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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-20

AN ANECDoTE OF EMERSON. There is
story told of Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emer-
son. That once upon time he determin
ed TO live after the fashion of the world !;
and stopping, while he was of this mind,
at country tavern in village where he
was to lecture, instead of retiring to med
ltate IN his cold and cherries room, he
mantully sat IN the bar room, like the
rest of mankind. He endured the tobac-
co smoke as we'll as he could, and
watched-no doubt with curiosity as
lively as M. Du Chaillu's on his first visit
to cannibal feast among the Fans-the
action of the men who "sat around" He
saw one after another walk up to the bar
and demand and swallow, a glass of
whisky; and true to his determination
to be for once like other men, the great
philosophers the tale goes on--at last
rose, and, no doubt, with certain degree
of diffid ence, but no doubt also with a
snfficiency of courage in his port and
countenance, advanced to the bar and in
a voice modulated as nearly as he could
after those he had just heard, demanded
a whisky skin" The bar-keeper, man
Of sound principle as we'll as sound discre
ton, looked into the philosophers face
Tor a moment, and then said: "You do
do not want whisky; you want ginger
pops" and accordingly administered that
mild and harmless stimulant.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-20
"HEAR! HEAR !"

DR.. FL. r. Smith, of Louisville, claims tic
have established the truth of the theory that
animals found in the Mammoth Caves OF
Kentucky are not only without trace OF the
optic nerve, but are also destitute OF the
sense of hearing.
In old Kentucky's Mammoth Caves,
All things that owe their birth and rearing
To those recesses, dark as graves,
Are born without the sense of hearing.
With such strange sounds ones ears are torn,
I sometimes think it had been lucky,
HAD l within your shade been born,
Oh, Mammoth Caverns of Kentucky
When men on politics declaim,
And vet know naught at all about 'em
And prose for hours in language tame,
Or, having strong opinions, shout 'em.
When at ell Governments on earth
They rush in manner run-a-mucky, a
wish that you had given me birth,
Oh, Mammoth Caverns Of Kentucky
At concerts where the public's pets
Sing CLARIBEL's unmeaning tWaddle,
Or where shrill school girls shrek duets
In tones that pierce the thickest noddle,
Or when a solo on the horn
Some youth attempts, less skilled than
plucky,
I wish I had in you been born. -..i .
Oh. Mammoth Caverns of Kentucky
And when my better-half begins
Her catalogue of wrongs domestic,
And makes the measure of my sins
Acatalectic anap9stic -
| love you well, my precious wife,
But sometimes l do wish, my ducky,
That / could say first saw life
In Mammoth Caverns of Kentucky
SO many sounds ones hearing vex,
Long, long, lugubrious, deep, or shrilly,
nd with dicpOr0ant noise nnrOIey
Ones brains, until they drive one silly;
That oft cry, Chow blest is he,
How far beyond his fellows lucky,
Who boasts his natal spot to be
The Mammoth Caverns of Kentucky y
Fun.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-20

The child that leans on it's parents breast
Leaves there its care, and is at rest
The bird sits singing by its nest,
And tells aloud
His trust in God, and so Is blest
Meath every cloud.
He has no store, he sows no seed
Yet sings aleud and does not heed
By flowing stream or grassy mead,
He sings to shame
Men. who forget, In fear OF need,
a Fathers name.
A heart that trusts, forever sings:
And feels as light IS 1t had wings:
al well OF peace within Il springs
Come good or i'll,
Whate'er to-day. tomorrow brings,
Il Is His will
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-20

The Providence Or. ~ Journal publishes
the following advertisement:
Observation-Disclosures my husband, Charles
F. Sanford, has thought proper to post me,
and accuse me OF having left his bed and
board without cause, etc, wish to make 1t
known that the said Charlie never had a bed,
the bed and furniture belonging to me, given
to me by my father the room and board he
pretended to furnish me were in Providence,
where he left me alone, while he stayed at
the Valley with his ma He offered me $2CO
to leave him and go home, telling me, at the
same time, that could not stay at the place
he had provided for me and, as have never
seen the named sum, suppose he will let me
have 1t II I can earn the amount. It was
useless for Charlie to warn the public against
trusting me on his account, as my father had
paid my bills since my marriage, as before.
Moral: Girls, never marry man not
weaned from his ma, and don't marry the
whole family. ELEANOR J. SANFORD.
North Providence, July 1st, 1871.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-20

and if you can not raise your fallen coun-
try, then seek death, as Prince Louis
Ferdinand has donew
This son lived to see his country great
among the nations of the earth; but to
tbr second son, William, it has been
given to repay, with interest, the igno-
minI heaped upon Prussia by Napoleon
Ito avenge The wrongs of Germany's
loveliest and best beloved. but most ur
happy queen.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-20

There is great famine in Persia-so great
that resort 60 cannibalism Is of frequent oc-
eurrence. And this cannibalism has relig-
lous element in its nature. The popular ma
iorlty. who are Mohammedans, are eating up
the minority, who are Zoroastrians. Thus
do the Mussulmans not only fill their empty
stomachs, but crafty their dislike of the
Giaour. Religious differences have been the
cause Of innumcrable forms of death; but
this stomachic entombment is an entirely
''new departure" As we cannot imagine 8
baked .worshipPer to be any extremely
savory dish, we must do the Shiites the JUS.
tice to believe that they occupy the gastron-
mieal position Of the fellow who remarked.
after distasteful meal OF which he had been
crow, but he didn't banker arter II"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-20

She turned her glowing face to his now,
and her bright eyes blazed through tears
as she spoke her gratitude-perhaps
something more.
"You are good and noble, but it must
not be! 1t would only make me misera-
bic, for | cannot marry Horace Dasent.
He is an old plaYfellow--a brother to me
but [ cannot love him.
"Adeline, why can you not love him /?
Is there any one you do-you can love ?"
But the only reply vas an increased
trembling of the slight frame, and Cuth-
bert Pendennis could not but feel glim
mering and delightful insight into the
truth
"Adeline, do not trifle with me, Tor I
cannot bear it. may be mad-vain-
presumptuous but I must try my fate
once again. Can you-is it possible that
you could love me?"
eyes, [ do" was whispered, CT rather
breathed upon the air, and never was
music SO sweet in Cuthbert's ear as that
slight sound.
He was generous enough to ask no
more, but permitted the girl to weep out
her asltated revolution of feelings on his
shoulder.
"And pray, why did my darling so de
tcrminedly and formally reject my first
humble ofer?" he asked, archly, when
tue first tumulJ OF emotion was over.
Because because did not know that
you loved me. I thought it was because
you had promised papa; and, besides, |
fancied you would only believe I had &C
cepted you for"
"For money, you would say, my pet.
Well, certainly might have doubted the
possibility of my own happiness, though
| never could have suspected the purity
and rectitude ofmy little jewel. Still, it
Was very fortunate was so inquisitive,
Lina-at the risk Of seeming an imperti
nent old fellow-or I might have forfeit.
ed what will compensate for long years
of waiting and loneliness. All, my dar
ling, VIII indeed make you happy"
X i
$50 that young creature has really sold
herself--literally sold herself for that old
Indians bags of rupees" said Sir Ralph
Dasent bitterly, when the engagement
was made public.
"My dear Sir Ralph" replied the in
formant, the spinster lady of the chief
manor House in the neighDorhood, 'alIow
me to correct such an error Adeline
Tremaine could have had the wealth with.
out the husband, but, luckily, she was
too much in love- toaccept one part from
the other, and run the risk of bartering
a title for her gold"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-20

1t is pleasant at the seaside ho ell to
see how naturally the ladies assume con-
troll of everything, and how meekly the
SO called lords of creation"
submit to it. The charming creatures are
out for their annual holiday, and heads
OF families take the back seat and allow
the female portion of the HOUSEHOLD to
drive the team. You will see ladies at
the hotels rushing about as promiscuously
and Independently as the gentlemen
now in the office inquiring for friends
and chatting with the clerks, now IN the
luggage room bullying the porters, then
in the barber shop undergoing the manip-
uiations of the sable head centres, or
drinking lemonades "coored" in the
salon, slipping that cooling beverage
through straws of extraordinary length.
In short, the ladies delight in their indie
peudence and absolute freedom from
restraint, and so take pleasure in doing
things which, if perpetrated in town,
would shock Mrs. Grundy out of seven
years growth.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-20

Justice is sometimes administered In New
York on the high pressure principle. Not
long ago, magistrate OF police court there
tried how quickly he could get through with
his calendar. He had C. cases, % OF which
were assault and battery, and "a petit lar.
ceny, and in exactly 90 minutes the whole cf
them were disposed of, the court had I'd.
journed, and the Justice was ready for o.
drink. This was an average Of q minute and
q half TO each case. 81
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-20

ssWhy don't you give as little Greek and
Latin occasionally - asked country deacon
those languages.'' was asked. "No, but we
ray FOR the best and ought TO have It,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-20

THE TENDER PASSION IN THE FACE OF
DEATH 1t is said that Or. Tony-Molln who
played an important part important part in
the recent events in Paris was permitted be-
fore being shot by sentence Of a court mar
tial, to marry young lady with whom he
had been living and who was near her con-
Anement. The marriage took place at three
O'Clock, and by five in the afternoon the doc
tor was dead. Whether this occurrence really
took place or not there can be no doubt, it is
a very ton ching story and will not he forgot
ten by novelists in after days. The marriage
was hardly more singular in it's attendant
circumstances, says al English journal, than
one recorded in the Annual Register for 1903,
In the chronicle for the Month Of March in
that year. "a striking display" it is said,
"of the the omnipotence of love occurred at
the High Church, Hull, few days ago. A
young woman having given her heart to q
sailor, who was impressed and carried on
board the tender by the inference OF her
friends, resolved nevertheless to marry the
object of her choice. He was accordingly
brought on shore, and escorted by the press
gang to the church, from whence, after the
marriage ceremony. he was again conveyed
to the tender. t.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-20
A Philadelphia locomotive firm a

A Philadelphia locomotive firm are
building some narrow gauge locomotives
for the Denver Rio Grande Railroad,
which is only three feet wide The
engine is six wheeled, four of the wheels
forty inches in diameter, being coupled
as drivers, and one pair of leading
wheels in front, having swing bolster
and radius bar, forming what is known
is pony truck" This Arrangement
enables the engine to pass short curves
readily, as the rigid wheel base is only
six feet three inches
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-20

"It's too bad, Adeline. Ever since that
detessable nabob came, you have been en-
gagged by him, and / have scarcely been
able to get word with. Are you 50 cas-
lily induced to forget old days, and old
fricnds--old loYsrs?"
Hush, hush, Horace; you must not
speak 80 to me" was the girls trembling
reply ''you know it is wrong useless
~ xnow nothing of the sort, Lima; I
only know that I always considered that
you quite belonged TO me, ever since we
were children, and until this old fellow
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-08
Foreign Affairs.

The death penalty has been abolished in
Mexico.
The latest advices from the interior of
China are more favorable.
Attempts at an armistice continue in
France, but without success
Generals Rossel and Dombrowski are
said to be on unfriendly terms
The commsndant of Fort d'Issy has been
dismissed for insubordnation.
The telegraph connecting Mexico with
this country is rapidly approaching compile
ton.
General Rossel is preparing to make
grand offensive movement against the Ver-
saillist troops.
1t is thought that if the Prussians re-
enter Paris they will cause the re-estab lish-
ment of the empire.
During all of Saturday night and yester-
day morning there was heavy firing from the
batteries before Paris.
The chief of the staff of the insurgent
tiotilla has been arrested on the charge of
deceiving the Commune in regard to the
quantity of stores in the ships under his
charge
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-08
A NOVEL IDEA.

General PlessantOn's Theory sf the DlfTe-
renee OF Chemical Power In the SUNS
Rays-Interesting Experiments.
At the regular monthly meeting of the
Pennsylvania Society for promoting agricul-
ture, held last week, General Pleasanton read
an able and interesting essay on the use of
blue glass in the development of vegetable
and animal life;-
The General gave an account Of an expert
ment of his own with grspery of S4 by %
feet, and 16 feet in height at the ridge.
Into the glazing of the grapery, at every
seventh row of white panes, row of violet
panes (blue not being at the time procurable)
had been introduced, alternating on opposite
sides of the roof, 80 that violet beam might
fall eventually on every leaf in the grapery.
The cuttings planted had grown rapidly. The
gardener was kept busy daily in tying up new
wood which the day before he had not OBJ
served. In few weeks after planting, the
wells and the inside of the roof we're closely
covered with luxuriant foliage. A distin-
guished scotsman has borne his testimony
that he had never seen any vines that equalled
those thus treated.
The vines were planted in April, 1861. In
1862 they bore wonderful number of
branches 1t was found that the building
small as it was, contained no less than twelve
hundred pounds of grapes. In 1863 the
amount of fruit was quite as large as during
the preceding year, and SO it had continued
season after season without abatement, the
vines seeming to require no time to rest.
The next experiment was with the piggery.
A glazed roof half white and half violet was
placed over the building, and similar results
were obtained, the animals thriving beyond
expectation.
An Alderney calf, SO puny and feeble that
its life was despaired of, was placed in pen
under violet glass. In "a hours marked
changed had occurred. The calf rose to its
feet, walked about the pen, took it's food
from the finger, and manifested great viva
city. In few days its feebleness had dis
appeared; it began to grow, and its develop
ment was marvellous.
The same principles have been applied to
the raising of poultry with the most remark
able success
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-08
MHws SUMMARY.
CITY Affairs.

The seventh anniversary Of the Wharton
Street Presbyterian Church took place yester-
day. Addresses were made by Rev. William
Rice, d. D., Rev. s. w. Dana, and Rev. Her
rick Johnson, d. d.
MIR. A. Picolet, French Consul at this
port, declines to allow his name to be used
on the honorary committee of the German
Peace Festival celebration, giving as reason
therefor that such an act would be incom-
patible with his official and personal duties.
George Winchiff, aged fifty-fve, q resi-
dent of Bridesburg, died yesterday in the
Episcopal Hospital, from injuries received by
being run over by a train on the junction
Railroad.
The thermometer yesterday marked 60
degrees at p. M.
The Sabbath-school of the Central Pres
byterian Church. at Franklin and Thompson
streets, celebrated yesterday its thirty-sixth
anniversary.
General Wagner was, on Saturday last,
unanimously elected general commanding
the 9TH Brigade, composed of the 18th, 10Th,
and 18th Regiments (colored).
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-08
THE MOTHER OF THE CLAFLINS.

The Old Lady MISUNDERSTANDING
Conspiracy and Matchmaking Opera
tiOns.
Yesterday expecting to be called upon TO testify
relation TO certain charges brought by their mother
Mrs Annie Claim, against Mr. James II. Blood,
alias DR. j. H. Harvey, who is said to DE partner
In their firm OF Woodruff h Claim. The defendant
however, had not been arrested. but aad promised
the charges against him. and The case was therefore
postponed until to-day, The complaint In the case,
made and swern to by Mes. Annie Claim, alleges
that she is more than Eixty-eight years OF age
and the mother OF six children-MTs. Margaret A
alias Victoria Bleed, Hebron @. Clanin, Mrs. Utica
V. Broobar, and MRS. Tennessee G. ClRnin. That
until the lEt Of April, 1871, she and her children,
comfort at No. l5 East Thirtyeehth street That in
the same house there resided also DR.. Canning
WooSnnil, ,"i %ho was formerly the husband Of her
. divorce in Chicago in the winter OF 1854 or
1855, and James Ii. Bloed, otherwise known as DR..
husband to her daughter Victoria @. The afidayit
continues that James II. Blood had so alenated the
affections OF her daughters from her TO cause
them TO drive her away from home and deprive her
in her OLD age OF the means OF living, and had fre-
quenty threatened IN the presence OF her daughters
to murder her that she feels In danger OF her fe
and believes that she is not safe from the said
James II. Blood. The complaint IN addition to this
specifies various other acts alleged to have been
committed by Blood and by her daughters, Victoria
and Tennessee under his exciting and corruptng
influence, which allegations are withheld from
publication pending tue legal examination and
ends with the prayer that Blood mag be ar.
rested ard dealt with according TO The law.
The complaint is accompanied with aridsvlts
OF Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin f. SPAR, son-in-law aud
daughter OF the old lady, verifying it in all its de-
tails. Mrs. Woodruff Vehemently aad Indignantly
denies the whole story she says that her mother
Old and weak minded enough TO have been induced
10 make the sfldayit which is black and Infamous
lie: that only last week she sent the old lady
check to pay her rent that she VIII yet OVerWhelh
soIne parties with disgrace, ana that after al, II II
only family qOsrTei-Gnd what family has not 10
dirty linen 10 wash? No doubt justice viii be don'
70 these ladies' m toe examination, "nich VIII taA'
place to-dsy.-M j. World, Saturday.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-08
Domestic Affairs.

Speaker Blaine's mother died on Satur-
day, at st. Paul, MINI.
The recent rains have caused rise in the
Potomac river.
Governor Geary addressed the Labor Re-
form party at Harrisburg, on Saturday night.
Thirty three indictments have Just been
found in Pittsburg against various persons
accused of counterfeiting.
The Virginia State steamer, the Trede-
gar, is cruising in the Potomac to enforce the
provisions of the fishing laws.
The graves of Confederate soldiers in
tered at Memphis, Tenn, were decorated on
Saturday, and the business of the city was
generally suspended.
After a session of twenty-seven days, the
State police investigation in Massachusetts
has been brought to a close by the summing
up of the counsel engaged therein.
The steamer Carrie, for Savannah, with
eight hundred bales of cotton, was burned on
Saturday, twenty-three miles below Augusta,
but the passengers and crew escaped.
Reports continue to be received at the
Internal Revenue Office, Washington, of or
ganized parties in the Southern States who
seek to prevent the enforcement of the reve-
nue. laws
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-08
STREET RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

Boy Killed In Attempting to Jump off
the Cars-The Driver Badly Injured.
At half.past 10 o'clock yesterday morning a
terrible accident occurred on a Kinsman Street
Railroad car, resulting in the death of Master
Harry Gillette, aged seven years, aud son of Mr.
j. NJ. Gillette, late of the proprietors of the
Birch House The car was drawn by two horses,
the front platform inclosed to prevent any one
from getting off there.
Young Gillette, according to accounts at
tempted to get over the railing around the
platform, and was assisted by the driver. Dur
ing this operation the driver lost his balance
and let the boy fall under the car. the two
wheels passing over his body. The driver fell,
also, and was seriously injured.
Coroner Schenck was informed of the acci-
dent. and Immediately empanelled jary and
held an inquest.
The Superintendent of the Kinsman street
road was questioned as to the rules of the road,
concerning the exit and entrance to the cars.
The driver on the car when the accident hap
peDed was, he averIed, a sober, temperate man,
and good driver. 1t was an imperative rule Of
the road that no one should get on or off the
front platform, and the driver was inexcusable
lss2ecc-the violation of this rule.
Il After hearing the evidence the jury returned
the following verdict
"We find that the deceased came to his death
by being run over by car of the Kinsman
Street Railroad, the driver Graham handing the
boy earelessv off the front platform of the car"
The child lived but a few minutes after the
&saccident. The wheels of the passed over
the stomach, leaving scarcely any marks, but
inflicting great pain. 1t was an interesting and
beautiful child, and the parents are overcome
with grief at the sudden aud melancholy be-
Pavement CleUeldnd Leader, 3D. inst.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-08
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
HOOVER's NEW LHROMOs.

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offered TO the public.
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PROPOSALS..
IRON FOR LANDING PIER, NEAR LEWEs,
Il DELAWARE


DELPHIA, Pa, No. 1880 CHEsNUT STREET
May g. 1871. J.
SEALED PROPOSALS, in duplicate, OF the form
advertisement attached TO each will be received at
this once until ~ O'Clock M on MONDAY, the 18th
day OF June 1871, for the supply Of Wrought and
Cast Iron required for this work.
The iron must be delivered on the railroad per at
LeWes, or at the works where made.
The bids will state carefully the proposed places
of delivery with the corresponding prices.
There win be required for the pier about one nit
lion eight hundred thousand pounds OF rolled a I'd
hammered iron, and about three hundred and focCg
thousand pounds OF cast iron.
The present letting will he for about 600 coo pounds
Of wrought iron and about 10000 pounds OF cast
iron.
SpecjhcatiC ms and drawings can be seen at this
ONCE, where information win be supplied on app-
cation. Envelopes to be endorsed proposals for
Iron."
j. d. KURTZ,
5s6t Lieutenant-Colonel Of Engineers.
D 1 r NJ 0 U N PA X.
OFFICE OF CHIEF ENGINEER, }
PHILADELPHIA, May G, 1871. {
Proposals will be received at the ONCE OF the
Commissioners OF Paramount Park, No. PSI 5.
FOURTH Street, until noon of Friday, May IL, for
the purchase OF a number OF old buildings which
are 10 be removed from the Park. Description and
locality Of the buildings can be seen at the Engi-
neers o1ice rear FairmOunt
smw8t JOHN G. CREsSoN, Chief Engineer