Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1888 — INCREASE OF IMMIGRANTS. [ARTICLE]

INCREASE OF IMMIGRANTS.

Nearly 400,000 Arrived from Eti ope During the First Eight Months <>,'lßß3. Burin*:the eight monlhs on ling with August there camo t>, the United States nearly 400,000 immigrants (392,937). or about 39,000 more than in the first eight months of last year. It is worth noting that while England and Wales sent us 2.000 less than last year, and Ireland only 700 more, Scotland sent 2.100 more. The Germans were slightly less, but in all other nationalities there was an increase. Of the total immigration for the eight months every one hundred was made up substantially as follows: British, 31; German. 19; Bohemian. Austrian. Hungarian. Polish, and Russian, 18; Scandinavian, 15; Italian, 10: and other countries, 7. Of the British immigrants 43 per cent, were Irish, 42 per cent. English and Welsh, and 15 per cent. Scotch. During the eight months the most remarkable increase was in the Russian, Hungarian, and Polish, which reached 75,000, an advance of 17,500 over last year. .