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

SINCE the beginning of Mr.. MoOdy's
work last fall, over 500,0 copies of
Sankey's songs have been sold, and the
demand goes on increasing.
THE New Jersey Legislature is moving
in the right direction. A bill has been
introduced to abolish the compensating
of State officers BIZ fees, and In Lieu
thereof to appropriate stated salary for
each.
THOSE people who have been counting
on unusually low railroad fares during
the Centennial are destined to meet with
disappointment. The companies have
conferred together, and have patriot
cally resolved to make as much money
as possible out of the show. With that
end in view, they have agreed to sell
g excursion tickets to Philadelphia,
but will reduce the rates only about one
quarter.
TIE Russian budget estimates the
revenues of the Cars Government for
the coming year at 57O,0O0,0 900 rubles,
and the expenditures at 500, 914, 900 ru-
bles, which will leave a small margin In
the Treasury. A ruble is silver coin
equal In value to 100 copper copecks,
and worth from rs to Sc cents of our
money, according to its coinage. 1t is
the legal standard by which accounts in
Russia are kept.
THE Providence Press says: "Wher
Mrs. Whittlesey, the Northampton cash
ier's wife, saw the burglars take her hus-
bands gold watch she kicked hers under
the bureau, and so saved it. And when
her new cloak was In the robbers hands
she said, Give me that old thing; I'm
cold, and saved that likewise. Ii this
keen-witted woman could have been at
the bank when the vault was opened she
would have persuaded the robbers that
half those papers were nothing but
family milk bills"
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, Jr., has
made series of Investigations and COM
piled statistics showing that only one
railroad messenger in 5000, 900 is killed,
and only one in 100000 is even SO
much as bruised. In the year 1874 only
one person was killed on all the Massa-
chusetts railroads, while rs we're killed
by accident In the city of Boston. In
fact, it seems to be considerably safer to
sit on safety valve or ride on COW
catcher than to stay at home in your own
house.
II having been brought to the atten-
ton of the Secretary of War that there
are in existence in different sections of
the country many records, such as battle
reports, correspondence, etc., relating
to the late civil strife, he authorizes the
statement that, if any one who has
original official documents pertaining to
the war, either on the Union or Confed-
crate side, will send them to the Secre-
tary, they will be copied for use in con-
nection with the publication of the
records of the war, and returned to the
owner if accompanied with such request.
The originals must be sent, as copies,
for obvious reasons, cannot be accepted.
AN official report of the prize money
paid during the civil war shows that Adj
miral Farragut receives $55, 443, Ad-
miral Lee, 1893, 446; Admiral Porter,
800, 348; Admiral Dupont, $5S, 476, Capt.
Amy, 1854, 431 Commander Lanson, $40, :
500, and SO down. The largest single
amount paid was the prize money of
VIM. Budd for the capture of the Mem
phis, $38,318. The enlisted men got
sums varying from 13 cents to $1,000.
The capture of the Albemarle by Lieut..
Cushing's picket boat netted the boats
crew 81, 934 per man. In all, SO, $780,
900 of prize money have been paid
thus far, and 900 captures remain un-
adiudicated, which will swell the ag-
gregate to nearly $15, 100000.
A BRUSSELS paper, the Independence
Beige, undertakes to give an account
of Mr.. A. Z. Stewart, apropos of his
purchase of pictures in Paris, and some
of the anecdotes anent him from thir
source will be found quite new to read
ers on this side of the Atlantic. For in
stance, we are told that during the was
Mr.. Stewart, having had extensive deal
ings with the Government, was it's cred
itor to the amount of $50, 100000 One
day when the Government was in hob
BILE about money, and some reference
was made to this indebtedness, the great
merchant exclaimed, Fifty millions
Oh, don't mention such trife," and
with one sweep of his pen transferred
the sum from one side of the account to
the other. The revelation will give Mr..
Stewart an excellent opportunity of
blushing to find it fame.
The details of Mr. Morrison's proposed
tariff are printed at length In the daily
papers. The more important alterations
are as follows: A reduction of the duty
on coarse manufactured cottons by one
half; finer goods one-ffth; yarns 20 and
spool thread 80 per cent. Woods and
wooden goods are greatly reduced, fine
woods more than half. Articles used
in wool manufacturing are put on the
free list. Pig iron is to pay SIS instead
of So per ton; railroad iron $40 instead
of $14; steel, per pound, i cents instead
of q. Coal, which pays rs cents per
ton, is put on the free list. Cigars are
to pay uniformly So. so per pound instead
of $3.50 and 25 per cent. The chief