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Newspaper
Sauk County Standard
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1854
Page
2
The Cayuga Chief recounts an assault over remarks about local conduct and crackers and bees. Buffalo reports track damage, mayoral action, and governors plans for Western road ties with rising mob influence. Knickerbocker Magazine notes a lavish hotel dinner and local correspondents from the era.
Baraboo readers are informed the Governor's message recommends reform of the county board system to cut expenses and taxes. Critics note current per diem pay and mileage raise costs, urging selection of three controlling members to reduce meetings and save about 375 dollars annually per county. A political critique argues the present representation basis is unjust and anti democratic. The notice closes with a Wisconsin Railroad land grant bill moving through Congress.
A Baraboo Standard letter asks how to grow ginseng in Wisconsin. A La Crosse and Mississippi Valley Railway Company notice follows, detailing seed quality, planting, harvesting, and markets, plus an 1854 board election result with Stoddard Judd as president and Joseph Kerr as vice president.
The report lists petitions and bills in the Wisconsin Senate and Assembly from January 31 to February 2 1854. It notes petitions for repeal of a private act authorizations for school money distribution to La Crosse incorporation of Richland Manufacturing Co and other corporate measures. It covers proposed state lunatic asylum site and biennial session constitutional amendment, river bridge remonstrance at Sauk and dam construction, and adjournment attempts in the Senate and Assembly.
Reports from New York date January 31 describe Turkish victories on the Danube at Kalafat with 2300 Russians killed and 18 000 troops forced to retreat. Omar Pacha strengthens the army as the fleet gathers on the Black Sea while Persia resumes talks with Britain. Impending Vienna Warsaw talks and royal marriages are noted amid China and Hungary items.
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