128 Statistics. 
STATISTICS. 
The whole number of marriages returned to the office of the 
secretary of the state of Massachusetts, the year ending April 30th 
1847, was 5390. Of this number 3,999 took place between bach- 
elors and maids; 421 between bachelors and widows; 464 be- 
tween widowers and widows; 464 the condition of the parties not 
stated. As to age, 55 of the men and 1,126 of the women were 
married under 20; 1,933 men, and 2,060 women were between 
20 and 26 years of age. 
The number of births in the same period was 17,097; number of 
deaths 1,163; and of consumption 2,397; of zimotic diseaes 2,982. 
The average age of Farmers was 64 years ; of Clergymen 61; 
of Lawyers 65 ; of Physicians 52 ; of Professors 60 ; Teachers 
45 ; of Scholars 23 ; of Musicians 39. 
The whole number relieved or supported as paupers, in the 
same year was 18717 ; state paupers 90005. Of these were for- 
eigners 7035 ; from England and Ireland, 6383; foreigners who 
were in during the year and were assisted, 2501; whole expense 
paid on account of paupers $37411; whole number of prisoners 
in all the jails and houses of correction during the same time 7009; 
5796 males, and 1213 females; able to read and WTite 2375; ad- 
dicted to interaperence 2168. 
Natives of Massachusetts, 995; of other states, 730; of other 
countries, 1,605; nativity not known, 3,679. 
Whole expense of jails and houses of correction, for the year, 
$72,728.40. Estimated value of labor in the houses of correc- 
tion, same time, $15,283.75; leaving a balance against service of 
$'57,444.65. The whole number remaining in confinement on* 
the 1st of November, 1847 was 730. 
In the town of Ovid, Seneca county, with a population of some 
2,500, the number of births the last year were 64, marriages 18, 
deaths 23. Of the deaths, the average age of the males was 19^ 
years, females 33 years. 
Value of Property in the State of JVew York. — The assessed 
value of property in this state last year, was $350,639,056, of 
which $409,496",855 was in real estate, and $121,162,261 in 
personal. Total state and county taxes for 1847, $3,749,389. 
Education in the West. — It appears from the census of 1840, 
that there w^ ere in the great West, 1,000,000 children who attend 
no schools whatever. In Kentucky, out of 169,000 children more 
than 100,000 are without schools; and in Indiana, the School 
Commissioner reports that two thirds of the children in the state 
attend no schools. 
