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Year: 1875

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AN ACT 10 authorize the establishment and aid
in the maintenance of free high schools.


The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-


sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:


SEcTIoS 1. Any town, Incorporated village or


city in this State may establish and maintain not
exceeding two free high schools, wheDeyer 3 ma


joritv of the legal voters voting upon that ques-
tion at any regular annual meeting thereof. at
any special meeting legally called and held for
that purpose, shall determine so 10 do. The vote
school or schools shall be taken piud Uoce. or by
ballot. as may be determined by the proper au-
thorities for calling and conducting such annual
meeting; and the manner of taking such vote
shall be specified in the notices of such meeting
whereat such vote Is TO be taken: Prorided,
That whenever il is determined by the proper au-
thorities to take such vote cir1 Eoce the notice


thereof shall specify the hoEr of the day st which
such vote shall be taken: And pr0Tided further.
That the electors Of any town Incorporated
city village may, at the time appointed TO
such vote shall be taken by ballot and when sIch
order shall be Thus made the vote shall be taken
by ballot. The vote upon the question of estsb-
fishing high schools in towns, Incorporated viii
lagos and cities shall be canvassed and deter
mined in the same manner as now provided by
law for canyassing and determining votes upon
other questions relating to such municipalities.


and special meetings for consideration of this


matter shall be called and held in the same man.
ner as now provided by law for calling and hold
ing special meetings for other purposes.


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unite in establishing and maintaining free high


school: and the vote TO thus unite shall be taken


in each town separately as hereinbefore provided.


SO long a. any town shall decline TO avail itself OF


the provisions of this sc-, any school district or


two more adjoining districts, whether lecated


wholly in one or in different towns. may establish


and maintain free high school, and the vote upon
the establishment of such high school shall be
taken in each district separately, at annual or
/ special meeting thereof, called and held in the
manner now provided by law for calling and hold
ing annual or special school district meetings:
I Prorided- That no more than two such free high
( schools shall be established in snv town: And
proridsd further That whenever any school dis


trict or districts ncluded in towns uniting to
tahieh and maintain free high school, shall, by
itself or themselves, establish and maintain
I free high school in any town where sgch
school exists. such district shall be exempt fror


liability TO taxation for the support Of The high


schools maintained by the several towns in which


such school district or districts NAV be included
SEC J. Towns. cities and villages shall receivs


in trust and faithfully expend, donations and be
guests made to aid in the maintenance of free


high schools, aud shall receive State AID In suct
Year: 1875

AN ACT to authorize County Boards of Super
visors to alter the boundary lines of villages


heretofore incorporated by special acts.
The people of the State OF Wisconsin. repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:


SECTION /. The County Boards of Supervisors
of the several counties of this State are hereby
authorized and empowered. upon the application
of lority of the Trustees of any village here


tofore Incorporated by special act of the Legisla
ture, to change the boundaries of such village
fixed by the charter thereof.


SEC. ,. Notice of the time and place of hearing
such application shall have been published at
least three weeks prior TO The time OF hearing
such application, in \ newspaper published i'll
| such county. and If there be no such newspaper
| published in said county such notice shall be
posted up at least twenty days in five (5) of the
| most conspicuous places in such village, and 8
COPY Of such notice shall also be served on the
| Town Clerk of any town which may be affected by


such alteration al least fifteen G5) days prior 10
such hearing and no order shall be made bv such
| village until due proof be filed with the County
| Clerk of such county that such notice has been
given as hereinbefore provided


SEC. 3. No such alteration shall take place
| without first submitting the question of such


alteration TO vote of the legal voters OF such vii


age, to be taken the annual charter election OF


such village, and if siority of all the votes


at such election on that subject shall be in favor


of such change ii shall be the duty of the Presi-


dent and Clerk of such village to certify the same
| to the County Clerk of their county, who shall
| 1hereupon enter of record such order of such
| County Board of Supervisors, together with such


certificate, and transmit to the Secretary of State
certificate Terrified statement of the boundaries
| OF such village, the boundaries of which have been
so altered.


SEC 4. This act shall take effect and be in full
| force from and after its passage and publication
! Approved March s, 1879. SCOPY.
Year: 1875

Beween the figures for July 20 and
those for Jan. 8, which two days are
respectively the warmest and coldest of the
wear, there is a difference in temperature
Of 1919 Fahr., and in height of center
arch of .692 of foot This is an effect OF
temperature much less than calculated, due
partly to the fact of the iron work being
painted white, which lessons the absorp-
/ lion of heat in hot weather and increases
the radiation in cold weather, and also the
protection afforded by the root OF
the bridge. This latter is strikingly
eyemplifed in the fact that the river,
while frozen above and below the bridge,
has vet been open under it.
Year: 1875

When you meet with one suspected
OF some secret deed of shame,
And for this, by all rejected g,
AS thing of evil fame, e-.'.
Guard thine every look and action;
Speak no heartless word of blame;
For the slanderer's vile detraction


Yet may spoil thy goodly name.
When you meet o brow that's awing
With its wrinkled lines Of gloom,
And q naughty step that's drawing
To solitary tomb.


Guard thine action; some great sorrow
Made that man a spectre grim,
And the sunset ofto-morrow


May have left thee like to him.
When you meet with one pursuing


Paths the lost have entered in,
Working out his own undoing


With his recklessness and sin,
Think, IL placed in his condition,


Would a kind word be in vain?
Or look Of cold suspicion


Win thee back to truth again?
There are spots that bear no flowers
Not because the soil Is bad,
But that summers gentle showers
Never made their bosoIns glad.
Better have an act that's kindly,


Treated sometimes with disdain,
Than, by Judging others blindly,


Doom the innocent to pain.
Year: 1875

LAZY Mans SOCIETY,". Some years
ago Lazy Mans Society was organ
lied, and one of the articles required
that no man belonging to the society
should ever be in a hurry. Now ii


happened on time that a member, was
seen driving through the street to see q
patient. The members of the society
saw him, and chuckling over the idea
of u treat, on his return remainded him
of his fast driving and violation of the
rules. "Not at allp said the doctor,
determined not to be outdone; the
truth is, my horse was determined to
90, and + felt too lazy to stop himr'
They did not catch him that time ssli
Year: 1875

AN inquiring writer in one of our exchan-
ees asks an answer to question which he
puts thus: "Who did Cain marry?" As
the solution of this question would require
great deal of time and learning. wouldn't it
be quite as well for the writer to postpone 1t
while he makes the acquaintance of English
grammar?
Year: 1875

THE article from the London Times in
another column, is of interest as giving the
English view of the political future of the
United States. In spite of some errors OF
detail the treatment of the subject is in the
main correct
Year: 1875

THE Post of the Grand Army in Washing
ton, having done good service in actual war
fare, is about to enter upon the mimic con-
test of the spelling match. If the boys in
blue can spell as well as they can fight they
will come ont triumDhant
Year: 1875

THERE are indications that the temper
ance men of Connecticut do not intend to
play second fiddle to the Democrats this year.
Unless the prohibitionists waste their votes
foolishly the Republicans will carry the state.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and cemmuni-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nieations that are not used.
Year: 1875

In the lands case the personal remedy for
with such history behind it that lawyers
will have very difficult case TO argue if called
upon to SHOW that it was not preceded by such
degree OF provocation as justiies its employ
ment- Against hcentious press the law, it
seems, affords the people TO adequate pro-
tection--no protection that is not ridiculous
and pitiful by comparison with the harm that
may DO done. Mr.. Lands said to our cor
respondent that he instructed lawyer TO
watch regularly the paper published by
Carruth, in order that he might. Mt the first
opportunity given, try if the law could not fur
nish some remedy to the torments inflicted
upon himself and his family but the assail-
ant kept always within the limit Of the law
Yet within those limits-while never going
step hey ond the bounds within which every
Journalist seems TO have complete liberty to
libel and lampoon-this editor was able TO
make life burden to whole family, and to
eventually drive TO frenzy and desperation n
man who cannot by any stretch OF fancy be
regarded as thin-slinned or over-sensitive.
Hero is an editor, apparently without any
scruple, with virulent temper and inspired,
20 doubt, by malice--who makes a pande-
moniu1n of a formerly happy home; who
makes it the study of his daily life to use his
newspaper as an instrument to punish and
torture his enemy; who drags into the broad
light all the little circumstances that people
by common consent generally leave in the
shade and who canyasses, in the spirit of a
malignant enemy, all the petty detail of con-
teuptible facts. He takes into Journalism the
spirit with which the Indian tortures the
enemy he has fastened toa stake; and because
he does not say that the man has committed
thcit or has been guilty OF some other 'fn-
dctabie offence the law holds him guiltless
Of any evil. and The victim has no remedy but
such as is always open 10 the strongest or TO
one so wrought TO desperation as to be no
longer controlled By the ordinary consdera-
tion of consequences.


All humanity is not Of the stolid temper
possessed by that primitive type which laid
the stratum Of New JERSEY law. People can
Year: 1875

much effect agnins. the corrupt
canal contractors and the State Off
GERS who had abetted them as against
Tweed and his associates. Having gained d
this secure ground for bis batteries the Gov
ernor proceeded to prepare his scathing Mes
sage, meanwhile causing hints of what he was
doing TO be thrown out to notify the Canal
Ring and the public of the coming explosion,
exciting fears and raising expectations with
cunning eye to stage effect, in order that the
bomb might fall with greater noise and eclR.
The thing has been managed with consum-
mate skill The Message struck the Canal
Ring like q thunderbolt and the whole State
has been thrown into commotion like that
which followed the first publication of the
Tweed accounts.


Pursuing our historical line of exposition
we now come TO the contents of this nitro
glycerine Message which has had such shat
tering and alarming effect on the Canal Ring.
The Message mentioned no names, but it went
into detail of swindling contracts, giving the
figures with such definite precision that
everybody who keeps the run of canal matters
would know whom they hit We insert sum-
married. list arranged in compact tabular
form -
Year: 1875

In this city the officers of the law are only
too apt to forget their duty as soon as the oc-
casion which called for stiicter compliance
with it has passed away. They seem to think
that OUT people are so spas1nodic that all they
have to do is to wait for the spasn to pass
over, when they can be as dilatory as before.
Even Mr.. Tweed acted upon this theory when
had not his case been very aggravated one
be would never have been punished at all
This truth we see illustrated in every event
which happens in this city. After the dis
aster at ST. Andrews church great activity
was displayed for a short time, but no sooner
was verdict rendered than all proceedings
apparently were dropped The same thing
may happen in the stockvis case unless the
public show determination that the law shall
be enforced on all the offenders The neces-
sity is apparent, and there must be no further
neglect of duty by which those already incul-
pated in offences of this kind may escape If
this city is to be properly and efficiently
governed it can be done only by bringing
the men who so conspicuously failed in their
duty in the Department Of Buildings, the
police, the police courts and the hospitals TO
justice, and the people must see to it that this
is DONE Warrants have been Issued bv the
Coroner for the arrest Of DIR. Jaynes, of the
Worknouse on Bloclcwells Island. and Keeper
Cunningham, in the case of Stocl1yis: but is
this all?
Year: 1875

The TWEED CASE came up before the Court
Of Appeals yesterday, and the counsel for the
what an unnecessary amount of punishment
was inflicted on the ex-Boss- A stronger
argument would be the return to the public
treasury of the money extracted, and it
could not fail to move both the Court and the
public
Year: 1875

THE LAW AND THE LoBB1.-The United
States Supreme Court has set the seal of its
reprobation upon the sale of the influence
and ezertions of lobbyists in bringing about
the passage of law for the payment of-s
Senate claim, without reference to its merits,
in case that has been brought before it
Lobbyists will be obliged henceforward to
give the courts wide berth.
Year: 1875

UNHAPPY New YORK, almost on the eve Of
Easter. is suffering untold miseries at the
hands of the clerk of the weather. If any
more disagreeable day than yesterday, and
that, too, at o period when our country ex.
changes are full of poetry about "spring,
beautiful spring." we should like to hear
from it.
Year: 1875

GENERAL CABRERA's DETECTION from the
Carlist cause seems to have produced marked
effect among the adherents Of Don Carlos, if
we may credit the report of the discovery of a
conspiracy for his assassination.
Year: 1875

TAMPKRrNG WITH THE GALLows under any
circumstances is a dangerous game, as al
unfortunate prisoner in the Hudson County
Jail in Jersey City found to his cost In
attempting to lift weight attached to the
machine Of death he injured himself fatally
Year: 1875

A MURDEREB paid the penalty of his crime
yesterday at Pottsville, Pa. He killed q
farmer and his wife in the most cowardly and
atrocious manner, and, not being fortunate
enough TO enjoy the benefits Of the laws of
the State of New York, legal death overlook
him.
Year: 1875

Ice IN The ATLANTIC. the last
trip of the Hamburg steamship Cimbria .
serious impeachment to ocean naviga-
ton was encountered in tho shape
of immense fields Of ice and ice-
bergs. When such unpleasant and dangerous
customers cross the track of the European
steamships too much care and precaution
against disaster cannot be taken, and captains
should keep q special lookout for those ugly
yisitorR
Year: 1875

THE Democratic mind is torn up just
now by an apprehension that the Repub-
lican leaders are about to abandon the
currency i-sue. The rag maniaes show
a. much distress for fear this issue will
IL. neglected as If they really had n
glimmer Of sense, and would feel safer
if the Republican party would insure the
adoption OF sound financial views They
seem to wish to profit politically by dem
agogue hOwls for ''mOFe money, and at
the same time can't help feeling fright
enei at :he possibility of imitation They
are beginning to see that imitation may
possibly do for politics, but Hard Money
is onr best hold for business
Year: 1875

BEE keepers should contract the en-
frances to their hives every evening
The moths are about the hives in count
less numbers these nights, and the bees
can keep them out with far less trouble
and danger If the entrances to the hives
are quite small. They should be kept
more open through the day.-HahODing
VALLEY NelCS.
Year: 1875

We now enter the field for
the fall and coming Winter
and are furnishing the bes,:
paving and most easily worked
agency in the world. Our
agents have always been the
most successful, and we have
lately added new and exceed


ingiy taking inducements, re


quiring only intelligence and
application for any one,young
or old, of either sex, to MAKE
really first-class paying busi
Year: 1875

TIE death of Vice President Henry Will son in our telegrapbic columns will be rcad with feelings of regret by all good people everywhere. It is seldom that man lives and dies whose whole life has been so nearly faultless. Henry Wilson began life as a shoemaker and by dint of talent industry and purity of purpose arose to the highest honor the people could confer upon him save one and had his health been spared it is not at-all uu- likely that he would have attained even to that. Henry B. Anthony, of Rhode Island, was chosen President of the Senate pro tempore on the 18th of February, 1875, and as we can find no subsequent record of election to that office we presume he succeeds to the position made vacant by the death of the Vice Pres ident
Year: 1875

THE dispatch which we print with refer ence to the cession of large portion of Mexican Territory to the |. S appears to be doubted in San Francisco both by the Mexi- can consul and the leading papers. We had hoped before going to press to receive con- frmation of the report but as yet have heard nothing from any source beyond San Fran cisco. Our people all seem to hope it is true, natives of Mexico ss well as those born in the U. s. and Europe.
Year: 1875

OUR OLD ENEMY.-The grasshopper is an er-
ratio beast. and late developments show that
with all the careful watching bestowed upon
him, we vet lack an understanding of his nature
and habits At his previous visits he has shown
a most yoracious appetite, but now that he ap-
pears to be coming again, he manifests no such
pecularity He must be sick. Prof. Riley has
led us to believe that he is indigenous to dry
climates, and need not be expected in this coun-
try EXCEPT in excessively dry seasons; yet now
that we have a season of floods, here be comes
again and brings all of his friends with him.


But seriously, there is no reason To fear anoth-
er infection. aithongh great clouds of them have
appeared in Northwestern Nebraska and North
western Kansas. They manifest great dissatls-
faction at finding themselves back here again,
and have undoubtedly been blown ont OF their
natural course by adverse winds. The tiocks that
have appeared are isolated and cover but limited
district from which We conclude that n general
intiictiou is not to be feared. In the localities
where they have appeared they eat nothing, and
are evidently only travelling through May good
fortune speed their passage before they get hun
gry-EaRsds City Journal.
Year: 1875

q The managers of the Wiunebago County
(1ll.) Agricultural Society raised such breeze
by inviting JEFF. Davis to deliver the address at
their fair, that they were glad to get out of il.
JEFF, having more sense than they had came to
their relief, by withdrawing his acceptance to
sneak
Year: 1875

Mhen you see man stop every baby carriage
ne meets, to talk intaEtile latin to the occupant
and sake ITS ltty chubby hans" it is safe to
conclude that that man can be prevailed upon to
take some Office in the gift of the people.
Year: 1875

and the evidence. Ia n free re.
public like ours, every man be-
comes by a failure, in II meas
uro proportioned to his in
auence in society, responsible for
the punishment Of crimes commit
ted in The community in which he
lives and until we begin to recog-
nize this personal responsibility,
we have not yet reached our high
est standard of citizenship.
We may bo upright and successful
business men, and even good Chris
tians-in our own opinion, but If
we do not exert all our influence to
have the laws executed, we fail in
our duty to the state and to the
community in which we live.
Year: 1875

1t is a common saying that horse


stealing is the only crime punished


with death in Texas. Unfortun.


ately there is some color of truth in


the proverb. No one, who has been


resident of Texas for any length


of time, but can recall a number of
murders and murderous assaults,


which have gone entirely unpun-
ished; the perpetratrators of which
are abroad to-day ready for other
acts of violence. On the other
hand, without any great effort Of
memory, he could call the names
of numerous bold riders who were
convicted and executed, in accord
ance with the inexorable decree of
the court, presided over by Judge
Lynch, merely for a deficiency of
moral perception, and chronic
habit of mistaklng their neighbor's
horses for their own. Even in the
organized courts, whose judges are
paid to see that the laws are exc.
cuted, there is no difficulty in pro-
curing the conviction of parties
charged with horse stealing. In
fact, so decided is the tendency of
petit juries, in such cases, to accept
the opinion of the district attorney,
as to the guilt of the accused, that
it is not easy for an innocent man
to escape the penitentiary, if the
charge is horse stealing. In his
case, the maxim of the law is gen.
orally reversed, and by an average
Texas jury, he is adjudged guilty
until he establishes his innocence
by the most irrefragible testimony.


But when it comes to the case of
the man who has raised his arm
and stricken his brother man to the
earth with mortal wound, then,
strange to say, the sympathies of
the jury are generally on the side
ofthe murderer. They readily ac-
cord him all the prescriptions of
the law as to his innocense. The
defendants counsel, and not the
district attorney, now becomes the
oracle of the law, and the latter
seems to the jury little better than a
prosecutor of worthy citizen, who
has had the misfortune of having to
kill somebody. And if by accident,
they should find him guilty, the
verdict is probably accompanied by
an apology for its harshness, in
the shape of recommendation to
mercy, or an assessment of punish
ment, so inadequate as fatally to
weaken the terrors of the law, and
to neutralize the effect of the con-
viction, by setting a false value
upon life.


What is the remedy for this evil ?
The answer to this question is
plain. Educate public sentiment
into such an adherence Of murder
that juries will have no disposition
to shield the man whose hands are
red with the blood of his fellow.
Let public sentiment on this SUBJ
iect be so strong and decided, that
sven the professional juryman who
hangs about the court room, to be
called, will not dare to violate his
bath, to find according 10 the law
Year: 1875

In copying the following excel.
lent article from a recent number
of the Memphis Appeal, we desire
10 express our cordial concurrence
with the sentiments of the writer,
and to protest against such men as
the dignified Preston or the fantas-
tic Toombs, being taken abroad as
exponents of Southern sentiment.
The people of the South have ac-
cepted the situation in good faith,