Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-01-12
The Census.

The population of the states is shown by
the tables Of the census to be about 1920,
900. The territorial population, though moi
yet definitely ascertained, is estimated al
100000, making the entire population Of The
country somewhat more than 50,000,00O
In 1870 the population was 3S,l55,5O5. New
York, with her 50S2,S44 inhabitants, main
tains her position at the head of the states
Pennsylvania, having 4,226,099, takes the
second rank by about The same difference as
at the last census. Ohio foots up $780, 1888
taking the third position by 1921, whereas
ten years ago, she took the same rank by a
difference of S56,69l. The Keystone state
will need apply the multiplication table Wig.
orously during the next decade or her lusty
Buckeye neighbor will overhaul and hope
lessly distance her by 1890. Illinois, Mis-
souri,, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Kentucky,
follow in the order named maintaining the
same relative rank as in 1870. Tennessee,
which was the ninth state in population,
drops TO the eleventh, and Iowa, ten years
ago the eleventh, is now the ninth. Virginia
yields the tenth rank to Texas and takes the
thirteenth by the new census. Georgia's
1 ,537, S7S enable her to hold the twelfth rank,
and North Carolina maintains her old posi-
ton as fourteenth among her sister states.
Kansas "gets above" nine of her classmates,
making the longest stride Of any. Her pop
,,1at;o, oF Q0i 400 ,naJa bar tba tuapty-
ninth in rank ten years ago; her population
of 995335 in 1880 entities her to the TWEEN
tieth rank. Vermont is credited with $780,
2S6, making her the thirty-second state, and
showing a gain of 1,735-the smallest in
number and in percentage Of any state in
the Union. Nevada, with 62,265 against
42491 in 1870 is solid for the titmanship
for ten years more. In the way of bonanzas
however, she does not take the dust of any
state in the Union.
Among the territories, Utah's peculiar in
stitution enables her to compete successfully
for the palm, the enumeration of Mormon
and Gentle reaching 143,900. Dakotah
shows lusty growth, having a population
of 1874, 500. She will doubtless soon be
teasing her Uncle Samuel to "put on long
dresses" and appear in the society Of the
Union.
Considered by sections, New England has
gained 513,3S6, of which 325,735, or about
three-ffths, has been in Massachusetts,. The
gross increase in the northern states is about
6,275,792, of which over three millions is in
the west. The increase in the south is
1900, 1889, making the percentage Of increase
in the north little less than 20 per cent,
and in the south trife more than 81 per
cent.
OF cities New York leads off with 1906
500; Philadelphia follows with s46,9s4
Brooklyn, 566,6S9 Chicago, 503304; Bos-
ton, 1852, 535; st. Louis 350,522; Baltimore,
332, 100; Cincinnati, San Francisco and
New Orleans follow with populations exceed.
ing two hundred thousands and ten cities,
beginning with Cleveland's 100, 142 and end
ing with Providences 104 $50, have popu-
lation exceeding one hundred thousand.
The rate of increase for the states is about
% per cent. Should this rate be sustained
during the next decade the population of
this country in 1890 will be 64,000,0 900, and
the close of the present century should fiud
fully S0,000,000 of happy and prosperous
people in this nation.