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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31
MORAL AND PHYSICAL POSTUM.
ING

People, especially the young portion,
are greatly pleased at the surprising
and ludicrous bodily contortions of the
professional posturer ON the saw dust.
The moral posturer and contortionist
produces nothing but disgust. You are
not even surprised; tits just what you
expected of the man. If he proposes
to play the role of editor and issues
his manifesto that he will teach poll
tics that shall be republican, first, last
and all the time, you are not surprised
when he sends forth diminutive
democratic sheet, and announces that
it will be democratic at all times and
under all circumstances. You smile
and guess that in about a year, under
almost any circumstances under which
it can see dollar, it will change again
into sort Of what is it? One day he
denies the rumor that his paper is go.
ing to change its principles for an i'm
proved variety, and the next he changes
for principles that are of no distinct
variety and politics that have no name.
The only thing you are sure of is, that
its pastures are so difficult and tiresome
it must soon change again. Though
there be nothing else you can depend
on, you can depend on another change
in the future.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31
THE NEW YEAR.

BY common consent this is the time
to turn over a new leaf in the book of
life and consider what the record shall
be for the coming year. In looking
over the leaves on which the record
of the past year is written we find it
marred in many places with failures,
mistakes, wrongs, neglected duties and
good opportunities thrown away. Some
of the lines are written with anger,
envy and unkindness. Is there one
among the family of the TELEGRAPH
who can stand before God and his fell
low-men and say, II am satisfied with
my record for 1880; there is nothing /
wish to change or improvep Looking
over the leaves, judging others by our
self, we fear there is none. Tomorrow
we awake to a New Year; the leaves
are clean and white Shall we write
on the top of the first page determi-
nation to live truer, wiser and nobler
life? Shall we strive to make fewer
mistakes and greater number of sue
cesses? The endeayor to make the
coming year happier one for ourselves
and for others is no mean ambition.
AS we enter the portals of the New
Year with our readers we earnestly
wish you all GA Happy New Year"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31
PRAYER FOR THE PRESS.

Among the subjects for prayer, dur
ing the week to be observed in that
exercise throughout the world, is the
press. The press yields a mighty
power for good or for evil. The editor
is the source of it's thought and teach
ings. AS is the source so will be the
stream. How important he should
realize the weighty responsibility that
rests upon him as a public teach, r.
His messages should go forth to en-
noble and elevate. He should be pure,
upright and consistent, that his teach
ings and influence may tend to make
the world better.
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graceful wreaths of smoke out of 25
cent cigar while he smiles complacently
at the improvements he has created
On paper. In this connection we call
our readers attention to an article on
streets clipped from the Inter-Oceon.
"The worst streets in the world, y
says a New York paper, are seen in
that city. The editor ought to come
out to Chicago; we venture be would
return and humbly apologize to every
Street Commissioner in New York.
There are not a half dozen streets in
Chicago which will not jolt everything
loose cut of a man who trots over
them. There are fewer cases of dys-
pepsia in Chicago than in any city of
its size in the world; and it is all due
to the internal jolting every son and
daughter gets upon almost every square
in the city. The garbage of the gut
tiers, and the frozen snow and ice upon
the sidewalks we do not think of COM
planning of in Chicago, but have come
to regard them as among the Injuries
bequeathed to us by the city authorities.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31
A NEW COURT HOUSE.

A now court house and jail, with
sheriffs residence, affording sufficient
and convenient accommodations for
the requirements of Kenosha county,
safe and substantial, and with a pleas
ing exterior, can be built for sum not
to exceed $4,000. The raising of this
tax can bespread over period of three
or more years, so as not to make it
burdensome to the taxpayer. In this
way the increase in the tax of each
Individual will be so little as to be
scarcely noticed. It is much-needed
improvement. The health of the sheriff
and his family demands it. The safe
keeping of criminals demands it. We
have a right to deprive a criminal of
his liberty for the safety of the COM
munity while the penalty of the law
is being inflicted, but we have no right
to injure his health by combining him
in noisome cell. Life, property and
society are made more secure and are
better conserved by humane regard
for the welfare of our criminals, and
by proper use of the means within
our reach for their elevation and re-
form.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31

Ex-senator Howe, in an article on
the senatorial question, says: Well or
ill-grounded, no candid Republican
will deny the existence Of a prejudice,
widespread and deep-seated, against
Mr.. Reyes. Let all such Republicans
consider if it be safe to put him in the
Senate in defiance Of that prejudice.
AS legislative agent, Mr.. Reyes has
been successful. Either of the great
railway corporations whose lines ira
verse this State could we'll afford to re-
tain him at the salary of a Senator.
.* Whenever the hopes or the fears
OF men are to be assaulted, Mr.. Reyes is
gifted. But when learning and logic
are needed to sway the judgments Of
men, his services have not been sought
for. The title with which Mr.. Keyes
has been crowned is not an evidence of
merit. The Office of Boss is not known
to the constitution of the State, and is
not essential to the welfare of the Re
publican party. In spite of
the accomplishments showered upon
his youth, the triumphs of Mr.. Reyes
are bounded by the emoluments of the
Madison post Office and the fame Of q
caucus boss. =" 1t is only jus.
tice to the Republican party to say that
it has not been niggardly in its treat
ment of Mr.. Reyes. He has enjoyed
the emoluments Of the second best post
office in the State for twenty years, &C.,
&c.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31

The attempt Of an editor to get up a
reputation for public spirit at very
small cost is easily seen through by his
readers. With amazing GOODNESS and
folded arms, he lays on his fellow-citiz-
ems the burden of securing a new
railroad, building another swing bridge,
the use of their capital to utilize the
clay beds of the city in the manufac-
ture of terra Gotta goods, and, now, to
crown the outgoing year, he wants the
citizens to tax themselves to pave the
streets with cedar blocks. Macadam-
lied streets are not to be endured by
this gushing editor because some stones
would project above others, and if he
should ride over the streets once or
twice q year would get his gizzard
shaken up. These are few of the
improvements insisted on during six
months by an editor who has swung
the editorial pen whole year. When
the improvements are suggested to the
practical business man who has to pay
the taxes and furnish the money he
thrusts his hand down into his pocket
and brings to mind the picture of the
editor thrown back in his easy chair,
the top of an immense ear grasping
the mighty pen, and manufacturing
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d NEEDED IMPROVEMENT.

The Jail, sheriff's dwelling and court
house Of this county are not in such
condition as to merit the approval of
the good and humane people of the
county. On the records of the state,
with regard to our Jail, Kenosha county
occupies disgraceful position. 1t has
been condemned for several successive
years by the visiting committee of the
State Board of Charities and Reform.
A personal inspection will satisfy any
one there is constant efiuvia Of de-
caying wood and dampness from the
basement floors, which contain the
kitchen and dining departments of the
sheriff's dwelling and the prisoners
cells. The outside walls have settled
unequally, so as to produce cracks in
them. The accommodations for the
keeping of the different classes of pris-
oners, hardened criminals, insane, fe-
male prisoners, juveniles, and detained
witnesses areinsuficient. They cannot
be kept in separate apartments. When
we last week made, in company with
several gentlemen, a personal exami-
nation of the building, Sheriff Spartz
said that if a premium had been offered
for the most inconyenient arrangement
of the building 1t could not have been
excelled in its inconvenience. WehaYe,
then. building lily constructed, de-
cayed and dilapidated, with damp, un-
wholesome basement floors, deficient
accommodations and imperfect foun-
dations. To repair and reconstruct the
building would only remove part of
the evils, while it would perpetuate
some of the more serious ones for a.
generation. The expense of repairs
and reconstruction will be far greater
in proportion than the building of a.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31

The daily Inter Ocean, in comment
ing on a sermon at the Peoples church,
says: "Dr. Thomas expressed his faith
in the laws Of progress, as applied to
things religious as well as to things
secular. The christianity of the future
he expects to be one Of both faith and
reason; one of religious knowledge, yet
one of heart rather than of head; one
that shall lead to more consistent and
Christ-like life, and to broader Catho-
licity in all the churches. The people
of the Congregational church of Bristol
and Paris congratulate themselves on
having pastor who has faith in and
exemplifies the laws of progress as ap-
piled to theology. In his sermon on
Sunday, nth, he said, with reference to
the theory of sin, that every one bore
the responsibility Of his own misdoings.
There was no more reason to suppose
we should suffer for Adams first sin
than we should for his second, third
fourth and fifth sins; no more reason
why we should suffer for Adams sins
than we should for Abraham's, Moses
or David's. We cannot lay our sins to
Adam we must not only bear the re-
sponsibility, but we must suffer the
penalty.
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RANDALL.

Twenty-Five degre es below zero on
the 2Sth.
The ice in our lakes is over "a inches
thick, and is as solid as granite and as
clear as crystal.
John Wing, of Mitchell Co., Ia. is
here on visit. He is a son of Mary
Wing, whose death was mentioned in
these items last week. His eldest
daughters child died on the 18th, being
on the same day that its great-grand.
mother passed into the beyond.
Ed. Alderman became the happy
father of bouncing baby boy on the
10th inst.
On the oath inst. J. A. Griswold, of
Kenosha, who has been camping at
Henry Benedict's for over four months,
folded his tent and moved eastward
cover the shifting sands" to take up
his abode in the city until the COM
mencement of another watering sea-
son.
Dame rumor says that one of our
fast young men, to escape the cGnse-
quences of a hGson, has hastily de-
parted for parts unknown. This is one
of those crimes which are only properly
punished by the swift stern judgments
melted out to offenders in the courts 0!
his honor Judge Lynch.
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BRISTOL ITEMS.

Mr.. Sebastian Tymesen is home again
from the far west, and many of his
friends had the pleasure of greeting
him at church last Sunday.
Mr.. Charles L. Marsh was the only
man in Bristol who failed to realize
the thermometer was 20 degrees below
zero on Wednesday, the day he attended
his own wedding. OF what use are
thermometers to q man under such
circumstances?
The little sister who came to the
home of Mr.. A. j. Benedict stayed but
a few days to awaken a new love in
the hearts of three brothers. Now
she is mingling with the pure ones in
the Fathers home above.
Mr.. William Jones, of Chicago, spent
Christmas with his parents here. He
returned home on Monday.
Last Monday was a pretty cold day
to run threshing machine, as was
discovered at Mr.. A. G. Joslyn's. Sew
eral of the men had ears, cheeks, fingers
and toes frost bitten.
Miss Jessie Simmons spent Christ
mas with friends here and has returned
again to Rockford.
Mrs. James Eddy has been visiting
her parents in Brooklyn, Wisconsin.
She returned home on Monday.
The tax-gatherer has been visiting
us, and so we are reminded again of
the necessity of honesty and economy
in. the administration of government.
The Reading Club of the Free Con-
gregational church of Bristol and Paris
will give concert and reading at the
church next Thursday evening. Prof.
VIM. Toase will have charge of the
music. Admission ten cents. The
management have an excellent pro-
gramme and should be greeted with a
full house.
The quarterly preparatory lecture at
the Congregational church occurs to-
day (Friday). The Lords Supper will
be celebrated on Sunday morning.
The annual meeting of the Free
Congregational Society for the election
of trustees occurs on Monday, January
10, at 2 o'clock at the church. The
Deacon suggested members to be on
hand promptly at two, as two o'clock
does not last till three these short days,
and farmers have so many chores to do.
The amount contributed to the Home
Missionary Fund by the Congrega.
tional church is $1,000, and the pastor,
Rev. HI. M. Corsbie, was, by vote, con-
stituted life member.
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TEMPERANCE ARGUMENTS.
A RAILROAD SUPERINTENDENT ON
TOTAL ABSTINENCE.

TOTAL ABSTINENCE.
In his late circular, Mr.. w. J. Spicer,
superintendent of the Grand Trunk
railway, of Canada, earnestly recon-
mends the employees to renew their
pledges of total abstinence from strong
drink. He says to the men: eve
know the habitual use of stimulants
too often leads to excess; inexcusable
neglect and careless performance of
duty follow; and then sooner or later
loss of position and employment is and
must be the inevitable result. The un-
pleasant position is then fully realized,
and most pressing appeals are made
for re-employment-one more chance
for the sake of an anxious wife and
children, who are always the greatest
sufferers in such cases. Indulgence in
such stimulants does no good at any
time, it is an expensive habit, positive
waste of money" The circular also
sets forth that the employees have the
lives of the public and the safety Of
property entrusted to their care, re-
quiring the utmost possible caution
and vigilance in the performance of
their duty. In conclusion he says:
" Believe me, it is the right thing to do,
very safe step to take. We can guar
antee that the results will be in every
way beneficial, both financially and
physically, and / do trust that we shall
have considerable accession to our
number of total abstainers for the
year 1881"
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new one perfectly adapted to its objects.
To build entirely new and adopt mod
ern expense-saving improvements viii
be true economy. To reconstruct the
old will be waste of time and money,
Let the taxpayers see to it that their
money is judiciously expended in a
new building properly adapted to the
requirements of the case.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31

John Plankinton, of Milwaukee, has
bought 100000 lbs. of coffee in New
York. The cost is $1S5,O0O. 1t is ex-
pected the profits on this transaction
will not be less than $4,000 to $S5, 600.
1t will have beneficial effect on the
general trade of Milwaukee, Chicago,
st, Louis, Kansas City and St. Paul are
all large coffee-consuming markets, and
can be readily and cheaply supplied
from Milwaukee. To transport this
enormous amount of coffee from New
York will require 20 freight cars. Mr..
Plankinton thrust his hand into his
pocket and paid the bill at sight.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31

The Weekly Nes0S is another Racine
newspaper venture. The price is mark
ed at a dollar. We believe people gen.
orally, in selecting a local newspaper,
would prefer one worth two dollars a
year. Every one knows that local
newspaper, on account of its limited
circulation, cannot be afforded as low
as the metropolitan weekly. which cir
culates in several states. When a read
er sees a local newspaper offered at a
dollar a year he knows it must be pub
lished at profit or it will not live long,
and he rightly concludes it is worth no
more than the price asked for it, and
usually selects better article.
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WHAT rs TO BEDoNE ABOUT TT 2

The census now reveals the fact that
the colored race is Increasing at a more
rapid rate in this country than the
white, Notwithstanding the large immi-
grafton of the latter and the absence of
any immigration of the former. It is
found the colored people increase more
rapidly in state of freedom than they
did in that of slavery. If this thing
goes on, the Caucasian race stands a
pretty lively chance Of dying out after
a while.-Mizwaukee Sentinel.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31

proportions, and yet prices fairly re-
pay farmers, or would do SO but for the
exorbitant rates for transportation.
There is small encouragement for any
decided advance in prices at present,
as stocks continue to accumulate, re-
ceipts do not fall off materially, and
every prospect faYors good winter for
wheat"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31
SOUTHERN ELECTION FRAUDS.

/
The following memorial shows how
democratic majorities were manufac-
tured in republican districts in Ala
bama:
To the Senate and House of Represent
atives of the State of Alabama.
The memorial of your petitioner,
Winfield 5. Bird, respectfully shows:
l. That he is citizen Of Green
county, Alabama.
2. That at an election held in said
county and State on Aug. 2, 1880, he
was candidate for the office of Judge
of Probate of said county.
3. That at said election he was
elected to said Office by a large MAORI
ty,but was openly and wickedly counted
out and defrauded OF his election by
the larceny of ballot-boxes and election
returns, and by false and fraudulent
counting of illegal votes.
4. In support of this assertion, he
specifies that the election returns of
Boligee Precinct, together with the
boxes and votes (where he had 40 ma
jority). were stolen. He further spe-
cites that, at Mount Hebron Precinct.
200 ballots cast for him were illegally
excluded from the returns. And at
Portland Precinct, where els legal
votes were cast for your petitioner,
only $40 were counted for him, and the
balance (269) were Illegally and Grim
inally counted as cast for his opponent
5. And your petitioner AYERS that
further proofs of fraud at said election
are numerous and overwhelming.
6. Your petitioner, jealous of his
rights as an American citizen, and hay
ing in view the dignity and honor of
the great State of Alabama, would
therefore pray your honorable bodies
to order an Investigation of said cleo
ton, to the end that the rights of all
citizens may be established, and the
laws of our State fully vindicated. i.
And your petitioner will ever pray.
| WINFIELD S. BIRD, of Eutaw, Ala.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31

One Of the questions discussed by
the Milwaukee District Convention re-
Gently in session at Racine was, 1.-THE
causes of the decline In the accession
of church memberships" One Of the
reasons offered by H. T. Rose, of Mil
waukee, was that the descendants of
the Puritans failed to multiply to the
extent of their privileges. In the long
ago families used to number 7 to II
and ID, and, as the market reporters
say, extra samples shade higher. Now
families of Puritan extraction number
l to and 8. A large number have
none, 80 that they will scarcely average
one child to family. The Rev. GEN
tleman seemed to take it for granted
that descendants Of Puritans were sure
to become church members, and we
will not stop to dispute the fact. Moth
ing was limited as to why the crop of
Puritans was short. We were left in
the dark as to whether to attribute it
to Darwin's axiom, "the survival of
the fittest," or to the greatly increased
expense of raising Puritan boys and
girls, and that the results would not
warrant the expense. But the fact re.
mains there is a shortage in the crop
both of Puritans and church members.
The shortage cannot be made good in
stantly. Puritans must have time to
be born and grow and be born again
into the kingdom of Heaven. And
while the preparations are going on
for this why not seek to supply the
demand for church members from other
sourcesP There are great many peo-
pie in this world of ours-in fact, as
Col. Sellers says, there's millions in
it"-and now births occur at the rate
of seventy minute. Now here is Ger.
tainly wide field from which to re-
cruit church members. At the next
meeting of the Convention it might be
well to discuss the question why more
of the millions about us do not become
church members. If there are him
ORANGES in creeds and churches and
ministers, they should be wise enough
to remove them. There are unnum-
bered and underlined hindranees in the
masses which can never be wholly re-
moved. The field is wide one and is
white for the harvest.
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The census reveals the fact that there
are $4,000 more males than females in
Iowa, In Massachusetts there is a
large excess of females. The Des
Moines Register says: If New Eng
land and New York have that number
of women, of the best kind, to spare,
they will please send them along to
Iowa. Here they will find the best
homes in the world, and in time, and
not a long time either, the best of hus-
bands.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31

The Waukegan Gazette gave it's read
ers a Christmas issue on fine tinted
paper, with three illustrations. The
Republicans of Waukegan seem to ap-
preciate the Gazette, as it has list of
more than eighteen hundred subscrib-
ers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31

The Madison Democrat says Madison
will vote against the biennial amend
ment, not because she has any personal
concern, but because she knows it is
not measure of economy to the peo-
pie of the state nor a measure for the
public welfare.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31

From comments on Chicago markets
we quote as follows: "The decline in
rates has been so marked that at times
a panic seemed inevitable, but at such
times some one would come to the front
and buy up rates until confidence was
restored. There is a tremendous
shrlnkage in prices, within 80 DAYS,
amounting on wheat to about Fl cents.
The decline from the highest prices of
Monday to the lowest yesterday after
noon, which was about the closing for
the week, were as follows: On wheat
525 cents, corn 216, oats 19S, pork s1.1O
per barrel, lard As cents per 100 fbs
These figures represent the deprecia-
ton in values, which is of tremendous
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31

The city council of Milwaukee is
exercised about the proposition to ap-
prOpriate $4,000 to secure the estab-
lishment of a State Normal School in
that city. A majority of the council
favor the levy of tax to raise the
rennisite amount.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31

An excursion party to the city of
Mexico and Cuba, ola New Orleans and
Vera Cruz, will start from Chicago
soon, and expects to return ola Havana
about the middle of January. The
party is made up of railroad and min
ing capitalists, seeking new fields of
enterprise. 1t will doubtless result in
extending our business relations with
Mexico.