The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-21

eminent and Few England company
on the 9Th Of December, for the con-
struction of a railroad from Mexico to
Leon, and, on the 18th Of December,
another contract was signed with Ed
ward Lee Plumb, representing the In
ternational Railroad Company of Texas,
for the construction of q road from
Leon to the Rio Grande, to connect
with the international railroad. This
will make it necessary to construct
1880 miles OF railroad in Texas to the
City Of Mexico.
! MISSOURI, following the example of
nearly all the Northwestern States, pro-
poses to enact law regulating freight
and passenger tariffs on her railways.
A stringent bill has already been intro
duced in the Legislature for this pur-
pose. It enacts that no railway shall
charge more than two cents mile for
passage money, except when the
amount is fraction of five cents, in
which case the fraction may be added.
It provides that suits for violation of
the law may be brought in the Circuit
Court of the county wherein the in
fraction was committed, the action to
be brought in the name of the State.
The penalty is fixed at not less than
$50 nor more than than $500, one-half
of the fine to go the informer, and the
other half to the school fund of the
county in which suit may be brought.
THIS year s annual dividends, says
the Detroit Tribune, on the stocks and
bonds of the various corporations at
Hartford amount to $2,518,698. The
Insurance companies cry aloud at their
losses, which keep their dividends down
to from - to Is per cent. per annum.
The Phoenix pays a quarterly dividend
of per cent, with an extra dividend
of per cent the Connecticut pays 6
and 3, and the Travellers, knock-kneed
and equity, hobbies up to the front with
a semi-annual cash dividend of 6 per
cent, with stock dividend of 20 per
cent. additional. The Ktna Insurance
Company pays 6 per cent, and total
of $180,000; the Hartford total is
800, 900; the Phoenix 100000; the
Travellers $4,000; the National Screw
Company (Which is not an insurance
company pays Il per cent; total, $751;
500; and the Gatling Gun Company,
Is per cent; total, $37, 500.
MIR. G. E. MORROW, the Western
Burial, delivered an interesting address
at the meeting of American Dairymen,
at Utica, New York, few days ago, in
which he showed the large proportions
to which this industry is growing in
the Northwest. Mr.. Morrow exhibited
a map giving the regious in Illinois
Iowa and Minnesota in
which dairying has become prominent,
and history of the rise and progress
Of the business was given; also a dis
cussion of the obstacles and circum-
stances favoring prosperity in these
States. Liability to extreme drought
was named as the mos serious OBJ
stacle. The cheap lands and abun.
dance, and cheap food in summer and
winter, except in times of great drought,
give marked advantage. The cheese
product of these four States for 1874,
was estimated at 25,00O,O00 pounds,
Wisconsin and Northern Illinois pro-
ducing most of this and about equal
quantities. Iowa produced about l, $780,
900 pounds Minnesota but few hun
dred thousands of pounds. The prob
able increase of cheese product for 1876
was given as 20 per cent.