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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-12-08

HINTS TO NIGHT WATCHERS. "A person
who Is sick enough to need night
needs rest, and quiet, and all the undisturhsd
repose he can get. Ii one or more persons
are in the room reading, talking, or whisper
ing, as is often tle case, this Is impossible
unless 1t be very dim one, SO placed as to
De out of sight OF the patient Kerosene oil
should never be used in the sick room. The
attendant should quietly sit or lie in the
same room, or, what is usually better, in an
AuJolnlng room, so as TO be within call if
anything is wanted In extreme cases. the
attendant can frequently step quietly to the
bedside TO see il the patient is dong well. but
all light and noise should be carefully exclud-
ca. IL is a common practice to awaken ps .
'Sients occasionally Tor fear they will sleep too
souudy. rhis should never be done. Sleen
is one OF the greatest needs of the sick. and
there Is no danger of their getting too much
of it,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-12-08
INDIAN SUMNER.

Drifting DER the woodland, -
Floods of golden light;
Shadows tinged with glory, a
Deepen into night
Shifting, shimmering phantoms
Hide among the trees, U8l
Playing tricks fantastic
With the falling leaves. ~.
Gone the summer flowers, ,ss a-f
Faded out of sight; Ea
Passed oeyon the portal "a
Death, of winters might.
Sauth winds whisper sadly,
Whittier have they fled ?"
Scattering leaves above their graves
Answer they are dead"
Drifting with The seasons,
Float our lives. away;
Glide into the darkness
Opening into day.
-She6oyga'a Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-12-08

spared the life of one, though sentenced,
and kept knowledge of it from the 9TH
er though shot,
We didn't know that the Second Cav
airy were out to the execution with load
ed carblnes, and forty rounds in their
cartridge-boxes if we had, we might
not have felt quite at ease-but it could
have made no other difference.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-12-08
A GOLDEN DAY. t.s aimh'
HaaF -==oi5a3n eIB yHEf ~
By ELLAl WHEELER 2fi lsyB78l
Written for the Western Farmer

- estee
Written for the Western Farmer. s
The golden beauty of this day
Hangs DER ne, like fairy spell,
And care, and grief, have flown away,
And ev, ry breeze sings . All is we'll"
/ ask, Holds earth, or pain. or woe p
My heart responds Il do not know"
Nay, all we know, or feel, my heart
To-day. is joy, undimmed, complete. =
In pain, or tears, we hav, no part;
The act of breath ny is so sweet ASa
We care no higher JOY to name,
What wreck we now, of wealth or fame.
Oh Past what matters it to mel aHe -
The pain 1t gave hath passed away. 81
Or Future-thatI cannot see! lefaai
care for nothing save to-day. afHa =
This is respite from all care, i6R fa
And trouble tiles-I know not where.
Go Oh, oh noisy, restless life dIidf
Pass oy, oh feet that seek for heights!
/ have no part in aught OF strife o
| do not want your vain delights. 80
The day drops round me, like a spell, doe
And every eezestngs, "fAllis we'll" $
WeStport, Vas.
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-12-08
LETTER FROM PRESIDENT
LINCOLN.

The Troy Press prints the following
letter. not heretofore published, from
President Lincoln to the parents of Colo.
mel Ellsworth. The letter bears Mr.. Lin.
coins frank, and post marked, "Wash.
ington, May 81, 1862 'n1
10 the Father and Mother of Colonel Elmer
h. El1sworth 8a
MY DEAR SIR AND MADAME:-In the
untimely loss of your noble son, our atflic-
ton here is scarcely less than your own.
80 much of promised usefulness to ones
country, and for bright hopes for ones
sell and friends, have never been so sud
denly dashed as in his fall. Il, In size, in
years, In appearance boy only, lis pow
er 10 command men was surprisingly
great This power combined with fine
intellect end ndomitahle energy, and a
taste altogether military, constituted in
him, as seemed to me, the best natural
talent In that department ever knew.
Ana yet ne was singplarly modest and
defercntial In social Intercourse. MY &C
qualntance with him began less than two
years ago; yet, through the latter half of
the Intervening period. it was as intense
as the disparity of our ages, and my en-
crossing engagements, would permit. To
me he appeared to have no indulgencea
or pastimes; and never heard him utter
a profane or Incorporate word. What
was conclusive of his good heart, he never
forgot his parents. The honors he labor
ed for SO laudahly, and in the sad end,
SO calamity gave his life, be meant for
them no less than himself. Is. .4yI ~.
In the hope that it may be no intrusion
upon the sacTedness of your sorrow, /
have ventured to address you this tribute
to the memory of my young friend, and
your brave and early fallen son. ff.a5
May God give you the consolation
which is beyond all earthly power. Sin
cerely your friend in common affection,
Hr A. LINCOLN.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-12-08

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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-12-08

California acorns, when dried, it is said
can hardly be told from chestnuts.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-12-08

EMANCIPATION IN BRAZIL. Brazil
is In the midst of a social revoi uti0n
the extent of which can hardly be real
lied outside of the United States 1t is
the abolition of slavery. The Emperor
favors the emancipation of all slaves, but
he is opposed by nearly all of the better
an more wealthy class of people So
strong has been their influence, that, up
have been against him; but he has sum-
moned the courage to dismiss al! such,
and replace them by those favorable to
his designs. THIS will doubtless bring
matters to a crisis before long. Thus far
the revolution has resulted Ia 70 violence
and has made little Roadway, in fact no
systematic attack has been made upon
that peculiar domestic institution, and
there has been comparatively little agita
ton of the question, but this state If af-
fairs cannot last much longer That the
Emperor is in earnest IN the matter, is
manifest in his changing his ministry for
thepurpose OF etfecting emancipation of
the slaves. But he may change his mind
rather than force the issue, as there
are few people in Brazil who have distin-
guished themselves by devotion to princi-
pie. The worst element he has to con
tend with is composed of emigran5s from
our southern states, who desired to live
where slavery was legal institution, if
no longer considered divine; they are
troublesome in the extreme, as they have
already been embittered because of form
er losses in this country. Many Of them
escaped with their slaves during the lat
ter part of the war, and others emIgrated
after the surrender of the southern armies
preferring voluntary exile to the rule OF
the United States authorities. Many OF
tets class are good soldiers, and are dan
gerous in any community in which they
are opposed, to any considerable extent,
in their peculiar views on this special
topic. If the Emperor continues in his
present course, we may safely anticipate
trouble in Brazil before the unce,.n beast
is conquered. Progress has always cost
much in blood and treasure, and, perhaps
always will but we shall certainly hope
that the day is near at hand, when
slaves no longer live in Brazil. y WIS
c0ns5aa.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-12-08
POETRY.
THANKSGIVING.

THANKSGlNlNG.
BY MARY BRAINARD.
For the Rockford Gazette.
For the Fathers pledge, completed
''Early and the latter rain;
For the promise of the spring time;
For the harvest-ripened grain -
For the healthful winds of winter - Z
For the purifying storm;
For the burning suns OF summer,
Ripening the golden corn
o God, l thank Thec
For the rising of the people,
That the war-knife, cuts, to-day,
Through old cancers, that were eating
All the nations lives away
For the uncrowned, dethroned despots
For the ght breal1ethin,
Waking long benighted millions HaE
From their century-swoon of sin
o God, I thank. Thee!s
For the love that panied and .humbled,
When my life grew vain and proud
For the Fathers hand sustaining, 81. s.,
Till in penitt nce, l bowed
FOr the warning voice that Child me,
When, sin-Iured, tnrled aside;
For the teaching OF Affections; 80,
For the sorrows sanctified -
y 30 God, I thank Thee ! a.
For the bird song. and the blossom a5
For the shade at summer-noon;
Forthe winter Sunshine, flooding =.
Glory-like, my peaceful room
For the heavenward' aspirations
For the holy hour Of prayer;
For my lonely heart-communings,
And the strength gather there 90
s.ts y God, THANK Thee i't~
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-12-08

Armed with the petition, the Lieuten-
ant Colonel went to the General, and.
gathering up all the eloquence of all the
arguments, laid the case before him. He
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-05-10

A largo number of the most prom.
lnont women in Washington, with
Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren as their lead
err, are engaged in obtaining sigma
lures to the following memorial to
Congress. The list of signers is al
ready very large, and the movement
Is y, IN, rapidly gaining strength:
we the undersigned, do appeal to
your honorable body, theR Congress-
assembled of our beloved country in
the firm belief that our net;t;or ren-
resents the sober convictions of the
majority of the women of the conn
try. Deeply and painfully Impress
cd by tho grave peril which throat
en- our peace aud happiness in tho
movement initiated by some discon-
tented Of our own sex, and which
has found its expression in your hon.
orable body, through resolution re-
Gently offered in the House of Rep
resentatives proposing the adoption
of certain radical changes in our civ
il and political rights, as a Sixteenth
Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States, we desire hereby
to enter our protest.
because Holy Scripture incalcu-
iates q different, and for US a higl err
sphere, apart from public life.
because we shrink from the no
toriety of the public eye-restrained
by that modesty which we esteem
our chiefest ornament, and which
belongs TO US as our most inalienabe
right, we find ourselves in a measure
defenseless against the public assaults
and declamatory harangues Of those
few disconnected ones Of our own sex
who claim for US an extension of civ
il and political rights.
because those Of us who are wives
cherish as sacred the VOW Of obedi-
ence, in exchange for the honor and
respect we receive in yielding it.
because, as women, we find q
full measure of duties, cares and re-
sponsibilities devolving upon US, and
we are therefore, unwilling to bear
.othor and heavier burdens, and those
unsuited to our physical condition.
because history teaches us that
whenever attempts have been made
to change the legitimate order, and
impose upon us conditions unsuited
10 our physical organization and wo-
manly nature, such changes have
been found to degrade us-witness
the extreme dissoluteness Of the Spar
tan women after an extension of civ
il rights had been granted them.
Because these changes, desired
by some women of masculine minds,
must Introduce frightful element
of discord into existing marriage re-
lation, and thereby increase the al
ready alarming prevalence ofdivorce
throughout the land.
because no general law affecting
the condition of all women should be
framed to meet exceptional discon-
tent. For these, and many more
reasons, do we beg Of your wisdom
that no law, extending suffrage to
women, may be passed, as fraught
with danger SO grave against the
general order Of the country"
As was stated, the movement be-
gan in official circles of the city, and
The intention of those engaged in it
is to extend it throughout the coun-
try.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-05-10
An Astounding Discovery in Chemis-
try.

Mr.. Theophilo Ladislas Zchweskof-
ski, one Of the cleverest pupils of
Baron Liebig, has made an astound-
ing discovery 10 chemistry, viz. the
silicious and aluminous others 1t is
but necessary to pour into champ
payne glass certain quantity of
these two others to produce almost
instantaneously the most magnificent
stones combined with very pure OK
ide of iron the aluminous ether pro-
duces ruby with sulphate Of copper,
the sapphire with eaIts of manean-
csc, the smethyst with salts OF nick
81. tho emerald with salts of chrome,
the sliiclous ether produces the diff
erent colorations Of the topaz, These
others evaporate with a penetrative
perfume, which several persons have
declared 10 be very agreeable. The
salts crystalline very regularly as
soon as the liquid part has gone
The colindons obtained through this
means are not quite as hard as the
natural ones but. if the operation
is carefully done, the brilliancy is ad-
mirable. Tho silica and the alumina
which constitute the earths and clays
are principles easily found in the diff
ferent parts Of the globe; and the
preparation of tho now others,
though delicate, costs very little
This discovery will bring forth re-
volution not only in the jowelry, but
in most of our industrial arts.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-05-10

THE WoNDERsoF GEoLoGY.--There
is something startling to the unedu-
Gated mind in what these biologists
claim they can do. For instance,
one Of these gentlemen will take some
old substance that is represented to
be tooth, or a claw, or the rib of
some extinct animal. He will put
on his spectacles, smell Of it, feel of
it, squirt at it, and theE tell you ex-
actly the shape and size Of the ami
NAL, how many millions Of years ago,
to half a second, that it .existed
on earth, etc, etc. OF course no
knowledgeous person doubts their
ability to do this; only it is strange,
you know. Sometimes a geologist
slips up. Professor Swallow, IN the
Mining Bureau, did, the other day.
One Doctor Logan sent the learned
Professor a specimen" which that
individual examined with absorbing
interest and then pronounced it to
be a fragment of calcareous tufa. -
"The cellular structure" added the
Professor, sis produced by the wa
ter standing in the CELL" The feel
ings Of the man Of science may be
better imagined than described when
the waggish doctor responded that
the tufa was ga piece of maple sugar
to which the ants had found access.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-05-10

BACCHUs IN MAssACHUsETTs.-T
Legislature has made a miserable fail
ure in it's attempts TO regulate the
liquor trafc, having got wrecked in
tho passage between the Charbydis
of prohibition and the Scylla Of free
rum, in the attempt to lind middle
ground between drinks and no drinks
at all. During the reign Of the pro-
hibitory principle the liquor vonded
at the bars has been that kind well
calculated to eliminate in assault
and battery and horrible deIirium tre-
mems, apoplexy or sudden DEATH
"Absolute prohibition" invented pun
gent and powerful liquor essences,
others and oils, q single drop of
which if put upon the tongue of o
dog would kill him before he could
wag his narrative. A pound of bran
dy oil, costing SO, will flavor three
hundred and twenty gallons of spir-
it's so that no ordinary palate can
tell the mixture from the genuine
cognac. The Legislature should
make law against the sale of adul-
terated liquors, and have policemen,
as they do in Paris, to pour such stuff
upon the ground, instead of ::presum-
ing to prevent the public FRONT using
liquors at all. The House passed q
License bill in the early stages of the
session, but the Senate refused to
nurse the bantling, and cooked up a
compromise affair which is equivalent
to free rum, but pretending to pro-
hibit except for legitimate, specified
purposes. What with the liquor
question, and ten-hour law and wo-
man suffrage, and half dozen 9TH
or impracticable subjects, the Legis-
lature has succeeded in frittering
away the winter at public expense
Of four hundred thousand dollars and
really accomplishing nothing, while
Bacchus is still able to boast of his
worshipers, some of whom are men,
bers from Cranberry Center" that
are his most ardent admirers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-05-10

WHAT IS DIRT ?-Old DR.. Cooper
Of S. c., used to say to his students,
"Don't be afraid Of a little art,
Why nothing at all offensive, when
chemically viewed. Rub a little al
kali on that dirty grease spot on
vonr coat, and it undergoes a chemi-
cal change. and becomes soap. Now
rnb IL with little water, and it dis
annears it is neither grease, soap,
water nor dirt. Everything you call
dirt isIvorthy ofsnotice, as students
OF chemistry. Analyze III It will
separate into very clean clements
Dirt makes corn, corn makes bread
and meat, and they make a sweet
young lady that l saw one of you
kissing last night. So after all You
were kissing dirt, particularly if she
whitens her skin with chalk or Full
ler's earth. There is no telling what
is dirt"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-05-10
Free Seats in Churches.

Some Of the most eminent persons
in England, including sixty peers
and peeresses, have signed a docu-
ment representing the deplorable
state of the Established Church, and
are developing movement for the
abolition of rented pews in churches,
and the adoption of the otfertory, or
free-seat system. Unlike this coun-
try, they have their churches built
and paid for-have their preachers
supported by public 1.-THE or tax
have all the outward appliances
have everything, indeed, but hearers
and communicates. The people are
so perverse that they won't attend
church, unless they can be seated,
and they don't like to trespass upon
those who have hired that privilege.
This movement is in the right d.
rection, and our churches may profit
by the example. We are aware
that, owing to the pecuniary weak
ness of many churches, the rent of
seats is the chief source Of support
to the society. But when once the
debts are paid, and there is reason
able prospect of paying the pastors
salary in some other way, the ques-
ton of free seats should be settled
on the right side. The pew system
excludes thousands from public wor-
ship, who would otherwise attend,
not because they might not be seat
cd, but from fear Of tresp&seiDg on
the rights Of others. We-hope the
time i near when free churches will
be the rale in all societies, and the
old plan give way, as thing of the
past-out Of date, and not necessary,
as it seems in many cases to be at
present.-Chicago Republican.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-05-10
asa There is no other spoken Ian.

seA-There is no other spoken lam
guage so cheap and expressive by
telegraph as the English. So the
electric wires are becoming teachers
of our mother tongue in foreign coun-
tries. The same amount of informa-
ton can be transmitted in fewer Eng
lish words than French, German, 1t.
allan, or any other European Ian,
guage. In Germany, and Holland
especially, it is coming to be com
mon thing to see kilograms in Eng
lish, to save expense and insure pre-
cision.