Connecticut western news., 1890-11-05
COLUMBIA'S POPULATION
The Grand Total AnnouncedBy
 the Census Bureau.
62,4sO,54O PEOPLE ON THE LIST.

An Increase of Over 12, 900, 900 Since the
 Again In Population-The Various States
 and Their Increase Since 1880.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-The census office has announced the population of the United States, as shown by the first count of per sons and families, exclusive of white per sons in Indian Territory, Indians on reser- vations and Alaska, to be 62, ,4sO, $40. These figures may be slightly changed by later and more exact compilations, but such changes will not be material. In 1880 the population was 50, 1853, s72. The abso- lute increase of the population in ten years intervening was 12, 3A, 757 and the percent age of increase was 24 57. In 1870 the popu- lation was stated as 3s, 55S, ,31. According to these figures the absolute increase in the decade between 1870 and 1880 was II ,597 ,412 and the percentage of increase was 3O.ce. The bulletin announcing these figures is addressed to Secretary Noble and signed by Superintendent Porter. It says:
 Superintendent Porter Explains.
 "Upon their face these figures show that the population has increased between 1880 and 1890 only 727, ,45 more than between 1870 and 1880, while the rate of increase has apparently diminished from -3O.08 to 24. 57 per cent If these figures were derived from correct data they would indeed be disappointing. Such 8 reduction in the rate of increase in the face of the enormous immigration during the past ten years would argue great diminuation in the fecundity of the population or correspond sv,rp Sv1o iv, sfo o%o frr- ures are, however, easily explained when the character of the data used is under stood. It is we'll known, the fact having been demonstrated by extensive and thor ough investigation, that the census of 1870 was grossly deficient in the southern states, so much so as not only to give an exagger- ated rate of increase of the population be- tween 1870 and 1880 in these states, but to affect very materially the rate of increase in the country at large.
 Tho Census of 1880.
 "These omissions were not the fault, nor were they within the control of the census office. The census of 1880 was taken under law which the superintendent, Gen. Fran cis A. Walker, characterized as clumsy, antiquated and barbarous.' the census of flee had no power over it's enumerators, save barren protest, and this right was even questioned in some quarters"
 New York Leads, as in 1880.
 The bulletin contains statement show ing the relative rank of states and terri tories in population. As in 1880, New York still heads the list, and is followed by Pennsylvania. Ohio and Illinois have ex- changed places. Of the other changes in the list the most marked are those of Texas, which rises from No. Il to No. z; Kentucky, which drops from to Il; Min nesota, which rises from 26 to 20; Nebraska, which rises from 30 to 26; Maryland, which drops from g to 9; Colorado, which rises from 35 to 31; Vermont, which drops from 32 to 36; Washington. which rises from Az to 34; Delaware, which drops from 38 to to 42; Nevada, which drops from 43 to 49, and Arizona, which drops from A to AS. The average change in rank is 2.2 places.
 The States and Their Growth.
 The population of the states and terri tories, together with increases since 1880, is as follows: