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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-07-08

San Franciscans make a hobby of their
climate. They roll it as a sweet morsel
under their tongue. It is their piece de
resistance in the catalogue of blessings.
The derned place seems shaky on her
pins" said citizen just after the great
earthquake of 1868; "but there's one
consolation, anyhow, we've got the best
climate in the world" It is climate of
strong contrasts. It is eccentric !; it is
tantalizing it is seductive. We are
piqued at its capriciousness, yet it units
us for living anywhere else. Summer
hardens into winter winter is glorifed
into summer. Roses and sunny skies in
january verdureless waste, cold winds
and chilling fogs in July.
"Did you ever see such a summer as
this 2" said one Irishman to another.
"No, be iabers, not since the middle
of last winter.
We cry for thick blankets while you
are sweltering in the dog-day heats we
throw open our doors and windows while
you are covering beneath the sharp
stings of winter. Not that all days in
summer are cold, and all days in winter
warm but the general rule is, that June,
July and August are detestable, and the
rest of the year unequaled for loneliness
of weather. There are not only days,
but weeks, when the skies are indescrib-
ably glorious. The Nile Valley is not SO
sweetly balmy, Southern Italy not so
rich in mellow splendor. The golden
sunshine permeates every pore, quickens
every pulse of life. The air has an in
defnable softness and sweetness tonic
quality that braces the nerves to a joy
GUS tension, making the very sense of
existence delight. The contrast of
temperature between summer aud winter
is less apparent than real. The remark
able equability of the climate will appear
from the following In June, 1874, the
highest thermometer was 81 deg, the
lowest, So deg; in January of the same
year, the highest was SO deg, the lowest,
81 deg. In December, the range was
between 80 deg. and 50 deg. in August
it was between 68 deg. and so deg
Samuel W5lziGn2s J; Scr56'eer for Jug.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-07-08
Increase in Railroad Business Last Year.

La the midst of the prevailing dullness
it is somewhat cheering to know that, in
spite of the depression in stocks, the
earnings on our railroads for last year
show scarcely any diminution over those
for 1873. From advanced sheets of that
most useful publication, " Poor's Manu-
al, !" we learn that the gross earnings of
ali lines for 1874 amounted to $500, 1885,
O16. against 1926, 419, 935 for the year
preceding-a decrease of only about one
Der cent. while the net earnings were
$189, $40, 563, against 1873, 810,562 for
i873-an increase of over three per cent.
The dividends paid amounted to $67,-
O42, $40, being only ST., 267 less than for
1873. These facts show that our great
railroad system has felt the burden of the
times as little as any other of our great
interests. What they have lostin gross
savings is more than made up In net
The increased economy and efficiency of
management which have been forced up
on them will probably not be relaxed
with the improvement In business which
the future is sure to bring, and it is but
fair to expect better results for the year
to come than have characterized the year
Just closed. -NeaD York Bulletin
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-07-08
SKIES.

III try and make little song
OF unrequited passion,
And though in writing am wrong,
I'm surely in the fashion:
My love was quite the pink of loves,
And one of her sweet tricks is
To wear such captivating gloves
Indisputable sizes.
1 recollect month ago,
week, and then knew her;
Yes, thirty days have passed, know,
Yet somehow they seem fewer.
But digrsss: recollect
Last Friday three weeks clearly: ~
Meath wine and bsauty's joint effect
1 said loved her dearly.
And oh, that glove, that right-hand glov
Lay in my hand SO nicely.
Thought I-of course aside" My love.
Your hand is six precisely
And then said the usual things
About the hearts devotion,
And added, as the poet sings,
Some refersnce to the ocean.
Her pretty hand remained in mine;
She said. Now really, Mr.. -
The I" Smith" remained unsaid-in fine,
grievs to say kissed her.
can't say what she really thought,
But somehow she looked frightened:
Alas, by sad experience taught,
My mind is now enlightened.
I'm writing at country place,
Fit only to write rhymes in,
A hundred miles from her sweet face
Here, waiter, bring the Times in!
What's this? Oh, can it be- yes-no!
How have my hopes miscarriedi
1t only was three weeks ago,
And now-and now she's married!
Hdr,per'S Bazaar.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-07-08
Wit and HulnOr.
BOYS suit-Young girls.

Wit and HumOr.
BOYS suit-Young girls.
A PLANE drunk-An intoxicated car
penter.
SUDDEN wealth seldum comes by
honesty.
WHEN does lawyer work horse
When he draws conveyance.
Fox's Martyrs Ducks, fowls, turkeys,
and geese.
A LADY, on separating from her hus-
band, changed her religion, she said, TO
avoid his company in the next world as
well as this.
WHAT is the difference between asailor
in a storm and plucky pugilist? One
is lashed to the mast, and the other
mashed to the last.
FISHING in the Tennessee river is
pretty good just now. The other day q
fisherman hauled up his wife, who had
been missing for two weeks, and he saved
the 5000 reward he had offered for her
discovery.
THE Erie Canal boatmen have seen
their palmiest days, but yet there are
few left who can, if occasion requires,
throw the crew overheard, run the boat
ashore and clean out all the constables
in county.
JOHN Croft, Postmaster atScottsville,
New York State, won't have his salary
raised this year. He was in the habit of
opening registered letters, and they
caught him at it and registered hinr-on
the jail books.
BARNUM has secured another fat
woman. Her name is Hannah-plain
Hannall-and when she sits down on a
chair the elephant moves around uneas-
lily and braces his legs for the coming
earthquake shock.
A YOUNG and beautiful widow was
about to marry q rich old widower. Her
friends wished to know what she wanted
to marry him for. She replied, "For
pure love. Hove the ground " (meaning
the estate, probably son which he
walks. =
A BENTON street man seems pursued
by fate. One of his children died about
year ago then his horse was stolen
then he Endorsed note of $500 and had
to pay it, end the other day while he was
playing game of checkers, and had his
opponent just where one more move
would have foored him, the exultant
man heard that his house was on fire,
and he had to abandon the game. DE
troit Free Press.
SHE tried to sit down in the street car,
but was pinned back SO tight she
couldn't. Old lady peeped over her
specs and asked her: Chow long have
you been afflicted that way?" The
young lady blushed, and made a"break,
sitting down sideways, and holding her
knees together so tight that she looked
as if she had on one-legged pair of
breeches. Old lady noticed her sitting
in this sidewise, cramped position, and
whispered: "Bile, [ s'pose I've had
'em myself "-Nev York Dispatch.
ONE can never tell in this democratic
country whether he's kicking beggar
or millionaire. The other day when
an old fellow got in the way of some la
borers at the levee, one OF them called
out:
"Come, trot out Of this, old bald
head ]"
The old chap looked up, scowled, and
remarked:
"Why, man, I own more acres of
ground in this State than you've got
hairs on your head!
"Can't help it if you own the whole
State and half of Louisiana" was the
brusque reply. "When I'm rollin'
bar'ls everything's got to stand back or
bust ? Vicks6urg Herald.
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The Oldest ex-United States Senator
now living is said to be Peleg Sprague,
formerly of Maine, who was Senator
from that State from 1929 to 1886. He
also represented the Kennebec District
in Congress from 1926 to 1929, was sub
sequently for many years Judge of the
United States District Court of Massa-
chusetts, and is now living In Boston at
q greatly advanced age,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-07-08
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
From the Women's side.

May %, 1875.
o let me smile little, pray
just little, and while may,
Even as child smiles: after o-day
I shall have whole years to weep in.
O let me talk like child, unchid:
After. to-day twill all be hid;
No hand viii lift up the cofin-lid
Of the silence shall sleep in.
In Portsmouth Harbor the good ship rides,
Rocked safely upon the placid tides,
AS love in a happy heart abides,
Moving with each emotion,
With voices and hands alive all Ger:
And tomorrow perhaps for eyermore-
] shall look ont from desolate shore
Upon an empty ocean.
O love, my hero and my saint,
MY knight Of the white shield, without faint,
This wolnan-heart turns sick and faint,
Although my lips may fail not:
7 see the rocks under smiling seas,
L hear tempest in every breeze,
I feel the icebergs as they freeze
In the deeps where ship can sail not.
O love, my love, so brave, so young,
Strong arm, pure heart, and silent tongue
o lonely years that stretch out so long!
One cry, as of lost existence,
and nv soul sits down before its DOOM
AS white ghost sits at the door of tomb:
No moan, no shrek, no tears, no gloom,
Only a still persistence.
Be of good cheer. Sail on, sail ON,
Unto life or death for both are one
To the infinite faith in sweet days gone,
To the infinite love that folds thee.
These girlish arms are weak, know,
But my heart is strong as well-bent bow;
And whittier thou goest viii go,
In my spirit that upholds thee.
Sail on, sail on through the frozen seas,
To endless 1abors, and little ease:
Come back triumphant, if Heaven so please,
Or with unwon goal, inglorious;
Only come back! mo. Should God say
That He has crowned thee another way,
Love! see, beyond our night, His day,
And we are yet victorious.
HGgpeT's Weekly.
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THE Pope is bled four times year by
his doctors.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-01-18
The Ice Crop.

utEHAgIoSs OF OUR WILMINGTON DEALERS IN AN
TlCIPATloN OF THE SUMMER SEASON.
lhc skating at tho Arctic Park for the past
week has been everything that could be desired,
1atl Number have repaired thither to partici-
pate III this sport.
B,,t those who look at things in more practi-
cal way will be quite an much interested in the
process OF housing ice by Messr5.
Conrow y son, for their summer trade.
The ice is now ten inches thick and the best
that has been gathered for several years-in
fact nearly, or quite, equal to Boston ice. The
proprletOrs have nearly forty men ut work
all the time, day and night. The store house
Will hold III its present condition over 5000 tons,
and when fully completed about 1000 tons. 1t
IL cnt or sawed out III large blocks and pushed
to tho house through u kind of canal made
through the ice, where it is again cut into blocks
~ by y inches, hoisted by two machines teci-
nlrally called gigs" worked by horse power,
and wien shot in the house is closely and CONF
partly packed away in blocks. The work COM
mcccd week ago, and will require another
wotks work. day and night, to fully complete the
store
The other ice dealers are also taking advan-
tige Of the favorable weather. Messrs. Walton
James are filling their two houses on the
north side of the Brandywine, Pusey Rice have
lldnso each on the Shellpot aud Brandywine,
aud eight houses near Coatesville more than half
lhll, and there is now no longer any fear for the
coming summer.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-01-18
sheriff Sales.
An IMMENSE BATCH ON sATuaDA'

An IMMENSE BATCH ON SATURDAY.
sheriff Lambson sold at the Delaware House,
on Saturday through Tnos. NJ. Ogle, list Of
properties as follows
Property OF Emeline johnson, on the West
side Of Windsor street, between Ninth and
Tenth to Charles b. Lore. ESD. for the Star
lual Association, for 500
Property of Ellen Guy adjoining the above,
Ia the same, for the Star Loan, for u 900.
Property Of William Craig, on the east side of
lrunett street, between Ninth and Tenth, to the
rame al1o for the Star Loan, for s7l5.
Property Of William Clark, in Cbristiana Hun
lied containing 95 acres and 81 perchee, to
Jeremiah Underwood, for s6,050 Several years
ago Mr.. Clark purchased this tract for about
.lO.0OO.
Property of Lizzie j. Wright,o Maryland Av-
euue, near Seventh Avenue, consisting of a
mansion house and nearly four acres of land, to
Joshua Maris, Esq, for the mutual Loan Assocl-
lon, for $500, subject to mortgage of S7,500
Property of Edmund q. Springer, on the
uurth side OF Fourth street between Adams and
Jackson, lot 1O5xl5i feet, and house thereon, to
the same. for the Mutual Loan, for $50, subject
To two s250O mortgages.
Property of Absaom Davis, consisting OF lot
.jxlO5j on Walnut street, Newport, to Andrew
Davis, for @5l0. This sale was made for the
purpose of having a title adjusted.
Property of Geo. II. Townsend. consisting Of
between IS and Sc acres in Brandywine Hun
died to Geo. Il. Townsend for s4,550, subject
10 u mortgage. This property was some time
ago sold by Mr. Townsend, subj Get to a mort
rage and was re-purchasod by him in order to
ave the said mortgage
Property Of Joseph B.ckta, a three story brick
house, Ola lot 20xGS feet, on the west side Of
fatuall street, between Fifth and Sixth, to Ellen
tonnor for 1915, subject to u mortgage.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-01-18
Obituary..
LIEUTENANT A. V. AMEr, L. $. A

LIEUTENANT A. V. AMET, L. s. A.
Lieutenant Albert V. Amet, of the 7th Regi-
ment of Infantry, died at Fort Shaw, NJ T., of
consumption, on the 10th Of December. This
lamented officer was born at Lexington, Lafay-
cite county, Missouri, OH the 10Th of March,
1874. He served during the war oil the Rebell-
ion with credit and honor, enlisting as private
soldier in the Sth Illinois Cavalry, and leaving
the volunteer service as First Lieutenant of the
18th Illinois Cavalry. in December 1865 Soon
after leaving the volunteer service ho WAS made
a hospital steward in the regular army, where by
honest integrity, and uniform good conduct, he
soon gained such character that he was pro-
NOTED to lieutenancy and assigned to the 7th
Infantry in July, 1872. From severe exposure
last Spring, while en- route for Carroll NJ. T.,
he contracted the disease that has terminated
fatally.
He leaves widow and three young children
to lament his loss. Lieutenant Amet WAS for
merly resident of Camden, Kent county, this
State, and was son-in-law Of the late Thomas
Simpson OF that place. An official order COM
plimentary to the deceased officer has been is
sued from the headquarters of the Military Dis
trct of Montana.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-01-18
The Smuggling Cases.

CROSBY AND THE TWO ELLEGooDs SENT TO NEW
cAsTLE-sTATEMENT BY CROSBY.
At one o'clock, this afternoon, VIM. Ii. Ellie
good and VIM. l.. Crosby, who were convicted
Of and Joshua Ellegood, who plead guilty to,
the charge of smuggling sugar from the bark
Masonic, while she lay inside the Breakwater at
Lewes in June last, were sent over to New Cas-
tie in closed coach to undergo the tour months
Imprisonment which had been imposed by the
Court A nole pros being entered in the case
of Alton Crosby lad, and brother of VIM. L.
Crosby, he departed for his home at Lewes.
STATEMENT OF CROSBY.
Before being sent over, COMMERCIAL report
er had all interview with VIM. L. Crosby, who
admitted the charge and made statement i'll
relation to the affair. He said that he had but
recently removed from Massachusetts to Lewes,
and settled there not for the purpose of enga-
ging in the smuggling business, but to deal in
sails, rigging, &c, buying up these articles from
the wreckers and selling them to parties in Phil
adelphia. The night the sugar was taken from
the bark he said he had but just returned from
one of these visits to Philadelphia, and learning
that arrangements had been made for the land
ing of the sugar he engaged in the work.
THE PROPOSAL TO UNDERTAKE THE JOB
he said came from the officers of the bark. while
they were on shore, and further stated that
there was no pre-existing arrangement between
the officers and those who joined in the enter
prise. ibis, he Claimed, was nlb urSG partlclpd-
ton in this kind of work, and said if any SNUG
Cling had ever been done there before he was
not privy to it, but was under the impression
that such work had been carried on. He knew
nothing of the underground way to New York,
via Maurice river, which route it has been stated
is the channel through which smuggled goods
are disposed of.
HOW THE SUGAR WAS OBTAINED.
As to the manner in which the sugar was OBJ
tanned Mr.. Crosby said that the party rowed out
to the Masonic in Capt. Williams's boat, as
charged and stated that seven bags, each con-
tanning about 150 pounds were lowered into the
small boat from the bark, after which the boat
was rowed to the shore and the sugar landed and
buried OIL the beach. Tie next morning VIM.
H. Ellegood and Vim. l.. Crosby
went over to Georgetown to dispose OF
their goods, taking with them sample of
sugar which the Crosbys had brought with
them from Massachusetts, and showing this to
Mr. Lingo and others. He denied that he had
with him O sample of the smuggled sugar, it
being an inferior article to the sample offered.
They failed to make sale Of any part Of the su-
gar, and on their return to Lewes, finding that
the suspicious Of the Government officials were
aroused, they matured plans for disposing of
their goods, and that night
DUG 1T UP AND ''sALTED" IT,
that is, threw it overheard into the bay. That,
he claimed, was the last he saw of it, and no
part of it was sold to any one or used in any
Ua
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-01-18

On the 9th instant, four fishermen left Canar-
sic, l.. l., to gather CLANS and last Wednesday
Two OF them were found frozen to death, while
lie others had their hands and feet frozen, and
were nearly famished. The men who persisted
were colored
Mrs. Susanna Bowling died at Baltimore on
saturday. from taking belladonna, which had
been purchased of druggist for syrup of SIENNA,
There liz rumor that the Democrats and Con-
serHative Republicans of the Massachusetts,
Legislature may unite on John Quincy Adams
iof United States Senator The friends of
dawes and Hoar are expected to develope equal
strength and they are equally determined,
In the U. ). Senate on Saturday. Mr.. Schurz s
Louisiana resolution was discussed until adjourn
meht' The House was not in session.
. The Legislative of Rhode Island will meet in
iroVidence tomorrow, and resume the baoting
ior u United States Senator to succeed Sprague,
wnlch w was suspended by the adjournment in
:, ueheral Frank M. Cockrell was nominated for
United States Senator by the Democratic caucus
~ ~ me Missouri Legislature on Saturday night
lie received 50 votes to 25 for Phelps. for Rey-
hoius' 8 FOR Norton and for Shields.
Michael Murphy and his three children were
.y .nealy frozen IN their house at Niagara, Onta-
lio I on Friday night. The eldest child, a boy,
dieu d on Saturday morning, Murphy a.id his little
laughter died at noon, and the other child was
lot expected to live.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-01-18
Vice President Wilson.

HIS VIEWS ON THE POLITICAL sITUATIoN-HE BE-
LIEvEs THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO BE ALIVE AND
v1doRoUs-HE RECOMMENDS THE INVITATION OF
THE LIBERALS BACK INTO THE FOLD AND A WISE
POLICY TOWARD THE SOUTH.
Especial Dispatch to the New York Times.l
WASHINGTON, Jan. II.
Vice President Wilson has written letter to
the Springfield Republican in reply to paragraph
recently printed in that paper alleging that the
Vice President believed that the Republican Par
ty is dead. Mr.. Wilson disclairns such
belief. He expresses the conviction that the
Republican party is not dead, and has not been
hopelessly defeated. 1t possesses all the ele-
ments of strength it ever possessed and with
proper management will achieve in the future
the same victories it achieved in the past. If it
dies, it will be by suicide, and not from incura-
BILE disease or the blows Of its political oppo-
nents
He believes all that is needed to give 1t
strength and renewed popular confidence is the
adoption of wise and magnanimous national
policy. The men who separated from it in 1872,
and supported Horace Greeley, should be invited
back to the fold and their error freely forgiven.
He has no faith in the discipline that infcts
pains and penalties upon men who may differ
from those with wlom they once acted, and be-
lieves the time is opportune for bringing within
the organization OF the Republican Party those
who we're led away in 1872, and whose natural
feelings and sympathies are with that party. He
believes a liberal and magnanimous policy should
be pursued in dealing with the South, efforts d.
rected to ameliorate the condition of the people
of that section, and such legislation adopted as
will terminate all strife and enable them to 60
forward in rebuilding their shattered fortunes
There are many good ard patriotic men in
every State of the South, and these might be
brought to the Republican Party by pursuing u
firm but generous policy. Such policy, he
thinks, is dictated by justice and demanded by
considerations of prudence. If it is adopted he
has no doubt whatever of the future useful
ness and success of the Republican Party He
earnestly advises that immediate steps be taken
to reorganize upon the basis laid down in his
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-01-18
Free Lunches IN Washington.

One OF the saddest phases OF Washington lie,
says the brightly printed Star, is daily present.
at the free lunch tables of our large hotels.
gotten of want, and which debars all that polite
ness 30 becoming to any one at an eating table,
men whose mission in life has been
defeated in the uncertainties Of war
and politics, and whose names, though once
great have sunk into obscurity in the rapid
changes of our system Of government. The
general and the statesman of yesterday comes
to-day to the bar room and surreptitiously seek
that food which is intended for regular custom
era, and they who once looked upon the barkeep-
er at low-lived individual now approach him
obsequoualy. and leave him sneakingly when he
detects them in the act of pocketing the crack
ers and cheese.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-01-18


1t was decided at Il caucus of the Republican
Senators on Saturday morning that the debate
on the Louisiana resolution should close on that
day, in order to proceed with tho appropriation
bills on Monday.
Representatives G.. F. Hoar, Frye and Wheel
or, of the Committee on Southern Affairs, will
start for New Orleans tonight, for the purpose
of taking additional TESTIMONY in the Louisiana
matter
Rev. +. w. Adams was consecrated Bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New Mexi
co and Arizona yesterday, at New Orleans.
The female operatives at Fall River Mass,
held meeting on Saturday night. and resolved
to strike to-day. They subsequently modified
the resolution go as to confne the strike to the
Merchants, Granite and Crescent Mills
Pinchback is expected to arrive in Washing
ton tomorrow; and prominent Republican
Senator says he will be admitted to seat as
United States Senator from Louisiana in accord
ance with the recent determination of the eau
Gus.
The weather continues very cold in the North
west. A telegram from Fort Fetterman, on Sat
urday, reported that the mercury was frozen in
the thermometer, and that spirit thermometer
registered 45 degrees below zero.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-01-18
Attempted RObberies.

ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT FoRAY-THREE PLACES
TRIED.
Sem-occasionally this city becomes subject to
spasmodic forays by petty thiyes, and Saturday
night last was the second attempt for this sea-
son. Three places were tried, as follows:
The front windows in the store of the Misses
Devine. No. 3O4 King street, we're broken but
nothing was missed, and the loss will not reach
beyond the replacement of the glass, say six
dollars.
An attempt was also made on the store of
Mrs. O'Conner, 222 King street, but the breaking
of the glass awoke Mr.. Oconner whose appear
ance frightened off the thieves before they had
obtained any booty.
The restaurant of John W. Murphy, corner
Seventh & Church streets, was broken into and
a large quantity Of oysters, crackers, tobacco
and pipes taken.