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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04
CONSUMPTION of Forests.

The New York World says One-half OF
the surplus hard woods of the country
is to be found in Western Virginia.
How long these will last is a doubtful
question. Taking the one item OF rail
road ties, and we find that the country
requires for its annual supply "a, 530, 900
cubic feet, equal to 1873, 5l5 cords of solid
timber. to secure which at least 2, 600, 900
cords of standing timber have to be cur
down. The average product per acre of
the forests of Virginia is given by M. f.
Maury at from 40 to 80 cords per acre,
so that, taking the maximum yield, out
railroad ties alone destroy annually 40,
900 acres of woodland. The annual con-
sumption of the country for fuel is esti-
mated at over SO, 900, 600 cords of wood;
of which three-ffths may be assumed to
be good STANDING timber cut expressly
for fuel. This gives an annual clearing
Of 6OO.O ceres. The iron foundries
consumed in 1870 635, 900 tons of char
coal. and a furnace that makes six or
seven tons of iron day will use up 200
acres of woodland In a year. The annual
product of charcoal-iron is now about
200, 900 tons, using up {, 900 acres year.
The pine lands of Michigan, the best in
the country, yield 10, OOOfee to the acre,
board measure. The annual consump-
ton of the country in manufactured
lumber is 90, 900, 100000 feet. represent
ing an annual clearing of 1000, 900 acres.
The fencing of the country required 25,-
| 600. 900 acres to be cleared in order to
make it, and the annual repairs to feno-
ing destroy 100000 acres of forest.
Our shipping tonnage represents $4,000
acres OF oak forest destroyed, and de-
mands for repairs 4, 900 acres a year. The
hard and turned wood manufacturers OF
the country use up an annual average OF
300. 900 acres of timber. Taking all these
items together, we have an aggregated
annual consumption OF 100000 acres
of forest. AS our total forest lands
amount to $3.50, 100000 they will last al
this rate only seventy years. A certain
percentage of forest destroyed is allowed
to renew itself, and, as in seventy years
a pine woods can be cut over twice, this
renewal amounts to very considerable
figure, but tits scarcely sufficient to offse
the increasing demand for timber fol
every purpose to keep pace with in
creasing population and exigent indus
tries in the same period. In other words
with our present growth of population
seventy years marks the maximum periot
that our forests may be expected to holG
out.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04
Only an Error.

The increased and burdensome post
age on transient newspapers, magazines,
books, etc., which has prevailed since
the stupid action of Congress last winter,
is on the fair route to adjustment. The
excessive postage seems to have been
fastened upon newspapers by an error,
the members of the Committee on Ap-
preparations which recommended the
new law to Congress now claiming that
they understood the increase to apply
only to merchandise. Gen. J. A. Gar
field the Chairman of that Committee,
thus expresses himself, and announces
his determination to move for the repeal
of the obnoxious law at the opening OF
Congress.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04

A LITTLE 6-year-old girl went into a
store where her father was lounging, and
slyly approaching him said: Papa,
won't you buy me newdress :" 'What!
buy you new dress, Susy " eyes,
papa, won't you?" "Well, I'll see. I'll
speak to your mother about it. Elon-
CATION to an alarming extent rapidly dis
tinguished that little countenance, but a
thought suddenly struck her, and with a
smile she looked up into her fathers face
and said: "Well, papa, if you do speak
to mamma about it, do it easy, or she
may want ne dress herself"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04

CONSIDERABLE amusement has been
caused in Ontario by the fact that the
Attorney General, Mr.. Mowatt, has cen
sured severely local magistrate for
falling to enforce an act of Parliament
which, as subsequent investigation
showed, had for some yeavs been re-
pealed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04
will work to advance the interests and
promote the welfare of the human race. "

will work TO advance the interests aud
promote the welfare of the human race. .
A~HEART-RFNDING accident occurred at
Winona, Mimi. the other day, by which
a Young man named Troutman was shot
and killed by the discharge of a pistol in
the hands of his wife, to whom he had
been married but four days. The couple
had just arrived from Chicago, where
they had been united, and were unpack-
ing their luggage, among which was
loaded revolver. The wife was examin-
ing the weapon, when, in some unac-
countable manner, it was discharged,
and the bullet lodged in the brain of her
husband, producing almost instant death.
The poor bride was rendered frantic by
the terrible accident, and it is feared will
lose her reason.
AMONG the latest engineering projects
is proposition to food the Desert OF
Sahara by opening channel from the
Atlantic Ocean, and turning it into an
inland sea. And now comes gentle
man who suggests that this project for
utilizing the Desert of Sahara will throw
the earth off it's present balance! just
how serious a disturbance there will be
can be ascertained, he says, upon finding
the actual length and depth of the des-
ert. Meanwhile, he leaves room for the
imagination to picture the earth tum-
bling through space and seriously inter-
fering with the equilibrium of the other
inhabited planets of the universe.
DR.. B. f. SHERMAN and Mr.. Samuel
Parker, of Macon, Mo-, have INDUCED
in their last tipple. They called at a
drug store in neighboring village, the
other day, and asked for something
good tc drink" The proprietor told
them he had something good" and
produced bottle, from which they both
took good draught, and, thanking the
vender of pills, walked out. Before they
had proceeded ten rods from the store
Sherman and Parker both fell dead. An
analysis of the contents of the bottle re-
vealed mixture of whisky and hydro
cyanic acid, the deadly poison being in
such proportion that sixty drops OF the
compound was sufficient to produce
death. The drug store man is puzzled
to know how the deadly drug got into
the bottle. Altogether it is mysterious
and inexplicable case, and a sad warning
to tipplers.
In a recent issue of the New York
Herald we find long and interesting
letter from DIR. Isaac I. Hayes, the we'll
known Arctic explorer. DIR. Hayes ex-
presses his belief in the existence of an
open Polar Sea, and regrets that the
Pandora, which has just returned to En-
gland, did not winter there, and renew
the search for the records OF Sir John
Franklin's expedition in the spring. He
believes this could only be accomplished
by passing the winter there and pursu-
ing the search in the spring with sleds.
He says he believes now, as he has al
ways believed since his first voyage there,
that in the vicinity of the pole there is
an open nayigable sea in summer, that it
may be reached by ship or boat by way
of Smiths Sound, and that the North
Pole is within the reach of any nation
that will think it worth while to spend
money enough to get to it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04

MURDER will out" A man named
Alexander, IS years of age, blind and
infrm, has just been convicted OF muir
der in the first degree, for killing man
in Red River county, Ark, twenty-five
years ago.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04

MOODY and Sankey are making the
dry bones of sin rattle in wicked Brook
Ign. Nearly all the prominent preach
.ers of the city attend the meetings,
Beecher being one of the few exceptions.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04

base their defense on custom, under
which it is claimed the discoverer of q
"bee-tree' which has not previously
been marked is entitled to its fruits.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04
FRESH TOPICS.

AN ingenious Vermonter has invented
"a lazy mans churn. The machine is adj
justed to a wagon, and all a man has to
do is to drive down for the mail, and
when he gets back the butter has come.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04

A SINGULAR fatality has befallen the
ACongressmen-elect from the Fourth Dis
ttrict of Tennessee. In August of last
year John w. Head was elected to rep
resent the district, and died before TAX
ing his seat. S. NJ. Fife was chosen to
fill the vacancy, and now death has
marked him for his own. If this rate
of Congressional mortality continues III
that district, the seat will soon go beg
.ging for an occupant.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04

A CALCUTTA merchant, worth million
dollars, enlisted as private soldier in
the garrison at Governors Island, New
York, the other day. Alcohol.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04

UR1 CARRUTH, the editor of the Vine
land IN. J. Independent, who was shot
Goy Charles K. Landis, on the 10Th of
last March, and who has carried bullet
in his brain ever since, died the other
tday. He had already accepted from
lands sum of money in satisfaction
of any and all claims on account of the
shooting, but this fact will not operate
as bar to criminal prosecution.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04

w. PERKINS, an English pedestrian,
recently performed the extraordinary
and never before accomplished feat of
walking eight miles in SO minutes 5 sec
aonds. His quickest mile was the first
one, in $40, and the slowest, the sixth,
in 1852. The first four miles were &C
,compIshed in % minutes and SO seconds.
Perkins is young fellow of %, weigh
ing 132 pounds, and 81 feet tall.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04

HERBERT H. BANCROFT has just given
the finishing touches to his extensive
work, the g Native Races of the Pacific
States, upon which he has been engaged
for fifteen years. It embraces five large
volumes, of about 1000 pages each.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04

A SQUARE of ground in Galveston,
Texas, which few weeks ago was held
at $50, is now a worthless sand
heap.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04

HERE is another seronaut who has mar
rowly escaped death while making an as
>cension to please the spectators at a
county fair. The affair happened at
eOwensboro, KY, and the @ronaut's name
is Prof. Atchinson. The balloon took
fire and was burned when several hun
,dred feet high. Atkinson was precipi-
tated to the earth, and miraculously es-
capped death, though badly hurt.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04

A BIG event is to happen in New York
eon the centennial of American indepen-
dence. For the past six years workmen
nave been engaged in tunneling under
the distractions In the harbor known as
He'll Gate, with view of blowing them
up. The task of excavating has been
completed, and the work of preparing
for the grand blast is now going on. A
vast quantity of nitro-glycerine will be
placed in iron tubes in the excavation,
and the whole will be discharged stimuli
taneously, by means of battery, on the
4th of July, 1876. It will be the biggest
4th Of July gun ever heard in the land.
Coz. d. r. ANTHONY, the Kansas edi-
Or with pistol ball in his head, has re-
umed work on the Leavenworth Times,
with these remarks: ssThe surgeons
agree that we are now out of all imme-
diate danger. Some think that the
aneurisD may be cured; others think it
will remain unchanged. Ali unite In adj
vising our return to business, being care
full to avoid undue mental and physical
excitement. We wipe out from the past
memories of an unpleasant nature, and
are prepared to cooperate with all who
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04

Mr.. JOHN MAoKEY, who is the head of
the famous California firm of Flood &
eO'Brien, and who receives three-ffths of
the profits, was ten years ago mining
laborer in Virginia City. His income at
present is about $3.50, 900 per month, or
more than $1,000, 900 per annum. Mr..
Mackey is the most retiring and modest
of any of CALIFORNIA; millionaires.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04

IT is said that on various railroads, not
named, orders have been issued forbid
ding the assault and battery practiced by
train peddlers in discharging their wares
on passengers laps. The Pennsylvania
railroad issued orders of this kind some
time ago, and others which follow the
precedent will earn the applause of a
much-abused travelling public.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04

DIR. r. G. WILLIAMS, while under the
influence of liquor at Bethany. La,
"a few days ago, placed bottle upon his
head and insisted on one of his COM
panions shooting at it. Cicero Steph-
ems did so, and poor DR.. Williams
fell, remarking that it was bad shot
and he was killed, but did not blame
anybody.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-31

To the Editor Of the Press.
Certain articles have appeared in the papers
(tbe Argus Of course for political efect) but es-
pecially in the DAILY and WEEKLY PRESS.
which places me in false position before the
public, to whom l am indebted for many public
tavors. Please do nee the justice to pablish the
following statement: Soon after the robbery
on Dec 9Oth, 1874, and before, on account of
injury received at the time. I was able to make
up my final account, delivered to Mr.. Town
send, Chairman of the County Commissioners,
tbe books containing the unsettled account of
1874, which also contained the accounts of the
year 1873. The books kept by me prior to that
were regularly settled with the Commissioners
every three months from the time / went into
the office till the close of the year 1872, when
the books were filed and new ones purchased
The old books were placed in the bookcase,
where / supposed they always remained, till
had been out of the Office four months. No
books were ever kept in the safe except those
contaiaing unsettled accounts, but all the
vouchers for the full time that was in the
office were regularly filed every quarter and
placed in the safe Except such books as the
safe could not contain on account of their size,
which were kept in the ofice) where suppose
they now remain, and from which my &C,
counts may now be audited Notwithstanding
some of the old books are missing.
Many false and pernicious rumors have been
put in circulation through newspapers and
other sources, which deem proper for the
present to pass unnotced. A suit has been
brought to recover the balance of money not
paid over to the county, which am ready to
meet at any time before an impartial jury.
THOMAS PENNELL.
Dnrfland Auouct 1Q7R
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-31
The York Democracy,

To the Editor of the Press:
Yesterday came across copy of Marcellus
Emery's successor OF the Bangor Democrat,
which informs US that Gen. Roberts Is very
popular in Western York and will receive q
heavy vote. As Western York has never seen
much of Gen. Roberts, and as he is simply .
Bourbon Democrat, he will receive just the
party vote and no more. The Republicans
have a candidate who fills the bill, and If he
did not, they would not vote for a man who
left the army because he was such "patriot''
that he could not stay in it. as is now vouched
for by Emery, Pillsbury g Co.
The truth is the York Democracy are not
happy. Their organ denouuces the guerilla
policy adopted by the Democratic leaders, as
follows:
'The truth is, the people have seen enough of
this quiet underground policy. Not a few Of
them look upon it as q mean, coudrdly mode of
conducting a dign,-indicating that YOU
DlsTRUsr YOUR OWN CAUSE, and FEAR TO
MEET THE ENEMY in the open field. They
look upon the leaders WITH CONTEMPT, as
more INTERESTED IN THEMSELVES than for the
public. The confidence of the people cannot
be retained nor their enthusiasm aroused by
such means. No state has ever succeeded by q
still born campaign"
Depend upon it there is great deal of truth
in the above. The political trickster who
tells the prohibitonst that tho Democratic
party if in power would not touch the present
law, and within an hour tells the fellow who
delights in "takin' suthin" that the Democra.
cy are for license, will make mistakes and has
already done so. The Bourbons are busy, bat
the Republicans are waking up and win give
Gen. COnnor handsome vote. BERWICK.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-31
Don't Forget IT.

That five-eishts of the annual expenditures
of the general government are required to
pay the interest on debt contracted in put
ting down rebellion, to pay the pen sions OF
soldiers disabled or the heirs of soldiers dy-
ing in service, and other demands growing
out of war for which the Democratic party
ALONE is responsible.
That although the Democratic press howl
about the increasing extravaganza OF the Re-
publican administration, there has been a
steady decrease of the expenditures tor ten
consecutive years with two exceptions.
That the national debt has been reduced
$40. .951, ,64l.74 in that period, and the
amount required to pay the interest on the
public debt has been reduced 4O,68S, ,047 "a
per annum.
That during the past two years there has
been reduction of internal revenue taxes
amounting to $2O3, ,553 per annum, and
reduction OF s59,564, ,749 per annum in the
customs taxes.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-31
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.
eople Of that gallant state are determined to

people of that gallant state are determined to
win the fight this time, cost what it may.
When once the Angla-Saxou moves In earn
est, his momentum is irresistible by an infe-
rior race. Our friends over the border have
only to organize and work! work! workl!I
In and out of season, from the primary to the
polls, work in real earnest, without COM
promising or temporizlng, and success Is cer-
tain. Labor uincet nigger." Didn't Mr..
Lamar say something about abolishing the
color linee
Correspondents Of the New York papers
have lately changed their tune. and now pre-
dict Republican victory in Ohio. An "ont-
sider' writes to the Tribune that the Republi-
can party in Ohio has not been so thoroughly
united and enthusiastic since the Greeley CAM
paign. The Reserve is aroused, and deter
mined to teach the Democrats severe lesson.
The worst obstacle the Democrats have to
contend with is the school question, which Is
costing them thousands of votes. This cor
respondent also notices a strange antagonism
to Delano on the part of intelligent voters.
One prominent Republican told him that 1t
was good thing that "a Mr.. Marsh had
given Delano enough to keep him busy else
where" A correspondent of the New York
Times sorroborates these statements. He
says, moreover, that the Democrats are much
disappointed at the appearance of ex Gov.
Noyes on the stump for the Republicans; that
Senator Mcdonald, not being able to think
much on the finances, Is of little use 10 the
Democrats; aud that the state. on a full vote,
is undoubtedly for hard-money.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-31
Belittling the Issue.

There are indications of weakening on the
currency question by some of the most out
spoken Democratic hard-money journals.
Reference is not made to the Democratic
papers of Maine, for they are not open to
the charge of being outspoken hard-money
journals. but to the Baltimore Gazette and
other papers which have heretofore opposed
the election of Allen III Ohio. These jour-
nails are growing seriously frightened, are be-
ginning to see that their party is hopelessly
divided in opinion on the financial question
and that the only way to restore harmony is
to yield to the demands of the inflationsts.
So of late they speak of the currency as a
side issue and proclaim that the real ques-
ton before the people is governmental re-
form.
But the currency question is at the founda-
tion of all real reform. The officials of gov
ernment which refuses to redeem its notes,
which makes forced loans in time of pro-
found peace, which enters upon a course in
evitably leading to bankruptcy, cannot be ex-
pected to be better than the government
itself, or to cherish higher sense of honor.
Yet to this condition of affairs does the tr-
umph of the imitation Democracy of Ohio
inevitably tend. Should Allen be elected the
more currency cry will at once be taken up
by the national Democracy. II they carry
the country on that issue, the men who
brought it forward. the men who can
with justice claim that to the adoption Of
their views victory is due, will receive their
reward. The administration of the finances
will be put into their hands, and they will
monopolize the high official appointments
What sort of administrative reform can be ex-
pected of men who have no sense of the sane
tity of national obligations, who see no in
justice in the reputation of its debts by the
nation, who have SO crude ideas of political
economy that they favor the issue of hun
dreds of millions of deprecated and vicious
paper currency? No reform party can be
founded on national dishonesty and bank
ruptcy. The people will sooner look for re-
form to party which is pledged to the re-
sumption of specie payments at fixed date,
which is discharging the national debt in
place Of increasing it, which sustains the
national credit instead OF impugning it.
Nor will great force attach in this contest
to the assertion that the Republican party Is
responsible for our paper currency and the
evils which it entails. The Democracy of the
South and their Northern allies are response
BILE for war which imperatiyely called for an
extension of the national credit, for an issue
of demand notes. To meet a great emergen-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-31

THE argus talks of reputation of govern
ernment demand notes for twelve years.
Does it remember that in 1868 it supported a
platform calling for the taxation of govern
ment bonds and for the payment of them in
greenbacks? That it denounced the bond
holders as oppressors and enemies of the peo
pie? That it asserted that eleven hundred
millions of dollars would be required for this
purpose? 1t assaulted the credit of the ma
ton then, and favored imitation and repudi-
alton. Ut,erances. like those in which it de-
lighted unsettled the market for bonds and
led foreigners to believe that we desired to
repudiate our debts.