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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-09-08

as in later years. Yet there were years
when those engaged in agricultural
pursuits were hardly able to cover
their annual expenses from the pro-
ducts of the farm. Now the result of
years farming, in most cases, leaves
a balance in favor of the farmer, after
paying all necessary expenses. Doubt
less there have been several causes,
which served to produce these favor
able changes. Chief among these is the
securement, after years of embarrass-
ment, of substantial currency-a cir
culating medium everywhere equiva-
lent to gold. After having been embar-
raised for long years with currency
Of uncertain and fluctuating value, a
solid basis was reached, thereby inn
parting confidence to our agricultural
interests, as well as to all other
branches of business. No other coun-
try in the world has better system of
currency than the United States.
And now, without any desire to re-
vive old party issues, still, IS mat
ter of history, it may be inquired to
whom is the country indebted for this
favorable change in our monetary
affairs? Who were the prominent
statesmen in the country, and who the
leading members in Congress, who
labored earnestly and successfully to
achieve that all-important measure
"specie payment" What party re-
sisted to the very last the resumption
of specie payment, and after its adop-
ton predicted it would be only tenn
porary expedient, and that it could
not be sustained? Who uniformly
spoke and voted on the floor of Con-
gress against requiring silver and
gold for the paper money in circula-
ton throughout the country? The
facts bearing on this matter do not
rest on the authority of platform
speeches, or the assertion of partisan
papers. The official records of the
speeches and votes of members in
Congress furnish the evidence that tC
the Republican party belongs the adop.
tion of agreat financial measure, which
gave new life and activity to the indus
trial interests of the entire country
Were 1t not that our Democratic
friends are so much In the practice of
captiouslysasking what benefits have
been conferred On the country by Re-
publican leoie' ton, this passage in
legislative HI rywould not have been
referred to. erepeat again, that our
farmers, as we'll as those of other
honorable occupations, have been the
beneficiaries of Republican legislation
din Congress.
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PIN PIES.

will mail dree) the recipe for simple
Vegetable Balm that Will remove Tan,
Freck1es, Pimp1es B1Otches, leaving the
skin soft, clear and beautiful also instructions
OF producing luxurIant growth of hair on a
bald head or smooth face. Address, inelosing
&c. stamp. Ben. Vande1f & Co., 12 Barclay
St., N. Y.
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RANDALL.

Ackerman's dance, which was ia
come off on the 1st was postponed to
the 9th, OF. account of the weather.
George McKesson's spring wheat
cred chaff bald) went 20 bushels pei
acre. 1t was sowed on fall blowing in
March.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayman and Mr.. and
Mrs. Tubman, of Chicago, are staying
at Henry Benedict's for a few weeks
The parties to the suit of Ira Rich
mond against VIM. III. Harrison are
getting ready for trial next week at
Elkhorn. John T. Fish is the plant
ifs attorney and J. V. Quarles for the
defendant.
The farmers are delighted with the
prospects for corn. Some of them say
they have the best corn they ever
raised. The crop in this section will
certainly be better than an average
crop.
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BRISTOL.

Rev. III. M. Corsbie and family are
expected to arrive home on Friday,
the 9Th inst. Next Sunday he proposes
to preach the first of series of SER
mons on the Life and Times of David,
which he has been outlining during his
vacation. This series will be preached
on alternate Sundays, leaving the in
teryening Sundays for "topieal sub
jects." Mr.. Corsbie is visiting his
father and mother and sisters and
brothers residing in Iowa. whom he
has not seen before for five years. He
is also meeting a few old college col
leagues. He will spend a day or two
at the Iowa state fair, where he ex-
poets to meet old acquaintance.
Mr.. A. Schroeder, the harness maker
of Kenosha, was taken quite seriously
i'll on Saturday noon.
Miss Florence Marsh and escort, of
KenOsha, arrived at WoodWorth on
Monday last.
Miss Sax, one of our Ken@ha county
girls and well known teacher, has
passed over the dark river Her sis
ter, Mrs. FL. III. HolbrooE, received
notice of her sisters death at Ameri-
Gus, Kansas, in the early part of the
week.
Mrs. L. E. Fairbank is down with
malarial fever and nervous proStration
and is very slowly improving
Mrs. Stebbins, of Pikeville. has gone
to her daughters in Nebraska.
At Wesley, on Sunday last, Elder
Wilcox preached. The people were
very glad to hear from him once more
The church was crowded.
Mr.. Gibbs lost horse by death last
week. 1t had been sick some time.
Susan Schwartz, of Paris, was visit
ing her friend, in Bristol last week.
James Hunt is reported very sick.
Miss M. Jordan, of Somers, visited al
Mrs. Geo. Vincent's last week.
About twenty or thirty of the young
folks made raid on the house of Miss
Marsh last week. Wish I was young
folks. Oh, dear.
If you want a good sewing machine
just appoint our three agents to call al
the same hour, and they will bic
against one another and you get ma
chine cheap. AS one machine is as
good as another and some times lit
tie better it will be safe to take thu
cheapest.
Miss Younglove. of Rochester
Mimi, visited Miss Fowler last week
The Ladies' Missionary Society Of
Bristol and Paris met on Wednesday
afternoon with Mrs. M. O. Myrick.
We. have an inkling that Bristo
means to be the banner town at ou1
agricultural exhibition. She has the
best apples, the best potatoes, the best
winter wheat, the best spring wheat
and other spring grains, the best
horses, colts, etc., etc., and the hand
soonest ladies and the prettiest babies
Dan Barnum has more kinds, anG
better kinds and Ligger yields of pota
toes than any other man in Kenosha
county or any other county. If yor
don't believe it bring your Eaters tc
the fair and compare. Look out Dan
means to walk away with the blue
ribbon.
Mr.. James Scofeld, ST., celebrated hi
seventy-seventh birthday at the residence O.
his oldest daughter, Mrs. A. Gates, in Bristol
Thursday, Aug. 31st. The occasion was very
enjoyable one, there being present oil of his
children and eight grandchildren.
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TO HAVE A COLLEGE.

A class Of people who style them
selves Free Thinkers, to the number of
seven hundred, assembled last week in
the village of Watkins, N. Y. They
agreed to establish a college in the in
terest of free thinking people, and for
that object 100000 have already been
subscribed. The noted r. G. Ingersoll
heads the movement. Whether hui
manity is to be lifted to a higher plane,
better time ushered in, the Mile
mum FASTENED or postponed for time,
dues not appear. lfarhnrt Snannar. the
scientist and philosopher, recently ar
rived from Europe, was welcomed by a
vote of the meeting.
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We commend the following commu.
nication from a prominent fruit grow.
er to all who may have fruit proper
for exhibition at our County Fair:
BRING FRUIT.
Mr.. EDITOR: Permit me to say a
few words to those farmers who have
crop of apples this season.
AS everything is being done to make
the County Fair this year the best that
has ever been at KenOsha, and as there
is good reason to fear that the Horti-
cultural Department will be defective,
as the apple crop in the eastern part of
the county is very poor one, it be-
comes the duty of the farmers in the
middle and western parts of the county
to take ain active part in supply
ing fruit, or the display will be q
poor one. Let every one who has got
fruit, and who desires to see a good
display in that Department, bring
some of the best they have got, and
the Superintendent in the Fruit
Department will do his best to
name and arrange the fruit in an at
tractive way, so that the parties who
supply the fruit shall have a fair
chance of any premium to which
they may be entitled.
Friends, bring on the apples, and
let us have display worthy of Keno
sha County. STEPHEN GAIT,
Supt. Horticultural Department.
Pleasant Prairie, Sept. 4th, 1882.
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CIVIL SERVICE REFORM

The problem of Civil Service Reform
began to be earnestly discussed
through the newspapers and on the
platforms, in 1872, and has, therefore
been kept before the people ten years.
On no one subject has there been more
said and written than on this. Were
all the wise and unwise sayings that
have been uttered collected and COM
piled into books, they would make a
library larger in bulk than any now in
this country. 1t may properly be
asked, what progress has been made
during all this time towards a salts
factory adjustment of the controversy j?
From all that has appeared, the public
mind is no nearer definite conclusion
than when the discussion began; no
new light has been thrown on the SUBJ
ject, and opinions of leading men are
as wide apart as ever. The question
before the people is, in what does civil
service reform consist, and how shall
it be accomplished? That question,
thus far, has failed to receive salts
factory answer.
A number of years ago law was
passed by Congress in relation to con.
tributions of money by government
officers for political purposes. The law
remained a dead letter, and does not
appear to have been regarded as appli-
cable to all voluntary payments of
money for election purposes. The
Civil Service Reform Association has
lately resurrected it, with no decision.
Although we regard the law
as an absurd interference with the
political rights of a class of citizens
its propriety will not now be discussed.
Our only purpose is to call attention to
the senseless noise throughout the
country about compulsory assessments
upon clerks in government employ
ment for election expenses. Compuz-
Scry assessments upon government
employees is myth; it has no founda-
ton in fact. During employment in
one Of the departments at Washington
for over twelve years we have never
known or heard of a single case of
compulsory assessment. Government
clerks are invited to contribute given
per cent. of salaries for election ex-
penses, but there is no more compulsion
than when invited to subscribe for the
building of a church or school ex-
cursion. Many government employees
refuse to give for political purposes;
those who refuse to give are just as
secure in their situations as those who
contribute most literally. The state.
ment is ventured, that among the two
thousand or more clerks in the Treas
ury Departments, not single case can
be found where a clerk has lost his
situation for declining to pay anything
for political purposes. Yet there are
newspaper presses that will keep up
the clamor of compulsory assessments,
and continue to excite the sympathies
of the people on behalf of these poor
clerks, who, it is alleged, are forced to
pay a portion of their salaries for cleo
ton campaigns, while their wives and
children are in need of the necessaries
of life.
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The farmers of Kenosha County, as
we'll as those of the state in general,
have reason to be satisfied with the re-
turns of their labors the past year
crops of most kinds are fair, and prices
remunerative. The country was prob
ably never more prosperous than now.
What a contrast does the present con-
ditiOn of agricultural interests in Ke-
nOsha county present with that of
twenty-five or more years agol The
soil was as productive then as now
farm labor was as well performed then
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The prospect Of successful County
Fair is encouraging. The farmers OF
the county have had a prosperous year
and can well afford to give a little
time to the interests of the Fair. II
there be only a reasonable cooperation
of the people generally, the Fair may
be the best ever held in the county.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-09-08

1t will be observed the County Con-
vention, for the nomination of county
officers and Member of Assembly,
will meet at the Court House in this
city on the 25th of September, inst.
For the several candidates to be voted
for, on the Republican ticket, we have
heard the following names men
toned: Sheriff, Geo. Hale, David E.
Pierce, L. r. Wilson, W. F. Halliday,
l.. N. Dediemer; Register of Deeds, T..
w. Bonds ID. A. Sovereign, E. J. Bent
ley; County Clerk, D. B. Benedict; =
Clerk Circuit Court, 0. S. Newell, Ed
ward G. Mcclellan; County Treasurer,
r. E. Sutherland II. E. Clark; Dis
trict Attorney, J. Cavanagh,* Myron A.
Baker; County Surveyor, Jason Lath-
rOp*; Coroner, d. Head*. Those
marked thus are now the present
incumbents in Office. There may be
other candidates, for some of the
offices, of whose names we have not
been informed All those now in Of
fee are Republicans, except J. A..
Gallaghan, the present Clerk of the
Circuit Court, who was elected on the
Democratic ticket two years ago. The
present Member of Assembly, j. B.
Vosburg, it is understood, will be a
candidate for reelection. Several
other prominent Republicans, whether
by their consent we are not informed,
are spoken of as candidates for this
Office.
In view of the small majority Of
the Republican party in the county,
the necessity of well-considered and
judicious nominations for the several
offices is apparent. None but those
who have well established reputation
for honesty, integrity and right quail
fications, should be put on the ticket.
Although it does not matter, as to the
fitness of candidates, whether they
are taken from the city or country,
nevertheless care should be taken to
avoid all jealousies arising from loca-
ton, and the endeavor to satisfy
should be aimed at, as far as may be
consistent. There seems to be no lack
of candidates who have signified their
willingness to serve the people. The
persons named are perhaps net all
equally popular, still most of those
mentioned, perhaps all, would fill the
positions creditably which they seek
to obtain. Inasmuch as there is said
to be active canvassing among the
candidates it is hoped that primary
meetings, both in city and country,
will be generally attended and fairly
conducted, so that there shall be no
occasion for complaint that the caucuses
were controlled by scheming politi-
clans. The better the nominations re-
fleet the will of the people, the more
certain will be the Republican
triumph.
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FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, 1882.
REPUBLICAN, COUNTY CON-
VENTION.

A Republican County Convention
will be held in and for the County of
Kenosha, at the Court House, in the
city of Kenosha, on Monday, the 25th
day of September, A. d. 1882, at one
o'clock p. NJ, for the purpose of NOM
mating candidates for Member of As
sembly, Sheriff, Clerk of the Circuit
Court, County Clerk, County Treasurer,
District Attorney, Register of Deeds,
County Surveyor, Coroner, and for such
other business as may properly come
before said Convention. Each town
and ward will be entitled to three dele
gates.
Kenosha, August 23d, 1882.
JIM. STEBBINs, J
w. Y. GULL. co. Com.
G. WILLIAMS,
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PERSONAL! TO MEN ONLY :!

THE vOLTAIC BELT CO., Marshall, Mich, will
send DR.. DYES CELEBRATED ELECTR0-V0LTAIc
BELTS AND ELECTRIC APPLIANCES on trial for
thirty days TO men (young old who are afflicted
and kindred troubles guaranteeing speedy and COM
plete restoration of health and manly vgor Ad-
dress as above. N. B.-No risk is Incurred, as
thirty days trial is allowed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-09-08

The friends of our public schools
will be gratilied to learn that the sew
eral departments opened on Monday
last encouragingly. The average at
tendance was better than at the open.
ing of the schools one year ago. In
the High school the attendance of
scholars from the country shows an in
crease. The school is indebted to Prof.
Leach for the reputation he has given
it since he has occupied the position of
Principal of the High School Depart
ment
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-23
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, June. 22.-Roustan, the
French minister, called on the President
to-day
Miss CEevallier, of Boston, secretary of
the national society for the protection of
the insane, in company with DR.. Beard,
DR.. Golding and Rev. Hicks, called on the
President to-day in behalf of Guiteau's re-
pfieve and for the creation of a commission
of lunacy. They had the petition signed
by medical experts. The President took
the papers, and said they would be con-
sidered by the Attorney General.
In the star route case Merrick said that
in view of the innendo against Bliss by
the defense, they would only answer ques-
tions of the defense when put through the
court. Geo. F. Stone, postoffice inspec-
ton clerk, testified that there had been no
or fines or failure to perform
expedited service upon the route from
November, 1878 to November 1879.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-23
Guardians Sale of Real Es-
tate.
STATE OF ILLINOIS,
Rock Island County,


In the County Court of December Term. 1881
In the matter of the petition of William Mclean
Guardian of George NJ. Harper and Mary w. Harper
minor children of William II. Harper deceased, for
leave to sell real estate.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that by vrtue of
order of the County Court of Rock Island Coun-
ty Illinois, made and entered aforesaid in said court
on the I'D day of December, A. D.. 1881, in Ger
tain proceeding therein pending, wherein the under
signed, Willitm Mclean. as Guardian of George NJ.
Har per and Mary W. Harper, miuor children of
William w. Harper. deceased made application for
leave to sell real estate of said minors; the under
signed, Guardian as aforesaid, viii, Friday the
25rd day of June, A D., 1882. at the hour of EleY-
O'Clock in the forenoon of said day at the front
door of Jhe. dwelling house the premises. to
be sold in the city and county of Rock Island and
state of Illinois, will sell public SALE the high
est bidder, the following described real estate of
said minors. situate in the city and county OF Rock
Island and state of Illinois, towit: The west half of
out-lot i've t5), in John w. Spencer's addition
the city of Rock Island, said sale to be made the
following terms viz; One e-third thereof i'm cash at
time of entering order confirming the sale. and
the remainder in from the date of said sale
with interest thereon from said date the of
eight per cent per annum, to be secured by OF
the purchaser and mortgage upon the premises
sold
Dated at Rock Island, May 10Th A. D.. 1882
WILLIAM MCLEAN.
Guardian of said Minors.
kESwoRrHY 81 BEARDsLEY, Attorneys.
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NERVOUS DEBILITY.

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Executors Sale of Real
Estate.
STATE OF ILLINOIS,
County of Rock Island 90

STATE OF ILLINUIS, =.
County of Rock Island { 60
In the County Court of said County
In the matter of the estate OF Julia a. Knekin de-
ceased,
In pursuance of the terms and provisions OF the
last will and testament of the said Julia A. Kinein
and in order 10 make payment of the legaees there
in given and made, which will is file and of rec
ord in the Office OF the Clerk of said County Court
viii. as executor of said will. sell at public
tion To the highest bidder for cash. Saturday,
the 18th day Of june A. D.. 1882, at the hour of
o o'eiock. n M. upon the premises, the following de-
scribed real estate to-wit.The south half " of
the south half tl of lots three (3 and fonr f4l i'm
block sixty four (64) in the Chicago or lower addi
ton 20 the city of Rock Island. in said county OF
Rock Island
Dated this nth day Of May, A. D., 1882
JAMES NJ. BUFORD,
WM. H. GEsT. Atty. Executor.