The true northerner., 1876-03-31

thing TO newspaper correspondent that
was not published. He would trust q
correspondent with untold gold, but not
with bit of news.
A PRKraHrxR attached an odometer 10
his wagon-wheel before leaving the Black
Hills, and the instrument recorded 24S4
miles as the shortest distance between
Custer City and Cheyenne.
UNDER a Territorial law in force in
Utah, John Wiggins, convicted OF muir
der in Salt Lake City and sentenced to
death, was allowed TO make choice Of the
manner in which he should be put to
death, and, in open court, elected to be
shot rather than to be hanged or decapi-
tated.
A MARRIED woman living near Tiffin,
O., was struck dumb by shaft of light
ming recently that fell near her. There
are probably men who are mean enough
to take their wives to Tiffin and expose
them under tall trees during thunder
storms in hope of similar results; but it
should be remembered that lightning
never strikes twice in the same place.
The Cincinnati Gazette gives the value
of the different newspaper properties IN
New York as follows: Herald, ~, ,OOO, ,OOO;
Times, 81, 600, 900; Tribune, 81, 900, 900;
World, $500, 600; Journal of Commerce,
$800,OO0; Evening Express, $3.50, 600;
Evening Post, 800, 900; Commercial
advertiser, $150,000; Mail, 800, 600;
San, 5000, 900. The larger of these fig
ures include buildings.
A JUDGMENT-DAY for bribe-takers has
also come in Cuba. In reforming the
civil service on the island, Captain Gen
eral Jovellar has just decreed that all
official bribe- takers or perjurers shall be
deemed traitors, and be subject to trial
and punishment as such. 1t seems that
the lily paid Spanish officials have been
lutte willing to "sell out" in the inter-
est of the insurgent or any other party,
whenever opportunity presented itself,
and to such an extent has the evil grown
that it is deemed extremely doubtful
whether even the arbitrary orders of the
newly installed Captain general can
work out the reform desired.
The nation has sweet tooth, The
quantity of SUGAR made in the United
States in 1875 did not vary much from
that of last year, reaching 44,650 tons
manufactured from 215, 900 hogsheads of
molasses, each gallon of molasses yield
ing three and a half pounds of sugar.
Regarding the crop of maple sugar, in
the absence of definite statistics, the yield
is estimated at IA, 900 tons; and of sugar
from beets there was not less than 300
tons. The total consumption of sugar
in the United States for the year Just
closed is estimated at 773, 900 tons, which
includes 81, 1854 pounds imported
from the various sugar-prOducing coun-
tries. OF this amount Boston imported
112, 85S tons in 1875, against SO, 475 tons
in 1874.
IT is clear from the financial statement
of the French Government that it is de-
termined to pursue the honest, prudent
policy which has tended so much to re-
vive the national credit. Estimating the
revenue for 1877 at 1888, 400, 600, and
the expenditure at $1,00O,000 less, it
proposes neither to increase nor dimin-
ish taxation. 1t tells the French people
frankly that there is no prospect of
lighter taxes until 1879, when it is ex-
pected that the loan from the Bank of
France Originally 1906, ,000,00O will
have been repaid. 1t is probable that
this scheme will be sustained by the new
Legislature. Although the revenue re-
quired is about 1920, 10000 greater
than our own, the French people do not
complain.
EUROPEAN advices continue TO tell a
fearful tale of storm and desolation.
Rain, tempest and flood have swept over
village and plain, devastating fields, lay
ing houses waste, and leaving ruin and
death in their remorseless train. The
storm in the west of Europe was marked
and cycionic i'll character, the force of
the wind being something appalling and
unprecedented. France, Belgium and
Germany alike have suffered, telegraphic
lines being swept down, railroad tracks
torn up, and houses whirled along like
so many playthings. Along the coasts
the wind moved with such velocity as to
leave but little chance for ships involved
in the aerial vortex. Many have been
lost, and heartrcnding stories come from
all rarts to spread damper over the fes-
tivities of our Centennial year.
Mrs. MYRA CLARK GAINES has once
more recovered judgment in the United
States Supreme Court in her suit for the
vast estates in and around New Orleans
to which she lays claim. The judgment
is not final, however, but is simply upon
point of practice, and in effect means
further litigation. That was as to
whether under the popular Prejudice
act " of 1867 she had right to have one
of her suits removed from the Louisiana
courts to the United States Circuit
Court. The Louisiana Supreme Court
denied her application for such transfer
of the case, and yesterday the United
StNtes Supreme Court reversed the judg
ment of the Louisiana court, and decided
that, without regard to subject-matter of
controversy, the Popular Prejudice act
applies to all cases. The case, therefore,
by mandate from the latter court, will be
transferred to the Circuit Court of the
Unitod States, and the ancient litigation