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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-17

RoNANTIc.-A magnificent piece Of human
hnir-the largest, finest and most Valuable in
AmeriSa-if now hanging in the window Of
Thompson & Co., In Canal street, near Broad
way 1t Is OF q dark brown hue, soft az ak.
weighs seven ounces, is sixty four inches lons
On medium-sizcd woman, this would swern
the moor. The longest piece of hair on record
exhibited ut the London Exposition of 1851
belonged 10 Leon Pellery, Of Paris. and was
SIX feet IN length. The story of this one that
measures sixty four inches is rather romantic
1t camo from the head Of Swabian He.ssnt
girl, who had two suitors for her hand. one n
poor farm hand, whe earned six kyeutzers y
day, and the other = rich miller. The miller
owned the cottage in which the Swabiap eirl
and her widowed mother lived, and being A.
selfish snd INSCRIPTIONS as he was wealthy
threatened to drive his tenants out of tbeir
home unless his suit was successful. although
thoy had already paid part of the price de-
manded for the cottage, and were SAVING ana
working to pay the remainder In this emer-
gency travelling hair merchant appeard in
the village, and sooner than marry the veal
ahy miller, or on the other hand have her
aged mother driven from house and home.
she determined npcn the sacrifice of her bean
titul hair 1t was taken to the Leipsic an.
nual fair; sold there for e175 to an Ameri.
ear dealer, and from his hands found it's wav
to its present owners. 1t is valued at bS~
tween 1850 and e3O0--N Y. Sun.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-17

Too high an appreciation of our own tall
ents is the chief cause why experience preach
es to us all in vain.
David Marshall, chaged with having kick
ed and beat his wife to death at Vanvert, Ohio,
has been tried and found guilty. the jury re-
turning a verdict of guilty of assault and bat
tery. He was sentenced to the county jail
for six months. The jurors of that county
place high value on wopan's life
About the last of October safe was blown
open in Grant county and five hundred dollars
taken therefrom by an enterprising burglar,
for whom a reward of three hundred dollars
was offered. In November Darlington was
visited by the same burglar, who there blew
open another safe and took away money.
Sheriff Campbell, of Lafayette county, then
set to work to discover the burglar, and
three weeks ago succeeded in arresting him
at Apple River, Illinois. He has been tried,
convicted, and sentenced to three years.
term at Waupun.
VIM LACY, Jr, son Of William Lacy, COM
mercial editor of the Albany Argus, died a
few days ago, and a post norton examination
revealed that gland, or cartilage, the size
of large egg, had been gradually forming
on the back part of the neck which, pressing
forward toward the windpipe, at last pro-
duced suffocation. His suffering before death
is said to have been intense. The case is said
to be very remarkable. nothing like it ever
having been known b efore to the medical pro-
fession of Albany.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-17

A ROBINS RoosT.-It is generally supposed
that robins emigrate to the South during the
winter months. From the following account
in Maine paper it would appear that such
is not the case: Two gentlemen crossing the
Sandwich mountains discovered deep val
ley, and approaching it. found it clothed with
hemlock, spruce, fir and tamarack, growing
SO thick together that it was with difficulty
they made Roadway between them. Before
they came to this growth the snow was over
foot in depth after entering it was only
six inches, the residue lying on the tops Of
the trees, making quite roof and excluding
much OF the light or Gay. After making
their way few rods they were surprised to
find the place an extensive robin "roost,"
occupied by thousands; and SO thickly we're
they congregated that they might have kill
ed numbers will their walking sticks in cross
ing the premises from sonth to north--about
thirty rods.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-17
A Railroad Haunted by the Spirit
of Victim.

The Boston papers publish the follow.
ing strange but we'll authenticated story
The engine er on the freight train on
| the Boston and Lowell railroad, which
leaves Boston about three o'clock in the
morning, has on several occasions discoy-
cred q red light swinging at furious rate
at the Woburn Station, where the train
stops for water. The light would some
times be in front and sometimes in the rear
of the train. When the engineer would
stop his train and send some one to learn
why the signal to stop was made, the
messenger would be greatly surprised to
see the light vanish Investigation has
proved that no person was there with q
lantern, and the brakeman and conductor
concur also in having beheld the phenom
enon, which, so far as known, Is without
visible cause Some laborers living on
the line of the above station state that d
few mornings since they were coming
down the road in hand Car, when they
suddenly heard the approach of an engine
and train, and knowing that no train was
due in that vicinity at that hour, they be-
came greatly frightened, and jumping out
of the car, threw it off the track to await
the train which they thought was coming
at rapid pace upon them, but which, it
is needless 10 say, did not come. The SUI
perstitious regard the affair as forewarn-
ing of some disaster, while the spiritual
lists have the ready theory chat tits the
spirit of a man who was killed there
about two years ago.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-17

A LITTLE DEAF.-In the olden time
before Maine laws were invented, Wing
kept the hotel at Middle Granville, and
from his we'll stocked bar furnished &C
commodation to man and beast. He was
good landlord, but terribly deaf. Fish
the village painter, was afflicted in the
same way.
One day they were sitting by them.
selves in the bar-room. Wing was behind
the counter, waiting for the next customer,
while Fish was lounging before the fire.
with thirsty look, casting sleeps eyes
occasionally at Wings decanters, and
wishing devoutly that some one would
come in and treat.
A traveller from the South, on his way
to Brandon, stepped in to inquire the
distance. Going up to old Wings bar
he said:
"Can you tell me how far it is to Bran
don ?"
/" Brandy ?"says the ready landlord,
jumping up. eyes, sir, have some," at
the same time handing down decante1
of the liquid.
"You misunderstood me-" says the
stranger: II asked how far it was to Bran.
DON"
"They call it good Brandy" says Wing
evil you take some sugar with it?'
reaching, as he spoke, for the bowl and
toddy- stick.
The despairing traveller, hoping for 8
proper answer, now turned to Fish.
"The landlord" said he, "seems to bt
deaf; will you tell me how tar it is t.
Brandon?"
"Thank YOU" said Fish; ~ don't care
| if I do take drink with you'll"
| The traveller treated and fled.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-17

NICE AS TILL-TAPPERs. Philadelphia
publican missed money from his till. Every
means was employed in vain for the discov-
cry of the thief. He slept alone in his bar.
room one night undisturbed, but in the NOM
ing every bit OF paper money was gone from
the drawer At length the drawer was remov-
ed In one corner hole was found just big
enough for the entrance OF mouse. For
years the little creatures had been renewing
the lining of their nest with national curren-
cy of every small denomination. The guam
tity recovered filled cigar box. 1t was cut
virtually into paper down, and amounted In
the aggregate to several hundred dollars. If
all tie mice in the country would do like
wise, the National debt would be precepta-
bly, diminished, aud bar-rooms would be the
most appropriate field of action they could
find.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-17

RIoToUs ELEPHANT Friday last sbout
3 O'Clock, and during the absence of the keep.
er, Frank Nash. the elephant, Jenny Lind. be-
longing to the Van Amburg Menagarie. now
wintering in this city, determined to Tree her
self from bondage and exhibit herself tree of
charge. Her first performance was to try If
1t were possible to upset the building in which
she was confined. but, finding she was unable
to push the solid masonry from it's solid foun--
dalton, she seized the zebra, which stood in
close proximity, deliberately lifted the fright
ened beast out OF his stall with her trunk.
held him poised in mid air, then dashed him
violently to the ground Not satisfied. ono
of the sacred cattle shared the same fate:
Everything was in the widest confusion
lions, tigers, and all the wild beasts, terrified
by her unusual fury, made hhc building echo.
with roars, and trying to burst their bars and
escape. Mr.. Winner, the lion-tamer, tried.
both by coaxing and threatening. to pacifyr
her Majesty until the return of her keeper
but without success, and at one time Mr..
Winner says she made her chains ting like q.
harp string Ifshe had succeeded in escaping
she would have instantly demolished the denS.
containing the animals, and the damage they
would have done in the surrounding country
could not be realized Word WAS instantly
sent to her keeper. Mr.. Nash, and he arrived
on the scene just in time. Her Royal High
nessswas SO blinded by her rage that she did
not recognize him, as usual, by his footstep
but the moment she heard his voice, accom-
panied by his terrible spear, he forced her to-
immediate subsection, and she trembled and
begged for mercy most pitiably
(Ind Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-17

LIEUT.. EDWARD P. COLBY, who committed
suicide at Jefferson, Texas, a few days ago.
was the son of the late Stoddard b. Colby, of
Montpelier, VT, whose autograph may be
found on certain issues OF greenbacks as Reg
lister of the Treasury" His suicide is attrib-
uted to the fact that for some time past he
had been addicted to gambling and drunken
ness and had lost heavily. On the mantel-
piece in his room was found small Sunday
results of gambling. Written on this was,
I" Follow theteachings of this and you will
be sayed.o
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-17
R e MOVE ed.
e. &. HAXELTON, Denfisf

OFFICE new block, over Johnson's Bookstore.
~ All operations pertaining to the teeth war.
extracting teeth without pain, d1aoaus on hand
Teeth should be examined at least once wear. 2C
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-17

THE WEIGHT OF A BALH OF CoTToN.-The.
cotton crop is estimated at SO many bales, and
this way of estimating produces the impress
ion that the bale is some defnate weight or
quantity. This however, is mistake, In
1852 the average weight of the cotton bales
imported into Liverpool was as follows: Mo.
bile, 504 pounds; New Orleans 455 Upland,
800; Sea Island, 1888; Egypt, 245; Brazil, 1872.
Manual of Commerce" published in 1855,
gives the weight of a bale of cotton 100 to;
500 pounds, the heaviest being from Alabama
and Louisiana, and the lightest from Brazil.
In 1870 bale OF American cotton was 200
pounds. In 1924 il averaged 266 pounds, and
in 1886 it was 31S pounds. In Lowell, in 1881,
the average bale was 361 pounds. In these
days the bale Of American cotton is UNDER
stood to be $50 pounds, and when the crop is
stated, bales of that weight are intended
But it would seem to be desirable, Oh account
of the want Of uniformity in bales, to state
the crops in hundred weights or tons.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-17

ROBINSON CRUsoE's HoME.-A colony OF
sixty or seventy German emgrants have set
tied on the island of Juan Fernandez. MADE
famous by De Foes story of Robinson Cru
soc. They are delighted with thelr new e,
spot, stocked already with wild goats and
few wild horses and donkeys. The grotto,
so famous as Robinson's house, still remains.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-17
DEAD & CAPRON. have all

IL kinds of Flour and Ground Feed
constantly on hand. They are sc ling a very fine
lot of Crockery and Glass ware at cost. Call and
see. 1y43
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-09
GEORGIA.

Savannah is devouring roasting
ears.
Senator Sherman was at Marietta
on Memorial Day.
Oats all dead about Lagrange.
Wheat crop good.
Atlanta is building a Catholic
church, to cost $4,000.
Cotton has squares in Newman
county, and is most promising.
Rome supplies the Selma market
with chickens, and the Atlanta mar
ket with fish.
They have a mineral spring in At
lanta where liquors are thought to be
improved by being mixed with the
water. 1t is a great resort of editors.
John P. Pryor delivers the Thirty
sixth Anniversary Grafton of the
Ciceronian Society at Penfield. The
writer used to roar in the Phi-Delta.
The gardens and fields about Gov
ington are as full of hope as the beau
tiful women of that place are famed
for their bright eyes and dewy lips.
We saw them when Sherman was
smashing things to the sea.
The FdrD1eT'S artisan says: "During
the last week there have been gentle
and refreshing rains throughout the
State, and reports of the growing
crops are most satisfactory. Stands Of
cotton are, we learn, unusually good,
and the area planted considerably
larger than last year. We are forced
TO believe that corn has been generally
neglected, and the worst results to the
planting interest may be anticipated.
With a large crop of cotton at ten
cents per pound, and corn to buy at
two dollars per bushel, after paying
for fertilizers, too many planters will,
fear, find themselves as poor at
the close of the year as they were at
the beginning
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-09

Ben BUTLER'is in open revolt. He
planted his standard, by a desperate
charge, in the very midst OF his enc
mics, who, strangely enough, consist
Of Radicals led by Schenck. Butler
demanded that bonds should be taxed,
and the money collected by the Gov
eminent when paying coupons. His
speech was full of zeal and earnest
ness. He christened the "blOated
bondholders the rascal bOndhOld-
ers," and assailed them aRd their de-
tenders with unparalleled ferOcity.
Wall street felt the shock, and bonds
trembTedand went down like mercury
in the thermometer during a summer
hailstorm. Buffers .sarcasms were fe-
.rocious, and Belmont and a certain He
brew Of Amsterdam became subjects
of his hideous diatribes. Democrats
were well pleased, but uttered no
word. The vote on the proposition
showed how wisely they acted. But
Ter was beaten only by 40 to IS,
demonstrating the fact that many OF
Buffers party have adopted his
,-fa,vs
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-09

EVERY citizen Of Shelby county
will surely read with thorough atten-
ton the address in behalf of the Selma
road presented to the County Court
by Ex-Governor Harris. 1t tells the
literal, simple, unmixed truth, with
singular clearness and force. 1t will
be published, placed in the hands Of
every voter Of the county, and surely,
if reason still governs the conduct OF
men, there viii be not one single vote
pOlled in Shelby county in opposition
to a certainly feasible plan by which
the city and county may be enriched,
10y augmenting public liabilities. A
map Of the railroad system of the city
and county, as now defined, should
be published with this address, and
then every intelligent voter would see
at a glance how invaluable to this
people becomes this southeastern rail-
way, giving Memphis access to the
richest lands in the South, and bisect-
ing two railways which have done
more to retard the prosperity Of Mem
phis than all agencies Of evil that have
i~nterposed obstacles to hmitless
wealth.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-09

MORLEY, the northern terminus O
the Memphis (Hopefeld) and Iron
Mountain road, is thirty-fOur miles
from Belmont, one hundred and sixty
three from st. Louis, and one hun
dred and fifty-two from Hopefeld,
and the whole distance from Memphis
to St. Louis by this route is 315 miles,
forty-fye shorter than by way Of Bel
mont. General Edward SerrHl, Chief
Engineer, is in New York, and Col,
Lamar, Chief Assistant, is now at
HOpefield, in charge of the enterprise.
Cabins are erected and every prepare
ton is made for the energetic prOsecu-
ton Of the work. The grounds for a
Union Depot have been bought for the
Little Rock, Kansas City and st.
Louis roads. The cost of grading this
st. Louis road along the river shore
viii be $4,000, and Of iron $1,000, per.
mile. The road owns about nine hun
dred thousand acres Of land, worth
not less than $50 per acre when the
finished road protects it wholly from
Overtiows. In fact, this Porter road
Will redeem and populate a county
quite equal to that which Governor
Alcorn proposes to convert, by means
Of a levee and railway, into a negro
and cotton paradise, along the eastern
shore Of the Mississippi from Mem
phis to New Orleans. All these facts
only highten the necessity fo- a road
to Selma. Memphis must be made
the point Of interchange for products
Of the Northwest and Southeast.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-09

THE most important changes thai
governments undergo are not Away:
brought about by battles or violent
revolutions; they are often slow, and
for a time may remain imperceptible
and it is only when most important
changes in the organic law have been
accomplished that their vastness and
bearing r perceived.
This seems to be the tendency OF
affairs in this country at the present
time. The party that now controls
our Government are using all the re-
sources of the country, not only to
perpetuate their own power, but also
to change the very nature OF the Gov
eminent itself. No one who will OBJ
serve the course they are taking can
for a moment doubt that this is their
purpose. The doctrine of State SOW
ereignty, as understood and estab-
lished by the founders of the Repub-
lie, and embodied in the Constitution,
is just the principle that the central
izing party Of this country, now in
possession of the Government, and
known as the Radical party, wish to.
destroy. While the principle Of State
rights is recognized as an element en-
tering into the administration of the
Government of the Republic, the cen
tralizing doctrines of New England
cannot succeed. That those doctrines
control the present administration.
and enter largely into altheir actions,
there can be no doubt; and that their
chief object is to reduce the several
States, and more especially those that
took up arms TO vindicate principles
that they believed to be right, to the
condition Of provinces, must be OBJ
Yious to all who observe the drift of
things. We see it in every move
ment Of Grants administration. We
can see in every person appointed
to Office under him a representative of
that centralizing and provincializing
principle. As soon as it is ascertained
that an ofice-bolder is not sound on
that doctrine, off comes his official
head. We see that even in so remote
a province as Tennessee, no liberal
Republican al hold Office long. Now
is the turning point in the destinies
Of the Republic; if we allow those
antiD Democratic principles TO gain too.
much Roadway, and suffer ourselves
to be turned aside by other issues Of
comparatively small importance, we
may live to see the day when Ten
nessee, or any other individual State,
viii be of as little importance in the
administration Of the Republic as
HindOOstan is in the administration
of the British Empire, OF Poland is in
that Of Russia. General Grant may
not be inclined, if let alone, to seize
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-09


IT is all very well for a body Of
WhittemOres to overrun the South,
seize, through the intervention OF
blacks, all public Offices, plumber tax
payers, build jails for $3.50, OOOthat cost
$4,000, draw bonds from partner. in
crime under a Law which requires a
sale at par and then sell at forty-two
cents-it is ali very fine for these
knaves to hold up their hands in holy
horror and inveigh against "Repudi-
alton" After robbing US TO poverty,
after Cutting the market with Ten
nessee securities, after the perpetra-
ton Of frauds which reduced the value
Of Tennessee bonds to foTty-two cents,
these immaculate monsters of deprav-
ity shudder when we say that in the
hands-aof original purchasers these
bonds should never be paid. The law
declared that the bonds must be sold
at par, and never yet did a Wall street
operator buya bond without thorough
familiarity with the lac Of its crea-
ton. five must be lectured on repu-
diatiOn, on the horrible immortality
involved in the bare proposition, let
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-09
THURSDAY MORNING, IUEE 9, 1870

MURDERS, thefts, robberies, muir
derous assaults, Grim. cons, elope-
ments, arsons, suicides, and last,
though not least, fatal railroad acct
dents, have become 50 common in the
Northern States Of the best govern
ment the world ever saw" that we
are induced to furnish in another
place a column of assorted crimes,
variegated vices and siekening fatali-
ties. W would like to know, in view
Of dispatches which we constantly re-
ceive, and Of the horrors recited IN
every Northern paper, whether Nor
ton and Pool should not at once re-
construct the whole North. Have not
the supposed Ku-Klux changed their
abiding place?
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-09
THE MEMPHIS DAFT

the Government and become an auto.
erat, but Grant is the mere tool Of
other and more designing men; he is
a man of very little ambition, pos
sesses scarcely any energy and nc
business capacity whatever. But
there are those behind him who make
him a mere instrument to carry their
designs into execution, and those
men who have most control over
him are the very men who
most hate our Republican form
Of Government; and they are
constantly sending their creatures to
the provinces lately az rebellion TO
represent them in the capacity Of Office
holders. The South is the great object
OF their hatred, and in,order the more
thoroughly to bring those States I'M
der the yoke they are willing to place
even New England under some re-
st~rictions, but not to suffer to the same
extent. We must be blind indeed #
we do not see these movements Of the
Radical party and their tendency.
Senator Brownlow maybe more indis-
Greet than most of his party, in saying
that they wanted strong central gov
eminent in the District OF Columbia
that would make itself felt most efec-
lively in the remotest part of the
country, but he only feebly expressed
a part of the doctrines of his party if
he understood their projects and aims.
Every step we take to put the tools
of this party into power, will bea step
toward the destruction of our hber-
ties and the downfall of our Republic.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-09
81 See that Bet and Go a Hundred Thou
sand Better"

The Knoxville papers, a day or two ago,
announced that John Baxter, late a men,
Der of the Constitutional Convention,
bad instituted suit against General
Joseph A. Mabry, who was also a mem
Der of the convention, in the Circuit
Court of Knox county, for libel, laying
his damages at $4,000.
We have learned that General Mabry,
in turn, has directed his attorney to insti-
ute t0O suits against Baxter, at once
the for SANDER and the other for libel,
laying his damages in each case at S75, COO.
Whether Baxter will "call' or raise the
bet, remains to be seen. We fear we viii
have to insist upon the adoption of the
resolution of the honorable gentleman
from Madison, if these complications go
much further. "Vat a peoples! vat q
peeples!i'