The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-25

THE Hon. NJ. Q. Kerr says Thomas
Jefferson is his model of q statesman.
Webster he thinks was not statesman,
but an orator.
BARON STEIN, in whose honor monu-
ment has just been unveiled IN Berlin,
is the Jefferson Of Prussia. He was
the founder of the Prussian bureaucracy
and military systems which have Melted
that kingdom such handsome dividends
of late years.
CARL SoHURz has not, as has been err
roneously reported in the papers, taken
ND his residence permanently in New
York. He has only established his fam
ily there for the winter, that he may
have a more convenient headquarters
during his lecturing tour.
Gov. Dme1EY, Of Maine, in resuming
the editorship of the Lewiston Journal,
saws he does so with stronger con-
yiction than ever that no position in life
is more honorable, or opens larger OPP
portunities for influence and usefulness
than that Of the journalist.
READER, don't sleep with your mouth
open. A Chicago man did it the other
night, and when he awoke In the morn
ing he discovered q full-grown, able
bodied spider in the act of lowering itself
into the orifce in his countenance, Like
workman going "down in coal
NINE" Nowanights he ties up his
mouth with his watch-chain.
THERE is. something mysterious LII the
way mining stocks increase or decrease
in value. Now, there are the Bonanza
stocks. BY the fire at Virginia City the
property of those mines was damaged to
the amount of $500, 900, and yet the next
day the shares shrunk $50, 900, 900, and
the shareholders at San Francisco are
beginning to inquire into the matter.
OF the 292 members of the House OF
Representatives of the Forty fourth Con-
gress, but 108 were members OF the
Forty-third and preceding Congresses,
thus leaving 184 who have never served III
the National Legislature. Of the 1O0 who
have been reelected, the Republicans
have IS and the Democrats 40. but
among the latter are several whose term
of service exceeds that of any member
on the Republican side.
The Louisiana sugar industry, which
was once large enough to supply nearly
he whole South and West with sugar, is
rapidly recovering from the disorders
brought on by the war. In 1861 the
crop reached 469,41O hogsheads, the
largest ever raised. The war seems to
have completely annihilated the business
of sugar growing, as in 1854 only lO,307
hogsheads were produced. Since that
time it has been gradually growing, and
the crop OF 1876 is estimated at l9O,OOO
hogsheads.
The annual report Of the condition OF
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is a
most gratifying exhibit of the finances
of that corporation. The total revenues
of all the branches for the year foot UP
S14, 426, 552, and the expenses 6,181,
972. The entire mortgage Indebtedness
of the company is $2S,716,334, and the
surplus fund 1874, O26, 566, or $780,, 232
IN excess of the indebtedness. The
management of the Baltimore and Ohio
is conducted on strict business princi
pies, and this splendid financial exhibit
is the result. It is an eloquent argu
ment In favor of honesty in railway man
agement, and if other companies would
initiate the example we would not onl.
have fewer bankrupt roads, but vastl,
lower freight and passenger rates.
The Texas Constitutional Convention
has adopted most comprehensive al
ticle providing for State control of rail
roads. 1t gives every road the right t
construct and operate connections wit
intersecting roads; prohibits consolids
tion Of parallel or competing lines, c
the consolidation by contract or unde
judicial sale of any road within the STAT
With one organized under the laws I
another State, or of the United State
and reserves to the Legislature the rig
to establish reasonable rates and to ena
laws prohibiting Determinations. III
farmers in the, Convention dictated
clause rannirino any road hereafter co