Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-07-02
Miscellany.
P0pulatiOna1 Meters.

Hume speaks Of a Roman Emperor
who, wishing to learn something abou
the population Of his metropolis. issue,
an edict requiring everybody TO bring t
his place all The cobwcts they could find
There we're enough to prove Rome YER
large city. When Arthur Young wishc,
TO compare the different French depart
mcnts, he could devise no better meihot
than to cut them out one by one from
map, and then ascertain their compare
tive weight in a scale.
Que of the earliest modern examples o
accurate enumeration throughout a wild,
country, was the United States census o
l19l. Each new decade some new spccif
cations have been added to those Before
made.
The prosperity Of the State is now meas
ured, by alt political economists, BY it
popuIations growth. Hence all State,
i.ll arn aEed mat rnelr nimocrs are proved
50 few. So chaerned were several cities
in 1870, that they paid for taking sec
ond census in hopes to sAow that their in
babitants had not been all included in The
government returns.
The biennial census which was Ionc
taken by the State of Iowa, furnished &
every Iowa editor an exhoustess treasury
of itcms-nevcr in the way, and neve
out OF the way.
In the absence Of an oft repeated cen
sus. there is an irGuity of unchecked
guessing and CASING, especially in new
States where growth is most wondered at
being transition from nothing to. some
thing.
Accordingly on the Atlantic SLOPE
there is great distrust of al reports con
ceruiug western progress, till they ar
confirmed by an official census. The Ne
braska Superintendent of lmmigratio
has estimated the influx into that Stat
at 40, 900 persons year, His .cstimat
has been uch ridiculed as wild exae
cergation, of piece with Yankee Dos
dies reckoning of the continental host
when his father and he went down
camp.
"And there was Captain Washington
Upon strapping stallion,
A giving orders to his men,
I guess there ,cas q million.
But it can be prored mathematically
that Mr.. Notewares estimate is yer
nearly correct. Thus, in 1870, the scho'
children numbered 80, ,762, and the popl
lation 100, ,993. But in 1872 the scho
children had increased 10 81, l23. Their
fore. as all those scholars who have reache
the Rule of Three can demonstrate, Il
Nebraska population in 1872 amounted
l9l,92S, showing gain Of 6s,935 wit
in two years. :,
The lists of school children, besid
r showing the growth of the State at larg
. arc meter of local progress.
Look. for instance, along the main III
of the Burlington & Missouri River Rs
! road. 1t runs through eight countic
+. Admas, Glass, Clay, Fillmore. Kearne
+, Lancaster, Saline and Saunders. The
school children in 1870, were 5.9l2, al
!, their population 23,247. In 1872 the
! school children had multiplied to ll,2l
u therefore their population then can
a have been less than 44,0T9B.
r Nebraska, at large, has been exec
tionally prosperous, for its population
increalent in two years has been 81,
b per cent. But even this per centagc ia
: far below that of thu eight counties ira
IT ersed by the B. & M. railroad line. Th'
= ponulational advance between 1870 a
. 1872 has been at the rate Of o9.6 I
cent.
a In the next two years their growth "
st be still greater than in, the last two,
n half Of them had 90 school children t
N years ago, and locomotives not yet hayl
traversed them all for more than fc
months, have just begun to put forth tn
10 magical influences in making solltu'
10 populous.
ST Yet the railroad above mentioned wi
:, in thirty-three months after putting
. land in market. had sold 47S,9SS ac
to 1925 purchasers, on ten years ere
or and six per cent. interest, and on sa
IN since 1872 nothing Of the principal tsp
o, able till the end Of four years,