The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-04

existing statutes throughout the coun-
try. Only twenty five of the States have
insolvency laws which will become oper-
alive, and there is little uniformity about |
their provisions. The twenty are: Cali |
fornia, Connecticut, Dakota, Delaware,
idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas.
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland.
Massachusetts,, Michigan, North Caro-
lima, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, Vermont and Wisconsin.
Value of Government Signal Service.
The system of danger signals, adopted
by the United States Government, has
proved of great benefit to shipping. All
along the coasts are stations, at which
plainly visible signals are displayed, to
warn ship Captains of approaching
storms. The reports of observers at the
stations are required to giveall instances
in which vessels have remained in port
on account of official warnings given. In
these cases danger is avoided, and sta
tistics show that disasters to shipping
have been considerably fewer since the
introduction OF the cautionary signals.
The agricultural interests of the coun-
try also have been greatly benefited by
the daily bulletins sent to every farming
district in the land by the Weather De-
partment. These bulletins are made
from telegraphic reports received at ap-
pointed centers of distribution, where
they are at once printed, placed in en-
velopes, and addressed to designated
postoffces in the district to be supplied.
Each Postmaster receiving a bulletin
has the order of the Postmaster General
to display it instantly in frame fur
nished for the purpose.
The bulletins reach the different
Offices, and are displayed in the frames,
on an average, at II o'clock in the morn
ing, making about ten hours from the
time the report first left the chief signal
officers until it appeared placarded at
every center Of the farming populations,
and became accessible to all classes even
in the most distant parts of the country.
The information given on these bulle-
tins has been found especially valuable
to those farmers who take an interest in
the study of meteorology, or the science
OF weather, and the facts announced are
so plain that any intelligent person may
profit by them. For instance, each
bulletin now announces, for it's particu-
lar district, what winds in each month
have been found most likely and what
least likely to be followed by rain. At
tention given to this one simple piece of
information will result in increasing the
gains and reducing the losses of harvest
ing.
Warnings of expected rises or falls in
the great rivers are made with equal
regularity, telegrapbed, bulletined in
frames, and also published by the news
papers, at the different river cities.
These daily reports give the depths of
water at different points in the rivers
courses, and thus make it easy for river
shipping to be moored safely in antici-
patton of low water, when ignorance
might lead to the grounding of the boats
on sand-bars or mud-banks. The no.
tees Of the probable heights which
freshets may reach are followed by
preparations upon the "levees" and
river banks, to guard against overfows.
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