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A COMMUNICATED from Church Mem
bers' appears in this paper in relation to
an article in the TELEGRAPH OF the 4th
instant, speaking of the German Catholic
Church. Church Members do the writer
of that article much injustice, though
probably unintentionailY The writer
did not speak Of the steeple of the
church whether il was built according
to the plan and specifications or not. Sc
Church Members should thank him for
The correct information which he gave
tbe public rather than to complain ei
him for incorrect informstIon which he
did not give.
The writer said that Mr.. Koch, the
architect, inspected the work land pre-
specifications" Did Mr.. Koch, the
architect, inspect the work, and pro-
nounce it good and according to the
specifications? II be did the writer told
the truth. So, Church Members should
have called in question the Truth of the
architect, and not the truth of the writer
Of the article in the TELEGRAPH they
complain OF.
Now let Church Members be manly
and just. If the work on the Catholic
Church on the north side, is not correct
and according to the specific atoms, let
them call the arcnitect to account.
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Special Meeting, Oct. 81, 1875.
Present: Mayor King,
Aldermen Nichols, Y ule, Durkee, O'Brien
Crosit, Sager, Leonard, Schend, BranIan.
Mayor King stated the object of calling
this meeting was to arrange gas matters be-
tween the City and the Citizens Gas Light
and Coke Company.
After some debate Aid. Sager moved that
the Mayor appoint committee Of three to
take the state of meters for one week at
three different posts and TO report to the
Council at the next meeting the amount Of
gas consumed during said time. Carried.
The Mayor appointed as such committee
Aid. Yule, O'BrlSn and Sager.
Aid. Nichols moved to continue the light
ing of Gas Lamps for the present until fur
Their tess are made and reported to this
Council which motion was carried.
Marshal Stahl resigned the position of
taking care Of street lamps.
On motion of Aid. Nichols the Gas Com
mittee was instructed to employ another
man temporarily, to light the street lamps
ana receive bids for lighting, cleaning and
extinguishing stree: lamps aad to report at
next meeting.
On notion Council then adjourned.
F. w. BECKMANN.
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Mr.. M. j. Jones has taken the agen
cy of the Cooper Elastic Rubber Pump
tor this county THIS pump took the
premium at our county fair; and is pro-
nounced the best pump in the country
The pnmp will be on exhibition at the
hardware store of L. Balm, on Main
street. The pump will be put up and
warranted for five years.
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KenoSho Telegraph:
MR. EDITOR -
DEAR SIR -

In your last issue of your paper
we noticed an article in regard to
the work on the catholic church on
the North Side. We would feel glad
and Happy if that article was correct
and true. Now if the steeple on the
church is built according to the plan
and specification the architect has
drawn his lines crooked, or the work
is not done correct. We do not think
it is first class mechanical work.
Now if the writer of such article
don't know any better he had better
keep his mouth closed! before he pub
fishes lies. Everybody with one eye
who looks at the steeple can see it is
crooked. CHURCH MEMBERS.
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Adjourned Meeting


Present Mayor King,
Aldermen Nichols, Yule, Duikee, O'BrIen
Crosit, Leonard, Schend, Huetter.
The minutes of the meetings of Oct. 18th
and 21st we're read and approved.
The following petition was presented
To the Hon. the Common Council of the
City OF Kenosha:
The undersigned, residents and property
owners on South Exchange street, would re-
specially represent that for the last ter
years there has been no appropriation nor
poll tax worked out on that portion of Elk
change street lying south of Park street.
Your petitioners would therefore respect
fully ask yoa to make such an appropriation
as you may think just and proper for the
Improvement Of all of said street.
Dated Kenosha, October 25th, 1875.
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The PEAK FAMILY BELL RING
Frs are making their thirty-fifth an
nual tour and will give one Of their
inimltable entertainments in Keno
sha OF the evening of the 18th
instant, They are the original and
justly celebrated Peak Family and
will give an entertainment worthy
70 patronage. A notice of their ap-
pearance at St. Paul, from the Pr
oneer Press, is printed in this paper.
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hats Trimmed to Order.

IA. Chap1nan&Co
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Il B. HOLBROOK,
Burdett Organs.

HAVING had several years experience in re-
pairing Pianos, Organs and Melodious and there
by gaining a thorough knowledge of the various
Instrumen Is in the market as regards their rela
tive merits for durability well as tone qualities,
and hoping by strictly adhering to my established
custom ofrecomme nding and selling the BEST at
the very lowest prices such instruments are ever
sold, to merit continuance OF the largely In
ties where have operated during the past seven
years. To parties wishing information relative
to purchasing, exchanging or repairing. such will
41y1 Burlington, Wiz.
steinway and Haines Pianos.
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TIE KENosHA TELEGRAPH
KENosHA, WIS. NOV. Is, 1875.

age paid, and the Telegraph, to subscribers, for
&7.oo, in advance. Also Weekly Post and Mail,
postage paid. and the Telegraph, to subscribers,
Tor $3.50 in advance.
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The Remains Of what if left ofthe
body of Guibord at his death were
peacefully buried on Tuesday in the
Catholic Cemetery of Montreal in a
lot purchased by Guibord before his
death. vee
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For q proper understanding of

For a proper understanding Of
the article, The Question of Text
Books. it must not be understood
that it is taken from recent num-
Der of the Journal Of Education. IF
so understood it would also be un-,
darstood that the Superintendent Of
instruction had not yet made his
first annual report, and would do
him great injustice. He made that
report long ago, and in his cores.
pondence with us he referred to it.
The article is taken from the Jour
nal of Education OF February 1874.
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The (onsfifmfsomaSffv or the Ess-
fOrcemesf Act.

The United States Supreme Court is
expected at its present term to deliver
an important decision on case argued
before it at the last term, involving the
constitutionality Of the Enforcement
Act Of 1870. The act was passed, 1t will
he remembered, asa partisan measure by
the Republicans to control elections in
the Southern States in the Presidential
contest of 1872. The effort in the last
Congress to supplement it by another
and more extraordinary bill was defeated
by the Democratic memt ers. The case
before the Court Is No. 6O9 on the
docket and is known as the United
states plaintiffs in error u.s. Cruikshanks'
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Aufunsn.

The Baltimore Bulletin says; The cur
few tolls the knell of parting day, the
lowing clam sails slowly DER the sea, the
hard crab seward takes his backward
way, and leaves the town To oysters and
to me. The day of the sueculent crusta-
cean il over, and the death rattle is heard
in the throat of the laxative watermelon.
Peaches-ohl peaches-are in the sere
and yellow leaf, and the first OF the reed
birds and blue-wings are being sacrificed
upon sweetly buttered toast. The
weekly record Of the defunct no longer
shows the sane demand for small collins,
and the florists are making up their
white flowers after a different fashion.
The oysters are surprisingly good for the
season, and ON the halfshell srs firm
enough 10 chew IL they come from York
river. What with canyas-backs, red.
heads, terrapin, and such vegetables and
drinkables as the miserable climate pro
duoes, We suppose We shall manage to
worry through the winter somehow.
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Comes fren. the Tr~sssrv.

There is no data attainable, says the
Detroit Free Press, by which TO ascertain
the exact amount which it costs the peo-
Pile Of the United States to maintain the
ofiice-holders. II is, however, probably
within the mark 10 say that the total
sum Is not less than $20, ,000, 900, and
that at least one-twentieth Of this amount
is expended for the maintenance OF Off
cials whose services could be dispensed
with and who would be dropped of the
list of pensioners were it not for the
political necessities of the party in power.
A one per cent. assessment on ofiice-hold-
ers-which is the smallest proportion Of
the salaries that is asked by the political
managers even in an of year-brings in
the handsome sum of 1000; while
five per cent levy, which is not an un.
precedented one when a general contest
occurs, gives the political managers sl,'
000, 900 10 place it where it will do the
most good. Whenever, therefore, any
manufactured enthusiasm is desirable
the Republicans have it in their power
TO turn il out 10 order, for they have the
ofice-holders TO constitute a nucleus for
the gathering Of the faithful, and the
otiice-holders money to expend for the
production of further "spontaneity."
The money Tor Republican campaign
purposes comes mainly from the United
! statas r,aa.urv after having been drawn
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year. The amount appropriated for army
pensions was $50 500, 900, Of which $11 ,7ts,-
ass we're paid to invalid soldiers and for
artificial limbs; sl5,525,734 10 widows and
dependent relatives; t5S3, 1000 to widows Of
soldiers Of 1912, and 81 ,S55. 500 to soldiers Of
1872, leaving an unexpended balance Of
sSS7 ,23i, which has been covered into the
Treasury.
The appropriation for navy pensions was
$4,000, Of which all but sSi,65i was ex.
pended. Commissioner Atkinson estimates
that a reduction Of $500, 900 can be safely
mslc on tae appropriation for next year.
There are now pending nearly forty thous-
ans claims unacted upon, mostly on account
Of lack Of clerical assistance, which causes
much dissatisfaction among applicants. The
mmissioner recommends additions 10 the
clerical fierce. Legislation Is asked 10 define
sufficient proof Of marriage Of peusioners'
widows, so as to max evidence Of cohibitstion
sufficient to drop pensioners from the rolls.
Large numbers OF pensioned widows are
known TO be cohabtiBg with men whom the
department can not prove TO be their lawful
husbands, hence no authority exists 10 drop
their names. During last year 675 applicants
for bounty land were made, and i07 warrants
were issued, calling for 50, $50 acres Of l,nd.
The Commissioner recommends the abol.
ishment Of the present system of examining
class surgeons, at fixed salaries, who will
give their entire time to the service. lie
thinks this measure OF economy, and one
which will facilitate the payment of PEN
sioners. Fifteen hundred and thirty claims
were investigated by special agents, Of which
800 we're found to be fraudulent. Two hun.
dred and forty-three pensioners were
dropped on evidence Of fraud, resulting
in saving nearly $4,000. Over $4,000
were recovered from those who have been
drawing pensions fraudulently. The Com
missioner thinks the knowledge that an etli-
cient secret service exists prevents a large
amount Of fraudulent claims being presented,
and recommends the reorganization and en-
largement Of the service on the plan now
in operation in the Treasury and Post-ofiice
Departments. Congress Is recommended to
authorize the annual publication OF lists Of
pensioners residing in each county, publics-
tion to be made in the paper having the
largest circulation, and that printed lists be
posted in court-rooms and other prominent
places, which would expose many cases Of
frauI
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United States Supreme Court, "if the
enforcement act, particularly the sixth
section, shall be held to be within the
constitutional power Of Congress, then,
indeed, will the government have been
completely rcvolutionized by the mere
conferring Of power upon Congress TO
enforce the prohibition Of the recent
amendments" The State governments,
added the counsel, in the language Of the
United States Supreme Court in the
Slaughter House cases, will be " fettered
and degraded by subjecting them TO the
control of Congress in the exercise Of
powers, heretofore universally conceded
to them, Of the most ordinary and funda-
mental character. The whole theory Of
the relations Of the State and Federal
governments to each other and Of both
these governments TO the people, will
have been radically changed. The en-
tire domain Of civil rights, heretofore
belonging exclusively to the States, will
be brought within the power Of Con-
eress."
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Mr.. LINDEN tells US that even in the
West Indies and South America the
pineapple does not grow wild and must
be cultivated, and we know that the hot
house fruit Is the most delicious. The
wild orange is sour and not fit to eat.
From the culture OF plants we come To
think of the culture Of men and women,
and we find that culture is the result OF
capacity. opportunity and experience.
A young man of strong intellect and
without culture is like the wild orange,
possessing the possibilities of excellence.
lie only is on the road to culture who
understands with sorrow the mistakes Of
humanity and appreciates his own i'm
perfection.
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ler's long-continued purity. II says any
man will find himself bespattered with
mud before he has been In the Office six
months.
THERE are no less than twenty-six
Republican county treasurers in Iowa
who are defsulters, and Iowa gives
Radical majority Of thirty-five thousand.
1t is useless to trace the analogy between
cause and effect.
BELLEroSrAISE Erumiaer: While
Catholics by the thousands and thousands
we're laying down their lives in behalf
Of this government it did not occur TO
the Republican demagogues that they
were unworthy Of citizenship. But the
wars are DER now, and the case being
altered has altered the case, and the
Catholic, literally, has no rights which
the Republican party is bound to re-
spcct.
ONE Of tho most influential colored
Methodist preachers in Mississippi urges
bis race, in printed address, to give the
leagues and clubs wide berth, act with
the white property holders, vote only for
honest and capable men, and do their
part toward getting the color line cut Of
politics. Incidentally, he alludes to the
Ames administration A. so notoriously
corrupt that it is by-word and re-
proach wherever known"
In an interview with q citizen Of Co
lumbus, Ohio, William M. Grosvenor
said of Mr.. Schurz: Senator Schurz, as
an originator of any measure, is q COM
plete failure. His forte is to disorganize
and pull down what other men have
built up. He is painfully aware Of this
defect in his character" Mr.. Grosvenor
was one of the architects Of the Cincin-
natl movement, and last year en-
gineered the "Tadptle F" party in Mis-
souri,.
IT is said that of the four million dol
lars to be distributed TO claimants under
the Geneva award, three millions of it
have gone into the hands of a ring Of
lawyers. When every State and city in
the Union shall have carefully trained
rifle team of its own, and shall use as
targets exclusively the members of these
"rings" that are doing such heavy steal
ing, you may expect to find the moral
and political atmosphere of the country
much purer than it is now.
BROOKLYN argus: All great men
have their peculiarities. Indeed, what
is only "peculiarity" often passes for
genius. Sergeant Bates is peculiar man,
40 is George Francis Train, 30 is William
Allen, SO is Susan B. Anthony, and SO is
Zach. Chandler. There is no time now,
however, to justify our statement by
further illustration, but as Zach. has
Just moved into the service of his coun-
try again, we may remark that nothing
makes him so nervous, after he has
poured out glass Of whisky, as for some
careless person to pass water-pitcher
over it.
The Democrats Of Maryland have
issued as a campaign document state
ment showing that under Democratic
management the expenses of administer
ing the State affairs has decreased, and
the debt has been lessened. In 1865,
under Republican ausp ces, it cost 49,
l25, 500 to conduct the State government,
and in 1866, s3,309,6is; under Demo-
cratic management, in 1873 and 1874,
the cost was 2,2s7 ,O3s and s2,276, ,9O6,
the latter amount including $347,0
permanently invested.
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A DSa asnesd or IIl-Ossen.


A lady Of great accomplishments,
and one who has bad considerable ex-
perience of life-none other than the
wife of Captain Burton, the renowned
African traveler-has just published a
book, in which she foretells much peril
to England, and especially To Queen Vic
toria, If that sovereign persists in retain
ing in her possession the celebrated Koh-
i-noos diamond. That stone had always
had bad reputation. 1t is said, though
without sufficient reason, TO have been
discovered in the mines of Golconda, and
that in consequence of some terrible deed
of cruelty perpetrated on its finder, his
dying curse still clings to it. Mrs. Bur-
ton traces the history of the gem through
many possessors, all of whom suffered
some terrible disaster or came to vio-
lent death. The first lost his kingdom,
the second died in exile, others were
straDgled or assassinated in different
ways. The fall of the once great Empire
of Aurungzebe she attributes to the
Mountain Of Light. When Nadir Shah
captured Delhi, he took away with him
to Persia treasure and jewels of incal.
culable value, among them the Kohl
moor. From the moment he reached
Persia everything went wrong" The
Emperor was soon after assassinated, and
his jewels stolen. Its next possessor was
poisoned; the two following had their eyes
put out, and 80 on, disaster ever following
the stone till it came into the possession
of Runjeet Sing, the Lion of the Punjab.
He died soon after-then his son was
poisoned, and at briefintervals his grand
son and great grandson were also AS
sassinated. Anarchy followed-then
came the conquest Of the Punjab, and so
the diamond fell into its present desti-
nation.
This is all matter Of history, and
has been recounted by previous writers.
But Mrs. Burton does not pretend to go
only over the old ground again. She de
clares that she did not know the history
of the gem until she had had dream,
wherein 1t was made known to her. She
then looked into the question, though it
must be allowed that she is not quite ac-
curate in her account Of the fortunes OF
the former proprietors. Many Of them
whom she does not mention, were pros
porous and powerful rulers; some died
peaceable deaths, and one, the monarch
of the Sikhs, so far from regarding the
diamond as ill-omened, valued it as a
holy relic and bequeathed it to Jugger-
naut.
But Mrs. Burton is firm believer in
omens, and entreats the Queen to discard
the stone, which she sometimes wears.
She says that Lord Dalhousie, who sent
it to the Queen, died soon afterward T;
that the Duke of Wellington, who gave
the first stroke to the new cutting, lived
but three months, and that Prince Al
bert next fell victim to the ancient
curse. Now, it is not difficult 10 under
stand how belief in the ill-omen of this
diamond should have prevailed in the
East. Apart from the facts connected
with its history, its extreme value-since
it is by far the purest diamond now in
existence-would have induced some to
malign il in order to possess it. But it
is not so easy TO account for the credulity
or superstition, call il what we may,
t.,k E..l In. a
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A avor;te tonic with the Grant organ.
il the "color line.n IA Il il called in the
south. bv which is meant organized ac-
tion Of the whites in the reconstructed
st,,cs IN relieve them selves from the rule
of ignorant negroes. who. under the in.
auence Of white Garnet. bap leaders. have
heen Instrumental in burdening the tax
psver. with enormou. debts frauduIently
contracted II il commonly represented
hv ,ho.e nsr,i..n ;ourn.I. that the color
line /. ricidlv drawn throughout the
south and that white league. oryanized
10 per,ecute and outrage the freedmen.
abound in ALI the southern States.
Now the truth is that there have been
hardly any white leapues formed. except
in Louisiana and Mississippi, and these
were organized merely as a protection
against the aerrcssious of the secret ne.
Gro ORGANIZATIONS which have aboupded
in ali the Southern States ever since the
end of the war. At the lsst State Dem.
ocratic Convention in Mississippi resol u
tions were adopted denouncing the color
line. while in Louisiana the white leagues
can hardly be conceived At the North !;
and the whale purnose of tbese leagues
is to create antaronism toward the white
population. thus maintaining the color
line in the most Objectionable form. So
tvrannical and lawless are these secret
ORGANIZATIONS that in many parts Of the
South colorcd men who desire TO vote
with Democrats can only do 30 at the
risk of their lives
A prominent citizen OF Mississippi,
writing to the Svn upon this subject.
verv Justly aryues that the whites were
never responsible for the color line in that
State. that IL was forced upou them. II
WAS assumed by the provisional Govern
ment of 1869. that every black man was
loval and a Republican. and eyery
native white man a Democrat and a
reheI Acting uoon this idea the races
were separated in two distinct partie, at
the nails and the whites except a fev
prosessed Republicans who had been
appointed To Office, were not permitted to
approach or speak to the colored voters,
Federal soldiers and armed blacks being
stationed to prevent any intermingling
of the races. The color line thus in
troduced has since prevailed AGAINST
eyery effort of the whites to obliterate
IL. and the result has been the impoyer-
ishment of n large proportiou of the
white population Of the State.
1t is encouraging to learn, however,
that there is every prospect that this
evil will soon be abated If not entirely
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yne An.sss P~s.ss. wepers.

The Commissioner of Pensions has finished
his annual report, which shows that there
are ON the pension rolls 2Si,s2l pensioners,
a decrease Of ,is0 from last year. They are
widows and dependent relatives, lOi. .ss5
survivors OF the war VI 1872 1875 T; widows
Of soldiers OF 1872, 6.l65; navy invalids,
l,6S6i widows and dependent relatives oi
navy officers and seamen, i,.sl. More than
II per cent. OF the soldiers OF 1919 dicdlsai
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THr skeleton Of the famous race-horse
Lexington is 10 be wired, mounted and
preserved In the Smithsonian Institution
at Washington. His well.proportioncd
bones will doubtless become favorite
study for the hor~mcn Of future genera.
tions.
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THE hard strata OF circumstances
through which ones liierill must needs
filter aud force its way, may make il
purer and clearer, just as all hard strata
are flteripg stones OF water.