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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-01
Our Surplus of Wheat for Export.

The Milwaukee Journal Of Commerce
has elaborate statistical tables of the
wheat crop. It estimates the total crop
at 800, 000,0 bushels. Our estimated
present population of 46,000,0OO will
consume at A bushels per capita, 217-
100000. For seed there will be wanted
35,517 667 bushels. This leaves an
estimated surplus for export of 47.482,
333 bushels. Last year the same paper
estimated the surplus for export at So,
067, 1876 bushels. The actual exports,
reducing flour to wheat at bushels
per barrel, were 52,574,11 bushels.
The tables for 1874 having been pre-
pared with the greatest care, they are
probably as reliable as the 1873 calcula-
tions proved themselves to be.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-01
COOIey'S Dog.

Cooley has got a new dog, and I am
sorry to say that he is exceedingly
vicious; so vicious, indeed, that very
few of the neighbors have courage
enough to enter Cooley's yard. Judge
Pitman, however, had to go in there
the other day fer the purpose of collect
ing bill, and he told me that he wasn't
a particle afraid, because he possessed
the power of holding wild animal with
his eye. When he looked straight into
the eyes of dog the brute quailed be-
fore his glance, and skunk away. He
said it proved the superiority of hui
man being with a soul and reselute
will to the mere brute creation. So he
opened the gate and went in. Cooley's
dog heard him coming, and Immediately
few to meet him. The Judge fixed his
eye Oh the animal for the purpose of
holding it, but the dog didn't seem to
notice the circumstance. But still the
Judge looked, and still the dog came on.
Then it seemed to occur to the Judge
that perhaps his kind of an eye might
not hold this kind of dog, and he sud
denly moved toward the apple-tree, with
UnC uOS C1OoO UOl11IIu ILL., liz UGCdLu0
panic stricken, and made furious effort
to Chamber up the trunk. He had just
reached the first limb when the dog ar
rived, and made a snap at him. The
dogs teeth caught in the lower part of
the Judges trowser-leg, and as it is
bulldog, he held on while the Judge
lay across the limb on his stomach, out
of breath, frightened and uncertain
what to do. If he dropped, the dog
would certainly eat him if he climbed
further up, he would have to take the
dog with him. He had just made up
his mind TO stay where he was while his
strength lasted, when he thought he
heard the limb cracking, and then he
yelled for help. Then Cooley came out,
and after making the Judge promise to
take 20 per cent. discount from the
bill, he pried open the dogs jaws with
the kitchen poker. and dragged him
into the stable. The Judge came down,
hot, breathless and mad and he has
said to me since, privately, that the
next time he wants to hold a dog with
his eye he will impale him on hay fork
first. That is safe way, anyhow
D0Qbury Nea0s.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-01

THE KILLING OF CORRESPONDENT IN
New ORLEANS. -And here let me tell
you the correspondent of the Chicago
Times died on Monday. After
the Metropolitans had been driven
back, he saw negro policeman fleeing
from the fight as fast as his wounds
would permit, carrying gun. West,
the correspondent, called to him,
" Drop that gun, you and
fired his revolver. The negro was struck
by the bullet and fell, West running to
him to get the gun. But the negro
raised himself with the desperation of
death, and, Selling the bayonet.
plunged it into Vests heart, and thew
died together. A friend of the Times
correspondent witnessed the scene, and
helped to take the body away. From
his lips I learned these facts. Csncin-
nate Gazette.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-01

THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.-One of
the sections of the constitution of the
order of the Blue and the Gray, recent
ly organized in the South, is as follows:
Each encampment shall have two
banners, one of the stars and stripes.
and one of the stars and bars, to be
used on parade or on public occasions
by the encampment, the stars and bars
to be borne by soldier or sailor late
OF the United States army or navy, and
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-01
RAMON.

1.-THE following spirited poem we clip from the
atlantic for October 1t is by Bret Harte, in his
very best vein the scene being laid at Ell Refugio
Mine, Northern Mexicol
Drunk and senseless in his place,
More like brute than any man
Alive or dead
By his great pump out of gear,
Waking only just to hear
Overhead,
Angry tones that called his name
Oaths and cries of bitter blame 1f~s--
woke to near all this, and waking, turned and fed
{" To the man who'll bring to me,o
Cried Intendant Harry Lee
Harry Lee, the English foreman Of the mine
60 Bring the sot alive dead,
will give to him, !" he said,
Fifteen hundred pesos down.
Just to set the rascal's crown
Underneath this heel of mine:
Since but death
Deserves the man whose deed
Be it vice want of heed.
Stops the pumps that give us breath
Stops the pumps that suck the death
From the poisoned lower levels of the mine!"
No one answered for CRY
From the shaft up on high
And shutting, scrambing, tumbing from below,
Came the miners each, the holder
Mounting on the weaker's shoulder,
Graphing clnging to their hold
Letting go,
AS the weaker gasped and fell
From the ladder to the we'll
To the poisoned pit of hell
Down below!
To the man who sets them free"
Cried the foreman, Harry Lee
Harry Lee, the English foreman of the mine
g Brings them out and sets them free,
will give that man." said he,
" Twice that sum, who with rope
Face to face with Death shall cope.
Let him come who dares to hope !" -
GO Hold your peace !" some replied, . 3. -
Standing by the foremans side; --.--
"There has one already gone, whoe'er he bel"
Then they held their breath with awe,
Pulling on the rope and
Painting figures reappear,
On the black rope swinging clear.
Fastened by skillful hand from below:
Till score the level gained,
And but one alone remained
He the hero and the last
ne whose skilful hand made fast
The long line that brought them back to hope and
Haggard, gaspng, down dropped he
At the feet of Harry Lee
Harry Lee, the English foreman of the mine;
-" have come !" he gasped, to claim
Both rewards. Senior, my name
Is Ramon
I'm the drunken engineer
I'm the coward, Senior Here
He fell over, by that sign
Dead as stone!
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-01

In the days of the great British Ad-
mirals Collingwood and Nelson, the
very heaviest gun afoat on the largest
man-of-war weighed but from two to
three tons. The common naval sixty
four FOUNDER now weighs over three
tons, while the great 700 FOUNDER of the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-01


Wear your clothes, my cherubirn,
For there isn't any water.
A SPREAD EAGLE barber announces
that he is professor of Crinicultural
Abscision and Genealogical Tripsis." It
is not often that four such high-priced
words get into a single sentence.
A POLITICIAN, wishing to compliment
a we'll do farmer, said: "You must
have begun life early to accumulate
such an estate as this % eyes," replied
the farmer, 81 begin life when was a
mere baby" e..
A GENTLEMAN of mechanical turn of
mind took off the gas meter to repair it
himself, and put it up again upside
down. At the end of the quarter it was
proved with mathematical correctness
that the gas company owed him $3.50.
"DoN'T cry, my little fellow, don't
cry" said kind-hearted stranger to
ten-year old, who was busy churning his
tears with both fists as hard as he could.
CT amt a-cryin'," snappishly retorted
the urchin, "I'm only washin' the dirt
out VI LILY eyes.
THAT was shrewd advice of a learned
lawyer to pupil "When the facts are
in your favor, but the law opposed to
you, come out strong on the facts and
when the law is in your favor, and the
facts opposed to you, come out strong
on the law" "But," inquired the
student, "when the law and the facts
are both against me, what shall [ do?
"Why, then" said the lawyer, "talk
around it..
Four doctors tickled Johnny Smith,
They blistered and they bled him;
With squills and ant-bilous pills
And ipecac they fed him.
They stirred him UP with calomel,
And tried to move his liver,
But all in vain! his little soul
Was waited DER the river.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-01
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
COMING.

Two fair ships are sailing,
Sailing over the sea- n
Willie's ship and my Ship
Full as full can be;
Side by side, my Willie says
Like as pin to pin,
Oh, the happy, happy days
When our ships come in!
While our ships are sailing,
Sailing over the sea-
Willie's ship and my ship
Full as full can be,
Sailing on the sunny tide,
Grieving would be sin:
Soon or late, and side by side,
Shall our ships come in.
st. Nicholas for October.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-01

Corn BURNINa-NoT IN 1874.-Tt
appears probable that the West will
never get rid of the reputation of being
compelled to burn corn for fuel. Be-
cause, two years ago, freights we're so
high and corn was SO plentiful that it
would not bear transportation, and was
the cheapest fuel obtainable, Eastern
papers, which know no better, fancy
that corn burning is going on now. A
Washington city paper laments over the
fact that g Western farmers are ac5u-
ally burning their grain for fuel, while
Eastern laborers are starving for the
necessaries OF life that are thus wasted,
the high prices of transportation rem
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-01

AWAITING the custom of some Ameri-
can politician or railroad man, in the
window of q jewelers. store on the Rue
de la Paix, Paris, is breastpin made
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-01
The Hand.

Profound study has led M. d'Arpen-
tigny to the conclusion that the hands
represent three types. Those whose
fingers have pointed tips are possessed
of q rapid insight into things are extra
sensitive and pious, impulsive. To this
class belong the poets and artists. To
the "square tops" belong scientific
people sensible, self-contained charac-
tiers, professional men. The spade
shaped tops-thick tips, with little pads
of flesh on each side the nails-are
materialists, commercial, practical, with
high appreciation of all that tends to
bodily ease and comfort. Each finger,
no matter what the kind of hand, has
also one joint-that which is nearest the
palm-representing the body; another,
the middle, the mind /; and the top, the
SOUL Each of these divisions CORE
spends with one of the types above
gwen.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-01
Pith and Point.

MEN of color-Painters.
EYE servants-Spectacles.
LETTERS of credit on.
A COMMON cant-A mendicant.
The Emerald Isle-Greenland.
CAST iron-Spent cannon balls.
The end of the world Money-mak-
ing.
A STAMP act-Treading on peoples
toes.
SoUNDNGs on a bar-Rapping for
drinks.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-01

Paying Him Back.
Here comes letter giving true
incident that happened the other day
in New Jersey
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-01
On. Stanley.

The joint expedition of the London
Telegraph and the New York Herald
into interior Africa has begun; Mr.
Stanley is on his way thither with
perfect outfit, including a useful GUAM
tity OF scientific information which he
has been reading up since the Ashantee
war. Very unpleasant things are said
concerning the mean jealousy of the
Royal Geographical Society, whose
Cameron expedition, appealing to the
public support, has yet failed to get it.
Their attempts to discredit Stanley's
finding of Livingstone will not be for
gotten they were echoed even in his
own country, so great was the respect
felt for the Royal Society's Judgment,
joined, besides, with the Herald old
repute for canarding. But STANLEY
proved himself manly, plucky, indomit-
able, just the stuff for an explorer and
when he brings back map of the
sources of the Nile, he can SNAP his
fingers at the f" easy-chair geographers. !"
I'm the north of England and in
Scotland they have made the discovery
that our great national game is modi-
fcation of the old game of FOUNDERS. !
which was q favorite in that region
forty years ago." IT an American
should invent q method for propelIing
ships by the captain standing overheard
and kicking against the stern, some
Englishman would certainly turn no
ready to prove that British inventor
sold the patent right of that motive
power to Noah just before he finished
the Ark. These Englishmen are some
what like the Chinese, who, as soon as
they heard there was game called bill.
lizards, produced documentary evidence
that Chinaman named Fung-Sanq
played the pocket game in match or
the planet Saturn four thousand years
] before the crnatin,, of +bn-na.,+h NO.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-01
New version ::

Mother, may 60 out to SWIM?
No, my darling daughter.
Wear your clothes, my cherubim,.
For there isn't any water.
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-08-20
Senator PincIkback,

The following was adopted by the Repub-
lican State convention Of Louisiana: "Re-
solred, That we reafiirn cur unalterable al
legiance to and confidence in the Hon. p. B..
S. Pinchback, United States Senator elect
from Louisiana, and while we regret that he
has not yet been seated, we have every faith
that the Senate of the United States, will.
in due time, honor his credentials as one of
the representatives Of the sovereign State of
Louisiana. But, in. case it should be deemed
necessary for the general Assembly of LOU
isiana, at its next session, to ratify his Gre
dentials as United States Senator, we hereby
nominate and reindorsc the Hon. p. B. S.
Pinchback as our unanimous choice for
United States Senator from this State, and
direct all the Republican members of the
General Assembly to Put in force and exc
cute this declaration OF the deliberate wis
dom of the Republican party in convention
assembled"
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-08-20

WAY 10 their Advancement In the Grange
movement when Northern oranges and
Southern oranges meet to tell the story of
their trials and the causes which tend to de-
prive agriculture in their different sections Of
the power and prominence it should hold.
OWNING the advantage 'front.' Grange
movement, the Southern whites are eagerly
and ip large numbers becoming identified
with it. Thus Displaying a shrswdness as
deep as they extent deare for the success
Of the Lost Cause. The Grange movement
Is better for their purpose than the White
Leagues /; the one being q national move
ment in the interest Of agriculture, and the
other sectional, with an lily disguised pur-
pose to make reconstruction measures of
no effect. .,.r u,........s
Our hope, the safety Of the nation, its pros
perity, and its freedom from bitter strife lie
il the continued ascendency Of the Republi-
can party. Its principles are sound. High
patriotism and steadfast zeal in the work Of
making the United States land of Liberty
and Equality are characteristic of the Repub-
Icon party. To overthrow the party that
has 80 completely changed the tendency of
the nation from slavery to freedom is the
constant aim of the men in the South who
organize White Leagues and crowd the
Grange lodges Of that section. We hope
that Republican members of the Oranges In
the North will watch closely lest, before they
may be aware of it, their organization will
have become an ally of that spirit in the
South nat seeks to turn back the pr ogress-
i've tide of freedom, and inaugurate system
as nearly akin to slavery as it may be posi-
BILE to effect, ,l5 ...r
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The black men and the white men in the
South have got to live together, and work
together, and there will be no real peace and
prosperity until they learn to vote together
They are kept apart by two classes of poll
ticians equally pestilent-the blatant rogues
like Moses who persuade the negro that his
rights are endangered by the temperance
OF the Southern white Conservative in poll
tics and the roaring fre-eaters like the edi-
tor of The Montgomery (Ala.) Morning News,
who threaten the white man with ''miscegen-
alton" unless he can assert at once and for
all his political and social supremacy. Y.
Tribune.
"The blatant rogues like Moses have
only to point to the state of affairs in
Georgia under conservative rule, to fill the
negro with distrlst Of the native white men
in the South. The truth is that the purpose
of the native whites of the South is, when
ever they have the power, to make the free
dom of the negro but little more than name.
The ex-slaveholders often boast that they
understand the negro much better than do
the people of the North. The negro can
truthfully assert, that his knowledge of the
late shareholders is of a more reliable char
acter than that possessed by Northern poll
ticans. His distrust is founded on his
knowledge Of the deep desire of Southern
whites to control dependent laboring class.
Whenever conservative or Democratic senti-
ments hold sway in the South, the negro is a
sufferer from the violation of his human
rights and his citizenship rights. Change
this and division among different parties
may be effected with colored voters. The
black man needs only the assurance of pro.
lection in his right to life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness. We sincerely trust
the colored people of South Carolina will
consign to political oblivion all the men who
have robbed the State. We as earnestly
hope that they will not stultify themselves
by voting for Prescott for Congress simply
because he processes to be a reformer. How
does he stand on the reconstruction measures
is the question for colored voters. ,...! d..
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upon to take different view of the situation,
and be found siding with the invaded State.
Thus the anxiously-desired war Of races
would be inaugurated by the rebel element
in the South. That element would pounce
upon and exterminate the blacks. This is the
foreshadowing of a plan to rid the South of
the faithful allies of the Union. Could these
plotten lead the North to believe that the
negroes provoke hosfilities by lawless acts,
by active animosity toward the whites, then
they would have no fear of Intervention, on
the part Of the people of the North and of
the Government, to restrain their murderous
work Of determination. Such articles as the
one above quoted, and the miserable false
hoods of last week. scattered all over the
country, may tend to open the eyes of the in
telligent and rejecting people of the North.
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LOUISIANIANS!~~.. /,
Pennsylvania Republicans.

The Republicans of Pennsylvania held
their State convention yesterday The fol-
lowing planks Of their platform were
adopted: -
Ninth. The frantic efforts now making by
the Democratic party to bring on war of
races in the South. with the design of de-
priving portion of its citizens of the rights
which belong to them, show that the mission
of the Republican party has not ended, and
that its further continuance is necessary to
secure equally to every citizen the rig hts
which belong to all. 80 .'-.i., :. j.
Tenth. Emancipation and enfranchise-
ment having been secured by the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States and by the necessary legislation for
their enforcement, andiequality Of civil rights
having been guaranteed by the fourteenth
amendment, it is the, imperative duty of
Congress to see that such guarantee is en-
forced by appropriate statutes. '.'.'4' "!
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-08-20

s1 The New York Times has slightly
modified its views on the responsibility Of
the colored race for the corruption existing
in certain Southern States. Our articles on
that subject have been to show that the
negro is not responsible ip any larger degree
than the white man for corruption, and the
Times, in an editorial Of yesterday, reaches
the same conclusion, ,HJ "a, sj,yC 3. ..,'
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-08-20
Hen. Josiah II. Walls.

Hon. Josiah T. Walls, of Florida, has been
unanimously renominated for Congress. Mr..
Walls was active and Jealous in laboring for
the best interests of his State in the session
of Congress which adjourned in June last.
On the civil rights measure he was faithful.
We hope to see him-as he deserves to be-
triumphantly reelected. 80 ....-.......
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WHAT THE GOSsIPs SAY.

Says Gossip One to Gossip Two.
While shopping in the town,
sold Mrs. Pry to me remarked,
Smith bought his goods of Brown
Says Gossip Two to Gossip Three,
Who cast her eyelids down;
'I've heard it said to-day, my friend,
Smith got his goods from Brown"
Says Gossip Three to Gossip Four,
WITH something of frown,
''rve heard strange news-what do yor
think ? --s,4 $780,.
Smith took his goods frown Brown"
Says Gossip Four to Gossip Five, :
Who blazed it round the town,
I've heard to-day such shocking news
Smith stol, his goods from Brown p
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Rates o1ro;,;;s.;xe,.. ''''

For the information and convenience Of
our readers, we publish the following abstract
of the postal laws Of the United States, We
advise our readers to cut this out and pre-
serve it for reference: a..
Postal cards, one cent each, 60 without
further charge to all parts Of the country.
All letters to all parts of the United States.
three cents per half ounce. .r
Local. or drop" letters, that is for the
city or town where deposited, two cents if
delivered by carriers, and one cent if there is
no carrier system.
For newspapers and magazines, regularly
issued and sent to regular subscribers, the
following rates per quarter Of three months,
payable in advance al the Office where re-
ceiyed:
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b6- We are indebted 10 our friend,
Samuel Lee, Esq, for several copies Of South
Carolina newspapers. He win please accept
our thanks. Mr.. Lee is now at his home in
South Carolina, where he is laboring to bring
about political reform. ~.
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White Leagues.

The following is a copy of a circular being
distributed in Louisiana 1t shows to what
extent rebel madness can go. Drive the
negro from Louisiana and the planters in
terests are ruined. But the White Leagues
hope to find compensation for the idle cotton
and sugar plantations in Office holding:
LOUISIANAIS!
POUR SAWYER TOTRE PATRIE IL FAUT
a., REMOVER LES NEGREs. ,...,
(Par la taim animal lie plus feroce est
domptG.)
LOUISIANIANS!~>-,. =. -.
THE NEGRO.
(Wild beasts can only be tanned by hunger. }