712 



RHODE ISLAND. 



ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 



mining industries, 47,007, including 32,865 

 males and 14,142 females. 



The State contained 289,030 acres of im- 

 poved land, 169,399 of woodland, and 43,879 

 of other unimproved land. The cash value 

 of farms was $21,574,968, of farming imple- 

 ments and machinery, $786,246 ; total amount 

 of wages paid during the year, including value 

 of board, $1,124,118; total (estimated; value 

 of all farm productions, including betterments 

 and additions to stock, $4,761,163 ; orchard- 

 products, $43,036 ; produce of market-gardens, 

 $316,133; forest-products, $254,683; value of 

 home manufactures, $37,847; of animals slaugh- 

 tered or sold for slaughter, $755,552; of all live- 

 stock, $3,135,132. There were 7,770 horses, 

 43 mules and asses, 18,806 milch-cows, 5,821 

 working-oxen, 9,748 other cattle, 23,938 sheep, 

 and 14,607 swine. The chief productions were 

 588 bush els of spring, and 196 of winter, wheat, 

 20,214 of rye, 311,957 of Indian-corn, 157,010 

 of oats, 33,559 of barley, 1,444 of buckwheat, 

 796 pounds of tobacco, 77,328 of wool, 9,920 

 bushels of peas and beans, 669,408 of Irish, and 

 142 of sweet, potatoes, 765 gallons of wine, 

 941,199 pounds of butter, 81,976 of cheese, 

 1,944,044 gallons of milk sold, 89,045 tons of 

 hay, 954 bushels of clover-seed, 1,938 of grass- 

 seed, 249 pounds of hops, 20 gallons of sor- 

 ghum molasses, 629 pounds of honey, and 498 

 of wax. 



The total number of manufacturing estab- 

 lishments was 1,850, using 402 steam-engines 

 of 23,546 horse-power, and 456 water-wheels 

 of 18,481 horse-power, and employing 49,417 

 hands, of whom 28,804 were males above six- 

 teen, 14,752 females above fifteen, and 5,861 

 youth. 



The total amount of capital invested was 

 $66,557,322; wages paid during the year, 

 $19,354,256 ; value of materials consumed, 

 $73,154,109; of products, $111,418,354. 



The whole number of newspapers and peri- 

 odicals was 32, having an aggregate circulation 

 of 82,050, and issuing annually 9,781,500 

 copies. There were 6 daily, with a circula- 

 tion of 23,250 ; 1 semi-weekly, circulation 

 1,200 ; 19 weekly, circulation 43,950; 6 month- 

 ly, circulation 13,650. 



There were 759 libraries, having 693,387 

 volumes. Of these 425, with 383,691 volumes, 

 were private, and 334, with 309,696 volumes, 

 were other than private, including 32 circulat- 

 ing libraries, with 65,750 volumes. 



The total number of religious organizations 

 was 295, having 283 edifices, with 125,183 sit- 

 tings, and property valued at $4,117,200. 



The leading denominations were : 



The condition of pauperism and crime is 

 shown by the following statistics : 



Total population 217,353 



Number of persons receiving support during 



the year ending June 1, 1870 1,046 



Cost of annual support $97 70 



Total number receiving support, June 1, 1870.. 634 



Native 442 



White 407 



Colored 



Foreign ])o 



Number of persons convicted during the year. 20ii 

 Total number of persons in prison, June 1, 



1870... ; i 8 o 



Native 125 



White i j 3 



Colored 12 



Foreign 55 



ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. During 



the year 1872 the Catholic Church experi- 

 enced no little opposition in its head and its 

 members. The Pope remained in the Vatican 

 under the same circumstances as in the pre- 

 ceding year, relying entirely on the contribu- 

 tions of Catholics throughout the world, and 

 declining all recognition of the acts of the 

 Italian Government. He issued no bull or 

 brief of important bearing ; the official acts 

 relating to local matters. On the anniversary 

 of his accession to the Pontificate, and on other 

 occasions, Pius IX. received delegations of 

 Catholics from Rome, various parts of Italy, 

 and from other countries, and his replies to 

 the addresses made him on these occasions 

 attracted, in many cases, general attention. 

 His reply to the address of two German clubs, 

 June 24, 1872, gave great offence to the Gov- 

 ernment of the German Empire. The impor- 

 tant portion of the reply is as follows : 



Behold, then, a persecution already prepared and 

 commenced in Germany j the Prime-Minister of a 

 Government, after its victorious successes, is the 

 chief author thereof, but we have sent to tell him 

 and you may likewise publicly proclaim it that tri- 

 umph unaccompanied by modesty is but fleeting, 

 that triumph united with opposition to the Church 

 is the utmost madness. This very persecution which 

 Catholics suffer at the hands of the persecutor will 

 hasten the diminution of that triumph. 



I have sent to inform that Prime-Minister that 

 hitherto Catholics have been favorable to the Ger- 

 manic Empire. I have informed him that I have 

 always received from bishops, from priests, and 

 Catholics at large, continued accounts of the con- 

 tentment they experienced at the cordial manner 

 in which they were treated by Government, and of 

 the freedom preserved to the Church. And the 

 Government itself appeared satisfied with the Cath- 

 olics. How, then, after these declarations and con- 

 fessions of the German Government itself, how is it 

 that the Catholics are suddenly transformed into 

 people who disobey and who conspire ? This is the 

 question 1 have had put to him, to which I have re- 

 ceived no answer ; nor shall I have a reply just yet, 

 since truth is unanswerable. Be that as it may, let 

 us elevate our eyes toward God, let us be confident 

 and united, and, ere long, some pebble rolling 

 down from the mountain will bruise the heel of the 

 Colossus. 



But should the Lord will that further persecutions 

 come, the Church knows no fear ; on the contrary, 

 persecutions purify her, strengthen her, and increase 

 her beauty and her loveliness ; since even in the 

 Church there are subjects for purification, and perse- 

 cutions from the great ones of the earth better serve 

 that end. 



Let us then quietly await God's will, but be evej 



