Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-12-21

back to the State is that one person
in every Fifty four has piano o.
other musical instrumeut--or there
is one t. every thirteen families
| About the same number of watches
is reported, but it is plain there is ar
error here. As watches are taxable
and easily concealed, not more thar
an eighth Of them are returned by
assessors
The taxation for all purposes was
considerably less than two per cent
Of the returned value. The tota
amount Of tax expenditures was 3
little over 59,O00,U0o, of which
/ nearly one-third was for school pur
poses. The figures do not show the
expenditures in towns and cities for
the support OF courts and the care
of criminals in detail, but the ex.
penditures by the counties for court
expenses, sheriff accounts and jail
expenses, amount to $334,320 The
expenses of the State for courts and
charity and penal institutions, amount
to $42G,56G. 1t is safe to say that
considerably more than 100000
is to be charged to the care of Grim
mails and charity persons. The in
debtedne,s of towns, villages, cities
and school districts, amounts to So
40, 1882, aud Of counties, SLIGO,
sos 80, or a total of $S,l80,000. The
State debt is about 81, 100000, max
ing a total indebtedness Of nearly
l0,6JO,O00, or little more than
two per cent. Of the returned value.
OF the town and county debts over
$4,UU0,000 represent aid 20 railroads
IN st of them swlndles.
The area of the State in acres is
50, 8G5, 800, of which q, 1887 acres
are rated as taxable, leaving nea ~
0,00O,0t 0 acres not occupied. The
sales Of real estate amounted to !,
50 ,484 acres, and 81, As village aud
city lots. The average value per
acre WAS $l2.s5, and per lot, $t60.32.
More acres ~ ere planted TO corn and
more To oats than to wheat, though
the difference in the three is small.
Nearly $4,000 acres were planted to
tobacco, and 1000 to cranbcrries
The marriages in the State
amounted To II ,6G5--or in other
words about one heart in fifty. or
one in every nineteen IT marriage
able hearts, found another to beat
in union with it There were
1885 birth, The estimated mum.
Der Of married women in the State
is about 100 900, 30 that about one
married woman in every five made
hen husband happy. We don't die
to any great cx ent in Wisconsin
Against the 1885 births we put on
~ 6,472 death, or about one in every
2l6 persons.
The criminal sta istics are not
altogether encouraging. While the
have been comparatively
few, the convictions have been
fewer. OF twenty-eight persons
tried for murder, five were convicted,
eight were acquitted and ten were
not convieted-the ten being cases
0f disagreement of juries Out of
545 cases Of other felonies, there
were I9o convictions against l45
acquittals and 1874 non-couvicti MS.
II will be observed that in eases
other than murder the percentage of
non-acquittaIS 10 convictions is less
than in murder cases. OF olfenses
less than felouies there were 1902
The number of convictions was
3,2l5, of acquittals 593 and of non
convictions 795. Here we can see
proof of the fact that severity and
certainty of punishment do not 90
together. The more severe the pen
ty the less Likelihood of conyic-
ton Ujiicm,6es Sentinel.