The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-06
NEGRO STATISTICS.
Great Birth and Death Rates Are
Race characteristics.
HOW THEY ARE DISTRIBUTED
AS Shown by the Census. The Propor
ton Between Pure Bloods ana
Mulattoes. Females Pre-.
dominate Over Males.


The census bureau Frid4y issued
the final bulletin on the negro popula.
tion of the United States. The mum.
Der OF negroes in the United Ssates,
including the entire area covered by
the 18th census Continental United
States, Alaska and Hawaii) and Puerto
Rico is 9,204, 531, perhaps a larger
number than is found in any other
country outside OF Africa.
The report indicates that between
II and l6 per cent. Of the negro
population have or are believed by the
enumerators to have some degree of
white blood. The centre of the negro
population is in Dekalb county,
Alabama, about four miles from west
e1n boundry Of Georgia, having moved
thence from DinWiddie county, Vir-
giuia, since 1870. Over II per cent
Of the negroes live in the country,
against over 81 per cent. Of the
whites. Almost 90 per cent. Of the
negroes in continental United States
are in southern States and three
tenths uf them are in Georgia, MiSsis-
sippi and Alabama.
Negroes Constitute about one-ff-
teenth OF the city population and
about one-seventh OF the country
population Of continental United
States. There was an increase among
the negroes of 1 .345, 3lS or l8 per cent.
in continental United States but the
rate of increase declined steadily
through the nineteenth century.
The negro S, unlike the Indians and
the native white, have slight excess
Of females. lllite1acy among ttem
is about seven times greater than
among the whites. There are $685.
337 negroes in the United States en-
gagged in gainful occupations. Their
death rate approximates 80 per cent.
while that Of the whites under the
same calculation is II per cent.
The proportion Of mulattoes to all
negroes is usually higher in cities Of
the great cotton growing States than
it is in the districts outside of the
cities. The district in which the pro-
portion OF negroes is greatest lies in
the Mississippi alluvial region along
both banks Of the lower Mississippi,
where five-eights OF the population Is
negro, the maximum being in 1sSaque-
na county, Mississippi, with more than
Is negres to each white person. Ne
groes form one-third OF the population
in the south both in cities and in
country districts while in the north
they are about one-fortieth OF city and
one-ninetieth Of country districts. In
the country districts Of the south, ex-
Guiding the population Of the 242 cities
which had at least $500 inhabitants
both in 1890 and in 1900, the negroes
increased 1890 to 1900 over l6 per cent; !;
in the 242 southern cities as whole
they increased 22.7 per cent. Their
increase In the country districts was
about two thirds as rapid as that OF the
whites in the same area; their increase
in southern cities was nearly fve-sixths
as fast as that Of the whites in the
same cities.
In the five southern cities, having at
least 100, 900 inhabitants in-1s00, the
negro population increased 25.8 per
cent, 1890 to 1900; the white popola-
tion OF the same cities increased only
2O.S per cent. This is the only group
OF southern cities in which the rate OF
increase Of negro population exceeded
that of the whites. In the SO cities
Of this class Of continental United
States the per cent. OF increase was 3S
Tor negroes and 32.7. for whites.
The largest number Of negroes hv-
ing in compact masses are founc IN
certain urban counties several Of which
lie outside OF the great cotton growing
States. The four each having over
IS, 900 negroes are: District Ct Colun-
bia, coextensive with Washington;
Shelby county, Tenn, containing
Memphis; Baltimore city, Md, and
Orleans parish, La, cosxtensiVe with
New Orleans.
The general conclusion seems war
ranted that the proportion Of mula-
toes to total negroes was found by the
enumerators to be high or low, accord
ing as the proportion Of whites or ne
groes IS high or low.
The total mum hers Of negroes repor-
ted oy the twelfth census was $780,
7S9. To this number may be added
the 363,742 persons of pure or mixed
negro blood in Puerto REQ, making a
total Of e,2o4, ,531 negroes under
American jurisdiction. This includes
8, 833, es4 negroes of continental Unit
ed States, which excludes these OF
Puerto Rico and a few in Alaska, Ha-
waii and the military and navals rVice.
The Weevil in Texas Oats.
The State says railroad men Of the
freight departments are asking what
districts in Texas are affected by the
boil weevil, in order that they may