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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08
DepODulatiOn of Ireland,

The New York Worlds Dublin cor
respondent writes The population of
Ireland decreased by 1862, 319 persons
between the years 1841-51, by 1854
in the next decade, and by 396,2O be-
tween the years 1911. There is
reason to believe that this decrease by
the end of the present decade will
have wholly ceased, that is, that the
emigration will not exceed the natural
increase of the population. The con-
dition of the country is now really pros
porous. Wages have greatly advanced
in consequence of the limited supply of
laborers. The reform of the land law
has had most excellent effect, and not
unfrequently Irishmen return from
America with fortunes gained there to
take up their abode in their native land.
The aggregate investments in govern
ment stocks, joint-stock banks, and
savings banks in 1864 were G54, 1873, 900 !;
but on the both of June, 1863, they
were 967, 1862, 900, an increase of % per
cent. in ten years. The value Of live
stock in 1864 was ESQ, 728, go; in 1874
it was 937, 225, 1877. It is to be remarked
that although in thirty years Ireland
has lost about 100000 Of her people,
the relative proportion of Catholics and
Protestants remains almost unchanged.
In Munster, in 1861, 938 out of every
1000 were Catholics the proportion
now is 936 to each 1000. In Kerry the
Catholics in 1861 were 967 in each
1000 they now are 968 III 1000. In
Protestant" Ulster-which is Prot
estant only in name-there were ISL
Catholics in each 1000 in 1861, and
now there are 755 to each 1000. The
old faith does not die out, despite the
fact that the emigrants are for the most
part Catholics.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08
Bring Ont the Hose.

There was something malicious in
the smile of a Michigan avenue saloon
keeper yesterday as he dragged fifty
feet of penstock hose out on the walk,
turned on full head of water, and re-
marked to crowd of eight or ten boys
that they could wash the walk. He went
in and shut his door, and every boy in
the crowd jumped for that nozzle. An
old gent going by had his plug hat
knocked into the street, and when he
turned to demonstrate, the stream hit
him in the eye, down behind the collar
and on the back, and he galloped into a
grocery and wildly inquired for three
barrel shotgun and q hand grenade
Each boy declared that he was going to
hold that nozzle, and each one tried to.
The stream hit the windows, then the
walk, then hitching-pos and more
than once it slid down boys back or
into his bootleg. A woman came out
of store just in time to get dash
under the chin, and she fell over a box
aud shouted "murder p in clarion
tones. A girl came along with a baby
cart, and as she was chewing away at a
quid of gum and gaping across the
street, the water struck the baby in his
little stomach and poured down over
his little toes like babbling brook
rushing to the sea. The struggle
among the boys lifted the stream to the
window again, and the girl and baby
got away. A small boy ran across the
street to see what the matter was, and
he vent back bowling, his hair dripping
and his ears filled full. A barber went
out to say to the boys that he'd have
'em locked up, and the water raked up
and down him, filled up his pockets and
wilted his shirt bosom, and he jumped
back into his door and said he'd like to
be Chief of Police of Detroit for about
six seconds, he. would. Some of the
boys dropped out, discouraged at the
thought of what the cold man would
say when they got home, but five or six
held on until they had wet up sack of
coffee, barrel of sugar, "plunked a
small girl in the back and wet down a
drug clerk, and then the saloon keeper
came out and took the nozzle and ex-
claimed: "Poys Poys, if you don't
stop dis peesnes I'll call for der perleece
on dis beat ?'-Detr0it Free Press.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08
The french Military System.

France is putting herself in military
order after the Prussian model. The
catastrophe of 1870 was great edu-
Gator. There is fine lad of II in my
"pension," who has been helping me
with my correspondence. He talks
English, and yesterday he said, ct
must now go to my Professor. " Your
Professor, Armand how is that y
"Why, you see, when I am 10 I go into
the French army, under the law passed
after the war, by which all of our young
men must serve five years, unless they
show themselves qualified in certain
branches Of education, as history,
geography, arithmetic. IF they are up
in these, they need only serve one year.
l have my teacher an hour every day,
and | feel sure of a good number and an
early and honorable discharge for su-
perority in geography, algebra, and the
natural sciencies. II I prove proficient
in these branches, I serve only one
year SO am working to get the other
four years to myself" 1t is unneces-
sary to discuss the advantages of such
system in a military power. The
government secures good soldiers and
intelligent citizens at the same time
FOraey's Paris Letter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08
Bound to Do a Full Days Work.

Mr.. M, of Oxford, don't object to
having a hired man do a full day
work at least so we should judge from
the following story:
A short time ago, a man went to his
place for work. Mr.. M-set him to
blowing around forty-acre field. After
he had plowed faithfully all day, until
the sun was about half an hour high,
he expressed his opinion that it was
about time to quit work.
sob, no." said Mr.. M, "you can
pillow around six or eight times more
just as we'll as not.
So the hired man plowed around six
or eight times, then went to the house,
took care of his team, MIXED nine
cows, ate his supper, and found ten
o'clock staring him in the face from the
old time piece.
Said the hired man to Mrs. M,
"Where IS Mr.. Mp"
The good woman answered, "He has
retired do you wish to see him ?"
He replied that he did. After being
conducted to the bedroom, he said,
"Mr. M, where is the ak ?"
"Why," said Mr.. M, "what do
you want with the AK ?''
"Well," said the hired man, IT
thought you might like me to split wood
till breakfast is ready"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08
A Little MOralizing.

AS a general thing, [ think it may be
set down for self-evident fact that we
do not die soon enough-in most cases
we'd all be better off if we died ten years
before we do. It might not be money
in our pockets, exactly, SO to do, but in
the majority of cases 'twould be better
for our regulations, our comfort, and
all, if we died earlier-before we're
found out, [ was going to say, but won t!
Here is the Beecher matter, forinstance;
if all the men, women and children con-
cerned, directly or indirectly, had died
ten years ago, wouldn't it have been a
deal better for them? Understand, [
do not say that it would I only ask the
question. It so happened that I was
present at Mr.. Beechers sermon on the
death of Sumner. The clergyman very
distinctly stated that the statesman did
not die quite SO soon as he ought to have
died for his fame's sake. And my dar-
ing mind at once jumped from that sin
gle statement to the general proposition
which / have now advanced. But did
not look to see an illustration of the
truth SO soon III the preachers own case.
Nor do [ profit by the wisdom thus
gained in mine own. For instance, I
am publishing a book. Now I'M
doubleday the best thing for me to 10
in life were to die before that book is
published-but [ don't mean to, if [
can help it. IT'S not the common GUS
tom to practice Individually what one
breaches. During the late unpleasant
ness, I labored very hard to make my
countrymen understand how clearly it
was their duty to step forward and be
killed, but for all that I never went to
the front and got killed myself. Very
few did, indeed, who talked about it as
Christian duty John Paul.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08
EATING BU11RTs.-According to a

EATING BULLETS. According to an
account given by the Scotsman, COW
belonging to farmer at Balglass, near
Lennoxtown, was found dead on the
grazing ground few days ago. AS it
had seemed previously in perfectly
healthy condition, It's owner had it
opened, and the cause of its death, was
at once manifest. Inside the cows
stomach was ten pounds of lead all in
small pieces. It had been in the habit
of picking up on its grazing ground
portions of bullets shot against targets
by the Campsie volunteer companies,
who have their shooting range on the
field it lately occupied. The COW had
in fact thought that, the sword being
converted into the plowshare, bullets,
in like manner, were converted into
grass, and hence the fatal errors which
undermined it's constitution and led to
it's premature decease. Cows will do
well to remember that the time has not
yet come when bullets may be safely
taken as food.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08
Living in a Light-House.

Lighthouses are strange and lonely
homes for men to live in. Some of
them are perched out on the ocean, with
the land scarcely in sight, and the rest
less see forever beating and moaning
around them. The keepers of these do
not sea other human faces than their
own in quarter of year. Night and
day they are on the watch, gladdened
awhile by sail that appears for lit
tie while and then floats out of sight.
below the horizon. They might be out
of the world, for all they knew of it's
concerns, it's losses and gains, it's bat
! ties and it's victories, the changes that
each day brings forth. There are other
lighthouses situated on the coast, but
SO remote that they are never visited !;
and others that are surrounded by the
civilization of fishing village, and on
summer days are crowded by fashiona-
BILE people from the neighboring water
ing places. But for the most part, ex-
cept in the approaches to fourishing
ports, they are built out on the farthest
margin of the land, on far-reaching
capes and peninsulas, on iron-bound
headlands, on detached rocks and sandy
shoals. The light-ships are still worse
off, anchored as they are in stormy
waters, and forever rolling, plunging,
leaping in perpetual unrest, clipped of
their wings, while other vessels are
passing and repassing, shortening sail
as they enter port and spreading the
canvas as they start out anew.
The ight-ships are manned by men
alone, but in the lighthouses the keep
ers are allowed to have their wives, and
children are born unto them and brought
up with the sea and the sea-birds and
the distant ships for companions. Many
pretty story or poem has been woven
about children living in this fashion.
They learn the secrets and wonders of
the sea, and feel glad when it sings
softly on the calm days and sad when
it's bosom is ruffled and white in the
storms. Their little heads are full of
strange fancies about nature, and I do
not believe they could understand or
enjoy the life you and I lead at home.
Somehow [ cannot think of them as
real children. They seem more like
water sprites that have their homes in
the blue depths among other delicate
plants that blossom there. But thew
have lessons to learn from school-books,
and great many things to do in their
fathers household Their life, with all
It's romance, is not one of idleness, YOU
may be sure. = From g our 'Ldght-
houses end Light-shipS, by ". H.
R5dejng. st. Nicholas for October.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08
An Officers Opinion of the Black Hills.

Lieut. G.. D. Wallace, of the 9TH
cavalry, stationed at Fort Abraham
Lincoln, arrived in this city by the ST.
Paul train Monday night, having in
charge the Indian scouts who accom-
panied Clusters expedition.
Lieut.. Wallace's views in regard to
the fabulous wealth said to be hidden
in the Black Hills are somewhat differ
ent from those of many others who
have expressed themselves upon this
subject. He admits there is beyond
doubt gold in the Black Hills, yet the
statements made by the majority of
those who have visited that country he
looks upon as highly colored. Some
portions of the Black Hills, he says,
would be hard to beat as regards the
natural beauty of the scenery, and
there are inexhaustible beds of gypsum
waiting to be utilized. The pine that
grows among the hills so plentifully is
said to be worth little or nothing for
lumber, being SO brittle that the trees
generally break in pieces when felled to
the ground. They are full of pitch.
The Lieutenant said there was nothing
found in panning the top earth, where
the grass roots were said to be so rich
in gold, to warrant the assertions made
in regard to the rich yield, as thousands
would find out to their sorrow, were
they to rush there with any such bright
expectations. -SSoaAr city Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08
&enosha Ttlegrapt
THE LITTLE FOLKS.

lie Cheated Mosquitoes.
old Locks has gone to bed,
Are given and prayers are saidss
says, as she turns out the light,
uitoes won't bite my child tonight,
i'll try to come in, but won't know how,
nets are in the windows new"
tit0-That is the window where we go in !
3quit0-Is little girl Gold Locks fat or
7Iit0-O, plump as the plumpest dairy
Je!
sQuito-And the sweetest morsel in the
e.
uito--Eurry, pray, and lead the way
Uit0--I haven't had q bite today
ujto--What have I flown against now, I
der?
SQuitO-Theres something across here,
crawl under!
quito-These bars are as large as my
is
)8quito-I've broken the point of my bill
sQu1to-I'm slim, perhaps i can crawl
8q4it0-Oh! what shall I do? Oh! what
II do?
Oh! what shall we do? Oh !swhat shall
.o7a8.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08

hole, covering it from sight the loose
dirt was then removed, and every trace
of the ground having been disturbed
carefully concealed. They were none
too soon, however, for just as they had
finished their work the factory bell
rang out for six o'clock, and groups Of
men, boys and girls were seenhurrying
along the path.
"Come we must be quick or they'll
see u.s." said Tommy, catching hold
Of Miles hand and pulling her into
clump Of bushes near by. "Now
Just keep real still and see 'em fall in.
MY but won't they be scared -
No more was said, and two pairs of
bright eyes looked out for the expected
fun. But some way the "falling in >"
did not take place. Whether the fac
tory people saw the trap, or whether
they escaped it accidentally, the chill
dren could not make out but certainly
no one stepped into it.
It's too bad; they just all missed
it, said Tommy, disappointedly, as the
last one passed by. Butch, there
cone some more "
Mile looked out to see who they
were. "Oh, dear, it's papa I" she ex-
claimed, excitedly, "heIl just fall and
get hurt!"
Itwas indeed Mr.. Jennings, and be-
side him walked Annie Burns, poor,
crippled girl, who supported herself and
an aged mother by working in the fac
tory. All desire for fun had now died
out in the children's heart they only
waited in breathless hope that these
two would escape as the others. But
they did not. Poor Annie placed her
foot on the treacherous leaves, and in
an instant fell to the earth with q cry
of pain and terror. At this unfortun-
ate ending of their scheme Mill1e
sprang out from the bushes, while
Tommy followed more slowly. Their
father saw them approach.
Children, did you have anything to
do with that ?" he demanded, sternly.
Tommy did not answer but Mile
sobbed out the whole story. "We
were just playing, papa" she said in
conclusion "we meant tonly for fun"
"Only for fun," repeated papa,
gravely. "And my little boy and girl
were willing to have fun even at the
pain of Others"
He said no more, but lifting poor
crippled Annie to her feet he assisted her
to her home in the village.
That was long sad evening the chill
dren passed awaiting papa's return.
And when he came and told them of the
sprained ankle, the pain and confne-
ment of Annie Burns would have to I'M
dergo, and the expense their fun had
caused, then it was that Tommy took
out little notebook papa had given
him, and wrote the following:
ga good rule :-"I'll have no fun
that makes folks sprain their ankles. 3"
And hope Tommy will keep his re-
solution don't you ?-The Methodist.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08
SUMMER, SWEET, GooD-BY.

Gold and red and purple leaves
Flutter down the wind;
With the snow af thistle-down
All the lanes are lined.
Hurrying birds are flying high,
Singing: Summer, sweet, good-by!
Summer, sweet, good-by!"
Sheaves are nodding in the sun,
AS if passed along,
In gay, fantastic rout,
Summers fairy throng.
Where the fading willow swings,
Where the nest, deserted, clings,
Listen to the brook that sings:
"SQmmer, sweet, good-by!"
Woodlands whisper sad farewells;
Squirrels frisk and spring;
Patter, patter rain and nuts,
For their harvesting.
Flocks of merry birds go by,
Meath the hearts unclouded sky,
Hopeful, trustful, while we sigh;
1" Summer, sweet, good-by!"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08
A FR1eHTFUn revenge was taken by &

A FRIaHTFU1 revenge was taken by a
rejected lover in North Carolina, one
day lately. The youth had been court
ing a young lady for some time, and as
she fatty refused to marry him, he
grew frantic, and suddenly seized one
of her ears with his teeth. Her pierc-
ing shrieks at once brought all the fam
lily to her aid, but the father of the girl
had to insert an iron pot-hook between
the teeth of the wretch before he would
let 90 his hold. A physician was called,
and it was found necessary to amputate
the ear, as it was too severely mutilated
to preserve. Ea#
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08
A Free Press.

The Morning argus down at our
place is scrupulously careful of the
honor of journalism. When it makes
an assertion it never takes it back
under any circumstances. The other
day it announced that certain Mr..
Stebbins had been eaten over in the
woods by Squire Hoover's pig. The
next day Stebbins called at the Office to
say that the whole story was false ;
such thing had never occurred, and
he wanted a contradiction published.
The reporter assumed solemn look,
and assured Stebbins that when the
argus said thing, that thing was so ;
and besides that, he had been over to
see the pigs, and they looked as if they
had eaten man named Stebbins, and
there was nobody named Stebbins
around there, so he must have been
eaten, and all the circumstantial evil
dence was so strong that, until the pigs
side of the story was heard, not another
line upon the subject would be pub
lished. Then Stebbins threatened vio-
lence, and subsequently the reporter
agreed to put in q paragraph to the
effect that persons who had any OBJ
jections to eating any member of the
Stebbins family need not on that &C
count decline to buy sausages of
Hoover, and that was as far, as he could
conscientiously go. It is perfectly clear
that if men are to be permitted to stul-
tify q free press with their foolery, our
liberties are in danger. If Stebbins
had been a conscientious man ne would
have given himself over to Hoover's
live stock as soon as he saw that item
in the Argus.-Danabmy Meas.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08

The Chicago Journal says: Iowa
has more than doubled her population
since 1860, and still she grows. A
progressive and very productive
State is Iowa, and her people are more
intelligent, as whole, than those OF
anU other Western State"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08

LOUISVILLE papers publisha carefully
prepared review of the trade and COM
merce of the city for the year ending
Aug. 81, 1874. The exhibit shows that
there are now in successful operation
more than 500 manufacturing establish
ments, representing an investment of
500, 1000, 900, producing wares annually
estimated at $56,O00,00 employing
constantly $4,000 persons, and paying
out annually for labor about IS, 100000.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08

THE walls of Nineveh were 100 feet
high, and thick enough for three char
lots abreast. Babylon was sixty miles
within the walls, which were seventy
five feet thick, and 800 feet high.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08

BARNUM is "a years old, and his
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08

BAzAINE will established himself per-
manently in England soon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-29

ssOopo belonging to the bank, arrived 10 jersey Cy
Yesterday on steamer Republic OF the wnte 5,ar
line and taken ut to tile Hudson County JAN.
The steamer sailed the 18th inst, and was uuH On
Monday but the heavy weather encountered detained
ber until Yesterday about 10 o'clock, when she was sig
nailed of Sandy Hook Chief Donovan o, ,t ~, ha 70
meet him. He took the prisoner ana Detective hepon
ough who made the arrest in England, and IN wnosc
ON their arrival in Jersey City, Klennen placed In
n coach and driven to the Hudson County Jail, where
he was temporarily committed To the witDess-room nc
is held under bench-warrant from tine Court Oh OYER
and Termlner He WAS Indicted by the Grand Jury lnl-
medatey after the discovery OF his defacaton Deec
tive Nc Donouh that he had no trouble win tne
prisoner on the voyage. He was IN good spirits
The entire trip refused to converse IN RELATION 10 inc
bank affairs. 49,
ELrz,BErH-The following taken TO the state
Prison Yesterday: Jon Rogers for burglary ~ Tor
grand larceny, year William Howe, TOT keeping us
reputa table house in Plainheld months. the common
Council held meeting and received the reslgDa0u VI
Councilman Brooks from the Eighth Ward. The CLERK
was directed TO advertise for speeial e,eS s
to nil the vacancy. message was received irotn
Mayor Coursen that the City Council consent W 'o
nomination Of John f. Voorhees, City Treasurer 10
fill the vacancy caused by the death OF Dr d. y.
Carlton. ballot cast the result beng niue 70 n,o
against the nomination. Councilman Feane mOVe1 W
reconsider the vote, but this lost Inc Fresiueh'
then declared the nomination rejected.
UNION HHL-Thomas Korson age 60, paraiyzcd anu
unable to speak, wandered away from MS hone III n
UnIons two weeks and has not since been neaiu
An tnerant glass yenuer was 6hgasSu ~ I'D
window at the residence OF MI Hon yestefuay, a. an,
when he left he took quantity OF leTeny anu VIZ,
apparel lie was captured at the Weeha"Aeh ioiiS "
the goods were returned.
BELLEyrILE-rhe oath Of office has been administered
TO Mayor Holmes and the newly-electel COunc ~
o. H. Perry elected President oil the CouneA anu II
Ii. Marchbank Clerk
UoBoKEY-The Library Committee OF tho Board OF
Education decided ~ buy 500 worth ofbooks Tor the
Poole school Library.
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THE LEADING SPRING STYLE of GENTLEMEN
Hans - KSOxs, 1l2 Broadway