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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-07
NOYEL LIQUOR REGULATION

Minneapolis, Minnesota, has a novel
license regulation for the sale Of in
tOxicating liquors. The price Of
license is $500, and the law authorizes
the drawing of a line around given
limits, including the business por-
ton of the city, wherein all the
saloons must be kept. This is for the
purpose of affording the police a better
opportunity to detect the illegal traf-
fic. The portion of the city outside
these limits contains nine.tenths of
the population. This putting the
liquor sellers in pen, or Jail limits,
seems to take very well; at any rate
Minneapolis seems to grow and thrive
surprisingly, Notwithstanding the
liquor sellers are hedged in.
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THE SOUTH PROCESSES
LOYALTY.

The Southern public journals are now
claiming that the Southern States have
fully taken their attitude of loyalty,
because the Southern towns and cities
have so generally put on the habili
ments of mourning for the death of
Gen. Grant. The South has been
prompt to put on the drapery of black /;
this is we'll and is a good Glowing, but
there needs to be a better proof of
true loyalty than that. To dress in
mourning is not always the best evil
dence of sorrow. 1t is now in the
power of the South to establish its 10y
atty beyond doubt. Let the states
of the South see to it that at the next
state elections there shall, for the first
time in twenty years, be honestly con-
Quoted voting; let there be no BULLDOG
ing ;AnO tissue ballots or ballot-box stuff.
hng; no shotgun violence and lntimi-
dation at the election polls, but let
every legal voter, white or black,
Democrat or Republican, have his
just rights, without interference or
mOlestation, and then the devotion of
the South to the Union will not be
questioned. Without these evidences
of loyalty, though every house in the
South be draped IN black, it avails
nothing; its mourning will only have
been pretence and sham.
The platform adopted by the recent
Democratic state convention of Vir.
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13,962,240 TONS OF WATER.
That IS THE QUANTITY IT Took TO DRENcH


1dAI Is IdE SLUANIIt6 IL IOOk IO DRENCH
CHICAGO YESTERDAY.
1t will, no doubt, interest many of the
Herald readers to know just how many
buckets of water old Jupiter Pluvius did
empty down upon us yesterday, and
from a few dates which the Herald is
able to give, each may figure it our for
himself. If, as the Signal Office states,
there were over five and a half inches of
rainfall at 7.30 in the evening, it is safe
to assume there were at least six inches
by midnight and it was still raining.
One inch of rain spread out over one
acre of ground equals 101 tons, or o.
623 gallons, and six inches COG tons, or
1878 gallons. Figuring the area of
the city proper at thirty-six square
miles, there are 23,040 acres, and the
amount of water dumped down upon us
all was 1927 400, 500 gallons. This is as
much and more than all the pumping en-
gines of the city are capable of supply
ing the city with in one month. The
weight of the mass is Is, 962, 240 tons.
The average annual rainfall of the en-
tire earth is estimated at thirty-six inch
es; of the United States, twenty-nine
inches, or seven inches less than the
average for the earth. On this continent
the greatest rainfall is i'll Puget Sound,
Wy. T., and Vera Cruz, Mexico. The
smallest recorded is at Fort Bridger,
Utah, and Fort Garland, Colo, and
for the entire year, rain and snow,
exceeds the rainfall here yesterday by
only three inches and little over
Chicago Herald Aug. 3.
1t commenced raining in New York
about $50 Sunday afternoon, and poured
down for an hour and a half.
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WHY so FEW MECHANICS AND
WORKING MEN ATTEND
CHUPCH

The consideration of this subject has
been receiving attention in the religious
press as well as in the secular papers.
Pains have been taken to collect statis-
tical facts. particularly In manufacture
ing cities. as to the condition of the
class referred to. In most OF the towns
and cities, where inquiries have been
instituted, it appears that church at
tendance of this class is gradually de-
creasing; except in few manufacture
ing towns has there been an increassd
per centage. The cause of the present
condition of things is subject of
much inquiry. A writer in the
Christian Union makes some bold
statements, giving reasons for the
diminishing attendance at the churches
of the working classes. A condensed
statement of some of the writer's rea-
sons, is, in substance. as follows:
One OF the repulsions to church go.
ing controlling the mechanics and
working classes is prejudice. 1t will
not do to be content with the simple
that the church is free
to all; prejudice will lock the door
tighter than bolts. AS matter OF
fact, in most churches the poor are
just as welcome as the rich, but In nine
cases out of ten, an unchristian rich
man will be sought out, courted aud
called upon, while the christian poor
man is left simply to himself. One is
Just as welcome as the other, yet the
me is sought, the other is not.
A cause Of prejudice against the
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taking thence his fractional barrel of
-four; but Mr.. Bacon pluckily recover
ed his flour; and small contribution
of provisions brought peace again.
For two or three years Indians we're
a familiar sight to the settlers. They
had no permanent village in the county
then, though the mounds in the town
or Randall and elsewhere about the
lakes show that that was once favor
lite resort; and the many arrow-heads
formerly found on the island are sup
posed to indicate a manufacture of
such implements there. But after the
settlers came their visits were tran
sient. Up to 1887 the Indians made
annual visits to Chicago for their al
lowance. Mr.. A. G. French tells me
that sometimes three OF four hundred
together passed along the trail, the
ponies laden with squaws and papooses,
encamping at night in some grove, and
happy if there were field near by
where they might feast off the grow
ing potatoes and green pumpkins.
Often feet of canoes passed along the
lake. Once in a hard storm, lam told,
a canoe was seen heading for the shore.
The tender-hearted citizens of Pike
River watched the poor Indian anxious
ly as he sought safe retreat on the
land. But their pity was wasted. For
the poor Indian bounded up to Resi-
gue's tavern, and, issuing again his
light step and a keg of whisky, shot
back over the pillows to join his COM
rades. The Indians, too, had favorite
spots in the county where they buried
their dead, though sometimes they had
less pleasant way of depositing a de-
parted friend in tree. For several
years they occasionally visited the
cou nty, fishing, hunting deer, and fol-
lowing the streams for muskrats. But
/ cannot learn that they were ever a
terror to the settlers.
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EARLY HIsroRY OF KEEosA4.
By. REV. HI. M. SIMMONS.
. Continued from last aceek.0

Continued from last aoeek.1 ~, :.
Having given a chapter from this
history week ago, it was thought the
early settlers would be interested in a
further addition from the same work.
Should it be deemed of sufficient i'm
portance, still further chapter may
be taken hereafter.
Fifty years ago what is now Wiscon-
sin had only two white settlements
worthy of note. Green Bay, French
to that time, was beginning to receive
settlers from the States, and the first
frame house in Wisconsin had Just
been built there for Judge Doty
Prairie du Chen was still a French
village, though also the seat of Fort
Crawford, and an Indian agency. A
few miners were coming into the
southwest corner of the state TO pros
pect for lead, which had just been dis
covered at Hazel Green, and elsewhere,
The remainder of Wisconsin was held
BY the Indians, with here and there a
trader or trapper. At Milwaukee were
a Pottowatomie village and Solomon
Juneau's trading post. At Chicago,
Coils. Kinzie's and Beaubien's were the
only families outside of Fort Dear.
born. - afi
Our country was a blank on the
map. Schoolcraft had recently eau
gust, 1920, he dates in his "Trayels''}
encamped and spent the night within
its limits, thirty-fve miles south Of
the Milwacky river" and fifty miles
north of Chicago, as he reckons, but
the only thing he notes is a certain
olive-colored liquid mineral resemb-
ling asphaltum," which he found ON
the shore. The region was then in
cluded in the great County of Brown.
which stretched from State Line to
Mackmaw, had its seat at Green Bay,
and with all Wisconsin belonged to
Michigan Territory. Such was the
situation fifty years ago. "a"
There was little change in the next
six years. But in 1882 the Black
Hawk war revealed to the country the
riches of the territory. Ini1s33 the
Indians ceded their title to southeast.
ern Wisconsin, and pioneers began att
once to look this way 700
1884. -. fs-1 2 q; q
In 1884 explorers were traversing
this region. They already talked about
Pike river, translating the Indian .Ke-
nosha." They followed the Indian
trails. The most noted of these trails
led from Chicago to Milwaukee, keep
ing the lake shore to Crosse Point (near
the present Evanston). then turning
inland and crossing our county near
the line of the present Milwaukee IS
st. Paul railroad. This was called the
" Jambeau TRAIL" from French
trader, Jacques Jambeau, who had his
cabin on it at Skunk Grove. west of
Racine. 1t was trodden, / am told, to
In average depth of nearly foot, and
made a welcome path for many an |
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This period Of low prices viii set
many who are just entering the business
of dairying adrift, remarks Hoard's Dairy
man. Those who have had experience
will stay by, for they know such prices
can not last great while. In 1879
occurred depression similar to the
one we are now passing through. Dur
ing the last month prices ran down to
very low figure, but the year taken to.
gether was a fairly profitable one. We
have never seen a year when the dairy
did not pay fine profit. Of course it
is the careless, helte2-skelter dairyman
that suffers the most. 1t is the poor
cow that now brings the greatest loss.
1t is the butter unskillfully made from
badly cared for COWS, from COWS that
drink filthy water, where slouchiness
prevails in the house and on the farm,
that the owner can scarcely give away
these times.
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The incidents daily occurring from

The incidents daily occurring from
the time of the death of Gen. Grant at
Mt. McGregor to the removal of his
remains to New York have been
graphically described in the leading
city journals. These incidents alone,
without any reference to his history
while living, would make a book of
intensely interesting reading matter.
The vast multitudes who pressed to
catch even glimpse of the remains of
the dead hero, or to secure some small
relic, of itself nsignifcantly trifing, yet
valued because by forced construction
it might be areminder of Gen. Grant
the dense crowds of people who lined
the streets, thronged the windows
balconies and roofs, wherever the cor
tege passed. may have been witnessed
in kind in other days, but never in
like numbers and intensity of earnest
ness.
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GRANT.

While many voices of the great and rich -,
Are heard in praise Of hum who's now Is no MORE,
'Twere well to see what good he did, and which,
The actions that commend him to the poor.
Though favored as pupil of the State, :.
For purpose that in time should show forecast,
He gave small promise that he would be great q
Or greatness win !; yet came out great at last
West Point he leaves, soldiers life to lead -
In Mexico, (frst feld of warfare made); 80.
His countrys cause to fight for, perha ps bleed, ~
Gaining experience in the bloody trade. - !
From army service then, at length resigns, 4fGona
Pickering toll and poverty with home, w y
To chance preeerment, which, by all the signs, s(,x
Will long compel him Ger frontier to roam.
The family bond instinetiyely impels .@.fetis.
The husband and the father to resort
To humble occupation where he dwells -''S
In log house plain {; to him, it was a &C fort. -
Despising not the simpler crafts of life,
Nor yet too proud, though college learned; bred;
To ply the woodman's trade or tanners knfe,s:,
If by these means his loved ones should be fed.
And here in truth the grand heroic life @,,i =
Of Grant shines out as richly pure and kind,
For love of home and presence of young wife
In silken chains, to Labor" him does bind.
Remaining true to honor's vow, though poor,
He seeks employment varied by his needs.
As Broker; for W hen civil service door ~
Was rudely closed to him, he would make deeds.
And midst the noise of fattery and rsnown, q
His family circle appears all in all; tg
AS dear to him when under fortunes frown,
As when Fame's millions sprung up at his call, :
Howe'er detraction may his virtues dim,
By charge that he did manhood trust too.much,.,
Be sure this man of energy and vim, ~
Succeeds in what was desperate to touch.
BY just the tactics which in MammonS mart,
Counting on Manhood traits 80 oft displayed
In wars rough field. this true confding heart
Resorted; we'll, to find the trust betrayed y,
What boots it that the custom of,the Exchange"
Holds that failure, which does not suspect g, "
foe in every bush - and thinks it strange
That golden rule should there be thought correct
This quality oftrust it is that proves T.. j.
His sympathy complete with human kind,
This Willingness to do, and suffer, moves 'a.''tt
The heart the eyes with tender tears are blind.
To errors which are human, and which tend
To chasten Hero worship" yet give voice,
To general judgment. that as man and friends
His records such that all men can rejoice.
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ago pastor of the Congregational
church in this city. His home after
leaving here has been in Chicago.
Since his residence here he has been
spending some years in Europe, usual
ly spending his winters in Rome, He
has visited most of the places of inter
est in southern Europe, to familiarize
himself with the condition of the peo-
pie and their institutions. He pro-
poses after short time to return to
Kenosha to spend a few weeks.
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ABUNDANCE OF SMALL FRUIT.


The growing of strawberries was
oYerdone this season. In Racine
county, where the raising of straw
berries has been large business, the
prices in some instances did not paw
the expense of picking. The fruit
growers at Ripon, in this state, have
turned their attention to The raising of
blackberries. Sixty acres are devoted
to blackberry culture about Ripon,
and the crop this year promises i'm
mense, and will require from sixty to
seventy pickers for term of from
four TO six weeks. So it is, when one
kind of crop is OverdOne, the soil and
climate of the state is found adapted
to another. The supply of small fruits
will be soon so adjusted as to meet the
demand in this portion of the state,
and these luxuries will come from
home production, steadily, for three or
four months in the year. Strawberries
from southern Illinois are abundant in
the market here in the early part of
June, little later the supply comes
largely from Michigan, and near the
last of June Wisconsin strawberries
make their appearance. Then follow
red and black raspberries; next come
blackberries, which often continue
until the frosts of autumn. How diff
ferent it was with the early settlers in
this part of the country? About the
only luxury of small fruit was the
wild strawberry; these lasted not
much over a couple of weeks, and in
sufficient of supply for only small
part Of the inhabitants.
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church by the class under considera-
ton is the feeling that they are not
Justly treated by those who profess to
be christians. It is useless to preach
the gospel in the churches where en-
ployers are not treating the employed
with fairness in their shops and fac
tories. There was a terrible signlfi-
canoe in the repOr ted action of COM
pany of mechanics in Chicago, who
sent committee to their employer, tell
ing him that while he was giving "a
hundred thousand dollars for theo-
logical seminary, their wives and chill
dren were suffering. Who will blame
these men if they do not care to sit in
the same church with those who have
acquired their wealth by scanting the
wages of their workmen? 1t is all
very well for a handsomely dressed
woman to sit by the side of a working
mans wife, read scripture to her and
sing, "Only trust Him, only trust Him, !"
but who will blame the poor wife,
whose dress is thin and worn, and
whose children are but scantily clad,
if she looks on her visitors costly at
tire, and says mentally" My husband
worked harder for the money to buy
that rich costume than her husband. !"
The artisan reads in the Bible, Bear
We one another's burdens, and so fulfil
the law" but says the Bible reader
the way my burdens are borne is to
have million dollar Christian cut
down my wages from one dollar day
to ninety cents, because of the law of
supply and demand.
1t may perhaps be said these wrongs
do not exist to any extent, if at all, in
this community. Our own city or por-
ton Of the state is but small fraction
of this great country; fortunately it is
for us, If the hardships and sutferings
are not apparent in this region as in
the great cities and many lesser towns
elsewhere. To restore the practice OF
church-going and make it as general
as it once was, confidence between en-
ployers and the employed must be re-
stored; and the rights Of capital and
labor be better understood and res
pected. No problem since the organic
alton of the government demands
more wisdom for solution; it is in fact
the vital question of the times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-07

The late census of Dakota shows a
population of 400, 900 in round numbers,
of which $50, 900 are in northern Dako-
ia and 25O,OO0 are in southern Dakota.
In 1880 the population in both north
and south Dakota was 1871. The
increase has been 200 per cent. This
is unparalleled in any former Terrific.
rv
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-07

1t is stated that in Marathon county,
in this state, seventy-two women of
that county who petitioned the last
legislature for woman suffrage own
100000 worth of property, on which
they pay tax annually Of $4,000. If
this be so, who will say these women
ought not have the right of voice in
the expenditure of the money?
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-07
THE KENOSHA TELEGRAPH
NJ. FRANK, EDITOR.
ONCE in Masonic Block, room Of Judge Van
Wyck.
FRIDAY. AUGUST I, 1885.
MEMORIAL DAY IN THIS CITY

It will be seen by the programme
published lin this paper, that the citiz-
ems OF Kenosha city and county, in
common with the people in all parts of
this Republic, will suitably observe
Saturday tomorrow, which has been
designated for the funeral of Gen.
Grant. This announcement needs now
no special heralding. Every man,
woman and child in this wide land
knows that Saturday, August s. is the
day fixed upon for the funeral of the
nations great hero.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-07

The rain storm on Sunday was one
of unusual continuance, having been
almost incessant about eighteen hours.
A large quantity of water fell, but the
ground being dry there was not sufi-
cent rise of water in the streams to do
great damage. The rainfall is stated
by gentleman who took observation
to have been over four inches.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-07
THAT DIRTY DANDRUFF.

Dandruff is dirty and disagreeable in
every way. 1t soils the clothing contin-
ually, and is accompanied by a hardly
less annoying sensation of itching. The
scalp is diseased. There is nothing
in the world SO thoroughly adapted to
this trouble as Parker's Hair Balsam
1t cleanses and heals the scalp, stops
the falling hair and restores its original
softness, gloss and color. Is not oily,
highly perfumed, an elegant dressing.
Very economical, as only a small oc-
casional application keeps the hair in
perfect condition.
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According to the census just taken
the population of the city of Kenosha is
5,216. The population in 1880 was 81
039. The first ward contains 1872 per
sons /; the second, 1873 the third, l.15S;
and the fourth s5s. There are in, the
city 2,517 males and 1899 females.
There are 1888 native born citizens
9O2 born in Germany 95 in Great
Britain, 210 in Ireland, ! in France 81
in British America; 1876 scandinavian
/ in Holland 16 in all other countries,
There are S52subject to militia duty and
SO soldiers and sailors of the late war.
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1t must now be conceded that Osh-
kosh is the second city in the State
having population of 21,945. Eau
Claire comes third with 21,553, La
Crosse fourth, with 21,212; then comes
Racine. 1885. Racine has been I'M
fortunate in losing so large a popula-
ton by the stoppage of some large
manufactures the past year. It is not
pleasant to state, but nevertheless true,
because the figures say so. Kenosha
was once the second city in Wisconsin.
1t has been taking rest for a con-
siderable time, but is expected to start
anew before long.
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ginia, on which the party proposes to
90 before the people in the fall election,
is not hopeful for a fair and honest
election. 1t deals in generalities about
political rights: it looks suspicious be-
cause it might easily have been more
definite.
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1t seems to be conceded that insani-
ty is on the increase in the United
States more rapidly than the increase
of population. The subject is attract
ing much attention with thinking peo-
pie, and different caucas for this state
of things have been assigned. Whether
any practical methods can be suggest
ed for arresting the causes of insanity
can be best judged by those who have
had much experience in taking care of
this class of persons in the asylums.
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Riel. who has been on trial for in
surrectionary movements in the north
west, has been adjudged by jury,
after ten minutes. consultation, guilty
Of treason. The judge sentenced him
to be hanged on the 18th of September.
Rieps attorney putin the plea of in
sanity, but that does not take as readi-
ly in the Dominion as in some other
places.
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The following is the record of the chol-
era in Spain during the past week Fri
day, July 81, 2049 new cases and $40
deaths Saturday, Aug. list, $500 new
cases and l ,464 deaths Sunday, I'd,
3.S07 new cases and l 1854 deaths Mon
day, Sd, 3,718 new cases and 1901
deaths ; Tuesday, 4th, 1882 new cases
and 1861 deaths. It is officially stated
that cholera has broken out in Marseilles,
France.
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T. Hall. an old Bourbon gentleman
Of Beloit, has been appointed post
master of that city in place of Chalmer
Ingersoll. Mr.. Ingersoll is the editor
of the Beloit Free Press. The paper is
professedly Republican, and of course
was offensivly partisan"
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The cost Of the public schools in
Racine the past year has been $3S, IT.
q. The estimated amount needed for
the ensuing year is $55,826.24. The
proceedings of the Board of Education
of that city are published after the
manner of the proceedings of the Com
mon Council, giving detailed state
ments of expenditures and transactions
of the Board. That is what should be
done by the Kenosha School Board,