MICHIGAN". 



MINNESOTA. 



505 



The net cash revenue receipts were : 



From direct taxes ... $970,504 99 



From specific taxes 636,480 93 



From trust funds 61,967 05 



Miscellaneous 



$1,568,952 9T 

 84,356 96 



Total ordinary revenue receipts $1,653,809 93 



To which add reimbursements as above 15,416 19 



Giving for receipts for the fiscal period available for general purposes $1,668,726 12 



The amount of copper and iron ore reported 

 from the Upper Peninsula for taxation in 1875 

 was: 



Copper tons, 15,219 ; Ibs., 1,011 ; tax, 75c. per ton $11,414 62 

 Iron tons, 793,153 ; Ibs., 1,430; tax, Ic. per ton. . $7,931 53 



The tax is based on the reports of produc- 

 tion in 1874. 



The salt inspection for the year was 1,080,- 

 865 barrels. The business increases steadily, 

 mainly in Saginaw Valley. 



In Headley & McOall's annual statement of 

 the business of that valley for the year, the fol- 

 lowing estimate is made of the pine-lumber : 



Lumber cut in the State 2,691,965,388 feet 



Shingles cut 1,383,870,000 " 



Lumber on hand 804,286,853 " 



Old logs on hand 695,194,871 " 



The lumber business was greatly depressed 

 for the year, and prices ruled low. 



The report of the State-prison Inspectors for 

 the year ending September 30, 1875, shows a 

 balance of net earnings for the year of $10,- 

 209.65. Number of convicts at beginning of 

 year, 703 ; received, 391 ; discharged, 259 ; 

 pardoned, 26 ; escaped, 5 ; died, 10 ; sentences 

 reversed, 6 ; sentence commuted, 1 ; number 

 remaining, 788. Average term of sentences, 

 3.15 years ; life-sentences, 3. Since 1847 sev- 

 enty persons have been sentenced to solitary 

 confinement in the State-prison for life. Of 

 these convicts the report says : 



Of these, 26 have died ; 7 were discharged for new 

 trial and not reconvicted ; 8 were pardoned ; 2 have 

 escaped ; 2 have been commuted to House of Cor- 

 rection ; 3 are insane, and 22 have been commuted 

 from solitary confinement to imprisonment for life, 

 leaving now* in prison 24. whose sentence was soli- 

 tary confinement for life. 



Of the insane solitary convicts, one was convicted 

 in 1848, and, with one or two intervals, has been in 

 solitary confinement since his committal; was par- 

 tially insane when he came, and has continued in 

 about the same condition. 



One was committed in 1854 ; was partially insane 

 when committed, and for the last ten years has been 

 hopelessly and totally insane. 



The third one was qonvicted in 1866 ; seemed 

 to be partially insane when committed, and his in- 

 sanity has continued to grow upon him since his ar- 

 rival here. 



Since 1847 the year in which the death-penalty 

 was abolished there have been 39 convicts sen- 

 tenced to this prison to hard labor for life, and these 

 were convicted of murder in second degree, rape, 

 arson, robbery, etc., 16 of whom are now in prison. 



And referring to certain tables accompany- 

 ing the report, it is added : 



It will be seen that a period of twenty-eight years 

 has elapsed since the change in the law abolishing 

 the death-penalty ; and it will also be seen, upon 

 examination, the same number were sentenced to 



solitary confinement during the first half of this pe- 

 riod as during the last half; while during the same 

 time the convictions for other and lesser crimes in- 

 creased nearly one-half, and the population of the 

 State in the same ratio. 



MIGNE, JACQUES PAUL ABB, a French 

 writer and publisher, born at Saint-Flour, Oc- 

 tober 25, 1800; died in November, 1875. He 

 studied theology at Orleans, was for a time 

 professor at the College of Chateaudun, and 

 was ordained as priest in 1824. Long misun- 

 derstandings with the bishop of his diocese 

 caused him to resign his position as curate in 

 Puiseaux. In 1833 he went to Paris and found- 

 ed the Univers religieux, afterward V Univers, 

 which, in a short time, became the leading 

 Catholic organ. He soon possessed a large 

 printing establishment, from which he pub- 

 lished editions of the Latin and Greek Church 

 fathers, and other collections of theological 

 works, comprising many hundreds of volumes. 

 In 1868 his printing establishment was de- 

 stroyed by fire; the losses, which were cov- 

 ered by insurance, amounting to more than 

 6,000,000 francs. 



MINNESOTA. One of the most important 

 public matters to be noted in this State, for 

 1875, is the census, which shows the total 

 population, on May 1st, to have been 597,278, 

 being an increase of 57,572 since 1870. The 

 population by counties was as follows : 



