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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
CROP REPORT.

CROP REPORT.
In the monthly report of the
Department Of agriculture for
January the statement as to the
value of the crop reports issued by
the Department:
The circulars for December relato
70 yields and prices ofthe prominent
products of the farm for the current
year. Those for January inquire
the comparative numbers and prices.
Of farm animals. From the October
returns ofproduct, as compared with
those Of the previous year, and the
June aud July returns of acreage,
the yield per acre can be deducted.
These direct estimates of the rate Of
yield in December are, therefore,
entirely independent and furnish q
means OF verifcation, and when
discrepancies appear, Of correction
Of acreage. There is often a wond-
erfuI agreement in the results of
these separation returns, and when
differences occer they are usually
found to result from low report of
aggregate product or a high
estimate of rate of yield, or both
together.
There Is tendency in farmers
estimates to make a good showing
ofrate ofyield, whether from bias
Of pride IN good culture or soil
capabilities, or from neglect to note
the areas of failure or neglected
culture and at the same time a
disposition to underrate the total
quantity of the crop, especially if it
is not q full one. Our correspondents
are intelligent, with less of this bias
than is usually observed In rural
estimates of production, and our aim
has to secure as near perfect impair
TALLY and accuracy as possible.
As to prices, both Of products and
OF domestic animals, it IS easy to
report actual average prices current
in the local markets of the county
SO that our statements OF average
prices for each State, made fairly
and carefully by combining county
prices III proportion to quantity Of
local production, may be relied upon
as substantlly correct. Indeed, they
furnish abundant internal evidence
Of correctness in the clarnass of their
OF all results of local
causes Of fuctnation. These prices
are those Of home markets, and
furnish the only known data for
showing what the farmer actually
receives for his produce before it
passes into the hands of the ship
0ers and dealers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

mB B. WHITAKER 6 co Manufacturers Of
-la o Portable & stationary Steam Engines and
0oilers, ShaftiDg and Pulles, Hand and Power
Tire Blenders, Tire Drils, and all other kinds OF
Machinery. Also KenOsha Union Thim0le Skeins,
Tuycrs, Bolster and Reach Plutes, Kettles, Sleigh
Shoes and Post Mauls. Repairing dOnepromptly.
KenOSha. WIS, April 2Oth, 1914.
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g. pOAN, dealer in Dry Goods, Staple and
go Fancy Goods, all kinds Of Cloths, Ready
Made Clothing, Gents Furnishing Goods, Hats q
Cape, &C.. &C Let it be remembered that we keep
nothing but first class goods, and further, will
not be undersold in this or any other Western
city. Kimballs Block, Main St, Kenoeha, Wis.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

gHAHNEN BROTHERS, No. Y Main St., Keno
III sha, Merchant Tailors. We keep constantly
on hand well selected stock of Cloths, Gents
Furnishing Goods, Ready Made Clothing, Hats
and Caps Of the latest styles. Work done and
goods sold as cheap as at any other establishment
IN the city.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

aM ARNESS SHOP, Main Street, Kenosha, Wis
u TIE subscriber would respectfully inform
the public that he Keeps-constantly on hand full
assortment Q goods in his line. Harnesses, Sad
dies, &c, made to order Also, all kinds of re-
pairing done on short notice and unreasonable
"a es. TH0s. ENGLISH.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

&E@ Retail dealer in Cigars, Plug, Cut Chewing
and Smoking Tobacco, Snuff, Pipes, &c. His o.
gars are all made from best qualities OF domestic
and imported tobacco, and sold TO the trade at
lowest cash rates. Also, constantly on hand some
fine Meerschaum Pipes. Orders promptly filled
Basement Lvman's building corner of Main and
Market Streets Kenosha, Wis.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

E BURG, has removed his Barber Shup to No.
kAe 81 Main St, second door North of Thomas
English shop, which building h ; has thoroughly
renovated and fitted mp 10 the best possible man
ner, and where he will be happy to meet his old
customers all who require his services in the art
3onsOTial.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

I'D GsEN 81 BEDEsSEM, Manufacturers and
Beds, Mattresses, Upholstered Goods Chamber and
Parlor Sets, Ready made Collins always on hand.
Shop OF Main near Wisconsin street.
KenOsha Wis.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

NUEAT MARKET, Main St., Kenesha, Wis.
IVA The choicest of all kinds Of Meats, salt Pork,
cornec Beef, smoked Hams, Sausage, &c, &C.,
constantly on hand. Prices always reasonable.
WIN. ENGLE 81 Co.
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z INERY STABLE. Ben. Jewetti is prepared to
I'd furnish the best Horses and Carriages, for
business or pleasure, on the shortest notice
Hearse at all tunes ready to attend in1 erals sta
bic on Market square, near the Post Office, Ken
Osha, Wisconsin.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

RBYRON A. BAKER, Attorney and Counselor
I'VE at Law Real Estate Agent and Justice Of the
Peace, Conveyancing and Collection of Claims
promptly attended to on liberal terms. Office in
Kimball's Block, cor. of Main and Park Streets,
Kenosha, Wis.
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wCHNSON'S BOOK STORE, No. so Main St.
81 full aud complete assortment of School
Books, also Standard and miscellaneous Books,
Writing and all Paper, Sheet Music ana various
articles of the trade. S. g. JOHNSON.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

mH AtGBAG WORKS.
NA HUGGINS 81 WASTE UTGN
Kcnosha and Racine, Wis. Monumental and
Gravegtone work executed IL the highest style Of
re art +. r. ROBERTS, agent,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

Nh RS E. BOOTH. Mill5ner, Dress and Cloak
FM Maker, earnestly s0lcits the patronage Of
the Inhabitants OfkenOsha and it's enVirons having
had a long experience in the above business,
is competent to give general satisfaction to her
atrons Cor. South q Ann Streets
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GA5 3. Rec D, Dealer in Watches, Clocks and
w Fine j. .welry, Millinery and Fancy Goods.
Watches ana tJloczs repaired and warranted Bon
nets and Hat bleached and pressed SO Main ST.,
Kenosha, W isconsin. >281y
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an CR0SIT, Blacksmith and Carriage Maker
nv u JOB work Gone to or6er. New Buggies and
Wagons always ready for sale. Kenosha wis.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-26
Caught in His Own Trap.

Prof. Bradford and male associate,
peregrinating showmen, appeared in An
tioch this week, with flaming posters, an
nouncing mysterious box trick, the
wonder of the nineteenth century. The
Professor esconced himself in wooden
box, the lid was closed and securely
locked, when i'll few seconds he reap
peared in the room, freed from his tenn
porary imprisonment. No one attended
the humbug, and consequently the i'm
posters found themselves wanting in
coin when the Parthenius was about to
leave for San Francisco. The philo-
sophie Professor was in distress, but re-
sorted to his profession to secure passage
on the boat. He entered his box, which
his companion fastened, and was thus
placed on board the boat as freight,
thinking TO come on deck after the col
lection of tickets. In the meantime some
wicked youth informed Capt. Stowel of
the ruse, who, seeing the box, asserted
that it had a suspicious look, and ordered
his men to throw it over board, or split
it open with an AK forwith. AS the deck
hands were about to cast it into the sea
the professor sued for mercy, and was
admitted TO fresh air. The fare was
paid.-AntiOch (COL) Ledger.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-26

arrangement y. Bills introduced providing for
the annual tax lovy repeating the county system II
superintendent OF schools, substituting the town
ship system and appropratng $4,000 for superin-
tending the Michigan department. OF the centennial
exhibition.
House-Bills were introduced appropriating ten
sections of state swamp lands TO the mile for rail-
road from L'Anse to Houghton and Calumet; appro-
printing $50 900 for "A new building at the State
Normal School at Ypsilanti; requiring the labelling
in plain English Of the drugs composing patent
medicines; and to appoint superintendent of State
Property.
TUESDAY, Feb. .-Sendte-Among the bills
introduced was one prohibiting railroad officers,
agents and others from transporting freights and
from owning stock in sub-corporations on such
lines. The Committee on Appropriations and
Finance reported amendment 10 the act prOvid-
ing for the payment of salaries Of State officers :
limiting the time for paying claims against the State
ny notes and for the payment of warrants against
the internal improvement fund providing for sys-
TEN Of keeping State accounts relating to the set
tlement of accounts by the Auditor-General
House-Bills introduced: To regulate the M
ployment of convcts in the prisons of the State the
design being TO forbid their working at mechanical
trades or in branches OF manufacture carried in
this State regulating the catching of fish by pro-
hibting the employment of trap, stake pound set
nets more than a mile from shore, of sweep nets
with more than pot and directing the return 10
the water of all white fish pound in weight or less
struct railroad from Ontonagon 10 the Montreal
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-26
A Remarkable Record.

The investigation into the causes OF
the recent accident on the Old Colony
railroad at Harrison square, by the Rail
road Commissioners, develops the un-
usual fact that but one life has been lost,
justly chargeablc upon the railroad com
pany, since the opening of the road in
1S46-twenty-nine years. This is indeed
remarkable record, and is only paral-
leled by the history of the Fall River
steamers, now run by the Old Colony
Steamboat Company. The steamboats,
running in connection with the Old Col
ony road commenced rs the Bay State
Steamboat Company, in 1916, and, with
some changes i'll boats and management,
have run uninterruptedly ever since.
Millions of passengers have passed over
the Sound, to and from New York, by
the steamers on this route during the
long period of twenty-nine years, with
the loss of but one life Justly chargeable
to the steamboat line. These remarkable
results are not entirely due to good luck,
but may be attributed to extraordinary
care and vigilance. Boston Traveller.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-26
Sorry He Wasn't There.

/ have referred in my book to that
Coroner of ours who seized an Egyptian
mummy that was brought into town,
summoned jury, held an inquest on
the mummy, brought i'll a verdict of
death from causes unknown" and
charged the county with the usual fee,
with compound interest from the time of
Moses. Well, that Coroner is still in
Office, and he is still enthusiastic about
his profession. Last Sunday night he
was Mt church. The minister preached
n very solemn sermon upon Noah's flood,
and after it was over L met the Coroner
in the aisle. and said to him
every impressive discourse, Mr..
Wheeler, wasn't it 2"
Beautiful, sir beautiful" replied
Wheeler. "And yet it seemed to be
kinder mournful, too"
"Indeedl Why, it didn't strike me
in that way. 1t was solemn, of course !;
but its tendency certainly should be to
fill the heart of every truly good man
with chcerfulness and hope"
"Oh, 1 know all that" said Wheeler,
but didn't he say that there were several
million people drowned in that food 2"
81 believe he did"
"Well, then, L say that when l think
of all that mortality, and remember that
wasn't Coroner then, and amt likely to
be when there's another such freshet,
it makes me sick. There amt nothing
cheerful about such reflections. / feels
if L hadn't been treated right; s if I'd
been robbed. Mar Adcler.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-26
Barnum's Happy Family---One Member
Eats Another.

Two lions, two leopards and tame
black panther have for some months been
kept in one cage in Barnum's hippodrome.
The lions are separated from their COM
panions through the night by iron bars,
but in the daytime the bars are with
drawn, and the animals form happy
family"
No sooner were the bars taken out
yesterdy morning than the leopard made
a spring for the panthers throat. The
panther was young, but his muscles were
like iron and his skin as thick as sole
leather, and he struck the leopard a blow
with one of his fore-paws that laid him
sprawling on the floor of the cage. In
an instant the leopard was on his feet
again, and the animals stood face to face.
For fully minute they glared and
growled, and then, with shock that
nearly turned the cage on its side, they
met again, each trying to grasp the other
by the throat.
The employees of the hippodrome, at
tracted by the noise of the conflict, tried
with bars and spears, to separate the COM
batants, but without avail. Seasoned
spears were snapped in two like straws,
and even the keeper of the animals dared
not approach the cage.
The leopard with an unexpectedsprin
fixed himself on the panther's back, and
taking the loose skin on the back of the
latter's neck between his teeth, gave the
panther a toss against the side of the
cage that bent the thick iron bars nearly
double. For minute there was great
danger that all the beasts in the cage
would escape. The top of the cage was
broken, and the floor was split. But the
battle was over for the panther, without
sound, struck the floor of the cage,
hfeless.
But the leopard was not satisfied with
the death of his antagonist. No sooner
was he convinced that he could approach
with safety than, Selling the painter head
between his fore paws, he gave him
tearing with the sharp claws of his hind
feet that nearly stripped the skin from
his body. Then he began with his teeth,
and before the employees could interfere
nearly half of the dead panther had been
eaten by the leopard.
When, at length, sufficient force had
been collected around the cage, the
tered the den. There upon the floor lay his
pets silky black skin, almost entire. His
body, not yet cold, quivered and his eyes
glared. The leopard crouched in cor
ner of the cage, satisfied with his meal.
The iron bars were soon replaced and the
leopard was prevented from doing fur
ther mischief
At the afternoon performance the Loop
ard was so unruly that it was deemed
unsafe for the trainer to enter the cage,
but the bars were kept in theirplaces and
no more damage was done. -NeW York
NllJl
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-26
A Baggageman Made Happy.

Among the other pleasant occasions
which mark the holidays, friend of a
Burlington and Missouri baggageman
presented him with patent trunk litter.
1t is made of steel and brass. Two
clamps clasp the trunk at either end, and
a turn of knob in the hand of the bag
gageman pulls both straps out by the
roots, while, at the same time, an iron
ball weighing nine pounds hammers away
at the bottom of the trunk, and a neat,
three ointed, self-acting rake, with
twelve teeth, reaches in as quick
"a hole is made, and sweeps
from end to end of the trunk, finally
emerging through the lid, where Il
olinches, and, by sudden backward jerk,
turns the trunk inside out. No baggage
man should be without it.-Buriingto,,
Hawkeye.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-26
MICHIGAN NEWS.
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.

PATENTS were recently issued TO citizens OF
this State AK follows Hoes NJ. Johnson, Three
Rivers; cultivators, NJ. Johnson, Three Rivers
couplings, j. b. Winters, Attica bootleg turn
ing-machines, ID. Bissel, Detroit.
PERSONAL.
EDWARD SAssEs of Grand Rapids, has been
called home to Holland to take possession of a
fortune of $4,000 guilders left him by the death
of his father.
CHRISTIAN LEANDEn, a German living at De-
troit, committed suicide few days ago by
shooting himself with musket
CASUALTIES.
THE residence of David Herrick, of Alpine,
Kent county, was destroyed by fire last week
loss, S. 900.
A FIRE at Negaunee few nights ago de-
stroyed the residence of George Sheldon. But
little was saved, and the total loss on the house
and furniture is so, 900, on which there il an
insurance of $4,000.
DEATHS.
Mrs. AMY VASDEMARK, an old woman living
at Niles was frozen to death last week Inves-
legations, after DEATH revealed a most horrible
story. She was lying in bed in rickety old
shanty she had occupied for number of years /;
the windows broken in, the door off its hinges
and propped up without a bit of fire in the
house, or fuel with which to make fire no
victuals of any description in the house, and the
miserable woman had probably eaten nothing
for day or two. This is, perhaps, the worst
case of restitution in Niles this winter.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Regents of the University held their reg
n'ar meeting at Ann Arbor few days ago.
Among other transactions they petitioned the
Legislature for So 600 for water-works for the
University $4,000 for the Hospital, and
Sl2, 900 for outstanding debts. They also agreed
to do the best possible thing for the proposed
homeopathic school, provided the Legislature
any money for it.
TEAMS are crossing Lake Erie from Michigan
to Long Point, Canada. a distance of thirty
miles, on the ice. This has not been done be-
fore i'll thirty years.
THE Michigan Amateur Press Association will
meet at Jackson some time in April.
MICHIGAN firemen will assemble in conven-
ton at Battle Creek, April 10, for the purpose
of organizing State Firomcns Association
The Battle Creek Commune is the name
of communstc society recently organized
at Battle Creek, with p. Brinkerhof
AZ the Hub" and Il. S. A. Pope,
formerly of Chicago, Secretary. This is
their only law" Let no man call God his
father who treats not man as his brother. Jus
tice to the laborinS man and woman, who, by
virtue of their labors, have the power to yet
make capital their server"
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than a match for the inexperienced and
impractical Republican leaders.

The Commissioner of Patents has re-
Gently made decision iii regard to pat
ont medicines which will be read with
interest 10y every man, woman and child
in the United States, except, perhaps,
some quack doctors, who see their occu-
patton gone. An application was made
some time ago by n party for patent
for "a chemical compound for the cure
of piles" The examiner, Mr.. X. O..
Dyhrenfurth, in refusing patent on the
application, said that section "a of the
Patent act of 1870 provided that any
person who had invented or discovered
any new or useful composition of matter
might obtain a patent, provided that an
examination be had, and it should APP
pear that the proposed patent was suf-
ficiently useful and important BY a
number of decisions it had been held
that invention was necessary, and that
mere Judgment and skill were not suf1i-
cient. Therefore, while patents might
have been granted on so-called medical
compounds and discoveries, the ex-
aminer thought it was not too late to
stop, no number of wrongs making
right, and he therefore refused patent
on the application under consideration.
First because the applicant had not in
vented or discovered anything; second,
because the alleged invention was not
useful and third, because the produc-
ton of this and similar preparations
was mere matter of skill.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-26
A Dandy ON the SeatTOld.

Cesar, when he received Brutus' fatal
stab, took care to fold his mantle and fall
with the dignity becoming hero and
Mary Queen of Scots bestowed much
pains on her execution toilet But per-
haps these instances only show a sense
of lofty decorum triumphant over the
last terrors. When one always notorious
for pride OF dress retains his dandy habits
under the stroke of fate, it may truly be
called case of
"The ruling passion strong in death"
The first Earl of Holland was great
dandy, who played prominent and not
altogether reputable part in the history
of his time. He was favorite at the
courts of James /. and Charles l.; but
when the civil war broke out, he at first
sided with the Parliament against the
King. In an unlucky hour he went over
to the royalist side, took up arms against
the Commonwealth, was defeated, made
prisoner, put to trial and duly sentenced
to lose his head. He appeared upon the
scatfold in a white satin vest and cap
trimmed with silver lace. His costly
garments were lawful perquisites of the
executioner, to whom the Earl said, rs
he approached the block:
"Here, my friend, let my body and
my clothes alone there is ten pounds
for thee, that is better than my clothes,
am sure. And when you take up my
head, do not take off my cap: Then
laying his neck upon the block, he added
"Stay, while give the sign.
After brief prayer he stretched out
his hand, saying, "Now now ! The
word had hardly left his lips when the
AK fell, and the head was severed from
the body at a single stroke.-Gatary.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-26
The Dry Goods King.

Jennie June describes A. Il. Stewart
as n man of seventy, who looks not more
than fifty-very quiet in appearance and
manner not Mt all above medium height,
rather slender, his gray eyes alone,
quick and clear, showing the power and
habit of taking Ill details at glance. He
is absolutely destitute of pretension, and
though fond of art and proud of his
pictures, deprecates being considered a
connoisseur. He is very abstemious in
his habits, eats a cup of Indian meal
Cruel the first thing in the morning,
toast and n fresh egg for breakfast,
stewed chicken and rice pudding, mad,
without eggs, for dinner. These are his
favorite dishes the year round. He
never eats at public dinners, preferrine
to take his meals at home before going