increase in the population of 480,918 

 in the western district of Pennsylvania, in the 

 last decade, the greater part is in the mining 

 and manufacturing regions, and at the chief 

 trading centres. 



The western district of Pennsylvania, which 

 comprises about two-thirds of the area of the 

 State, and has always suffered in its in- 

 terests on account of the lack of railways, has 

 made much greater progress in that form of 

 development than at any former period, and, 

 great as is the net-work of railways in the 

 densely populous eastern district, it may be 

 doubted whether, in the end, it will not be 

 surpassed in mileage. This whole western 

 district is really in the condition of some of 

 the new States of the West. 



Astonishing as has been the general growth 

 of this district, the progress of some of its 

 towns is still more remarkable. Scranton, the 

 centre of the Luzerne coal-field, had only 

 9,223 inhabitants in the year 1860, but has 

 now 35,762, and takes rank above Reading as 

 the third city in the State, considering Pitts- 

 burg and its suburbs together as the second 

 city. Williamsport has risen from 4,253 in 



1860, to 16,066 in 1870; and Wilkesbarre, 

 which had 4,200 in 1860, has now 10,180. The 

 railroads leading to these places have carried 

 immigration thither from the great centres of 

 Philadelphia and New York. The general re- 

 sult of the present census will show Pennsyl- 

 vania to have made greater progress in her 

 minor cities and towns than at any former 

 period. 



The following is the Federal census of Penn- 

 sylvania, taken in the years 1860 and 1870 : 



PERSIA, a country in Asia. Shah (proper- 

 ly Shah yn Shah, which means king of kings), 

 Nasser-ed-Din, born in 1830 ; succeeded his 

 father, Mohammed Shah, September 10, 1848. 



