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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29

are even and equable, very rarely in
deed going to one extreme or the other.
It is mistake to class Maryland as Of
the Southern States, with the belief
that being such the weather in Summer
must necessarily be hottest Of the hot.
The truth of the matter is, Maryland,
as a rule, is cooler on an average dur
ing the Summer than the majority of
Western States, the nights being par
ticularly pleasant and refreshing
Then think Of the Market OF the old
State Oysters, tsrrapin, canvass-back
ducks and other such toOthsome luxu-
ries in winter, and in summer SO end
less a variety Of luscious fruit as to
make ones mouth water to call them to
mind. The agricultural, fruit and
vegetable sections of Maryland are
perfect gardens; the soil so rich, and
avenues of cultivation so numerous,
that he who earns his bread by the
sweat of his brow gets sustenance in
| full proportion to exertion. The fam
GUS Eastern Shore of Maryland is a
veritable paradise for the horuy-hand-
ed son Of toll, as it was the fashion
to call him some years since. There
are markets at his very door for al
most everything taken from good old
Mother Earth. OF late years the bust
ness of canning fruit and vegetables
has grown to enormous dimensions,
and all through the different counties
canning establishments have been
lerected, and contracts are made iol
products oft-times before even the seed
has been planted. About every far
inner has his own oyster-bed, as we'll al
his "ducking blind, and in summer
lseason supplies his table with thu
finest Of fish in great variety, at NJ
other cost than the mere trouble O.
Ecatching them. All this may read t.
Isome people as romance, but a visi
to the Eastern shore or trip through
the garden counties of the Western
shore would quickly demonstrate i
| fact, and, if anything, falling, short OF
! rather than exceeding, reality.
/ So many letters have of late BEEF
Ireceived from the West by the B. & Q
at head q uarters in Baltimore, relativ
to opportunities for locating in Mary
|, land, and the desire being to affor'
, the fullest information, much materia
to aid in this latter respect has bee
gathered together and forwarded TO
: the better convenience of all interest
led, to Mr.. r. III. Dearborn, Genera
| Northwestern Agent, SO Clark street
Chicago, I'll. Those wishing full an
explicit details, with notes as to prop
: erty which can be secured, laws of th
} State and the county system of GOV
, eminent, and in fact about everythin
of Importance, should call upon 0
write to Mr.. Dearborn.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29

EDITOR OF THE TELEGRAPH ~ our
article Of two weeks ago, on "The
weakness of the Law" but expresses
the sentiment uppermost in the minds
of the people in view of the horrible
murders and assassinations which are
Of daily occurrence, to say nothing of
the frequent invasion of the rights of
property, winked at, allowed and often
justified.
We have been so used to nursing
the conceit that our institutions are
progressive, if not perfect. that, in the
face of the conclusion you have reach
ed, we avert our gaze from these fear
full consequences to life and property,
largely resulting from innovations
which we have fondly believed were
real improvements upon the practice
Of our fathers.
The written law is not weak; it is
substantially. as it was fifty years
since, perhaps with added safe guards,
but it is i'll the new administration of
the law that we must find the explain
alton of the failure to establish justice
or convict criminals.
As leading up to the present de-
moralization, we have:
1st. An elective Judiciary, under
the modified control at least of the
caucus.
I'd. We have, in effect, abolished
the Grand Jury, body of conserva-
tive freeholders of superior character
to the average citizens, property hold
ers, and deeply interested in the main
tainance of public order, and in its
place have committed the duty Tof
|presentment for crime to a single man,
elected by popular suffrage, and one
who may be swayed by popular opin-
ion or popular clamor.
Sd. We have been careless in the
selection of petit juries, and our cleo
tive judges have been ready on slight
preteXtS to absolve the best of these
selections from their public obligation
to serve, upon their application to be
excused, deYolvlng that duty upon
talesmen, in many instances entirely
unfit, and often selected beforehand to
influence the result.
4th. We have failed to invest the
administration of the law with the
dignity, respect and reverence accord
ed to it by our ancestors, and which is,
or ought to be, its primal charaeteris-
tic.
5th. The admission to the Bar of
men lacking ability or moral charac
ter, to become thwarters and prevent
ers of its intent and obstructers, in
stead of aiders and assistants in its adj
ministration.
9th. a newspaper press which has
largely failed to direct public attention
to the failure, and that seems content
to print street gossip, rather than to
challenge and invite that criticism of
methods which always precedes re-
form.
/ might cite other disorganizing ele-
ments and practices which are cumu-
latiye, but think all the failures
above noted are largely due to our
want of reflection, haste and careless
ness, and if the remedy is not sought
for and applied we have only ourselves
to blame. CITIZEN.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29
WESTINGHOUSE BIRTHDAY.

There is less respect for historic
days than formerly. Washington's
birthday occurred on Friday last, but
was attended with no demonstration
OF mark of respect i'll this city. No
stores or places of business were
closed. no flags raised, no indications
that the day was any more than an or
binary one. 1t might have passed, so
far as outward appearances 90, as the
birthday of some obscure peasant of
whom the world in general knows
nothing. Congress Il century ago de-
clared the 22d of February legal
holiday. 1t was for many years OBJ
served usually with appropriate ex-
ercises; his Farewell Address to the
people of the United States was read
on that day. But in late years the day
has been attracting less public atten-
ton, like the Fourth of July, which
q half century ago aroused the entire
people to demonstrations of patriot.
ism, but has ceased to be commemor-
ated iii the spirit it once was, with
perhaps only few exceptions. The
memory of Washington will never be
forgotten, although no special notice
be taken Of his birthday, he has so
many reminders in marble statuary as
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29

Mr. John Lamb, over eighty years
Of age, has been holding lay services
every Sunday for several years past at
the Lamb school-house, two miles
southwest from this city. A church
was organized in that neighborhood
some ten years ago, but was unable to
support regular preaching only for a
time, since which Mr.. Lamb reads "a
sermon every Sunday from the most
able diyines in this country ana his ma
tive England. Considering the sparse
ness of settlement in the neighborhood
where the services are held, they have
been remarkably well sustainef. The
people in The vicinity who attend
these lay meetings say they prefer to
hear good sermon read, the produce
ton of some talented minister. than
listen to a poor original one. Mr.. Lamb
is IN easy circumstances, and does
much for the cause of benevolence.
A Sunday school is also maintained at
the Lamb school-house, of which Mr..
Warmer is superintendent. The in
Huence Ct regular Sunday services in
localities inconveniently distant from
regular church privileges is seen in
the Lamb neighborhood. A more
peaceable, orderly and intelligent com
munity it might be difficult to find.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29
PAY FOR SLAVE PROPERTY.

PAY FOR SLAVE PROPERTY.
A paper entitled, The Laborer's
Champion, printed at Center, Texas,
has a labored article on the North.
The Introductory sentence of the arti-
Gle is aspecimen of the whole, and runs
as follows
About this time the dirty bloody
shirt of the North is again being shak-
Ell in the faces of the Southern men,
bers of Congress. Some twenty years
have passed since the civil war; the
people of the South have accepted the
situation, and the result of a cruel and
relentless war; the negroes who were
bought and paid for by honesty and
industry of the southern people were
by a war measure contiscated: not q
cent of their value has ever been re-
funded the owners. nor never will be,
so long as the a0hiaiilg, petTit07aical,
elf-coalcejted, nasal CziStorted citizens of
the North haze control Of the country"
Not cent will be paid for loss of
slaves, so long as the North have con-
troll of the government. Wait until
the South, with the help Of its North
ern allies, gets into power; then see if
the eX-slave-holders do not recover the
value Of their lost property.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29

MIR. EDlToR:-In the TELEGRAPH
Of the 18th inst, a somebody makes an
attempt at answering my question in
the TELEGRAPH of the first instant. in
relation to the stoppage of factories
and the discharge of operatives.
The answer given is no answer; or,
il SO, it is altogether too broad. There
may be, and, in his way of putting the
question, there is In almost every de-
partment of labor, that has anything
to do with production, at times an
oyer-supply for the time being.
The farmers, the raisers of produce.
are the ones most severely hit by his
answer; they may all be classed as
taking every year, as the haying and
harvesting season comes on, a general
debauch. They may be found in all
market towns anxiously enquiring for
laborers, and in just about one month
all are discharged, again thrown out of
employment, and an over-production
is shown in the fact that oats, for in
stance. that were worth in market
from 40 to go cents bushel are not
worth over % or 80 cents bushel af-
ter the new harvest is secured. The
hired laborers who have done the
work of saving the crops are seldom
benefited By the fall of price, and
further in this connection, the farmer
has, as an inducement to the laboring
man thus employed, given much high
er wages than he can afford to pay.
even if he can find employment for a
longer time, thus giving the laborer
the alternative to strike, leave, or sub
NIT to reduction of wages.
] will answer Stray Notes.
" Could the tariff protect our indus
tries, if it did not raise tie price of
commodities ?"
| answer yes, and, for an instance:
the article of which flags are generally
made, called bunting, was for a long
time wholly imported; a special duty
was put upon it. which enabled manu-
lecturers to put in suitable machinery
% manufacture the article, and q great
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29
FOR TILE BOYS.

Boys are embryo men, but they don't
all develop as fully as they might.
| Atfifteen the character of most of them
is established, and from that time their
good or bad points are only strength
ened and intensified. Energy, honesty,
and progressiveness are essential to
every man, and if the boy does not
possess at least the germs of these
qualities the man is likely to go through
life lacking them.
To begin, every boy should say to
himself, / will teach myself to cipher
| well, to spell correctly, and to write a
rapid, legible hand. This is not as
Stunning too much, nor does it require
any special effort; if the boy ever ex-
poets to be man he must do something
manly, and to take upon himself task
of improvement is a manly act.
Many boys at the age of fifteen find
it advisable to look out for a "situa-
tion," and when they are met with the
question, Can you write we'll? Give
me specimen they fail Doth in writ
ing and spelling ; but when their arith-
metlcal powers are inquired after, their
lack is to say the least, very humiliating.
Can any boy look back to his pre-
vious life and say that many hours
spent, aye wasted in play, would not
have made q fair scholar of him, if
properly utilized? Remember that
these are but small efforts, but they
produce lasting effects, and fit him for
greater ones.
Let any boy inquire Of his fathers
laboring men, and he will find that
nearly all will deplore their waste of
early opportunities.
The difference between the prospects
of a boy who can spell, write, and
cipher well. in his after life, and the
one who cannot. is from two to ten
dollars per day wages for the remain
Der of his life.
The boy who can improve himself
in these matters will never stop there;
he will attack other essentials of a good
education, and as he acquires knowl-
edge he will acquire power, for knowl.
edge is power" the power to demand
and receive such a recognition of his
value as useful man as always results
in good pay.
To any boy who has ever had the
Of a kind of man he would
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29

for the resolutions. An effort has
been made to get up a feeling Of in
dignation against Bismarck, the Ger
man Prime Minister, for returning the
resolutions to this country, but such
an attempt was too absurd. In the
meantime it is The subject Of much
comment in this country and in Eu
rope. Such careless indiscretions Or
the part of Congress are calculated tx
provoke ill-feeling between nations.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29
An OVERSH ADOWING POWER
OF EVIL,

A more than usual awakening in
the city of New York in respect to the
increasing and oyershadoWing power
of whisky has stirred the people the
past few weeks. Some of the leading
public journals have boldly and fear.
lessly sounded the alarm. The New
y DIRK Tribune, in a vigorous editorial
declares the liquor trffiac to be the
heaviest clog upon our civilization
and progress, and the deepest disgrace
to the nineteenth century" The word
" temperance" has by oft repeating be.
come so commonplace it is almost
meaningless, and has ceased to attract
attention. Temperance has had such
a varied history of temporary success
and disastrous defeats, it is no longer
an appeal for action against the worst
enemy of mankind. III the meantime
while comparatively only a few tenn.
perance men and women are making
earnesS endedYors to resist the incom
ing tide Of evil arising from the liquor
business, and while the great body of
respectable people, including ministers
and churches, are standing quietly by.
doing little OF nothing, the whisky
interest is intrenching itself by organ
izing associations, devising plans of
defence and raising funds to secure
the aid of legal counsel to defeat the
laws enacted for the suppression of
the traffic. In nominating conyen.
tions for the important offices the
liquor men now hold the balance of
power, AS has been we'll said by all
other, this power controls political
machinery, governs cities, villages and
towns, enters into the courts of law
and the halls OF legislation, with its
corrupting influence. produces more
sin and misery than almost all other
civil and social evils combined. 1t
numbers its adherents by millions and
its available funds by still larger
figures" What a humiliating specta-
Gle will be presented to the world
when it shall be said truthfully that
whisky controls the law-making power
of the American Republic. The po-
tency of the whisky power in national
legislation is seen in the measures now
before Congress, for relief of the
manufacturers of whisky, for extern
sion of the time for payment OF the tax
on whisky now held in bond, amount.
ing to millions of dollars. The whisky
manufacturers, in their greed for
money making, produced more Of the
article than the market called for. and
having it now on hand, with The tax
thereon unpaid, and the time for such
payment about to expire, Congress
has been importuned by powerful
lobby for nearly three months to grant
relief to the whisky spectators. To
what other class of manufacturers
asking for an immunity Of millions,
has Congress listened with so long and
respectful attention as to the distillers
and whisky spectators? The asked
for favor is still pending and undeter-
but, should it be granted. who
will deny the controlling power Of
whisky in our national legislature
The question is now squarely present.
ed to the people, shall the manufac-
turers and vendors of alcoholic liquors
have the supremacys
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29

well as in history. The monument
which for years has been in progress
of erection by the American people in
the city of Washington, when COM
pIeted, will be the highest in the world
ever built to commemorate the mem
DRY Of any man in any age i'll the
worlds history. Whoever looks on
that immense structure penetrating
the clouds will be forcibly reminded
Of the man who has beer denominate6
the savior of his country.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29
MORMON MIssIONARIEs BUSY

1t is learned from La Crosse, in this
state, that a Mormon missionary, by
the name of Nelson, is having con-
siderable success in gaining Mormon
converts in that city. Nelson isspoken
of as a young man, a fluent speaker,
and rests his faith on the beauties of
Mormonism on what he calls the Bible
standpoint, drawing largely from the
Old Testament. He has succeeded in
winning over number of young Nor
wegian women. 1t is said il he con-
tinues his labors with success some OF
the citizens contemplate giving him a
ride.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29

1t is discreditable to the House of
Representatives at Washington that it
should allow itself to be imposed IN
on by Texas member, known as Tom
0cmltree. The matter was referred
to last week, and will bear still further
mention. The Texas member, des;r-
ing TO make capital for himself with
the German voters of his state, offer
ed resolutions in the House, eulogis-
tic of Herr Lasker, late member of
the German Parliament, who recently
died in New York. 1t was directed
in the resolutions that they be for
warded to the presiding officer of the
German legislature. Inasmuch as
they lauded a man who was out OF fa-
vor with the German government,
their reception was refused. and they
were returned to Washington. Proba-
bly, not one member in twenty in the
House of Representatives knew any
thing about Herr Lasker, but voted
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29
MICHIGAN PEACH CROP

Mr. n. w. Lewis, a large fruit grow
er in Alligan county Michigan, writes
the Inter Ocean that an investigation
of peach buds was made on the 18th
February inst, including sixteen differ
ent varieties, and Of 80 buds ex,
amined 115 were killed. Therefore the
prospect is considered good FOR fail
peach crop.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29

The oyster packing business in Ba ltimOre,
Nd, employs about sixty five firms. The
largest raw house IN the city opens II 900
bushels per day The aggregate product Of
all the packers is $l4,000000 a year.
From 10000 to $4,000 men and women are
employed in shocking, and the women are
said to be expert shuckers and to earn from
81 to IS per day. a local authority says
that the supply Of oysters is diminishing
and that they are deteriorating in quality;
oysters that FIVE years ago would-not be used
for the raw trade are now being bought and
shipped
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29
CHURCH TROUBLES.

Church troubles are noticed as mat
tiers OF news, and not because they are
peculiar to any one denomination
more than another; they seem to be
incident to all about alike. Rev
Father Richie, rector oe The Church
of the Ascension, Chicago, has recent.
ly been called TO st. Ignatius church,
New York city. Father Richie has
for months exercised extreme rituals
tic practices, for which he has num-
Der Of times been called to account by
Bishop McLaren, of the diocese, and
asked to desist from his unauthorized
practices, to all of which Father Ritch-
lie refused to obey. The following
taken from the correspondence of the
Milwaukee Sentinel, corresponds with
the statement of a gentleman of this
city who attended Father Ritchie's
church a few Sundays since:
The Rev. Ritchie celebrates mass at
present at Ascension church on Sun
days at I, s and 0 o'clock, and high
mass at II o'clock A. NJ. The mass
which he celebrates is in the most
ford style Of the ritual. and compre-
bends large number of acolytes in
white robes, golden candleSticks, hun
dreds Of wax candles, and very
liberal offering of incense, the whole
being modelled after the most pro-
nounced type of Catholicism.
No other Episcopal church in Amer
lea holds services at all resembling
those of Rev. Ritchie, and his services
attract large crowds of people, actu-
ated less by religion than curiosity.
As Father Richie will probably ac-
cept the call to New York, Bishop
McLaren will be relieved of the
diSobedient rector
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29
BEGINNING EARLY.

The Fourth Congressional District
in this state is Overwhelmingly Demo-
cratic; nomination is considered
equivalent to an election. There are
already five Democratic candidates in
the field: Bragg, Sumner, Delaney.
Lander and Sawyer. The best man OF
the lot is Bragg. He has served two
terms in Congress and is death on
rebel war claims.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29

The city of Fond du Lac has a debt
Of 100000, which sum the Mayor of
the city has been authorized to borrow.
Application for the money has been
made to the Land Loan Commissions
ers at Madison, with prospect OF
success.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29

At an immense mass meeting held
In New York OH Tuesday last, to take
action on the enormous evil of the liz
uor traffic, Henry Ward Beecher spoke
in favor Of high license, believing pro-
hibition could not be enforced.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29

A Stock Breeders Association was
organized at Elkhorn, Walworth
county, on the 18th February. Off
GERS were chosen and the Association
starts off with a favorable outlook.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29

Small circles Of people about town
are beginning TO agitate the subject Of
the coming spring election, This is
proper enough, provided Il few do not
undertake to forestall public senti-
ment and arrange matters to their per-
sona liking. Wise and deliberate
counsels are needed in the present
condition Of the municipal affairs of
the city; the taxpayers and reliable
business men, especially all who be.
lieye the best interests of the city will
be subserved by having u aw-abiding
and a law-enforcing government,
should consult together. 1t too often
happens that those who have the
largest interests at stake, and who
should be foremost in deyising the best
interests of the city, are the least
active i'm securing the nomination of
the best men for the office. The pre-
llmnary meetings prior to the cleo
ton are too commonly left to be man
aged by a few who have no great in
teTest ut hazard. This complaint is,
perhaps, no more applicable to this
city than to most other towns and
cities.
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ON MARYLAND SHORE s.
WHY EYES ARE TURNING EASTWARD,
AND SOMETHING OF TIE PLEASURES


Indications point to quite an extern
sive emigration from the West east
ward. commencing with the approach
of Spring. The movement appears to
have its impetus, in the desire on the
part of those with whom the rigors of
a western winter deal harshly, aud the
coming haven of a perfect content
ment would seem to be Maryland.
The climate. for its general evenness,
and just enough of the salt of the sea
to avoid extremes, either in the direc-
ton Of dryness or of humidity, offers
very many inducements to those so
constituted as to be rendered any thing
but happy by sudden changes. In few
States is the proportion of bright sun
shiny days greater than in Maryland,
and the winters, as rule. while rang.
ing as cool as eight to ten above zero.