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

has just decided that the whipping Of a
child by public school teacher is an
assault and battery, and that an offend
ing teacher may be mulcted in damages
as well as held answerable for violating
the dignity of the law.
GEORGE w. CHILDs, of the Philadel-
phia Ledger, denies that he is response
BILE for the obituary poetryin his paper, at
which the press of the country is always
poking fun. He says the poems were
a feature Of the paper when he bought
it, and not one line of those verses is
written in the office. They are printed
just like any other advertisements-f
money.
The dispute which is constantly re-
curing between sportsmen whether the
race horses Of England are equal to those
of this country is going to have prac-
teal settlement by trial of speed be
tween horses of the two countries, Mr..
Sanford, of New York, having shipped
eight of our most celebrated runners for
London with the intention of contesting
for the prize cups next year.
PEOPLE who write letters will find in
sstruction in the facts shown in the report
of the Dead-Letter Office last year. Some
3,640,797 letters went astray, mainly
through carelessness in directing. There
was taken out of these letters the as
tonishingly large sum of SO, 100000.
All this was returned to its owners with
the exception of 100000, which remains
as profit to the Postoffice Department.
The search for Charlie Ross is taken
up by Walter T. Baker, the young Phil
adelphia carpenter, whose receipt of let
ters from a former associate about the
boy who protested to have stolen him
was lately mentioned. He has followed
up the writer of the letters, and obtained
,clews enough to determine him to go to
England and obey the instructions given
him. Nh. Baker and his friends bear
the expenses of the journey.
The coming report of the Commission
,er Of Patents will show steady increase
in the use Of trademarks by the various
members Of the mercantile business
throughout the country. In former
times the use Of trademark could only
Abe secured by long and continuous use.
Now, upon the issuing of certificate
from the Patent Office, a firm is secure
in the use Of any trade mark it may de
wise. In the fiscal year ending June 3,
1870, some 800 certificates were issued.
The report for the last year shows that
some 900 were issued.
The official returns show that the Oc-
5tober election IN Ohio called out by far
the largest vote ever cast In the State,
the total being over Sc, 600 more than in
the Presidential election of 1872, which
has hitherto been the largest. Hayes
has 5,549 plurality over Allen, and 1858
majority over Allen and Odell, the pro-
hibitory candidate, the totals being:
Hayes, 297,813; Allen, 292. 1854; Ode1l,
1851. Gary ran over 1000 behind Al
len, the figures for Lieutenant Governor
being: Young, 1881; Cary, 2S7, 1868;
prohibitory, 3,630-the highest vote cast
for that party; Young over Gary, 1893.
WITHOUT noise and confusion, Iowa is
making steady progress in woman's
rights. . Although the word "malc' in
the Constitution of the State debars her
from serving in the Legislature, becom-
ing Governor, or exercising the right OF
suffrage, she is working her way into
many offices of trust, and into the
learned professions. Three women have
already been admitted to the Supreme
Court of the State: Mrs. J. Ellen Eos
ter, of Clinton; Mrs. Annie G. Sayery.
of Des MONIES, and Mrs. Emma Had
dock, of Iowa City. Mrs. Haddock has
been admitted to practice in the United
States Circuit and District Courts OF
Iowa-the first case of the kind in any
State of the Union.
The project of monument in com
memoration of the hundredthan anniversary
of American independence, to be erected
in remembrance of the ancient friend
ship of America and France, deserves the
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