Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-12-06
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Mr.. EDITOR The county next west of Mar
shall is Stark-a small county, but which we
must visit, nevertheless. We are now at Hen
ry, and although the sun was at the meridian
two hours ago, and although Toulon the coun-
ty seat OF Stark county, is some 80 miles distant,
1t must be reached tonight. For or miles
we pass occasionally clump of trees and cul-
tivated farm, and then strike out on the broad
prairie where nought is to be seen but the rank
grass around us, and the tops of trees in the dim
distance. No emigrant has been found bold
enough to plant himself go far from the tiraber,
and it is not until we ride 10 or Is miles from
the last clump of trees and arrive near the strip
OF woodland which borders Spoon river that we
find ourselves again among human beings. The
settlement is but a narrow one, and we learn that
to reach Toulon another large uninhabited prai-
RE must be crossed, and as it is now sunset the
thought of doing so in the night is anything but
pleasant. What enhances the difficulty of night
travelling in the West is the careless manner of
directing strangers, just as if they were perfect
ly acquainted with all the turns and crooks and
by paths. Did you never have your patience
tried in this way? keep the strai ght road
says your informant, and on you drive several
miles from any human being, when, behold, your
road divides itself into two branches, each of
which DIVORCES at The same angle from the
course which you have been travelling Now
which as the straight road. The only way is to
conclude that there are exceptions to any gen.
eral rule, and that perfectly straight line some
times bends little, but which way is almost
matter of pure conjecture. In such case you
cannot be sure you are right and then go ahead
but must 60 ahead first and be sure you are right
afterward if you can. lisa chance, however,
if, after driving several miles farther, you be not
sure that you are aorong and then turn about
After narrowly escaping being sloughed, and
after hard afternoons drive we found ourselves
at o'clock on Saturday night at the place OF
our destination. Toulon is village of recent
growth, and smaller than any of the county seats
which we have visited in our present tour. 1t
is, however, situated in the midst of fertile re-
gion andis rapidly increasing in wealth and pop
ulation, numbering already some 400 inhabitants.
Its public buildings are not such as ought to
grace county seat. Instead of six churches,
as at Princeton, it is destitute of any, although
one is soon to be erected. Instead of large
brick court house as at Peoria, Lacon, Henne-
pin and Princeton, dilapidated wooden one,
much older in appearance than the buildings
around it, disgraces the public square. Some
sad scenes have been acted in that old court
house. but rather an amusing one happened 10
be on the carpet during our visit A petty quar-
rel which never ought to have engaged the at
tenton of lawyers or jurors, and which, but for
the contemplate selisbness of the human heart,
might have been settled amicably by the parties,
was submitted to be decided by ''tweve honest
men, whom the constable was fortunate enough
to "scare up in the village. They were kept
together until late on Saturday night without be-
ing able to agree upon verdict, and might have
been starved to it still longer had they not sue
ceeded in drawing the wool over the eyes of their
keeper, and by little chicanery efecting their
escape. On Monday morning they were prompt.
ly re-assembled, and as they found themselves
still unable to agree upon verdict, and as toe
court seemed determined to wiring one out of
them-nolens rolens--they were remanded to the
jury thereto be kept until they should agree
the constable meanwhile guarding the door,
Whatever else they could not agree upon, they
could and did agree to give the case before them
tremendous letting alone. They could and did
agree to make the place hideous with their noise
and unmanly conduct, as if the inmates of Bed
lam had been let loose. Among other feats was
the escape of one OF them through window in
,he upper story, but who was subsequently ar
rested. The court despairing of forcing a YER
Dict or tired of waiting for it, feeling that the
conduct of these men was uncomfortable, and that
the dignity of the law and of the court must be
maintained, adopted another expedient, and these
boyish jurors found themselves again ranged on
the Jurors seats in the court room, but trans
| formed from triers to the tried-from jurors to
of them, varying in size sccording to the suppo-
sed unwarrantableness of their conduct, they
were at last discharged That their conduct in
the jury room was unjusti6able and adisgrace to
themselves and their village there is no doubt
but they probably taught that Justice of the
Peace that to force men to think alike when they
were unable to do SO was no easy matter. Thus
ends chapter first of this drama. The history
[ of the collection of those fines might perhaps
constitute another chapter, but as we left before
it was attempted it will remain unwritten-at
| least by us. EVANDER.
AIR EXHAUSTED CoFFINs.-Among the inven-
tons offered at the Fair Of the American Insti-
tute, now open at New York, and also at the re.
cent Fair at Boston, was the "air exhausted me-
tallic con," which, as it appears by the testimo-
ny of the persons who are fully entitled TO be
believed, has preserved the dead from the time of
its invention, now nearly three years, apparent
| ly unchanged. Only short time ago the body
of child which had been kept in a vault in
Greenwood Cemetery for two years and four
months in one OF these collins, was examined,
and it was discovered that the countenance had
undergone no change whatever. To all appear
ance the body was in the same state it was when
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