The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-03-22

has been formed among the Weather
citizens for the purpose of buying up
the claims which constitute the debt,
but very little is hoped for from them
No business pTospers here but malt
ing and brewing; those branches sue
coed rather more than moderately,
and a couple of foundries only mod
erately. All other business is in a
languishing condition. Even the
churches are scantily maintained, and
the town seems to be cursed with con-
sIderably moe ian its propOrtionate
share of loungof2. At all hours of
the day, when the weather is fine, men
of all ages, from the OctOgenarian
to the youth practicing on his first
nauseating quid, may be seen orna-
menting (?) some store box or ranged
In rows on the stone curling Of the
principal whisky or barber shop,
idliug away their time and praeticing
jokes and sells y on each other, that
they may be prepared for the first
new conner among them. Of course
this idleness is productive of mischief.
and for want of good employment bad
employment is readily accepted. and
the city has its d. B. Club and its
G. d. Club, which the initiated know
means the dead beat and seedy "
clubs, into which an occasional I'M
wary commercial = guerrilla is occa-
sionally decoyed and heeced.
Three of the churches have, for a
considerable portion of the past year.
been without occupants for their pull
pits. viz: the Congregational, the
Unitarian, and the Episcopal, the
Baptist being filed after nearly a
year of uncertainty, by an enthusiast
tic young gentleman named Taylor,
whose zeal and unassuming industry
caused him to become somewhat
famous last Summer, through the
pictorial papers, by reason OF having
painted his own church steeple Be
sides the churches named there are
two Catholic and one German Luthe-
ran and one German Methodist, be-
sides the American Methodist
Churches.
This city, like Galena. Illinois. and
all other places that have OutlIved
the day of their prosperity, is under
Democratic rule, all the city officers
but the Treasurer being OF that party.
He being a one-armed soldier. a gen.
tleman Of education and popular with
his cOuntrymen-the Germans-Was
elected by a greater majority, last
Spring, than any of the Democratic
candidates. Kenosha, notWithstand-
ing it is a Democratic city, is very
healthy An old gentleman, last Sum
mer, published the names of over
sixty men who were over sixty years,
and many of them over seventy, one
of them being over one hundred years,
most Of whom had lived here for
more than twenty years, and it is but
fair to suppose there are a correspond
ing number of old women. However
that may be, the proportion of young
men and young women are badly oHt
OF D 0p2rti0R, for the city can boast
full quota of beautiful girls, but,
alasl full many a flower must bloom
and blush" unmarried for Chicago and
other enterprising places entice the
young men away-those who are poss-
essed .of enterprise in proportion to
their poverty at least-and the young
ladies are thus left blooming alone"
with of course. some happy and some
worthy exceptions, a mum Der of whom
have been carried off during the past
Winter, the most lively matrimonial
Winter known in these parts for ten
or twelve years.
We have been handsomely enter
tanned by a home talent dramatic
troupe during the past month or two,
who have, however, gone the way of
all amateur dramatists-cause internal
dissensions, and the too common
prevalence of spirit of ambition, aud
the pecuniOsIty bOthbf the compa-
ny and the citizens.
The County Of Kenosha is the ex-
IRENE southeastern county of Wiscon-
sin, fine grazing country, where the
attention of farmers is chiefly given to
butter, cheese and wool. Two farm
ers in the adjoining town of Pleasant
Prairie, alone keep a couple of hun
dred COWS each. Beside these there
are score or more who keep from
twenty to fifty. and Kenosha County
butter and cheese is fast acquiring
reputation to be envied. There is no
Winter wheat raised here, aud not
very excellent article of Spring wheat
either, more attention being paid to
barley and (for the last Year, hops
There being several malt houses In
Kenosha, the market for barley is
good, and several breweries consume
the hops. The malt houses and
breweries exactly equal the churches
in number, and nearly, if not quite,
equal them In inhuence-henee our
Democratic majority.
In looking over the foregoing. |
find that L have omitted mention of
one branch of business that is not
langulshing-wag factories. There
are five or six Of them, small aud
great, one of which turns out sixty
wagons per week, and is increasing
its facilities. There is also a good
article of American sherry made here,
said sherry being made from the
" cahoon or mammoth pieplant, this |
being the place where the cahoon
plant was first grown, and to such an
extent Is this plant cultivated here, |
that one street.-the most beautiful /
In this beautiful eity-is known b. |
the sObriquet of Pie plant Avenue.
much to the disgust of the present |
owner of the old cahoon |
Place, which is also sometimes called /
Pie-plant Palace.
The city election, which is now soon
to take place, Is casting its shadow |
before, and numerous aspirants in
both parties are talked of with as
much earnestncss and vigOr as IL the
President of the United States was a
small Office compared with our May
orality.