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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-22

New YORK, November Dist. Another
large crowd filed the courtroom yesterday
to hear the evidence iu the trial of ex-
Alderman McQuade, for accepting a bribe
to vote for the Broadway railroad franchise.
Ex-Alderman Duffy took the stand. He
said be had been builder for twenty wears.
He had been unfortunate; he guessed about
twice-he was not sure-he thought twice.
The last time he failed was in 1879. He
also failed eight years before that. He
owed some debts in 1884, but did not think
he had applied any of the $2O, 600 Doodle
money to paying these debts. He acknowl-
edged violating his oath of Office when he
took the Doodle.
LAWYER Newcombe had been very gentle
with Duffy up to this point, to gain his
confidence. At this point he asked witness
to rehearse his narrative of the several
meetings of the Aldermen.
Duffy s story was in the main repeti-
ton of the evidence already heard in
describing the meetings of the Doodle
Aldermen"
After recess General Tracy argued that
no evidence had been produced TO connect
the defendant McQuade with the charge in
the indictment. The law demanded that
there must be other evidence besides that
OF an aecompiice. He cited decisions to
support his argument, and moved to in
struct The jury to acquit McOuade. The
motion was denied. General Tracy then
began the opening address to the jury.
Mayor Grace BlackbaIIed.
New YORK, November 2lst.-Some weeks
ago the name of Mayor William a. Grace
was proposed for membership in the Rid
ing Club by his young partner, William VI.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-22
A Mystery of the Sen.

CHICAGO, November 22d-A. MA prize
fight was fought at Peoria yesterday be-
tween Charles Mccoy, cousin of Pete
Mccoy, and Professor Woods of st. Louis
The match was for $500 side, to a finish,
with bare knuckles. In the fifth round
Woods was floored three times. In the
sixth round Woods was knocked senseless.
and he was carried in hack to the city in
an insensible condition.
Notable Death.
BosToN, November 22d-A. M.-Hon.
Charles Francis Adams, sr., died yester-
day. He was the third son of John
Quincy Adams.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-16

from lawlessness; prompt enforcement
of law will be more than ever demand
ed to prevent the growing spirit of
violence and misrnle. The popular
Indignation of the people who take
the law into their hands does not arise
from the want of courts; there is no
lack Of judicial tribunals, blu. it is the
want of the proper discharge of the
duties of the courts. 1t is because of
the frequent occurrences, especially in
large cities, of the lax method of deal
ing with criminals. The chances are
in favor of the culprit and against the
vindication of law. The legal ma
chiEery of the country has become out
of gear and ceased to be reliable The
expert criminal lawyer for fee under
takes the clearance of the most notori-
GUS thief, forger, r0bber, adulterer or
murderer, and still retains his standing
in respectable society. Well will it be
for the country when the criminal
lawyer cannot exonerate himself by
pleading custom when he undertakes
the vindication of crime committed in
broad daylight, known to all and doubt
ed by none.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-16
Tabor like Other commodities i

Labor, like other commodities, is
governed by supply aud demand, and
individuals will invariably buy in the
cheapest market and sell in the dear
est. and this law of trade is as firm as
the rock of Gibraltar. When the mar
ket is oyerstocked, prices must rule
low. The great drawback to high
wages is the competition Of labor acith
itself as well as the disposition of en-
ployers to buy in the cheapest market.
We clip the following from paper
of recent date:
"The Commissioner of Labor in his
first annual report issued on the Goth
estimates that IL per cent of the in
dIstrial establishments of the United
States were idle during 1885, enforc-
ing the idleness of 998,S39 persons.
The loss in wages was over $500 ,OOO,-
iOOO."
! With such an overwhelming compe-
tition and struggle for very existence
what can the laborer do? We can
suggest but one remedy, and that is, to
furnish better article aohich aCiU be ii.
demand, and cheaper, at a higher price
that is, more skillful, faithful and
efficient labor, with brains to work in
conjunction with hands. Such labor
is cheaper to the employer, at higher
price, and he will not be slow to dis
cover where his interest lies. d.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-16
THE WEATHER.

i This is a season Of the year when
the weather is theme for remark. es.
pecially in agricultural neighborhoods.
Farmers give recollections how the
present spring season compares with
former ones. Some speak of the spring
as backward one; others think it
quite the average of a good one. This
county, and indeed this section of coun-
try generally, does rot enjoy the repu-
tation of having early springs. The
common expression is more apt to be a
!" backward spring" than otherwise. 1t
appears from daily weather record
kept in this city for the months of
March and April last year there have
been more good working days for farm
ers up to this date for this spring than
last. Outdoor employments were
more interrupted by bad weather dur
ing the months of March and April last
spring than this. If the present April
continues to hold out about the same,
this spring will be full average good
one. FARMER.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-16
BRISTOL.

The weather is the same old story.
The new church business is progress
ing finely. The site now selected may
be considered the best the village affords.
Men and boys are busy with ak and
spade preparing the ground for the
erection of the edifce.
Monday Miss Mamie Bilsborough
left for Whitewater, where she will at
tend school.
Fred Van Vie leaves for Nebraska
this week, to visit friends and relatives.
Edgar Wilson is to teach near Wesley
chapel.
Geo. Mutter works for the doctors. A
good time to be initiated, George.
Will David, the ex-bottle-washer, is
going to Chicago to obtain position.
Fifty dollars is pretty steep, isn't
it, George
Mrs. Stevens, who has suffered for
some years with cancer, died last
Tuesday. Death to her was welcome
visitor, though the patience with which
she waited for the summons Ito come
up higher" must impress all that self was
dead, and that Christ reigned supreme.
Brickbat's remarks in the Courier on
the Bristol caucus were entirely uncall-
ed for. We know of no chronic bolt
ing or kicking" except by the set with
which he "a good (?) Republican-was
allied. Spite, having an easy victory
over Honor, or perhaps taking the de-
serted field, caused him to stand side by
side with the party to which he profess
ed to be opposed, that he might defeat
some good officers, and they of his own
party. "Office spoils some men, we
are told, yet the Republicans of the town
that have been in Office are in pretty
good condition, mentally and physically,
while some that are "self-opinionated,
pulled up with vanity" and will even
attempt to tell us the thoughts of others
concerning the stability of the heavens,
are spoiled for the lack of Office. But
we hope the spelling process has not
gone so far that they will not Is keep
until new Office is created (for we are
told there are not enough). Or, if they
may not enjoy such "good things" may
they be spared, that the "big fools" may
be paraded in the columns of the public
Journals, which is so essential for the pub
lie good.
Foster, our creamery man, has just re-
ceived new engine. That's right, julie.
Drive your business don't let it drive
you. May butter from your churn
tickle the palates and grease the Threats
of thousands.
Fremont Frisbie is to run cream
wagon. Now, Fremont, don't spill the
cream nor measure it with a broom.
stick.
Mr.. E. Van Vie has sold his farm on
Hooker Lake to the Ice Company.
| We will be glad to hear often from
this correspondent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-16
STRIKES.

During the week a number of for
midable strikes have been adjusted,
but at the same time new ones have
broken out. Among all the railroad
strikes which have yet occurred, the
one in the southw est, having its head
at st. Louis, has been the most fear
full in its consequences. Men in their
enraged passions have resorted to blood
shed. 1t will not be denied that the
strikers have rights that must be re-
spected, but when they resort to dictat-
Ing terms to their employers, and at
tempt to enforce them by violence,
they cannot expect the sympathy and
approval of good citizens. 1t has hard
ly the appearance of a civilized coun-
try when it is proposed to run railroad
trains under the protection of a mill
tary escort. That might do for Mexico,
or might have done for that coun-
try few years ago when it was found
necessary to have stage coaches run
ming from Vera Cruz to the city of
Mexico accompanied by military es
cort to protect the passengers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-16

The question, "What shall we do
with our girls" las engaged the pen
Of many an eminent writer; but we say
educate them for any calling which
they may wish to pursue, and one ar
gument in favor of liberal education
for girls, equal or superior to that of
boys, is, that they may keep pace with
the husband iii the battle of life.
Let us suppose young couple just
married. their general education being
equal. The husband enters into bust
ness; all his mental energy is brought
into requisition for successful compe-
titiOn in the business world. He
studies the newspapers, the market re-
ports, tariff, legislation, the political
situation, foreign affairs, &c, and
everything which can possibly affect
his interests, either politically or fnan-
cially, and III his business his shrewd-
ness is constantly cultivated. He has
shrewd minds to deal with, and his
own shrewdness is called into constant
requisition. His opportunities for
daily observation far exceed those of
the wife, and in this manner he ac-
quires a fund of general and useful in
formation, through the necessity of his
business, in addition TO his education
in the schools.
The wife, absorbed in domestic
duties, finds less necessity, or less OPP
portunity, or less leisure or disposition
to pursue any line of general improve
ment, except the study and care of her
family. At the end of ten or a dozen
years the chances are that the husband
has Outstripped her in the raee-or, in
other words, has mentally otttgrotora
his a0ife; not probably in rhetoric or
general literature, and certainly not in
refinement, but in general information
and experience, and while she makes
MS nome pleasant ana genlal, ana all
the surroundings cheerful, he finds her
unable to hold intelligent converse on
general topics which interest him.
Her information on domestic affairs
and the care and management of child
rem may be complete; she can superin-
tend the kitchen, or the drawing room,
but as companion in intellect and
general information of the day, and Of
the world, she has not been able to
keep pace, and is not companionable. :.
Early and thorough educational
training in the common affairs OF life,
together with disposition to make
continued progress, viii, in a great
measure. obViate such cases; hence
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-16
GOVERNMENT FOR IRELAND.


The 9Th of the present month of
April was the most eventful day in
Great Britain for many years. 1t had
been proclaimed that Mr.. Gladstone
would announce his policy in respect
to government for Ireland on the Esd
of March. Great interest attached to
that day, but Mr.. Gladstone had not
yet perfected his plan for the govern
ment of Ireland, and the time for
making it known was fixed for the Sth
of April. The people of England and
all Great Britain had looked forward
with intense interest to the day APP
pointed for making known the policy
of Premier Gladstone in respect to tie
future of Ireland. The form of gov
eminent proposed by Mr.. Gladstone
for the Irish people has probably be-
fore this been seen by all who take an
interest in the affairs of Ireland. To
propose form of government for Ire
land in the present excited condition
of the people required extraordinary
courage. If the kind of home rule pro-
posed should finally be rejected, it
would be the fall of Gladstone; if APP
proved and sanctioned by Parliament,
il would add to his how almost bound
less reputation, and he would unhesitat-
ingly be pronounced the greatest states
man of the age.
Whether the home rule government
mapped out by Gladstone is the wisest
under all the varied circumstances,
there are differences of opinion. We
have now and for years had such an
abiding confidence in the statesman
ship of Mr.. Gladstone that we accept
his judgment in the premises.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-16
SOMERS.

Spring-like weather at last: hope it
may continue.
The last snow seen on Monday last.
The measles seem to have come to an
end for the present
The schools of the Town Hall district
MIR. Browne, teacher; the Ozanne
dlstrlct-Miss Mary Bowker, teacher;
the Briggs district Miss Jessie Fink.
teacher commenced their spring terms
on Monday last.
The eraiof mud is upon Us.
Miss Hattie Burgess has returned to
the Normal school at Oshkosh.
Mrs. A. C. Ozanne entertained party
of friends with maple sugar and syrup.
The maple sugar season closed last
week. An average one.
The cost of moving the Presbyterian
church to the station is reported to be
about four hundred dollars.
Mrs. DR.. Ozanne left Somers on We'd.
nesday of last week, on a visit to her
daughter, Mrs. Norris, at Sterling, Ill
The Methodist quarterly meeting was
held at the Somers church in the fore
noon last Sunday, and at the Lake
shore in the afternoon, Elder Leavitt
officiating.
DR.. Ozanne arrived from Sterling
H., on Monday last. A granddaughter
arrived at the home of Rev. M. l.
Norris during his stay.
Mrs. Chas. Mitchell is here on visiI
to her father and other friends.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-16
EDITOR TELEGRAPH:

EDITOR TELEGRAPH:
Gen. Logan is much moved with the
paucity of our army. He sympathizes
with the officers, who, he SAYS, are
ashamed of being seen at the head of a
company of twenty men. Now we
ought to take pity on these officers and
give them more men to show off with.
At one of our barracks west the men
were out on parade in marching order
and the daughter of the commanding
officer was looking on. PA, make
them trot." And the men were march
ed at double quick to please the young
lady. But, seriously, a standing army
is a dangerous thing in a Republic.
Among the problems solved by this
country since the Revolution no one
is more patent than this, that men who
enjoy liberty are always ready to defend
it. We had no standing army when the
Union was endangered in sixty-one.
At the first bugle call our citizens at
once beat their plowshares into swords
and their pruning hooks into spears
and they went into action as lovers of
liberty-not as hirelings, whose trade
was to kill just whom a monarch
might deem his enemies. And what
was Of equal Importance. When the
struggle was over, and the blot of
slavery washed from our escutcheon,
they at once beat their swords into
plowshares and their spears into prun-
ing hooks and settled down as good
citizens as if they had never been
soldiers. I think it was we'll for this
country that Grant was by trade a tan
ner and not a soldier. Andrew Johnson
might have found tool in him. Sol
diers by trade are fond of war. So may
we be kept free from standing army.
j. G..
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-16
OUR FLORIDA LETTER.
EDITOR TELEGRAPH:

EDITOR TELEGRAPH:
DEAR SIR: / intended to give your
readers statistics of railroad building in
Florida during the last eight years,
/ find the subject too large. However.
as railroad building is the best
criterion to judge of the confidence
of capitalists in the future growth of
a country, / will give a few general
facts.
Eight years ago the only public con-
yeyance to the great orange and vege-
table growing part of f lorida was by
steamer on st. Johns river. Three
to four small common steamers were
sufficient for the passengers, fruit and
vegetable traffic for two hundred miles
up the river to Enterprise and San
ford. To accommodate the few hunt
ers and tourists to Indian river during
the winter months one very small rude
stern wheel steamer occasionally push
ed its way through the reedy savannas.
onsthe narrow meandering channel of
the upper st. Johns river.
At that time, excepting the short
railroad from Tocoi to st. Augustine,
there were no railroads south of Jack
sonville and the West India Transit
railroad terminating at Cedar Keys on
the gulf coast.
Now the Jacksonville, Tampa and
Key w est Railroad gives direct and
rapid communication from Jackson
vile, via Palatka, Sanford and ks
simme, through three degrees of lati-
tude to Tampa, in Hillsborough county,
On the Gulf of Mexico: also branches
one via Enterprise to the far-famed
Indian river country; another direct
from Jacksonville to the oldest city in
North America, st. Augustine
The Florida Southern Railroad has
just completed line from Gainesville,
on the West India Transit road,
through Alachua, Marion, Sumpter,
Polk and Marratee counties, to lati-
tude 26 degrees 45 minutes at Charlotte
harbor on the gulf coast. This is the
most southern point reached by rail.
If Charlotte proves better harbor
than Tampa no doubt the British and
American mails for West Indies,
Mexico and Central America will take
that route. The st. Johns and Lake
Eustis Railroad connects Volusia, on
st Johns river, with the beautiful and
productive lake region" in Orange,
Marion and Sumpter counties.
Railroads from thirty to fifty miles
long are nearly completed, connecting
Palatka, Seville, Spring Garden. De
Land and Orange City with The Halifax
and Indian rivers. These roads are
built by experienced Northern men,
have steel rails and first-class cars and
equipments.
With such facilities for travel and
transportation Florida offers to invalid
winter residents and to permanent set
tiers for fruit and vegetable growing
great inducements. f. w. L.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-16

The readers of the TELEGRAPH will
find in this paper an interesting letter
from our esteemed felIow-citizeD, F.
w. Lyman, which was received too
late for last weeks paper. The rail-
road statistics furnished by Mr.. Ly-
man exhibit the wonderful rapidity
with which Florida is being developed
in the matter of internal improve
ments. Some people will perhaps say
these many new railroad enterprises
are merely speculative, and intended
to bring into notice new towns and
cities and induce the sale OF town lots.
The same speculative motives might
with equal force be ascribed to the
thousands of miles of new railroads
which are now being projected and
built in the United States and Terri
tories.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-16

country. 1t appears that in 1885 there
were 100000 unemployed men in the
United States, who belong to the class
called wage laborers. In this number
are not included idlers, criminals and
such as have no visible occupation and
desire none. This number of unem-
.ployed men are ~ per cent Of all the
laboring men in the country, and the
Commissioner says is loss Of S3,O00,-
900 day of its consumptiye power.
In the meantime prices are constantly
falling. This is in great part due to
the multiplication of machinery. The
Commissioner estimates it would take
237 100000 men to Go the work by
hand labor which is now being done
by machinery. Notwithstanding the
vast amount of work done by machine
ry, the United States still pays the
highest wages Of all the great nations.
Great Britain, France, Belgium. and
Germany come next. The remedy for
the existing state of affairs, the Com
missioner says, must be sought for "by
stopping land grants to corporations.
specific laws to stop speculation, indus
trial arbitration and the creation of
arbitration boards, equal distribution
of production, industrial partnership"
The Commissioner says, wherever
the cooperative labor principle has
been tried there have been three grand
results: Labor has received . more
liberal share for its skill, capital has
been better remunerated, and the moral
tone Of the people raised"
1t has long been the opinion OF many
of the wisest men if a system Of coop
erative labor were fully organized in
all of the departments of manufacture
and industrial trades. making each
working man sharer in profits and
loss, it would do away with great
proportion of the antagonisms and
disputes growing out of the labor ques-
ton.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-16
SAM JONES AND SAM SMALL.

SAM JONES AND SAM SMALL.
The names of these two preachers
are now familiar in every city, village
and neighborhotd from the Atlantic
70 the Pacific; their five weeks preach
ing in Chicago, often to congregations
from seven to eight thousand people,
has been the subject Of all sorts of
comments; all kinds of opinions of
them have been expressed, favorable
and unfavorable. 1t is conceded they
stirred Chicago as never before. The
estimate of some of the leading
churches of Jones and Small has been
fully expressed through the religious
papers of Chicago. The Methodist
Northeastern Christian ADVOCATE; the
AdoGnce, Congregationalist; the In
terror, Presbyterian; the Standard,
Baptist, have each reviewed the labors
of Jones and Small. and each have
spoken approvingly of them.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-16
TRIBULATIoNs OF RICH MEN

Ths past year has been one of I'm.
usual tribulation for rich men. For
tunes have been made. but more for
tunes lost. Prices of various stocks,
especially railroad stocks, have iuctuat-
ed from day to day; few of the older
and more substantial corporations
have withstood the revulsions of
speculation. 1t is doubtful if there
are now as many millionaires in the
country IS two years ago. The decline
in the value of stocks represents many
millions of dollars. But for once the
great losses fall on the rich. Had they
fallen on the mercantile and manufac-
turing interests of the country as gen.
orally as on stock spectators panic
and great depression of trade would
have followed far more largely than it
has done. 1t is perhaps doubtful
morality that reioices over the none
tary misfortunes of the rich, but when
it is remembered that the millionaires
of the country have acquired their i'm
mense fortunes by speculations, which
are classed with gambling, it requires
more than ordinary virtue to sympa-
thize with them in their losses. From
tables showing the market value of
different stocks two years ago, COM
pared with present values, an enor
nous shrinkage in those securities is
shown. The rich men of the country
have of course been the heavy losers
in stock speculations; stock gambling
is fearful mania, and the number of
gamblers is not on the decrease, not
withstanding the reverses it has
brought on 50 many of the rich.