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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-10

er, of the Springfield GIL. } district, some
ten days ago proposed an amendment
which is much talked of here. 1t is de-
signed to abolish special legislation by
Congress in thousand and one instances
where such laws are now enacted at every
session. Special legislation was abol-
ished by constitutional provision In Indi-
ana some twenty five years ago, and since
then similar provision has been incor-
porated In the fundamental law of many
of the States, in every instance with
benefcent results. The want of such q
provision as is contemplated by Mr..
Springer's amendment is the cause of
gross abuses and many expensive evils.
70 this may largely be attributed the
existence of "The Lobby" here, a sort
of close and loose corporation Gun
hmited) which thrives on corruption,
blackmail, confidence games, the re-
duction of 6eadbeatism to science,
or rather its elevation to a fine art pat
ronized By the ton, and such like re-
spectacle peccadilloes. The support of
this lobby has cost the people Of these
United States from fifteen to fifty mill
icns annually during the last fifteen
years. Its minor and it's major raids on
the Treasury are In eternal concoction or
operation. It has men of great talents
for commanders, and others of cunning,
strategy, and pluck for drill-masters.
Fine orators, persons of the highest con-
versational powers, distinguished Off
Gals, State and national, of the past;
first-rate gamblers with large diamond
breastpins; brilliant women, as beautiful
and as virtuous as Venus the blest, and
some newspaper men" make up the
Washington lobby. Just how many
downright robberies and corrupt jobs
they have helped to engineer through
Congress it would be difficult to tell.
But that they have been the prime means
of the wrongful expenditure of at least
two hundred millions since the begin
ming of the war, and cf the infection of
great evils upon the people by getting
patents extended which ought not to
have been, and in other like ways
that are dark, no honest man
who knows about the inside
of things here will deny. IL Mr.. Spring
er's amendment shall prevail, the occu
patton of the lobby will be gone. The
measure is one of very great practical
Importance to the people, but as there
is no "orifamme" in it, and no maudlin
gush of any kind, do not propose to
bet my bottom dollar that it will be
adopted. Nevertheless, if people knew
how much it would benefit them and aid
honest craftsmanship they would stir up
Congress lively on the subject, and keep
on stirring till the measure had become
a success. L. M. n.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

John Forster. the Liberal statesman of En-
gland, and author of the Life of Charles Dick
ems" is dead.
London now has huge defalcation sensa-
ton. William Smith, the head of y bankrupt
soliciting firm, having used up $3.50, 600 of his
customers money.
A Berlin dispatch says that negotiations for
the compromise between Church and State
have come to complete standstili, and the III
tramontanes are again disposed to show their
old bitterness in opposition to the present
Government.
It now begins to look as if Alfonso would
crush out Carlosisfi after all. The demoral-
lied forces of Don Carlos are everywhere re-
treating.
Cardinal Ledoohowsh, the Catholic prelate
at Berlin, who was sentenced to prison some
time ago for having disobeyed the eccleslas1-
cal laws of Germany, was released on the 80
inst, his term of sentence having expired.
The Catholics of Berlin made it the occasion
of great rejoicing The liberated Cardinal has
gone to Rome.
The Senatorial elections in Spain have re-
suited favorably to the Government.
The revolution in Northern and Central Mex
leo is assuming formidable proportions.
private letter received at San Antonio Texas,
from SaltilIa, on the 4th inst, says "The
revolution is gaining ground, and great excite
ment prevails throughout the State. The whole
western part of Coahu1la is up in arms, as are
the Pacific States, Tamaulipas, Nueva Leon,
San Luis, and, in fact, all Northern Mexico.
Trevina is now marching on Monterey from the
State of Tamaulipas. Another General is APP
proaching Saltilla from the west. Durango
has Joined hands with her sister States in this
struggle"
Bismarck has recovered from his recent ILL
ness.
The international Committee ON the con-
struction of the submarine tunnel between
France and England, have just terminated their
abors at Paris. complete agreement was
established on all points under consideration
as well as the possibility OF the undertaking.
Roumania is rampant for war, and will prob
ably join in the general instruction against
Turkish authority. The reply of the Porte to
Count Andrassy's note announces concur
renee in five leading points in that proposition
of reform in behalf of the disaffected provin-
ces-the establishment of religious liberty a
modification of the system of tax-collection
the granting of facilities to agriculturists; the
application of portion of the revenues of the
provinces to local improvements and the APP
pointment of mixed commission of Turks and
Christians to watch the execution Of these
reforms.
The dispute In regard to territory between
Paraguay and the Argentine States has been
submitted to President Grant for arbitration.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-10

the floor and entered into long and exhaustive
argument in opposition to the admission of
Pinchback as Senator. Christiancy also
spoke against his admission, and Howe in
favor. There was discussion of hour
and half lin executive SESSION. respecting the
nomination of E. c.. Billings to succeed Judge
Dureu in Louisiana.
HO1se.-BiIs were introduced and referred as
follows: By Sayler, to homesteads to actual
settlers on the public lands by Fort, declaring the
birthday of Abraham Lincoln rational holiday,
and that the 14th of April the national flag shall
float at half-mast; by Beard to substitute legal
tender notes for national bank notes, and to make
the duties on imports receivable one-half in legal
tender notes, and to repeal the Resumption act of
the 14th of January, 1875....A resolution was
adopted instructing the Committee Foreign
Affairs to investigate the reports connecting
Minister Schenck with the Emma Mine and
Machado claim affairs. The House had long de-
bate on the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation
bill, participated in principally by Holman, who
favored, and Garfield, who opposed the cutting
down of the salaries OF Ministers and Consuls.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-10
Goose-Rone and the Weather.

The goose-bone predictions are, per-
'haps, more closely watched in Kentucky
than anywhere else, and it may be called
the Kentucky weather-prophet. In
many parts of the State the farmers con-
SUIT it, and prepare for handling their
crops in accordance with its predictions.
It Is said that there is family in Wood
ford County that has fifty of these little
prophets carefully laid away, and de-
clare that not one of them made mistake
In their predictions. Let us turn to this
years prophecy. We must take the
breast-bone of last springs goose
none other will do, for the prophecy
does not extend beyond the year in which
the goose is Matched. Thanks to friend
we have such.a BONE It must be di-
vided into three parts, which represent
the three divisions of winter. The
breast-bone of a goose it translucent,
bat at places has cloud-like blots upon
it. These blots denote cold weather.
Looking at the bone before us, we find
q little cold weather about the LIST OF De-
cember, which we have realized and
there is another blot beyond the center
of the bone, denoting cold weather about
the middle of January this cloud we
are passing now, and SO far our little
prognosticator has guided us right We
are to have warmer weather after few
days, but the worst is to come. The
darkest blots are near the end OF the
bone, and, if the prophecy fails not.
winter will verify the saying OF coming
in like lamb and going out like roar
ing lion. Our coolest weather will come
after the middle of February, and our
warmest fires will be required for the
parting days of winter and the first days
of spring. This is the goose-bone
and, as we have the word OF
good old farmer that it has not failed for
fifty years, we would advise the laying
in of a good supply of coal-for the
goose-bone has said it, and old winter
will be after young spring with great
big icicle. -Louisv5lLe Commercial.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-10
MISCELLANEOUS G1EAN1NGs.

The Japanese Commissioners to our National
Centennial distinguished representatives
arrived at San Francisco last VT elk.
A Washington dispatch to the Chicago Tri-
bal7ae says: ssThere are rumors of new and
extraordinary developments in the whisky bust
ness in Chicago, Milwaukee, and other West
ern Cities It is said that additional unsus-
pected persons will be presented by the grand
juries. Some of the persons are ex-oficials OF
the Government. A very great effcrt is now
making here to prevent the further develop
ments that are anticipated, but it seems certain
that these efforts will fail. The Government is
in full possession of all the evidence and it is
said, in inner circles, that the stars will sooD
fall
The first international exhibition of the year
that of Chili-has failed. The show did not
pay. During it's progress the foreign Com
missioners observed the successive Sabbaths
by giving free side shows. The American
Commissioner outdid all the others by charter
ing circus
The Cambridge Gng.) University Boat Club
has decided to decline the challenge of the
Rowing Association of American Colleges, and
also the invitation from Philadelphia, to take
part in the Centennial regatta.
The recent amnesty debate in the House of
Representatives at Washington has brought out
letter from jeff. Davis, in which he takes
substantially the same ground as Ben Hill,
namely: that there were no atrocities at Ander-
sonville greater than those to which rebel pris-
oners were subjected to in Northern prisons !;
that the mortality at Andersonville was due to
causes wholly beyond the reach of the Confed-
crate authorities ; and that the responsibility
for the failure to bring about an exchange of
prisoners rests upon the Federal authorities.
JEFF. scorns to ask, and would not deign to ac-
cept amnesty. To use his own language, there
sis no view of the future which makes it de-
sirable to me to be included in the Amnesty
BILL"
Among the passengers by the steamer VIE
land, which arrived at New York the other day,
were Mrs. Thomas, the wife of the author of
the Bremerhaven dynamite disaster and her
four children. She expressed her unwillingness
to talk about the cause of her unpleasant prom
inence, particularly in the presence of her chill
dren, who as yet are ignorant of the whole
affair. She proposes to seek retirement in her
own home in this country.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-10
DOMESTIC NEWS.
East.


The shocking murder of Simmons in Brook
lyn, N Y, is made more revolving, if possible,
by the discovery of the missing portion of his
body in the swamps on the outskirts of that
city, where they were placed by the murderer
Kretz, and by him pointed out to the police
authorities.
The town of East Lyndon, Me-, was the other
day the scene of an unparalleled tragedy.
SiIas Wilder. resident of that town, killed his
father s.and MOTHER with an ak, and cut his
Wifes throat. He then hung himself.
Another county-or rather another County
Treasurer been heard from. It is st.
Lawrence County, New York, and the amount
of the defalcation is between 100000 and
$780, 1000.
The leading coal companies at the East have
agreed to suspend mining operations till the
18th Of March.
Henry G. Bowen has addressed letter to the
Plymouth Church Examining Committee, in
which he declares to the world that, years be-
fore the present scandal became public, he was
informed and now believes, that Mr.. Beecher
had been guilty of the crime of betraying the
sanctity of other homes beside that of Theo-
dore Tlton. Mr.. Bowen announces his readi-
ness to testify to essential facts before any
proper tribunal, though he will not "allow a
single name to be bruited before the world"
His conclusion is that, without the shadow of a
doubt in his own mind, Mr.. Beecher is equity
of the awful crimes of adultery, perjury and
hypocrisy"
The Alcott Iron Company, of Albany. N. Y,
has suspended. Liabilities, $15O,OO0.
At White Plains, N. Y, the other day. Ed
ward S. Stokes, convicted of killing James
Fisk, Jr., appeared before Justice Dyckman on
a writ of habeas corpus, and his counsel
moved for his release from Sing Sing, on the
ground that he had been imprisoned ten
months before receiving his final sentence
The motion was denied, and Stokes was re-
turned to his prison house.
A fire in the Bowery, New York city, last
week, destroyed $3.50, 900 worth of property.
Moody and Sankey have inaugurated Their
campaign against the hosts of sin in New York
city.
West.
Fifteen convicted members of the Indiana
whisky ring defrauders of the revenue were
last week sentenced In tire United States Court
at Indianapolis Eight of them to two years in
the Penitentlary and each to pay $1,000 fine;
one to three years in the Penitentiary and to
pay 1000 line one to onesyear in jail and to
pay $1,000; and five to six months in Jail and
to pay $780,
1t is reported from Washington that another
raid like that of last spring will be made at
once into the Black Hills, and the enterprising
prospectors captured and brought of the res
ervauon. Those who have broken the parole
made by them when released will be impris-
oned and tried by the courts
A line of stages has commenced running be-
tween Cheyenne and the Black Hills.
Mcdonald says Mckee is the only member of
the ST. Louis whisky ring who saved any plum
der. 1t is thought Mckee viii escape the peni-
Tertiary, and receive fine of $1,000
large number of fresh indictments have
been returned against members of the Milwau-
kee whisky ring.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-10
THE REFUNDING ACT.

Proposition to Extend the Time for Nego-
tiating the 4 LIZ per cents.
Washington Teb. A. Telegram to Chicago Trib-
une.]
A bill introduced in the House by Mr..
Wood for the purpose of amending the
Refunding act was the subject of careful
consideration by the Committee on Ways
and Means to-day. The Secretary of the
Treasury, who had been requested to
give his opinion respecting the provis-
ions of the proposed measure, replied
that they generally met his approval.
He is of opinion that, should the time
during which the A. per cent. bonds au-
thorized by the several Refunding acts
have to run be extended to thirty years,
we would have no trouble in negotiating
in Europe the $500, 900, 900 bonds bear
ing this rate of interest which still re-
main. Mr.. Wood himself thinks that
should the life of these bonds be extend
ed, large sums of money which accumu
late in the form of trust funds in the
cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, and elsewhere, and which are
constantly seeking permanent and safe
investment, would be converted into
these bonds, and that In this way the
proportion of our national debt held at
home by our own citizens would be gen
orally increased. In this respect the
French people are much better off than
we. Almost the entire debt created by
the Franco Prussian war and by the large
indemnify which the Governmental has to
pay to Germany has been taken by her
own citizens. The Committee, although
it did not finish the discussion of the
bill, will, without doubt, at an early
meeting recommend it's passage.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-10

Members of Congress in favor of the repeal OF
the Resumption act claim that the proposition
for repeal has gained considerable strength
since the last vote, and that it will carry the
next time it is brought up.
1t is said the Judiciary Committee of the
House are in favor of the expulsion of King and
Schumacher.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-10

THE Food and Fuel Retormeer, an
English journal, is out in opposition to
tea drinking, the evil effects of
which it says fall with the greatest
weight on women, who owe TO it
their cold feet and hands, their liability
to frequent colds and their habitual
loss of appetite.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-10

GEN. Mcclellan was tendered
the position of Chief Engineer of the
Brazilian Government at salary Ct
$1,000, gold, per year, and declining 10
recommended Col. John Mechan, his
assistant In the Department OF Docks,
as the best man for the work.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-10

TIE Peaks of Otter, near Lynchburg,
Va, long supposed to be an extinct vol
cano, have recently given unmistakable
evidence of action.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-10
WASHINGTON NOTES.

According to the monthly report of Score
tary Bristow, the public debt of the United
States was cut down ST., 500, 155 during January.
Appended is the official statement:
Six per cent. bonds ......$1 OLE, ~, $50
Five per cent bonds $500. 687 1884, 75O
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-10

Additional troops are to be sent to the Rio
Grande to protect the frontier against the
Mexican cattle thieves.
The receipts frone customs for January were
81, or, S74, an increase of 50, 126, $50 over
December. The internal revenue receipts re-
ported for January were 1888, 571.
The total expenditures of the Government
for the six months ending Dec 81 last, includ-
ing interest on the public debt, were $141, 1884,,
2O5.
The total amount received in the Treasury
from customs during the first seven months of
the fiscal year is $87, 255,371. The total ex-
penditures of the Government for the first
seven months of the fiscal year were $141 1885,,
205. This includes the interest on the public
debt
The House Conm ttee on Education and La
Dor are engaged in the consideration of several
bills having for their object the appropriation
for educational purposes of the future proceeds
of the sale of pubic lands. A bill viii probably
be reported, giving to the common schools of
every State according to the rate of illiteracy,
their proportion of the fund, and an effort will
be made to secure share for the higher educa-
tional institutions.
Representative Seelye, of Massachusetts, the
other day received letter from Henry Ward
Beecher, requesting him to act as member of
the Plymouth Church Advisory Council, but he
declined on account of important private bust
ness which would prevent his absence from
Washington.
It is reported on very high authority, says a
Washington telegram, that dispatches have
been received at the State Department from
Mr. Schenck in London, and Bancroft Davis,
In Berlin, announcing that the Governments of
Great Britain and of Germany decline to take
any part in the Presidents proposed interven-
ton to cause a cessation of the war in Cuba, or
to make such representation to the Govern
ment of Spain as Mr.. Fish suggested in his So
called circular note
The Tipton advertiser., 1876-05-04
ST NM AR Y.
A. c. ROSS, Supt.

How 1T PAys.-1n the report of
the live stock market as given by the
evening journal Of the Goth ult., we
notice the following;
.Among the sales late last night
was lot OF extra prime Steers, at
1870, the highest price paid during
the week; fed by II. G. Piatt, Tip
ton, Iowa, and shipped by Reeder
Bros. from the same place. They
averaged l,5Io ibs.'
1t is probably unnecessary to tell
farmers that those steers were high
grades, but the often demonstrated
advantage Of raising and feeding such
cattle is so well and strongly shown
by an incident furnished US by the
Messrs. Reeder that we will give it
here: They shipped with the cattle
above mentioned one common steer.
lie was the same age, had been fed
and raised with the rest and had pre-
cisely the same care and chance in
every respect, and yet when it came
to selling, he weighed only 200 lbs,
and brought only $3.50 per cwt., be-
ing s51 go against $500, the aver.
age price of the grades little diff
ference Of $1,000 on each steer in ia
yor Of blood. Is anything more
needed to induce every farmer to
breed only to good animals?
The Tipton advertiser., 1876-05-04

PERsoNAL.-Hon. Robert Smyth,
of Mt. Vernon, was in tewn last Sat
urday.
VIM. Dean and J. G. Sheldon
started for Chicago Monday evening.
Hon. S. Fl. Fairall is in attendance
at this term of court-counsel for DR..
Houser.
Judge Richman, Of Museatine, is
in town on business connected with
court.
Hon. w. p. Wolf is still unable to
come to town or attend to his busi-
ness.
George Hartford, pleasant and
accommodating gentleman and one of
the best officials in the employ of the
Northwestern company, has resigned
his position as Agent at Stanwood
and will shortly betake himself to
farm life, where he hopes to enjoy
better health than heretofore.
Jno. d. Shearer starts west before
long to spend the season in improv-
ing tract of land he owns in Sioux
county.
Among other attorneys in attend
ance at court we notice Hon. ID. G.
Cloud of Muscatine. l. NJ. Preston,
Of Marion, A. B. Oakley of Mechan-
icsville, and Jameson, of Olin.
The Tipton advertiser., 1876-05-04
A CARD.

Our Staawood folks are the most per.
sistent intruders we have ever had the
fortune to dwell among, as shown by
the way they have from time to time
taken possession Of our house and, after
having their way for while, on their
departure cumbering US with various
things which they would leave with US.
We have endeayored meekly to sub
init to these terrible proceedings in the
past, but now resolve in the way of re
talialion to publish them.
Furthermore, | notify the Red Oak
and Stanwood people that will wear
tkat Beaver overcoat they left with us
last winter till it is worn out, If they
don't soon take 1t away. And Mrs. B.
says she will put that new walnut ex.
tension table, left in our dining room
last Saturday by the Ladies' Society,
into daily use if they don't remove it
And by the way, we think that your
townsman, A. p. Fleming, is "partrceps
criminis' by selling the table to the
ladies at reduced price.
Yours Truly, b. c. BARNES,
Stanwood, May I'd, 1876
Read the advertisement Of DR.. Nc
Affee the celebrated specialist, in this
paper, who offers to pay one hundred
dollars forfeit for any case he under
takes and does not cure. 3m3l
The Tipton advertiser., 1876-05-04

STOLEN GooDs FoUND.--Last Sun
day afternoon some young men found,
hidden in the fair ground, saddle
and bride, new pair each of boots
and shoes and some new pocket
knives. The saddle and bride
proved to have been stolen from VIM.
Lees barn few nights before, and
the owner of the cutlery and other
goods can have same by proving
property and paying expenses. In
quire Of Lee Hoon, in Upton.
Since writing the above we learn
that similar goods were stolen Fri
day night from Baldwin's store at
Cedar Bluffs. Several dollars in
fractional currency and nickels were
taken at the same time.