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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-31
A NEW YEARS MYTH.


lThe peasants Of Translyvania have a superst
ion that, at the moment when the old year mers
INTO the new, the cattle speak but in lanpus ge or
Known TO men, and that whoever hears them dies
Pile wood on the fire. Wilhelmina.
Here's Caspar come home from the plain
The wind whistles bleak at the Intel
The frost-fairies tap on the pane
Tonight the Old Year is departing
With steps that are tardy but sure
Between the wild gusts of the night-wind
His footballs are heard on the moor.
The herdsmen have gone from the pastures
To their huts on the edge of the pines:
The makers crouch close in their novels.
The miners lie low in their mines
For, tonight, when the Old Year expiring
10 the Coming Year waves his farewell,
Uplifting their heads in the cow-pens
The cattle strange things will foretell-
In words so unearthly and weird
That the wolves to their coYerts will flee,
And the imp-ights will fade in the marshes,
And the owlet will cover in her tree.
And If unto ears that are human
Go floating the mystical words
That, just as the Old Year out-passes,
Gush forth from the lips of the herds
Deaths dart like thunderbolt flashes
And lifeless the listener falls.
AS the New Year sets foot on the threshold
And his shadow towers up On the walls.
Ho Caspar, the herds must be talking.
The step of the New Year arrives
Draw your cloak over yonr head, Wilhelmina
On our knees let us pray for our lives
Journal.
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CHAPTER TX.
NEMEs1s-THE FATE OF THE "DoDaE."

NEMEs1s-THE FATE OF THE DODGE"
Enter the washerwoman. Nobody
had expected her. If she had been
Nemesis herself the family could not
have surveyed her with more dismay.
With what was she to be paid? The
young inventor looked at the dis
turbed face of his mather, and gave q
great gulp.
elbow much is it, mamma? There
is the dodge, you know!" and Mamma
Mullen felt the two dollars thrust into
her hand. Yes, there it was, and there
was the washerwoman. The Mulleins
looked at each other incredulously.
Their last hold on their one loved holi-
day was slipping from them, and they
hardly knew how to believe it, after all
the toll, and the patience, and the self
sacrifice, and the planning If the
washerwoman had but known it, she
was being paid in dramas, in concen-
tration of much that was precious. But
it looked to her poor enough note,
unaccompanied by an extra fifty cents,
or so, in honor of Christmas She
thinks they have forgotten it forgot
ten it, poor souls and stands her
ground. Mamma quakes before her,
and answers her but feebly. Still she
stands Will she never go? An awful
silence. Convicted felons might wear
the open and cheerful countenance of
the Mulleins. The Nemesis of the
wash-tub losses her head, founces,
makes a remark, to the door-knob ap-
parently, about the poor returns of
stinginess to stingy people in the long
run-but she goes! Mamma Mullen
is free to cover her face with her hands,
and the young inventor to press soft
cheek against hers, and call her his
dear, good, lovely mamma.
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CHAPTER VI.
A MARKET-WOMAN-SAUL AND PAUL-sIMPL
SUMS.

MARKET-WoMAN-sAUL AND PAUL-sIMPLE
SUMS.
And now you are waiting to hear
Mamma Mullein's business--th is, if
you want to hear anything about it.
trust it shall not shock you. She was a
market-woman not that she brought
eggs, and butter, and fruit, to market.
Had she done that, she might have
been rose-woman instead of mullen
woman, and this story could never have
been written. But there are SO many
sorts of markets-as market where
your nice fresh ideas will bring fair
price. Of this order of market woman
was Mamma Mullen. She was liable
to ideas. There are some people who
regard such person with suspicion,
but, though DESTROYS to please all read
ers, I must give my personages as lind
them. Ideas are often good for checks,
but they more frequently stamp the
man or woman subject to them as
dangerous. The world is like Saul.
= LII 90 /: :, xx,,,;+
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The Ross Case.

The details of the abduction of
Charlie Ross, and of the subsequent
discovery of his kidnappers, excel in
romantic interest any story OF crime
yet conceived by romancer or play
wright. The disappearance of the child,
the alterations of hope and despair in
the hearts of the afflicted parents, as
news came from time to time that their
boy had been discovered, the various
threads of rumor which the officers I'M
raveled only to find that they led to
nothing, the pursuit of the real kidnap-
pers for months by the detectives act
ing under the orders of Inspector
Walling, of New York, and the manner
in which they avoided them and finally
put them off the scent altogether, and
the tragical denouement a few days ago,
which discovered them, and at the same
time brought swift and terrible
revenge upon them, form series of
chapters in one of the most thrilling
episodes of crime ever known in this
country. The result of the denoue-
ment, however, is like the result of
every other step in the strange story.
No sooner had the sky llghtened up
than it clouded over again. A ray of
sunlight entered the afflicted home as
the news came of the discovery of the
kidnappers, but it is only temporary.
The kidnappers have been found at
last, but the boy is still missing.
It will be remembered that, when
Charlie Ross was abducted, the crime
was witnessed by several persons, who
furnished the police with pretty &C
curate descriptions. These descriptions
were sent all over the country, and then
followed all kinds of haphazard work.
Charlie BOSSES were found every
where, in the remotest parts of
the East and West, in Southern
plantations, out in the Rocky Noun
tains, among the mines, and numerous
arrests were made. including crimi-
nails and respectable people, fortune
tellers, peddlers, tramps, and gypsies.
Meantime, one detective, Inspector Wal
ling, was on the right track. From the
descriptions, and from the information
he had received, he was convinced that
thetwo kidnappers were two professional
criminals William Mosher. low
proved, brutal villain, the hero of all
kinds of scoundrelism, upon whom his
own vices had set an indelible stamp by
which he was recognized after death,
and Joseph Douglas, a man equally
desperate in his acts of criminality,
and who had been Mosher's partner in
crime for years, but a man of some
intellectual ability and of respectable
connections. It was not long before
the officers were upon their track, and
found that in February last the two men
had been travelling through New Jersey
and Eastern Pennsylvania, selling an
insect powder, using for their trans
portation the very wagon they had
when the Ross boy was carried off.
They were tracked as far as Trenton,
N. j., and here the officers lost sight
of them. Meanwhile they did not relax
their vigilance. Mrs. Mosher was kept
under surveillance, and every move
ment she made was noted. More than
once the detectives were almost on the
heels of the two kidnappers in for
tune .tellers' rooms, saloons, and low
boarding houses, and one day they
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Pith and Point.

A CITY that scots people-Pittsburgh.
BEST known general General de-
bility.
AN article you can always borroa-
Trouble.
A mother-in-law in house is a we'll
spring of jawy.
The last gentleman in a lady's
thoughts is generally the first as well.
"CoRN bread ?" said an Irish writer;
"we haven't got it; an isn't it corn
bafe ye mane?"
The bed on which Partisan husband
poisoned his two wives was sold at a
fancy price to Nine. Tussaud recently.
AND thus they went foot and foot
together
Two soles with but single squeak,
Brogans that clump as one.
SUNDAY school teacher-"Nex Sun
day we'll have the death of Noses"
Overjoyed pupil" Then he did die at
last. ,"
HEAVEN bless you," said join
Henry, "it was the preitiest fight you
ever saw. She punched away at the
ivory keys like mad, and the piano
forte nobly.
DIR. JOHN HALL says that in England
people are divided into churchmen and
dissenters, but that in America they
might properly be divided into church
an ord obco,+oro
A POPULAR clergyman says it is in
teresting to observe how many people
go to the circus, "just to please the
children" and very curious to notice
/ that sometimes it takes several able
bodied men and motherly women to
look after one little boy or girl on such
an occasion.
HE O6zOr, newspaper of Agram, III
Croatia, adds to each announcement of
death, the name of the medical practi-
toner who attended the deceased.
This gratuitous advertising will be of
great benefit to the most numerously
mentioned OF the medical gentlemen,
is adding, as it inevitably must, to a
mans engaging him to attend his wife's
relatives.
A CONTEMPORARY gives the following
advice to a correspondent: "We have
to decline your article on the Decline of
Aristocracy. We have left out several
of our own articles this week, and yours
is worse than any of them. Take our
advice, and write a few very short
pieces write only on one side of the
sheet; write plainly; and then take
your pieces and burn them in the
kitchen fire."
THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW.
Oh, the SHOWS, the beautiful SHOWS,
Wetting your ankles and dampning your toes,
Binding your eyes and tickling your nose,
Filling your. gloves till your hands are I" half
frose ~
Under your neck-tie, melting it goes,
Down your backbone like trip-hammered rose;
Stuffing your ears and spelling your clothes.
Making you think, as it shiver1ng blows,
That it came all the way from where Boreas grows.
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India.

The armies of the native chiefs of
India, together, number $4,000. The
ar tillery numbers $500 large guns.
Hyderbad heads the list with 36, 800
infantry, 8,2O3 cavalry, and 725 guns.
Bundelcund comes next with 25, 1853
infantry, 2,677 cavalry, and 421 guns.
Cashmere has 1913 infantry, 1888
cavalry, and 81 guns. Gwalior has &c.
$50 infantry, 5000 cavalry, and 21O
guns Kattywar, Is, 300 infantry, 1000
'ccaagOa!lry, and sos guns = oodeypore; b.
of the rest exceed 1000. Surat has IS
guns and no infantry. Cochin has 3
guns; Travancore 6 and go cavalry.
Several of the States have no cavalry,
but two or three guns. The moral to
be. drawn from this formidable-looking
array is, says the Times of India, that
it might one day be turned against old
England, and, as there are just six
+;->nne nnonu native soldiers nnder the
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CHAPTER ".
PARASITES AND NUIsANCEs.

Hitherto I have introduced people
as "They." That was from cowardice.
Seldom has writer more Objectionable
personages i'll hand. The Mulleins were
three: mother, daughter, and son.
I have read recently that women
without money were very nearly in the
position of parasites y also, that ga
woman's business is to amuse and serve
man, and make his life agreeable, and,
when not so engaged, she is nuisance. +"
The mother and daughter in question
were without money, and there was no
"man," as an excuse for their exist
ence and not even the entireness of
love, in which they lived with the Boy,
and he with them, can altogether atone.
I assure you feel it but then what
would you have? This is mot Christ
mas story, but story of aggravation.
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CHAPTER III.
THEIR CHRISTMAs-FEvER.

Now that you comprehend them, you
will not be surprised to hear that these
people, who were in want, had resolved
to keep Christmas.
And you will add almost of yourself,
that these are precisely the sort of peo-
pie who are sure to take the Christmas
fever, and to have it hard, and to whom
it's wreaths and tapers and carols are
full of meaning and delicious charm
and You would be quite right
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CHAPTER X.
THE LITTLE WOMAN AS A BUYER.

The little woman, who has slipped
out quietly, comes in and sits down by
the window, although it is cold. She
has been trying to buy Christmas
wreath with her six cents, but there are
none to be found at cheaper rate than
a shilling apiece. q. Fur7adss,
an Ap22letO7o's Journal.
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Al STORY OF AGGRAVATION.
I'm Multitudinous Chapters.
CHAPTER [.
THE AMERICAN VELVET PLANT.

TIE IfhLhIUAN YLLVET-PLANT.
My dear, " said Mrs. Scroggs, ''you
must get me at once an American vel.
vet-plant. | have been reading it's de-
scription. It is charming"
my dear, " said Mr.. Scroggs, there
are several growing out there on the
hill. Which shall I transplant for
your"
"What do you mean?" said Mrs.
Scroggs.
"The American velvet-plant' is the
mullein," said Mr.. Scroggs.
" Pshaw !" said Mrs. Scroggs.
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the David. Tt "eyes" him from that
time out, look out for iavelins I beg
pardon, have shunted the story off
the track; but only to show you how
Mamma Mullen sometime made money.
and sometimes failures.
Two and two make four. You see.
of course, that Mamma Mullen, who
was already in the habit of conveying
ideas to market, was specially DESTROYS
of brisk holiday business, and wrote
night and day to secure not two, but
dozen, strings to her bow. Thus !:
For the Popular CroUquiU, "Work-
ing-Idyl." For the Excelsior, ga
CAROL For the Cbigoon, three ap-
propriate articles. For the Woa kstand,
"a Little Preach about Babies" For
the .HaJatom, " Review" For the
Kaleidoscope, the prose version of
"The Cow Jumped Over the Moon. I"
Then she figured it out, thus:
Three appropriate articles, at SIS each ... $4,000
Working-ldyl $500
carol, ..'''.'''.. do.OO
Cow that Jumped over the Moon. 5000
Total $3.50. 90
Due to Skiggs. 2E 90
Due TO Qulggs.. .................. 18.0O
Due to Haggs. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000
balanc0 ................. ............... SSl.UL
to be expended for winter clothing,
and for the Christmas rose ten dollars
might be spared for that; and there
was that two dollars, you know"
After this calculation, Mamma Null
lein wrote with more spirit than ever
and the inventor of the dodge came out
in a new character, as "The Filial
Fib." He discovered that all we'll
regulated boys spent their evenings in
unceasing efforts to attain a good writ
ing hand.
Also, that his only hope of achieving
that desirable result was, in copying
each evening, till bedtime, numerous
pages of his mothers manuscript.
Whereupon he acquired his title Of
the Filial Fib, and, let us hope, the
good writing-hand.
Middletown transcript., 1874-11-07
Don't Know Him.

Had you been in Washington a few
weeks ago you might have had hearty
laugh at the expense Of Captain Ced.
man. In the last hours Of the late Con.
gress the Captain came tumbling down
stairs in hot search of some one to car.
ry from the committee room of COM
meroe patent fog-horn intrusted to bis
care by an ingenious Yankee acquaint-
ance. At the foot of the stairway be
encountered colored man saunterinp
along. pulling away at huge cigar.
my good fellow" cried the captain,
"Pll give you dollar to Garry down
my fog-horn."
"Who de debbil do yen take me
fah :" responded Africa. drawing him
self up in dignifed wrath.
IAN able bodied man willing to make
dollar" responded Goldman.
"Den you don't know me, sab ?"
mo. sir. and have no time to seek
an introduction. Who are ysu, any,
how ?"
"Me, sahi Use de honorably Mr..
Cain, member Of Congress.
''You don't say 20" remarked the
captain. thoughtfully. "Well, Mr..
Cain. | am sorry. for ysu have probably
lost the only opportunity you will ever
have of making an honest dollar
Middletown transcript., 1874-11-07


Never give up old friends for new
ones. Make new ones if you like, and
when You have learned that you can
trust them. love them II ysu will, but
remember the old ones still. Do not
forget they have been tried and found
true; that they have been merry with
you in time Of pleasure. and when sor.
row came to you they serrowed also.
No matter if they have gone dswn in
the social scale, and you up; no mat.
ter if poverty and misfortune have come
to them. while prosperity and plenty
have fallen to you-are they any the
less true for that Are not their hearts
- warm and tender If they do beat
beneath hone-spun instead Of velvet !?
Yes. kind friends. they are Is true, and
lender, and loving, and don't forget old
friends. I
Middletown transcript., 1874-11-07
A Noble Wife.

During the troubles in Poland wbicl
followed the revolution of Tbaddeu
Kosciusko, many of the truest and th'
best of the sons of that i'll fated country
were forced to flee for their lives, for
saking home and friends. Of those
who had been most eager for the liber.
ty Of Poland. and most bitter in enmity
against Russia and Prussia, was Mi.
chael Sobieski. whose ancestor had beer
king hundred and City years before.
Sobieski had three sons in the patriot
ranks. and father and sons had been ol
those who had persisted in what the
Russian had been pleased to term re-
belion, and . price had been set upon
their heads.
The Archduke Constantine was eager
to apprehend Michael Sobisski, and
learned that the wife Of the Polish hero
was at home in Caracow, and be waited
upon her.
MADAME, he said. speaking polite
ly, for the lady was beautiful and queen
ly. II think you know where your hus-
band and sons are hidingw
II know, SIR"
''If you tell me where your husband
is your sons shall be pardoned."
''And shall I be safe ?"
Eyes, madame. swear it. Tell
me where your husband is concealed,
and both you and your sons shall be
safe and unharmed."
Then, sir" answered the noble wo-
man, rising with dignity sublime, and
laying her hand upon her bosom, "he
lies concealed herein the heart of his
wife,-and you will have to tear this
heart out to find him."
Tyrant as be was, the Archduke ad-
mired the answer, and the spirit which
had inspired it, and deeming the good
will of such woman worth securing,
be forthwith published full pardon of
The father and the sons.
Middletown transcript., 1874-11-07

SAaAoIous MuLss.-A gentleman,
who is too modest to allow u to use hia
name, furnishes Us the following in
stance Of sagaeity which he saw dis
played by pair Of mules-those curious
spotted fellows belonging to Hank
Blanchard: Hank and John Fagau
were seated in buggy behind the
mules. driving along South G street,
near the Divide. Suddenly the animals
halted. Whipping and coaxing were
alike vain; they would not move
What to make Of this Hank didn't know,
as the mules had never before SO con-
Quoted themselves. Seeing that the
animals constantly turned their heads
in one direction, Mr.. Pagan began to
look that way to see what it was that
SO strongly attracted their attention. In
. moment he dropped on II. It was
shingle which read. Hay. $2S per
ton" the regular retail price being $25.
The mules had observed this and could
not be moved beyond it until Hank got
out Of the buggy. went into the place,
and came back. pretending that he had
ordered ten tons of the article at the re-
ducsd rates. Then they trotted off per-
fsctly content Erytnia New En-
Middletown transcript., 1874-11-07

An hour afterward Badger passed
through Jessop street again. and agair
he saw the light in the jewelry store
1t didn't look right, and he banged al
the door loudly.
.Hallo!" cried the voice within. "Is
it you, policeman ?"
Yes"
"All right. Won't you come in and
warm yourself? It won't hurt you any
thing for to slip from your beat a few
minutes"
The door opened and Policeman
Badger entered, and be found the in
mate to be very gentlemanly locking
man, in linen duster.
"Come right up to the stove. police
man. Excuse me for q moment"
The man took the ash-pan frem the
bottom of the stove and carried it down
into the cellar and emptied it. and when
be had returned and wiped bis hands he
said, with a smile:
"Chilly night, isn't it?"
Yes"
''Chilly outside and dull inside
Another smile. New goods for the
spring trade, and have to keep our eyes
open. Lonesome work. this watching
all night; but l manage to find a bit Of
comfort IN this. Won't you join me in
a tip? You'll find it the pure thing
And the man produced black bottle
and tumbler.
Policeman Badger partook, and hav-
ing wiped his lips and giving his fingers
. new warming, be left the store and
bis beat, satisfied that all was
not right at Drayton l. Fogg's.
But the morning brought new rev.
'lation. Drayton & Fogg's store had
been robbed during the night of Sc. 600
worth of watches and jewelry. and al
hough Policeman Badger carries in his
mind complete daguerreotype of the
obber, the adroit rascal has not yet
been found -New Haven Register
Middletown transcript., 1874-11-07

stitution. Just above this We climbed
over stone wall. and beheld on one Of
the hills of the Highlands the most SUBJ
lime place Of all !; it is the P. E.
Church of the Holy Innocence. founded
and built BY James and Peter Cozzens,
in the year 1717.
On the right-hand side of the church
is a large monument marking the peace
ful resting place Of the brothers.
G.. LILLIAN ROBERTS.
Middletown transcript., 1874-11-07
How Poker Jack Interviewed Land
aulet Williams.

There is McClure-Poker Jack they
call him-a perfect type of the Arkan.
sas carpet-baggsr The best illustra.
ton I can give of McClure's character
is by describing an interview between
him and Attorney General Williams
last winter, after the Administration
had been in favor of Baxter. Mcclure
came to Washington with his blue eyes
full Of blood. The opinion Of the At
torney- General had struck him in the
region of the diaphragm, and to say
he was mad would be to draw it very
mild. He went up to the department
of Justice and demanded to see Will
liams. That functionary received him.
II am chief Justice Mcclure of Ar
kansas" he began, land l have read
your opinion on the case recently de-
cided by the President. Now, sir, 1
wish to say that the papers on which
you based your opinion and which you
refer to as having been certified to you
by the clerk Of my court are either forg-
ed or garbled."
"What do you say, sir 2" asked the
astounded Attorney General. He had
been accustomed to the behavior of the
lackey on the part of the traditional
carpet-bagger. but there was one play
ing the bully. 1t was incomprshensi-
bic to the Attorney General.
II say, SIR" replied the impsrturba-
BILE Mcclure, "that I believe those pa
pers are either forged, or that new mat
ter has been interpolated in them and
l say further, sir, that the reputation
of your department and the known
character of yourself, incline me to the
belief that these frauds have been en-
acted in your Office and by your instiga-
tion or connivance.
''What do you mean, sir ?" gasped |
the breathless Williams.
II mean just what I say" replied
Mcclure, still as cool as refrigerator. |
'and l want to see the originals Of
those papers which you claim have been
certified to BY the clerk of my court.
II have sent them to the Senate,
SIR" replied Williams.
"You talk like man who is lying"
said Mcclure. "In fact. sir, believe
you are lying. Not to put too fine
point upon it you are id liar, sir. |