The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-12-10
wisconsin Items.

| The Hudson Star says the wheat trade
of ST. Croix county is swelling to prodig-
ious magnitude 1t figures the grand
total of wheat marketed from that county
the present tall, 366,696 bushels The
average price paid for wheat during the
fall was 81 10 per bushel This makes the
aggregate amount of money received by
the farmers Of the county, during fall, at
over 100000.
The Waupacca Criterion has a descrip-
ton of the wooden mill there, which cost
some $4,000, and will consume $4,000
pounds of wool year. 80
Arrangements are now being made for
| the erection of the fire alarm telegraph
IN Milwaukee as soon as the right of way
can be procured.
A well known lawyer@of Milwaukee
made his wife a birthday present of a sill
yer tea set worth $500
| entertainment at Music Hall Thanks
giving evening Melted the managers of
the Protestant Orphan Asylum 5000.
The Ripon Commonwealth publishes the
annual report of the Fond du Lac county
Superintendent, showing gratifying
progress. The cost ofthe public schools,
aside from the State fund and new buildings
was 81, AS year for each child instructed.
The Wisconsin says the names of forty
officers are registered there to attend the
grand army reunion at Chicago. eH
The Chiffon Times says that, in the
town of Woodville, an Indian and she
bear were found lying dead together The
/ Indian had put six shots into the bear
and then attacked her with his knife,
and in her dying struggles she had Crap
| pied and squeezed the life out of him.
BONDED CITIES AND Townsville
Milwaukee Wisconsin, remarks on the
issuance of bonds by cities and Towns
in past years, of the manner of their
disposal, and speaks of the disposition Of
Judge Miller's court IN rel alton therto as
follows- ~ sgegsaa aa
/ Judge. Miller, of the United States
Court, has got his. back up on bonds,
and when judgement is rendered he at
once orders his Marshal to serve writ OF
mandamus on the town or city officers
i recurring them to at once levy and collect
tax sufficient to pay these bonds, interest
! and costs. If the town or city officers
neglect to do this, they are at once brought
up by the Marshal for contempt of Court
and locked up This has made the officers
wary, and in many of the cases there is a
great deal of figuring. At the present
time there are, we do not know how
many towns that are run without single
i officer; and there being nobody to serve
the .writs upon, the Marshal is now
powerless. Knowing that judgement has
peen rendered against them, the officers
resign, and let the town run, itself.
After an election the newly elected
officers meet, qualify and transact the
business necessary to run the town for q
i year. Then they resign. There being d
tacit understanding among all the prop;
/ erty owners, the matter is easily managed
4 taxes are paid, and the necessary outlays
made, In-many instances this course has
been pursued It cannot, however, last
Hong, for in every town or city, officers
are necessary at all times, while property
: in town SO hampered by bonds is Away:
depreciated. The debt can be settled al
I low.fgure, and the bonds takeu up, anc
j already many towns are doing so. Ii
D cyery case where this has been done
even by issuing new bonds, with the IN
tention of paying the interest on then
and creating a sinking fund for gradual.
e wiping out the debt, property has ad
b yanced from fftyto one hundred per cen
!, in value at once. How much better TO.
/ all the bonded towns and cities to- do thi
Y than to have an external, everlasting
g debt hanging over them, with proper
: liable to be sold by the sheriff at an.
E moment, and everybody afraid to com
+ there and settle. We have heard of M
case when the judgement could not b
settled TOR forty cents on the dollarol