The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-27
CURRENT AFFAIRS.


cases from justices courts, have decided
that all bets are void, and that the stake
holder is bound to return money when
demanded by the loser. The cases at
issue were election bets.
PHILADELPHIA promises to become
one vast boarding house this summer.
Throughout interminable streets In that
commodious city invitations to enter
tainment at reasonable rates already
adorn the frontals of hitherto most pri-
vate dwellings.
Dom PEDRO II. DE AncANTARA, Empe-
ror of Brazil, whose full name is Pedro
Joao Carlos leopold Salvador Bibiano
Xavier de Paula Leocadio Miguel Ga
briel Raphael Gonzaga, was born in Rio
de Janeiro on Dec 2, 1926. He stands
six feet three inches in his stockings.
THE house in the woods at Chappaqua
can now never be approached as shrine,
as Ferney has been, and Abbotsford, and
the house at Twickenham, and many
other places made memorable by the
great men who left their memories there.
Mr.. Greeley's old house has been burned
down, and naught is left there to recall
the great chip-chopper of Chappaqua.
For nearly twenty years it was Mr.. Gree
ley's country house.
THE readiness with which the Japanese
adapt themselves to the customs of
western civilization is seen in the
lively competition for freight and pas
sengers between the native steamship
line in Japanese waters and the steamers
of the English Peninsular and Oriental
company. The Japs have reduced
passage rates to cent a mile, and
freights to dollar ton for a thousand
miles, and the fight seems to be about as
spirited as an old-time rivalry OF the
same kind between the steamers on our
great lakes.
The transfer of Mrs. A. Z. Stewards
title to her late husbands share in the
great business house of A. L. Stewart &
Co., as we'll as in all his property, except
real estate in New York city, to Judge
Hilton. for the comparatively small SUM
of ST., 00O,000 is exciting much unfavor-
able comment. Mrs. Stewart is not q
lady of marked mental strength. And
yet Judge Hilton having been her hus-
bands warm personal friend for many
years, it can hardly be supposed that
that gentleman has taken any undue ad-
vantage of the old lady's confidence.
Mrs. RoxCEn1ANAH KEYsER, the widow
of deceased wealthy butcher, was
buried in New York last Thursday. Her
funeral was an extraordinary affair. The
casket cost 81 900 and the floral decora-
tions $4,000. The latter consisted of q
pillar of tea roses and carnations, an
"a 4171oo nf
five feet In height, bed of smilax and
exotic flowers, and number OF smaller
pieces, among which were beautiful
crown and wreath of immortelles and
violets. Mrs. Keyser, it is understood,
leaves So, 600, 900 to be divided between
her sister and her sisters four children.
THE Statistical Office of the German
railway lines has published the returns
of the accidents which happened during
the year 1875 on all German railways ex-
cept she Bavarian lines. There we're
| 755 runnings-off the rails and collisions
of trains outside, and l, 376 runnings-otf
| the rails and collisions inside the sta
lions, and 1850 accidents of divers ma
lures by which the regular service was
| interrupted. These accidents have
caused the loss of the lives of 500 per-
sons; 1,545 persons were hurt. The
proportion of accidents to the number of
passenger trains was to 1894, and to
that of goods trains / to 1920.
GEN. REYNOLDS, of the army, is Sc
verely censured by General Crook for
having permitted the escape of the
ponies of the hostile Indians recently
raided and scattered on the Big Horn,
in Wyoming, and it is announced that
he will be court-martialed. There were
two or three hundred of these ponies,
and by failing to capture them, General
REYNOLDS is accused of disobeying or
ders and giving aid to the enemy by
furnishing them the means OF escape
and continuing their hostilities. 1t is
also announced that general war with
the Indians of that region is regarded
inevitable during the summer.
THE Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, in the
Elmira Gazette, advances the original
and startling proposition that the cleo
ton bribery laws be repealed, and that
votes be sold in an open market. He
asserts that "while the world stands
votes will be bought and sold In
democracy that 'vast numbers of
voters cannot possibly use their votes
wisely !" that ''it is better for capital
to get out the vote by cash than for
party men to get it out by brides and
lies +" that :" to vote proxy is no In
novation, no disgrace to stockholders,
nor in itself immoral, and that bribery
laws once repealed, honest, wealthy and
patriotic men could bid in open market
for the votes which are now sold to the
knavish and corrupt only"
Breaking Hearts.