Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-06-05
The Eighth Census.

| L he lOHoWlHS Is complete llSt OF tne as
sistant marshals of this county, authorized by
the United States marshal at Boston, to take
the census for 1860 in the respective towns as
signed them John Mellish of Auburn for
| Auburn and Leicester Luther Hill of Spen
Ger, for Spencer, Charlton, Southbridge, Stur
bridge, Oakham, North Brookfeld, and Brook.
field; Mr.. Powers of Hardwick, for Hard
wick, New Brantree, West Brookfield, and
Warren Moses Ruggles of Barre, for Barre,
Dana, Petersham, and Athol Lyman Shell
don OF Webster, for Webster, Oxford, Dudley,
and Douglass Postmaster Pierce of Paxton,
for Paxton, Rutland, Princeton, and Holden;
Mr.. Dupree Of Westminster, for Westminster,
Winchendon, Gardner, and Ashburnham
Postmaster Clapp of BaldwinvlIe for Tenn
pleton, Royalston, and Hubbardston VIM.
Woodbury. of Fitchburg, for Fitchburg, Leon
mister, and Sterling; Asa Daily of Harvard,
for Harvard, Berlin, Bolton, Lancaster and
Clinton; Geo A. Getting of West Boylston,
for West Boyston, Boylston, Marlborough,
and Scarborough T. W. Childs of Mill
bury, for Mibury, Grafton, Shrewsbury, and
Westborough George w. Rice of Sutton, for
S luton, Northbridge, Uxbridge, and Upton;
Samuel Croker of Milford, for Milford, Men
don, and Blackstone For Worcester-Wards
l, 2, I, and s, E. N. Chids; Wards 3, 4, 8,
and 6, John f. Murray
| These officers commenced their labors on
Friday last June LIST, and the answers to all
| bo pnola ,pifl, tO t1,o
state of things at that particular date. For
the benefit OF those of our readers who have
not yet been called upon to respond to these
inquiries, we give below statement of the
subjects on which information is required by
the census takers The instructions embrace
six different schedules, calculated to render
this the most complete and useful census yet
obtained
FIRE. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF every person
whose usual place of abode, on the first of
June, was in this family; age, sex, color; pro.
fession, trade, or occupation of each person
over fifteen years old value of real and per-
sonal estate: place of birth number married
within the year; ditto attended school; per-
sons over twenty years who cannot read or
write; any deaf, dumb, blind, insane, idiotic,
pauper, or convict.
2-.Siaues.-[Applies only to the slave
states.
Neutrality-suspicious. who died during the
year; age and sex, place of birth, month, oc.
cupation, color, disease, &C.
4. Products Of Agicult,ue.-Acres improved
and unimproved; cash value OF the farm do.
of farming implements, such as wagons, ma
chimes, etc; number Of horses, oxen, sheep,
etc. value OF live stock bushels of wheat,
rye, corn, oats, peas, potatoes, etc. pounds of
tobacco do. Of wool value of orchard pro-
ducts; gallons Of wine value Of produce OF
market gardens; pounds butter and cheese
tons hay; bushels clover seeds and grass
seeds; pounds hops; pounds flax; pounds
silk cocoons; pounds maple sugar; amount OF
cane sugar and mOlasses beeswaX; value
homemade manufactures; value of animals
slaughtered.
3. Products Of Indastry.-Name of corpora
ton, company, or individual producing articles
to the annual value Of $500 name OF business,
manufacture, or product; capital invested in
real or personal estate in the business quaint
ties, kinds, and values of raw material and
fuel kind of motive power: average number
of hands, male and female average wages,
both sexes; quantities, kinds, and values OF
annual product
Social Statistics-Value estate. real and per-
sonal annual taxes number colleges acade-
mics, and schools number pupils: amount
annually realized from endowment, and raised
by taxation amount received from public
funds and other sources Seasons and crops
what are short, and to what extent usual av-
erage crops. Libraries, newspapers, and pc
riodicals. Religion-number OF churches, de-
nominations, accommodation and value church
property. Paupers-number supported with
in year and on LIST of June native and foreign;
annual cost. Crme-number criminals con
victed within year and on LIST of June wages
Average monthly wages to farm hands, with
board ditto to day laborers, with and without
board; ditto to carpenters; ditto to male and
female domestics price OF board to laboring
men per week.