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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-02-09
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-02-09
cHARTIBLE INSTITUTION,


In response to an invitation from Nav
or Phillips, of the city of Milwaukee,
rendered Ill behalf of its citizens, your
committee visited that city. and person
ally reviewed and inspected its several
charitable and benevalent institutions, on
Monday and Tuesday, December 10Th
and Goth, escorted by goodly number
of its citizens, first calling at st Mary's
Hospital, beautiful site, with com
handing view. of the lake and bav, its
location being on the north point Of Nil
waukee Bay. Next visiting st. Josepb's
Orphan Asylum (near the HespitaD, pro
viding for 40 or more orphan girls, and
continuing our examination to Milwau-
kee Orphan Association, located at the
head OF Division street, caring for Or
plans, both male, and female, and now
sustaining "a, and clos ing the first DAYS
examination with ST. r sa's Orphan Asy-
.lum, situated near the urt house, fur
nishing homes for 100 girls. On Tues
DAY morning proceed d to Passavant
Hospital, located near The west boundary
line OF the city, and taking advantage of
locality and route, availed ourselves Of
the opportunity Of visiting the Soldiers
Home, model camp, where order and
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-02-09

BY the report of the prison physician it
will be seen that there were five insane
convicts in the prison on the first of Oc-
tober, 1870.
Humanity requires different mode OF
treatment than can be afforded them at
present, and if not removed to the Hos
pital for the Insane, portion OF the new
hospital should be completed for the &C
commodation of that class Of inmates.
An appropriation is recommended for
putting a new roof ON the south wing
and on the female prison. The commas
sioner, in his report, alludes to repairs of
the same made by him during the past
year, and expressed the opinion that they
have thus been rendered comparatively
safe and comfortable. An examination
of the roots referred to will convince any
practical man of the folly Of further ex
penditures in that direction under the
head of +" repairs" The preservation OF
the building, and the reasonable comfort
of the prisoners, requires that the build
irgs referred to should be supplied with
new roofs ct an early day.
The estimated expenditures on account
of the prison for the current year may be
classified as follows
For payment of indebt edness. .$73, 1915 20
For iuel and lights. ............... 6,552 "a
For miscellaneous expenses,
clothing, bedding, &c. 8,SO3 81
Subsistence OF 200 convicts 365 days
each, $4,000 days at 2Oc per-.
diem .............. Io,oOO w
Officers labor. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1927 81
$l23, s9S 81
The estimated receipts for the same
time are
From visitors fees........ $4O9 67........
From cabinet shop. 22,5O0 Co.,.
From shoe shop. 1926 44........
From blacksmit shop. 1>797 M........
From outstanding indebted
hess. H,@1f CS...
---28, 90S "a
Which leaves a.......
balance OF. ............ s94,o 800 81
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-02-09

Your committee III closing their report
upon this Institution cannot refrain from
expressing their entire confidence In it's
management This they do after a very
CAREFUL examination into it both in
general and detail ss
Since visiting the institution, your
committee have learned that she
SUPERINTENDENT Prof. E. @. Stone, has
received the offer, and accepted, the APP
pointment Of principal of the American
Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb at Hart
ford, CT, which was made vacant by the
sudden and melancholy death of his
father upon 23d of December last Thus
is dcvolved upon the board oftrustces the.
duty of securing person to fill his place
"a duty delicate and difficult. 1t is to be
hoped that a proper and suitable man
may soon be engaged for the position,
THE STATE PRISON, At wAUPUN. "
Visited on the Sd of January, 1871,
was the last of the public institutions
visited by your committee Here, as
elsewhere, the examination OF the hooks,
accounts and vouch rs to expend itue 81
behalf of the State Prison, Cor the year
1870. was made the first duty OF tue com
mittee. lol
The necessity for expenditures and the
economy of purchases were investigates,
a comparison of each item OF expenditure.
with the voucher thereto, was lnstltutedi
the amount of receipts from all sources.
and of disbursements ascertaIned from
the books, and the result compared with
the commissioners printed report.
Your committee, as a result OF this
labor. is unanimously of the opinion that
the purchases of machinery, stock sub
sistence, ETC., have been judiciensly and
economically made, and that the financial
exhibits of the commissioner, a. furnished
in his printed report, (scheduless 4 to. F, }
ar correct.
While the report of the commissioner
shows that increased appropriations will
he necessary where it was hoped that the
ovneuses Of the State wonld be materially
rednced. and the Legislature asked to ap-
propriate sum of money more thar, than
double that of last year, your committee
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-02-09
Great Bargains in
Chicago Lotss,l
The south east quarter of
Grants Addition to Chicaoo !

Comprising 9s lots, is now for the first time Of.
fered in the market. These lots are four miSas
from the Court House, II feet above Chicago river
the east, and the neighborhood free from nniasnc-
es of every character The improvements now be-
ing made in the vicinity will continually add to
their value
DOUGLAS PARK,
one of the new Western Parks, lies within 100 roaa
on the east;
THE BOULEVARD,
$50 feet wide, connecting Central and Douglas
rarks' passes along the north side OF the add.
RIVERSIDE AVENUE,
zoo feet wide now being constructed at an expense
o. nt some $4,000 per mile, making the ct drive
passes within 60 rods on the south. Asan
Investment!
for ones self or family no better opportur itv waa
ever offered to the public II is absnnteIv ceytair
tnat these lots must advance in value as the neigh
borlng improvements progress. and that they win
tine. '-O''
For the next Sixty Days
or until withdrawn from market they will be Of
Tered at less proportonate rate than land any.
acre. - 49,
PRICE-$15O PER LOT
Of 25 feet front by 1875 feet to an alley or SO per
CORNER LOTS 5000.
Terms OF sale-loI single lot, cssh two to four
lots, one-half cash. balance in one year with inter
est For larger purchases longer time will he Civ
First Customers have the first Selection
Title Perfect.
Only three removes from Government Fnll war
rantee deeds will be made by Levi Grant Mans
can be seen at the Office of A. G. Cole, Kenoaha.
Forfurther particulars enquire of
~ JOSIAH BOND.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-02-09

PETRoLEUM.-A correspondent or the
AduGnce says that petroleum has become
a most excellent medicament for external
application in relieving pains, bruises
Iheumatics and and cautaneous diseases
bidding fair in this respect to drive out
all the quack liniments which have long
been so extensively used. It is equally
effiacious for man and beast, and has nc
superior in treating rheumatism, lumba
go, and all pains of the back or limbs
or frost bites, chilblains burns or scalds
no matter how severe, or fresh cuts OF
wounds. During the war of the Rebel
lion thousands of hospital patients on
both sides persisted from gangrenous
disease called erysipelas for which pretro-
leum is said to bea most perfect specific
as we'll as q preventive. Certain it is
that in all flesh wounds, dressing of
refined petroleum out of the lamp-can,
is the best application that can be made,
and for itch, ring worm, BARRIERS itch,
salt rheum and all other ike affections,
petroleum is efficacious either in the
crude or refined state. 4i
We should be careful about keeping
ripe fruit in our sitting rooms, and espec
tally beware of lying = it about a sick
chamber for any length of time. That
complaint which some people make
about faint sensation in the presence
# fruit is not fancifub; they may be real
ly affected with it. For two continental
chemists have shown that from the mo-
ment Of picking, apples, cherries, currants
and other fruits are subject to incessant
transformation At firstthey absorb oxy-
gen, thus robbing the surrounding air
Of its vital element; they involve carbon
ic acid. and this in far greater volume
than the purer gas is absorbed, so that
we have poison given Us In the place OF
the pure air, with compound interest.
IMPORTANCE OF. AIRING BEDs.-The
desire Of an energetic housekeeper TO
have her work completed at an early
hour in the morning causes her to leave
one of the most important items of neat.
ness undone. The most etfectual purify
ing Of bed and bed Clothes cannot take
place if.no time is allowed for the free
of pure air to remove all hui
mans Impurities which have collected
during the hours of slumber At least
two or three hours should be allowed for
the compl etc removal of atoms of inser.
sible perspirations which have been left
in the bed. Every day this airing should
be done, and occasionally bedding cons
family used should be carried into the open
air. and when practicable, left exposed to-
the sun and wind for half day.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-02-09

is of the opinion that the management. Of
Prison during the past year, clearly dem
onstrates that the expense to the Stat
of maintenance OF the convicts can be re
duced to a mere nominal sum, even if it
does not re alize that desirable point Of
perfection so easily attainable in the
minds of many, and become source of
revenue.
During the past year the State realized
as proceeds of the labor of.
oonvicts employed in cabinet shop. -. :. $9578 IS
blacksmith shop. I.447 a
Snoe shop. 1861 30
construction Of new
shops. .......... N,690 70
Making total Of .$S7, 264 81
Or an average of 81 1-5 cents per work
ing day for each convict in the prison
during that time. When it is considered
chat but trifie more than so per cent,
OF the convicts have ben employed at
any productive labor during this time,
the exhibit Of earnings can but be con
sidered highly satisfactory.
While it may not be claimed that the
result is a safe criterion by which the es
Innate the profits of convict labor. when
employed in the manufacture of articles
for sale in the markets, it is deserving Of
mention by your committee, as evidence
of the skill and economy with which the
commissioner has directed the labor OF
the convicts employed IN building,as we'll
as in the several shops.
The arrangement Of the new shops is
decidedly superior to those that were
destroyed by fire, and 1t is believed that
much more work can be turned out in
them, by an equal number of men, than
III the old shops A considerable item of
expense IN their construction, has been
the iron roof, and the sliding iron doors
VI hich separate the several rooms, by
which the danger of fire is almost entire
ly obviated.
AS to the economy of mourning the
additional expense, there can be but one
opinion.
The amount of cash expenditures in
the construction of the new shops,
has been. :...... .............. $26. 143 10
estimated cash value OF labor employ
ed In construction. .............. "a, $50 Is
Value of buildings completed. ....... $50, 1888 80
The cost of machinery ,shafting, betting,
etc, purchased for new shop, has been as
follows:
Engine and boilers Observation-Disclosures. $4,000 90
shafting, pull eys, hangers, ETC., includ-
ing glass oilers and bill Of saws
- ?So o. .......-.........-.-... 6,3O9 70
Chair machinery. Observation-Disclosures. 5,4Ol SO
Freight estimated. Observation-Disclosures. $40 90
S. cam heating apparatus. ........... 1890 90
Betting Observation-Disclosures. 1921 90
Total cost Of new machinery. s2u,3O2 Os
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-02-09

HOSPITAL FOR THE INsANR.-187O
Average No eliminates. 5000. 362
Cost OF subsistence etc. of inmates
and supplies ................... O,5lS 81
Average cost apportioned to in
mates only per year. 222 10
Average cost apportioned to in-...
mates only per week. ......... 4N
Subsistence for inmates and ......
employees per year. 25,6l5l44
Average cost apportioned to in-...
mates only per year. ........... 70 7o
Average cost apportioned to in-...
mates only per week. 80
year. ....................... 1883 4s
Average cost apportioned to in-...
mates only per year. Al 10
Average cost apportioned to in...
mates only per week.......... 70
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-02-09
$4,000 81

For which amount your committee re-
commended that an appropriation be
made.
Your committee also recommend an APP
preparation of five thousand dollars for
completion of hospital, and five thousand
dollars for new roofs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-02-09

Table showing the comparative cost of
current expenses, subsistence, fuel and
lights, per inmate per year and week, In the
several benevolent and penal institutions OF
the State for the past year:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-02-09

would respectfully announce to his patrons
and friends of Kenosha, that after having com
pletely cleaned his store at Auction of all Old
Goods he has concluded to
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-25
Good Advice.

Treat the injuries you receive as if
they were borrowed umbrellas. Do not
think of returning them. Revenge is
not paying game.
Should the wife of your bosom fly
into a passion as ladies 0iN occasion
ally), and hurl torrent of vituperative
eloquence at you, light cigar, take a
pinch of snuff, trim your nails, glance
over the advertisements in yesterdays IS
paper, sit still and smile, do anything
but reply to her. You will be pleased
with the result, even though she should
faint.
"Honesty is the best policy" as a
general rule; but there are exceptions
to every rule, and when you can do so
without fear of detection, you can make
exceptions to that one.
Never speak i'll of any one who may
be of the slightest service to you, no
matter how much you may dislike him.
He might hear of it.
Buy in the cheapest market. Sell IN
the dearest. The number of children
the workmen employed by you may
have is nothing to you. The number
you have yourself is.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-25
Miscellaneous Items.

A HAIR dresser in New York has on
sale double braid of pure gray hair,
twenty-eight inches in length and about
the thickness of ones wrist, on which
he places the modest price of $4,000,
and expects to get it, too. e
A DEVOTED LITTLE WIFE, in Lafa-
yette, seeing her husband blowing in
the muzzle of gun while holding back
the hammer with his foot, tripped
down to ask a milliner about the cost
of mourning, and whether it would be
becoming to her complexion.
THE house in which Helen Jewett was
murdered by her lover, in 1886, in
Thomas street, New York, was recently
pulled down and neat tenement house
has been erected in its place. Two
bricks, old momentoes of such an awful
tragedy are exhibited in the window of
a saloon in the city, and labeled to the
effect that they formed a part of the
window by which the murderer was
supposed to have left the house.
AN Indiana man has effected a strate-
gical combination against the potato
bugs. He planted a grain of corn in
CdCIl Kill vi pOldtOCS. SOlh SdA1AS
up before the potatoes, which, OF
course, cheated the little pests into the
belief that it was a cornfeld, and they
never vent near the potatoes until it
was TOO late too do any damage.
The pleasure of ramble in the coun-
try around Paris is attended with some
danger at present. A gentleman and
his son were strolling in a rustic part of
Mentmorency, fortnight ago, when
one of them trod upon shell, which
exploded, killing the father and MAIN
ing the son. Some of the suburbs are
almost sown with shells that Jailed to
burst during the siege, owing to the rain
and snow, but which are now in good
condition.
EDWARD WALES, of China, Wyoming
county, seventy-two years old, was
Frustrated by paralysis over five weeks
ago, and has not taken food or nourish-
ment of any kind for over forty days,
but he is still in full possession of his
faculties, converses freely, and recogni-
yes acquaintances who. call upon him.
A little water is all he requires, but his
pulse and expression do not indicate
speedy dissolution. His case is singu-
lar one, and is attracting much atten-
ton from physicians.
A SWEDISH paper claims that there
are more novelists of exceptional power
in Scandinavia than in any other coun-
try. Certainly there are none of the
greater fecundity than scandinavian
writer's. Last year, in Sweden alone,
seven hundred and ten books were
published, and in little Denmark four
hundred and thirteen. In this connec-
ton it may be stated that the new King
of Spain is an eager reader, and is pat
ronizing Spanish publications with great
liberality. 1t is said that four times as
many books are now published in Spain
as during the late reign of Isabella III.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-25
Curiosities of Sheep Farming in Cali
fOrnia.

The great sheep-runs of California, like
those Of Australia (says a correspon-
dent), seem to be a kind of mild form
of Botany Bay for their respective moth
er countries. Old shepherds OF long
experience in either country will tell
YOU of scores of men with college and
even university educations, whom them
selves or their friends have banished
for their country's good" and who are
now gathering their melancholy crops
of wild oats at the same time they
watch the focks on the hills nibble
theirs. Rufus A. Lockwood, one of the
greatest and most erratic geniuses ever
seen in California, and whose biography
has been written by Hon. Newton Booth,
Republican candidate for Governor once
herded sheep in Australia, and that, too,
after he had become known as one of
the most bailliant lawyers of San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Carr's overseer told me that
during single year, he had employed
Bishops son, an editor, banker, a
civil engineer, a priest, and book
keeper as shepherds. Every summer
day there are several hot hours
when the restless sheep are compelled,
for once, to be still, when the shepherd
lo1ls at his ease beneath a tree and you
shall not unfrequently see him reading
some magazine, or, like Alexander the
Great, who always carried around
piece of good literature with him, pc
rusing poems of his own composition
clipped from the village paper.
The shepherds of California, as class,
are probably the most worthless, NOR
ally and socially, the most tunprincipled
reckless and collapsed CT mpany of vag-
abonds to be found in any civilized coun-
try, unless it be Australia. They are
the rif.raff of the world; vagrant
miners, who gamble away their months
wages as soon as they draw the same;
runaway sailors from the ships in San
Francisco, who sell their blankets for
pillow case full of bui cults, and then
get never a pinch of grub for two days;
measly, DID, groggy soleiers, who fall
asleep under a live-oak, while coyotes
pull away lamb. The good old Bible
word " shepherd" is not heard in Cali
fornia it is either "wool-grower," "ran.
chero," or that most cumberous and
absurd "sheep-raiser;'' and for the
man who does the work, he is
sheep-herder" And when man gets
so low down as to be "sheep-herder''
in California, he would better 60 and
dig hole in the ground, insert his
head therein, and ask some pitying
friend to cover it up. He is lower than
Greaser, for this is the Greaser's natu
raj business that he was born to, and he
is therefore respectable. Greasers and
vagabond sailors together have brought
the same contempt on sheep herding
here that the niggers have on all man
ual labor in the South.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-25
Summer.
BY CHARLES GATES.

BY CHARLES GATES.
Come, sit, my love, beneath this restful tree,
And bring the wondering babe and pratllng
boy;
There, SO: : three golden heads beside my knee
Three golden heads, that are my summer joy.
The cave-like cone of GOODNESS round our feet
Is full of soft stalactites of green shade,
Pendent from ooZing leaves and odors sweet,
Like sprigs of thyme. within its cells are laid.
See how the foliage round the mountain flows.
Clothing its rocky forms with grace untold,
And Ger each bulging iron muscle throws
A cataract of drapery, fold on fold.
The lake below lies in dream of rest,
Its glittering shoulders on the white shore
pressed,
Its feet upon the lilies, cool and deep.
The focks of heaven, that reck not fold nor stay
Gather in silence shepherdless and free,
To drink its unseen streams, and melt away
In the wide pastures of immensity.
Along the shore dear friends go hand in hand,
Or dip the oar in soft inverted skies;
And sunny children dig the shining sand,
Watched from afar and near by tender eyes.
And like goblet the horizon stands,
Full to the brim of summers golden wine,
TRANSFERRING all the rugged featured lands
To lovely forms, and meanings most divine
It lulls the waters to their crystal dream;
With it, each leaflets myriad mouths are filled
It flows through oaken pore and granite seam
On every flower its vibrant waves are spilled.
It's draugbt is on my lips. O Summer! more,
More of your wine: for | am wild with joy,
Or love. that sits beside me on the shore,
Fair r-browed and golden -haired-wife, babe
and boy.