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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-10
A MRcHAN1c's SroRx Tm

a MECHANICS SToRY.-Twenty years
ago / lived in the town of D.. in
Indiana. On returning home one night,
for am carpenter by trade, I saw a liz.
tie girl leaving my door My wife met
me at the door with a smile which ia
encouraging to tired mechanic after q
hard days labor, sShe said Mrs. r. had
sent her little girl after their paper. (which
she had borrowed. We sat down to tea
We had only been married six months. and
of course had no children. My wife said
to me. calling me by my given name: 81
wish you would subscribe for the news.
paper, for it is 80 much comfort to me
when you are away from home" NV
answer was: Il would like to do so. bnt
you know / owe little payment on the
house and lot. It will be all I can do TO
meet it." She said, "If you will take
the paper, | will sew for the tailor to
pay for it." I subscribed for the paper.
It came in due time to my house. while
resting one noon, and looking over Il /
saw an advertisement Of the county com
missioners to let a bridge that was to be
built. / put in bid for building the
bridge, and got the job on which /
cleared 5000, which enabled me to paw
for my house and lot easily, and also for
the newspaper. If had not subscribed
for the newspaper would have known
nothing of the bridge contract, and could
not have met my payment on my house
A mechanic never loses anything by
taking his county paper. .d
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-10

A young man recently called upon the
editor of paper in an Oregon town and
asked to see his file for 1862 which re-
quest was granted. While the editor
stepped out a moment, he marched out
with the file, and used it against the
owner in a libel suit for $4,000 damages,
The plaintiff recovered six and quarter
cents, when his prosecuted victim turned
upon him and had him sentenced to
seven years in the Penitentiary for steal
ing books. cm| -Ja
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-10

STRAWBERRIEs--A LARGE YIELD
at recent meeting of the Warsaw Hor.
ticultural Society, Secretary Gregg stated
that plat of ground, belonging to Mr.,
Willis, measuring a fraction less than
five square rods, the present season,
yielded three hundred and fifty quarts of
Wilson's Albany strawberries, or at the
rate of three hundred and fifty bushels to
the acre. The plants from which this
yield was obtained were set in the spring
of 1870, on ground which had been sub.
soiled and well underdrainod. Until late
1n October, careful cultivation with pillow
ana hoe was given, and early in the win.
Ger the plants were covered with forest
leaves. 5.aa8 Ta % 800
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-10

A Syracuse man chopped down giant
hickory tree, over seventy-five feet high,
and bearing the ring marks ofsixty wears
His surprise may be imagined on finding
under this tree an old brick cistern i1
a splendid state of preservation. Indeed.
SO strongly were the brick and mortar
cemented, that picks and crowbars had to
be used to dig them out How long ago
ana Dy whom was this, cistern built :
Who made the brick, and where were
they made N9oW cg aGGg II Joy -
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-10

A DOG SToRY.-A narrow log lay as a
bridge over d raYine. From the opposite
ends of the logs, at the, same moment,
there started to cross it big NeWfound-
land and little Italian greyhound. Of
course they met in the middle; of course
there was not room for them to pass
neither could they go back. The height
was a dangerous one for the greyhound,
and to the water at the bottom he was
strangely averse. The Newfoundland
could have taken the leap in safety, but
evidently did not want to. There was
fix! The little dog sat down on his
launches, stuck his nose straight up in
the air and howled The Newfound-
land stood intent his face solemn with
inward workings. Presently he gave a
nudge with his nose to the bowling grey
hound-as if to say, ''Be still, youngster,
and listen" Then there was a silence
and seeming consolidation for a second
or two. Immediately the big dog spread
hig legs wide apart like COLOSSUS, be-
striding the log on its extreme outer
edges, aud balancing himself carefully.
The little dog sprang through the
opening like flash. When they reached
the opposite shore the greyhound broke
into frantic gambols of deli ght; and the
Newfoundland, after his more sedate
fashion, expressed great complacency in
his achievement-as he surely had a
right to do.-Beecher
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-10

Senator Wilson is purs uing his socia
studies in the United Kingdom, and tbonof
he thinks the rags and poverty of ireland
would make him q revolutionist. he is evi.
IDENTITY pleased With the morality be finds,
for ne says in writing from London: II
have not heard a profane oath since landed
on the 10th OF June at Queenstown. eighteen
days ago. i have seen hundreds OF thon.
sands of the people, from the queen down
to the ragged bcggar of the slums of this
wilderness of houses, and have vet to hear
the first profane word. This has surprised
and gratltied me much. ! trust the time is
1ot distant when stranger can travel hun
dreds of miles in our country and mingle
with hundreds of thousands of our people
without hearing an OATH"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-10

/. It is said that one cord OF wood will man.
uiacture eight hundred pounds of paper.
One ton of straw gives seven hundred and
fifty pounds Wood suffers waste of ten
per cent, straw from thirty to seventy per
cent? according to the kind of paper
made. There seems to be no question of
superiority between the two materials-local
conditions determining their precedence.
Inc very best paper that can be made with
made from equal parts of wood and straw.
Four tons OF paper are manufactured daiIy
ct the largest paper mill in the United States.
This paper is sized in the ordinary manner.
200 pounds requiring only one pound of glue.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-10

d We are prepared to execute Brief Work for
Lawyers with dispatch and at reasonable
rates.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-02

The opponents OF narrow gauge rail
roads maintain that while they may
answer for short branch lines, they will
fail for truck roads with heavy trade
The Philadelphia Age says: The
Government of British India are about
testing this matter in practical man
ner. It's first experiment is to be with
a line of more than thousand miles in
length, reaching from Kurrachee to
Peshawer from the seacoast, West to the
mouth of the Indus, almost to the
mountains on the Northwestern frontier
of British India. The capacity of such
line is estimated so.high thatit is con.
tended that in one week twelve thou
sand men could be carried from the sea
to the frontier, fully equipped with
arms, and with the necessary compile.
ment Of guns, horses, stores, followers,
and rations for a month, without any
more rolling stock than would suffice
for the ordinary traffic. The economy
of such line is evident from the esti-
mate that at least one million pounds
sterling would be saved in the mere
construction, while the cost OF malnte'
nance and operating would be cores
poinngly diminished. The results OF
this experiment will be looked tor with
deep concern in this couRtry, where the
question of narrow gauge railroads is
attracting the attention of all men en-
gagged in the improvement OF transpor'
tation facilities.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-02
Simmer ON his Travels.

A letter received here from one OF the
ladies accompanying General Spinner
to Europe, states that the General
health was much improved by the trip
over the ocean. They would immediate
" start ior the Lakes, travel through
Ireland and Scotland and then go to
London, and thence to Berlin, TO be
present at the triumphar reception on
the 18th of June.-Boston Post.
The Washington Patriot says: This
is all very pleasant for General SPlNNRE
and the female staff, who appear to
have been detached from the Treasur.
er's office, to cheer his official anxieties
on the other side OF the Atlantic. But
the people who have to pay the PIPER
while these officials, of both sexes,
dance, may find it less amusing. The
General-and we suppose his tender
staff also-not only draws his large
salary during this pleasure tour in
Europe, with an indefinite leave OF
absence, but, as we have before sald'
the Secretary OF the Treasury allows
him so day and 10 cents mile for
, travel, besides. Who would not go to
the Lakes, Ireland, Scotland, London
and Berlin" under such auspices?
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-02
Victor Hugo as u Refugee.

This very peculiar Frenchman, who
did as much as any other agitator to
bring about the horrid instruction
which has Just been suppressed in
Paris, became CONSPICUOUS forhis absence
when danger fell upon the Commune,
and prudently sought a safe retreat in
the beautiful Belgian city Of Brussels.
The cause being lost, the visionary
patriot discovered that its leaders had
been guilty of many mistakes, for which
he has lately roundly berated them in
print. At the same time, with fatal
faculty" for getting into scrape which
NAV be said to be especially his own,
he took occasion to violate the hospi.
tally which harbored him by writing
against the stern policy Of the Belgian
government has therefore ordered him
to quite the country, and he has "ac'
copied the proposition" and the popu
lace OF Brussels have signalized the
event by smashing the windows of his
residence. He now falls back upon
England.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-02
YOu Haven't Tried them.

Victim of debility, who Is responsible for
your feebleness? Not yourself, you will say,
for you've done all you could to cure 1t
That's mistake on your part.
You haven't tried Hostetter's Bitters.
Gloomy dyspeptic, with an uneasy stom'
ach and world-weary face, of course you
don't think yourself responsible for your
own torments. But you are. 1t is easy to
see from your condition that you haven't
tried Hostetter's Bitters.
Bilious sufferer, it is not your fault, you
think, that your symptoms grow worse day
by day. Blue pill doesn't do you any good
Very likely. But you can be brought
round for all that.
Why haven't you tried Hostetter's Bitters
Friend, on whom fever and ague alter
nately blows hot and cold, and whose brain
seems to be bursting with the effects of some
powerful drug, do you assume the RESPONSE
bility? o, no! You've taken piles of quiz
nine. and all the regulation medicines.
What could you do more? One thing
more-the very thing that would have ex-
empted you from all the pangs that now
rack you.
You have never tried Hostetters Bitters.
Nervous invalid, what have you to say ?
You plead that you have taken all the ner-
vines of the pharmacopRia. Ii they have
done you no good, II is not your fault You
are not responsible. Wrong, all wrong.
You have, in reality, nobody to blame but
yourself
Why haven't you tried Hostetter's Bitters
For all the above named complaints, the
Bitters are absolute specifics.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-02

ANNAPOLIS, May 27.--Presdent
Grant, Mrs. and Miss Grant, Secretary
Robson and Senator Cattell arrived
here this morning, on a visit to the
Naval Academy, as the guests of Com
modore Worden. There they reviewed
the marines and midshipmen in dress
parade, complimentary salutes were
fired, and other usual homage paid the
distinguished visitors. The day has
been excessively warm, the thermome-
ter having been as high as 92o, and the
exposure in the heat produced seosre
headache 10 tie President, by reason Of
which he ,cas compelled to retire to Com
moelore Worden's residence, ,chere medi-
cal assistance caS rendered The others
witnessed the progress Of the examina-
ton Of the middies, and also exhibitions
in practical seamanship by the gradual
ing class.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-02

GENERAL CLUsERET, War Minister OIL
the Communists OF Paris, the telegraph
announces, has been executed by the
Versailles Government. He was ma
tive Of Paris, having been born there in
1923, and was educated in the military
school OF St. Cyr. Being a Republican,
he was retired from the French military
service, on half pay, but was restored
and figured with some credit in the Cri
mean war. He also served in the ltal'
ian war under Garibaldi, and when the
troubles in this country broke out, 1861
he came here and offered his services.
He was placed on General Mcclellan s
staff, afterwards on General Fremonts,
and served under Sigel and Milroy in
West Virginia. After the war he edited
Red Republican weekly paper in New
York, but it soon went down, and he
returned to France, rnd when the Ger
man victories came he at once took an
active part with the Reds.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-02
STATE ITEMS.

ROBBERY IN MANNINGroN.--Ihe
house of James H. Fprbee was burg
lariously.entered on Friday night and
forty-five dollars in money taken, alec
a watch worth thirty-fve dollars and a
suit of clothes. The entrance was ef
fected through window. The money
and clothes were taken out OF The room
in which Mr.. F. was sleeping. 1t is
supposed that the burglars used chloro
form. 1t is not known precisely who
the guilty party or parties are, but ..sus
picion rests upon some stragglers that
were seen in town the previous evening
The editor Of the Liberakst adds &c
the above: "Just before going to press
we learn that the robbers, (three in
number, )who robbed Mr.. Farbee, were
caught near town, and the watch anc
clothing recovered.
Mr.. WIN. HAWKINS, the young man
who sometime since, near Texas, this
county, hurt his foot by jumping from
train while in motion, had 1t amputateo
above the ankle last week.-Li6eral,st
Much Huron Friday last man
named Michael Shriver, hailing IRON
near West Warren, attempted to get of
the accommodation train bound West
near Barrackville, and was thrown
against an embankment and sustained
some pretty serious injuries. The in
iured man was brought to the Hears
ley House, where his wounds were
dressed by DR.. j. H. Rrownfield. and II
is thought he will recover.-Liberat'sf
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-02

The Chicago Republican finds this
list of offenses announced in its north
western exchanges in single day, not
one OF which is charged to the Ku-klux
but all of which would be, had they
been committed in the South: "Delibe;
rate murders, six; suicides, FIVE; sup
posed poisoning, three; highway rob
berries in which the victims were nearly
killed, seven; shootings growing out OF
domestic difficulties, five; and six for
geries in amounts OF over five Thousand
dollars
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-02
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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-02

The township system in Pennsyl-
yania, old, populous and wealthy as
that State is, is not so cumbrous nor
costly as that which our present Con-
stitution fastens upon West Virginia.
In Pennsylvania the population OF sin
gle townships often exceeds that OF
whole counties here, counties that by
the Constitution are required to be sub
divided into not less than three town
ships. The average number Of town
ships in each county, in this State,
is about seven; made so 10y the
inoriinate desire OF our Radi-
cal friends to hold office, be the
place ever so unimportant or the COM
pensation ever so small. In Pennsyl-
yania, a board of three commissioners
in each county, one being elected every
year, transacts all the business that is
done here by our Board of Supervisors
and does it more Systematically and
more cheaply than it is done under oul
system.
We believe that for West Virginia
in her present stage OF development and
as she is likely to be during the next
thirty years, a simpler and cheaper
system still than that OF Pennsylvania
may lie devised. When our State be
comes as populous as Pennsylvania
our Constitution may be advantageously
modelled after that of the keystone
State, and possibly the time may come
when West Virginia becomes the riva'
of New York, that something like our
present Constitution may furnish an &C
ceptable form of State government-bu
not till then.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-02

ing to step into. the shoes ofthe defunot
Gas Company, but just how much the
citizens would gain by the exchange Of
masters it is impossible at present to
say.
Let us have a fair trial Of the works
upder city management; let US be in no
hurry about asking or expecting any
important change for the better; and
we can estimate, after awhile, whether
the change has been an advantageous
one or not.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-02
A shaver of NetOes.

One hundred and forty from Cover
nor Hoffman in one batch. This
knocks General Jackson, Captain Tyler
and Andy johnson, all taken together,
completely out of time; and the best Of
it is that these vetoes OF Governor Hott-
man, of big jobs and little jobs, are
hailed with satisfaction 10y the masse.
of the people of both parties. 1t is
likewise an excellent thing that Cover,
nor Hoffman in these vetoes has proved
that he is not the slave Of "the big ring
or of any little ring, but flaps his vetoe
about the ears Of the jobbers in fine
style. No wonder this man is a favorlte
with the people-Hrah.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-02
THE GAS BUSINESS,

The officers Of the city took possession
of the Gas Works yesterday, and gave
notice to the late company that from
and after that date the city will hold
control Of the works. And now we will
see what we will see.
There is popular demand for cheaper
gas and Of better quality than has here
tofore been furnished to consumers.
Will the city be able to comply with
the popular wish? We understand
that, for the present at least, no change
is TO be made among the workmen en-
gagged in the manufacture. All are to
20 on as before, the city being their
employer. The officers of the city will
collect the revenue and pay the bills
1t is hardly probsble:that any immedi'
ate change can be made for the better,
either in the price or the quality OIL
gas, and for one, we are disposed to be
patient and to wait a reasonable length
of time for the Inauguration of the prom
ised reforms, If they come next month
or the next we will hail them with re-
joicing and make haste to chronicle their
appearance. We are in favor of giving
the city fair trial in the gas business,
and will do our best to refrain from any
thing like complaint until it becomes
clearly established that we have a first
class elephant in our midst. We be-
lieve there are number of gentlemen
in the city who are both ready and will
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-02

An amendment OF the State Constl-
tutiou so as to provide for biennial ses'
sions OF the Legislature, instead OF an
nual meetings as at present, meets with
favor from many citizens. The term Of
forty-fve days might be heightened to
sixty, in that case, thus affording ample
time for the transaction Of all the neces-
sary work of legislation, and economic
ing thirty days expenses. The idea is
worthy OF consideration and, should a
convention be called, will doubtless be
carefully discussed. twill be the aim
of the convention to lop off every use
less expense ordained by the present
Constitution and make the burden OF
government as light as possible. With
this intention, a saving Of even one
hundred dollars in the annual expenses
of the State will not be overlooked, and
an effort will be made to devise the
cheapest form OF government consistent
with simplicity and effectiveness in ex-
ecution.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-02

GREELEY's letter from Texas in reply
to the question whether he would con-
sent to be a candidate for the Presi-
dency was mutilated somewhat in the
Geographic report and its best point
spoiled. He thinks the next President
should be "a believer in the old Wing
doctrine of one Presidential term" The
words in italics were omitted from the
dispatch and the slap at GRANT they
contain was suppressed. 1t becomes
more and more apparent every day
that GRANTS only chance of renomina-
ton lies in the vigorous enforcement of
the Ku.Klux bill and the full exercise
of the power vested in him by act OF
Congress. The Radical party will
have to submit 10 a little coercion.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-02
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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-06-02
GRAND JUVENILE CONCERT

WASHINGTON HALL, ON FRIDAY
n evening, June ID. Prof Kemmerer,
assisted by his large class OF 100 amateurs,
also Prof. Murdoch. will give grand muSi-
cal entertainment, Of miscellaneous music.
Tickets, at the office, i5centS.
Commence at O'Clock. my30