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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

EARLY HISTORY OF KENOSHA
Continuation of the early history of
the city and county of Kenosha
written by Rev. II. NJ. Simmons, in
consecutive numbers, for the press
in the summer. of 1875:
SOUTHPORT 1887. -,
Early in 1887 the citizens at a meet.
ing in Resigue's tavern resolved to
change the name of the place from Pike
River to Southport-it being tile south.
ern port of Wisconsin. To whose i'm
agination the name was due / .eann0t
learn some say to William BulIen,s-
but the name plainly reflects the spirit
of the time when the settlers were
quite conscious of the pew territory
and its boundaries. Hencefortlp fol
thirteen years the name of Southport
was kept, though the village was not
organized until four years later.
Among the arrivals at Southport in
1887 We notice ]. III. Kimball, / J. M
Stryker, Deacon Bennett, E. M. Kinney
General Bullen, Fred Lowell. the Dana
family, and apparently Jared Lake
Francis Qnarles and Judge Newell.
! Into somers the same year came AL.
win St1olg, Deacon Spence, Jonas
Rhodes, and the KeIloggs. who settled
and named Kelloggs' Corners, and
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

The waterways convention, which
assembled at st. Paul, Minnesota, was
composed of thousand delegates, and
adjourned on Thursday last. The con-
ventlon was called to bring to the at
tention of Congress the Importance of
improving the navigation of the Mis-
sissippi and Missouri rivers and tribu
taries. Congress will be asked to ap-
propriate $25,OOO,OOo for these improve.
ments. The agriculturists of the great
northwest are interested in these i'm
provements, for the reason that
freights by water are carried much
cheaper than by railway. The appro.
priation asked is much larger than
there is reason to expect in any one
year.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

The New York city papers insist
that trade is improving and that mer.
chants are having larger orders for
goods than in previous years for some
time past. 1t is also stated that manu-
featuring establishments in New Eng
land that have been lying idle are
starting operations again. The good
time spoken of does not appear to hav t
reached the west yet to any appreciate
extent. But if a wave of prosperity
has really struck the eastern states, it
will be sure to roll on westward.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

Hon. G. G. Williams, ex-member of
Congress from this district, now of
Watertown, Dakota, lost his barn,
which was set on fire by!lightning, de-
strOying three horses two mules and a
large amount of hay. Loss estimated
at 81, 500 to So, o0O,; no insurance.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
: VI @U3tL 4 OtCVFuPTEs
FORM rs. SUBSTANCE.

Nothing more clearly shows the cur
rent tendency of mems minds nova
days to insist upon the observance of
nice distinctions than the circum-
stance related in the newspapers, that
Senator-a reputedly shrewd lawyer,
and one of the revisers of the Wiscon-
sin statutes-has discovered that
it affects his liberty of action-that
there is no place in the state answer
ing to the term, " Inebriate Asylum"
and, as consequence, that the law de-
signed to meet bis case by simple
misuse of terms has become inopera-
tive.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
HIGH LICENSE.

In view of the nearness of the election
in which the question of raising the
price of license is to be voted upon, the
interest has become exciting in many
places. One of the most common OBJ.
jections to high license runs as follows
If the traffic in intoxicating drinks
as a beverage be an admitted wrong
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

The CHOLERA which has prevailed
with fatality for months in Spain, 1t is
now reported, is gradually ssubsiding.
Also i'll the south of France, where
cholera was prevailing with less fatal
ity than in Spain, it is reported dissp-
pearing. s,t 49,.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER ii. 1885.

1t is stated that land owner in the
western part of this county, whose
farm is ranked among the poor ones,
asked the railroad company 5000 per
acre for the land through which to
run the road.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
ROCK COUNTY ASSESSMENTS.

RUOh OUUNII dOOEOOM I'm To
Rock county has Lightweight farm
Ors whose farms are assessed at $780,.
900 and upwards. Probably no county
in this state has as many wealthy
farmers as Rock county. 1t is a
curious fact that in Rock county, where
so many farmers have become wealthy
by raising the ordinary farm products,
their attention is now turned to the
growing of tobacco; the raising of that
article is now one Of the leading inter
ests of the farmers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

The old settlers and friends will bear
in mind the proposed gathering of the
people at Paddock's Lake, on Wednes-
day, the 10th of September. The exer-
cises of the day will be informal, aud
so conducted as to give satisfaction to
all
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

The lovers of beer need not be alarm
ed that the price will be raised above
five cents per glass should the license
OF saloonists be increased to $500.
There will be the same proportion of
froth in the glass then as now.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

few of those now in the profession to
answer. The new regulation will tend
to the elevation of the profession, and
place it on a higher platform than
that occupied by the common petit
foggers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
IMMOE4L MEN APPOINTED TO
OFFICE.

| 1t is charged, and not without just
reason, that an unusual number of inn
moral men have been appointed TO
Office under the present administration
The moral worth of candidate APP
pears to be Of little or no consideration,
while in the best days of the Republic
moral character for Office was held to
be a matter of the first Importance.
It cannot be that men who have a
reputation for honesty and integrity
haYe become so scarce that it is nee
essary for the appointing power to
select ex-crilninals. who have served
in penitentiaries, to fill important sta
tons of public trust. We give but
one case of many Of the wreckless way
in which public offices are distributed.
Mr.. S. s. Schoff, well known here as a
gentleman Of integrity, formerly one
of the editors of this paper, now editor
of the Cadrrs,at Fact, published in the
city of Cincinnati, has an outspoken
article, in which he speaks of appoint
ments in that city that have fallen
under his own observation. A few
paragraphs are copied
eve doubt if there has ever been a
time in our history as a nation when
the moral standing of men aspiring to
official stations had so little to do with
their appointment as at present. 1t is
well known that several appointments
in the Government service in this CITY
have been made of men who belonged
essentially to the criminal classes
men who have served penal terms in
prisons or houses of correction, for
crimes committed. We are no alarm
ist, nor have we any disposition to set
ourself up as moral censor, but we
cannot shut our eyes to the fact that
the moral standard of our Government
service has been lowered. Unless the
downward tendency is averted, the
natural law of gravitation is likely to
take us still lower in the moral require
ments for our public officers. We be.
lieve the administration should call a
halt, just where it is, and entertain no
more applications FOR appointments,
no matter how well, OF by whom rec
commended, where there is the least
doubt Of the moral and honorable stand
ing of the applicant. There are Ger
tainly men enough in every community,
and reliable Democrats, to fill every
executive appointive Office"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
CHANCE FOR NICE DEMOCRAT
&c BOYS.

AS was stated last week, twenty
/" immediate delivery" post Offices have
been designated in this state, Kenosha
Office being one of them. This involves
the employment of a proper number of
letter messengers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
Pretty Women,

Cures Piles or Hemorrhoids, Itching; Protrndi1g
Bleeding Internal or other Internal and Elk terna
Remedy in each package. Sure cure, &c., Druggists
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
BELOIT COLLEGE-ITSP PAST AND
PRESENT.

Many of the citizens in this part of
Wisconsin in early times were interest
ed in the establishment of Beloit Col
lege; they were appealed to for aid in
the enterprise, but it is probably no
considerable amount of help was fur
nished in this vicinity, for the county
then was new, and but few were able
to give. This institution, from small
beginnings, and after encountering
many endorsements, now takes rank
among the most successful colleges in
the eastern states. A. correspondent
Of the Chicago Journal gives history
of the College and it's present condition.
The early friends of the institution
will be interested to learn of it's prog
ress: the article in the Journal is too
long for insertion in this paper, bat
some materia! facts are condensed
and here given. Beloit College is one
of the Oldest collegiate institutions in
Wisconsin. Plans preliminary to the es-
tablishment of the College were dis :
cussed as early as 1874. The first Col
lege building was erected in 1s47, and
the first class graduated in 1851. Rev.
DR.. A. L. Chaplin was the first College
President, which Office he still holds,
and is now the senior College Presi-
dent in the United States; he is in his
thirty eighth year in that Office. The
College was established under the au-
spices of the Presbyterians and Con
gregationalists of Wisconsin, and. North
ern Illinois. 1t is decidedly non-secta.
Ran, the students being free to worship
in whatever church they see fit. There
have been graduated in the college sS7
students. OF this number 105 chose the
ministry, 50 the law, % medicine, "a
teaching, 16 Journalism; the balance
chose different branches of business
The foregoing, of course, does not in
clude the great number of students
who were in the college for shorter
.t .sE3i
periods. II,
In looking over the names of those
now widely scattered abroad, it is in
teresting to note the many who now
hold distinguished positions. Among
them are professors in Colleges and
literary institutions, journalists and
responsible civil positions of almost
every kind. Few colleges, if any, have
contributed a larger. number of mis-.
sionaries for foreign lands. During
the rebelliou two hundred and seventy
men were sent by the efforts of Belolt
college to the war. Ofthis number one
hundred and eighty-seven were wound
ed in battle. thirty were killed or died
of sickness; one only deserted, A
handsome memorial building has been
erected on the College campus in re-
membrance of those who died in de-
fence of the country. The present term
of the College opened with larger
number OF students than in previous
years.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

The schooner Advance, of Chicago,
waterlogged and capsized in a gale OF
wind and binding rain on Tuesday night,
nine miles south of Sheboygan. Capt.
Paulsen, with his son and. crew, made
for the shore in small boat. When in
the breakers the yawl struck the bar,
capsized and drowned all the men, ex-
cept sailor named Jacob Raum. She
carried crew of six men.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
Red.bugs, Flies.

Quick, complete cure. all Kidney, Bladder and
Urinary Diseases, Scalding Irritation, Stone Gravel
Catarrh of the Bladder. 81. Druggist.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
/" Rough ON Itch"

Ladies' who would retain freshness and viVacity,
don't fail to try ".Wells' Health Renswsr.''
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
MR.. COUGH ON SILK HATS.

" 1t would be no violation of the COM
mandment," said John B. Cough, if a
man were to fall down and worship the
silk hat, for it is not made in the like
ness of anything in heaven, or on earth,
or In the waters which are under the
earth" Besides it heats the head and
causes the hair to fall off. Parker's Hair
Balsam will stop that and restore the
original color to gray or faded hair.
Not oily, not dye, beneficial, delicious
" perfumed. A perfect hair dressing.
SOC. All druggists.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
The Hope of the Nation.

Corrects offensive odors at once. Complete cure Of
worst chronic cases, also unequaled as gargle for
Diphtheria, Sore Throat, Foul Breath soc.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
Rough ON Rats"
ears out rats mice, reaches, flies, ants, bed-bugt
Heart Pain.

Palpitation, Dropsical sweings Dizziness Indiges-
ton. Heartache, Sleeplessness cured by 8. Wells
Health Remover"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
!" Rough ON Cafarrh"

Rough on Itch" cures humors, eruptions, ring
worm, letter, satrheum, frosted feet, chilbIains.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

llrl nfor working people. Send IOcents postag
IL pand we will mail you free, royal, yalu able
iIILI sample box of goods that win put y % n in
the way of making moye money in few
days than you ever thong possible at any bus nesl
Capital not required. You can live at home and
work in spare time only. or all the time: All Of
both sexes, Of all ages grandy successful so cents
to s. easily earned every evening. That all who
want work may test the business, we make this I'M
paralleled offer: To all who are not well sat seC
we will send 81 to pay for the trouble Of writing
Full particulars direction, etc. sent free linn ems,
pay absolutely sure for all who start at once Don
delay. Address, srINsos Co., Portland, Maine
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

Singing, irritation, inflammation, all Kidney
andUrinary complaints, cnred by !" Buchu- Paiba.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
aRoueh ON PiIas.,,

Ii you are losing you grip on life, try &C. " ellis
Health Remover" Goes direct to weak spots.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
Life Preserver

LII you are falling, broken, worn out and nervous,
use Wells Health Remover" 81. Druggists.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

Cures cholera, collie, cramps, diarrhoea aches
paiHs sprains, headache, neuralgia, rheumatism,
2Oc Rough on Pain Plasters, 15c.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
g Buchu-Paiba.'

Rough ON Corrs." ,-
Ask for wells Rough on Corns." 15c. Quick,
complete cure. Hard or soft corns warts bunions.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

Children, slow in development. puny, scraw1y and
elcate, use e Wells Health Remover.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

PRICE LIsT-One gal Jug 60 cts; 2 gal. jug
$500 gal. keg, 500; 10 gal. keg, s.; barrel
$500. Cases. doz. quart bottles, $500; doz
pint do. $3.50.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
Subscribe for the Telegraph.
$3.50 per annum in advance.

'EAT1R Will save the LIFE of your
kAEI N self or friends is of GREAT
WV TIA 4 IMPORTANCE to know of.
w HbEt Now, don't be stolidly stupid, and
think You know everything
worth knowing in the world. There MAY BE some
thing good in Calico for aught you know, although
you have been humbugged scores of times by nos
trums made to sell. If yor have, many others
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WV MA 4 ceiving any one, for the Com
W MHBH pany advertising it is known to
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of good standing for the past quarter of century in
Chicago.
MIN 01T Not only is this .true, but what
KKAlI:llN they offer you for your benefit
1tuAO ON must prove beneficial to you or
vour money VIII be refunded in every case, as the
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

Water Bugs, Roachest.
:. Roughon Rats" clears them out also Beetles
Ants.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
Thin People,

Flies, reaches, ants, bed-bugs rats MICE COP herr
chipmunks, cleared out by Rough on Rats" 81.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11

Wells Health Remover restores health and
vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Impotence, Sexual Debility
81 -
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11
.YPSILAvTI MINERAL
SPRING WATER
RI aide m N0 PAW

In the following diseases and many oth ers, II Iht
water is used directed it is as certain to cure a.
| that DEATH must come to each one OF us when oui
time has come Diseases thatit will positively cure
CONSTIPATION m nhas 'S diseases o. oons saa
ed by YPSILANTI'S NATURAL MIN.
ERAL WATER.
Mv0 nenQlA As certainly cured as that the
DYSPEPSIA water is used.
nAYkppu Driven out of the system. NOmat.
"a AMIN ter of how long standing, you can
have sweet breath again.
IA nj re And all Liver Spots and Blood
ElMf kEO9 Humors even if they come from
Syphlis Scrofua or Caneerous causes this water ls
eel tain to drive out of the blood leaving strength
and vigor in their stead.
RHEUMATISM oTRE Rna in S'' t rs%s tSan by
EARTH This we WARRANT.
NEURALGIA, nad vel N cured or the
refunded.
Can anything be palmer than that you must re-
ceive benefit if you are ailing? Cure or no pay.
MAI ARIA Driven into the air from whence ;, it
NtHbAnlA came as sure as you use YPSlLAN-
TT MINERAL SPRING WATER. not manufactured,
but gift from the Divine Alchemist to man.
Test this water. 1--WE speak the truth in sober
earnestness about it, and lie not"
lkf0 m AN Your salvation is in drinking this
VI U UlAN ! W ter, for in your peculiar nervous
or other unnamaole trouble, this water, correctly
used acts if by magic Test it, as the water cost
go Cents Per Gallon, and nothing II II
doesn't cure
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-11


/ Prominent among the arrivals of
1888 are noticed the names of Wallace
Mygatt and Volney French. This year
we find Harvey Durkee building his
store (what is now known as the Mrs.
Whitcomb house, and beginning his
housekeeping in it. This and the Ben
nett store, building at the same time,
were the first stores on the North side.
The same year Mr.. Dana built the large
house now fronting the Park next to
the Congregational church, and plant
ed the grape seed which has grown in
to the large vine climbing the oak at
the door.
1888 is also marked by church organ
ization. The Congregationalists or
ganizedi in June; the Baptists in Sep
TENDER, with Jason Lothrop as pastor;
though neither built churches for sew
eral years to come. The Methodists
had organized the year before.
Therefore Southport having its
school house built and its churches
started this historian considers it safe
to end his chronicle.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-04
JIM KEENE.s DOWNFALL,


1t seems that Jim Kesne's latest attempts
to recover himself and his declining for.
tunes were failures. He has dropped COM
pletely out of the financial wCIld, and has
no more influence ia Wall street than the
commonest class of curb stone brokers.
The study OF his somewhat brilliant career
would be quite advantageous to large
class OF "high-fyers." a new CROP of
which seems to be continually coming
On. Wall Street attracts them from all
portions Of the United States, and occa-
sionally from foreign lands-attracts them
long enough to SINCE their wings, and
finally burn them to the death. Keene
went to New York with So 100000 in his
pockets, and at one time was worth nearly
s15,0O0,OOO. This made him bold. A spe-
cisl correspondent gives his Wall street
history in a nut shell. 1t is instructive to
young adventures in the same line. The
correspondent says: 'The riff-rafT, and the
hangers on, and the adventures of the street
fastened on IT, him, battered him, told him
his mission in life and his duty toward man
Kind was to break Jay Gould, and offered
money fast as long as prices advanced. he
bought with great freedom and courage, and
his name was in everyone's mouth. But
when the tide turned Keene was loaded.
He did not have the sagaclty and celer-
ity of Gould, who has q knack Of
turning even misfortune to good ae-
count, but kept on getting in deeper
fbo ~ vaH at
his door and ne found he had lost all.
Keene's error seems to have been the error
common to beginners in Wall street. He
wanted to trade all the time. The cool
headed operator waits until the market suits
him. Three or four times every year all
hands in the street agree that stocks are
very low. There has besn a furry, and
prices have gone down 10 or 20 per cent:
they are sure to react within compars-
lively short time. Then it is that the pru-
dent man comes to the front with his cash.
But the man who goes down into the street
every, day and buys or sells for short turn
feels as though he must do something every
day, and that kind OF trading never fails to
wreck the longest purse. Keene was
always buying. The sharp set OF fellows
who manipulated Denver and Rio
Grande up to ITO or whereabouts, sold great
lot Of stock to Keene, and he was compelled
to take more to hold the uprise against their
raids when they had sold it short. He never
was cunning enough to conceal his opera
tions, and the sharks from the street marked
him from the first. He wss indiscreet
enough to quarrel with Jay Gould and to
threaten him, and Gould thereafter did not
count him as g friend. 1t is very much
better for young Wall street man to have
Gould's friendship than his enmity. And
so Keene Aoundered until his money was
gone"
The men who succeed in Wall street are
very few. Keene's history may be resd with
profit; 1t is the history Of hundreds.