The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-01-17

number OF persons engaged in agricul-
ture is 5,922, 471-5, 525, SOB male and
396. 968 female: engaged in professional
and personal services, 1854, 79i-1, 6lS,-
12l male and ], O66, 672 female; engaged
in trade and transportation, / ,19l ,238-
.172 $40 male and 49, 9S female; en-
paped i'm manufactures and mechanical
and mining industries, 2, 707, AL, $685.
All male and 353, $50 female. AS for
particular occupations some interesting
statistics are offered, from which the fol-
lowing items are worth selection
There are in the United States 2, SS5, 1916
agricultural laborers, 2,977, I'll farmers
and planters, 1856 apiarists, 1880 dairy
men and dairywomen, ,0S5 florists, 81,
535 gardeners and nurserymen, LIP
wine growers, 2,053 actors, 2,0l7 archi-
tects, 2, 266 auctioneers, 453 authors and
lecturers, %, 935 BARRIERS, "a bath-house
keepers, 1,22O billiard and bowling-sa-
loon keepers and employees, 424 bill
posters, II, 1856 boarding house keepers,
5S7 bootblacks, 70 chimney-sweeps, 65
chiropodists, 1854 clergymen, 1889
dentists, 975, 734 domestic servants, &c.
1874 hotel-keepers, $40 hunters and trap
pers, 352 inventors, 5,2S6 journalists,
276 lamp-lighters, 40, 1876 lawyers, ], 1876 ?
midwives, 1876 nurses, go, 1888 phys
clans and surgeons, $50 sculptors, ], l51
sections, 154 shorthand writer's, d.,
0l0 musicians and teachers OF mu-
sic, 2,S73 whitewashers, 1861
bankers and brokers, 1862 bar
keepers, 1862 commercial travellers,
! 100, 756 draymen, hackmen and team
sters, 473 mule packers, 2, 002 newspaper
carriers, 3S4 pawnbrokers, 56, 663 sailors,
1886 undertakers, 90 wreckers, 1850
bakers, 141, TIA blacksmiths, 4,354
butchers, 22,2S6 cigar-makers, "a, 233
engineers and fremen, 152, 107 miners,
80, $50 printers, 436 rag-pickers, 16l, $40
! tailors, tailoresses and seamstresses.
sUNDRY ITEMS.
The statistics of pauperism are con-
sidered 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 /,
| 1870, was 116, 102, at n cost of 80, $780,,
400. Those receiving support at that
date numbered rs, 1877. The number of
persons convicted during that year in
! the United States was sc, $50. The num-
Der of persons in prison June l, 1870,
in the United States was 81, 9O1. The
census shows that the area of the United
States in square miles is 3, 603, SS4 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, 1868 families; 500
persons to the family; 1912, 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 1S6. 81 persons to square
mile; and Arizona is the most sparlelypop-
ulated, having O. 0S persons to the square
mile. In Boston there were in 1870, 49,
| 1873 families, go persons TO a family;
| u, 633 dwellings,, 8. 46 persons to a dwell
ing $50, 500 individuals, 162, $40 natives,
81, $50 foreign-born, 247, 013 white, 3, 1876
cOlored, 3 japanese and II Indians. Of
the fifty largest cities, Boston is less
crowded In respect to dwellings, than
Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Fall River, and
New York, which has IL 70 persons to a
dwelling.
WHY WE HAVE NOT GROWN MORE.
Gen. Walker ascribes the reason why
/ the population figures did not reach
II, 500, 900, as they should in the line of
increase exhibited since 1880, to several
classes; first, the retardation of increase
i'll the colored population; second, direct
loss during the war, by wounds and dis
ease, III both Northern and Southern
armies; third, indirect loss by war, in
the check given TO immigration. Besides
these causes he attributes it TO the
growth of habits of life in many sections
of the country which tend strongly to
reduce the national increase. He be-
lieves luxury, fashion and the custom of
boarding combine to limit the in
crease of families to a degree that in
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
than our former rate of increase.
DENSITY OF POPULATION.
"A number Of maps represent various
things. The first represents the density
of population. 1t shows that the coun-
try from about Wilmington, Del, to
about Hartford, Conn, has population
of over 125 to the mile, as also the country
on the line of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island from Newburyport and Boston
down to Newport. Eastern Pennsylvania,
the country around the lakes, all the
Eastern and Middle States, Ohio, Indi-
ana, Northern Illinois and the North
west are densely populated, except in
some few places. The mountainous dis
trict of Virginia, the entire east coast of
Florida, Southeast Mississippi and
Texas on the Gulf, do not represent an
average population of over five to the
mile, while the cities, of course, repre-
sent.in all localities populations more or
less dense.