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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

THE Coawjer-Jou7aaI thinks Conkling
has the best chance for the Presidency
in 1876.
THE Cincinnati Times thinks Dawes
has less learning but more common sense
than Sumner.
CoNKLNe, in his last speech, said
Schurz was standing, as it were, in the
ashes of his ambition
ANDY JOHNSON is not only the only
ex-President now living, but is the only
one ever elected to the United States
Senate.
THE Chicago Times says: Ono
shrewd actor now travels in the South
without having the play 'Richeieu in his
repertoire. When, as the Cardinal, he
says Take away the sword States
may be saved without it, he has time
to go out and count the evenings re-
ceipts before the applause, which rises
and falls, swells into thunder and dies
away only to rise again, finally sub
sides.
THE Washington Chronicle says
"Gen. Gordon, the best natural orator
from the Southern States, is Christian
statesman, q mixture of David and Jacob.
He has very little business ability, but
figures at Atlanta as a ife-insurance
President, etc. 1t is predicted that he
will be the Democratic candidate for
Vice-President, with Sam Tilden for his
colleague; the two Empire States sit to-
gether, New York and Georgia"
ANDREW JOHNSON first took his seat in
the United States Senate in 1857. Of
those who sat there with him then were
Toombs and Davis and Benjamin, Sill
dell, Mason and Hunter. Douglas and
Crittenden and Fessenden, Sumner and
Seward, Broderick and Houston and Bell
are dead. Hamlin, Wilson and Cameron
will greet him in the Senate on his re-
turn. Wade, Trumbull, Harlan, Foster,
Dixon and Doolittle are among those
who, still living, have retired to private
life.
A WASHINGTON correspondent says
Sam Randall made such O good fight for
the Democrats during the late filibuster-
ing contest that he has brought himself
to the front as leader, and his associates
upon the floor begin to rank him as a
prominent candidate for the next Speaker
ship. Randall took almost the whole
burden of watching the fight out and,
during the forty-six-and-a-half hours
contest, he never left the Capitol.
Neither Cox nor Wood made any figure
in the fight at all, but remained in the
background, in appearance no more than
Indifferent spectators
The Cincinnati Gazette thus admon-
ishes the Pacific Mail investigators
/" Messrs. Dawes, Beck, and other mem
bers of the subcommittee: Your con
duct is not satisfactory to the public, and
unless you push matters and try to find
out something, the knowledge of which
is within your reach, you will be on trial
at the bar of public opinion. Your bust
ness is not to whitewash, cover up, or
protect anybody, but to expose corrup-
ton and corruptionists without fear OF
favor. The first business on hand now
is to compel Schumacher, member-elect
of the Forty-fourth Congress, to tel
what he did with the 5000, 900, or send
him to Jail. If Congressman were bribed
or rewarded, that is what the public want
to know"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18

INTERESTING TO RAILROAD TRAVELLERS.
"A suit was recently brought in En-
gland by railway passenger to recover
damages for the failure of a railway COM
pany to make connection with another
road, over which he had boughta through
ticket. The train was behind the time
advertised, not in consequence of any
unavoidable cause, or accident, but from
sheer negligence and carelessness on the
part OF the officers of the company.
Having failed to make the connection the
passenger chartered special train for
the remainder of the route, and brought
an action against the company for the
expense of this special train. The
plaintiff recovered the full amount
claimed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18

bowed an acknowledgment, and at once
replied: "The Acknowledgement is not a
member of this convention, but I am p
Titles were dispensed with among the
laity for the rest of the afternoon.
EUROPE has armed to the teeth ostensi-
bly, on the old maxim, eff you wish
peace, prepare for war" Over five
millions of armed men kept ready to
march night and day ought, therefore,
to be regarded as good bond of peace.
Highwaymen are always suspicious,
whatever the number of their knives and
pistols. Likewise the European nations,
far from forming one happy family
dwelling together in peace and brother
hood, pass their time in continual fear
of attack and battle. A Quaker or two,
with their admirable doctrines, might be
sent over to convert the French and
Germans to the ways in which they
should walk.
WASHINGTON dispatches state that the
owners of a certain sewing machine
patent, having failed to secure an in
dorsement of their application for renewal
from the House Committee, have en-
gagged the services of an experienced and
powerful lobby, well furnished with
"slush money! and intend using all
necessary appliances to obtain favorable
legislation from Congress- We hope
Congress will stand by the report of it's
committee and resolutely refuse, under
any pretext, to grant this extension. The
people of this coutry, particularly the
Woodworking sewing women, have paid
tribute long enough to these sewing
machine companies, and they have grown
rich enough. It is about time the price
of machines was brought down to a rea-
sonable figure.
So INTENSE is the interest in the Tilton-
Beecher matter that pools are sold in the
New York sporting club-rooms on the
issue of the trial, as on the result of q
horse-race. Every Saturday evening, at
Days sporting club-rooms, on Fifth
avenue, large numbers of these pools are
sold amid the utmost hilarity. The ma
jority of purchasers evidently agree with
the majority of the pubic-that there
will be no definite result to the trial.
The =" disagreement of the jury" is the
favorite against the field, which consists
of Beecher and Tilton-that is to say,
bets Of two to one that there will be a
disagreement of the jury rather than that
either plaintiff or defendant will get a
verdict. In some of the pools the agree
ment has been knocked down at $50 to
$25 for the field, and So for verdict for
Titon, and 81 for verdict for Beecher.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18

ALFONSO is DESTROYS of emulating the
ex-Prinoe Imperial of France. He wants
to undergo "baptism of fire" Like the
latter, and consequently participates in
the operations of the troops now massed
againt the Carlists.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

THE Reciprocity treaty is dead, the
United States Senate, in executive ses-
sion, having almost unanimously reject
ed it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18

A GRANDSON of King George ~. Of
England has turned up in Memphis.
His name is Francis Wallford White,
and heis a clerk in the Southern Express.
His father was a SOP Of the profigate
monarch by Mrs. Fitzherbert.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18

MISS ADA SWEET, the sweet little Pen
sion Agent at Chicago, receives the high
est salary paid to any female employe of
the government.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18

The late Emperor of China left forty
widows. One of them, Alute, has com
mitted suicide. She was first in rank,
and her departure from this world would
be deemed in that country only a fit
tribute to the dead Emperor.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18

The Secretary of War has furnished
Congress a statement of the cost of the
Modoc war, which amounts in the aggre-
gate to little over $411, 900. Now if it
cost the government $411, 1000 to exter-
inmate the Modocs, how much would it
cost to exterminate all the Indians?
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18

THE Senate Committee on Territories
have reported favorably on the PROPOSE
ton to form new Territory, to be called
Pembina, and the measure will probably
pass both houses of Congress. The new
Territory cuts off the northern half of
Dakota, embraces 1920 square miles,
and has 10000 inhabitants.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18

DARFoUR has just been annexed to
Egypt, and the Khedive is now looking
for more worlds to conquer. The new
province is fertile in tropical produc-
tions, and has large and valuable in
land commerce. It's inhabitants are q
mixture of Arabs and negroes. The
Sultan has hitherto been supreme, des-
potic, cruel, but devoted to the religion
of Mohammed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18

Hon. JAMES K. EDsA11, Attorney Gen
eral of Illinois, who was delegate to the
Protestant Episcopal Convention recently
in session in Chicago, cleverly turned a
well-meant compliment passed in due
course Of parliamentary etiquette on the
floor of that assembly. A member de-
batting knotty legal point, was "sure
the Acknowledgement was good authority
upon such topics" Mr.. Ehsall, who
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18

The Civil Rights bill, passed by the
House, goes to the Senate to be acted on
irrespective of the bill heretofore passed
by the latter body, and which now lodges
in the House. Owing to the great press
of public business, including the general
appropriation bills, and the short time
remaining Of the session, it is doubtful
if the Senate will definitely act upon the
measure.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18

was close by the platform at the time,
bowed an acknowledgment, and at once
replied: "The Acknowledgement is not a
member of this convention, but I am p
Titles were dispensed with among the
laity for the rest of the afternoon.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18

SENATOR WRIGHT, of Iowa, proposes
to enforce decency and sobriety among
Congressman during their sojourn at
Washington. With that view he has
introduced in the Senate bill to pro-
hibit the sale or manufacture of alcoholic
drinks in the District Of Columbia, and
prescribing heavy penalties for violation
of the proposed law.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18

CARLYLE and Tennyson evidently re-
gard themselves as beyond the reach of
any empty honors which the British
government can bestow upon them. The
former modestly declines to be Grand
Cross of the Order of the Bath, and the
poet laureate refuses to be made Baro-
net. There's modesty for you.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18

The committee of the national Senate
to which was referred Senator Wright's
bill, providing for q reduction of 10 per
cent. in the salaries of all civil and mill
tary officers of the United States, for two
years from the LIST of next July, has made
favorable report upon the measure. II
has little chance of adoption, however,
by the present Congress, owing to the
.shortness of the session.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18

IT turns out that all the ado recently
made about reward being offered for a
mysterious book containing scandalous
memoirs of George ~. of England, was
the sharp dodge of new York publish
er, to advertise a sensational work he has
in press. The well-planned trick was
successful, even the newspapers being
taken In by it.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-10
VIRGINIA PROTESTS.
The Mother Of Presidents Appeals TO
Her sister States.

The Mother Of Presidents Appeals 20
Her sister States.
RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 9.-The following
resolutions were introduced in the State
Senate to-day:
Resolved by the General Assembly Of
the Commonwealth Of Virginia, that the
Governors Of the States composing the
United States, be and they are hereby
earnestly requested to convene, as soon as
practicable, the Legislatures Of their re-
specliye States. in order that the States may
consult together and advise with each other
respecting the late interference of the
United States army with the Legislature
Of the State Of Louisiana, ard determine,
simultaneously, to defend and preserve the
independence and autonomy of the States.
Resolved, that the Governor of this CON-
mOnwealth be and is hereby requested
forthwith to telegraph these resolutions to
the Governors of the several States, and re-
quest immediate replies.
An animated and prolonged discussion
ensued, in which the spirit Of moderation
predOminated. Leading Senators objected
to Virginia taking the initiative. 1t was
the general opinion that Virginia should
give expression through her Legislature in
the form of a protest against the action OF
the General Government in Louisiana, and
appeal to the American people for redress;
and also to express the deep and lasting
sympathy Of the people of Virginia with
the people of their sister State, Louisiana.
The whole matter was made the special or
der for Tuesday.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-10
THE MECHANICS.
Installation OF Omeers OF Centre
shop, 4. U. o. N, and Address 60 the
Members by Rev. DR.. Baird.

Installation OF Omeers OF Centre
shOp, 4. U. o. NJ, and Address 90 the
Members by Rev. DR.. Baird.
The following were installed last night
as officers Of Centre Shop No. l, Ecumenic
Order Of United Mechanics, at their lodge
room in the building occupied by the
Fourth National Bank: q. L. Jones, Mas
ter: Wm. Stone, First Foreman; ). B.
Cant, Second Foreman; Z. b. Ripley, Sec
retary; G. B. Cooper, Treasurer; L. NJ.
Eubank; Chaplain; Joseph Bout, Officer OF
the Guard, w. II. Miller, Conductor; John
Capps, Inside Sentinel; James Roberts, Out
side Sentinel.
When the ceremonies OF installation were
cOmpleted. the Mas,er announced that Rev.
DR.. Baird was present by invitation TO ad-
dress the members on the objects OF the
organization and the geOd 10 be accomplish
ed by faithful adherence to the principles
of the order.
DR.. Baird, in commencing his remarks,
said be felt gratiiied at tins opportunity OF
meeting and cOnferring With number Oi
mechanics who had organized themselves
into a body designed for mutual benent
and encouragement. he was hinseI
mechanic and lad always been glad OF the
fact; he had never seen the day when he
felt a pang Of regret that he had learned a
trade. On the contrary, be was proud
that he was a mechanic and a very good
one. In his bOyhOOd he worked through
three years of apprenticeship, and al
/ that time indentured boys had to work
harder and for less pay than now. II was
| a mistake 10 suppose that learning TO be
an artisan or mechanic did not require
| brain work. Leaning a trade required
! thought. calculation, and the cultivation OF
memory, and at the same time impaired
| skill to the hands, strength to the muscles,
/ and vigorous health 10 the body.
| DR.. Baird entertained his hearers with
/ interesting and amusing incidents IN his
| experience as a mechanic. lie also gave
| them excellent advice as 70 the I'M
portance of industry, sObriety, economy
and an unhinching determination TO sue
ceed. He said that he would be abundant
Iy repaid for the speech he was then tryl inc
| 10 make, if but one member Of the order
| present would follow the advice given, and
! he earnestly hoped it might benefit all
/ At the conclusion Of his remarks, the
| members rendered him vote OF thanSs
| and expressed q desire to see him frequent
/ IN at their meetings.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-10
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

The friends of Senator Ramsey, of Mime
sofa, claim that he has strength enough in
the Legislature Of that State to secure his
nomination in caucus on the first ballot.
A grist mill at NiagdOO, New Brunswick,
was burned Friday night, together with
two Of the children Of the keeper.
Messrs. Babcock & Co., grocers, OF New
York, have failed in consequence Of specu-
lating in lard.
Some Of the members Of the New York
Produce Exchange oppose the meeting to
be held in that city Monday night to con-
denim the outrage upon Louisiana, and
have issuel a paper approving the action Of
the Administration III regard to that State.
All the fibre paper manufactured for the
Government has been accounted for, and
no illegal issues Of securities on that paper
have been made.
John Hagan was frozen to death in
Chicago Friday night.
The Atlantic Cotton Nj Is at Lawrence,
Mass, lately running only four days in the
week, will start on full time Monday and
give employment 10 1900 operatives
The centennial agents in New York an
nOunce five subscriptions in that city of
5000 each, besides a list Of smaller sums,
in addition to $4,000 by Messrs. Stewart
& Co.
A reference has been ordered in a New
York court to ascertain If the Mobile and
Northwestern Railroad Company has any
property in that State, judgment having
been obtained against the company by de
fault for 1928, ,467, in a suit brought by A
W. Barnes and Benz. Ripley, TO recover an
alleged balance for building fifty miles Of
road bed.
Mr.. VOORHEES, has withdrawn from the
Senatorial contest in Indiana, leaving the
race between Holman and Mcdonald.
A detective has arrived at Omaha from
San Francisco with George Weyman, Of
New York, who decaInped a few weeks ago
with $4,000 worth Of diamonds, most Of
which was recovered.
A schOol-hOuse was burned Friday night
near Lone Tree, Nebraska, but 1t was Tor
white children.
Richard B. Irwin has been removed to
comfortable quarters in the Jail at Wash
ingtOn.
A sleeping car on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad was thrown from bridge
near Cambridge, o., Yesterday morning,
and badly shattered. -Four or five paSsen-
GERS were injured. but none seriously.
TAYLOR StTander, cOlOred, has been con-
Yicted Of numbering his wife at Wheeling,
West Va, and sentenced to be hung on the
10Th Of March next.
Jane Anderson, aged 65, frOze To death
in Cincinnati, last night, while drunk.
Revenue collections in the Louisville
district, last year, S1,313,g3I on tobacco
and nearly SSOO,OOO on whisSy.
At the meeting Of the Minnesota State
Grange, Friday, there was strong OppOsi-
ton to modifying the railroad legislation
now in force.
While one Wiegand, wife and child were
crossing railroad track in a wagon neal
Camden, n. j., yesterday, the train struck
the vehicle, killing the wife, child and horse
and seriously injuring Wiegand.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-10
THE GLORIOUS EIGHTH.
Celebration Of JaeksOn's Victory at
New Orleans,

Celebration of JaeksOn's Victory at
New Orleans,
WOOSTER, o, Jan. S.-The annual cele-
bratlOn Of the anniversary Of the Battle Of
New Orleans and commemorative Of the
life Of Andrew Jackson, took place to-day
at ArcadOme Hall, in this city. Governor
Allen and a delegation of our lawmakers
were present, including Speaker Converse,
of the Ohio House of Representatives. The
Governor arrived Thursday evening and
was escorted to his quarters at DR.. Fris-
toms, by the citizens band and a large
concOurse, who were at the depot TO well
come him, and who would not consent to
his retiring for the night until he had made
a speech, which he did and which was
warmly applauded. The Governors speech
tonight to the people who have assembled
to do honor to the memory Of Andrew
Jackson, was quite lengthy and interesting.
In his reference to Louis ana affairs, he
was very bitter in his denunciatiOn Of the
Administration, Gen. Sheridan and the
regular army, characterizing the action Of
Gen. DeTrObriand as a shameful outrage,
without parallel in the annals of history.
The building was crowded TO suffOcatiOn.
Fully 1900 people participated in the fes-
tivities, and it is an occasion long to be re-
membered by the Democracy Of Wooster.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-10
ALABAMA.
Work of the Investigating Committee.

Work Of the Investigating Committee.
MONTGOMERY, Jan. S.-Messrs. Luttrell,
COburn and Cannon were in Eufaula on
yesterday. They examined many wit
nesSes as to the alleged intimidation and
riot on last election day. Also, one Re
publican as to the State debt, whose state
ment in writing was received by the COM
mittee. Another Republican witness filed
a long document as TO the relative voting
strength Of the two parties, and charging
that the Democrats polled illegal votes.
The committee reached here this morning,
but left Immediately for Washington, and
will reach that city on Saturday.
LIVINGSTON, Ala, jan o. Messrs. Al
bright and Buckner, Of the Alabama Inyes-
tigating Committee, yesterday concluded a
four DAYS investigation at this place. The
killing Of Billings and Ivey and the whip
ping Of the negro Doyle were proved, but
there was no proof connecting these acts
with political motives. InrefutatiOn Of the
charges Of intimidation Of Republican
voters, evidence was given that in the last
election the Republican vote in this Sum
ter county increased SO per cent. over
Grants vote in 1872.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-10
DOWN BELOW ZERO.

Intensely Cold Weather East and
West.
OMAHA, Jan. 9.-The extreme cold
weather here and West, beyond Cheyenne,
continues. The thermometer here last
night reached 21 below zero, and at Chey-
enne 3S below zero. To-day there is a
slight moderation, but it is extremely cold
vet. All the trains due here to-day were
late.
Frozen 60 Death.
A school girl was so badly frozen yester-
day that she died to-day.
wheeling.
WHEELING, w. Va, Jan. 9.-Weather
changed. The mercury has been falling
all day and was degrees below zero at 8 p
NJ. Navigation is totally suspended. The
river will probably close tonight.
Chicago.
CHICAGO, Jan. 9.-The Thermometer to-
day and last night has ranged from Is to
25 below zero in and about the city.
Louisville.
LOUISVILLE, Jan. 9.-TO-day has been
the cOldest known in this vicinity since
1854. The thermometer ranged during the
day from s to u degrees below zero, and
the weather is now growing colder.
CIeveIaDd.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 9.-This has been the
cOldeSt day known here for many years;
mercury Is degrees below zero at p. NJ.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-10
ESTABLISHED MARCH 80. 1886.

Iissis does the consequences to our sys-
TEN. Of government cannot be easily
foreseen.
THE Ne,0 York Buaetin, a purely
commercial organ, asks: "In what
times do We live Under what form
Of Government Are the people salts
fed to see rights thus trampled upon,
power thus abused, peace thus imperil-
led, and trade thus threatened9 1t is
about time the public spoke some plain
words to the Government. The NelU
York Tribune records the situation in a
tone as true as it is tender:
Louisiana under the bayonetdoes not
stir. There is no outbreak, no dis
turbance. Her people under usurpa-
tions without parallel, and outrages
that almost pass belief, are quiet. The
story of their wrongs has gone to the
country. They wait patiently some ae-
ton for their relief By Congress, or fall
ing that, the Judgment Of the nation.