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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26

dresses of passing ladies, or catch and
/ hide away stockings and handkerchief
when they were laid upon the grass to
bleach, Mrs. Bixby had borne with him.
She had hoped that his youthful faults
would be cured in time. She knew that
Ned Lane had been made very angry
because of the loss of two rare fowls,
which Fawn had shaken and torn to
pieces, and she felt that Fawn had been
a great annoyance to the neighbors-
great transgressor. But what to do with
Ned was the question, for Toms heart
was almost broken.
"Tom," she said, "you say. you hate
Ned. Do you wish what [ heard you say
just now, to be really revenged ?'
eyes, mother, I want to see him suf-
fer; I wish all his chickens were gone. "
"Ned has done cruel deed, and I do
not wonder that you are very deeply
grieved; but, my son, he that hateth
his brother is murderer.
He is not my brother. "
SIN one sense he is; yet I am sure
you do not mean that yod would really
like to see him dead and cold like your
dog. IF you think of the meaning Of
your words, I am sure you wish no such
i'll. think there is way by which you
can make him very sorry for this, and
yet keep your own self-respect.
The gentle tones won their way to
Toms heart He sat down by his moth
er, and she passed her soft hand over his
hot brow and soothed him tenderly.
Then she gave him her plan for being
quits, as he called it, with Ned, and for
getting the victory.
The next day, when Ned Lane met
Tom Bixby on his way to school, he was
rather mortified to hear nothing about
Fawn. He was prepared to defend HIM
self if attacked But Tom passed in 81
lence. He tried to say, "Hallo, Ned 7"
but failed in the attempt. All themor
ing, however, when the boys were in
their classes together, Tom looked and
acted as usual, and at recess he engaged
heartily in games with the other boys.
When Ned, feeling more and more un-
comfortable, went home to dinner, sur
prise awaited him. A superb pair Of
Brahma-P ootra fowls had arrived, with
string and card attached
" For those my poor FaWn chased
Tom Bixby."
I cannot say truly that the two from
this time became fast friends; but this
l know, that Ned Lane was thoroughly
ashamed of his mean and unworthy &C
ton, and never after was guilty Of the
like cruelty, while Tom felt, even at
Fawn's grave, that forgiveness is sweeter
than revenge.
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A Fatal Duel About Five Dollars.

Col. J. B. Vinton, Sheriff of Frio
county, brought in word of the killing
of two young men named Virgil Ridge
way and Frank Connolly. Ridgeway
and Connolly and two hired men were
out on a COW hunt, and had camped near
a Mexican's house. Connolly went to
Ridgeway and asked for S., saying that
he wanted to go down to the Mexican's
house and gamble. Ridgeway gave him
the money, but told him not to stay
long. Connolly left and did not return
as soon as expected, and, when ne did
return, Ridgeway told him thathe had no
further use for his services, and asked
him to pay back the IS. Connolly said,
" Maybe you think you can make me
pay it back" Ridgeway said he could
make him, and was going to do SO. Con-
nelly then drew his six-shooter, and
Ridgeway picked up a Winchester rifle
and jumped behind a tree, and both
fired at about the same time, and both
were struck in the bowels. The two
boys who were with them ran off and
returned with assistance, after being alb
sent a considerable time. Both the
wounded men had crawled off together
to a pool at some little distance, where
they were found covered with mud
Connolly dead, and Ridgeway mortally
wounded Neither of the young men
was over Is years Of age. Galveston
(IeT0S) News.
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These Drafts.

r. B. Hayes was the Republican candidate
for President. Mr. Chandler sent this money
1.-TWO drafts), so collected by the assessment Of
Federal officeholders, to r. B. Hayes, the Re-
publican candidate for President in Ohio and
r. B. Hayes the Republican candidate for
President, expended this money and paid it out
to promote his own election.-Nea0 York Sun.
Now for the facts Two drafts of
S., 900 each were sent by the National
Central Committee, whose headquarters
were in New York, to the Republican
Central Committee, whose headquarters
we're at Columbus. Zack Chandler was
the Chairman OF the former. and Col
Wykoff of the latter. 1t is true that
Chandler made the two drafts payable to
the order of r. B. Hayes, for reasons
as yet unknown. The Ohio com
mittee could not get the drafts
cashed without Hayes signature,
and when the New York San alleges
that Hayes expended this money and
paid it out to promote his election, the
SIN uttefs falsehood. The San knows
very well that he never saw nor touched
a dollar Of it, and had no more to do
with it's disbursement than had the ed
itor of the ,Sauo. The two drafts were
sent to the Ohio Republican Committee
in September, 1876, and the money was
spent in aid of the Republican State,
Congressional, Legislative and County
tickets at the October election-held
nearly month before the election at
which Hayes was a candidate. The Sam
pretends to see something dreadfully wick
ed in Hayes signing his name on the back
of those drafts sent to the Ohio Repub-
lican Committee in September to be ex-
pended to promote the election of the
Republican candidates at the October
election. The drift Of it's argument is,
that Hayes should have prevented the
Ohio committee from getting the $10,-
900 sent them in September by the Ma
tional Committee, and for what reason
does the reader suppose? Because, says
the Suua, cit was believed that this
was largely contributed by Fed
eral officeholders ?" Perhaps it was,
and perhaps it was not; but what bus
mess was that of Hayes? 1t was
not his money; he was not to spend
or keep a dollar of it; he had
no knowledge as to who subscribed it;
and it was none Of his business. It is
very far-fetehed objection for Sam Til
denis personal organ to make. The
transaction has nothing to fear in COM
parison with Tildens connection with
the Oregon business. Has the San SO
soon forgotten the Cronin scoundrelism,
with the "Gobble" transaction, with
the remittance Of $4,000 bribery and
corruption from Gramercy Park, New
York, ito Oregon, to purchase Presi-
Dental elector? The ,Su,a also remem-
bers who furnished that money, and,
after the exposure, the desperate effort
that was made to stop the search at the
nephew Of his rich uncle. =
Chicago Tribune.
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that it shows a return of the bitter and
malignant spirit OF the times of slavery.
Il such is the condition of affairs in East
Tennessee, what must it be in the Gulf
States and III other sections where the
old animus was always much more con-
spicuous than in the vicinity of Knox
vile? The South is making very
grave mistake in thus tanning the old
fires of hate and persecution. Indus
trially, financially and educationally it
is making an enormous blunder. -Er.
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THE LITTLE FOLKS.

"Of Course L Like My Cat"
like my cat, Like him well,
AS all the house may see,
like him FOR himself, and not
Because the cat likes me.
He counts his only work in life
To flourish and be fat
And this he does with all his might
OF course I like my cat.
His eyes shine out beneath his brows
AS eyes have rarely shone:
His beauty is the grandest thing
Ihat ever cat put on.
He wears paw Of wondrous bulk,
With secret claws to match,
And puts charm in all it's play,
The pat, the box, the scratch.
His mouth and whiskers, richly wrought,
Some thoughts of prey express;
But put your hand between his teeth
And prove his gentleness.
We understand the savage farce,
The game Of froWn and growl,
We know the soft, forbearing bite,
And never trust the scowl.
/ have not heard how cats are made
Within their furry veil,
But rather fancy Typos thoughts
Lie chiefly in his tail.
For while in every other part
His portly person sleeps,
That bushy tail with steady wave
A ceaseless vigil keeps.
It seems to say GAS something weighed
And inIy Understood),
Thus to be happy, Q my friends,
Is to be truly good"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26

The Spanish Governments reputation
is now SO bad that it can only borrow
money on security. The Senaaiae FL
aoa,aciere recites the measure by which
money was obtained to pay the coupon
due on the new Spanish 2 per cent. debt.
The Banque de Paris, representing a
syndicate, advanced So, 100, 900 on an as
signment of the stamp duties. The
Government in this way will repay $780,
900 month, and extinguish the debt in
seven months
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Toms Victory.

"That Ned Lane" said Tom Bixby
doubling up his fists, and stamping his
feet, sis mean, spiteful, wicked boy
I hate him. wish he was dead, I do p
Then Tom broke down and fairly burst
into tears. His mother, who had heard
his angry words, came out to the garden
to see what had caused them. She, too,
was indignant at what she saw, There
was Toms pet doggie, Fawn, stretched
out stiff and cold on the grass. Around
his neck a string was tied, from which
dangled card. On it these words were
written in a scraggly, blotted hand
~ He'll never chase my chickens no
more-Ned Lane
sob, mother!'' cried Tom, "look at
poor, poor Fawn; see what cruel Ned
has done. Oh, how [ hate him! I'll be
revengedY'
Fawn had been favorite of the Bixby
family, and in spite Of the fact that he
would pursue chickens. and tear the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26
The British Army i'm Egypt.

2 The British forces for the army of
Egypt, under Lieut.. Gen. Sir Thomas
Saele, are the Eighth, Nineteenth, and
Twenty-frst Hussars, Forty-second,
Seventy-frst, and Seventy-fourth regi-
ments (Highlanders), the One Hundred
and First Bengal Fusileers, a brigade of
the Guards. comprising the Second Bat
TALON of Coldstream Guards, and the
First Battalion Scotch Fusileers a bat
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"A BOY of IA and a girl Of 12 eloped
from Atlantic City, N. j., and took the
train for Camden, where they contem7
plated matrimony. The parents of the
young couple discovered their absence
about half an hour after the train start
ed, and the boys father telegraphed to a
friend, who met them at the Camden
depot, and sent them back by She next
train in charge Of the conductor. They
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official sources. was as follows:


From 1894 to 1906, both years in
elusive, the total amount struck off was
81, 439, 519. From 1906 to 1885, both
years inclusive, not dollar was coined,
and from 1886 to 1889, both years in
elusive, only $1,000. No dollars we're
struck off in 1858.-,Smp francisco Bel
! letin 4
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The Coinage of Silver Dollars.

Very crude notions exist as to the
functions Of the silver dollar of 41244
grains, 900 fine. Very few Of the coins
have entered SO little into circulation.
The execution OF these coins was confined
to the minis at Philadelphia, New Or
leans, San Francisco and Carson. The
amount emitted in each year from 1893
to 1873, period of so years, as obtained
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ments Of the line, battalion OF sharp
shooters, and 5000 native troops from
India. These troops will make a force
of about $4,000 men in Egypt
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-12-20
Mr.. Shylay Makes a Call.

Mr.. Shylay is as awkward as a new
umbrella, and as .timid as a sore thumb.
He mustered up courage the other even
lng-on bet-to call upon a young
lady whose brother was an intimate &C
quaintance. He had planned it all out
beforehand how he would make her be-
heve he had just dropped IN to see Tom,
who was out Of town at that time, as he
very well knew.
AS the servant Ushered him into the
parlor, he saw the young lady sitting
upon the other side of the room, and
from that moment he was demoralized
man, and as much bewildered in his
head as though hehad droppedin through
the roof from balloon two miles high.
The young lady rose with q smile to
greet him, and, in trying to make bow
in return that should show her how per-
fectly at ease he was, he got tangled up
in two chairs and stepped on the cats
tail, which objected in such a decidedly
vociferous manner, with it's most ex-
pressive yowlng accompaniment, tn a
he opened his mouth like a jewelry case
to join in, and spilled his new teeth over
the floor. In making a spring to regain
them, the center table stepped to one
side to make room for him, and a nice
lot Of valuable ornaments got into the
right place at the proper time to get
wrecked and ruined.
After falling over pretty much every
thing in the room he made a desperate
dash for the door, and encountered the
girls mother, who was coming in to as
certain the cause of the hubbub. Her
eye obtained such close view of his
elbow that it went at once into mourn
ing, and she went spinning out into the
hall, trying to waltz with the hat-rack,
and banging her nose up so that it
wouldn't stand it, and sent an ambassa-
dor in crimson to protest. BY this time
her voice was made to understand that
it had work to do, and we'll it did it.
Shrieks of all sizes chased each other all
over the house, but, before they could
bring the coachman from his nap in the
stable, poor Shylay had managed to get
into the street and far from the scene of
trouble.
He can never go into that mansion
again, he says, and feels that henceforth
cloud as thick as a brick house will
darken his pathway.
Horribly, awfully drunk p was the
unanimous verdict Of the old lady and
her daughter. Breakfast
Table,
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from the time at which he had fallen
asleep, as if he had only been doing
for afew hours, and as though the work
lngs OF his mind had scarcely been dis
turbed.
/ fancied that his memory, after it had
been once awakened, had gained rather
than lost It's power-at least as far as the
occurrences OF that night we're con-
cerned. fa .-s.
The last impressions made upon him
We're pictured, after the temporary rest
his brain had received. even more vivid
~ before his minds eye than they would
otherwise have been; for do not all
know that lesson learnt overnight re-
turns with renewed force and perfection
on the following morning, after we have
given our brains a rest
But | will not pause to explain this
strange pathological fact, any more than
| will attempt to describe Mrs. Danes
brooks JOY when the young Lieutenant's
evidence was communicated to her.
When [ saw her radiant countenance.
her soft eyes raised devoutly upward,
and her hands clasped as if in prayer. [
knew that she loved her husband frul ",
and that, in spite of his ugliness,
he deserved her love.
need hardly say that the prisoner
was at once released.
The whole neighborhood, ashamed of
It's prejudice, was not slow to prove the
sympathy and respect it really felt for
the long-abused man.
Mrs. Cottrell, too, paid him visit,
and rendered him the apology to which
he was entitled. Notwithstanding the
successful operation, Lieut.. Cottrell
died few months afterward.
The real murderer, for such he may
be called, managed to get off safely to
America, where he wrote full confess
sion to his late employer, and to Julia
Leyland, who deeply suffered for her
thoughtlessness and folly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-12-20
RING OUT, WILD BELLS.
By ALFRED TENNYsoN.


hlng out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
Inc flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night:
ting out, Wild bells, and let him die
Ring out the old, ring in the new.
ting happy bells, across the snow.
Inc year is going, let him go;
hing out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind.
FOR those that here we see no more:
ting out the feud of rich and poor.
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out the slowly dying cause.
ana ancient forms of party strife:
hlng IN the nobler modes OF life,
win sWeeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sn.
The Ta1thless GOODNESS of the tines;
hing out, ring out my mourn:ul rhymes
But ring the fuller minstrel in
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic SANDER and the spite;
ting in the love of truth and right,
KING III the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
hlng IN the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, The kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be!
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-12-20
COlOred VS.. Bald Headed,

Years ago the then well-known firm
of W. & Co., Boston, agents for popu-
lar line of Australian packet ships. re-
ceived letter OF inquiry from Cincin-
natl. Correspondence followed, and
second-cabin passages were engaged for
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Hatfield, their son
Joseph, Jr., and Miss Blanche, who
were politely urged to put in an ap-
pearance in Boston on or before May
5, as "the good ship Daniel Sharp,
whereof Joseph D. Gushing is master
for this present voyage" would sail on
the day following, weather permitting.
On the morning designated young
darkey exquisite, sporting a tall hat and
ivory-headed cane, sauntered into the
elegantly appointed office and de-
handed:
els dis yer de Office of W. & Go. 2"
"Yes, it u.s." growled the senior w.
from behind his desk, frowning over his
gold-bowed spectacles at the intruder.
swell, sab, me and my folks are
gw1ne out to Melbourne in your ship
Daniel Sharp, r.
"Not if know it-you are not going
to do any such thing"
Chow so, sab? Didn't I correspond
wild you from Cincinnati, and engage
passage for my fodder and mudder and
Miss Blanche?"
"What is your name Hatfield pr
roared the dismayed agent.
eyes, sab, my names Hatfield. and"
"Why in the devil didn't you notify
me that you were colored ?"
"Why in de debbil didn't you notify
me dat you was bald-headed?"
The pertinent rejoinder silenced old
W., and, although two or three passen-
gers who preferred to have the color-line
drawn outside Of ships second cabin
gave up their berths and were refunded
their passage money, the Hatfelds COM
placently sailed in the Sharp.
IT appears from Blue Book just is
sued respecting the great cyclone and
storm wave which visited certain dis
tricts in Bengal, on the morning of the
LIST of November, 1876, that the total
number of persons drowned was 10000,
and that the outbreak of cholera which
followed carried off $4,000, making a
total mortality of 165, 1000. |
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-12-20

BY MARY WILEY.

x{ow very much I've wondered,
and DER the problem pondered,
While busy with my toys
4f L should once grow sick or numb,
Whatever could or would become
Of all the girls and boys
without Christmas they can't live,
so Santa Claus must work and give;
But oh, my labor's ponderous!
Ny wares, to crafty and please,
40 give youth Joy and parents ease,
Must be both good and wondrous.
Rushing food and widest panic,
Which startle banker and mechanic,
Dare never make me quail;
For not girl nor any boys
Gould hold esteem for Santa Claus,
If once has funds should fail.
3ut am growing old, my dears,
And cares increasing with the years
That multiply so fast.
When I was young took my ease,
The children few nor hard to please
How different was the past!
I'm busy now both day and night.
plan and work with all my might,
From one year to another;
1--WE journeymen and prentice, too,
a helpful and industrious crew,
Who work like bees together.
1--WE many shops in every land,
Where busy head and busy hand
Fashion toys and fabrics rare;
I've ships in sail on every sea,
That bring the precious goods to me,
Through all weather, foul and fair.
On Christmas eve I'd ne'er get through,
But for the help of an extra crew,
Who work with heart and hand;
Some On teams with coal and with wood,
Others on foot with baskets Of food,
Hurry along all over the land.
They hunt up the needy and starving poor,
Whom I, in my haste from door to door,
By chance may overlook.
Making no noise for the world to hear,
Ahey throw in smile and word of cheer,
With here toy and there Q book
And of such help need much more,
A fact I've limited oft before,
In sermon, prayer and book;
And heBe announce my need again,
AS /, with worried thought and pain,
Survey the grim outlook
Of thousands with no laid-up stores;
o cruel fate as near their doors
The wolf of hunger draws.
Then help me, all We wise and good,
And endless, boundless gratitude
Is yours, from Santa Claus.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-12-20

AN Imperial Prince was lately born to
the Emperor of Japan by one of his
twelve subordinate wives, Vanguard,
daughter of an ancient and influential
house of the old Kioto nobility. By
traditional law of Japan the Mikado has
twelve wives in addition to the legiti-
mate Empress, to provide for coAtin-
gencies or non-succession. No disgrace
attaches to the position, and the purity
of the unbroken descent for nearly 5000
years is owing to this custom. But In
the present state of opinion there are
many objections to the custom, and
probably it will not be continued after
this reign. If the present Empress had
children the custom would be abolished.
without delay.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-12-20

KANGAROO hides are an important ar
ticle of export from Australia. They
make the most pliable leather that is
known, admirably fitted for boot-legs,
gloves, and riding whips.
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