The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-05-04
CURRENT AFFAIRS.

Hon. ARCHIBALD DIXON, the successor
of Henry Clay In the United States Sen
ate, and for many years distinguished In
State and national politics, died last
week at bis home in Henderson, KY,
aged seventy-four years.
THE Buffalo Express gives currency
to the rumor that quiet movement is
on foot to press Lieut.. Gov. Dor
sheimer, of New York, for The nomina-
ton to the Vice Presidency at st. Louis.
in case Gov. Iilden is not nominated
for President.
The State of Minnesota has 40 build
ing at the Centennial, but tie city Of
Minneapolis pluckily built one and
shipped it to Philadelphia. She will
exhibit the premium flour, as handsome
blankets as were ever made in this
country, plows, axes, paper barrels,
pals, boots and Shoes carriages and
cutters. Twenty five years ago the city
was an Indian reservation.
A Selfish man counts up in the Gin
cinnati Commercial his expenditures
for forty-fve years, as follows Night
lunches, $3.50; theatricals, 1925
billiards, $3,375; tobacco, 81, 1875 !;
cigars, Sc, $40; bar bills, 81, 875; cham
pagne, So, 75O; carriage hire, $2,350.
And yet he met the slightest request for
La little pleasure made by his family with
the reply You must practice econ
omy."
THE Diaz revolution In Mexico does
not seem to be making much Roadway.
OF the National Guard of Matamoras,
1oon,,%7xy ,,o,.o i "a o,,1
ed with battle flags, only one officer and
two privates responded to his spirited
appeal for "volunteers to march to
| Mexico. Whereupon the National
Guard were judiciously marched back
to their barracks and disarmed by this
patriotic chieftain, who now seems to
| be g conscripting his volunteers with
the help of the lasso and a ragged regi-
ment of cattle thieves recruited along
the Rio Grande.
ONCE more the inconsiderate and
selfish Emperor of Brazil has violated
and defed the inalienable right of Ameri-
/ can citizens to make assinine nuisances
of themselves. At San Francisco he
was expected by an immense crowd of
Pacific slope sovereigns, who had pro-
1
with to give the Brazilian their idea of a
friendly reception. Leaving the train
an hour before its arrival at the terminus,
Pay you-go Pedro and his party took
special car and locomotive and dashed
ahead, and by the time the regular .train
reached the depot, and the concourse
were ready to rend their throats with
shouts of joyous welcome, the Emperor
had been for half an hour quietly be-
slowed in his hotel. The disappoint-
ment was a bitter one, and will go far to
destroy any lingering vestiges of respect
| for royalty among the Pacific coasters.
TIE statement that Mr.. Stewards last
dinner party Witnessed the ominous
number of thirteen at table, has revived
the superstition which invests that num-
Der with fatal significance. In view of
the revival, the New York World sug-
gests, very properly, that sit might not
be amiss for some association OF inquiry
which proceeds upon scientific methods
to take up the subject. ascertain the
origin of this belief and find out how far
it corresponds with the facts of expert
ence. The investigating body ought to
comprise thirteen persons. and they
should dine together every Friday, TAX
ing care to spill salt about the board in a
reckless manner and perform the other
prandial exploits which are held to be
certain omens of disaster. If they went
through these exercises unframed it
might tend to reassure the timid and
make bakers dozen of guests as &C
ceptable as any other"
A VERY interesting table of statistics
has recently been sent to the Senate
from the Postofice department, show
ing the receipts and expenditures at diff
ferent postoffices in the country for the
year 1876. The largest receipts are, of
course, from the New York postoffce,
which were last year nearly S., 900, 600.
The expenses were twenty seven per
cent. of the receipts. Philadelphia
comes next, Boston next, Chicago next,
and st. Louis fifth. While Chicago
stands fourth on the list of receipts, she
is but few thousand dollars below Bos-
ton or Philadelphia, and more than
double that of st. Louis. New York, of
course, stands alone. Boston, Phila-
delphia and Chicago belong to the same
group of cities whose receipts exceed
$4,000 st. Louis, Cincinnati and
Baltimore belong to group Yielding
more than 1886, 900, and less than $780,
900 of receipts. Pittsburgh, New Or
leans, Cleveland, Detroit and Brooklyn
belong to the fourth category. Peoria
stands at the head of the Illinois cities
of the second class. San Francisco does
not appear In the table.