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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30
John TYler,s Last Words.

Several newspaper writer's, In COM
menting on the cheerful last words of
Henry Wilson, have given those of other
distinguished individuals, but they have
omitted those of John Tyler. He was
not supposed to be seriously i'll, when he
was suddenly taken worse, and doctor
was sent for. When the doctor entered
the room, Mr.. Tyler greeted him with,
Doctor, I am dying" and almost i'm
meditely sank into the utter weakness
preceding dissolution. The doctor poured
some wine into glass and said, s. Mr..
Tyler, let me give you some stimulant. :
Opening his eyes, and looking sternly
at the physician, the dying man said IN
clear tone of voice, II aOo,a't take 1t. :
and In a few moments breathed his Last,
having fully established his right to the
title given him by the Wings when he
was President sold Veto. - Washing
tom Cor. Boston Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30
How Bin Got into a Circus.

The following is furnished by six
-year-old contributor who has jour-
nalistic aspirations:
"Hello, Bill, what's the matter with
you to day9 You look as if you were
dying"
"Well, Sam, Use nearly dead, and it
all comes from foolin' wild dad cirkus;
the elephant did it.
:'Foolin' with the cirkus, you say 2
How did you get in, an you only had
thirty-five cents, an the programme says
Il was fifty cents to see the cirkus r.
"Sam, / got in an got out. an saved
that thirty five cents.
''Be quick, Bill, and tell me, kase l
want to get in myself tonight :
Well, Sam, dis time they have
white tickets, and you know Yourself
they generally have red ones. Just as
soon as the performance was beginnln.
went up to the doorkeeper and gave him
red card, when he said, See here,
you Niger, where are you going! and
then he histed me, but it happened ne
was bow-legged, and, instead of kicking
me out, he kicked me In. just as soon
as got in I started to run, and rP1
agin the elephant. think he knew ]
did not pay, for he histed me with bus
trunk and knocked me out through
hole in the canvas"
$50 you did not see the acting, Sam9'
| "No; but my back-Oh, my back
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30
Pr0snerOns Ex.American.

Judah P. Benjamin, formerly Confed-
crate Secretary of State, and who made
his way to England at the close of the
war, is reaping the rich harvest of $780,
600 per annum as barrister-at-law in
London. He is small man, of rather
aldermanic projections, dark-eyed, sim
lister smile about the mouth, shrewd,
bold, talented and unscrupulous. The
rapid fight of the Secretary, leaving
everybody to take care of themselves,
did not make him popular at the South.
In fact, he was never burdened with
popularity at any time. There was a
certain GOODNESS, peculiar cent-per-
cent odor about him that open-hearted
people never admired.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30
"Mean by what 3" said the pig.

"Mean by what" said the pig.
MEAN by eating up all the lunch, |"
said Chicken Plump.
"Do you mean to say" said the pig,
"that I've gone and eaten the lunch z!
eyes we do, every one of us all, say
it" said a chicken who was just learning
to talk.
swell, do'you know" said the pig,
st wouldn't have thought it; but with
this thing over my eyes, how do you
suppose could see what / was doing z"
IS A weak, miserable, contemplate ex-
cuse," said Chicken Plump, with dignity,
and if any of you have speck of spirit
you will follow me. . Here they all rose
as one man and went for the pig. In
and out among the corn, across the barn
yard, around the corner by the water
trough, they chased him, and the pig
never stopped until he went over into
his pen with parting squeal. and
Chicken p Jump was SO close behind that
he went bang up against the boards and
was taken up for dead.
That evening, after Farmer Merry had
made the barn all snug for the night,
and the little chicks we're tucked up and
sound asleep, the twilight came in at the
little back window, and showed Chicken
Plump talking earnestly with the COB
bier, and as he turned to go to bed,
Chicken Plumpsaid :
Now want it distinctly understood
that that miserable picnic, with nothing
to eat, was none Of my getting up = and
the gobbler had just opened his mouth
to answer when he saw Mother Blackleg
watching them so he shut it again with
out saying word; and he sat on the cor
ner Of the corn-bin such a long time, try
ing to make out whose picnic it really
was, that it was all of half-past 8 before
he went to bed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30

One of the good results of the Educa-
ton act in London, which is based on
the American system, is that the attend
ance of scholars has increased from
18O. 900 to $50, 900; and this has not been
done by arshness, for the number OF
parents fined does not exceed 1000, and
no fine has exceeded five shillings. The
firnness of the London School Board
has resulted in saving 100000 children
from growing up in ignorance.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30
A Boss Lobbyist.

John Harmon, Of Detroit, Michigan's
boss lobbyist, has gone to Washington
once more to sacrifice himself for his
country's good, as it were. AS lobby
list, John Harmon is three x. He doesn't
90 around like Sam Ward with placard
on his back announcing himself an active
member of the third house, open for
bids, but he is one of those fellows who
can sit back and snore in one corner OF
hotel office, and at the same time know
what is going on In any other remote
corner. When he wants to interview a
member, he always drops In just at the
right time, and plays cat until the canary
is his. If member is religiously in
clined, John talks like a Saint, and is
told before the interview is half through
that he ought to have been clergyman,
which John blushingly admits has always
been the highest ambition of his life. Ii
the member is good at draw poker, John
draws up to the table and shuffles the
cards with perhaps trife more COM
placency than he manifests when con-
versing on spiritual things, but this is
merely conjecture in either place he is
always found right side up with care. IT
stories are wanted, John is ready with an
inexhaustible fund of the best,
which he gives with all the en-
bellishments necessary to produce the
desired effect. In crowd, he is
as quiet as block of marble leaning
up against fence, and yet at the same
time he may be pulling forty 6 strings"
and planning forty more to be pulled.
There probably isn't another man In the
State who can plant one foot upon the
arm of chair and put the index finger OF
his right hand into the palm of his left,
and execute, sign, seal, and deliver q
more convincing, conclusive, little SUI
gar-coated argument In behalf OF any
measure he undertakes to work through,
than John Harmon. he is as unobtru-
sive as he is quiet, but somehow he hap
pens to be around when anything is 60
ing on. Let two or more men be en-
gagged in private discussion, and if it is a
point in which he is interested, John
Harmon will stand right behind them,
and read one after another old letters
that he has carried In his pocket for a
year, until one would think he was dis
tributing postoffice. He can do this with
out creating suspicion, for everybody who
knows John Harmon knows he is deaf and
can't catch word of ordinary converse
ton. He is so deaf that what goes in one
ear never goes out of the other, which
makes it bad, you know.
He is now at Washington, prepared to
help organize Congressional prayer
meetings, or buck the tiger, as circum-
stances may require I; and if, before the
close of the session, bill should pass
authorizing the establishment of bal
loon route from Cape Cod to Cape Horn,
or the construction of canal across the
great American desert, we shall know
that John Harmon still lives, and that
his mission is not yet ended.-LoaOet(
! .IO26y'n0L
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30
THE LITTLE FOLKS.


Chiidhcod's Dream.
:. Crown up people are SO stupid,
Dolly, dear,
Vow sit 'still and don't be frightened.
No one's near.
And they viii not come 10 fetch us;
They VIII CALL
Wei, I'm ont Of patience with them.
One and al.
.'There's papa now if he wished it
He might play,
YeS he reads, and writes, and ciphers,
All the day.
And mamma, when no ones looking,
You should see,
Only takes one lump of sugar
In her tea.
Now, e were big, Miss Dolly.
Do you think
would look at nasty paper,
Pens, and ink?
q would scamper through the greenhouse,
Chase the cat,
And I'd live on sugar-e&ndy-
Think Of thak!n
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30

AN eccentric individual has made his
temporary home near Bridsboro, Berks
County, Pa. He lives in a box about
four feet square, in which he carries
stove, cooking utensils, bed and
quantity of pamphlets on sspiritualism OF
his own writing, which he sells. de
goes unshaven, and his favorite food IS
mU6kratS.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30


YORK State is full of Presidential as
pirants. Besides score or two of Dem
ocrats in that State who dream that they
may attain the acme of American ambi-
ton some day, the Albany Evening
Journal mention the following New
York Republicans, call of whom are
much superior to the stuff of which not
a few of our Presidents have been made, =
namely: Roscoe Conkling, William M.
Evarts, Hamilton Fish, George William
Curtis, Edwin d. Morgan, William A..
Wheeler, Edwards Pierrepont, Andrew
D. White, Stewart l.. Woodford and
Lyman Tremaine, and there are still
others.
NEW YEARS EVE.
The years go by with silent tread;
And some are distant, some dead,
That once were dear;
And, as sat alone tonight,
And sadly watched the fading light,
The dying year,
Full many a memry of the tomb,
OF many a mad and merry time,
OF funeral-kneIl and wedding chime
Came gathering with the early gloom.
And faces long forgot were there,
And voices hushed forever spoke,
And recollections hard to bear
That twilight reverie awoke.
These marks along the stream of years,
These strokes upon the fatal bell,
They are but monuments of grief and tears,
The chime is but funeral-knell
For griefs recalled are griefs renewed again;
And Joys remembered-they are sadder yet
Oblivion brings alone her joys to men,
Ana happiness is only to forget.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30

The Providence Press is authority for
the statement that an officeholder at
Newport makes oath every three months
that he has performed faithfully the du-
ties of lnspecto. of Customs at Block
Island, though he has at no time been
nearer that island than the Newport Gus
tom House.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30

how it pains. will get even with that
elephant if I go to Jail for thirty
DAYS. - Savannah Meas.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30

A REMARKABLE instance of calculation
was recorded at Aylmer, Canada, last
week, where barber named johnson,
for bet of fifty cents, run under the
cars of railway train that was passing
at a round speed. He won the
wager, though he lost the heel of one
boot by wheel that came unpleasantly
close as he emerged. The man who lost
the bet said he had expected to win and
Get a couple of dollars for attending the
inquest.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30
Taxation i'm New York and Philadel-
nlria.

Here is the condensed history of our
two greatest cities for the last fifteen
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30

YALE Co11EeE has Silliman for a
professor.
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9oetru.
--'-'---- "a A---- -
CLOSING DAYS,

The FLASHING breakers on the beach seem to the
listening ear
To wall soft, sweet, paintive drgcfor the depart.
ing year;
The yellow leaves, whirld DER the path by the
sharp autumn breeze,
In eddylng clouds falling fast from all the rust.
ling trees.
The frost beads sparkle on III, grass bright in the
chilly dawn;
The mateess thrush his lonely meal seeks on the
rectory lawn;
The laulustinus gins to show her white and rose.
ate flowers
Sure tokens that have fled at last the summers
golden hours.
I'lackbcnies the pivot hang the ash shows clus.
ters red,
Crowned with a scarlet diadem King Oaks majes.
tic head
The elms are orange the queen beech is robed in
russet brown,
And from the grateful pendant birch dun leaves
come showerng down.
voice is mute,
No longer from the cherry bough the blackbird
times his flute
The white-throat and the nightingale to snnEer
climes have flown,
And on the berried hollybough the red breast sings
alone.
Ail. sweet and solemn are tho days that mark the
dying year,
Waking like music in the heat some slumbering
memories dear
OF times gone by, of friends long dead. of happy,
heeting hours,
,
and joy and flowers.
-HarDer,s R1.ar
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PARTRIDGE BROS,

Keep Sulphite OF Lime for Preserving
Cider.
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Letter to the Chicago Times.
A WRECKED LIFE.

THE SAD TRAGEDY OF MARY WALKER
WHAT CAME OF A MATRIMONIAL ADvER-
TISEMENT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-03-25

Claim not TO put any money In the Golden
Age This conversation occurred before the
Golden Age was started. The first number
came out on March I, 1871. Mr.. Schultz and
1 subscribed 81 500 each. i met Mr. Tilton
after the publication of
THE Woodruff BIOGRAPHY,
and spoke TO him about it, He said he had
known Mrs. Woodruff for a long time, and
that she was a fine woman. He gloried in
having written her life. he said, and asked
me what Schultz, or Woodruff, or myself
knew about her. / remember the publica-
ton of the Woodruff scandal / met Tilton
after il. He said he could not deny il; 1t was
a wheel within q wheel. Iasked him If there
was a word of truth in the story that Bsecher
had committed adultery with Mrs. Tilton,
and he said there was not a word of truth in
IL. He also denied that Moulton had put
pistol to Beecher's head. / saw Tilton on the
list OF January, 1873, at Mr.. Moulton's house.
j was speaking of Mr. Beecher's speech TO the
New England Society, and Tilton came in
and stated he understood that my partner
had called him a blackmailer. He said
Beecher would write Mr.. Schultz letter,
and he would retract this expression. / said
L thought not, for Schultz would not call any
person by that name without proof for it.
The terms of our loan We're that Mr. TiIton
was to be loaned 81 500 for seven per cent in
terest. paid the first part of my subscrip-
ton (S760) on the 18th of September, 1871.
All the subscribers paid their half of what
they agreed; a change was made in the
Golden Age contracts after this; We were 10
give up the security of the money we had
paid to be released from any further pay
ments. Woodruff said we must get out of
this Golden Age business, and said Tilton
had not conducted the paper as he ought to
have done; he had written the life of Mrs.
Woodruff and run the paper in the interests
of Mr. Greeley. Mr. Woodruff said that ever
since he (Tilton) had slandered a gentleman
in Brooklyn he could never trust him. Wool
ruff advised me to give up these notes. make
present of them, and release myself from
the obligation. Wehad conversation some
weeks afterwards, which led 10 the surren-
der of the notes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-03-25

NEW YORK DRY GOODS MARKET.-Cotton
goods present the same remarkable steadi-
ness in value which has been their charac-
teristic for many weeks past. There were
very few price fluctuations during the week,
but few popular brands of brown and
bleaehed cottons were slightly advanced by
the agents, and the general line was excep-
tiOnally firm. There was fair package de-
mand for heavy standard and low fine brown
sheetings, which continue closely sold up to
receipts, and agents find no little difficulty
in supplying the trade with the leading
brands of these goods which are in many
cases held "at value" for future delivery.
Bleached shirtings of medium and fine quail
tiles OF acknowledged reputation found ready
buyers, but holders of less known and out
side makes experienced some trouble in
placing these goods. Colored cottons moved
steadily in moderate parcels, and an in
creased demand for cheviots and brown
ducks and drills was noticed. Cottonades
lacked animation, and even the best makes
of these goods dragged considerably, although
prices were unchanged. Wooden goods showed
no perceptible recovery from the dizziness
which has marked their distribution for some
weeks past, and there was uniform lack of
action in all departments. There was, how
ever. no giving way in prices OF light weight
fabrics.-N. Y. Bulletin, 24th