The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-08-07
SOCIAL FIGuREs,
showing the Marriages, divorces, births
aud Deaths Ia Ohio In One Year.

showing the Marriages, divorces, hlrthh
aud Deaths Ia Ohio In one Year.
The Cleveland Herald has been COM
piling a few figures on the social quea'
ton in Ohio for the past year, aud The
result of lta Investigations ls given De-
low.
Social statistics are always interest
Ing, PeOpe like 10 read about people.
Yet One-half the world knows not how
the other half live, In ONO there are
about three and a quarter millions OF
people, all told, from one year up TO one
hundred, About one fourth OF these are
youths or minors, leaving about TWO ana
q third millions OF adults. During the
year 1883 there we're 4.67l divorce suits
brought In the State, OF which 800
were granted, 7lB were refused, and H.
$50 were pending at the llrat OF the pres
ent year. Hamilton county led the list
In snita brought, having recorded an
even 1000, Cuyah0ga was next Win
1855, and Carroll was least with but 6
In the list OF causes, absence and neg
leCt numbered 1885 cases; cruelty $40
aud drunkenness b36. II ls also inter
estlng 10 remark that the wives brought
over two thirds OF these against the
husbands.
but with the large number Of divorce
suits brought by discontinued aud dis,
satl,l led married people, the number Of
marriages Increased In a much more
rapid ratio. In 1883 the Ohio ministers
probate Judges, Justices and other OIL
clals, made happy for life vi SlS per-
sous. This number does not Include the
young and giddy lovers who skipped
over tho State line into Pennsylvania,
aud returned home after q secret and
romantic ceremony, In CuyahOga c0un'
ty last year thele were 2,3O9 marriages,
The spring and fall months seem 70 be
the most popular for Hymen's success
full work, "ln the springa young man's
fancy Lightly turns 10 thoughts Of love,
but In the fall his fancy turns more par
tcuarly 10 something less ethereal.
May and June are fay0rite days for we'd
dings. Then the flowers are most beau
tlful, and the full.blOss0med spring IL
filled with enchantment, Az least there
must be some certain reason. Septem'
Der, October and November are even
more popular for wedding days than the
enchanting months OF spring time,
During the midsummer days there II
less OF q rush for the altar, but no soOn
or do the leaves begin 10 tlnge with gol'
den hues aud the nuts ripen In the for
esta than there Il n0liceablean increase
In orange blossoms and wedding hellS,
How the poets explain thisis not known
but 10 certainly Is not because hard coal
IL higher then and potatoes double up
inprice.
In the State of Ohio for the year end.
Ing March 3lat, 65.7l2 births were re.
corded. OF this number the female sex
we're In the lead about 5000, Cuya-
hoga county contributed 5,i3l, The
winter months, from November 10
March are, according TO the statistics,
more prolific In the record OF births
than spring or summer,
Aud now come the deaths In Ohio for
the same twelve months, and which
show an aggregate number Of 2036S
or 80, 3ii less than the number OF births
From such an increase OF births
over deathl II is evident that OHIO Is
q growing State without depending
upon the contributions OF cltizens from
other States and natiOnallties. Ohio
can keep up her head without assist
ance from her neighbors.