, 1876-07-23
Account Of q BOat-Race
Which Excited ke-
r1osha People.
Meagre Hegira from the villages
to Geneva Lake and Ocon0-
1nowoc, Wis.
News of the Week from Racine, Re.
nosha, Waukegan, Aurora. and
the Suburbs.
WISCONSIN.


WAYS AND MEANS
Special Correspondence n The Tribune
MILWAUKEE, July 22.-Business remains uu
settled. The margin Of profit is less than ever
There is more capital embarked in wholesal
and retail trade than ought to be employed
rents are too high, taxes eat up the earnings
and many stores ought to be closed to-day tha
are doing business on borrowed money. Son1t
of our largest wholesale houses are daily piling
up more debts than receipts 4 few, that have
been shaky ever since last Black Friday, e1-
hausted all their expedients for renewals and
credit, aud have gone under. Tho bank-vaults
are grooming with the accumulation of money
and real estate scarcely pays taxes. The Wagei
OF 1aborers, artisans, clerks, book1seepers, ant
all classes OF employees, have been reduced tt
the lowest possible point, whilst meat, grocer
les, and many OF the necessa-ics OF life, remain
at the old prices, and only the Injuries show &
disposition to come down. Everybody who has
benu able to afford It has gone to the Centennial
or the seaside, or the country. The city is liter
al;y empty of The wealthy classes, and conse-
Queutly the retail trade is piucled sadly at s
ti1ue when sn additional burden is equivalent tc
til" last straw that broke the patient camel's
back.
SILL, the prospect is not so bad as 1t might
haye been. The resent failures have cleared the
business atmosphere to some extent, confidence
begins to be felt that the worst is upon us, and
must soon mend. and, above all, the crops are
bountiful. The stories te!cgraphcd wide by I'M
scrrpulous operators rs to the ruin Of corn aud
wheat, first denied in The TRIBUNE, have been
proved falsc, asd the present season. will prob
ably be quite cqual to good average, thus in
suring plentiful supply Of the needful among
the classes whose prosperity or rnisfortuncs re-
net SO quickly and perccptibly upon all other in
tcrests in Northwestern cities. Trade cannot
WILL te worse thAn it Is; there Is reason to hope
it will soon be BETTER
THE MILWAUKEE FIEND.
William =. Norris. tie HILL who was captured
By Chief Beck fur Eapi!ig TWO little girls, is ar
escaped inmate Of the Insane Asylum, to which
institution, he will probably be returned, to take
Ills chances Of a1,ot:.er escape.
The story Of the :sTesI IS interesting. When
the slete -tiyes captured. IN innocent man, to
whom utmost irrtpa:aDie injury was thereby
worked. Mr. Beclz determined to find the crinl;-
nal himself, and, setting the Affairs OF the
police Office III ordcr gave his pursuit and cup
ture bis undivided attention. He argued that i
1na;a who has been seen going along the same
road. fishing, for years, who always had gentle
paid Ut the time for boat-hire, glasses Of beer
on the roadside, etc, aud who, although SO we'll
knuwn by sight, was known to none BY name,
must be character out Of the common line, he
must he u man OF leisure, not worlingman,
and aot very we'll ot1; and one who had desire
not to make acuuaintanccs III class Of society
that lie evidently considered beneath his own.
He was always described as going home III
the same direction. Mr.. Beck began to
think Of the leisurely men, above the
that DIRECTION. The road was studded with Ia
hor:nr1neu:s f,ouses. It is purely a foreign SIT
tienlent. But. as it stretches east and nortl.
occasionally the cottage Of a wcll-to-Eo family
ailswrring the description fixed in the Chitr's
mind As he mentally traced the lines OF streets,
ant: SAW them emerging Into rvsiscncc quarters
he saw here and there d prfson that came uear
tu fitting the ya;aut place; and finally he canc
to Waycrly place. and like flash. remembered
=aped and returned home from tic State AsY-
luin-a man taller than Low, the Innocent pris-
o1ler, and in many respects roughly resembling
him. It did not take long to tiud out that Nor
ris was really in the city, and living with his
mother; that be was so living at the time Of the
crime; that LIE WIS absent lrolu hume OH that
E:1rhtiul Nontlny and to arrest him, and finally
be was fully identified by half-a-dozcn persons
rs tile man they saw with the little girls, taking
them to the river.
Simple as the process BIZ which Chief Beck
made tho arrest appears, it is an index to the
character OF the lnan,-slow. sure, and thought
ful, with grip like death.
CATHOLIC PROGRESS.
The unity o1 the Catholics is wonderful when
compared with the l:sanity and complete iudi-
yiuuulity OF the different scets IT Frotestanta.
Professionalism has more ho,tsc-room than it re-
quircs, ur is likely to require for many years to
come; but Catholicity is building for itself new
places Of worship in every corner of the city al
ways. It seems US though the last new Catholic
church had been described but few days when
another 4'opcning'' demands the attention of
the reporter. The sa1'' with the Catholic socic-
ties; they are Of mt hr ,otn growth, hut, once
here, are with us lv.eycr, always growing in
strength in numbers, i'll influence, in wealth, in
mater al power, in a:;grcss ivencss in tue mis-
sivrla.y spirit, In making converts, In raking in
from the highways and the hyways the poorest
Of the poor. There arc none So wretcl1cd, SO
criminal, so poverty-strickcn, but are welcomed
to the f,os.,,n of tho Catholic Church with the
smile Of sweet charity, and covered with the
mantle Of forgiveness and protection. No high
pew rents, no churth scandals, no aristoc,a:y, 10
toilets. Ii is the Church OF the miscrablcs The
4u"t oulc:4sts as well as tue reward Of
re gol!y aud tic hope Of tic wealthy. This
Church, thcn is c1l,ucskiag the city in net
work OF religious societies. One Of the last Of
these is the "St. Aloysius Sodality, under the
Patronage Of the Most Pure Hcart of Mary"
RELIGION AL FkEsco.
4 few dismal nights were passed at the fair