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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-03-11

Y In relation to the duties and fees oil
register Of deeds and other county officers
in certain cases.
To amend chapter 1874, R. S., ofinquests
of the dead.
To provide against extraordinary con-
dagrations, and for the creation of safety
funds by fire insurance companies.
To encourage the construction of rail
roads in and through the state ofWiscon-'
sin.
To authorize county boards Of supervi-
sors to alter the boundary lines Of VIII
lagos heretofore Incorporated by special
acts.
Also several local bills.
AMENDMENT OF THE "PoTTER LAW.
The Assembly bill making amendments
to the law of las. winter known as the
the "Pottsr Law coming up for consid-
Grafton, the rules were suspended, and
the question was on concurring in this
bill.
The bill was conourrsd in.
REGENTS OF NORMAL SCH ooLs.
The Governor nominated r. w. Cots
hansen, of Milwaukee, as Regent Ct the
Normal School Board for three years,
which nomination was unanimo usly cons
frmed.
INDEFINITELY PosPoNED OR killer.
Concerning corporations.
To authorize the establishment and aid
in the maintenance Of free high schools
Relating to costs in actions of tIespass
RECONSIDERATION.
Senator Potter moved to reconsider
the vote By which No. 40, bill to au-
thorize the establishment and aid in the
maintenance Of free high schools, wasrs-
jscted, which motion prevailed.
Adjourned till . $50 o'clock P. NJ.
AFTERNooN-BILL PASSED AND CON-
cURRED IN.
Relating to the change Of line of the
North Wisconsin and Central Wisconsin
Railroad companies between Hudson and
Lake Superior.
Concerning corporations.
To authorize the establishment end to
aid in the maintenance OF free high
schools.
To appropriate $4,000 to Carl Busack
for work and material in the construc.
tior of the wing of the Blind Institute at
GAINESVILLE.
Evening $50. Assembly bills IT,
appropriate to the Governor, Attorney
General SC. $3.50 for the relief Of Micael
Golf;
To amend section 10, cha pter 10, r. S.
OF counties and county officers;
To amend the charter Eau Claire
known al tho Dells bill.
The following Assembly bills were con-
CURED in.
The three Assembly bills for paying
the expenses of the rgent-at-Arms
and paying the Photographic Reporters
and witnesses in the Small and Thomp-
son impeachment cases; to appropriate
800 toIndustrial societis holding an an
nual lair.
The bill transfer the control of the
Soldiers Orphan Home to the custoday
OF the Regents Of the State University
for q medical school. was passed By a
vote of IS to s.
Assembly.
MR.. THURINeER's RECEIPT.
Mr.. Comstock presented the receipt of
Mr. Thurin~or for coz r.. ,,r~rono LtL =
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-03-11
Pleasant Prairie, Wis, Mar. 9th IL

Pleasant Prairie, Wis.,, Mar. 9th rs.
Mr.. J. P. BRIGGs:-We are get
ting along very finely and are doing
good work. Expect you will be in
to see us again before we close. The
following are the names of those
neither tardy nor absent for the
month ending March 5, 1875:
Annie Kelly, Nellie Kelly,
Charlie Mahoney. John Rice, Lizzie
Rice, Susie Rice, Biddie Rice, Frank
Roddel.
Among those who merit attention
for good bensvior and diligens appli-
cation to their studies are the names
of Lizzie Lippert, Willie Lippert,
John McKeone, George McKcone,
Annie Balm, Albert Bentz, John
Balm. Yours very truly,
q. w. HALL.
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THE IMPEACHMENT CASE.

Mr.. Kershaw, from the udiciary
Committee, reported the testimony from
the notes Of the shorthand reporter. He
asked that the reading of the report be
dispensed with, and that the Assembly
go into secret session at three O'clock for
the purpose Of considering it.
Mr.. Farnsworth said the report was
aot unanim GUS, and he asked consent to
make minority report at o'clock.
The Assembly resolved to meet at three
O'Clock for the purpose.
The Speaker instructed the Ssrgens to
allow only members and few messeng
ers in at 5 o'clock, and to see that no one
was in the committee rooms.
Message from the Senate was taken up
requesting the return of bill 400, relating
to railroads, as the Senate had recomsid-
cred the vote. This bill authorizes that
payment of certain licens money from
the railrads bb paid to towns that had
voted aid to roads, &c, to pay interest
Oh bonds, &c,
ANOTHER BILL RETURNED.
The bill to appropriate to Busack q
certain sum was returned to the Senate
as requested by that body.
Thsreport Of the Conference ommittee
on 179 A., relating 10 the election ofdia
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-07-02
TAX RORO.
The DerriabIe owning
of Misses. PiPPeA and station.

Dear Journal:-Our whole commu-
nifty has been thrown into the deep
est gloom by the occurance of one of
the most heart rending accidents, of
which you have doubtless been APP
prised by telegraph. When death en-
tiers a family and rCts it of its
choisest flower in the usual manner it
is the occasion of much sorrow. But
when the grim monster so suddenly
and SO violently snatches two of it's
lovliest daughters from q community
the gloom is universal.
The drowning of Miss Hester Pip
pen and Miss Dora Station, two bright
and beautiful girls just blooming into
womanhood, the pride of fond parents,
and great favorites with our entire
people, the former just returned from
st. Mary's Seminary, Raleigh, has
produced shock here unparalleled in
the history of our town.
The circumstances of this sad acct
dent are as follows Miss Pippen, in
company with several young girls,
wet out to Mr.. John Stat }n's, about
three miles from town, on Friday af-
ternoon, to spend the night and the
following day, with Miss Dora Station,
her devoted friend. This afternoon
they went to an ice pond, about
mile from the house, to fish and battle.
Miss Pippen and Miss Station were
holding each other by the hand, wad-
ing and sporting in the water, which
was not more than knee deep, until
they came to large and deep ditch,
of which they were ignorant. AT
ter they had made the fatal step.
Miss Station. who could swim well, got
out, but with devotion and heroism
as rare as it is beautiful. could not see
her friend struggling for life. She
plunged again into the deep water in
the vain hope of rescuing her friend.
But, alas together these two sank,
to rise 10 more.
The other girls ran to the house to
obtain aid, but it came all too Late
The bodies were found, and those
present did all in their power to re-
suscitate them, but without success.
The news spread rapidly to town,
exaggerated, as is usually the case. It
was said that three of the party were
drowned. This threw the whole com:
into the widest state of alarm
AS soon as possible, several of our
and everybody else who
could obtain G horse, went out. The
doctors used every means to recusci-
tate them, and as Miss Pippen looked
perfectly natural, long and continued
efforts were made but all to no purpose
Her remains were brought to the resi-
dence of her father about 6 O'Clock
this afternoon, and were dressed by
friends, in auch a manner,
so natural and beautiful, as to disrobe
death of its horrors.
These two friends, so devoted in
life, will not be separated in death.
They will be buried in one grave in
the beautiful Cemetery of Calvary,
Episcopal Church, this afternoon.
FRIEND.
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port made by Mr.. Morris. another
member IF the Committee of Investi-
CATION. Mr.. Morris reports that thir-
teen hundred dollars were paid to
Smyth for work that upon only a
partial examination proved to contain
errors, that had never been inspected
and had never been rendered as COM
plete and concludes by recommending
the work shall be received or rejected.
Meanwhile what is to be done about
the thirteen hundred dollars already
paid to Smyth on account? The prob
ability of collecting thirteen hundred
dollars from the negro cashier OF an
insolvent Freedman's Bank is rather
slim.
And where were these Commission
ers in December when Smyth was
paid 5000, in February when he was
paid $3.50, in March when he was paid
$3.50 and 800 and $3.50, and in May
when he vas paid $3.50? We're they
asleep or were they awake ? Wa it
Negligence or was it something worse,
that they permitted an insolvent negro
to be paid thitteen-fourteeEths of the
price for work for the county without
having inspected any of said work p
Verify one would say that thirteen
hundred dollars cash in advance to q
negro stranger without visible means
of support was a reckless disposition
of the county funds.
With such practices and perquisites
on the part of its members and the
officials it elects no wonder that the
Radical party is opposed to having
any Convention and no wonder that it
bitterly opposes any change in the
Constitution that shall transfer the
government of the counties into the
hands of men of worth and intelligence
and integrity.
Does any man believe that if the
affairs of New Hanover County had
been in the hands of magistrates
elected by the Legislature that the
negro Smyth would have been permit
ted to pocket thirteen hundred dollar 6
OF the peoples money? Surely not -
Let the Convention then change the
Constitution.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-07-02
An Act to Gait a Convention of IN q
People of North Carolina.

WHEREAS, The present Constitution
of North Carolina is, in many impor-
tant particu ars, unsuited to the wants
and condition of our people and
uher'eas, in the Judgment of this Gen
eral Assembly, convention of the
people is the only sure, and is besides
the most economical mode of altering
or amending it. and believing the end
in view utterly impracticable by legis-
lative enactment on account of the
great number of di cordant and con-
ficting provisions of the Constitution
as it now i now therefore.
SECTION l. The General 1ssemby
of North Carolina do enact. two
thirds of al! the members of each
House concurring,) That a Convention
of the people OF North Carolina, be
and the same is hereby called, to meet
in the Hall of the House of Represen-
tatives in tine city of Raleigh, on Mon
day, 9th day of September, A. D.,
1875, for the purpose of considering
and adopting such amendments to he
Constitution "a thy may deem neces-
sary and expedient, subject only to
the restrictions hereinafter provided
Sec 2. The said Convention shall
consist of one huEdl ed and twenty del
egates, and each county shall be emit
tied to the same number of delegates
that it has members of the House of
Representatives under the present
aportionment, and the said delegates
shall have the qualifications required
of members of the House of Repre-
sentative s, of which qualifications the
Convention shall be the Judge.
Sec. 8. On the LIST Thursday Of
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the rule in the Southland their num-
Der decreases daily-acknOwledge that
tho republican rulers there are bad
men, who are gnilty of grave and dan
gerous malsdministration; and It is
evident to all who have paid attention
to the subject that the federal power,
under the enforcement acts, is used
now in the South only to bolster up q
set of corrupt and incapable men who
injure the republican name and crush
out every attempt by honest republi-
cans at reform of the party there.
Now, the republica. party is respon-
sible for this fed 1ral interference and
it's results"
Now these bad, corrupt and incapa-
BILE men, who for an unintermitted
ten years, have ruled the South with
the red right-hand of tyranny and op-
preston, have in the wise dispense
ton of Providence, we trust, uncon-
sciously done evil that good might
come.
We know it was farthest from their
thoughts and wishes that good should
result to the hated and abused South.
ern whites from their policy, and in,
their reckless overthrow and destruc
ton of Southern governments and in
situations. they had in view only the
golden fruits of robbery and spoia-
ton. But the business stagnation IL
the great Northern cities has brought
rejecting men to the belief that the
Southern goose which, in former years
laid the golden eggs of their wealth
and prosperity, has been brought wei
nigh to her last gasp, and that it il
time she should have little rest and
resuscitatiou.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-07-02

The Raleigh News says: We learr :
that on Sunday afternoon youth u
IA years of age, named Harrison BanAe'
son OF " IN. Banks, Esq, residing ~
PautL,i Branch township, some eleven
mil S South of this city, was dro"heu
while bathing i'll the Rand mIl.-pono'
Oh Swift Creek.
The Charlotte Democrat says: J. 10
Mecklenburg Monumental Association
was organized on Saturday aiterhoon'
by the election of Hon. Il. Is. tanG 70
President; DR.. JOS. Graham aud D. q;
Wilson, Esq, Vice-Presidents, ana
Thomas W. Dewey, Secretary anu
Treasurer.
The Raleigh Sentinel says: Mr.. ".
r. Sharpe writes us OF a remal Aao'o
hail storm i'll Davie anG Da'loIGn
counties the 18th of this month. 20
saws: The largest stones L hea1o y.
were at Josiah Byerleys a nile ea0'
of Yadkin College IN Davidson county,
MIR. Ryeriy is Il man of good Judgnno
and undoubted veracity. He toid NO
that stones fell in his yard larger
round than the mouth of plnt oup
and which measured III Inches
circumference; the yard was coVei'N
with stones the size of goose ees.
At the College the glass windows we.o
broken and the roof of one hou'0
literally riddled with the stones
Much damage was done the "h oI
plantations about the nelghDo1no~~
of Fulton.
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the skin. He took it to the furman
in town, but he said he didn't want it;
that it was the wrong season of the
year. Tie fellow told him that it Was
good skin; but no doubt he didn't
want it. "But," said he, 81 have put
d good deal of labor on that skin, and
1 will let you have it at half price. Il
don't want it at any price," said he.
"Wel, stranger" said the coon
hunter, Il know you don't, but it is a
good skin, and you may take it, said
he. Il will not give it store room. y
The fellow, who had on an overcoat,
put it in his pocket loose and started
down town, determined to lose it. He
had not gone far until he found it was
gone, and felt glad that he had got
RE of it, when a little boy coming up
behind him. cried out, Stranger,
here is your coon skin" Sohe said he
could not sell it, could not give il
away, nor could he lose it.
Once i'll grace, always in grace, for
your feet shall be as hen's feet; and Sc
it was with Grant-you can not sell
him, you Can not get rid of him, and
you can not lose him; once in Grant,
always in Grant, for your feet shall be
as hens feet. Great laughter and AZ
| plause.
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OH FOR A CONVENTION WHAT
NEW HANOVER KNOWS ABOUT
RADICAL COUNTY GOVERN.

| MENTS.
The proof Of the necessity for some
action by the Convention that shall
transfer the control of county affairs
from the hands of men put in office by
ignorant and corrupt negroes and their
allies is daily multiplying. Yesterday
we showed from the condition of
things in Halifax county how true it
is that where the wicked reign the
people mourn. To-day New Hanover
takes the witness stand. The facts
are as follows: A negro named Smythe
who came here some time ago as Cash
Ter of the Freedman's Bank entered
| into contract with the County Com
missioners to transcribe certain in
| dexes In the office of the Register of
Deeds for the County of New Hanover
for the sum of fourteen hundred dol
lars. In the first place the Board had
no authority to make any such bar
gain. 1t had authority only to direct
the Register of Deeds to do the work
| and not another. In the next place.
as we have said heretofore, they agreed
to give this negro two or three times
as much as the work was worth. There
are hundreds of men in this city, hon
est hard-working men, who would
gladly have done the work and done
1t well and faithfully for one half
the amount paid to Smyth. I'm
der this contract thirteen hundred
dollars were paid to Smyth before the
work was delivered or inspected, or
indeed, completed, and that too with
out any bond to secure the county
against loss in case the work was re-
jected. Nor is this all. In addition
to this illegal conduct the Board of
Commissioners favored Smyth with an
appointment as Clerk of their Board
another illegal act, is appears from
section IA, chapter 100 of Battles Re-
visal, which says:
IA. The Register of Deeds as ec
oD1cto Clerk of the Board of Commits
s1oners, and as such, shall perform
the duties imposed by law or by order
of the Commissioners,
Under this illegal appointment the
negro Smyth received one hundred
dollars a month, during the term he
served, making eighteen hundred dol
Sor$ paid to him unlawfully. The
matter having been called to the at
tention of the public throug the col
umns of the JOURNAL, an Investigation
was ordered and a report made, by MIR.
Wilson stating the facts, and recon-
mending Smyth's discharge, and the
board adjourned aOithout action ON |
the report. That was on the 23d of |
June. On the 28th there was another
meeting of the Board and another re-
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-07-02

Colonel JOHN W. CUNNINGHAM
the candidate of our party as the
delegate from Person county to the
Conver ton, has issued recently an ad-
dress defining his position. Like
everything else that comes from his
pen, Colonel Cunningham address is
capital production. 1t sets forth
in plain, straight forward way, the
fact that the Convention has been
called in strict conformity with the
laws Of the land, aud that. it proposes
the quickest, surest and cheapest
mode of amending the Constitution,
that the Constitution does need chang
ing in many material respects. He
declares also his respect for the re-
strictions imposed upon the Conven-
ton III regard to the Homestead and
other matters, and his full purpose
to obey them. And he denounces N
i'll fitting terms the proposed attempts
of the Radical party to have the Con-
vention meet and adjourn without at
tempting that reform which has been
loudly called COR, and which will be
so near the grasp of suffering peo-
pie"
Colonel Cunningham is a most es-
Unable gentleman and will make a
most efficient delegate. His election
we think is certain.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-07-02
Post Office Matter.

BERNARD's, n. c., June 26tb ,s-.
NeS$I'S. EditOrS:-I write To- ,na,
enquiries as to the manner of lis,,,a Ae
ting the mail on the G. G.. RaiIw.n
Is the mail divided and bagped ~.
destination at the Wilmington Po,.
office or Is 1t divided or separated f",
the various offices on the line Of ,a ~,
by the agents on the train? am
subscriber to your paper and won,S
like to receive the DAILY regularly hnt
do not. L generally get the ,;oht
number Of papers but get too MAJ
together, and though fond of reo1;ns
them, my business requires that T
should take them like drinks. one ~
the time. [ make this suggestion a.
L have never known a mistake wbsn
Eidrige is on the train as agent hut
frt quently noticed that when he was
not Oh that the BreUard mail is mt
off at Be1nard's and it may be ice
versa. The Star has but one sinh,
scriber at this Office and is receivaa
regularly and as the subscriber has the
initials of R. E. Lee Or r
Lloyd perhaps the man of mis-.
takes knows that he is hero
or hereabouts. The Convention ones.
ton is quiet in this township, the peo-
pie being generally busy waging war
upon the grass in their crops, as the
recent heavy rains have given wee ds
and grass an impetus in this section.
but it seems to be conceded that no
better candidate could have been se.
lected for Convention than D. 8
Cowan, Esq, man deservedly popu,
lar, and especially i'll his own town.
ship. Yours, very respectfully,
SUBSCRIBER.
We are certain that the attention O,
Col. Brink and the route agents need,
only to be called to this matter to cor
rect the trouble.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-07-02

THe KELLEY MOTER, it is said, finds
little favor among men devoted to The
technicalities of mechanical Inventions
The Scientific american, which has d
reputation for excellent judgment in
such matters, pronounces the whole
affair rs lone of the perpetual motion
receptions by which owners claim to
generate a great force out of nothing, -
and says:
Once in a while they have a jug
Cling exhibition OF the thing for the
purpose of selling stock. Kelley or
one of his confedeistos is the opera
ting juggler. The power generator
is u combination OF small tubes or
Cylinders, communicating by pipes.
First they run water through, then
air, to prove that there is nothing
within, and that the show is honest.
Then Keely turns a faucet, and now
you see it The pressure gauge goes
up. He turns again and now you
don't see it The gauge falls. Trans
parent as this deception IS, it Is a
serious fact that it has been counter
anced by numbers of intelligent per
sons, and the implied sanction they
have given it has led many less in
formed individuals to stake money for
its shares"
The Scientific american is not
alone in its opinion, says the Balti-
more american, of the folly of en-.
deavoring to obtain available power
without the aid Of some preliminary
force such ali that evolved from the
consumption of fuel. Faraday made
a clear demonstration of the ilnpossi-
billty of this feat, arguing plainly
from the laws of nature, and his views
have the sanction of some of the most
eminent philosophers. Unless the
inventor of this boosted new motel
can furnish more convincing evidence
of its practicabilty, he will be likely tc
occupy some other position il the
temple of fame than that of the riva
and superior of Watt.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-07-02
OUR friends in the West seem

OUR friends in the West seem to be
fully alive to the Importance of organ
izing for the Convention campaign.
Our exchanges come to us filed with
accounts of public meetings in the
various townships toappoint delegates
to the County Nominating Conven-
lions. Everywhere the speeches and
proceedings breathe a determined
spirit. Our western friends were
willing to ignore party feeling in
making the necessary changes in the
Constitution but the Radical party
having refused to unite with them II,
such praiseworthy purpose thew
accept the issue and stand ready to
fight it out on that line all the sum-
mer. Major MARCUS ERWIN however
refuses 20 go with his party in oppos-
ing anychanges in the Candy Consti-
tuition and maintains boldly his posi-
ton as an outspoken advocate of the
policy of adapting the Constitution to
the wants of our people.