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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-15

Rock county farmer shrewdly said
eff Calkins will only continue such
trash and personal abuse, Charley
need not make a speech in this
district" There is not in the mans
nature an element of that character.
He could not play Osric to save his
life. His strength consists in a
certain downrightness which cannot
be mistak n. On every public ques-
ton his views are we'll known to be
the expression of his life. While
many put on their sentiment as
Talleyrand used words, to conceal
ideas, Mr.. Williams knows how to
utter in the choicest phraseo!ogy the
thought which wells up IN his own
soul in response to the demand of the
time. Ever and always he has been
in the van Of the reformatory class,
advocating the best thought of the
day, and it has been for his friends
a surprise and pleasure to discover
IN his legislative career practical
statesman-like capacity to adapt
means to ends and secure in the
substantial forms of law the nearest
approach to theoretical excellence
which the spirit Of the time would
permit. One of the truest friends Of
the farmers movement, as we know
him to be, we have locked in vain
through all his published utterances
for one sentence which ever the most
unfriendly critic could characterize
as flattery Of his supporters. He ii
wise enough to know that to secure
continued faver from sensible mer
he must not bow to their prejudices
but must honestly and consistently
support their rights. We have listen
ed to many plain spoken expression
of rebuke with which departures from
the right course have been thasteneC
BY common sense at some risk to the
speaker; and we have found as AL
unvarying result that when the
eccent1icity has passed, the better
reason of the class appealed to has
always appreciated the honesty which
risks displeasure. This quality In
Mr.. Williams IS the main secret ofhis
popularity. The sound judgment
which has peryaded his addresses
and his action in the matter Of cheap
transportation, has revealed at every
step o thorough comprehension Of
what is due to capital, as we'll as
what may justly be demanded by the
producer. On every other public
question the same practical common
sense directed by complete &C
quaintance with the philosophy OF
the theme, a knowledge OF what has
been doue. as we'll as what should be
required, has enabled him to find the
happy means which constitutes the
difference between the visionary phil
anthropist and the legislator. In al
his career during twenty years Of
public life there cannot be one
instance quoted in which it has beer
necessary for him to recede from {
position once assumed on any polite
al question: Gazette Jdnesville.
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THE PRESS ON MR.. WILLIAMS NOMINATION
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-15

ST MARTIN'VILLE, La, is giving a
demonstration of the way voters are reois.
tered under the White League Democratic
ascendency. There is but little chance
for fair election where one hundred and
fifty White League cavalry are nnder
arms in section where there are 500
Republicans not one of whom dared 70
come forward to register, and where 3o1
white and two colored Democrats have
been registered as reported by the sheriff
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-15

section g. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after it's passage and publication. !"
Given under my hand and the great zeal
L.. 81 of the State of Wisconsin, at the can.
ltol In Madison, this Gath day of Au-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-15
(From the Rock County Recorder
(From the Delayan Republican.1

Hon. 9. g. Williams was renomirated By &C
clamation ard amid much enthusiasm for congress
MIR. Williams was nvit' before the convention
and made telling and appropriate speech in ac
ceptlng the nomination, which was received with
frequent applause and much enthusiasm. A strong
and appropriate set of resolutions, embodyirg
sound doctrine. were adopted. This action Of
the convention will he endorsed at The polls by
by an old-fashioned rousing republican majority
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-15
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-15

otlce is hereby given to all whom 1t NAV
-, concern not TO tInst or give credit 10 any one
otba.s "0OVuns Us VIII pay no debts contracted by
o'AS arE'.o Salem Wis Sept 29th. 1874.
o"A' DAVID MCGUIRE,
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28
A Cheerful Home,

Asingle word may disquiet an en-
tire family for a whole day. One
surly glance casts a gloom over the
household; while smile like CLEAN
of sunshine, may light up the dark
est and weariest hours. Like uneX-
pected flowers which spring up along
our path, full of freshness, fragrance
and beauty, so the kind words, and
gentle acts, and sweet dispositions,
make glad the home where peace and
blessing dwell. No matter how hum
bic the abode, if it be thus garnished
with grace and sweetness, with kind
ness and smiles, the heart will turn
lovingly toward it from all the tu-
mults of the world; and home, if it
be ever so homely, will be the dear
est spot beneath the circuit of the
sun.
And the Influences of home per
petuate themselves. The gentle
grace of the mother lives in her
daughters long after her head is pill
lowed in the dust of earth; and
fatherly kindness finds its echo in the
nobility and courtesy of sons who
come to wear his mantle, and to fill
his place; while on the other hand,
from an unhappy, misgoverned and
disordered home, go forth persons
who shall make other homes misera-
BILE, and perpetuate the sOurness and
sadness, the contentious, and strifes,
and ratings, which have made their
own early lives so wretched and dis
torted.
Toward the cheerful home the
children gather las clouds and as
doves to their windows" while from
the abode of discomfort and strife,
and trouble, they fly forth as vul-
lures to rend their prey.
The class of men that disturb and
disorder and distress the world are
not those born and nutured amid the
hallowed influence of Christian
homes; but rather those whose early
life has been a scene of trouble and
vexation, who have started wrong in
the pilgrimage, and whose course is
one of disaster to themselves and
trouble to those around them
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28
How the Indians Dun.

The Hartford COurGnt evolves the
following theory: "There has been
some pathological doubt as to the
phrase After him with a sharp stick.
It may have occurred to many that
the sharp stick referred to is the
much feared january bill And it
would seem there was some ground
for this. The Neeshenan Indians OF
California have not the brutal and
disagreeable habit prevalent among
us of sending dunning bills. When
one Indian owes another, it is consid-
cred bad taste, as it is, for the cred
itor to dun the debtor. He proceeds
with more delicacy. He proeures a
certain number of sticks, according
to the amount of the debt, and paints
a ring around the end of each. These
he carries and tOsses into the debtor s
wigwam, and then goes away without
a word. The debtor pays the debt
and destroys the sticks; it is consid-
cred a reprOach to have dunning
sticks thrown into the wigwam, and
the creditor never uses them except
with hard customers"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28
Horse Heaven.

al tell you" said Hiram, turning
slightly toward the doctor, sthese
horses are just as near human as is
good for 'em. A good horse has sense
Just as much as man has; and he's
proud, too, and he loves to be praised,
and he knows when YOU treat him
with respect. A good horse has the
best pints of q man without his fail
ms
"What do yeu think becomes OF
horses, Hiram, when they dieY said
Rose.
"Wal, Miss Rose; it's my opinion
that there's use for horses hereaf-
ter, and that you'll find there's a
horse heaven. There's Scripture for
'tfiat, too Ssgsass =
"Ahrv said Rose, little surprised
at these confident assertions. "What
Scripture do you meanY'
"Why, in the book of Revelations.
Don't it give an account of white
horse. and black horse, and grey
horse. I've alters s'posed that when
it said Death rode on pale horse, it
must have been grey, cause it had
mentioned a white one already. In
the ninth chapter, too, it says there
was an army of two hundred thou
sand hOrsemen. Now / should like
tG know where they got so many
horses in heaven if none of 'em that
die off here go there? It's my opin-
ion that good horses darned sight
likelier to go to heaven than a bad
man."
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28
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1t Won't Work With Bulls.

A professor in Vermont, who was
a believer in the power of the human
eye, realized the power of the doc
trine to his sorrow. Determined to
convince the skeptics of its truth, he
selected ferocious bull who was the
terror of the neighborhOOd as the OBJ
ject of his experiment. The result
was not altogether successful Sur
rounded by a retinue of disbelievers,
the scientific gentleman sauntered
into the pasture where the thought
full bull was peacefully grazing. He
fixed upon the bull his eagle eye, but
the ferocious old animal quailed not,
neither did he retire in melodramatic
order, but the last thing seen Of the
professor was his archaeological form
tossed twenty-seven feet into the air
and coming down on the other side
of the fence. His physical injuries
were slight, but his faith in scientific
mesmerism as illustrated in bulls,
has been greatly weakened.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28
Do You Hear That?

A New Orleans paper tells us of a
printer who, when his fellow-work-
men went out to drink beer, put in
the bank the exact amount he would
have spent if he had gone with them
to drink.
He did this for five years.
He then looked at his bank account,
and found that he had laid up five
hundred and twenty-one dollars and
eighty-six cents.
In five years he had not lost day
because of sickness. Three out of
five of his fellow-workmen had, in
the meantime, become drunkards.
The water -drinker then bought out
the printing Office, and in twenty
years from the time he began to put
by his money he had laid aside a
good many thousands of dollars.
The story TEACHES a lesson which ev-
cry little boy should lay to heart.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28
The Boy with The Hickory Shirt

A fig for your upper-ten boys,
With their canes and cigars and eye
glasses;
Their dandified airs and soft eyes,
Winking down on each girl that passes ;
They may guzzle clambake and cham
pagne,
And pride in their very n gh birth;
But give me that lad that goes plain.
The boy with the hickory shirt.
He is round az a barrel, and brown
As the peach in the mid-antumn sun !;
From the sole of his foot to his crown,
He is brimful of frolic and fun.
Not afraid of hard work or of cold,
He is fearless and rOagh, without
hurt;
His hOnOr's as good as pure gold
The boy with the hickory shirt.
70 say his big heart cannot beat
With kindness for parents and BROTH
ers,
Would picture his traits incomplete,
If his sisters shared not with the 9TH
ers,
In fact he's broth of a blade;
can't fathom how much he is worth !;
But the poor girls fortune is made,
That gets Jim with the hickory shirt.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28
No Effect.

A German paper contains reply
from clergymen who was travel
ing, and who stopped at hotel much
frequented by wags and jOkers. The
host, not being used to having cler-
gymen at his table, looked at him
with surprise; the clerks used all
their artillery of wit upon him, with
out eliciting a remark in selfdefense.
The worthy clergyman ate his dinner
quietly, apparently without observing
the gibs and sneers of his neighbors.
One of them, at last, in despair at his
forbearance, said to him:
"Well, l wonder at your patience!
Have you not heard all that has been
said to your
''Oh, yes, but am used to it. Do
you know who | am?''
mo, sir"
"Well, | will inform you. | am
chaplain of lunatic asylum; such
remarks have no effect upon mer
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28
Patrons OF Hushandrr.

Tennessee has about 500 Oranges.
North Carolina has 345 Oranges.
There are over $4,000 Patrons in
Kentucky.
Georgia expects to have LOCO
Oranges by January /, 1875.
The Grangers in Coffee county,
Tenn, are talking of building a cot
ton factory.
1t is said, but we know not if with
truth, that the National Grange has
recently completed arrangements in
New York City, by which Oranges
throughout the entire country can
order and receive ali kinds of goods
at greatly reduced rates.
The Rock. Valley, Iowa, Changers,
Marshall county, went To the farm of
B. F. Taylor, who had been sick for
week or two and wholly unable to
sow his wheat, repaired to his field
with twelve teams, and dragged in, in
good shape, sixteen acres of wheat.
1t was the intention of the Changers
to have surprised Mr.. Taylor, but he
got wind of it and hobbled out to see
them.
The Patrons of Taylor county,
Iowa, are shipping stock direct to
Chicago dealers, a mode of doing
business that has proved very salts
factory and very remunerative. The
South Hest, of Bedford, says in no.
ting the fact: ''Daily are the good
workings of the Order of the Pat
rons Of Husbandry being made more
manifest, and from practical demon
strations the farmers of our county
are learning that their highest an
ticipatiOns are being more than real
lied"
1t is said that the Patrons of Hus-
bandry, in Iowa, have perfected an
organization for the capture of horse
thieves. Each Grange is to have
five riders" who are, on a robbery
of stock being reported, to mount and
follow the cGlprits. To this end the
Grange is to furnish them with funds,
not less than twenty-five dollars, and
on giving the hailing sign of the
Patrons all other Oranges will enter
tain them free of cost, turn out to
them, or lend them fresh horses.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28
A Patent Rat-Trap,

The local editor of the Burlington
{ Iowa. Hawkeye says man has in
vented a patent rat-trap that does not
require any bait, and will fetch rat
every time it reaches for him. 1t
operates on the principle of a stom-
ach-pump-the inventor is a ''retir-
ed physician, the sands of whose life
have nearly" &c.-and the trap is
placed at the mouth of the rat-hole.
Xhen it is wound up and the suction
begins the rat comes. He may hold
on to the ground with his teeth, and
hump his back and paw dirt, and
weep, and yell for the police all he
wants, he comes out of that hole
backward, is dragged into a back
compartment, where a steel glove
drags his hide off and lays it aside
for kid glove manufacturer, while
the carcass is pushed into a little fur
mace and cremated.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28
OuarPeling,

If anything in the world will make
a man feel badly, except pinching his
fingers in the crack of door, it is
unquestionably a quarrel. No man
ever fails to think less of himself af-
ter it than before. 1t degrades him
in the eyes of others, and, what is
worse, blunts his sensibilities on the
one hand, and increases the power OF
passionate irritability on the other.
The truth is, the more quietly and
peaceably we get on the better for
our neighbors. In nine cases out OF
ten the better course is, if man
cheats you cease to deal with him; II
he is abusive, quit his company; and
if he slanders you, take care to i've
so no one will believe him. No mat
ter who he is or how he misuses you,
the wisest way is to let him alone, for
there is nothing better than this cool,
calm. and quiet way of dealing with
the wrongs we meet.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28
dolph, no man ever held him in con,
Adrantages of Crying.

A French physician is out with a
long dissertation on the advantages OF
groaning and crying in general, and
especially during operations He
contends that groaning and crying
are the two grand operations by
which nature allays anguish; that
those patients who give way TO their
natural feelings more speedily re-
cover from accidents and operations
than those who suppose it unworthy
for man to betray such symptoms
of cowardice as either to cry or
groan He tells ORA man who re-
dnced his pulse from 196 10 so in
the course of two hours by giving
vent to his emotions. If people feel
at all unhappy about anything, let
them 60 to their rooms and comfort
themselves with a loud boOhOo, and
they will feel 100 per cent. better af-
terward. In accordance with the
above, the crying of children should
not be greatly discouraged. If it is
Systematically suppressed, the result
may be the st, Vitus dance, epileptie
fits, or some other disease of the ner-
vous system. What is natural is
nearly always useful, and nothing can
be more natural than the crying of
children when anything occurs to
give them either physical or mental
pain. Probably most persons have
the effect of tears in re-
lieving great sorrow. 1t is even Gu
rious how the feelings are allayed by
free indulgence in groans and sighs.
Then let parents show more indul-
gence in noisy bursts of grief on the
paFts Of children as well as persons,
and regard the eyes and mouth as
safety-valves through which nature
discharges her. surplus steam
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28

CURIoUs.-About twenty years ago,
the nurse in a very respectable fami-
ly dropped an infant, about a year
old. from her arms to the floor. The
child was terribly shocked, and at
first supposed to be fatally injured;
but it recovered, and grew into a
blooming young lady, who was happi=
ly wed a few months ago. At the
time the child met with the accident
it was beginning to talk, but the only
word it could distinctly artieulate
was spa" And here is the strange
part Of the incident, for this is the
only word she has ever uttered since
After the fall she became, and still is
q deaf mute, except the single sylla-
BILE, ''pa," which she is still able td
utter.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28
To Farm LabOrers.

The history of our race, as well
as the nature of man, teach us
that the nearest approach we may
ever attain to contentment and happi-
ness in this life, is in closest associa-
ton with nature. The nearer he can
come to receiving his daily bread
fresh from the hand of the Creator,
the less he feels dependent on the ca
price or will of his fellow man.
Hence we find in this country lauda-
BILE ambition among men and women
to own a home of their own, where
they can plant their trees, train their
vines, and plant their flowers, and
feel these are growing for me and
mine.
How it inspires hope, nerves the
weary hand, and cheers each passing
hour. 1t binds the family together.
Each child has his or her tree, shrub
or flower, something on which labor
is bestowed, and to which they are at
tached. And as the years go by and
families change, sons and daughters
90 from home into the world, and
parents are alone, how the evidence
of the toll or skill of absent ones
call up pleasant associations of the
past; and to the children there are
numerous attractions to draw them
often back to the old home. 1t should
be the aim of every one in this coun-
try to become the owner of his home
as early in life as possible, and par
ents will do their children a great
service by instructing and assisting
them to provide the nucleus Of a
home, even during their minority
1t will give them an object for which
to save their money, teach them fru-
gality, and show them that success is
within their power.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28

The Norristown Herald says: ga
loving wife in Bridgeport wants di-
vorce. She recently, found pieces of
ostrich plume in her husbands beard,
of an entirely different shade from
that on her own hat. He explained
that bits of ostrich feather sprinkled
on the beard is the very latest style
in New York, and it is not his fault
that the shade is different from her
own
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28

QUAKER CRY etiquette: Two young
men stopped in the street to converse
with couple of young ladies. When
they separated, the gents discovered
that one of the misses had sewed
their coat-tails together,
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28

TwEsrY-oNF freshmen were lately
suspended from an English college
because a professor eouldn't find out
who placed a ten-ounce tack IN his
chair. He, however, knew al about
who sat down on it.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28

In some parts of Denmark a man
is not allowed to drive black and a
white horse together, it being consid-
cred a sign of ill luck. In these
parts. however, man is considered
iuekv if he has them to drive.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28

"OH! Mary; my heart is break
ing" said an Aberdeen lover to his
Highland Mary. ''Is it, indeed? So
much the better for you," was her
quiet reply. "Why, my idol?" BE
cause, Mr.. McSmith, when its
broken, out and out, You can sell the
pieces for gun-hints."
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28

IT is said that one of the editors of
a New Orleans paper, soon after com
mencing to learn the printing bust
ness, went to see preachers daugh-
ter. The next time he attended
meeting he was considerably aston
ished to hear the preacher announce
as his text: my daughter is gre
viously tormented with a devil"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-28

~The saloSn-keeper who threw
beer at the Ladies in Cleveland, died
last week. His obituary will be used
as campaign document.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-08
Turning the Tables,

Two actors, who bore to each other .be
most inveterate hatred, were TO perform in
an opera, the one knight and the other
disguised as bear, with whom the knight
was to combat. Everything went off very
well; they fought, the bear, as was fitting.
was vanquished and lay motionless on the
ground. But while the very fine instru.
mental music was celebrating this chival-
rous action, and attracted for few mo-
ments the attention of the audience. the
victorious knight thought it pity not to
embrace this opportunity, and, therefore.
struck his fallen adversary several times
with the fat side of his sword The bear
bore it very patiently for some time; but
when he found it going too far he suddenly
sprang up, seized the knight, and treated
him SO roughly that he fell down half dead
with fear. At this instant it was the turn
OF the orch estra to be silent, and the knight
was to sing bravura in honor of the con.
quest. Every thing was silent, the circum
stance had not been noticed in the orches-
ira, the prompter gave the signal but. az
the knight was quite unable to sing. the
bear, an equally good singer, seated himself
on the fallen knight, and with loud voice
sang the air, to the no small entertainment
of the audience.