The Virgin islands of the United States of America; historical and descriptive, commercial and industrial facts, figures, and resources . anties were blown away on shore, and manyhouses had their tiles or tin sheets torn off. Being sofar removed from the centre, St. Thomas escaped aworse fate, for it was believed by competent meteor-ologists to have been one of the most terrific cyclonesthat had ever visited the West Indies. On October 2, 1877, St. Thomas was startled bythe news of an insurrection among the labourers ofSt. Croix. Close upon this intelHgence came a crowdof homeless fugitives fr
The Virgin islands of the United States of America; historical and descriptive, commercial and industrial facts, figures, and resources . anties were blown away on shore, and manyhouses had their tiles or tin sheets torn off. Being sofar removed from the centre, St. Thomas escaped aworse fate, for it was believed by competent meteor-ologists to have been one of the most terrific cyclonesthat had ever visited the West Indies. On October 2, 1877, St. Thomas was startled bythe news of an insurrection among the labourers ofSt. Croix. Close upon this intelHgence came a crowdof homeless fugitives from West End, whose tales ofsuffering struck terror and dismay into the heartsof those who had relatives or friends in that ill-fatedspot. His Excellency, Governor Garde, accompaniedby the Police-Master and fifty soldiers, left as soon aspossible in the Royal Mail Steamship A mo, for thescene of action. The riot was soon quelled, and thering-leaders were shot or otherwise punished. In the year 1880, a census was taken of the DanishWest Indies. According to the returns publishedsometime afterwards, the population of the three islands. B o & s m o St. Thomas 29 numbered 33,783, of which 18,440 were in St. Croix,14,399 in St. Thomas, and 944 in St. John. The population had been on the decrease since i860,for in that year in St. Croix there numbered 23,194souls (in 1870, 22,760); in St. Thomas, 13,463 (in1870, 14,007); in St. John, 1574 (in 1870, 1054). Of thepopulation in St. Croix, 4939 lived in Christiansted,3480 in Frederiksted, and 10,011 in the country majority of the female sex was exceedingly large,for 14,889 were males and 18,894 females. The mar-riage statistics showed 763 bachelors, 240 marriedmen, 31 widowers, and 2 divorced; 739 unmarriedwomen, 172 married, 87 widows, and 2 divorced. Inregard to means of subsistence, 10,010 lived by agri-culture, 7409 by industrial occupations, 6600 as port-ers, labourers, etc., 2897 by commerce, and 1845 by thesea, etc. O
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