The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-05-11
CURRENT AFFAIRS.


editing the Standard of Reform, at
Lawrence.
The physicians say that Commodore
Vanderbilt is rapidly going to pieces,
and cannot live many months. 1t is
said that his business has been arranged
with view to his death at any moment,
and cannot suffer seriously whenever II
shall take place. But the New York
stock exchange is prepared TO be excited
by an announcement of his death,
whether true or false.
TAXES THINGS, Washerwoman, Sand
Frog, Bob Tail, Big Ribs, Big Foot,
Hole in the Ground, Little Dog, Black
Heart, Screw, Turkey-Legs, Mule Head,
Pumpkin Seed, White Goose, Yellow
Shirt, White TAIL Torn Belly, Two
Tails, Broken Chin, Bull Head, Gamble,
Itching, No Account, Mischief Maker,
Never Full and Split Nose Grow are
wards of the nation who draw rations at
Red Cloud.
A CALL has been issued for an inter
national convention of arch@ologists at
Philadelphia on the 4th OF September
next. Invitations have been sent to the
prominent scientific men of Europe, and
a large attendance from at home and
abroad is expected. The object of the
convention is to bring together all per-
sons interested in archaeological subjects,
and all such are cordially invited to at
tend and assist in organizing an associa-
ton which shall bring the archaolo-
gists OF the world into permanent COM
munication with each other.
CURIOSITY SEEKERS could not let Capt.
Jacks body rest in peace. Capt. Jack,
as all remember, was the head of the
Modocs, who held the lava beds of Ore
gon SO long against the white troops,
and by treachery murdered Commits
siOner Thomas and his comrades. Jack
was hanged for his crime, and buried,
as was supposed, along with others Of
/ his tribe, but late Investigations at his
grave, near Fort Klamath, Ore, show
that nothing remains there but the empty
box in which he was laid away. The
opinion is that Jack and his brother
braves were not buried at all, but were
passed over to the tender mercies of the
surgeons.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
! lions of the United States and British
/ Provinces will hold their twenty first an
nual convention at Toronto, Canada,
this year, beginning J lily IL and contin-
uing four days. It will be one of the
most important gatherings Of the year,
calling together for consultation upon re-
ligious and moral interests many of the
most efficient Christian workers on both
sides of the border. It will be strictly
representative body. Associations hav-
ing 100 active members, or less, are en-
titled to two delegates, and one add
tional delegate for each additional 100
members. No association, however, is
entitled to more than ten delegates.
The British lion is lashing the earth
with his phlegmatic tail, shaking his
rusty man e, and otherwise conducting
himself in manner calculated to make
the King of Dahomey tremble in his
boots, If he wears boots. That dusl1y
monarch recently extended a cordial in
vitation to Commodore Hewitt to come
to Abomey, the capital of Dahomey,
and collect in powder and lead the fine
imposed upon him for maltreating
British subjects. The Commodore
feels impelled to accept the invitation,
and is assembling feet at Whydah to
act as his escort. Active hostilities will
not, however, be inaugurated before
June, as it has been determined to give
the fool-hardy King an opportunity to
recover his senses, and pay up like
little man.
THERE is progress even in China.
The latest reports say that railroad
has been formally opened In spite OF the
opposition of the native authorities, and
that the inventor of telegraphy has
actually been recognized in the Pekin
Gazette. This projected railroad-the
first in the Chinese empire-is fifteen
miles long, running between Wusung
and Shanghai, and five miles of the road
have been completed. This sounds
strangely enough for country which is
as old as the hills and has population
of 300,000,000 souls, when our new ma
ton, just celebrating it's first Centen-
NAL, and having a population OF 0,00O,-
900, has between so, 900 and 10000 miles
of railroad. The resistance of the Chi
nese to all elements of progress has kept
them far behind the Japanese, who have
shown disposition to avail themselves
of the advancement made by other ma
tions, and attain civilization on plane
with the European and American ma
tons. But now that there is an enter
ing wedge under the Chinese wall, per-
haps it may be tumbled down COM
pletely In course of time.
THE two countries of Ethe world, leav-
ing Central Africa out of account, about
which least is known to outsiders, are
Thibet and Corea, both of them popu-
lous, and both ruled by despots of the
old oriental type. The numerous at
tempts made to open them up to travel
and commerce have heretofore proved
failures, and they remain sealed against
all the influences of our form of civiliza-
ton. But mankind will presently gain
entrance into Corea By the treaty |