The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-04-04
Our Chicago Letter,

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CHICAGO, March 81, 1867.
EDS. KENosHA TELEGRAPH AS yet, Chi
cago can scarcely be said to have opened up
for her lively spring business. True, nayiga-
ton has opened--a few vessels have gone up
and down our odoriferous river; propeller
screws have stirred up the thousand and one
stenches of "Skunk river" as our pellucid
stream was termed in earlier times denizens
Of the North and West sides have commenced
their summer of curses, and theoretically,
navigation has opened" which, in plain En-
glish means that Chicago's term of hiberna-
ton has passed and she is awake and ready
for business But 'the season is late" the
merchants say. Even now, while the smiles
and tears of joyous spring should touch our
hearts with youthful freshness, winters frosts
seal up the warm influences Of commerce, as
well as of the heart, and the lightest of light
goods are heavy, from commercial point of
view. Then again, merchants have a big
scare upon them in the shape of the bankrupt
act" ''How do we know" say they, "but if
we sell bill of goods on time, to John Smith
of Pudonk, tomorrow, but that he may plead
the bankrupt act on us, and we never get a
cent" The mercantile forces may be said to
be as the fleeing soldier at Fredericksburg,
who characterized himself as ''demoralized,
scattered, and can't be rallied, at least for a
| time.
But navigation has practically opened
Capt Faith, the harbor master, has taken
sOundings and found that the harbor is in bet
| ter condition than at the close of navigation
last fall, and already about a score of vessels
have gone out of our port, and as many been
received.
In this 'merry, merry spring time" the
Board of Trade, or as they are sometimes IA
cetiously termed by the irreverent, "the grain
scalpers," hold their annual election. Already
they have six tickets in the field, and the
struggle wakes warm. Their present Presi-
dent is too good man to continue to hold the
office, and a sturdy effort will be made to
change his style, The election will come of
in a few days. The markets are not partcar-
| ly active. A little rise in wheat was marked
on Saturday; No. spring quoting as high as
| 81. 1S15G02. 10, cash. Corn closed at 9415d95,
for No. L. Barley is on an upward grade and
commands S5@$1.00 for No l. and for some
sample lots as high as S1.50. The pork pack
ing season is about closing, and sales are rath
er dull, but the cattle market Is active, closing
| on $500 to SS25 for common to extra grades
In this connection it may be well to give pub
| licity to the fact that the live stock freights
on the P, F. w. IL c. r. r. to Pittsburg and
| Buffalo have been reduced to 25c per cwt., re-
turn passes being at the same time cut Off
| One of the largest, if not the largest cattle
transactions ever noted in the Northwest, took
place on Saturday last, at the Union Stock
yards in the purchase by WaXell & Reina
man of the Northwestern Distilling Co., of q
lot of l. 165 choice steers, an aggregate of ,5l4
500 lbs. for the sum of 1921, 100, cash.
| Chicago has by this time partially recovered
| from her great tunnel furore. So often was
the opening of that great bore promised, sc
often was the promise broken, and so much
did the daily press have to say on the subject
that it became altogether q very great bore
indeed. A. length, however, the thing was
| formally opened The knight Templars
turned out-the Good Templars INDUCED in
a mild dissipation on the new brand of aque
GUS fluid, and Mayor Rice made a very appro-
pirate rice water speech on the occasion, sc
that now people feel happy consciousness OF
being able to drink clean water without being
objects of commiseration or contempt. 1t
cannot be denied that we no longer have the
| same amount of "body'' in our water as here
| tOfore. Fingers and thumbs no longer come
| through our fire plugs-but still we don't com
| plain. Curious results follow the use Of this
extraordinarily pure water. tits so clear that
"old soakers" taking it by accident, fancy it
principally air, and consequently drink twice
| as much whiskey ''to drive the wind off their
stomachs." The other day fire company at
tempted to use it at fire. The 'nozzle MANI
could see nothing coming from the hose-saw
| ullO nPIdoll IlONCNCI, Oll LllG HIO, anu blOhShl
it rival companX-got mad and cussed the
man at the plug for mot turning on the wa
ter" Somebody said ''liar." Then there was
a fight. U. P. Harris stopped 'nozzle-m ~
| took up the pipe again. Same row about to
occur over again, when hound ''purp" came,
open-mouthed, up the street. At that mo-
ment the pipe was raised, just in time to strike
| the dog in the mouth. Stream went through
| dog-raised him, and there he swung ''high in
mid lair, strange and hideous thing" The
cost of the tunnel to the city has only been
! 1888, 7S4 60-an amazingly small amount, when
| we consider what has been accomplished
The contractors, however, are claiming bo-
nus on alleged deficit of contract price to coy
| er expenses.
The cause of education is by no means neg
| lected in Chicago, although an examination
| OF some our schools might create different
impression to a stranger. Wekeep up appear
ances, at least, for the other evening our
| Board OF Education made provisions for the
issue of 5000, 600 Of bonds to pay for the cree
ton of four new school buildings. If the Com
mon Council endorse the action of the Board
Of Education, the bonds will be issued in a
few days.
Among the new things, next to the tunnel,
ana the school houses, we have a Board of
of Health to jollify over. It's mission will
probably be to draw money from the City
Treasury, more than to clear the streets and
improve the health of the city. We have got
used to filth and bad odors and expect moth
ing better. Mayor Rice is President of the
Board and his associate members are Messrs.
H. A. johnson, NJ. D., j. A. Rauch, NJ. D.,
VIM Wagner, NJ. D., s. D. Hoard, VIM. Giles
and A. B. Reynolds
Religious news, in general resume of this
character should receive at least small mod
icum of attention. The Chicago Ministerial
Union, will hold its regular session here to-
morrow, April LIST, for serious purposes, not
regarding the day as a Joke as most other peo-
pie do. A call has also been issued for del
egate meeting of the Board of Episcopal Mis-
slons to be held here from the 2Sth of April to
May End, in which assemblage the religious
world or at least this section of it, takes no
small degree Of interest, from the eXtraordi-
nary large attendance of bishops and clergy
expected on the OCCASION The daily prayer
meetings in the Methodist block still continue
with their accustomed modicum of success.
Mr.. Fawcett, the owner of Dexter" the
great trotting horse, who made his mile in
2.l8, is a resident of this city and has recently
got himself into an animated controversy with
the hackers of the Gold Dust'' stock. 1t is
scarcely probable that anything will grow out
of it, as ''DeXter's" reputation is by this time
too firmly established to admit of anything Sc
rious against him. Beyond the slender ex-
element furnished by this subject, the sport
ing life of Chicago is just now in peculiarly
slumbrous condition. Talking of sporting
lie" by the way, one cannot help a reference
to Hart L. Stewart, the Rev." who appears
W utterly REFUSE TO die out OF public nOtOrietY.
He is to deliver lecture at the Opera House
on Wednesday evening next and will proba-
bly, have big and curious audience, anxious
to see him and to see if the famous Rosalie
Dudley will have private box on the occa-
SION. Ills subject is to be "Principle and Pol
icy" in illustration of which he will probably
represent 'principle,' and McMasters, the
female detective" viii be cited as a rare in
stance of ''policy."
Quite in turn, by natural chain of events,
from "Reminiscences of the H. l.. Stewart case,
one comes to criminal events in general, and
the latest sensation in this line is the grand
insurance swindle, recently attempted in this
city, by which party of sharp operators
attempted to 'Fdo'' several Insurance
companies out of large sum of money on the
fictitious death of one of their number. The
party chosen to ''go dead" did go dead, TO all
public appearances. A facsimile corpse from
Kalamazoo, drought on for the purpose was
buried, and the same was deemed quite secure,
when brother of the suddenly deceased, not