The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-08-16
Assessment of Revenue.

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To those who may think that, as mat
ter of course, all federal Offices are sincures,
word or two relative to the business of the
Assessor and Collector of Internal Revenue
for this district may not be amiss-especal-
ly as the incumbency of those offices has
been a matter to which the public attention
has lately been called
The following assessment and collections
have been made in the State of Wisconsin
since the Internal Revenue law went into
Aoperaion in 1852:
Collections from the lst District to
June 80, '63 S21s GAS IS
| Balance of the state for same time 1911 661 IS
Collections from the 1st District to
| June30 "a 6l6,S10,74
Balance Of the state for same time 866 500 So
| Collections from the LIST District to
| June 80, '65 1919 ,453 50
| Balance of the state CUB 543 81
Total for the state 3169, 1895, 81
Total for the LIST District 1,9l4999 81
| Total for the balance of the state 254, 19o, 92
In addition to the above there has been
assessed and collected in the first district Of
Wisconsin for the past eleven months end
ing May 31st, 1866. $1,54S, 736 sc, making
grand total for the first district (Which
comprises the counties of Milwaukee, Wau-
kesha, Walworth, Racine and Kenosha) of
$3,463, 786.47.
To raise these sums there were required
in the first district, in the year ending June
80, 1865, about seventeen thousand individu-
al assessments required for the balance of
the State during the same period. The dis
proportion would not probably be quite as
great as in regard to the sums collected,
which it will be seen, are larger by more
than fifty per cent in the first than in all
other five districts.
| The great increase of revenue noticed
above from year to year, results not so much
from the increase of taxable business as from
the increase in the rates. The same advance
in rates also involves a vast, amount of adj
| dltional labor in the assessment. Thus the
tax on incomes, which was first fixed at
three per cent. on all incomes under $4,000,
and SO continued until the act of March 3,
! 1865, was then raised to and 10 per cent
| The tax on distilled spirits has undergone
still greater alterations, having been first
fixed at twenty cents per gallon; then in
March 1863, raised to sixty cents after
wards, in July, 1864, increased to one dol
lar and fifty cents per gallon. On the first
| of April 1865, the revenue law was so
amended as to impose an addition of one
| fifth upon all duties on manufactured arti-
Giles except certain specified ones--DltL. Sen
tjaeJ
A topper gave as reason for getting mar
ried, that his acquaintance thought he
drank too much for single man.
A wag wrote on the back of a fat alder
Widened at the expense of the cor
poration."
An eloquent speaker is like river great
est at the mouth.
An Irishman said he didn't come to this
country for want. He had plenty of that in
old Ireland.
Boston is to have new Club, called the
''Good Felloes of the Hub"
A man who got drunk at an election, said
it was owing to his efforts to put down
party spirit
A young man who received a blowing
up from his sweetheart, called her wind
LASS
A certain landlady, il is said makes her
pies so light that her dodgers can see to go
to bed without a candle, after eating mod
erate-sized piece
Why is prudent man like pin? Because
his head prevents him from going too far
Richter says ''tis the horse and not the
vehicle that wearies' But we are sure we
have seen a wagon.tre.
The following story is told of an Irish
newspaper editor, who was pressed for copy:
The foreman called down to him from the
printing office;
"We want six lines to fill column"
''Kill child at Waterford was the re-
ply.
Soon after came second message
"We have killed the child, and still want
two lines"
Contradict the same"
A countryman was sowing his ground,
when two smart fellows riding that way,
one Of them called out to him with an inso-
lent air
"Wel honest fellow, it's your business
to sow, but we reap the fruits of your
labor ~
To which the countryman replied:
Ills very likely you may, for l am SOW
ing hemp"
Why is the toothache good for womanP
Because it makes her hold her jaw.
"a pair of pretty eyes," said Coxcomb,
| ''are the best mirrors to shave by"
Yes, replied old Hunk, the bachelor, 81
have known many man shaved by them. +"
The man who couldn't stand it any lon
ger" has taken seat and now feels quite
comfortable.
A wealthy bachelor having had one or
two lawsuits for breach of promise, now re-,
plies to any young lady who wishes a
few minutes private conversation mo
you don't madame. 1t cuts me to the heart
to be compelled to donbt the honorableness
Of your intentions, but that sort of thing is
played out My rule is imperative, and if
you have any business with me, it mast be
transacted in the presence of witnesses.