The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-01-17


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PETROLEUM v NAsBY, P NJ
| witch is Postmaster and likwise Professor Nv
Bibikel Politics in the Southern Classikle &
Military inltitoot.
The Dead ofthe Year.
The death-rolI OF the year includes many
names distinguished in politics in the
church. in authorship, and in art. We note
a few of them
| The ranks of the authors have been thin
ned Frederick Bremen died at Stockholm
early in the year Jared Sparks, at Cam
bridge in March Joseph Merry, in France
in June; and Count Gurowski, at Wash
ngton, in May.
| Among the dead statesmen and political
leaders are Daniel 5 Dickinson, Lewis
Cass, John Van Buren,, Elijah E. Purdy
Moses + Qdell James Humphrey, Senators
Foot aud Wright, and Commodore Stockton
Prince Esterhazy died at Ratisbon, in May
aud Marquis d Azegio in Italy, in January
In October, NJ Ihonvenuel closed his long
and active career in France.
| Gordon Cumming the famous lion-hun-
ter, was accidentally killed in Scotland, in
March, Professor Henry D. Rogers, a dis
tinguished Sayant, also died in Scotland, il
May John Ross chief of the Cherokee ma
ton died at Washington, in August.
The sculptor Gibson, died in Italy, in Jan
uary, seventy five years old ; and Sir Charlie:
Eastake, President of the British koya
Academy, died at Pisa just as the new
year came i'll.
The best Clergymen who have died du
1 II
of the Roman Catholic Church DIR. Elipha
let Mott, President of Union College DR.
Hawks of New York DR. WhewelI and
Rev John Rebel in England and ''Fath
er Prout," in Paris The last named bet
ter known by lis Pseudonym than by his
proper name of Mahony.
General Scott died at West Point, on the
29th of May. Admiral Pareia, commander
of the spanish feet in the Pacific committed
suicide. John S Rarey, the horse tanner,
d ID in Ohio. in October. Robert B. Min
turn, one Of our leading merchants, died on
the 9th of January Gerard HalIeck, at
New Haven, in the same mouth Simeon
Draper and Police Inspector Carpenter IL
November and Gen. S. R. Curtis, in De.
cember
EgGood audience for an auctioneer-buy
ISLANDERS.
EBGive strict attention to your own af.
tans-and consider your wife one of them.
Eg-Be temperate in diet, Our first pal ents
ate themselves out of house and home.
fs1y- The man who ate bis dinner with the
t',rly Of, -
a mountain top
eg-A bill posted on the walls in a country
village announced that "a lecture will he
deb yered in the open air, and collection
made at the door to defray expenses.
G8- Fenian sister, Gods says writer, are
much nicer things than brotherhoods, and
far better armed foE conquest
eg-A little boy had wooden horse, and
in tue course Of time its tail, ears and hea d
got broken off aud the toy presented rather
a ragged appearance. Says he one day,
God sees everything, don't he, mother p
Yes my child" We'll guess he'll laugh.
then when he sees this hose
ts5-A man who was reading in paper
an account of the destruction Of some gin
houses at the South remarked to a friend ;
"Well, I'm a good temperance man. and
don't care how many gin-houses are burned;
but it is too bad for the Southerners to burn
them, When they belong to the people of the
North
Eg- The bishop of Carlisle, who thinks
that every boy and girl should learn to re,
peat the thlrty-nine Articles as well as the
catechlsm, recently asked youthful schol-
ar if he had read the Thirty niue Articles.
No" said the boy, but have read the
Forty Thieves " You may stand down,
sir, !" said the Bishop.
Rgr A Galway bailiff having been
toned rs to whether he had spoken queS
OF the locked up Jurors during TO any
gravely answered No mv me nlgEt
Kept calling out To- me to l2fu the,
hey' but always Sad co 1pthS 'ne''i WINS us
swS- my ~ uu'y - tell you that an
8-A new ~ ID dangerous imitation of tb
tive-do'i"f y ,ational Bank note has recent,
been put ahoat The engraving is said t.
he hue' executed, and the bill, i'll the main
well calculated to deceive-still it may b
readily detected. In the genuine the group
OF Columbus and his companions is com
posed OF five persons; in the counterfeit Their
are but tour-the one in the back ground a
the extreme figure i'll the group i
missing. In the counterfeit, also, the ex
teuded arm Of Columbus is without hand
Bills of this description on five dfferen
banks have already appeared, and other
will doubtless soon follow.
EgJ- A mean rich man mentioned in a laS
case that he had given poor family SOM
money in charity, but on a cross examina
ton said that he took a receipt. This con
fession drew from General Butler, one @
the counsel gentlemen the Christian grac
has always won my affections. When
child at my mothers knee, learned from
the great Apostle to the Gentiles that char
ity sutfereth long, aud is kind charity Ell
vleth not charity vaunteth not itself
is not pulled up, doth not behave itself un
seemly, seekeeh not her own By the
same high authority my young mind wa
taught that charity beareth all things, be
le'veth all things endureth all things, hop
eth all things. But gentlemen of the ia
~, this is the first time in all my life tina
have ever known charity to take
receipt
CONVENTION WITH JAPAN.
Conrentjon Jet1reen tie United States and the En-