, 1876-04-23
Noteworthy Ear-Marks Of the New
Party, Organized to Have
1.-TWO Beers" or Anarchy.
An Entertaining Letter from
the Quaint Chron1cler
ct Racine.
The Pleasing Influences Of Tepid Zephyrs
In His Favored Community.
Regular Weekly In5tallments of
News from Kcnosha, Wau.
kcsan, and the Suburbs.


WISCONSIN.
MIL WAuKEE.
WHISKY.
epeeidT Correspondence Of Ths Chicago 1ibunk
MILWAUKEE, April 22.-The suit decided On
Thursday By Judge D1ummond, entitled Hart
man IS. Bean ct a., merits more than passing
notice. 1t WAS suit brought By the alleged
ogucr Of 1877 barrels of distilled spirits, said to
hare been stored In the Monomonee distillery At
he time of the seizure OF that establishment By
Collector Bean, to recover damages from the
Collector and Deputy Fred Payne. These Off
ccrs were arrested the day suit was brought but
b.iled. There was very great excitement even
triumph, among the whisky men, On account Of
these arrests. It was said that Was the beginning
of the end OF the raid of 8 tyrannical Govern
ment on the liberties of an oppressed and down.
krodden noople- The boast WAS made that all
the m;uions OF the Government should receive
lhe treatment dealt cut to the whiskY men, If
tnere WAS law IN the land Before the case came
10 the tranquil judgment seat IN which
Judge Drummond holds even she scales of JUS
tee. great events had transpired. The backbone
Of the Whisky Ring not onlr hroken but crushed
Into powder. Many OF the men who early last sum
rer imagined they ran, not only the dstle17es Of The
District and their employees, but the Judges os our
Courts and the votes Of our people, and the Gorer-
nent Of the country, had gone to prison in very
prpsaic-humha manner: those who had run away. full
Of magnificent defiance, had CONC back to be meekly
sentenced; and the lenders Of the greatest conspiracy
eyer known either couycts the point OF OBJ
timing that prominence. So Hartmans SUIT faded
into tugie1in cancc, and when judge Drummond de-
dsd it, the aeething ruasses whose agitation indicated
the overthrow Of Empires were oonspicuousy absent,
drpnkard could not have been mora comnonplace,
Judge Drummond In his Enthusiastically vigorous.
cS ncisiEe style swept cobwebs from the
lgai talent had enreloped it, and dismissed it, bs
cause Bean had simply obeyed the Law in that eass
1usde sGd pzoslded-
TEE new PARTY.
seems as though the party was really going to b
te.pa1 Of the people, that IL to say the horny
handed people, ths same people who were the back
bons Of ita War. and never went back on the Repub
haas Til the Graham Liquor law was passed You
remember tho terrible excitement in England when
sa1ation PROPOSED that would inevitably increase
The price Of glses OF beer. The Government tot
tered monarchy tremhed the rery air quased to tho
laundering echoes Of the refrain, Would you rob
g9Ss me sse & Peh II the peioa Much The same
In he Badger State, when it was proposed to dictate
to iree citizens The te1ms which they should
md hurled fFom power those who would :. rob poor
I'd ID y. = t:!iaS s5s: tSe:s s,, Sso .a .ss&
lngs Of to-dzy. The Peoples party take atock In
Republican Of Democratic men or principles They
he best czens for Office, and strict accountability to
"a wednesday night 1t North side Turne1-Hall. Any
who Eays the Peoples party il myth had batter
atend ens Ut theee meetngs-
An INDEX TO OUR FINANCES.
Perhsps there surer index to the state Of the
pzte1nal portemonnaie than tho fluctuations In the
oukiness Of Meinsurance- When money and employ
nent plentiful, are the prudent people who in
rest in life policies, aud the contrary. Judging BY
his rule this State is, dgurave]y speaking, 81 In
light place" Tne statements Of Lne-insurancs CON-
panies doing business In Wisconsin, now being pub
.s lse ape o il ana po ssae
Is compared with 1S74, amounting in many cases to
- much as 50 per cent Soma Of thu leading compa-
srraee, foT which there sze special reasons, the
most important being am obliged to say. the loan~
fHce attachment.
In fire business also, there is marked decrease in
he revenue values having shrunk m average Of fully
per cent that assuming stocks to be W. large ~
previously, their value i still onetouIth less. Il es-
that this fourth not a few persons in business
insure to the full value and during ptnchtng times
reduce their insurance expenses like everything else.
The NEW MAYOR
AR r. Butler ESQ.,, delivered hts inaugural last
Monday afternoon He counseled prudence in expend-
Itares and went over tbs salient features Of our mu
nicipal goyerument in the mastery manner one would
naturally expect from 60 able LAWYER feen thinker,
and honorable gentleman. as the Centennial Mayer.
disaster in IN administration composed from top to
bottom Of Democ1uts yet the general feeling il that
With such man Is Butler At Tho head, We ough. to
come out III right Very rarely have the peop.e at
iaIgs accepted pronounced party man with the con-
hdenct they express in hlr. Butler.
NEW NAIL FROM CHICAGO.
The last mail arriving in the carly morning at Chi
eago at present delivered hers 1t O'Clock in tho a
trrnoon, not reaching merchants at the end OF the
os h % !, ass e1g 10 es ss
the train arriving here at HAD ard the general
Eastern mail on the train arriving here ut 1:a p.
One follows the other closely that with existing IA
cnes, It is impossible to deliver the first in time to
for the second before l4te in the afternoon.
Postmaster Payne went to Chicago days ago. and
eaw Mr.. uuEhitt, Gaueraf Superintendent OF tho
Northwestern Rosd on tbs SUBJECT the resul. being
ttat by slight alteration in the tins Of the fast mail
here vt 105U =. H. and be delivered in the forenoon
thus enabling merchants to answer letera by return
bag tor the s an gong asst iosng
ty those doing business within block Of the Post
office. This improvement will be duly appre-
c1ased by cur merchants and general citizens. Writ.
Ing Of iha Poss-Ofica reminds ms OF statement
1lAde by an afternoon paper herc that IaE TRIBUNE
correspondent had sought office under Mr. PAYNE
This il mistake, which Mr. Payne will 1ectify il any,
sufficiently interested in the subject will take the
trouble to call on or write to him
BIEyII1Es.
Ex-Governor Bross of illinois, delivered most
ltle .ud interesting address On sour Western En-
pro" to = large concourse last Sunday afternoon at
the Academy of Music. This WIS one Of the best
ed By Ill present. the Governor ever 1eyiRits this
city tbs popularity be earned during bis LAST visit will
insure him . crowded hall whenever he sPpea1s. :.
Nr. Thelen has been reelected Chairman OF
esassd himself fully Of tho suspicious that
attached 70 his name. in the minds Of =
number Of his fellow-1nembers. As Mr. Thielen has
DOW indicated himself, after fashion. the expects
non Is expressed that BY careful avoidance Of par
nssn spirit. aud stct adherence to the duties Of
.t.-mtnded Chairman, he may regain the esteem not
mere Clique, but of tho public at large. BE can
INKS good record for himself il be feels so dis
fneed, N the County Board
Ar William l. keogh. foreman in the ruling de-
Fs1tnent Of Messrs West Co. wholesale stationery
eoose, u engaged to Miss Annie Smith, Of Oswego,
RACINE.
EFRIN9 IMPROVEMENTS.
6osesa1 Correspondence Of The Cnteago Tribune.
hAcHE. April 22--The song Of the sparrow,
me nbdued chirps OF the retiring bluebird, April
mowers, and fragrant zephyrs bring pleasures
saas are not ali unalloyed- With the dawI OF
tpr1ng comes also the turmoil and cares of in aad