davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26
A Part Of the Great Desert

But few years ago even Intelligent
Americans used to imagine the vast region
between the Missouri and the. rocky Noun
tains an utter desert, irreclaimabIe for agri.
cultural purposes. 1t Was to little purpose
that Mr.. Benton used to bring before the
Senate the significant fact that untold mil
lions of buffaloes managed to get hearty
subsistence from this arid plain. The sdes-
ert'' theory had hold of the popular inagi-
nation, and has only been surrendered grad
ually. The opening of two or three lines of
railway across the Plains will however dis
pei remaining illusions
When travellers from the eastern States
see along the Platte, from Denver for sixty
miles down the stream, succession of fer
tile and productive estates, they will begin
to believe in the possibility of retaining to
agricultural purposes the whole length of
the wide valley Of that stream. Going
down from Denver toward New Mexico,
along the base Of the mountains, they will
pass many charming valleys which are
even now profitably cultivated from their
outlets up to a height at which, i'll almost
any other region, agriculture would be i'm
possible.
About sixty miles south from Denver the
traveller strikes the upper Arkansas, whose
valley and those of its tributaries are ex-
tremely fertile under the system of irriga-
ton. A correspondent of the st Louis Re.
publican has lately visited this region, and
describes some of the farms there. One
man has thousand acres of corn under
cultivation. Another has nearly as much,
and immense herds of cattle besides, while
he has all the comforts and many of the ell
egancies of civilized life around him.
All along this Arkansas valley crop of
forty bushels of sheIled corn to the acre is
considered an average yield. The Huerfa-
DO, one of the most important tributaries,
has some of the finest farms in Colorado
while another tributary, Purgatoire, is no
less suited to agriculture and grazing. In
all of these valleys cattle and other stock
only require herding for the grass is suffi-
Gent for their support the year round All
this country is part Of the great desert
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26
$500 PER ANNUM I'm ADVANCC
-> KENOsHA, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26 1867.
Lowell Mason.

HhNAi th0 blooAlyu maggie, september.
On Tuesday last, Dr. Lowell Mason-oue
OF the oldest and ablest composers of sacred
music and teachers of the elementary prin.
clples OF music in this country-celebrated
the tiftieth anniversary of his marriage, at
his residence. Silver Spring, Orange, N. j.
DIR. Mason was married September 8, 1917,
to Miss Abigail Gregory of Westborough,
Mass, at that place. At the celebration of
the fiftieth Anniversary there were present
bridesmaid and one groomsman, making
the bridal party complete with the excep-
tlon OF one groomsman, who died few
years since. The two bridesmaids were
the first ladies who engaged in Sunday
school teaching in Massachusetts, one being
Mrs. Barstow, wife of Rev. DR.. BarstoW
OF Keene, N. IT,, and the other Mrs. Phillips
of Westborongh, Mass. Mr.. Phillips was
was the groomsman present. DIR. Mason-s
four sons, together with their wives and
children, were also present, together with
large number of personal and musical
friends, who represented States from New
Hampshire in the Hast to Illinois in the
West. The day and evening passed off as
pleasantly as such affairs ever do; Music
oy Theodore Thomas and his orchestra be-
ing very fine the display of flowers very
beautiful, the refreshments very good, and
the spirits of all very high.
AS composer and teacher of music, DIR.
mason has no rival in this country, and the
title OF Doctor was bestowed upon him by
the unanimous consent of all lovers of mr- |
BIC lie Is author in whole or ia part of
more than sixty MUSIC books, one Of which
mas mao circulation of over half a million |
vi sacred tunes he has composed more than |
any other man in this country, his name is
iuseParaole from such tunes as Hebron. Oh |
Iey' nocklngham, Ward, Boylston, Sabbath.
U xorldge, Darien, and almost nnmh.rIess
otherS' out with what may be called Clancy
'uuoio' sucn as Waltzes secular songs. ar.
judgements 1or operas, and such like music.
"; MASON mas never had anything to do
aithough lew men can better annrec;ata
good music OF whatever Kind. AS a teacher
Dr. Mason was remarkably successful. ard
ms quick ear never failed to detect dis.
cordant sound III choir or chorus SINGING
Pecuniarily music has rewarded the Doctor
who although having passed his seventy,
fifth year, yet finds such demand for his
services that he still works at CONFUSING
and arranging DR.. Mason's inherent and
cultivated musical abilities have been in.
herited by his sons, one of whom is a we'll
known pianist, two others music publishers !
and dealers, and the fourth is the Mason of |
the firm of Mason Il Hamlin, patentees and
manufacturers Of the cabinet organ bearing
their name, and to which has been awarded |
the highest premium at the Paris Exposi.
ton, thus adding another to the already !
numerous testimonials to American genius !
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26
The High Hat Doo,,a3

Ladies, who always take an interss. -
what their admirers wear, will be glad to
hear that the high hat for gentIemen~tbo
stove pipe" to call it by the slang term
is doomed, Every season it falls in tha
height and brim widens; and, in the course
of few more changes of fashion, it will be
replaced by what the London Speclator
promises and prays for, reasonable head.
dress, low stiff sombrero of silk covered
card board, with soft interior edges, than
which no one could wish for more reason.
able or becoming covering. 1t will be light.
for there is little of it will shade the ewes
and neck, far more important, because it
has broad brim, can be taken off for a bow,
because brims are stiff and will not heat the
head. because it has the signal merit of the
old hat, it admits of scientific ventilation.
In England the revolution will be effected
sooner than in this country, for there the
Prince of Wales, who leads the fashion, and
has been reducing his hats in height at the
rate of about half an inch month lately,
will effect the reform.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26
Across the S;arro Novodoa

The great tunnel of the Aentral Pacific
railroad at the summit of the Sierra Nevada
Range is opened. The track is being laid
on the eastern slope, locomotive ia already
running in the Truckee valley, and in few
days the road will have reached the open
country of the Salt Lake Basin after which
progress will be made rapid and easy This
overcomes the only noticeable obstacle on
the Western portion of the through line !;
and its significance understood when we
are told that the cost and difficulty of grad
ing the 90 miles now nearly completed, is
greater than for the $50 miles next follow
ing, The Chief engineer expects to average
a mile day across the interior valley next
year. The local traffic on the completed
portion surpasses all previous estimate, and
is lucrative without the immense through
business which we may expect to flow over
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26
For Girls who Chew Gum

A great many American girls have ac-
CURED the particularly disagreeable habit of
chewing gum Perhaps they would like to
know how gum is made:
The greatest gum manufacturing estab-
lishment is said to be at Poduck, Massachu-
setts, and the fame of their gum land the
gum itself is in the mouth of all the world.
One OF the employees of that establishment.
who had become thoroughly initiated into
the mysteries of the manufacture of the
gum, was recently discharged from that es-
tabishment, and has since divulged the pro :
cess by which these guilds, which yonng
Americans nasticate with such velocitv
and apparent satisfaction, are made. The
gum is made of certain parts of gum arabic,
gum tragacanth, and a small Equautity of
resin and fat. The fat used is not lard.
that beng too expensive, but is substance
expressed from dead hogs, cats, dogs, and
otEer animals found on the commons of the
city. This is not the worst of it. After
the various ingredients are melted together
in huge kettle, q certain kind of alkali is
put in for the purpose Of whitsning the
gum. This alkali is the same that is used
by dyers with indigo to give deep and
permanent blue to flannes "
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26

UTILITY OF PLANTS. Modern science has
revealed to US, Of late, a higher duty and
nobler purpose in the life of plants Work
ing In masses, they regulate the numerous
and comprehensive physical processes of the
earth. Theirs is the duty to keep the at.
LnosPhere dry or moist as may be required
On them depends the warmth or the cold
ness and the fertility of the soil thew alter
the climate, change the course of local
winds, increase or diminish the quantity of
rain, and soften the rigor of the seasons.
1t IS not merely that whole countries and
regions look to certain plants for their sole
support, or that the life of entire nations is
bound up with that of a single tree, like the
Mauritius palm, but whole races of men.
through numberless generations, can live
only where it pleases, under Providence
certain plants to grow and prosper. By far
the nobIest and most exalted purpose for
which. plants live is, however, to adorn tie
surface of our beautiful earth, and thus to
make manifest to us, in their very exist
ence, and in all their thousand wonders,
the Almighty Creator of heaven and earth.
1t ls in this aspect only that plants, the
types of nature, acquire their brightest sig
nificance. They become then, not our
friends and supporters only, but our kindly
teachers also Whether we look down up
on soft moses that creep over the rugged
rock, and humble lichens weeping with
slow oozing, or gaze up at the giant tree Of
the forest, everywhere our mind is lifted up,
in awe and wonder, to that intelligence
which watches over the destinies Of the
universe, and gives US here already faint
glimpse of the great plan of creation and
its great authorize Vere's Stray Leave.
from the Book of Nature. ~
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26
A Mormon on the Rampage.

ST.. LOUIS, Sept. ia violent harangue
was delivered at the Tabernacle, in Salt
Lake City,on the 9th inst, by brother Sloan,
editor of the Desert NevS, who declared him
self a polygamist, and would remain 80. He
had violated and would continue to violate
the laws Of Congress prohibiting polygamy
He denounced the Government as tyranni-
cal and unjust, and as having no right to
make laws for the Saints. He urged upon
Saints the practice Of polygamy as neces-
sity for unfolding their institution-for the
enhancement Of their salvation. Elder
Kimball followed, approving the sentiments
uttered by Sloan. As polygamist he was
sound; he had seventy children and caIcula-
ted that in fifty years, the Kimball family
would outnumber the aggregate of the
Saints
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26
You Won't,


The Erie Gazette says: 1t pays one who
takes an interest in politics to read the
Ohio papers just now. The campaign is
being waged fiercely, and both sides occa-
sionalIy give hard hits. One of the last is
as follows: The Cincinnati dduertiSer. in a
stirring article, smelling very strongly of
copper. said; 'Every prediction made by
our party about the war has been verified"
TO which the Scioto Gazette responds as fol.
lows: aa
"You predicted that the South could Sc
cede without a war-but 1t couldn't!
"You said the North could not fight
but it did
''You said one Southerner could whip five
Nortbernors-but he couldn't /!
"You asserted that we had no power to
coerce them-but we had
"You said we could never conquer them
but we did ~
you predicted that bushel Of green
backs would not buy dinner-but it will
''You resolved that the war was failure
but we succeeded
''You asserted that the people of Ohio
were opposed to the war, that they would
elect the peaceable Vallandighani they
didn't
''You are now predicting that you will
carry this State-but you won't !"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26

The New York Citizen says of Dickens
American STRUCTURES; lie commented,
usually in humurons, aud rarely in sar-
castle, vein upon some of the very things
of which the press daily complains He al
legged that many Americans chewed tobac-
co, and that the cars, steamboats, and floors
Of our public halls gave abundant evidence
of the result of the filthy practice. Well,
was not, and is not, this true bill? he allu-
ded to the absence of butter knives and salt
spoons at our eating houses. Are they even
at the present day, universally found at
down. town dining saloons and at country
taverns? Was his statement that Americans
were fond of eIevating their boots upon
chairs and window stills wholly
a myth?" +'
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26

The BAPTIsTs AND THE FREEDMEN. The
Baptists of the United States have deter
mined to organize schools at various points
in the Southern States for the education of
colored men for the ministry. The commit
tee has issued an appeal to the Baptists Of
the country, in which it is set forth that
one-half of the four millions are already
Baptists in their views and feelings, and
they have amongst them twenty thousand
Baptist preachers nearly as ignorant as
themselves. 1t is proposed to educate these
preachers and through them, to enIighten
instruct and elevate the great mass Of the
people. A. l. Robinson, Esq, Of Evans
vile, Ind, has been appointed agent for the
society in that State, and will receive all
contributions for the purpose.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26
a Wonderful Flower,
From the Philadelphia North Americ

FROM Cne Fnlladetphla North American.
At the horticultural exhibition Oh Tues
day night was shown single specimen of
the Japanese lily The exhibitor was H.
A. Drecr, Esq. All ad ults in their boyhood
will remember the flaming tiger lily
This grand flower is the tiger lily upon
scale of triple magnitude, but with an equal
hue, in when delicate soIferino at the
base of the calix is gradually lost In snowy
white. The cali; itself is fully nine inches
in diameter the petals are deIcately spot
ted with black, inc pistols are upholstorers'
hammers in miniature. The odor OF the
flower is exquisite. 1t has all the volume
of that enanating from the tuberose, with
all the de!icacy of the primrose or violet.
To the fora Of this country il is most
valuable addition. Horticultural Hall is
by by means small, yet the perfume from
this single blossom pervaded every part Of
it. Excepting the ouly blossom of the Vic
toria Regia, is the largest flower we have
seen.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26
SEA MUSIC.

The gray unresting sea,
Adown the bright and betting shore.
Breaking in untold melody,
Makes music evermore
Centuries of vanished time.
Since the glad earth's primeYal morn.
have heard the grand unpausing chime,
Momently, aye newborn.
Like as in clustered piles,
Rich bursts of massive sound unswell,
Ringing along dim lighted aisles,
With spirit trancing SPELL .#
so on the surf white strand.
Cnants of deep peal the sea-weeds raise,
Like voices from a viewless land.
Hymning hymn of praise.
By times, in thunder notes.
The booming pillows shoreward surge:
by times, silver laugh infloats;
by times, a low soft dirge. tt
Souls more ennobled grow.
Listing the wordless anthem rise:
Dlscords are drowned in the great flow
OF Natures harmonies.
Men change and cease to be.r
ana empires rise, and grow. and fall:
But the wierd music of the sea
Lives, and outlives them all.
That mystic song shall last. zig
Till time itself no more shall he:
Till seas and shores away have nassed
Lost in eternity. +.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26

The BIBLE AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
sight at the international exhi-
bition at Paris is the large octAgo "Ki-
osque, for Bible distribution, near The prin-
ciple entrance. Its design is to to supply
the vast numbers of people who daily gath
or at the Exhibition with the word of God
in their different languages. Nearly one
million Gospels and Scripture portions have
issued. Since the opening Of the Exhibition
there have been days in which no less than
three Thousand are distributed, in fifteen
different tongues and, as general rule,
they are received with thankfulness by the
respective nations The work is particular
ly among the Jews, Arabs, Spaniards, Ital-
lians Russians and French.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26
Assessment of Real Estate

The State Board of Equalization, have fixed
the valuations of real estate of the several
counties, as found in the table below. The
basis upon which the valuations were made
diffe widely in many OF the counties In the
State. There needs to be some more uniform
method in assessing real estate, than now
prevails. In twenty four counties, the State
Board, added to the valuation by the County
boards, and in twenty six counties deductions
were made The equalization for Kenosha
County, remains the same as the former equal
ization made by the State Board.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26

s MINISTERIAL READING.--Frederick Jones,
of Boston, having given Andover Theologi-
cal Seminary $l5, 900 to found professor
ship of elocution the Watcltmaa and Reg
tster observes, very correctly "Let one
hear DIR. Chaplin read chapter from the
Bible, wherein the tones of the voice and
the emphasis form living commentary, and
then listen to the reading of majority Of
our clergymen, and he will understand why
good reading should hold an important
place in the services of the house of the
Lord"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26

Persons who suffer their newspapers to
be torn up and destroyed after hastily can
ming them over, as many do, shout AZ
least cut out and preserve valuable receil b
agricultural matter, &c, for reference.
Any old pub doc will apswer Tor book
to paste selections in, and in the course OF
year or two valuable volume may 20
secured-such one 10 could nos be secured
from any other source. Tryit
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26

PLANTING CRANBERKEs Tho Princeton
Republic says that this spring Mr. l. P.
Stearns planted, or rather sowed q lot Of
cranberries, which are doing beautifully.
dis mode of planting was to pull up lot
Of vines and chop them in short pieces with
a sharp shovel, and then SOW and harrow
them in the Doggy marsh, just as the sur
face is thawing out.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26

FAST TRAVELLING The Scientific Ameri-
aca@ is authority for the statement that it is
contemplated, on the completion of new
railroad from London to Liverpool, to run
express trains which surpass anything yet
realized in railway travelling in any coun-
try. The whole distance between these
stations-o over 200 miles-will be run with
out single stoppage, and the time occu-
pied will be two and half hours, the speed
being at the extraordinary rate of eighty
one miles an hour.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26
Impartial Suffrage Convention

A call is out for convention, to be held
at GAINESVILLE, Wis, on the 9th of Oct. next.
to consider the proposed amendment to the
suffrage clause Of our State Constitution
The call is signed by about two hundred
names, male and female; among the male
signers, are few leading men of both po-
litieal parties
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26
HE.WNq A "

PAGES CLiAx SLLvE for Burns Scalds, Scrofua, Salt
Rheum Sores Broken Breasts Frost Bites. Chilblains
Stings, Outs Swengs, &c., whether upon man or beast
the wonderful article produced Other good
articles alleviate this 1t asys inflammation, sub
dues pain, and heals without a 1t is worth its
weight gold TO any family, and should always be on
hand Its warra led to do what it says very time.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26
Moffat,s Life Pills and Phoenix Bitters

first duced in private practice in 1925 They were
introduced the public in 1885, since which time their
reputation has extended until they have sale in
Of all other Cathsrtic and Purifying Medicines There is
hardly family among civilized nations who have not per-
evidence their beneficial effects. Their great
owing their uniform reliability in of Con-
spation, Bilious somaehc diseases, whether of long
short They entirely ofvegetabe composition
harmless the gentes infant One Ingredient opens
the pores the skin; another Is durete and stimulates
proper action of the kidneys; third
ing phegm and humor from the lungs other properties
warming and catbartc and cleanse the stomach and bow
els from unhealthy secretions Their combined effect is
toreg uate impaired functions of the system and to
produce health 1t is asserted that these Pills
ctp ea-thst they will psintsbut under
binary circumstances they may be relied to cure
Nervous and Sick Headache CoGvaness Dyspepsia Ind
gestion Jaundce and Liver and Bilious Complaints Sour
W. General Weakness &c. They expressly made for
these diseases. Millions upon millions of be ci-
ted In single instance has mplaint ever Come to
knowledge, where they have not operated
mended. -sEs -ttrF gFE 20
The printed croular around each boy fully explains the
symptoms and effects OF each diseae specifies treatment
surnishes evidence &c.
We briefly refer to Rev David Elder Franklin, n. c.
who cured of Dyspepsia. c. r. Cross Theoike Ill
cured of Liver Complaint. II. Hooley, of Springfield Pa
ad Scrofua and had to crutches curedn three
weeks. James D. Doens, of Adrian Mich, cured of Bill
ious Fever. Rev. Henry Graham, Presbyterian Church.
Gananagua, CAL of Fever and Ague. Rev. Ed H. May
Twenty-First New York. of Rheumatism and
years standing Rev. Samuel Bowies Editor of the
Springfield ass) Republican cured of terrible Co.'S
tiveness, Hon. Ed Weber. OF Rumney N H., of Liver
Complaint
box of Mofats Life Pills with full circulars, &c.,
will be gratis any Physician Clergyman the
receipt Of two three cent postage stamps.
Moffat's Life Pills are rs cents box. Mofat's Phoenix
Bitters, 81 por bottle They sold by all respectable
dealers throughout the continents and the Islands the
Ocean.
WHITE s. ROWLAND, Proprietors,
Successors to DR.. JOHN MoFFAT, DR.. WM. B. MoFFAr
121 Liberty Street, New York. 36eovly
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26
He WoN'r Go IN AGA1x.-A writer s

He WoNT Go IN AGAIN-A writer says:
| recolIect seeing a brother of the Congre-
CATION of Souls standing ct the door of the
chapel, with plate in his band begging
Tor them, aud saying, Whoever will put
a real into this plate will deliver a soul
from purgatory" A wag came up, put In
the coin and then said, "Tell me- brother,
do you believe that the soul is already out?'
There can be no doubt Of il, replied the
brother. "1hen III take back my money"
SAD the other; ''for this soul won't be such
fool as to go in again
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26

A pew style of hoop skirt is shortly to be
introduced which will enable ladies and gen.
tlemen to get into company, and in fact
walk together, should it become necessary
or agreeable. A secret spring, operated
quietly by the wearer. opens section of the
hoops, and the gentleman can approach the
lady. Inventive agel
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26

The st. Louis Democrat urges the claims
of that city as the place for holding the
next National Republican convention.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-26

SAKE gets one thousand dollars year for
| his poems in the Ledger, and is expected to
contribute one week.