The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-03-04

claims that his father wrote the whole Oh
Washington's farewell address, with the
exception of the first three lines.
The fiery, unta1ned Florence McCar-
thy, ex-preacher, ETC., has abandoned
religion and taken up law. He has been
admitted to the Chicago bar, and won
his first case in a Justices court the
other day.
THESE are hard times with Illinois
railroads Eleven lines in the State,
embracing total mileage of 2,186 miles,
have gone into bankruptcy within the
last few months, and are now in the
hands of receivers.
HE members of the Louisiana Inves-
tigating Committee are agreed upon only
one pOint-that the Conservatives were
illegally deprived by the Returning
Board Of majority in the Legislature
which met on the 4th Of January. Upon
everything else they have agreed to dis
agree
The absurdity of ante-dating news
papers is well illustrated by a New York
hebdomadal issued, according to the
date-line, on March s, and in it's leading
editorial announcing that " this number
OF the -- makes its appearance on the
anniversary of the birth of George Wash
ington."
DAN RICE, the celebrated Snowman,
has just gone through his regular annual
bankruptcy process. This year he owes
over two hundred creditors, scattered all
over the United States, and his indebt-
dnes8 amounts to 100000. Assets, one
old WORKOUT trick-horse, $3.50; one suit
of clothes, $75; total, $3.50.
GERMANY controls 100000 men for
military purposes. Russia has more,
and France and Austria nearly as many.
They and all other European powers are
perfecting their armies. This does not
look much like the millennium. The
pIowshare and pruning-hook transfer
nation scene seems to be indefinitely
postponed.
The youthful Alfonso is making the
unpleasant discovery that he is not to be
carried to the Spanish throne on howery
beds Of ease. With the Carists provok-
lngiy obstinate in the north and assassins
lying in wait for him in Madrid and else
where, the young man is beginning to re-
alze some Of the perils that environ the
man WI wears a crown in Spain.
We learn from a report recently sub
m1tted to Congress that the number of
bales of cotton seized in the South under
orders from the Treasury Department
after the close Of the war was 1868
gross proceeds, $7,650,676; total ex-
penses, $3.50, 434 proceeds released,
1903, $40 proceeds in the Treasury,
$4,886,672.
WESTERN lyceums will be either
pleased or terrified to learn from the
Golden Age that James Parton g has
remarkable faculty for putting himself
all over into q sentence and sending it
like blazing shell right into the eye of
a subject, carrying an unusual quantity
of daylight, and making something of an
explosion among the audience, if no
where else"
IT appears from official data that the
number Of Indians captured by United
States troops in 1873 was 227; Indians
killed by United States troops, 4O5; citi-
zens killed by Indians, A; soldiers killed
by indians, 48; and during six months
of 1874 the number Of Indians captured
by United States troops was 70; Indians
killed by United States troops, 1853; citi-
Z zens killed by Indians, 36; soldiers
killed by Indians, 3.
ONE who attempted to work through
the muddle of the great scandal case,
gives us as the result, that after
one week he found his mind giving way,
the next he felt q gentle haze Of mild i'm
becility stealing over him, and the third
he came out a confirmed idiot. There
was no need of excluding jurymen from
the box on the ground of having formed
an opinion the trial is fatal to the mind
Itself, of which not one vestige will be
left by the time it comes to verdict.