, 1876-07-16
People at the Watering-Places
Not Foolishly Prodigal
This Year.
Relation of a Humiliating Scandal
Brought to Light in Racine.
News from Kenosha, Waukegan, Auro'
"a, and the Immediate Suburbs.
WISCONSIN,.
MILW. W.AUKEE.

this State Is making no particular effo1
to secure the fall elections. I do no
hear Of single new club being formed. Tier
are no organizations at work. The average Re
publican elector appears to think it will be tim
enough to shout and labor when the tickets ar
ready to be pcddled. Mr.. Keyes has been KEEP
busy by amiable Republican friends defending
himself from personal attacks Mr.. Payne ha
had much Of his time engaged in the same way
and been compelled to sslay by'' to recuperate
Their return to the duties of political life, g.
organizers in the country and the metropolis re
spcctively OF the Republican party, will OF cours
be followed by activity. OQ the principle tha
forewarned Is forearmed, it is well enough t.
point ont some OF the disadvantages unde
which We, that is, the Republicans, are laborint
at the beginning Of this contest We are handi
| capped with two sets Of ambitious men, neither O
them desirable to have in party, for both dis
turbers OF the public peace, cantakerous, btterl,
hostile to each other and ready to sacrifice every
thing to their personal spites. allude to the Car
penter party and the anti-Carpenter party. Ths
former, bad as it is. is quite matched by the lat
| ter. Carpenter, and his lmpudent defeuge of the
back-pny grab, dealt Rcpublicunism i blow under
which it Is staggering to this day, but the inter die
Cate as cats paw at Washington tow'ipe out Car.
| pcnter. To earnest Republicans, who desire the
success OF the cause this fall the mserable, spite
fal, back biting, unmanly fight Of the two atoms
OF great party has become disgusting. Very few
I persons care now to discuss Carpenters faults.
Carpenter is regarded as politically dead, and not
| many voters outside his lenchmen take any stock
in what be says or does. The same il equally true
| Of tue men who fight Carpenter. It ts impos-
sibc there should still exist Carpenter party, and
IN anti-Carpenter, party, rancoFous, venomous,
ready to wreck each other, treasuring up wrongs
be avenged, and insults to be punished, without
| the passion extending and finally drawing large
numbers of hitherto naSESyH 2nPrtnt0r1 nudar
| influence. There lies the danger.
lis felt absolutely necessary for the success Of
| bloody chasm shall come forward and shake hands
over it. 1t is meet and right we should know who
are thc disturbers of The public peace Those who
want to be irreconcilab1e ought lenccforth to be
marked men. In the present torn, distracted
state OF affairs. former companions in arms are
inc & inc nos
enthusiasm. There is not ward in the city where
Republican OF mark safely take leading part
the immediate hostility of the Republicans Of the
opposite camp. Yet to secure Success the canl-
pafgn has to be built up from the bottom, like
", beginning with strong healthy united oIganiza-
tions in the precincts Relying on the German vote
in and re-
local questions OF a thousand kinds, is bat bar
barous, clumsy, uncertain way Of working. an elec-
schemiug subtle. mind, but the least one Of all
methods at all times, in national politics. say
there is large majority OF voters who prcdis-
tiun and platform, particularly since the issue Of
Mr.. Hayes letter OF acceptance, but to make fust
these men they must b. dawn into home organizn-
precincts. In this way the lukewarla become
energetic the hestatins. are ssaled to the cause,
IRepuoea9ism gains, the election is secured.
State t. ought to givo = Republican majority, Of
the hard. working Democrats, however, you may
link fnr the fpTrna the OthRr aide n fha hal
ance-sheet.
TIE WEEKS SENSATION
has been the horrible Outrage committed on two
little girls 5 and years respectively, by m
known person. The tale has been told so many
different ways during the excitement OF the past
form, Monday afternoon, about a quarter-past :
o'clock, the two little girls OF Mr.. Aldrich and Mr..
Fraser, Seventh Ware, were playing together, and
lake. Near the orphan asylum, there were some
cows lowing Near the COWS was q man leaning
sahnast the fenss %he little a the sweet
to protect them from the cows The man replied
that he would: and told them to walk along with
stories and pleasant talk that they found them
selves at the boat-house on the river above the
DAM miles 81. from ho%s before they realized
He was well known to the people Of the boat
house, az it % nov appears, BY the sobrlquet Yam
borhood with fishing rod in his hand, going up
the river, or coming down after days sport Ali
along the road they walked, this man, with the two
summers, ashins-rod in band, IL the di:
the children got into the boat and rowed up stream
At or near Lake Shore Junction, railroad point
OH the river bank few miles out Of the city, the
walking in the woods with them. The story Of the
little girls is, that here the brute took aud ravieh
cd them in turn; that they complained Of being
conveyed them buck to the boat. rowed them leis-
urely down stream, discmbarked at the boat house,
which a va husy with people coming r. and going
disappeared. The police were informed by the !
boatman from whom the man hired, that he was |
II the S n
of the Wisconsin Central Railroad Nj. Low was
Us Yankee Doodle, but there was another man,
th but geY9Ry YsnRas 5eoa aS h who
house Of the!former was pointed oqt in error owing
a. to nsone wae
rodte taken by the man and children,
many OF .,,s whom were Esn personally
Viz lin IN 'e Court Instantly declared be Wsa
not the man. Then the employees of the Railroad
Company, who work In the rooms adjoining Low,
tcrnoon. Low, it appears, was unusually busy
with Sir Phillips, manager who had returned from
at 80 ?. NJ, and had been in con-
utes from 2 o'clock till $3.50 o'clock After that
be went home, and his walk home, his taking sup |
per- and wha1 he did with himself later, were ill |
for. OF course. Mr. Low was at once
discharged.
Wednesday the prisoner was, it is stated, taken
into the country for cafe keeping, as it appeared
from al the indications almost certain he would be
wrested ont Of the custody OF the police, and !
thcr killed OF mutilated for life by the infurated
popu1ace. Several tradesmen living In the neigh |
borhood Of the police-station and others, went
among the people explaining the doubts as to the
prisoner being the right man. It was with the |
greatest difficulty the crowd was persuaded to dis
pcrse. The police cleared the sidewalk several
Iimes but, Ind the populace been persuaded Of |
Lows guilt, the police would have been powerlcss
for any purpose save to look on at lynching.
COMING UP AND GOING DOWN.
The failure Of Pierce j. Whaling, following
that of John Marc. hardware merchants, OF MI. t
Benedict. the wholesale grocery man, and several
others Of less prominence has had effect in de-
erring others from embarking in the uncertainties
" trade. Several new partnerships have recently
,een formed, the principal Of which is that Of
Johnson, Smith & Co., commission merchants,
consisting of Allan johnson, late Of Bacon, Good
ich & CO., and William +. Smith and Ia 3.
Smith, late Of Smith, Roundy & Co. These gentle.
men command considerable wealth, and, Il they !