The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-12-28
GENERAL NEWS.

According to the last census. the ex-
cess of men over women in the United
States is nearly 100000 The States
in which there are more women than
men are Connecticut, New Jersey,
New York, North Carolina, Maryland,
Massachusetts,, New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, South Carolina and
Virginia. The District of Colum bia
has 900 more women than men.
The largest negro population is in
Georgia, $4,000, and the smallest in
North Dakota, 500.
| Good horses are cheaper in some
parts of the West now than dogs in the
East, for there are few dogs not owned
by some one, while the horses cannot
be given away. All over the West
horses have been astoundingly cheap
for some time. ard two or three dollars
has been good price for good ami
NAL. A hundred head of ranch horses,
sturdy, unbroken bronchos from Wyo-
ming were sold in Denver for 800 and
the freight recently. 1t IS reported
that big stock firm in Idaho has
turned more than 25O ponies adrift to
shift for themselves during the winter
as it was cheaper to do this than TO
provide food for them. The firm could
not get even dollar apiece for them.
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Mr.. Henry Gannett, and expert an
thropologist, whose studies of the In
dian race are we'll known. and who
was one of the experts of the census
bureau, has embodied his observations
on the negro race in the United States
in pamphlet called Statistics of the
Negroes Of the United States,' which
has been published by the trustees of
the Slater fund. The conclusions
reached by Mr. Gannett are very inter
esting He finds that the negroes,
while increasing rapidly are diminish
ing in numbers relatively to the whites.
4 OF the latter there are sixty-one mil
lions and of the former eight millions.
This difference of increace, which has
been ascribed to the immigration of
of whites, is attributed to other causes.
a higher death rate among the negroes
being the chief cause of the difference.
A second deduction of Mr.. Gannett
is that the negroes are moving south
ward from the border states into the
South Atlantic and Gulf states. The
center of negro population, which in
1880. was placed near Dalton, in north
west Georgia. had moved in 1890 only
twenty five miles southwest, that is
near Rome, ia. In the same period
the center of population for the whites
moved from Baltimore to a point in
southern Indiana.
Another of the conclusions of Mr..
Gannett is that the negro prefers rural
to urban life. or rather he is forced to
adopt agricultural pursuits by the COM
petition in the cities, aud because he
is better qualified to till the soil than
to engage in manufacturing or CONNER
cial occupations. More than II per
cent of the negroes live in the low,
swampy regions of the Atlantic coast,
and the alluvial districts of the Missis-
sip oi valley They avoid mountainous
regions, as nearly one-fourth of them
live at attitudes less than 100 feet above
the sea, while one sixth of the total
population is found in these sections
of the country. The border states have
lost in proportion of negroes as COM
pared to whites in the cotton states up
/ to the last ten years.
Mr.. Ganuett finds that the proper
ton of criminals among the negroes is
much greater than among the whites,
being as q to 3 by the last census.
The number of negro attendants on
the schools is far behind that of the
whites. but is gaining rapidly, and in
1890 about 4s per cent of negroes over
10 years of age could read and write.
In 1870 the negro school children were
only per cent of all negroes, but were
! 10 percent in 1890, while the whites had
increased from 10 To only % per cent in
] the same time. Ia Virginia and the
district of Columbia the percentage of
enrolment of white and negro chill
I dren is about equal.
Little 10 Peep.
She lost her sheep.
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