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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-25
Land-Grant Railroads.

Secretary of the Interior Kirkwood, in his
annual report, Gays that during the last fiscal
year about {, 300 miles of subsidized and land
grant railroads, subject to the supervision of
the bureau, had been examined, and their
books, especially those OF the Union Pacific
and Central Pacific roads, carefully com
pared with the reports rendered by the COM
panies,
He says although the past severe and
protracted winter was accompanied by unusual
floods and storms which destroyed much prop
erty and materially increased the expenditures
Tor maintaining the same, it WAS notceably
that substantial improvement in the properte
OF the roads in which the Government has di-
rect interest had been made, and in general
the reports rendered indicate marked increase
in their business"
Following are the gross and net earnings of
the Pacific roads for the year ending June 80,
1881
Union Pacific Gross earnings $22, 765, 752 :
operating expenses, $11, 474, 90; net earnings
$l1, 290, $40. Total number of miles operated
1919.
Central Paciic-Gross earnings, 1922, 1913. 344 :
operating expenses and rentals, $13, 500, 504 ;
not earnings, 1880, $40; average number of
miles operated, AGA.
Northern Pacific Gross earnings, so, 931, 1902;
operating expenses, $1,946 1877 net earnings,
1886, 645. Number of miles operated, 754.
The last annual report of the operations Of
the Texas Pacific road has not been received at
the department. Secretary Kirwood reports,
however, that work upon the road is being
pushed rapidly forward, and anticipated that
the line will be completed and trains running
to FL Paso on the first day of January next.
The Secretary suggests that the Thurman act
of May Z. 1878, should be SO amended as to
embrace the subsidized portion of the Kansa
division of the Union Pacific railway.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

President Arthur has appointed The
odore s. Case Postmaster at Kansas City, and
William p Jones at Nashville, Tenn.
Fl. V. Red6eld, the well-known news
paper correspondent, died at Washington OF
hemorrhago of the lungs.
After Feb. /, 1882, postal cards will
not be redeemed under any circumstances.
The tenth census of the United States
will be fully completed in few days. The
disbursements for the work of making the CEN
sus have been So, $50, 06S 80 far. Congress will
be asked for $40, 900 additional
Frederick p. Lilly, late Deputy Au-
ditor for the Postoffice Department, was arrest
cd at Washington on a warrant charging him
with accepting $4,000 for securing mail con-
tract in Louisiana.
Bill Jones was arraigned in the Police
Court at Washington for firing at Guiteau and
was Jailed, in default Of $4,000 bail. The po-
lice failed to identify him as the man who did
the shooting, and, whether he is or is not the
would-be ayenger, there is little likelihood of
his ever being punished for the act. Public
sentiment at Washington is all on his side.
The pension rolls for the month Of
December foot up 50, 900, 00O
During the ten months ending Oct.
81, 1881, 114,7S9 emlgrants sailed from Bre-
men, Germany for the United States.
The Grand Jury at Washington found
six indictments against Capt Howgate for
forgery, and one for embezzlement
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-25
Blue Glass Again.

Prof. Schlager, director of noted in
sane asylum at Vienna, announces the
result of an experiment made by him IN
relation to the blue glass healing theory,
which at one time attracted so much at
tention. He had a room furnished with
windows Of blue glass and had the walls
painted of the same color. He then Sc
lected sixty persons who were more or
less deranged mentally, and made them
the subject of experimentation for a
period of three years, placing them at
selected times in the blue room and care,
fully noting fhe apparent effects upon
them. He discovered tbat the abnor-
Inally aroused and excited temperament
experienced a remarkable soothing and
quoting influence in the blue light, and
he expresses the conviction that with
persons thus mentally deranged, with
whom every other method of treatment
had failed, this should be tried. He
does not report any complete cures,
made by this means alone, but says that
In most cases the treatment has proved
beneficial. and that if continued system
aticallv and persistently, the indications
are that it viii lead to complete restora-
ton. In no case did it work injury. He
expresses the intention to continue his
experiments, and calls upon all associ.
ates and colleagues in the treatment OF
the insane to do the same, and make
careful notes of their observations.
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Rig HailStOues,

Hailstones vary greatly in size. In
ordinary storms they vary from forty
six to 100 grains. 1t MAJ be interesting
to notice some of the largest on record.
Holinshed (who is, however, persist
ent wondermOnger) says that hailstones
as large as eggs fell in England IN the
year 1902, during the reign of John;
and that in the twentieth year of that by
good King Alexander III. of Scotland
Q269) there arose "great winds, with
storms of such immeasurable hallstOpes
that many towns were thrown down" by
their violence, and fires spread through
out the kingdom, j." burning up steeples
with such force of fire that the bells
were in divers places melted" Those Of
the Abbey of Aberbrothock (Arbroath)
were thus destroyed. In 1889, While
Edward I'LL was marching near Char
tres, in France, his army was so much
injured by storm of immense haistones
that he concluded peace. Count de
Mezeray relates that when Louis XII. OF
France made war against the Pope and
carried his army into IIaly $50 BLUSH
hailstones descended during a thunder
storm which weighed about 100 pouidsl
On June 81, 1916, there fell in Lanca-
shire hailstones as big as mems fists,
which had diverse prints i'll them, some
like gunholes. On the 7th of June,
1872, in Northamptonshire, some We're
found which measured six inches In cir
conference; and on the 28th of April,
1897, storm passed over Cheshire and
Lancashire, during which hailstones
weighing eight ounces and measuring
nine inches in circumference fell. Hert-
fordshire, May 4, same year, was visited
by hailstorm which killed several per-
sons. The stones were fourteen inches
in circumference. NJ Parent relates
that hailstones as big ss8 mans fist and
weighing from nine and Cne-balf to
twelve and three -fourths ounces fell in
LIE Perche on May Is, 1903. Passing
over many recorded and perhaps doubt
full instances such as the above, We learn
that during a hailstorIn at CONSTANT
nople on Oct. 5, 1881, there fell stones
weighing more than one pound. SINH
lar stones are said to have been picked
up in May, 1921, at Palestrina, Italy.
Blocks of ice fell at Cazorta, in Spain, on
June 5, which weighed four aud one
half pounds; and in the South Of France,
during the latter part of October, 1S44,
some fell which weighed eleven pounds.
After a hailstorm on May 8, 1892, iu
Hungary, piece of ice was found which
measured more than three feet, both III
length and in width, with a thickness of
two and a quarter feet. To conclude
this list, hailstone is said to have fallen
in the reign of Tippoo Saib which wasthe
size of an elephant 1t is possible that
many of those so-called gigantic hail
stones we're simply masses of ice COM
posed of a collection of hailstones ag-
glomerated together in some hollow
space into which they had fallen: and
where they may have remained for some
time after the general fall of hailstones
had melted and disappeared.-ChaDa-
bers' Journal.
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National Crop Reports.

The last report issued by the Department OF
Agriculture at Washington is summarized as
follows:
Cotton.-The indicated yield of cotton per
acre is considerably less than last year. The
reported decrease is SO per cent. in Louisiana,
40 per cent. in Texas. and nearly 60 per cent.
in Arkansas. North Carolina makes return
of 80 per cent. less yield than in $780,
South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi re
port better condition, and the prospects are
for the crop not much below those of last
year IN those States. Florida reports o de-
crease Of Is per cent, Alabama an increase of
ID, Tennessee decrease of AZ. Virginia is not
included as cotton State, its product being
insignificant.
Wheat.-The average yield of wheat per acre
in 1881 is 1913 bushels. against 49, in 1880, in
dicsting decrease of about 20 per cent, or
100.000000 bushels, from last years product.
In the interior and Western States there has
been q great falling off, caused by the
severe winter, the late, cold spring, drought,
and, in several States, insect ravages; but,
while the quantity of the crop liz reduced the
quality is generally reported very good.
Corn The November returns Of corn show
an average yield of twenty and one-half bush
els per acre, indicating falling Off of about rs
per cent. from the crop of 1880, caused chiefly
hy the general drought during the growing sea-
son, and by excessive rains since the crop was
harvested. The quality of the crop is some
what below the average.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-25
A Humorist's View of Mormoni>n.

Invent up and looked at the Endow-
ment House. didn't have my endow-
ment robe along and so didn't 60 in.
Ii ever holiness to the Lord was made
a gigantic joke, it is here. The idea of
vanishing woman with oleomargarine
and running her through lions rink
with the sickly attempt to make it all
impressive, is SO ridiculous and yet so
sacriligious that ] am unable to do the
subject justice.
II the readers of the Boomerang could
have seen the array Of bishops, elders,
etc, that congregated in the main pei
forming ring of the hippodrome, Iknow
they would agree with me that there
isn't gravel train on the Union Pacific
that couldn't produce bigger mass OF
intellect, take the men as they averaged
right through, than did these cid hump
back patriarchs, who claim that they
are designated by the Lord to lead his
chosen people up out of darkness into
light.
They do not have the honest look that
a rural jury would have, and they have
all the stolidity and general cussedness
and depraVity of gang of criminals at
tending religious worship for the first
time, only that they are not SO attentive
and respectful.
If it be religion for brigade of lech-
erous old hogs to ride over horde of
Ignorant people who are only one notch
| above the animal creation, and to rob
them year after year in the name of God,
| hope that may not be regarded as
strictly orthodox in this valley Of the
modern Jordan.
These people point with pride to the
fact that prostitution for years was I'M
known here in Salt Lake, and that poly
gamy was the cause. There is no doubt
under heaven Of the truth of this asser-
ton. Regular prostitution would hide
| its head and go away into the Bitter
Creek country and hate itself to death
when met by the Mormon style of social
| evil, which fills fair territory with chill
dren who will worry through their whole
lives tortured with doubts about their
parentage. Negro slavery was considered
frightful thing for this very reason,
and yet it was never sanctifed and sus-
tanned by church, as is this institu.
| ton.
| In the natural excitement of writing a
letter like this, may have unintentiDn-
ally conveyed some information. If so
| hope that it will not be laid up against
me in the future, but overlooked in
charitable way. Bill Nye, IN the Lara
/ me C5tu BOOU1erdJ10
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-25
Edward Deatrey, Indian Commission
er for Manitoba has been appointed Lieutenant
Governor Of the Northwest Territory. Theseat
of government viii be removed from Battleford
to some point on the Canadian Pacific road.
FOREIGN NEWS,


The Limerick Sub Commission of the
Irish Land Court has reduced the yearly rent
Of one farm from 1910 to s21O, Of another
from s2OO to $125, and Of third from S245 to
$1425O.
Gambetta has issued note to the
representatives of France in foreign countries
assuring them that the change in the Ministry
will not modify the pacific tendency of frances
foreign policy.
Cholera is raging in Arabia. Over
800 persons are dying daily In Mecca from the
disease. Steamers from Djiddah refuse to
embark returning pilgrims on account of the
prevalence Of the disease
Mr.. John Walter, publisher of the
London Times, who was recently travelling in
the United States. is now giving his country
men the whole truth about Uncle Sans FARMS
"Any Englishman,' he said, "who is good
judge of land, steady and industrious, might
be certain Of becoming wealthy and prosperous
before he was so years old
The native chiefs in the Transvaal
have risen against the Beers, and the whites
are fleeing.
Some Irish miscreant cut off the tails
of over 100 cattle belonging to farmer near
koscommon.
The Nihilists have issued another
number of their newspaper in ST. Petersburg,
in which the assassination of President Gar
field is condemned in the very strongest Ian
guage, and the article was inclosed in mourn
ing lines.
Emperor William found himself una
lie to open the German Reichstag in person.
and his speech was read by Bismarck Its
loading sentiment is desire to bequeath to the
fatherland new and lasting guarantees for con-
tiliuous peace.
Dr. Sahluter, supposed to be insane,
has been arrested in Germany for threatening
TO assassinate the Emperor. He was arrested
wish.a six-shooter.
While the treasurerof the Foundling's
Hospital at Moscow was on his way to the
Commercial Bank, he was robbed of 100000
ubles.
The new French Cabinet favors the
repeal of the decree prohibiting the importa-
ton Of American pork and lard.
Recent arrests in Ireland under the
Coercion act include the Secretary OF the Land
League, at Carrick on-Suir, County Tipperary,
and solicitor in County Limerick, who had
been intimidating rent-payers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-25
MISCELLANEOUS GLEAN1NGs.

A session of the Industrial League of
.--=iea was held in Philadelphia Joseph
.-.4Sarton presiding-at which resolutions were
sfopted condemning the decision OF the
Treasury Department mimical to protective
duties, and calling on Congress to remedy the
evil results growing from these decisions
favoring the appointment of civilian Com
missioners to report on the progress,
needs and conditions of American in
dustriesi advocating the reduction of in
ternal-reyenue taxes, and the encouragement
Of American shipbuilding and shipowners' in
terests. National Tariff Convention com
posed Of delegates from every section of the
country, held a two days session in Chica-
go. Resolutions we're adopted that the
protective policy had provided the rev.
enue to subdue the Rebellion and
diminish the public debt, and also turned the
balance of trade in our favor; that maritime
property should be exempt from State. NUM-
Cipal and local taxation, and that the internal
revenue should be gradually reduced. The
National Labor Congress met in Pittsburgh.
Resolutions were offered demanding the repeal
Of the Conspiracy act and the abolition of
prison labor, and declaring that no man should
be permitted to hold more land than he can
till.
During the month of October 81, 927
immigrants arrived in this country.
A contract has been made between the
Huntington railroads on the Pacific coast and
the Gould system in the Southwest by which
they will be operated as a joint line from the
Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean, with a
division Of earnings on the basis OF mileage.
The point of junction is eighty miles east Of Ell
Paso, where the Southern and the Texas Pacific
roads will within few days be connected.
The Mexican town of Manzanillo was
completely destroyed by a hurricane.
The seventh new comet of the year
has been discovered by Director Swift, of the
Rochester Observatory, in the constellation Of
Oassiop@s,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-25
Alas

Alag for the perishableness of elo-
quencei It is the only thing in the
higher walks of human creativenesst that
passes away. The statue lives after the
sculptor dies as sublime as when his
ehisel left it. st. Peters is a perpetual
memorial and utterance of the great
mind of Angelo. The Had is as fresh
to-day as centuries ago. But great ora
tory, the most delightful and marvellous
Of the expressions Of mortal power,
pa SEES and dies with the occasion. 1t is
Like the snowfall on river,
a moment white, then gone forever
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-25
A ROnrbon Anecdote.

John J. Crittenden used to tell this
anecdote to illustrate the fidelity of his
people to the sswine of the country"
A leading politician Of the State (Ken-
tucky), stopping for the night at the
house of countryman In one of the
southeastern counties, found the enter
tainment he got the more satisfactory
because of barrel of very respectable
whisky having been just brought Ill,
Returning month afterward from an
eleetioneering tour, and disappointed in
not being able to get even a drink, he
reminded the host, with some impotence,
that only month ago be had a, full bar
rel in his pantry, The look that pre-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-25

Every year the Turkish empire is win
nowed for the handsomest young lady to
adorn the Sultan's palace as a new wife.
Ehe mother Of the Sultan selects from
:he bevy of beauties gathered from
fsilken Samarcand to cedared Leba-
non." One of the singular laws of royal
marriages here is that the wife becomes
the slave, when married, to his Majesty.
Why? Because the Grown Prince, or
future Sultan, must be born slave HIM
self. and thus less in rank than the free
people of the realm he governs This
is odd, but it is oriental. from
GO7estdnti7l0DIe.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-25
Who Can Reat This2

The Keoknb Gate City has unearthed
the meanest man on record, and locates
him at Burlington. The story, as the
paper mentioned tells it, is that while
a deaf, dumb and blind hand-organist
was sleeping on the postofiee corner the
wretch stole his instrument and substi-
tuted new-fangled churn therefor and
when the organist awoke he seized the
handles of the churn and ground away
for dear life, and when the "shades Of
night were falling fast" that meanest
man in the world came around, took his
churn, restored the organ to its owner
and carried home four pounds OF cream
cry butter.
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Grand total

Superin teDdent Walker refers to and reiter-
ates his statement in regard to the inaccuracies
of some of the statistics of the ninth census,
and he doubts if either of the three censuses OF
1850, 1860 and 1870 obtained half of the miner
al product of the country, or comprised two
thirds of the total number Of the defective, de-
pendent and delinquent classes (the deaf and
dumb. blind, insane, idiotic, criminals and
paupers) who have by law been made the sub
jects of special enumeration.
All the statistics of the present census he
considers sound and reliable. The extended
work increased the expenses of the bureau.
The ninth census cost So, 1886, 900. Since
then the population has increased 80 per cent,
and other estimates of the cost of census
have increased proportionally. Had the cost
of the census work kept up with the rate of
increase it would have reached s., SOC, 900. The
census for the first time collected the statistics
of railroads and telegraphs, of fire, marine
and life insurance, and in other departments
the information obtained has been at least
double that Of any former census in mere
matter of bulk
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CENSUS BUREAU.
The Annual RepOrt-POpuIatiOn of
the States and territories.

WAbHINHIUNg NUFs AUs
The annual report of the Census Bureau,
covering its operations since the LIST of Deem
Der, 1880, has been submitted to the Secretary
of the Interior. The field-work of the census
has been completed in oil the departments ex-
cept those relating to the department of ship
building, to the production of petroleum,
and a.few other industries, and to the popula-
ton, resources, etc., of Alaska. Six agents are
employed in these departments, and will COM
pleie their work in q few weeks. On the LIST of
December last the number of employees was
1.084. The maximum of the clerical force was
reached on the 18th of March, 1881, when the
of the clerical labor of the bureau has been
accomplished. The revised and corrected re-
turns of population show the following to be
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-25

Not SO fast, my friend if you could see the
strong, healthy, blooming men, women and
children that have been raised from beds OF
sickness, suffering and almost death by the use
of Hop Bitters, you would say 1Glorions and
invaluable remedy" See another column
Philadelphia Press
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-25

AN Indianapolis scissors grinder claims
to have been with the Duke of Yelling
ton in forty battles, and that he received
1872 sword cuts and eleven gunshot
wounds. We don't believe the Duke of
Wellington had any use for a scissors
grinder. The Duke was not editing a
paper, as we understand it. Still, if the
Duke did have scissors grinder, who
went around with his grinding machine,
ringing bell and shouting the way
they do nowadays, we don't blame the
Dukes neighbors for stabbing him 1872
times and shooting him eleven times
with gun. He deserved it.-Peck's
,0aLaa
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POLITICAL POINTS.

The official vote for State Treasurer
in Pennsylvania is Bailey (Republican), $685.
295; Noble Democrat, 25s, 4s1 Wolfe Qnde-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-25

The census shows that the proportion Of
voters to the population is / to 74-10O The
proportion of persons troubled with liver
and kidney disorders has been alarmingly
increasing, but, since the almost universal use
of Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure,
these diseases are rapidly diminishing.
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NUMBER %.

ceded the answer to this reminder was
composed Of surprise and resentment:
/. "Lookee here, my friend, do you
'spect enc bari o whisky to last Always,
and specially when a mans got wife
and six children, and the cows gone dry,
and they've got no milk ?"
Never !" answered the candidate
certainly not. / didn't understand the
situation, or I'd never have asked so fool
lSh question. This molasses and water
swell it's simply-splendid.
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The damage done to the reputation Of
needless girl usually comes from
women rather than from men. London
Truth.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-25

A Third Unsuccessful Attempt Upon
the Life of the Assassin of Presi-
dent Garfield
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stated that after the assassination Of the Prosi-
dent he paid little or DO attention to the con-
fict in the New York Legislature, and in fact
thought nothing OF politics. He said he in
vented the term "stalwart = himself in 1875.
The prisoner at once began to expostulate
with Scoyiile. stating that he desired him to
comply with his (Guiteau's) wishes in the case,
and if he did not do SO there would be a big
row. He Tas removed ~ bailiffs with difficult
ty. He desired to continue the conversation.
Scoville paid no attention to his client
The Venezuelan Minister, Mrs. Sarah B.
White, the janitress of the railroad depot, and
r. A. Parke. the ticket agent, were called as
witnesses III the order named, and gave the
facts of the assassination, already SO well
known. after which the court adjourned.