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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-13
All Sorts OF POlaon.

Mr.. W. F. Daley, Advertising Agent of
the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad, writes:
"Infammatory rheumatism swelled my
legs and arms to twice their natural size.
suffered excruciating pain. Your won
derful s. s. s., made complete cure.
Major Sidney Herbert, editor of the
Southern Cultsuator and Darie Farmer,
Atlanta, Ga, writes: "I have fully tested
the virtues of Swift's Specific, both as
rheumatism cure and . tonic. It has done
even more than its proprietors claim for it.
Mr.. Michael Long, Jr., with the Sire.
bridge Lithographic Co., Cincinnati, Ohio,
writes: I suffered for two years with .
terrible itching and painful sores on my
neck, arms, hands and fingers. No ply
stefan could help me. 3. S. 8. relieved
me perfectly and feel like a new man.
Mrs. Amanda Ingle, of Gastonia, N. c.,
writes: "My baby, when four months
old, developed scrofula. He had two Sc
we're risings and sores on the neck. sent
for our family physician, who pronounced
it scrofula, and prescribed 8. 8. S. for it.
gave the baby S. S. g., and it soon got
tho disease under control. The sores are
healed, and the baby is we'll and healthy.
know s. s. s. saved its life, and told
our doctor so. He is a regular physician,
and prescribed 8. s. s. for the baby as soon
as he saw it had scrofula.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
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PLEASANT PRAIRIE.

Sunday was pleasant. Good attend
ance at the country churches.
We understand the creamery is to be
located at Russell, ILL.,, and will be ir
running order the middle of May.
Our school-house received thorough
cleaning, preparatory to opening spring
term.
Miss Elsie Schofeld commenced her
school in the Houston district last Mon
day.
Miss Jennie Dexter, of Spring Brook,
is visiting friends in Chicago.
Auntie Richtmeyer is in critical
condition of health.
Mrs. E. R. Gethen is stopping at the
Water Cure for her health.
We very much regret to loose our
genial agent at Ranney, who accepts a
position in Missouri. His family will
be missed in the community. They
have the good wishes of their many
friends. Mr.. Will Shepherd, from Mis-
souri,, will fill the vacancy at Rauney.
Mr.. J. P. Browne, of Salem, COM
menced his school duties in the Dexter
district last Monday.
The Ladies' Aid Society meets this
week at Mrs. D. I. Hollis.
We are happy to see the work pro-
crossing on the new church.
Mr.. George White sports new buggy.
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HIGH LICENSE OR PROHIBI.
TION.

The friends of temperance are
throughout all sections of the country
more generally in earnest on theiiquor
question than ever before. North and
South. East and West, there is more
or less agitation anu discussion. Those
who say this is only temporary, and
destined soon to pass away as in form
er years, do not correctly calculate the
extent Of the awakened public senti.
ment. We give but little heed to the
precautionary advice received, not to
embarrass great and good old party
by attaching a temperance plank to
its platform. The party does not de-
mand the influence of the saloon to
hold it together.
Temperance workers who have been
among the most active and best known
are now arrayed in two parties--one
for prohibition and the other for high
license. Both of the advocates of these
methods for restraining the use of in
toxicants are attempting to prove their
respective merits. For the past few
weeks the state of Nebraska, where
high license is claimed to be in the most
successful operation, has been largely
interviewed by inquiries from other
states, and the answers published. The
balance Of the testimony is that high Ii.
cense does diminish the number of sa-
looms, and that some less liquor is
drank. The law requiring high license
saloon men to give bonds to pay all
damages resulting from the sale puts
restraint on the business. The large
revenue from high license of course
greatly satisfies some people; but others
are conscientiously opposed to deriving
a revenue from the sale of liquors to
make drnnkards. 1t is unfortunate
that the friends of the suppression of
the liquor traffic are so radically di-
vided oD hisQuestion. The answer to
the inquiries as to the working of pro-
hibition is varied much according to
Sne educated public sentiment. 1t is
both declared it can succeed and that
it cannot. What the final ultimatum
will be. there is no great disagreement.
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RACINE CITY AND COUNTY.

Mr.. ]. M. Kremer died in Racine on
the 10Th ult., aged SO years.
During the severe storm On the morn
ing of the 9th inst, the dwelling Of
District Attorney T. M. Kearney, al
Burlington, was struck by lightning
The interior of the house was ruined
Loss $500; insured.
Rev. A. G. Barry, former old resi-
dent of Racine, died in Chicago on the
26th ult., aged rs years.
Mrs. Catharina Petrie, wife of Mr.. M.
P. Petrie, of Burlington, died on the 9th
inst, aged AZ years, 2 months and &c
days.
Mrs. Annie Trowbridge, aged Sc years
and months, died, on the 9Th inst, al
the residence of her daughter, Mrs. ]. G.
Rocker, in Burlington.
Mr.. Nathaniel G.. Cary died at his resi-
dence in Racine on the 5th inst, aged
81 years.
Mr.. Henry Madorey died at the resi-
dence of his daughter, Mrs. George
Dollar, Racine, on the 10th inst. He
was in his s8th year, and came to Ra
cine in 1848.
Capt. Francis McCumber, aged 81
years, died at Burlington, on the 8tf
inst, of old age. He was the oldest lake
captain living in the United States.
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CONGRESS.

One of the most exciting questions
winch has been before Congress this
session is the direct tax bill. Its his.
tory is this: In the year 1851 a direct
tax was levied on the states to carry
on the expenses of the war. OF this
tax $17OOOOO0 was collected in the
Northern states; in the Southern states
nothing, The North now asks that this
tax be refunded from the surplus in
the treasury. The Southern members
vigorously protest and stop the prog.
ress of business in Congress to prevent
the passage of the bill for refunding
the tax. Of the amount to be refund.
ed Wisconsin will be entitled to S519..
6SS.
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answered that the petition had been
received, and that the restoration of
the light could not be granted. The
official order for discontinusrce of the
light was published in the TELEGRAPH
last week and served IS a text for a
short discourse on the waning fortunes
of Washington island. But in the
meantime the vessel men went to
work vigorously and obtained re.
versal Of the order and restoration OF
the light, whereof we are all glad
The historical sketch Of the island, as
it was long years ago, is not changed.
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WOMAN'S INTERNATIONAL
COUNCIL.

Had space permitted last week, a
summary of the proceedings of the
Woman's International Council, re.
Gently in session in the city of Wash
ington, would have been given. 1t
was probably one Of the most notable
gatherings of women convened in this
country, on account of its distinguished
representatives from England, Scot
land. Ireland, France, Italy, Sweden
and other foreign countries, besides
this country. The subjects considered
were Of grave Importance, and among
those assembled were women Of liter
airy reputation as poets and writers on
various subjects. 1t may be stated as
a matter observable to all readers that
the woman movement in Europe and
America is yearly growing in magni.
tude. and whatever opinions people
may entertain Of its merits will not
arrest its onward march.
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SPRING BROOK.

Mrs. Dwight Robinson and son
George went to Columbus on Saturday
to attend the funeral of Mrs. Robin.
sons sister, Mrs. F. A. Ross.
Miss Jennie Dexter is visiting friends
in Chicago and Evanston.
Mr.. Charles johnson died at the
residence of his son in Pleasant Prairie
on the 9Th inst, aged 80 years.
Miss Minnie Crow, who is teaching
in Somers, is home for short vacation
Mr.. Nicholas Brown left one day last
week for Montana, where he expects
to remain. His many friends in this
vicinity wish him every success.
Mr.. J. P. Browne spent Saturday
and Sunday with friends at Somers
station.
Mr.. G. D. Holt received quite serious
injuries by being thrown from wagon
on his return from election.
Mr.. w. L. Dexter made a business
trip to Chicago on Saturday last.
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teaching in the place of his brother in
the Ozanne district, commenced his
school in the Bowker district last Mon
day, and Eugene took his place.
The concert by Prof. Toase, assist
ants and pupils, was a success.
Rev. Cartwright preached at the
Methodist church last Sunday.
Mrs. Thomas Corbet, Jr., died on
Thursday of last week, after short
and severe illness, of entintis. She
leaves a husband and one daughter
The funeral services took place on
Saturday last, Rev. Tippet officiating
assisted by Rev. P. Dougherty. She was
buried at Mound cemetery, Racine.
Rev. P. Dougherty has bought the
John Hughes house at the station; price
81, 500.
Many farmers are anxious for grass
feed, as fodder is getting short. Some
sheltered spots in the woods are green
With dry weather, seeding on dry
spots will begin in a few days.
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SOMERS,
Spring, but not seeding t

Spring, but not seeding time as yet.
Snow squalls election day and last
Monday, followed by heavy rain.
The butter factory, after seemingly
being a sure thing, all stock subscribed,
was given up, SO far as the Chicago
party is concerned. On investigation
many objected to going into an enter
prise as partners with somebody of
whom little was known, and might be
responsible for any debts that might
accrue to the amount of their stock at
least. A meeting was held on Satur-
day evening of the intending patrons
to get up factory of their own. An
other meeting was to be held last
Tuesday, with prospects of something
being done.
Irving Ozanne went back to Evans
ton, after a weeks vacation spent at
home, on Wednesday of last week.
Miss Jessie Fink is to teach in the
Harmon district.
Mr.. Morris Sabin, who has been
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FAMILY HOME NECESSITIES.

The demand for female domestic
help that must be performed by human
hands is growing more earnest yearly
Labor-saving machinery has vastly
abridged many kinds of work required
Of women, but there are domestic
duties to be performed that no ma
chinery has has as yet, nor is likely to
be invented, which can answer as q
substitute for hand labor. No con
trivance has been introduced which car
prepare various kinds of bread, cakes
and pies, cook meats in different styles
and prepare eatables, running through
the entire range of table food. These
duties. for aught that now appears
will for generations to come be per
formed by hand work, and probably
too, by women. The solution of the
question from what source shall female
help in future be furnished is not sc
easily answered. American girls have
nearly all gone out Of the business OIL
doing domestic work for cOmpensa.
ton; some have taken other employ.
ment, and some spend their time in
reading the latest magazine or playing
the piano. 1t does American girls nc
injustice to say that considerable
portion Of them are engaged in nc
occupation which adds to the general
stock of wealth. The state is none
the richer as the result of their earn.
ings; the annual valuation of property
as taken by the assessor, is seldom in.
creased by the additions made by
American girls. A little less than a
quarter of a century ago there was nc
prejudice against necessary and useful
employments, and it was not degrad
ing for girls to do domestic service fol
wages. Is it the revealment of modern
science that some kinds of work fol
pay, although indispensable. are nc
longer creditable for a part of the
population ? Questions like these
naturally grow out of the frequent
complaint of the want of female help
The chief reliance now for this kind OF
aid is on foreign families; those OF
foreign birth furnish nine.tenths OF
the supply for. northern cities and
largely for the smaller country towns.
How long the supply can be drawn
from this source is not certain. Much
the larger proportion of foreign fam
lilies, after a few years residence here,
adopt the American idea that house
work employment outside of their own
family is mental and degrading. If by
some not improbable change the tide
of immigration should be diverted to
some other part of the world, and the
foreign families here become .Ameri-
canized, the condition of our people
would be appalling.
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BRISTOL VILLAGE.

No farming is begun in this town a.
yet. The continued freezing and thaw
ing has pretty we'll killed out the GLOW
er and the other grasses are much
weakened. q
The creamery is assured at this
place. if no unforeseen events come in
to prevent its completion.
Rumor says that Julian Foster il
coming into this village to live, having
let his dairy farm to party from
Iowa. Mr.. Reber is to occupy the Ed
Stevens house and have place to work
at the creamery. No vacant houses in
Bristol this summer.
William Marsh and Erastus Castle
are on the road home from California
having spent six weeks there with
friends.
A. 81. Stevens and his daughter, Mrs
Buck, are expected home the 1st of
May, having spent the last six months
with friends on the Pacific coast.
Mrs. Thomas Boumford is quite i'll
and RECEIVERS very slowly. Mr.. Boum.
ford had month or more of sickness,
and now his wife comes in for her
share of sickness. Sickness comes
hard on their family, as they need to
make every day count for all it is worth.
Mr.. A. Worth was lucky getting
water the first trial. Walter Meredith
& Co. did the work.
Victor Richards is now in full blast
and ready to furnish the farmers with
feed, tile and farm implements of most
any description, and when the time
comes will furnish everybody with
coal and -four.
j. E. Dickson will put in bid TO
build the creamery at the proper time.
He has number Of contracts on hand
including a big barn for Richard Hart
nell, of Brighton.
Some are little scary here about
the creamery. as the Somers people
have given their creamery project the
go-by, but for what reason is not quite
clear. Many stories are ahoat.
Mrs. Florence Ellis and her dauph.
ter Oracle arrived home last week.
after spending the winter in the west.
Oracle had run of fever while in
Kansas, I believe. and it has left her
quite deaf. 1t is hoped that she will
grow out of this. as it will be a great
affection to go through life in this
condition. Oracle and her mother are
welcomed home to the village Of Bris-
tOl.
R. F. Roberts was over to the cream
cry meeting last Thursday, but did not
learn his full feelings about the pro-
ject. l think he felt like saying, ~
don't know" Others feel SO. I am
sure. Still all want the ere amery. It
is said the parties will be here this
week to find place for the plant, and
here will be the tug of war, it is feared.
Land is high, scarce and hard to be
bought. especially at low figures. We
shall know more hereafter.
The two daughters of D. A. Sover-
sign started on Monday to go to their
fathers at Los Angeles, in Southern
California. The family will all be to-
yether once more.
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ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

One hundred years ago on Saturday
last the first civil government was es-
tablished in this great region of coun-
try, lying northwest Of the Ohio river,
known as the Northwest Territory.
The event was commemorated at
Marietta, Ohio. many distinguished
men being present from all parts of
The Union. The observance of these
historic eras, not only Of states, but of
cities and even country towns, will,
generations hence. appear to have been
sadly neglected. The memory Of early
settlers may for time preserve events,
but when tradition begins to fade out
the preserved written record is i'm
portant. Of the nine towns in Keno.
sha county, including the city, not one
Of them has ever taken the pains to
formally commemorate the period OF
its first settlement. Less than fifty
years hence their early history will be
regarded vastly more valuable than
now.
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THE CITY.

The prospects for city improvements
this season are by no means discourag
ing. Kenosha has not in the past been
in the practice Of making rapid strides
it moves steadily, every year adding
something, careful to remove or re-
juvenate old and unsightly buildings
or erect new ones In their places
Therefore it is that persons who reside
at distance, but visit here at inter,
walls of year or more, always express
qualification at seeing the progress
made. They who keep posted in build.
ing matters speak of dwellings to be
erected the coming summer which will
be creditable to the city.
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RANDALL.

AT the time we wrote the names of
the candidates on the Republican town
ticket last week we were misinformed
as to the name of the Town Clerk.
John Kerkhoff, not Oliver Reynolds, is
the Town Clerk elect.
Springs work is commencing in a
desultory way. The ground is not fit
to work, except in favored localities,
The ice is all out of some of the lakes.
and the snow has disappeared, but the
frost is not yet out of the ground.
VIM. III. Wilcox and wife have sold
their eighty acres to Mr.. Kerkhoff for
81, 100. Mrs. Wilcox has purchased
Mrs. Rechtor's place in Bassett.
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TREVOR.

Mr.. Sheldon and wife. of Montana,
arrived at Trevor Monday morning.
They will sojOurn at Mr.. Cronk's.
A churn. new and enlarged, has
superseded the old one at the creamery.
Twelve thousand pounds of milk will
shortly be shipped here by rail, which,
together with the present supply. will
neceSsitate an extra centrifugal"
separator. The revolving capacity of
these separators is terrtfc--14,0OO
revolutions each minute.
Mr.. Henry Hodges, who has made
extended visit with relatives and
friends in Kenoshs county, departed
for his home near Boston, Mass, Mon
day morning.
Misses Mary and Della Gaggin visit.
ed at Camp Lake Wednesday.
The action of Geo. G. Crib d. Mr..
Ellsworth, to secure judgment and
sale of property, levied upon by plain
tiff, took place at Salem, before Col.
Thorp. Said property will shortly be
advertised and sold.
Three hundred and fifty dollars
worth of feed was sold at the ware
house one morning of last week. An.
other carload is expected Immediately.
Messrs. Geo. Falkner and Henry
Watson went to Chicago on Thursday
Mrs. and Miss Thacker, of Lake
| Villa, visited with Mrs. Taylor Thurs
day.
Miss Cora Burritt, of Kenosha, is
visiting with Mrs. Henry Smith.
"Salem is no North Chicago, like
our sister city Trevor" -S0iem CORES.
pondent Courier. No; nor is impulse
like growth. A galvanic battery at
tached to corpse produces life-like
action. but that is not grosoth, it is
only impulse. In this connection we
wish to say that a cheese factory is
being built at Salem. Sometimes in
summer time we long for quiet and
rest, away from the busy haunts OF
trade its hurry Of action and busting
strife; we pant for it as the hart
panteth for the water brooks. We are
coming over to Salem some sunny
afternoon, where the busy wheels OF
progress never hum, to bask in crate.
full stiffness.
Substance and show"-Trevor and
Salem.
Mr.. Kendall was out from Chicago
Thursday.
Mrs. John Turnock gave dinner to
few select friends on Tuesday, the I'd
inst. The sumptuous repast did honor
to the hostess.
AS legal enactments relative to
fishing in this county have the worthy
object in view of keeping lakes sup
piled with fish by preventing their
capture during spawning season, we
fail to comprehend either their injus-
tice or the present local dissatisfac-
ton.
Married, at Waukesha, Miss Will.
helmire A. Hoffered, Of Mukwonago
to Wallace B. Ellsworth, of Trevor
Mila0a,tkee Weekly Sentinel.
Mr.. Edwin Terpnine is at Trevor
visiting his parents.
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THE TARIFF.

Congress has been in session for
months and the chief subject of abb
sorbing interest before both Houses
has been the tariff, yet nothing Of par
ticular importance has been done. The
Democrats, at the beginning Of the SEES
sion, threatened to give the tariff a
radical overhauling, but have yet
changed nothing. This need not be
regarded calamity. The tariff needs
no radical alterations; with a few
notifications it is good enough. The
country has prospered and grown rich
under the operations of the present
tariff as never before. The tariff is
the work of Republican legislation,
and if it needs changes and modifica-
tions it had better be done by its
friends than by its free trade enemies,
who are opposed to the principles on
which it is based. The architect OF a
building can be trusted to correct
some defects in its plans better than
an architect hostile to him. The tariff
should be amended where it really
needs it by it's friends, and not its
enemies. How to dispose Of the sur
plus revenue in the national treasury
is not tariff question; but how to
prevent like accumulations in future
belongs to tariff legislation. 1t has re-
peatedly been stated the annual re-
ceipts in the national treasury will
bear about $6O,OOO,OO0 reduction, and
of this amount $50 100000 is derived
from the duty on sugar. This latter
sum is drawn directly from the pockets
of the people of every class. The duty
on sugar is not for protection, but fol
revenue. If the $52,Oo0,OOO derived
from the duty on sugar were for the
protection of great home interest
there might be some excuse for it, but
it is not for that purpose. When the
abolition Of the duty on sugar is pro-
posed, it is said that the tax on tobacco
amounts to $2S,oOo,oo why not re
move that to reduce the treasury in
come? The sugar duty and the tobac
co tax are on different principles; thu
former increases the cost of the articles
to the amount of the duties levied, bu
the tax on the latter does not material
ly affect the price of the article. Th'
favoring of tobacco seems to take pre-
cedence of sugar.
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SALEM.

The children of the village are having
rather severe time with severe colds.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
=. M. Bailey has been very i'll, and is
yet. although they think it is very
little better.
Will Hague is visiting old friends in
our village.
The smoke-stack of the new factory
begins to loom up.
Mrs. Palmatier went to Fox River
station Monday.
1t keeps so cold and wet that people
have not begun their gardens yet.
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The Citizens League in Chicago, in
their report since the city election, de-
clare that much improvement has
been made in favor of the enforcement
of temperance legislation in the city
Very few saloon keepers have been
elected on the council, and the prospect
has improved for more stringent regu.
lations in respect to the traffic.
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The Supreme Court of the United
States rendered decision Monday il
the case of William L. Powell, plaintiff
in error, Us. the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, affirming the constitutionality
Of the statute of that State making it un
lawful to manufacture butter or cheese
or any article designed to take the place
of those articles, from any compound
other than unadulterated milk or cream
Justices Field and Harlan dissented.