The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-07-28

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the "holy bonds of wedlock, a gentleman
and lady of that locality. After the Ger
emory the groom took Mr.. G. aside ane
told him he had barely enough money tx
get through his bridal tour" and upor
his return he would pay him his three
dollars (the usual tee) Mr.. 6. IN his
laughing way, asked him how many
bushels of potatoes he would give instead
of three dollarss To which he replied
Six bushels, and will double it every
year until paid" Upon this agreement
being made the parties separated, and
from that day to this neither potatoes
nor money has been received by Mr.. G.
| This gentleman who was married IS now
wealthy farmer, and should the minis,
ter insist upon the fulfillmeut of the con-
tract, which was duly witnessed, the far
mer would find that he had quite dear
wife. Let us see what she cost Com
mencing with six bushels of potatoes for
! the first year, twelve for the second, and
so on doubling for fourteen years, would
amount to 9S,298 bushels, and at fifty
cents per bushel to $40, 149, the price ola
good sized farm. She is dear wife, and
becoming doubly dear to her husband
every year. An article so high priced
ought to be good. Boys, take our advice,
and pay your marriage fees on sight. -
Exchange.
The new movement for the revival of
" Irish Nationality" remarks the London
Times of July 5, is said to be gaining
certain degree of strength. Originating
with that Protestant minority which SO
long relied on the connections with En-
gland for the maintenance of their exclu-
sive privileges, it is supported by many
of the younger priests, as well as the or.
gans of the lay Catholic democracy, and
there is no Irish party to oppose it. AS
yet, indeed, it has assumed no organized
shape, nor have It's leaders ventured to Is
sue any formal programme Of their views
Still, it has already made itself felt in
more than one contested election, and is
acquiring an influence which it would
not be wise altogether to neglect.
The Canadian government has issued
instructions to commanders of gunboats
and other vessels employed in projecting
Canadian fisheries, in which they are no.
titled to prevent any American vessels
from fishing within three miles from the
coast, and within line drawn from head
land to headland of any bay or creek less
than ten geographical miles across the
mouth. This matter of drawing a line
from headland to headland, and exclud-
ing American vessels from the inside of
that is what has been the point at issue
between our government and that OF
Great Britain. In these instructions it
will be seen that the Canadian authori-
ties have restricted the claim to bays
less than ten miles across, though they
claim not to have yielded anything from
the former Interpretation OF the question.
1t remains to be seen how our govern
ment will receive these instructions.
They claim more than our government
has ever admitted.-Mil. Wisconsin.
Now that so much doubt is expressed In
certain quarters Of the efficacy of vaccin-
alton as preventive of smallpox, the
following from an Irish paper of recent
date will prove interesting:
"a sailor returned from foreign voy-
age to his native village, Ballyhack, and,
in few days after, was seized with small
pox in it's continent and most virulent
form. The village swarms with popu-
lation stepped in poverty, and in every
way badly calculated to resist the extern
sion of a contagious disease, The mans
residence was in its centre, and segrega-
tion from his neighbors was impossible
Vaccination, however, had been for years
carefully attended to ; an infant residing
in the house had been vaccinated only
few weeks before The man recovered,
and, although two months has gone by,
there has not been another case of small
pox among the inhabitants.
The Humboldt Tenn. -lnder says: Last
Friday twelve or. fourteen disguised men
went to The quarters of some negroes
named Corthell, in Gibson county, broke
open the doors, shot one of the men
through the shoulder, another in the
head, and two others were badly beaten,
and only saved their lives by flight
They then outraged the girls. Next
morning, Squire Pirece summoned a
posse. captured two men named Boyd,
and four others, named Blanton, Willis,
Cooper and Holden. The two Boyds
were fully committed.
The Chinese in California make gold
dust out of silver half-dollar pieces, by
cutting up the silver coin into particles
which resembles in shape the gold dust
formed in the streams This is then col
ored to resemble gold and is mixed with
genuine gold dust. How the yellow col
or is put upon the silver is Celestial Sc
cret. The profit of the business must be
great, as two silver half dollars make al
most an ounce of gold dust, worth about
eighteen dollars.
A man in New Hampshire, who had
purchased pair of pups of rare breed
and had given them in charge Of dog
fancier, in a neighboring state, was
astonished, recently, upon returning
home, after an absence of few days, to
find his wife in mysteries. occasioned BY