Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16

number of persons engaged in agricul-
ture is 1922, Ats, 525, SOB male and
1896, 1868 female; engaged in professional
and personal services, 2, 6S4, 794-1, 61S,-
121 male and ,066, 672 female; engaged
in trade and transportation, 1,191, 23S-
l, 172, $40 male and 1S,698 female; en-
gagged in manufactures and mechanical
and mining industries, 2, 707, 421-2, 353,-
All male and 800, $50 female. AS for
particular occupations some interesting
statistics are offered, from which the fol-
lowing items are worth O selection:
There are in the United States 1855. 996
agricultural laborers, 2,977, I'll farmers
and planters, 1876 apiarists, 3, $50 dairy
men and dairywomen, ], 095 florists. 81
535 gardeners and nurserymen, 1,112
wine growers, 2,053 actors, 2,017 archi-
tects, 2,266 auctioneers, 453 authors and
lecturers, %, 935 BARRIERS, "a house
keepers, 1920 billiard and bowling-sa-
loon keepers and employees, 424 bill
posters, II, 1856 boarding house keepers,
587 bootblacks, 70 chimney-sweeps, IS
chiropodists, 1884 clergymen, 1889
dentists, 975, 734 domestic servants, &c.
1874 hotel-keepers, $40 hunters and trap
pers, 352 inventors, 1926 journalists,
276 lamp-lighters, 40, 736 lawyers, /, 1856
midwives, 1876 nurses, 62,383 phys
clans and surgeons, $50 sculptors, ], Isl
sections, 154 shorthand writer's, 15,-
0lO musicians and teachers of mu-
sic, 2,873 whitewashers, 1851
bankers and brokers, 1852 bar
keepers, 1862 commercial travellers,
100, 756 draymen, hackmen and team
sters, 473 mule packers, 2, 0O2 newspaper
carriers, 384 pawnbrokers, Sc, 663 sailors,
1896 undertakes, SO wreckers, 27,680
bakers, 141,7 blacksmiths, A,354
butchers, %, 2S6 cigar-makers, 81, 233
engineers and fremen, 152, LOT miners,
39,06O printers, 436 rag-pickers, 161 500
tailors, tailoresses and seamstresses.
sUNDRY ITEMS.
The statistics of pauperism are con-
sldered by the Superintendent as incom-
plete, owing to the difficulty of securing
uniform information. In the tables, as
prepared, the number of persons sup
ported during the year ending June l,
1870, was 116, 102, at cost of so, $780,
429. Those receiving support at that
date numbered rs, 1877. The number of
persons convicted during that year in
the United States was 36, 562. The num-
Der of persons In prison June l, 1870,
in the United States was 80, 901. The
census shows that the area of the United
States in square miles is g, 1903, 1874, which,
when increased by the water surface of
the great lakes and rivers, is 1000, 600
square miles. There are 1910 persons
to square mile; 1878, 1863 families; 800
persons to the family; 7,042, 1913 dwell
ings and 5.47 persons to dwelling.
With the exception of the District of
Columbia, Massachusetts is the most
densely populated of any State or Terri
tory, it having 1856 81 persons to square
mile; and Arizona is themost sparlely pop
ulated, having 0. 08 persons to the square
mile. In Boston there were in 1870, 49,
1873 families, $40 persons TO a family;
81, 633 dwellings,, s. 46 persons to a dwell
ing; $50, 526 individuals, 1862, $40 natives,
1886 foreign-born, 247, 013 white, 1886
colored, japanese and IL Indians Of
the fifty largest cities, Boston is less
crowded in respect to dwellings, than
Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Fall River, and
New York, which has IA. Y persons to a
dwelling.
WHY WE HAVE NOT GROWN MORE.
Gen. Walker ascribes the reason why
O1lO pOPlAdoIOA lSulCo O1Nl AOU 1OdSIA
Al SOC, 900, as they should in the line of
increase exhibited since 1880, to several
classes; first, the retardation of increase
in the colored population; second, direct
loss during the war, by wounds and dis
ease, in both Northern and Southern
armies; third, indirect loss by war, in
the check given to immigration. Besides
} these causes he attributes it to the
II, e L. La e e.
of the country which tend strongly to
reduce the national increase. He be-
heves luxury, fashion and the custom OF
boarding combine to limit the in
crease of families to degree that in
I some sections even threatens the per-
, petuation of our native stock He be-
lieves that the United States, passing
from the gristle to the solid bone OF
, manhood, are also losing some of that
rapid growth which is the characteristic
of youth alone, and that we must be
content hereafter with something less
l than our former rate of increase.
DENSITY OF POPULATION.
=; A number of maps represent various
, things. The first represents the density
of population It shows that the coun,
try from about Wilmington, Del, to
e about Hartford, Conn, has population
4 of over 125 to the mile, as also the country
, on the line of Massachusetts, and Rhode
l Island from Newburyport and Boston
down to Newport. Eastern Pennsylvania
the country around the lakes, all tho
Eastern and Middle States, Ohio, Indi
e ana, Northern Illinois and the North
b west are densely populated, except il
: some few places. The mountainous dis
: trict of Virginia, the entire east coast o.
: Florida, Southeast Mississippi ant
: Texas ON the Gulf, do mot represent al
e average population of over five to the
: mile, while the cities, of course, repre-
J sent..in all localities populations more o.
S less dense.