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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

ern part Of the county. Three weeks
ago the annual meeting of the society
was held in Racine, and, after spirit
ed contest, it was voted to change the
location of the fair from Burlington to
Racine. AT this action the Burlington
people took offence; they have good
fair grounds and convenient buildings
for the accommodation of such exhibit
tions. The citizens of that village
have resolved to prevent, if possible,
the removal of the county fair to Ra-
cine. In the meantime the party fay-
orable to transferring the fair to Ra-
cine gave assurance of raising $1,000
for the erection Of suitable buildings
and providing the requisite conye-
niences. But at last accounts sub
S criptions were coming in slow, and
the outlook for raising the $1,000 is
not encouraging. The liquor sellers oil
Racine have been solicited to- con
tribute 81 900, as they are expected te
derive especial benefit. Racine car
afford to be generous; it has become q
powerful city. the second in the state
lin population. 1t seems hardly fail
for Racine to gobble up the pretty lit
Il
tie village Of Burlington.
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STRAY NOTES BY A WAY
PARER.

| was pleased to see a letter in the
TELEGRAPH from a prOtectionist.
wish that more would give us theil
opinions. If a man can talk his opin.
ions in store or depot, why not be
able to write them down and have d
larger audience. 1t would do the
writer good and make the paper inter
esting. A.. ID. n. asks some questions
/ will follow suit. Could the tariff
protect our industries if it did not
raise the price of commodities pro-
tected? Is it not a natural result of
large profits to increase factories and
production, and this to the extent OF
over-crOwding the markets? Do moi
over-crowded markets oblige factories
to stop, and thus throw men out OF
employment? a study of cause and
effect will enable A. ID. n. to see that
protection raises prices and stops
spindles. will put a case, which A.
d. N. may have seen. A man takes a
large dose of alcohol and he RACES and
tears round, with more than his ma.
tural strength. Reaction comes on,
and he is now as limp and weak as a
babe. How can alcohol make him
both strong and weak?
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

if we are rightly informed, it did not
pay expenses. The lecturer resided
only about fifty miles away, and his
travelling expenses could not have been
large. Why this falling off of appre-
citation in a high order of instructive
enter tainment needs some explanation.
1t is not because the people Of the city
have become poorer? There is now
three times as much wealth as twenty
seven years ago. It will be said that
lectures have become less popular than
a quarter of century ago. This is
true; but in most communities where
the featuring system is less encouraged
than formerly, something else equally
intellectual has taken its place. What
has been substituted as an equivalent
for lectures in this city, Have moral
and religious societies taken the place
of lectures? Has music, poetry and
the fine arts been substituted? Have
the dance, the whist club and other
amusements superseded the lecturers
vocation and risen superior to the
old-time platform entertainment, such
as were given by Phillips, Holland and
Vinton? That lectures have ceased
to draw paying houses in this city is
generally conceded, but the question
remains to he answered, what have
the people accepted in exchange? II
is no answer to the question to say
lectures have fallen into disuse in
other towns and cities as well as this
unless it can be shown that nothing OF
value has been substituted for then
in those towns where they once were
popular. tits to this condition of affairs
the attention of the literary young
men of the city is invited, as we'll a:
those of older years.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

We may talk as much as we please
about the evils of extra-domeStic indus
trial life for women-We may reason
Justly about its dangers and cry sincere
IL a warning against a rapid revolution
in the popular conception of the duties
and rights of W0men-but right or
wrong, helpful OF injurious, revolution
is taking place in the employments Of
women. Twenty years ago the number
of women earning their own living in
New York city was in all probability
less than 10000; ten years ago there
were $4,000 who provided for them
selves i'll pursuits other than that of
school-teaching and that Of domestic
work. To-day the census shows that
more than 1885, 900 women in New York
city are engaged in industrial labor
outside their homes. Those who were
so employed twenty years ago were
positively forced to the labor. Many
of those who are SO employed to-day
have reSOrted to helabor from choice
--they prefer an active and indepen-
dent life to life of idleness and de-
pendence. This is true Of the whole
country. Women who, twenty wears
ago, would sit at home with folded
hands, dependent on the man OF the
family, and who would have become
absorbed in the petty details of domes-
tic life to limitation of their intellec-
tual possibilities, are to-day happy in a
field of labor which, while sometimes
severe, gives them wholesome indepen-
dence and intellectual strength.
The increase in the number of women
employed otherwise than in domestic
work is out of all proportion to the
increase of population. Whether we
like it or not, it is a serious fact that
women are expanding in all directions
and that they are entering into a sharp
competition with men in various
pursuits. Women's wages are lower
for reasons which will disappear by and
by, and women have an advantage in
| the competition which will tell in the
future in some pursuits their sobrie-
ty. After while we may expect to
see intelligent women who are wear
| ing themselves out in domestic druid
gerry engage in such outside occupations
as will enable them to transfer domes-
tic drudgery to the classes who are fiji
for nothing higher.
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WENDELL PHILLIPS.

The memory of Wendell Phillips, in
pulpit and on the platform, has been OBJ
served in various towns and cities in
the Union. Noticeably among the eulo-
gies is that of Henry Ward Beecher on
Sunday morning last. The following
lis taken from the Sentinel
New YORK, Feb. 10.-Henry Ward
Beecher delivered brilliant Grafton
on Wendell Phillips this morning to
an audience not only crowding Ply
mouth church to its utmost, but ex-
tending to thesidewalk. After review
ing the events of anti-slavery agitation.
fifty years ago, Mr. Beecher spoke with
great tenderness of his dead friend.
In closing he said "You remember
when LoveJoy was slaughtered in the
streets. His blood has been the seed
of liberty all over the world. 1t was
at this time that Charming asked for
Faneuil hall and was refused. He
had influence enough to get it after all,
and a meeting was called to give ex-
preston to the feelings of the public
on this murder The meeting was
made up largely of rowdies. and they
meant to put down free expression
of opinion. Dist-Atty. Austin made
a truculent speech. justifying the in
reference Of the mob and the murder
of Loyejoy. Young Phillips, feeling
the call of God in his soul, went upon
the platform and his first utterance
was drowned by the Kisses of the
mob; but he was not a man very easily
subdued by any such demonstration,
and he poured upon the man Austin
the full flow of the lava Of his elo.
quence. Practically unknown when
the sun went down, when it next rose
all Boston were saying" Who is this
fellow?" The question has never been
repeated since. Thenceforth he was a
flaming advocate of liberty, with sin
gular advantages over all others. An
other and like speaker has never graced
our history.
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ALASKA AND c0NGRESS.

A bill to organize the Territory OF
Alaska has passed the Senate. One
provision Of the bill is worthy Of note.
For the first time in the history of
territorial organization, clause has
been inserted in the bill, prohibiting
the sale of intoxicating liquors in the
territory, except for scientific and
medical purposes. Senator Beck, OF
Kentucky, true representative of the
Bourbon democracy of that state
vigorously opposed the prohibitory
clause, saying whisky was a necessary
article in that cold country; but ma
jority of the Senate did not see the
force OF the reasoning of the Kentucky
Senator, and the bill passed. 1t has
yet to go to the House, where it proba-
bly, will be defeated, as the whisky in
fluence preponderates in that body,
IL Congress would give a 'aska an
organic law, forbidding the sale of in
toxicating liquors, it would save ex-
pense in the future history of that
Territory to large extent of building
iails and making provision for Grim
inal courts. Besides such prohibi-
tory law by Congress could not be re-
pealed or changed by a territorial or
state legislature.
Only twenty years ago Dakota was
regarded undesirable for settlement.
Opinions were expressed that homes
in that region would never be sought
for to any extent. Col. McDermott, of
this city, who, in 1865, was stationed
at military post in Dakota, says it
was the general belief then that the
country was not adapted to farming.
But a remarkable change has now
taken place. Dakota is now declared
the garden of the Northwest. IT NAV
not prove so with the now almost de-
spised Alaska, but it is not unreason-
able to conclude that territory in the
future may be more highly valued.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

Mr.. Il. i. Roberts, Secretary of the
Kenosha County Wool Growers Asso-
citation, addressed a letter on the 3oth
ult., to the Milwaukee Sentinel, making
the following inquiry:
+" Will YOU please give in the Sen
ti,aeI the duty on wool of the tariff of
1867, and also the change made in that
tariff. This will place the fact beyond
dispute for the benefit of our wool
growers. We should be glad il the
Sentinel would give its opinion as to
what extent the reduction of the tariff
has affected the price of wool.
TO these inquiries the Sentinel
makes the reply as follows:
Under both the acts of March 2, 1867. and
March 8, 1883, woods are divided into three
classeS--clothing woods, combing woods and
carpet and similar woods. The classification
Is not the same in both cases, but the differ
ence is small. Where, under the old law. the
change of rate on clothing woods was made
on woods costing SO cents, it is now made
on woods costing 30 cents per pound. The
following shows the old aud new rates,
assuming the classification to be The same /:
Clothing woods costing so cents or less
per pound, old lar, 10 cents per pound and
ii per cent costing so cents or less, geey
law, 10 cents per pound, Clothing woods
costing more than 81 cents per pound, old
lar, IL cents per pound and 10 per cent /;
costing more than 80 cents, nem ia,c, II cents
per pound
COmbing woods costing less than 80 cents
per pourd, old lar, 10 cents per pound and
ii per cent; ae,e taw, 10 cents per pound
Same woods costing more, cid laac, II cents
and 10 per cent; aew laac, ~ cents per
pound
Carpet and similar woods costing IL cents
or less per pound, old lac, cents per pound,
ncw toW, q cents per pound. Same woods
costing more, old lar, cents per pound ale,c
'om, cents per pound. r.ta.
There is reduction equal to the amount
| ofthe ad Dalorem duty on the first two classes
except on such Of the first class as cost be-
tween 30 and 50 cents pound. The differ
ence in the rates is not great, and perhaps it
is safe 10 say the reduction has had little
appreciable effect on prices. II would be
difficult to trace the influence of still more
decided duty reduction in the prices of wool,
since SO many different influences may move
the prices one way or another.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

Attention is invited to the entertain
ment and temperance meeting to be
held in Kimball Hall on Monday even.
ing next, the 18th. The meeting de.
serves encouragement by all friends Of
temperance and good order. The
truth may as well be plainly spoken
the Irish Catholic clergymen are now
doing more earnest work for temper.
|ance than any other religious denomi
nation in this part of the country. II
the promotion of temperance be q
christian duty, then there is an appar
ent cause for complaint of the in
activity of the churches. Simply tc
speak of the gigantic evils of intern
perance, and yet to do nothing for its
s Impression, will never bring about I
reform.
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IN a NORTHERN STATE.

The Board of Education of Indian,
apolis, md, prescribe history of the
United States as one of the branches
to be taught in the schools of the CITY
Strange as it may appear, the Board
disallow the study of United States
history from and after the breaking
out of the rebellion, which. up to the
present time, covers a period of
twenty-three years. The history OF
the rebellion and the events which
have since followed are the most i'm.
portant of all our history, not except
ing that of the American Revolution,
The excuse given by the Board is,
that the events of the war of the rebel
lion are calculated to prejudice the
minds of scholars against sections of
the country; this is equivalent to say
ing scholars should not learn to detest
treason, or to think i'll of taitors.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

The American hog continues to be
the agitation topic in the pork circles.
The leading pork houses in Missouri
have addressed petitions to Mr.. Morri-
son, Chairman of tie Committee of
Ways and Means, urg NC the adoption
OF measures for forcing France and
Germany to take our American pork
1t would be strange procedure for
our government to attempt to compel
France and Germany to take our
pork; it might not be so easy of &C.
complishment, and possibly might re.
quire some cannonading. AS obiec-
tionable as the proposed retaliatory
measures are, they would be far less
belligerent. The plain statement OF
the pork question is this: By the
rules of reciprocity between nations
France and Germany should receive
American pork, provided it is innocent
of the charge of impurity and I'M
wholesomeness, which it probably is.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15
CAMPALGN IN ILLINOIS

The Republican State Committee of
Illinois called meeting on Tuesday
last, at Chicago, to make preparation
for the coming fall campaign. In adj
|dition to members of the committee,
from six to seven hundred earnest Re-
publicans from different parts of the
State were in attendance. Great un-
animity and much enthusiasm charac-
terlzed the meeting. Although it was
not a nominating convention, the ex-
preston was strong for Gen. Logan for
the Presidency.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

Some of the aldermen Of Milwau-
kee, whose heads have grown bald in
devising plans for the best interests OF
the city, according to the Sentinel,
have been considering the policy of Ii
censipg "houses of ill-fame.' AS a
matter of profit these grave aldermen
think it would prove source of reyen-
ne to the city, and help to replenish its
present depleted treasury. Other eco
nomic phases are presented by these
aldermen.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

believe there is nothing more to be
learned in the science Of farming, and
that lthey know it all. They tell us
they can raise as good crops of corn
and potatoes as those who have made
farming a study. That may be true,
but is after all but small part of the
multiplied interests connected with
the business of agriculture.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

The bank of Platteville, in this State.
whiIh collapsed few days ago, created
much sensation in that town. The
first report was that the assets were
emily $4,000 and the liabilities $780,
900. Later reports give more favor
able showing. The bank was not un.
der the supervision of the general
banking law, but private institution,
Many families in Platteville had all
their hard-earned savings deposited in
The bank. Persons who establish a
private bank for receiving deposits
nave no excuse for such disastrous
failures, bringing ruin on innocent
persons; they deserve severe punish.
ment
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

The Farmers Convention held Vt
Madison last week was one of the
largest attended and Of more general
interest of any ever before held in the
state. Every industry related to farm.
ing received attention; more than
half of the population of the state is
directly interested in agriculture.
Much valuable information derived
from agricultural experiments was i'm.
parted in the convention. There is 4
vast deal yet to be learned in respect
to the management of the farm and
the economic uses of the soil. There
are farmers perhaps not few-who
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

More than $500 bills had been in
troduced in the House up to recent
date; only about 300 of these have
been acted upon by committees, and
only a few have been put on their
dnal passage. Most of these bills are
of a private character.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

The friends of prohibition are max.
ing a strong movement in MasSachu-
sets, Six hundred citizens recently
assembled in Fremont Temple, Bos-
ton, and entered into a strong organic
alton, What gives Importance to the
movements, the Catholics have prom
ised to cooperate in the procedure
against the common enemy, alcohol.
Hitherto the Catholics have stood
Sloof from uniting with Professionals
in concerted action. The Catholic
Bishops and clergy give promise of bs.
coming the strongest reinforcement
for the suppression of intemperance
which the cause has yet received in
this country.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15
SORGHUM SUGAR AND sYRUl

oUhuH UM SUGAR AND SYRUP,
The Sixth Annual Convention of
The Southern Wisconsin Cane Grow
ers' Association was held at White
water, Walworth county, on Wednes-
day and Thursday. A great number
of important facts relating to the grow
ing and manufacture of cane sugar
and syrup were under consideration
The opinion is expressed that more
attention will be given the coming
season than ever before to the sor-
ghum interest. The last years unfay-
orable drawback has not discouraged
the friends of this branch of industry
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15
THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
IN KENOSHA.

In looking over the record Of events
in this city twenty years ago
this present winter, it is found that
during the three winter months of that
period twelve lectures were delivered
in this city under the auspices of the
KenOsha Literary Association. The
names of the lecturers were as follows:
Wendell Philips, Boston; Theodore
Parker, Boston; DR.. Holland, Spring
field, Mass. Horace Greedy. New
York City; Rev. Dir. Vinton, New
York City; Geo. p Marsh, American
Minister to Constantinople John B.
Golf, Massachusetts, two lectures
Friedrich Douglass, Washington two
lectures; DR.. Sears, Providence, r. /.
George II, Gould. Connecticut.
1t will be observed that all of these
lecturers, with perhaps one exception,
had national reputation; their homes
were thousand miles OF more from
this city, and therefore their services
were procured necessarily at consider
able cost. The records show that these
lectures were all patronized by full
houses, fully covering all expenses.
Comparisons. it is said, are sometimes
odious; but the comparison of this
winter of 1884 with twenty-seyen
years ago, in the matter of intellectual
enterprises. is too striking to be passed
by in silence. There has been but one
public lecture the present winter in
this city; it was furnished under the
auspices of the Business Mems Club,
and an excellent lecture, deserving
double the patronage it received; but.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

The Democratic legislature of Ohio
have repealed the Scott local option
law, which gives incorporated villages
the right to decide whether intoxicat-
ing liquors may be sold or not The
repeal was carried by q strict party
vote, every Democratic member voting
for it with only one exception. The
Liquor Dealers Association in Ohio
and the Democratic party work har-
moniously together. The question of
repeal has yet to go through the SEN
ate
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

Senator Brown. of Georgia, wants
the entire internal revenue tax abolish
ed, so as to give the common people a
chance to make whisky, a business now
monopolized by comparatively few
distillers, except when carried on clan
destinely, as is done in Georgia.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

The temperance entertainment on
Monday evening next at Kimball Hall
promises to be an occasion Of much in
terest. Rev. Father Hagan has the
reputation Of being an excellent
speaker. Rev. Father Cleary, of this
city, will take for his subject The
Temperance Question in Politics. The
views of that eloquent speaker on the
theme he has chosen will at this time
be regarded with more than ordinary
interest. Good music may be expected.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

The Grand Jury at Geneva, ILL.,, on
Tuesday last, found fifty indictments
OF liquor sellers. Twelty-one OF these
indictments were for selling liquor to
minors.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

The river was 20 feet2A inches high
at Cincinnati on Wednesday night.
The sufferings Of the people in the
Hooded districts have been increased by
cold weather.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

Rev. G. III. Zimmerman, Methodist
preacher at Evanston, ILL.,, writes a
letter to the Ad'oance, Chicago, which
is published in that paper, under
which he presents statistics to show
that Notwithstanding Methodism is
declining in that city. The apparent
increase comes from the Norwegians,
Swedes and Germans. Mr.. thinner
man says the three years limitation in
the pastoral lterm is responsible for
this, and proceeds to give reasons at
length for such conclusions.
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Croup.-A Mother,s Tribute.


''While in the country last winter my little
boy, three years old, was taken i'll with Group;
it seemed as if he would die from strangu-
lRtion. One of the family suggested the use
of AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL. q bottle of
which was always kept in the house. This
was tried in small and frequent doses, and
to our delight in less than half an hour the
little patient was breathing easily. The doe
tor said that the CHERRY PICTORIAL had
saved my darling's life. Can you wonder ~
our gratitude? Sincerely yours,
Mrs. EMMA GEDNEY.''
159 West 12Sth St., New York, May 16, 1882.
ST have used AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL
in my family for several years, and do not
hesitate to pronounce it the most etfectual
remedy for coughs and colds we have ever
tried. A. j. CRANE"
Lake Crystal Mimi, March 10, 1889.
"Isufered for eight years from Bronchitis,
and after trying many remedies with no sue
cess, was cured by the use of AYERS CHER
RY PICTORIAL. JOSEPH WALDEN
Byhalia, Miss, April 5, 1882.
"I cannot say enough in praise of AYERS
CHERRY PICTORIAL, believing as do that
but for its use should long since have died
from lung troubles. Il. BRAGDoS.i5a
Palestine, Texas, April %, 1882.
No case of an affection of the throat or
lungs exists which cannot be greatly relieved
by the use of AYERS CHERRY PEcToRAL,
and it will alacGyS cure when the disease il
not already beyond the control Of medicine.
PREPARED BY "a
Dr. .C.Ayer& Co., Lowell, Mass.
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ROLL OF HONOR, DISTRICT NO
4, TOWN OF SALEM.

Upper Form-Carrie Silvernail.
Middle Form-EdWard Foster, Frank
Smith, Huldah Smith. Lower Form
Ralph COrnWell, Charles Foster, Paul
Foster.
CECILIA J. RAFFERTY,, Teacher