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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-22
How Anna Dickinson Makes Love.

Anna Dickinson is failure in the love
scenes of her own plays. When the ex-
perienced actor sides up to her and
reaches his arms around her rigid waist.
she grabs him by the wrist and holds him
off at arms length while he says his
piece, and then, when she reaches the
melting moment and lowers her head to
let it droop upon his shoulder, the con-
strained action is so like the gesture of a
venerable William goat in the act Of as
sisting a teasing boy over pasture fence
that the audience gleefully look to see
the unhappy lover butted clear over into
the orchestra fddles, and there is a gen
eral murmur Of disappointment when he
braces his feet and receives the drop of
her head with a scarcely audible grunt.-
B1tTLi71QtO1a H0aUk-E aIe.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-22
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Department of the Interior has received
certificates of the completion of a ffty-mile
section of the Southern Pacific railroad in Cali
fornia, on the Yuma division, and two sections
of twenty miles on the Tulare division. The
Commissioners report that the road is progress
ing eastward, and the track will probably cross
the Colorado river at Fort Yuma into Arizona by
the middle of March.
Engineers examining the stability of the
foundations of the Washington monument will
suggest the tearing down of the present struct-
ure and the removal of the stones to the circle
at Massachusetts avenue and Fourteenth street
for the base Of a granite shaft of imposing
height and design.
The Senate Committee on Territories has de-
cided not to report, at this session. the bill or
ganizing Territorial government for the Black
Hills.
The Washington correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune telegraphs "There are good
reasons for believing that President Grant will
decline to interfere in Louisiana during the
remaining two weeks of his administration, ex-
cept to maintain the present peaceable status
in quo. There have been several important
differences of Republicans, at which it was de-
cided to recommend this course to the Presi-
dent, and Secretary Fish has been requested to
use his influence to that end. 1t is urged by
them that the retiring administration should
not undertake the management of this compi.
Gated Louisiana affair, but should cave it un.
disturbed and unchanged, to be handled the
incoming President"
The President has appointed Edward n
| Stebbes, of New Jersey, a member of the Board
of Indian Commissioners.
| The Washington Capital of Sunday, Feb 49,
contained fiery article upon the decision Of
! the Electoral Tribunal, in which the following
passage occurred: eff a man thus returned tx
power can ride in safety from the Executive
Mansion to the Capitol to be inaugurated, we
are fitted for the slavery that will follow the In
auguration. We do not believe the people Of
the United States are of this servile sort
We do not believe that they are prepared
without a blow, to part with theil
hard-earned, blood-stained possessions. No
tice is now served on the citizens of Louisi
ana and South Carolina that they must care
for themselves. How soon lamp-posts will beal
fruit is for them to say. To the people of thu
North and West notice is given that the bond
holders and monopoies may fatten securely
that shrinkage of values is now in order.
there is law for fraud, there is reason for vic
lence, and to that we make our last appeal.
The appearance of this article was the subjec
of a Cabinet meeting the following day, a
which it was determined to prosecute Dor
Piatt, the editor of the Capital, for sedition
and libel upon the President.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-22

Charles Seifert was lately shot and
killed by his brother George, in hotel
owned by the father of the boys in Etna
Borough, a suburb of Pittsburgh. The
fratricide had been drinking, and quar-
relied with his brother about the settle
ment of a difficulty which the family had
with persons in the adjoining town of
Evansville. At the time of the shooting
the brothers were in the bar-room to-
gether, and George persisted in drinking
against the advice of Charles. In the
quarrel that ensued the Evansville
trouble was adverted to. Then both
men became greatly excited. George,
it appears, had compromised several
suits for assaults and batteries in con-
slderatlon of $25. Charles rated him
for this, whereupon George applied a
most offensive epithet to him, and fed
toward the door. Charles followed him
with an uplifted chair, and, just as he
came within striking distance, George
fired upon him, and he fell shot through
the body. He expired soon after. De-
ceased was stalwart man over six feet
IN height, and of very peaceable DISPOSE
tlon. He was "a years of age, and
leaves wife and one child. The fratri-
eide, George, is boy of 10, and a drunk
ard Immediately after the murder he
surrendered himself, and is now in jail
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-22
TRADE AND COMMERCE.

GA hEsvTLLE, Wis, is to have
wooden mill established upon Canadian
capital
I. WoLsToN and Messrs. W. 81. Walker
90, large whisky firms in Louisville,
KY, have failed
ABOUT 1000, 900 pounds of wool is on
the way from Australia to the United
States, half OF which is on manufacturers
account
1T is expected that Australia Will have
about 1OO, 0O0 tons of wheat available for
export in the year 1877.
The Providence Tool Coropanv Is trrp-
ing out LOCO rifles per day, to FIJI an
order from the Turkish Government for
600, 900 of these arms.
THE average of several estimates
places the consumption of wheat in the
United Kingdom in 1870 at 2O4 OO0 OOO
bushels. OF this, 63,80O,00O bushels
was homegrown wheat.
The imports at New York for January
1877, were $27, 606, 1897, including snecie
This sum is 100000 less than for the
corresponding month of last year and is
much below the average january record
OF the last ten years.
AN Englishman hastens to put the
Manchester manufacturers on their guard
against foreign competition in the glass
trade. 81 learn from America. he
writes to the Guardian, "that seventy
two casks of glass are already at sea.
This is the first installment for Lanca-
shire, which is to be followed by other
shipments for the same market, and also
for London direct, the goods being all
sold before arrival" Moreover. he has
examined samples of American glass and
found that they compare favorably with
the best English glass in color. finish and
power of resisting changes Of tempera-
ture.
HE English manufacturers of cotton
and wooden goods are complaining that
they no longer find good market for
their products in the United States,
while there is considerable trade in
American cotton fabrics even in Man
chester. To show that these complaints
are not wholly groundless, the New York
Bulletin publishes the following COM
parison of shipments to this country fol
the last six years
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-22
A Bad Fire.

Clones, have you heard of the fire
that burned up that mans house and
lot?"
"No, Smith, where was it?"
"Here in the city,"
"What a misfortune. Was it a
house ?"
eyes, nice house and lot-a good
home for any family
What pity How did the fire
take?"
"The man played with fire, and
thoughtlessly set it himself"
Chow silly! Did you say the lot was
burned, too?"
eyes, lot and all All gone, slick and
clean"
"That's singular. It must have been
terribly hot fire-and then don't well
see how it could burn the lot"
No, it was not large fire, nor a
very hot fire. Indeed it was so small
that it attracted but little attention"
"But how could such fire burn up a
house and lot? You haven't told me.
cit burned long time-more than
twenty years-and though it seemed tc
consume very slowly, yet it wore away
about $3.50 worth every year, until it was
all gone"
II can't quite understand you yet.
Tell me all about ii"
"Wel, it was kindled IN the end of q
cigar. The cigar cost him, he himself
toldme, $12. 50a month, or$150ayear and
that, in twenty-one years, would amount
to So, $50, besides all the interest Now
the whole sum wouldn't be far from
$40, 900. That would buy fine house
and lot, even in Chicago. It would pay
for a large farm in the country"
"Whew! I guess now you mean me,
for l have smoked more than twenty
years but [ didn't know it cost as much
as that. And [ haven't any house of my
own. Have always rented thought ]
was too poor to own a house. And al
because [ have been burning it up
What q fool / have been p
The boys had better never set fire
which costs SO mach and which, though
it might be so easily put out, is yet SC
likely, if once kind1ed, to keep burning
all their lives. = Pr0tts6urg On. y
Ne2US.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-22
one of the most surprising incidents o

ONE OF the most surprising incidents O
our foreign trade is the expectation
thousands of pounds of fresh meat week
ly to Great Britain from the America
and Canadian ports. For many year
the business of importing canned meat
in England has been very extensive, tn.
bulk of the supply being mainly from
Australia. But now that process ha
been invented whereby newly-killed cat
tie, hogs, and sheep can be shipped S.
as to be sold in Great Britain In goot
condition at Is cents a pound retail, thi
trade will drive the canned meats out
the market, and new field of American
profits is opened up, which is almos
without limit. Last year Great Britain
consumed g, 437, 068 cwts. of beef, NUT
ton, and pork, which was imported from
abroad, and, now that the fresh meats
can be furnished at such low rates, the
home production will decrease still more
This new development in trade will be {
great blessing to the middle and poore1
classes of England, Ireland, and Scot
land, to whom fresh meat has heretofore
been something they have only heari
about but rarely eaten.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-22
offered to be proved a1iosde by said certificates

offered to be proved alioade by said certificates
and papers.
The commission is also of the opinion, by a
majority OF votes, that the returning officers OF
electons who canvassed the votes at the cleo
ton for electors in Louisiana were a lawfully
constituted body by virtue of constitutional law,
and that vacancy in said body did not vitiate its
proceedings.
The commission has also decided, and does
hereby decide, by majority of votes, and re.
port as the consequence of the foregoing, and
upon the ground before stated, that the paper
purporting to be the certificate of the electoral
vote OF said State of Louisiana, objected to by
1. .. Howe and others, marked N. G. No. by
the commission, and herewith returned, is not
a certificate of votes provided for by the con.
sututlon OF the United States and that they
ought not to be counted as such.
Signed Samuel F. Miller, w. Strong, Joseph
Z. Bradley, George F. Edmunds, o. P. Morton
Frederick 7. Frelinghuysen, James A. Garfield
George F. Hoar.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


&~AS~~~~-'
Spain has promised to suppress the Cuban
nsurrection in two months more.
Queen Victoria is going to pay a visit to her
German cousins shortly.
A telegram from Vienna says: "Advices
from St. Petersburg, Kshenef, and Berlin in
dictate decided tendency in the direction of
war. 1t is asserted that the Czarowitz has de-
clared that the commencement Of war is inn
minent.''
A terrible mine explosion, causing the death
of So people, is reported from France.
A Berlin editor has been sent to prison for
nine months for GbeGng Bismarck.
In quiet way Russia has been perfecting her
preparations for an active campaign against the
Turks and is now reported to have concentrated
at Kischenef. the capital of Bessarabia, an army
ready for instant movement, consisting of 12O,-
600 foot soldiers, 5000 horsemen and 428 pieces
of artillery. Besides these there are two army
corps within supporting distance at Odessa,
which would swell the total to 900 horse and
foot, with 720 guns
The Austrian Reichsrath has voted 100000
forms to promote the exhibition Of products Of
the nation at the new Paris show. Germany
refuses to have anything to do with the affair.
A London dispatch of Feb. 49, says: "The
man-of-war Valorous returned to Yarmouth
Sunday, after weeks search for the missing
fishermen, which was unsuccessful, Twenty
five vessels and $50 hands were given up as
lost.
The announcement comes from Rome that it
has been resolved that any Cardinal may be
elected Pope on the death of Plus *, irrespec-
tive of nationality. This leaves the door open
to the American Cardinal McCloskey.
A cable dispatch reports Capt. Whitehill, an
engineer in the Khedives service, and fifty
soldiers, who wer on an exploring expedition in
Abyssinia, have been massacred by the natives.
A Constantinople dispatch says Montenegro
has asked for two months extension of the armis-
tice, for the consideration of her claims, and
that it is hardly probable Turkey will grant the
request. q.
The Turkish army along the Danube is being
augmented. ...-
The Montenegro peace ENJOYS have arrived
at Constantinople. -
From Calcutta come discouraging reports OF
the famine in India.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-22

portunity to fire again, and struck him. During
the excitement that followed, the assassin was
shot in the ARM and would have been killed had
not the Governor interfered.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-22

SECTION hands on the Gilman, Clinton
and Springfield railroad are working on
half time and receiving $15 month, their
board costing SIT. There are more ap-
plicants for work, even on these terms,
than can be accommodated.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-22

Clones, have you heard of the fire
that burned up that mans house and
lot 2"
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-08
RUMORED STRIKE r..
IN. Y. Herald

DANvILLE, Pa, Aug. 31.-A report
prevails In railroad circles that arrange
ments are being made among the en-
ployes of the various railroads through
out the country for a general strike by
the 18th Of September, il their former
wages are not restored by that time.
Secret meetings were held by the Penn
sylvania, Northern Central and Phila-
delphia and Erie operatives last night at
northumberland. The dissatisfied rail-
readers were unanimous in their senti-
ment to strike if the companies refused
to restore the old wages. A prominent
official of the Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood SAYS all arrangements are
definitely concluded for the great strug-
gle with the railroad corporations. The
engineers. conductors, firemen and
brakemen have made compact, and
will join hands In the Inauguration of
the battle for wages. The engineers of
the Western, Middle and New Jersey
division Of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
had private conference at Lancaster
this morning, and it was resolved by the
representatives Of the Locomotive Engi-
neers' Brotherhood to adopt such plans
as would render the strike entire and
effective.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-08
NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER g. 1877

| ing with negroes from all parts of the
county, attending an immigration con-
vention. The court house was packed.
| A mulatto named Patterson presided,
and the meeting was opened with sing
| ing and prayer. Among the speakers
were Robert Gleed. The report of Gov.
| Whitfield, delegate to the Corinth con-
vention, was heard. After the speeches,
apetition was read and adopted calling
upon the Federal government for q
donation Of land in New Mexico, Arizo-
ma, or some other Territory, to COLOMBO
all who wanted to get out Of this ''white
mans country. - Columbus Indepen-
dent.
The Dallas fair commences October
22d.
Tobacco has proved to be paying crop
In Victoria.
The San Antonio fair will commence
October 80.
The Collin county fair commences the
10th OF October.
Fort Worth is completely overrun
with thieves, robbers and burglars.
There is said to be more sickness pre-
vailing at Austin than for many years.
The GAINESVILLE fair will commence on
the 10th OF October, and continue four
days.
Victoria county farmers do not expect
| to raise more than.five hundred bales of
cotton this season.
The cattle business of Western Texas
has about played out. Sheep are taking
| the place OF broad-horns.
The caterpillars, boil worm and
drouth have played havoc with the crops
| in the vicinity nf Navaenfa
The New York underwriters have
| Withdrawn their agencies from Waco.
Cause hot, says the Examiner.
The prairie chickens are in more than
usual plenty In Victoria, and for the
past week large numbers have been
brought in by sportsmen.
Mans depraved appetite was satisfied
at Waco on the 3Oth, when the comical
Perry Davis was executed. The ECdn,-
i7ser says that thousands of men, women
and children congregated to witness the
scene.
It is thought that more than 500 bales
OF cotton will be produced in Victoria
county this season. This yield will be
less than one-fourth of last years crop,
but it Is better than was expected six
weeks ago.
The Dallas Commercial makes an ap-
proXimate estimate Of this years wheat
crop of Texas and places it at $500, 900
bushels. This, 1t says, is not more
than sufficient to supply more than two
thirds Of the home consumption.
The Jefferson Journal is filled with
the details Of the trial of the Rothschild
case. The trial is not yet concluded,
but the woman found dead has been
fully identified as Bessie Moore, and SO
had ROthschild been fullv identified Az
the one last seen with her.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-08
THE NOMINATIONS OF BHELA.

A war correspondent of the Daily
Ne,cs describes Biela, some time head
quarters Of the Russian army in Bull
tons. There is nota drain in the place !;
dirt lies where it falls till the heat ex-
hausts its noxious exhalations, and
then it crumbles into dust-a dust made
up OF thousand denominations, animal
and vegetable, which fills throat, eyes,
ears, clothes, clogs in the hair, makes
clammy the hands with its nastiness,
and makes man loathe life and him
self. The members of the imperial
suite were quartered all over the town
some In the cabins Of the Bulgarians-
most, however, in the abandoned Turkish
houses. The floors were of mud, or
rather dust; there was no glass in the
windows, and there was not a scrap of
furniture Of any kind. Poor Prince
Galatzin lay on his little campbell,
racked with the pain of acute fever,
worn almost to q skeleton, scarce able
to articulate from weakness. He. like
three more of the generals, his brother
adjutants to the Emperor, were poisoned
by the malaria of Biela. The Emperor
himself looked pale and wan, although
the Romanoffs are healthy and stall
wart race. Gen. Ignatief's voice was
feeble and slow; the glow Of color had
left his cheeks; his eye was heavy and
dim; his hand burned with fever not
yet exercised. For three days and
nights he had suffered terribly with
what, from his description, appeared te
have been acute gastric fever.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-08
SENATOR CONHLING.
Mr. Hayes Head Must occupy the Waste
Basket of the Republican state Con-
YentiOn.
[Cincinnati Enquirer. ]

lUlnclnnatl EnqulFeFsJ
LONG BRANCH, N. T., Sept. lit is
now definitely and positively known
that Roscoe Conkling will pronounce
New York State Convention at
or three-fourths of the delegates
and will die. fighting or live influential.
His private talk is not against Hayes,
but against Evarts and Schurz. He
says he is too old Republican to help
play his party into the hands Of the
Democrats and rebels, and that Hayes
policy, il successful to his hearts con-
tent, can have no other fulfllment.
The New York resolutions will de-
nounce Hayes civil service order as
extra constitutional, and may possibly
proclaim against his abandon
ment Of the South: Conkling
thousand letters imploring him to pro-
test against Hayes suicidal and Demo-
cratic policy. He is in good health, and
satisfied that Schurz, Evarts and the
New York Times, Post, Nation, ETC.,
means his ruin, and therefore he quits
his tent and assumes the aggressive.
This undeniable news put the Pres
ident and Cabinet in the first crit
ical situation before the Republican
party they have had. The Republican
politicians of New York are generally
with Conkling, and the Democrats pre-
fer him to any other Republican. He
has accepted the war so long meanly
and clandestinely waged against him.
I have been talking with people who
have just left Conkling and am assured
that this dispatch only partly describes
his spirit OF antagOnism.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-08
THE CREW OF THE ALABAMA.
IN. Y. Tribune. I

The gentleman referred to says that a
very erroneous idea prevails at the
North that the crew of the Alabama
was composed Of English and Southern
men. On the other hand, during the
most of the time they were almost ex-
clusively Yankee sailors from captured
vessels. In some instances the entire
crews of whalers desired to enlist under
Admiral Semmes. The Admiral was ac-
customed to tell them that the United
States would hang them all il they were
caught, but the reply generally was that
they did not care, they would take the
chances Of that.
When the Georgia ran the blockade
at New Orleans, an officer who was on
board of her says she had only nine
Southern men on board, and the re-
mainder of her crew of between fifty
and sixty was made up almost entirely
Of Yankee sailors.