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Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-07-24

He is an honest and incorruptible
man. He is an earnest and fearless
reformer He is not a partizan when
partizanship stands in the way of pub
lie welfare. He is a man of courage
and does not shrink from the gravest
responsibility. His private life and
his official record are without stain.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-07-24

1t could not possibly be improved.
The thousands of dissatisfied Republi-
cans who will not support Blaine will
vote for Cleveland and Hendricks.
Those who called themselves indie
pendent and were waiting for the ac-
ton of the Democratic Convention OK
press their determination to support
Cleveland and Hendricks.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01
RANDALL.

1t was eighteen degrees below zero
last week, Thursday.
Mr.. Suffer began filling his refriger-
ator on the 28th. He pays four cents
cake for drawing.
The ice is about two feet thick and
is of the first quality. There ought to
be plenty of ice next summer at a reas-
enable price.
The Germans have a weather prov
erb that cold January will be follow
ed by hot a July. If it proves true in
this instance, and the heat is in pro.
portion to the cold, we ought to raise
some corn as well as stalks and cobs
Several Of our young people attend
ed the phantom dance at Richmond on
the 25th. It took two sheets to con-
vert one of our young men into ghost.
We saw in the Chicago Times Of the
26th ult., that A. P. Gray, of Richmond,
Ind, has began a suit for false impris-
oIment and malicious prosecution
against the general agent of Thomas &
Sons, Springfield, O., and a Chicago
detective, laying his damages at $4,000.
There is a mistake in this item, as to
the state, as it is plain to every one
about here that it refers to the troubles
of Alonza p. Gray. wagon maker, and
blacksmith, Richmond, I'll.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01
SOMERS.

Appearances indicate a general break.
up in the way of roads, which are al
ready becoming full of pltch-holes
where the snow is deep.
James H. belong left on Monday
for independence, Iowa, where he in
tends to make his future home. His
family follow in few days.
Mr.. Utley, who has been residing
among us for the past four or five
years, started for the east on Tuesday
evening, with the intention of remain
ing there.
A girl of Mr.. Golfers, who lives on
the Il. Lee place, was buried on Sun
day last. She was about twelve years
of age, and died of diphtheria. Two
other children in the same family are
dangerously i'll with the same disease,
so / am informed.
Notwithstanding the recent decline
in price, liberal quantities of oats con-
tinue to arrive at the station. The
shipments, / am told, have reached as
high as 10000 bushels per week the
prices now paid are from 80 to so cents
per bushel.
Miss Mary Bunnell, formerly Of this
place, is visiting with Miss Anna
Smith and other friends.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01
COMPROMISE PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE.

The Washington Post, the Demo-
cratic organ in the city of Washing
ton, suggests General William P. Sher-
man, one of the heroes of our Union
armies, as compromise candidate for
President. A leading Republican
newspaper in this state is understood
to second the suggestion of the Post.
1t will be asked what about the views
of General Sherman on questions of
government policy? 1t is answered
that his fame as an American general
is almost without a rival, and that.
while he is a man of acknowledged
ability and large experience. he has
not been politician in the popular
sense, nor identified with either politi-
cal party, but probably holds many
things in common with both. A
Presidential campaign without party
strife would be one of the most strange
sights since the days of Washington.
1t is not probable, however, that any
compromise will be agreed TO; the
managers of both the great political
parties hope to win, and therefore do
not wish to divide the Presidential
patronage.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01
WASHINGTON SOCIETY

The Washington Critic, society
paper, represents the present winter in
Washington one of unusual gayety.
The nights are as stirring with people
as the days. Every member Of
Congress who has his family in the
city is expected to give at least one
grand entertainment, or else fall out
of the ranks Of what is called the better
classes. The hour of invitation to
evening parties is fixed later this season
than heretofore. Last year the invi-
tations were $50, this year 8, practi-
cally making the fashionable hour 80
y. NJ, so the nights are pretty much
used up in gayety and pleasure. The
sleeping hours with many range from
4 to 10 A. M.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01
SALEM.

Miss Ethel Becker, of Genoa, visited
Miss Mary B. Burgess on Saturday.
Miss Burgess accompanied her home on
Sunday.
Mrs. Hagadorn, who spent several
months past with her sister, Mrs. G..
E. Clark, starts for the east the fore
part of the week.
Mrs. Wheeler is visiting friends in
Racine.
The furnace in the Congregational
church is undergoing repairs, so as to
heat the house better.
A. M. Clark, of Penfeld, ILL.,, is visit
ing at the residence of Hugh MINIS.
Lou Van VIE and wife, of Bristol,
visited at Albert Wicks' on Saturday
night and Sunday.
Illness prevented Miss Hattie Lacy
from teaching last week.
Charles Heller, who has been sick
since Christmas, is able to be out again.
Ten or twelve couples attended a
very enjoyable party at Dell Corn
wells on Saturday night.
Mrs. Browne is visiting friends in
Winetka.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01

EDITOR TELEGRAPH=The free
trade or anti-tariff men, are constantly
telling the people-farmers, mechanics
and iaboring men-that we pay more
for our implements, our clothing, and
in fact, everything we buy. than we
would have to but for this protective
tariff-that it is, in fact, a large tax
upon every person, and that only those
who have sort of monopoly are
benefited by the tariff. And in the
next breath they tell US that the tariff
is the cause of the idle spindles. silent
looms, smokeless FORCES and idle
operatives, and also that the tariff is
the main cause Of the over-production
by these same idle spindles, looms and
FORCES.
Now, l wish they would explain
how these spindles, looms and FORCES
are to be set in motion, these idle
operatives employed and better wages
paid by allowing the unlimited intro
duction Of the European or foreign
cheap labor or manufactures.
AID. N.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01

After all the philanthropic endeavors
of the people Of the North to aid the
cause OF education in the South, by
urging on Congress an appropriation
from the surplus revenues for the sup
port Of schools, it has transpired there
ID an unwillingness on the part of some
leading Southern men to receive such
aid. The chairman of the committee
on education in the House, Mr.. Aiken.
OF South Carolina, expresses the opin-
ion that no such bill viii pass. Among
other prominent Southerners, Gov.
Knott, Of Kentucky, does not favor
aid from the General Government.
Why this disposition to refuse help
to dispel the mass of ignorance in the
Southern States? Is it because an il
literate voting population can be more
effectively used for keeping the Demo-
cratic party in powers If it be not
that, then what is it?
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01

Letters from Washington represent
great suffering among the poor in the
capital city of the nation. The cold
weather came upon the poor white as
we'll as the colored population when
they were unprepared for it. Wash
ington Is city of great extremes.
During the winter season, when Con-
gress is in session, and the city filled
with pleasure-seeking strangers and
lobbyists, it has a show of wealth and
splendor that bewilders the uninitiated
visitor. He wonders how there can be
restitution and distress where there is
seemingly superabundance of all
that can make life enjoyable. No other
city in the Union can put on such an
air of grandeur and luxurious living
as Washington. But amidst all this
external glitter, how fitting are the
lines of the poet Thompson
8 Oh, how little think the gay, licentious crowd,
Whom pleasure and affluence surround;
Little think they, while they dance along
How many feel this very moment death.
And all the sad variety of pain.
How many drink the cup
OF baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread
OF misery. Sore pierced by wintry winds,
How many shrink into the sordid hut
OF cherries misery.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01

division Of the Milwaukee and st.
Paul near Dover, Racine county. The
line will continue on about five miles
west Of Milwaukee to Schleisingerville,
in Washington county, where there
will be connection with other roads.
1t is not the intention to try to run
the road into the city of Chicago,
but to make the entrance over one of
the many roads now having tracks
into the city. It is not yet
learned whether it is contemplated to
build the entire line this year, or re-
serve part for building in 1885. The
projected road when built will give
the western towns in this county a
more direct communication with
Chicago, and.probably also with Mil.
waukee.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01

Mr.. r. f. Roberts, an active member
of the Kenosha County Wool Growers
Association, is urging reform in the
practice Of sheep washing. : If, as Mr..
Roberts says, the wool taken from I'M
washed sheep sells in the market as
readily as that from washed sheep,
then the sooner the practice of wash
ing sheep is abandoned the better
Cruelty to animals is not tolerated by
state laws, nor by Divine law. He
who plunges into a pond of water
with all his clothing on and does not
subsequently exchange them for dry,
is by common consent regarded reck-
less of health.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01

The Emperor of Japan has conferred.
upon General Horace Capron, now Of
Washington, D. G., the second order of
the Rising Sun, a mark of appreciation
for the valuable services rendered by
the latter to Japan, especially in the
development Of the resources of the
island of Yesso, the most northerly of
the Japanese group. This is the first
time the order has been conferred up
on foreigner Washington Critic.
General Horace Capron was former
ly known by citizens in this county,
and by many in Walworth county.
He is brother of Mrs. d. B. Theirs,
of this city. He came here over thirty
years ago and went to McHenry coun-
ty, ILL.,, where he purchased a tract of
land in the town of Hebron, near the
south line of Walworth county. Here
he built one of the finest farm houses
in that vicinity, and after occupying
the premises a few years went to
Peoria, Ill. From the latter place he
went to Washington, having been APP
pointed by the President U. S. Com
missioner of Agriculture. While in
the Agricultural Department he re-
ceiyed an offer from the Japanese EN-
bassy to go to Japan and take charge
of the introduction of American agri-
cultural machinery, also choice breeds
of horses and cattle from the United
States. For the purchase of these
animals his son, Albert Capron, Of
Kenosha, was made the agent. Gener-
al Capron remained in Japan about
four years, during which time he saw
the improved machinery sent from
this country adopted; it's manufacture
was entered upon by the skilled work.
men of the country. The people of no
foreign land have been as ready to
adopt American methods as the Jap
anese. Gen. Capron received a liberal
salary for his services, and when about
to return home the government made
him a present of large number of
articles designed for use and ornament,
unlike anything produced in this coun-
try and Of superior finish. After his re-
turn to Washington he built spacious
and handsome dwelling on N street,
near 14th street. He placed his Japa-
nese curiosities in the spacious parlors,
where they drew many visitors. Two
years ago General Capron sold his
house to the Japanese Embassy in
Washington, and caused his Japanese
collection of curiosities, valued at
several thousand dollars to be removed
to the Smithsonian Institute, where
they are now on exhibition. After
selling his house, he engaged quarters
at the Portland, on 18th street. He
selected rooms for himself and wife in
the sixth story, and writes Mrs.
Theirs, his sister in Kenosha, that
never before in his life was he so
pleasantly and happily situated as in
his high elevation on the sixth floor of
the Portland. OF course he is subject
to no Inconvenience, for the elevators
run day and night.
This imperfect historical sketch is
given of Gen. Capron, because, as al
ready stated, he is the first man out
side the Empire of Japan on whom
the Emperor has bestowed the order
of the Rising Sun.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01
WHO Is WISCOMSIN'S DEM
OCRATTC LEADER.

The question is asked who is now
the Democratic leader in this state ?
Each of the great political parties in
every state has its acknowledged lead
er, or at least those whose opin-
ions are sought for as opponents Of the
party and advisers in respect to politi-
cal action. To judge rightly who are
leaders is to observe who are most fire.
quently interviewed by newspaper re-
porters, and to whose opinions on po-
litical issues the most importance is
attached. 1t is probably not unsafe to
say that Col. Villas, of Madison, is re-
garded the greatest Democratic lightin
the state. Newspaper interviewers ap.
pear to be on his track, anxious to note
his oracular sayings. He would exer-
else more controlling influence in
state or national convention than any
other Wisconsin Democrat. He is a
respectable lawyer, shrewd pollti-
clan and calculates political chances a
long way ahead. Col. Villas is a son of
Judge Villas, who died several years
ago. He was quite prominent poll
tician in territorial times, and Demo
crat of the most pronounced type. Col.
Villas is ranked free trader. At the
meeting Of the Iro1uois Club in Chica-
go several months ago, at which time
a large number of western Democrats
were in council, Col. Villas unbosomed
himself as a free trader at least such
was the Interpretation of his remarks.
It is said more recently he has taken
in sail in the free trade direction, and
is now scudding under bare poles,
awaiting the result of the contest be-
tween the free trade and tariff sections
of the Democrats in Congress. Should
the free trade Democrats come out
ahead in the House of Representatives,
Col. Villas will hoist sail accordingly.
Perhaps this statement of the pres emit
position of Col. Villas does him injus-
tice, therefore it may be better to
place him where he declared. himself
to be months ago, free trader
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01
NOT TRUE Partners IN THE
NORTH WEST.

In Mr.. Finkle's store to-day far
mer came in to settle for load of
wheat, and made a number of pur-
chases, and among them were several
pounds of very ordinary butter and
three or four dozen packed eggs. I
inquired if this sort of thing was a
common practice of the farmers in the
vicinity.
Farmers" replied the merchant.
contemptuously, why we haven't got
twenty real farmers in this county.
They are all nothing but wheat-raisers,
and that is long way from being a
farmer. A large number Of farmers
in Dakota, who own whole quarter Sec
tions of land, seldom have drop Of
milk in the house, and the butter they
eat is bought at the nearest store.
They don't keep cow or pig, or try to
raise vegetables enough to provide for
the winter. - st. Paul Pioneer Press
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01

Bills for payment of war claims
growing out OF the rebellion, mostly
for alleged damage or appropriation of
property by the armies in the South,
continue to be introduced in Congress.
Up to the present date at this session
of Congress, 220 bills have been present
ed, claiming payment IN the aggregate
amount of $2,429.12 1t is about time
that claims for all description and kinds
of damages, pensions and bounties, ETC.,
on account of the late war, should be
debarred by limitation. The war end
ed nearly twenty years ago, and it is
time that all it's expenses were ended.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01
DECLINE OF FARMING IN IRE
LAND.

Irish land shows continuous ten.
dency to 60 out of cultivation, the area
under all crops being this year but
15,151,230 acres, as against 15,212,39O
last year, and 15,304,235 the year be-
fore, The decline extends alike to
corn, green crops, flax and rotation
grasses. and even potatoes occupy 3d.
900 acres less than in 1882. The de-
crease in the area under wheat is en-
ormous. amounting to no less than
$4,000 acres, or nearly 50 per cent.
The growth in manent pasture
does not, as in England, keep pace
with the abandonment Of tillage. On
the contrary, the cultivated area in
the whole Of Ireland shows diminu-
ton in the year of more than 10000
acres. There is some increase in the
number Of cattle, and a slight increase
in sheep and lambs, but the number
of both the latter is about % per cent,
less than two years ago. In pigs there
has been a decrease for the year of
over 100000.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01
RETALIATION.

The Merchants Association of Mil
waukee has sent a petition to Congress,
which has been presented by Senator
Cameron in the Senate, praying for
retaliation on the countries of Europe
which refuse to admit American pork.
The Milwaukee merchants ask Con-
gress to prohibit the importation of
wines into this country from France
and Germany, on the ground that these
liquors are impure and adulterated.
1t will be noticed the Milwaukee mer-
chants make their objection to foreign
wines precisely on the same grounds
that France and Germany object to
our pork. Therefore, if the offset be
equal, it might easily be construed as
an admission of the Milwaukee mer-
chants that our pork is impure and
unhealthy. Had the introduction Of
the wines been objected to without
reference to their impurity, it would
have had less the look of off-setting
one impurity against another.
The country wants to be informed
in what civil or moral accepted code
the law of retaliation is found? A and
B meet on the street; A calls B liar
by the rule of retaliation now attempt
ed to be established, B must retort and
call A a liar: now A strikes B; the
latter retaliates, and, to make the mat
ter even, strikes back. Such are the
beginnings of street fights and broils.
So oscillations between nations are
productive of only evil, and lead to
serious national trouble. The rule Of
retaliation has no place in well-regu-
lated communities, nor between civil
lied nations; it belongs, if any where, to
tribes which have not arrived at high
order of intelligence. It is gratifying
to notice, as the discussion of retalia-
ton measures progress in Congress, its
advocates are losing strength.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01

Rev. E. o. Taylor. formerly pasto..
OF the Baptist church in Kenosha.
now a pastor in Chicago, has devised a
plan for inducing boys to attend
church. There has been a growing
disposition on the part of boys to ne.
glect church-golng on Sunday. Rev.
Taylor obtained the names of a large
number of boys, and sent neatly exc
cuted cards of invitation to each to at
tend boys "mass meeting" at o'clock
on Sunday P. M. The number of bows
who came to the first meeting present.
ing their cards was about 800. at the
next meeting many more. The exer-
cises consist of a brief address, sing
ing by the Vesper Male Quartette, and
orchestral music. The boys thus far
seem to like it, and are drawn away
from resorts of vice and dissipation
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01

The cash outlay Of newspaper is constant
and enormous the subscription income is
the slowest and most vexatious possible.
Few subscribers think Of this seriously.
Every Saturday night the boys must have
their wages. and every thirty days the paper
bills are to be liquidated, and we depend
upon our subscribers for the money. The
subscription amounts are so small and their
character such that payment is an easy thing
to postpone or forget entirely. and yet people
are universally more sensitive upon what
they term newspaper dun" than any
other transaction. The dry goods and grocer
bills are matters of business to be expected,
but the almost plaintive appeal Of the news
paper man for the small amount due him is
taken in very different way. People pay
less for their reading than for any other
social enjoyment in life.-Ex.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01

Congress would do well to afford free
facilities for the spread of the news
paper over the entire land. The OBJ
lection to the demoralizing influence of
some Of the large city journals twenty
years ago has greatly disappeared.
There has been great change in the
moral tone Of the leading city journals
They are now very generally in favor
Of temperance and the enforcement of
law for the promotion of good order.
A well informed neighborhood where
the newspaper does not go cannot be
found.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01
BRISTOL.

have to beg pardon of that tramp
in last weeks items. did not do JUS
tice to his gastronomic powers. He
stayed at J. d. Fowler's all night, and
took breakfast in the morning; next
called at A. Gulick's and took break
fast number two; he next called on
Elder Corsbie and laid in a third; at
Mr.. Gray's he had some bread and
milk and received some bread to eat
on the road; he next called on Mr..
Bishop and took breakfast No. 4. He
was lost sight of, and / have not learn
ed how many dinners he laid in that
day.
The statements in the above item
may be doubted by many of your read
ers, who may think that the human
stomach could not contain so large an
amount of food, but there are many
cases reported in medical works of
persons eating as much as is laid to
the account of that tramp. / know of
one case myself. A man like d. Miller
was one day at house, and it was pro-
posed to test his ability to eat. A
sleeps head Ga Leicester one) was
cooked and made into broth and four
pounds Of bread broken up and put in.
t0it. This mess was set before him,
and he ate it up clean. He was then
offered some beef and potatoes, but he
refused to eat any more. He remark
ed when he arrived at home that he
refused the meat and potatoes for fear
they would think him greedy.
Mr.. j. Hallenbeck is very sick with
lung fever. it is said.
A brother of Mr.. George Gates
bride has accompanied the bridal
party from New York state. Mr.. G.'s
house is not as large as his heart, so
he has to have two or three receptions,
/ am informed.
Mr.. Ed. Hill, of Iowa, has a son very
sick at Racine. The son has been at
school there. Mr.. Hill is expected to
visit friends in Bristol when he comes
for the boy.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01

The Champaign Gazette, in an article
On the proftableness Of sorghum rails
ing to the farmer, where there is a
market for the cane, says Mr.. J. r.
Scott, of that city, raised this year
thirty acres of amber cane for the
Champaign factory, which yielded ten
tons of cane per acre, worth So ton
at the factory, or $50 an acre. The
cost of raising was about the same as
corn, and the cost of harvesting and
hauling to the factory 81 ton, or $40
an acre. This left $50 an acre. and
any farmer who knows the cost of rails
ing crop of corr can figure on just
how much of it was clear profit.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01

Fourteen of the railroad compan.
les to which Congress has at various
times voted large Immigrants have
failed to comply with the terms of the
grant, and are liable to forfeit either
their entire Immigrants or portion
thereof. The total number of acres
granted to these fourteen companies
was 121,0O0,OO0, of which 100000
are f0rfeitable.