, 1876-06-18
OUR NEIGHBORS.
The Great Meeting of Masons
in Milwaukee Last
Week.
Anxiety of the Cream City Shop
keeper to Continue Tonic
Treatment
Our Regular Racine Corre-
spondent at His Post
Again.
4 Literary Club in Waukesha Does
the Big Convention in
Parvo.
Commencement Exercises and
Masonic Stone.Settlng at
Rockford.
Sunday Bulletins from
Waukegan, Kenosha,
and Aurora.
Commencement Exercises and
Masonic Stone-Setting at
Rockford.
WISCONSIN.

MASONRY.

MILWAUKEE.
MASONRY.
Special Correspondence n TAe Tribune.
MILWAUKEE, June 1.-THE sensation OF th
week.-mrs. festiTtty. Fifteen thousand Badger
slept in the Cre1m City Tuesday and Wednes
day who we're strangers within our gates
There WAS reunion OF Freemasons- Three
thousand white aprons, most Of them borderet
with blue, marched In parade. Six thousand
II all the lads and lassies availed themselves O.
the opportunities offered, tripped the light fan
tastic- Jed Cottrill spoke his piece like littls
man aud . Mason; and the rain came down likt
u thief In the night, and damaged thousands o1
goods stores and other places in token of wei
come. The hotels were like barracks, s,-full oi
men. The streets were thick with ancient free
and accepted persons, with tickets on coat-lap,
pels, like goods fresh from the clothing store.
The air was heavy with brass bands. The earth
shook with the tread Of multitudes. Strcet-cars
were not permitted to cross the procession. The
police marched, not at the head Of the parade,
but On either side OF the road, clearing
the way. In the sssemblage might he seen
many of the nobbiest men in the State; also
some Of the hardest cases. The Academy Ut
HA1*~ =" ~ +AA4&A Q1o@EA Al-C4A LA
that capacity. After O'Clock p. NJ, all places
Of business, except the saloons, were closed,
and the saloons made money and headaches.
There we're as many women in town almost as
men,-the Budger wives and sweethearts know
better than to trust their fellows unprotected in
huge metropolis like Milwaukee. The Granger
gay WIS there with hayseed shaken
out Of his perfumed locks; his fair com
IT,.
1t VAS a cheap, brief Centennial delirium, to
be dreamed Of for months to come In cosy beds
1t distant places in the quiet country where brass
bands and stone pavements arc not 1t was harvest
for pickpockee, and unfortunate females who carry
petitions.in AID Of their suffering families, md
popcorn men, and peddless of peanuts, and men
aicanr children. onr stofekeepers made money,
1facturng sites and residence blocks for sale pro-
euced their bugges and drove the strangers around
so sdo the s1is1os and valuable properties in ques
Welcome Brethren y printed in big letters over
the broad portals. fine, broad air Of hospitality
1t he private entrances. Every business man
lnaoc his establishment brilliant with a dollar-a
dozen stals and Stripes; and kept his weather-eye
1t sas III let daa lhs is.Re aRe
bowl 60 round us cents go}- It was slori-
so,,y ems dsy Lacking fl The @ atswsiks + xas ssry
Societies having any amount Of celebrating to do
are cordially invited to do it here We will keep
sbsy s Up and .a .e he5 a asa iG
Come one, come III; i We can't give you beds, We
viii camp shakes Patronize home-fndustry, and |
do your celebrating in your own State
THE SKULL AND cRossBoSEs. |
For State and city that complain Of hard times
hungry mouths Of its poor, We are com
sastio: ILL., dse..t hes I h at . sFsy s5.s66 x
nr3R ktr r1r
wards, where the foreman is honest and conscieu-
tious, alleys are found clean and wholesome; in
othsta , where the foreman Is corrupt and ION the
make, the alleys arc simply SO many hundreds Of
sowing broadcast the seeds q fever and death.
of which is scarcely adequate to the passage ii
resolutions introduced By Board Of Public !
Works that Is little else than machine OF private
This Council seems not to possess q single mem
ber with sufficient regard for his duties to hare the
enl remedied few years back. St. Louis drove
only fault was be dared to tell the people smuil-
p21 was doing havoc in their midst and Spreading,
hieh W. the truth and al the persons in author
no such thing as smallpox existing in the city,
which was lie. Very eoon, home truths will have
and
'heeP tenneries, and the disease stalking through
he German and Polish wards. We have not even
city scavenger. The only man in the shape of
uch officer IL one who removes the carcysses Of
lend dogs to render into perfuned SOAPS ard
TENSE, perhaps butter Dust, aud swcepings, and
my residence or store, except it be nothing but
'nte store ashes. or pnre kitchen refuse, which the
arnage contractor takes all sinking, and feeds to
numbers Of contract hogs that are in due time
lauEhtered and sold for meat. Tery few Of the |
ases OF trichina thnt really occur ever come to
ight OF talked Of under that name, OF certified
Q by their proper title to the medical officer Yet
nghtfnl cases are sometimes stumbled upon by |
aers accident, And n 70 small po1. there Is moth
md concealed. 1t shows great courage and atten-
ms 10 persIstently followed up the cases that have
I the Influences at work to keep them secret. A |
OF hot weather On the heels Of soft rains is ut
sacS SS1isng Rss and house
'otsou the air, and carry fever through the WIN
to ows % o. many fair mansion. Let the Council do
u duty and appoint i scayenger to remove all
ouee. .aweeptngs In every ward.
G1LT-EDGED WATER
- standing Joke around tho Court House
racticnl, economical buldinEs devoted to The | ,
JUMPING OF water INTO the city Is equal to that on
he decorated 60 portions qt one q The paaai
u the information Of the public, whose money % has
oshing 6y which these expenditures can Be- @ t1seed
he rate charged ID quite heavy. and the strict in
of the rule is adhered to against poor
wealthy, !intuentai Citizens. ZEN ~ it It appears a @
i. is not such model Republic but the pettifos-
ing, toadying tpint Of the Old World has pene- |
ated Into our public institutions, and kisses go
lvor in this City. as they do in the countries
opnlar1y supposed to be exclusive in their
Iciea- hare heard Of number Of
lstances In which this unpleasant fact has come
Ut into strong relief. Notwithstanding tic heaps
money spent, the works ese left in i shiftless !
ate OF finish; and grcat deal must be done, not |
esely to render them neat and seryiceablc, but to
'mplete them tn an ordinary workmanlike man j
r.. That precious bit OF waste, the sodding on
e lake shore works. is as bad bit OF dnanciefing
I'd management as any ever heard Of in councc- '
On with public body "It Was an error Of tho | Z
'sd, not heart" The chaps at the head Of tie t
nceIn are big guns, and - must not be criti- b
sed. and 10 forth, and SO 1t Is time for the Il
.ople's Committee, that has been making such | {
smendous fufs- to do something that will rebound
their own credit and the good Of the city, and ! t
:hxnce offers in the Investigation OF the accounts
this high-toncd. gilt-edged Board, and Of the
opposed new job, the elongation Of the pier.
YOUR MONEY Oh TOUR LIFE z
The Assessors are making their rounds. fou L
. called upon to mike visit to tho+e ofdciale' u
eatinv rponA or stand the consequences. Our O