The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-09-02

farmer went to Newport The other day
and confessed to grocer with whom he
had been dealing for years that he had
cheated the latter to the extent of SIS by
short count on eggs. He was rewarded
for his honesty by the grocer's admission
that he also had been cheating, having at
one time passed counterfeit $40 bill on
the farmer.
This is the nineteenth century, and
this the land where education is free as
air, and where the groundless super
stitions of the old world are considered
proper subjects for merrime1S or de-
rision, but still the people in the neigh
borhood Of Wells Beach, Vt, harbor the
notion that any one who will take dip
IN their river, on June 26, will be exempt
from sickness for one year, and on that
date hundreds of the credulous lave
themselves In the magic waters.
A GENTLEMAN in India invited num-
lber of friends to dinner, and they ac-
cepted the invitation, but none of them
appeared, and the dinner was spoiled.
Accordingly he sued them for the value
of the viands wasted through their lack
of courtesy. The lower court gave him
Judgment for the amount claimed, but
the superior tribunal reversed the deci-
sion, remaking that if the principle first
affirmed were correct the risk of accept
ing invitations would be very serious
indeed.
& s'PHoCIoN'' has written letter to the
Milwaukee Sentinel eulogistic of the
editors of Chicago According to
'' Phocion," Mr.. Medill, of the Tribune,
is &c the greatest living editor in the
United States;' Mr.. Storey, ofthe Times,
is ''the ablest newspaper director, " while
Mr.. Sullivan, of the Journal, is I" by ar
the most practical editor in Chicago"
and has succeeded in making sc the best
evening paper in the country" All of
which blarney shows that "Phocion"
must be exceedingly anxious to secure
the patronage of one of these editorial
prodigies.
A SINGULAR attachment has long ex-
listed between Joseph Hines, of Rock
Wharf, Va, and valuable horse of
which Hines, who is negro farm hand,
has the care. Hines always slept with
the animal, and was unwearying III his
attention to its comfort. Recently this
feeling of love between man and brute
eliminated in an extraordinary manner.
The horse was so badly injured by col
rlision with gate that it was necessary
to kill him. The negro protested, and
vowed that if the horse was killed he
would die, too. Without paying atten
ton to the threat, the horse was taken to
the edge of the wharf and shot. At the
discharge of the gun the negro jumped
nto the river, and although aid was in
.stantly thrown to him, he would not
avail himself of the opportunity to save
his life, and was drowned.
THE ex-Presidents of this generation
have not been remarkable for longevity.
For the first time in nearly century there
is no ex-President living. Except Fill
more and Buchanan, no one of our Presi-
dents for thirty years has reached the al
lotted threeseore and ten. Before Polk
and after Washington not one, except
Harrison, who died aged sixty-eight, left
the world at less than seventy-three. The
series is noteworthy. Washington died
at sixty seven, but John Adams lived to
tnSnety-one, Jefferson to eighty-three,
Madison to eighty-fve, Monroe to sew
enty-three, John Quincy Adams tc
eighty-one, jackson toseyenty Weight, and
Van Buren, to eighty. At this point 8
signal change occurs. Polk died at fifty
four, Taylor at sixty, Fillmore at seven
ty-four, Pierce at sixty-fve, Buchanan a
seventy-seven, Lincoln at fifty-six, an(
johnson now passes away at sixty-seven
The first ten of our Presidents averaged
IT'S years of life the next seven aver
aged GIT years.
The recent agitation in the Englisl
Parliament over Plimsoll's shipping bill
was occasioned by the bold and fearles
manner in which that gentleman mad
charges against the British martini
community. His persistence is fnall
rewarded by the passage of the bil
framed to remedy the evils he alluded tc
Mr.. Plimson says that the losses {
Great Britain exceed those of any othe
maritime nation, and are in great PAL