The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-01-15
The Workers OF the Nation.

| The Americans are working people, Is
a study Of the censas returns will SHOW.
The following estimates, made from the eea.
sus ct 1870, show the number Of toiiers in
different fields Of labor aud the comparison
| is an instructive one: There are somewhat
over 100000 directly interested in tho
culture of the SOIL 100000 of when are
laborers, 4, 900 dairymen, 3 Zoo, 600 farmars
or land propretors, 1 900 florists, $1,000
| gardeners, about Is 900 heIdsmen and dro-
vers, 900 vineyardists, few bee-raisers
and 5000 of sundry Kindred employmeuts.
| The clergymen number Is, 600, the actora
1000, the architects 1000, the artists 4,OOo,
the authors 500. the dentists 5000, servants
| domestic 100000, hotel keepers $4,000,
journalists 5000, laborers 1,4O0, 600, laun--
dresses 10000, BARRIERS $4,000, lawyers 5O,-
600, musicians 5000, nurses $4,000, army
and navy officers $4,000, government off,
cials 49, 600 and government employees 49,
900. Physicians 65, 900, scu1p.ors 25O SOL
diers $4,000, teachers 40, OG0, restaurauters
$4,000. Of tradesmen we 6ud 10000 a.
gents, 10000 bankers, $4,000 barkeepers,
Is ,00e boatmen. IS 600 bookkeepers, $780,
600 clerks, 1875, 200 draymen and teamsters,
l75,o railroad employees. 10000 hucks-
tiers, 5000 milk dealers, 5000 newspaper
carriers, 10000 in the employ of telegraph
companies. 400 pawn brokers, 10000 ped
dlers, go 900 sailors, 10000 portars, $1,000
statesmen, 1000 shippers, 1926, 600 uncIassi-
fed dealera, 1000 cheerful undertakers,
1000 deal in books. 1000 in agricultural
implements, ; 0,0 600 in boots and shoes, 5000
~, po+ =.
coal, 10000 in tobacco, $4,000 in drugs.
10000 10 dry goods, $4,000 IN liquors, s 600
in live stock, 10000 in lumber, 1900 in
produce, 5000 in real estate, 1900 in sew
ing machines, 1000 IN periodicals aud news
papers; nothing said Of tho lightni.g-rol
men. These figures are all Id round nun
bera, but approximately correct.
+ There are about 100000 mechanics ara
manufactures. Of these IS, 600 are cabinet
makers, 5000 make our broouis, 5000 are
contractors, $4,000 make beer, &c, 600 mako
bricks and tiles, 5000 bleach and dye the
cloth that 10000 make of wool and 115 900
make of cotton, 10000 make artificial flow
ers, and $4,000 are dress aud mantua ma
kers 45, 900 milliners. $4,000 bakers, and
1900 cheese makers, 145 900 blacksmiths .
and 35O,O0 carpenters; there are SIS coo
machiuists and $4,000 foundrymen, 90,Ce3
are masons and 10000 marble cutters, 1000
make soap and candles, 10000 make carria.
ges, 900 carpets, 1000 lime and charcoal,
80, 600 cigars 1000 clocks, So 600 harness
and saddles, $1,000 oats and caps, 1000
hoopskirts, $4,000 paper there are 10000
dstillers, 80 coo fire and engineers, As
600 butchers, % 900 fishermen, 5000 eugras
vers, 10, 900 workers in glass, 10000 in gold
and silver, 10 eco locksrniths and guusmlths,
1000 workers in iron and steel works not
specified, 10000 IN iron and steal rolling
mills, 10000 !umbermen, IS 600 naauutact-
ures There are 155 900 at work in minea
and II 900 ia saw mills, $4,000 are painters,
rs, 900 plasters, $1,000 timers, q, 900 Wheel
wrights, 1000 work in sewing machine fac
tories, 10000 are printers, 5000 po!tezs.
10000 ship builders, 5000 weod turner's
and 8 900 wood choppers, aad no less than
10000 tailors, tailoresses and seamstrsasss,
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