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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03
The Usage Lands-The Kansas Settlers
Jubilating.

A special dispatch dated Parsons,
Kan, Aug. %, says: "The decision of
United States Circuit Court Judges
Miller and Dillon, giving the Usage
coded lands to the settlers, created the
widest enthusiasm. The Hon. NJ. W.
Reynolds, who first called public atten-
ton through magazine and newspaper
articles to the enormous wickedness of
the attempt to gobble the homes of
10000 settlers by the great railway cor
porations, yesterday received dispatch
from United States District Attorney
Peck announcing the result of the de-
cision. The fact being communicated
to the public by an extra, the people to-
day have been pouring into the city to
learn further of the grand news. To-
night the town is full and high cele-
bration is in progress. The people are
wild with excitement. Speeches were
made by Messrs. Judge Parkhurst, M.
W. Reynolds, Col. Willard Davis, and
others. The land policy of land COM
mission, good now, whereby the NJ, K.
and T., and L., l.. and G. roads lose
So, 900, 900, was severely criticised, and
the settlers congratulated upon their
triumph. The purity, integrity and
publicity of the judiciary have been the
theme Of the great conflict and great
compliment by all the speakers. The
settlers are happy tonight for the first
time in years in the fact of having actual
possession of their homes"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03
Pith and Point.
GOOD thing to keep-Coo1.

OOOO A~OG
SOMETHING about dogs-Fleas.
MONEY makes the mare go, but pluck
makes Chicago.
ENGAGED in "taking stock" -Mer-
chants and Indians.
ALL is but lip wisdom that wants ex-
perience.-S5r Philip Sidney.
A oANNIBA1's epitaph-Write me as
one who loves his fellow-man.
"KATE, I understand you hava &C.
cepted situation as governess. Rather
than that, I would marry widower
with six children" Yes, dear Sophie,
and so would [, but where is the Wild
over ?"
SALT LAKE has been victimized by
Snowman, who announced that he
would cause human body to appear
and disappear before the audience"
He appeared, got their money, and dis
appeared. He filed the programme.
A LONDON correspondent writes that
$50 universal is the custom here Of
taking wine in goodly quantities for
dinner that even ladies grow red in the
face at the table, and some of them
waddle little when they leave it." The
little ducks
A CHICAGO gentleman recently sent to
Treasurer Spinner small quantity Of
paper pulp, with note stating that it
was the remains of a ten-cent stamp
which his little boy chewed up, and
which he contributed to "help pay the
public debt"
AN impulsive brother, praying in
revival meeting in New York State, not
long ago, burst out, go, Lord, I feel
like giving every poor man in this
place barrel of -four and a barrel of
pork and barrel of salt and barrel
Of pepper-O, that's too much pepper
A FoUR-YEAR-oLD at East Poultney re-
Gently went to blacksmith's to see his
fathers horse shod, and watched closely
the work of shoeing until the black
smith commenced pairing the horses
boots, when, thinking this was wrong,
he said earnestly, "My pa don't want
this horse made any smaller. "
VERY SABA Michigan lady writes
to the W0naGn'S Journal to say that
the women in her neighborhood are so
benighted that they care nothing about
voting and all that sort of thing, but
just keep at their homework like mere
machines. She adds GIVE have no
lecturers or speakers, and meetings Of
no kind have as yet been limited at in
this locality or for twenty miles around,
so far as [ can learn"
IT is related of George Clark, the
celebrated negro minstrel, that, being
examined as witness, he was severely
Intercepted by the attorney, who
wished to break down his evidence.
I" You are in the negro minstrel bust
ness, believe ?" inquired the lawyer.
"Yes, sir" was the prompt reply.
"Isn't that rather low calling?" de-
manded the lawyer. 81 don't know
but what it is, sir, replied the min
strel; sbut it is so much better than
my fathers that [ am rather proud of
it. What was your fathers calling ?"
He was a lawyer, replied CLARK, in a
tone of regret that put the audience in
a roar.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03
The Meerschaum Mania.

The mania for meerschaum pipes,
though perhaps not so prevalent now
as formerly, has produced not few
plpomanlacs the world over. A New
York gentlemen, for instance, has col
lection of some 400 meerschaums. all
beautifully colored. This is rather an
expensive taste, however, for, besides
the first cost of the pipes, he has to
keep two men continually employed,
whose sole duty is to smoke and keep
the 400 pipes in order. One of the
greatest pipe-fanciers in the world,
Maj. Gen. Raffalovich, of the Russian
army, is now in this country. He has
a collection of more than 600 pipes.
Since he has been in this country he
has purchased a number of meer-
schaums, and there is now in the hands
of one of the most prominent manu-
facturers In New York magnificent
meerschaum pipe made to his order.
The bowl forms the bust of very beau
tiful woman, and is correct likeness of
the Generals wife, taken from life.
The stem and mouthpiece are of amber.
fifteen inches long. The whole cost
$3.50. This pipe will be taken to
Europe as curiosity, for it seems that
Gen. Rafalovich had an idea that such
things could not be made in this coun-
try. He is now travelling in the West,
and will doubtless enrich his collection
by adding to it some of the celebrated
calumets made of the famous red pipe
stone by the Indians. -BoStos, Post.
3
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03
Island-Life.

wonder if any readers of the "N,1rs-
cry" besides Fred and me, live in a
Eighth ouse. Our lighthouse is on an
island, twelve miles from the south
shore of Lake Superior, and fifteen
miles from the nearest town.
The shore of the island, nearly all the
way around it, rises straight up from the
waters edge about fifteen feet but on
the south side, where we live, there is a
wide sandy beach, that makes a good
playground. We often find pretty
stones, striped and spotted, and some
times agates, OF his beach.
In summer many fishermen come
here, and we go out with them to see
them lift their nets. Some of the fish
ermen are Chippewa Indians, who come
in birch canoes.
A little way from this island there is
another, which is small and low, with a
stony beach. Here focks of gulls have
their nesting place and once every May
we go there to gather the eggs. Some
times the gulls make nice nests Of sticks
and grass, and sometimes they lay their
eggs right among the stones.
Our other best day is in August. We
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03
How Johnny Ate His Breakfast.

Johnny sat in his high chair at the
breakfast table, with napkin pinned
around his neck. Before him was his
cup of bread and milk, his little spoon
and knife and fork, and his tin A B G
plate on which lay some buttered toast,
and mashed potato, and beefsteak cut
fine. But Johnny was full of fun and
noise; he didn't want to eat just yet
he wanted to drum against the table
with his feet; he wanted to slide out OF
his chair ; he wanted to reach all over
the table, and to put his fork into papa s
coffee.
Come, come eat your nice break
fast, Johnny p said papa. But Johnny
didn't want to. Time enough yet for
all that. Just now he was busy pound
ing the salt cellar with a napkin ring.
Pretty noise pretty noise p he
exclaimed joyously, and away went the
napkin ring over his head as climax.
Napkin ring napkin rim !" he be-
gan to call out then, until somebody
picked it up again for him, and after
that he was busy for long time trying
to make his fork stand up in it.
Meanwhile the others were finishing
their breakfast, and the nice toast and
beefsteak were getting cold, but Johnny
didn't realize and didn't care. He
wished they would give him the castor
to play with, and let him shake the
pepper-box.
At last mamma thought she must in
terfere. Ought she to have scolded her
little boy and hurried him? She did
not want to make a great black cloud
sweep across his happy little sky, but
she did want him to eat his breakfast.
SO what do you suppose she did? She
took the little fork and spoon, and played
they were Grand boys.
The fork took up a bit of toast and
raped against the plate.
Who's there, and what do YOU
want ?" asked mamma.
"I'm little Master Fork" was the
answer; "and I've come to put piece
Of toast in Johnny Bennet's mouth"
go, then, walk right in !" said
mamma.
Johnny looked and laughed. and
opened his little rosy mouth wide. so
Master Fork could put the toast in.
Then the spoon raped on the cup.
Who's that % said mamma.
I'm little Master Spoon"
0, how do you do? And what do
Y0W want %
''I've come to put some bread an d
milk in Johnny Bennet's mouth"
g Walk right up, then, said mamma !;
and Johnny opened his mouth wider
than before, and thought 1t was such
fun to have Master Spoon bring him
bread and milk.
Then Master Fork trotted back and
forth and raped every time he came
with q bit of beefsteak, or toast or DO
tato and whenever he stopped to rest,
Lit tie Master Spoon started up and
brought bread and milk.
1t was very entertaining. johnny sat
still and behaved beautifully. only he
laughed every time he saw mouthful
coming. By-and-by the toast was all
gone, and then SO was the beefsteak
and next there was no mashed potato.
Finally there was not even an atom Of
bread and milk left in the CUP. and
Master Spoon and Master Fork lay down
to rest
Johnny had eaten his breakfast.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03

A similar comparison as to the num-
Der of domestic animals in the State
shows very healthy increase in all
kinds except sheep The decline in the
price of wool in 1868 found many farm
ers with large focks which were worse
than useless, and caused heavy losses.
At that time there were about 2, 10000
sheep in the State. Since then the
focks have been steadily reduced in
numbers
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03
THE OLE BARNS TENANTRY.
BY B. F. TAYLOR.

The rooster stalks on the hangers ledge,
He has tail like a sclmetars edge,
A marshal's plume on his afghan neck,
An admiraPs stride on his quarter deck;
He rules the roost and he walks the bay
With dreadful cold and Turkish way,
Two broadsides fires with his rapid wings
This sultan proud, of line of kings
One cultural laugh, four blasts of horn,
Five rusty syllables rouse the morn!
The Saxon lambs in their wooden tabs
Are playing school with the a, b, abs:
A, Ell I, o ! All the cattle spell
Till they make the blatant novels tell,
And half-laugh whinny fills the stalls
When down in the rack the clover falls.
a dove is waltzing around his mate
Two chevrons black on his wings of slate,
And showing off with wooing note
The satin shine of his golden throat
It is Ovid's "Art of Love retold
In binding fine of blue and gold
All, the buxom girls that helped the boys,
The nobler Helens of humber Troys-
AS they stripped the husks with rustling field
From eight-rowed corn as yellow as gold,
Blythe candle-light in pumpkins bowls,
And the CLEANS that showed fantastic holes
In the quaint old lanterns tattooed tin,
From the hermit glim set up within;
By the rarer light in girlish eyes
AS dark as wells, or as blue as skies.
hear the laugh when the ear is red,
see,the blush with the forfeit paid,
The cedar cakes with the ancient twist,
The cider cup that the girls have kissed,
And I see the fiddler through the dusk
AS he twangs the ghost of &C Money Musk"
The boys and girls in double row
Wait face to face till the magic bow
Shall whip the tune from the violin,
And the merry pulse Of the feet begin.
-Scr5b1ler's for September.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03
The Need OF RenOSe.

"Repose," says a writer, sis the
secret of power in persons, pictures,
statutes, architecture, books, and ma
ture, as if it were a means of retaining
as we'll as disclosing life, and health de-
mands frequent pause to restore the
balance of the system and keep up per-
feet circulations. The night, if spentin
healthy sleep, after proper evening
he 4lrs, reduces the worlds chaos and
we are new every morning. Who does
not know the magic of brief pause in
the midst of the worst confusion A
calm of five minutes will invite back
our vagrant ideas and powers. So the
home should be like hush and lull-
ably in this headlong, whirling, noisy,
furious, and distracted world of the
nineteenth century-a nook apart from
the thoroughfare-a grot or bower un-
der tho sky, where the beautiful spirits
of the air will hover and dance. It's at
mosphere should be little oriental and
cheering, as if exhalted from peoples
and balsams." x
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03

book proving that life is a mutation of
matter, like Moles chott, and treatise
showing that the life of man CORE
spends with what ne eats and drinks,
like Vogt; and with these he raised
himself upon the tips of his toes, and
asked:
cam I any bigger now?''
Then appeared Reason and Common
Sense, and placed themselves at his
side, and they lowered high above him.
and said:
No, you are not.
Then Tobias studied jurisprudence.
and cameralistics, and international
law, and political economy, and geogra-
ply, and statistics, and whatever else
is essential to qualify diplomat, and
then was appointed Minister to for
eign power, and he stood upon the bal
cony of the embassy and demanded
Gam [ any bigger now?"
I'll en- History suddenly rose to his
side, and Tobias suddenly appeared to
himself and to everybody else a mere
pigmy.
Tobias had nearly given up in de-
spair, when, by pure accident, he be-
came King.
He built himself a throne which
was loftier than all the thrones in the
world.
Upon this throne he seated himself.
and gazed down upon the legions who
surrounded it, and they appeared to him
enthusiastically small and insignificant.
and he exclaimed with an air of conf
dence that was touching:
" I'll bet anything that am bigger
now |"
Then came Science, and Art, and His
tory, and Civilization, and Reason, and
Common Sense, and Liberty, and Prog
ress, and many other grand and start
ling apparitions that raised their fronts
unto the heavens, and stood opposite
the throne.
Then Tobias saw perfectly well that
he was as small as ever, and thenceforth
was silent.
Little Tobias still lives.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03
BETWEEN the years 1860 and 1870 thu

DEIWEEN tle years lSoU and lou Lne
population of the United States in
creased p per cent, while the increase
in the number of church sittings was
only IL per cent. At first blush this
looks as If the church accommodations
OF the country were not increasing
rapidly enough to supply the needs of
the people but the Rev. M. M. G.
Dana, writing in the Congregatioaa1iSt,
calls attention to the fact that in many
portions of the Eastern and Middle
States there has hitherto been surplus
OF church sittings, and gives figures to
show that the greatest relative increase
during the last decade occurred in the
newer States, where the unsupplied
want was necessarily greatest. The fol-
lowing are his figures
T11nr
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03

A HARTFORD family were startled by
a heavy crash in one OF their parlors,
the other night, and soon found that a
>.oa ras-i.~a1 bod rrnorrad off +ho cord of
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03

The London Times dispatch from
India says the prospects of the crops are
most favorable. Notwithstanding the re-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03
Our Foreign Trade.

The best barometer of the state of
trade in the United States is that afford
ed by the imports of foreign goods.
Measured by this test the prostration
of business, though severe, is less so
than it was in the periods following
1857 and 1887. For the periods of ten
months ended April 80, in the years
1872, 3, and 4, the values of the for
eign commodities imported into the
United States have been as follows !:
1872, 1921, 313, 006; 1873, 1855, 567, 400
1874, 1896, 304, 1915. The decrease from
1878 is only ezeveaa per cent. In the
year ended June 80, 1856, the imports
were 1914, $50, 942 in 1857, $3.50, $780,
141; and in 1858, $3.50 613, $50. The
decrease of 1858 from 1867 was nearly
ta0egoty-taOo per cent. For the first ten
months OF the fiscal year the values of
certain leading classes of manufactured
goods have been as follows:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03

Total ;. s97 ,818,6O6 sl8S, 9773 s135, 7O1, 468
From the above table it appears that
in the year following the panic in the
fall of 1857 there was falling off of
nearly thirty per cent. in the value of
the imports of dry goods and the manu-
features of iron and steel, In the ten
months dating from July l, 1873, the
falling off has been on y taOenty; four
per cent in the same articles. If the
figures for the entire twelve months
were to be had, the percentage of de-
crease would be found to be still
smaller. York Tribune.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-05
TOLEDO TAMA COUNTY, IOWA, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5 1874

thought Of men or angels; she only felt
she was doing the natural and right thing
Tor her to do, just as she had felt when
she had served the guests with hot tea in
the country inn. She only saw "him,'
away OIL in Nebraska, and little Joe, and
the baby in its cradle, and plenty OF
friendly people all about her.
l heard of Dolly's husband the other
day. lie is aJudge-govcrnor, for aught
| KNOWN Nebraska. ellis wife. "says
my informant, sis lovely, genuine
woman, of singularly quiet gentle man
ners. Husband and children and the
people about her fill up every moment o
her life" George Tanning heard the
story and said nothing, but | observed
him showing Il picture that evening to
his wife of n faded old woman in the
Moravian Sister House, and heard him
tell her OF some instrument of marvel
Gus sweetness that lay buried there until
It crumbled to pieces" died with all its
music in it,"
Something in the picture and the story
seemed to please his aesthetic sensibili-
ties.-.Sc7fJaer's Monthly.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-05
a Woman's Cold Feet.

Mrs. BATTLES suffers from cold feet,
and the other night she warmed up IL
brick, intending to take it to bed with
her. She laid it down by the bedside
while she attended to the baby and then
forgot about it and turned in. After q
while Battles came over to the bedroom
and when he had assumed his night
shirt he began to say his prayers. When
he was about half through he happened
to move his knee little to the left and
it came in contact with the brick. For
an instant he thought that something
had stung him, and, jumping up, he came
back to ascertain what it was. He saw
the brick lying there, but it never oc.
CURED to him that this was the cause Of
| the trouble, SO he picked it up for the
purpose of throwing it out Of the win
dow. Then he suddenly dropped it will
a cry of pain, and, after an indignant dc
nunciation Of Mrs. Battles, he procured
piece Of paper, and in furious rage
hurled the brick through the window
sash. It hit policeman who happened
to be standing on the pavement below
and in less than ten minutes Battles wa
on his way to the station-house, wher'
he was locked up all night on the charg
of assault and battery. He was released
in the morning after paying SEQ fine. Il
has not finished his prayers yet, and Mri
Battles now warns her feet with flar
mel petticoat. t.-Nar Adsler.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-05
Pottawattan,fe County.

] The Council Bluffs NonpareH SAYS: "Tha
there is thoroughly and well
equipped band of horse thieves in the count
cannot be denied. There have been not les
than twenty horses stolen within the past tw,
months in radius Of ten miles from thi
city"
Council Bluffs has formed vigilance com
mlttee to hang monte men, pickpockets ant
horse thieves.
bloody fight with razors occurred in til,
dinlngrooms OF the Pacific House, Council
Bluffs, on the night Of the 3Oth, which re
suited in the death of three negro waiter. o
the house. The difficulty occurred over :
game Of cards. The names Of the murdered
men are Smith, Proctor and Dean TIL,
murderers were arrested
Scott County.
Hen. James I. Lane, United States District
Attorney, has commenced suit against the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids tx Minnesota Rail-
way Company for $4,000, claimed to be due
on coupons issued between 1867 and 1872 1t
appears that law was passed in 1868 requir-
ing railway companies to pay special tax on
coupons when the same were paid This road
issued a large amount, but claims that they
were not sold under the meaning of the law
prior to 1872, but were deposited as security,
and that hence the coupons are exempt from
taxation, and claims that they were
never asked to pay the tax. There are mum
Der OF fine legal points to be decided, and the
case cxcites much interest among other com
panies who issue bonds under the same ar
rangement
At the recent election, Scott County voted
in favor Of restraining stock from running at
large, BY majority of 1,S93
During the fair at Davenport James Clark
knocked Michael Kreiner down and robbed
him of 81 $50. On the 2sth he was found
guilty of the oilense and sentenced to the
for three years.
WapeiIo County.
The keokuk u Des Moincs Railroad have
offered a reward Of 81 600 for the scalp Of the
man who unlocked a switch and ditched
freight train at Comstock the other day.
Wayne County.
Prompted by spirit Of sclf-sacrifcing de
votion to the cause Of journalism, Frank Dal
lam, Of the Warsaw Bul1ctin, while chopping
wood the other day, took advantage oS the
for furnishing an item for his
paper and carved piece out of his foot
Webster County.
Three men were riding in lumber wagon
lear Fort Dodge, a few days ago. One was
'arrying gun in a careless way when sud.
len jolt of the wagon discharged it, tearing
'ff his own hand and shooting out the eyes
md carrying away part of the face of the
'oungest man in the group. The latter lin
,ercd some time, suffering dreadfullv, and |
making pitcous appeals to his comrades to |
Ill him and put him out of his misery.
IVinncshiek County.
ii. H. Buck, prosperous bookseller Of De- |
orah, suddenly disappeared the other day |
lc was last seen in the company of a
tranger, and his hat having been found on |
he bank of the river gives rise to the sus-
icion of foul play.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-05
A Prosperous Texan.

In Southwestern Texas there Is cat
tie raiser who has lived there twenty
wears. On going there, he picked up
dozen COWS, and branded them. TIC aao
no land, but was the possessor OF a "ie,
two or three children, few dogs anu
two or three borses. He kept watch OF
his cows. and lived in handto-mouth
way several years, sustaining his family
by the capture Of game and the sale ol
skins. In May, 1878, he owned ao'ooo
head of cattle, duly branded, and rang
ing over the plains. He has family Oh
nine children, five of whom are boys.
His eldest child is girl nineteen years
Of age. She can rope steer, kill a wolf
with rifle or strangle a dog at arms
length. In the mans house is nail keg
nearly filed with gold coins, while in the
pantry is flour barrel almost filled with
silver pieces. When he sells cattle 1t is
for coin, which is dumped ON the prem
ises. He will not take paper money at
any rate, but is always ready to sell
steers for gold or silver. The house oc-
cupied by this prosperous family is iow'
built of logs, and contains three rooms
The father and mother sleep in the dn'
ing-room, the girls sleep in the spare
room, while the boys sleep in the aool'
ion