Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1876 — State Populations in 1875. [ARTICLE]

State Populations in 1875.

Fifteen States of the Union have made a census of their inhabitants in 1875, and we have the results for eight States, as follows: States. 1870. 1875. Increase. Kansas 364,399 533,3:3 168,974 Louisiana 726,915 857,139 130,124 Massachusettsl,477,3sl 1,651,902 194,551 Michiganl,lß4,os9 1,314,031 159,792 New Jersey 906,096 1,026/02 12u,406 New Y0rk4,382,759 4,705,208 322.449 Rhode Island 217,353 258,239 40.836 South Carolina.... 705,606 923,447 217.841 Total increasel,3ss,2e3 The seven States Of Florida, lowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon and Wisconsin have also taken censuses this year, and with results only partially known to us,. We estimate the increase of population in them at 685,000. The total increase in fifteen States would thus be a little over 2,000,000 since the general census of 1870. The fifteen States named had in 1870 a little more than one-third the population of the United States. If we assume a common average progress in all, the increase in all should, at this time, be upward of 5,000,000, swelling the population of the United States to 44,000,000. ■- The figures above given for the eight States have been definitely ascertained and announced since the Superintendent of tjiq United States Census Bureau prepared his last annual report to Congress. The Superintendent, in that report, took a gldomy view of the “comparatively small results to be denvetyrom the anticipated State census of 1875,” and erred, we think, in expressing the opinion that “enough is already known to indicate quite clearly that the progress of our population has received a temporary check.” The figures do not show it.— Brooklyn (N. Y.) Union.

—A Virginia (Nev.) husband went to the depot the otjier day to receive his wife, whom h| had not seen for two years. When the train came in he sprang forward to assist her from the car, and had managed to say: “My dear, I ,” when she “ put in” to the following effect: “How is Mrs. Smith? Have you seen Tom ? What a dreadful journey I’ve had. Why don’t you take your pants out of your boots ? You must, positively have tliathair of yours cut rightaway. You’re smoking again, I see. Have you got nice rooms ? I hope you haven’t been drinking, dearest. Oh, dear me, how muddy it is!” A gold-mine at Canton, Ga., pans out SIOO a day to each washer of the aurifer-* ous earth.