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Show The number of retail liquor dealers in the United States, according to the official returns of the officers of the in ternal revenue for the year enduig M;y 1, 1S90, was 185 S6S, or one liquor dealer to every 275 inhabitants, on the basis of the census of 1S80. Jn .ew York the -e was 1 retail dealer in distilled dis-tilled liquois to eve-y 150 inhabitants; in New Jersey, 1 to 175; in Ohio, 1 to 23C;'n Pennsylvania and Massachuse t 1 to 400; in Indiana, 1 to C25; iu Delaware, Dela-ware, 1 to 160; and in Cali.'oniia, 1 to 75. The average in all the states j which have general license laws is l! dram shop to 250 inhabitants. In Maine there is 1 letail dealer in distilled dis-tilled liquors to every 750 inhabitants; in Vermont, 1 to 820; in Iowa, 1 to 520 aiid in Kansas, 1 to 800. i |