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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-11-28

The following are said to be the es-
sential points in Secretary sherman's resump-
ton programme
/. United States notes will be redeemed at the
New York sub treasury in gold silver coin at the
option of the holder of notes, without limitation
as to amount.
2. Legal tender notes of special issue of large
denominations will be delivered in place of gold
certificates and there will be no further issue of
gold certificates.
3. Holders Of notes who prefer gold instead of
silver will obtain gold, and the treasury will not
force upon the holder of notes the kind of legal
tender coin that is not desired.
4. Legal tenders, even without the enactment of
any law afirmatively authorizing it, will be every
where received for customs duties.
5. Silver dollars will be exchanged for legal ten
ders nadonal-bank notes in multiples of 81 900
at any sub-treasury or national bank which is a
United States depository the expense of transport
tation to be paid by the mint.
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An Editor Sketches Bismarck.

An American journalist, Col. Forney
who has conversed with the great Ger
man statesman, says that Bismarck is a
most fascinating person. Such is the
charm OF his conversation and manner
that, when he chooses to unbend, few
persons can resist the influence of his
magnetism. The journalist thus sketches
the Chancellor: LIZ
In his own house he yields unresist-
ingly to domestic Influences But he is
eminently a public character. Never
conspicuous in the streets, for obvious
reasons, and less SO now than ever, he
dominates the whole empire.
He hates praise, and resents censure.
He is a law unto himself and others.
While the great European Congress,
called by himself, sat in Berlin, he was
it's master and it's President. He asked
little for Germany, but he parceled out
the spoils to others. He so became the
arbiter of Europe, as he is to-day the
dictator of Germany.
All German parties admit that he has
rendered incredible services to his
country; but nobody knows it better
than himself. He is fatalist, and nat
urally asserts by his acts, if not by his
words, his supreme infallibility.
But he does not try to be cautious in
his language. He is candor itself-often
to the verge of insolence; and there is
hardly day that he does not speak
scornfully of some of the characters in
the recent European Congress, and of
living and dead European statesmen.
Such man might have figured in the
feudal era. He is the anachronism of
this age of progress. Acted On the
stage twenty years ago, he would have
been regarded as another Charles the
Bold or Duke of Alva.
AS real person, it is simple ques-
ton of time, unless he moderates his
policy, whether he will fall by the bullet
or the bowl. He is the man of destiny,
and evidently accepts his mission and
knows his danger.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-11-28
The Halifax Award.

In pursuance of instructions from
Secretary Evarts, the American Minis
ter in London, Mr.. Welsh, on the Dist
of November, rendered the British Gov
eminent, in the person of Lord Sails
bury, the sum of $5,5O0,O00 in gold, &C.
companying the payment with the fol-
lowing communication. The receipt of
the payment was acknowledged by Lord
Salisbury in due form:
LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES.
LONDON, Nov. p, 1878.
MY LORD: [ have been instructed by the
President of the United States to tender to Her
Majestys Government the sum of $500, 900 in
gold coin this being the sum named by two
concurring members of the Fisheries Commits
sion, lately sitting at Halifax, under the author
ity impaired thereto by the Treaty of Washing
ton, to be paid by the Government of the Unit
ed States to the Government of Her Britannia
Majesty. I am also instructed by the President
to say that such payment is made upon the
ground that the Government of the United
States desires to place the maintenance of good
faith in treaties and the security and value of
arbitration between nations above all question
in it's relations with Her Britannia Majestv's
Government, as with all other Governments.
Under this motive the Government of the Unit
ed States decides to separate the question of
W1GluOleIIS UIlo paVl0uU from UIo cOnSluofablOnS
touching the obligation of this payment which
have been presented to Her Majesty's Govern
ment in correspondence, and which it reserves
and insists upon. ] am besides, instructed by
the President to say that the Government of the
United States deems it of the greatest import
ance to the common and friendly interests of
the two Governments in all future treatment of
any questions relating to the North American
fisheries that Her Britannia Majesty's Govern
ment should be distinctly advised that the Gov
result of the Halifax Commission as furnishing
any just measure Of the value Of the participa-
ton by our citizens in the inshore fisheries of
the British provinces, and it's protest against
the actual payment now made being considered
by Her Majesty's Government as in any sense
an acquiescence in such measure, or as warrant
ing any inference to that effect. / have, ETC.,
..+." As JOHN WELSH. .
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

It is announced that the work Of re-
deeming legal tenders in coin on and after Jan.
l, 1879, will be confined to the New York sub
treasury alone, and will not be undertaken at
the various Western and Southern sub-treasu-
ries.
Gen. Sheridan and Gen. Gibbon, in
their annual reports to the General of the
Army, made some serious charges against the
efficiency and integrity sof the Indian service,
as administered by the Interior Department
Secretary Schurz has taken notice of these
charges so far as to indite sharp letter
to the War Department defending the Indian
Office against what he terms the unjust attacks
of Sheridan and Gibbon. He calls upon these
officers to make good their charges by specific
prohibiting to do which, he suggests that
they would do well to hold their peace
The $5,500,O00 due England on &C
count of the Halifax award was paid on the 21st
inst
Another call for SIS, 600, 900 6 per cents.
is made, making the total called for redemption
this year $90,0O0000.
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Alpheus has been having a long spell
of fever, and it was necessary to have a
light burning all night in his room. We
live out in the country, SO no gas was
accessible. Candles fickered disagree
ably, and kerosene lamp, when turned
low, always had an annoying smell for
an invalid, SO I bethought of light my
mother used to improvise, when I was a
child, before kerosene, with it's attend
ing danger, was known. It was made
by taking saucer of lard, and cutting a
piece of newspaper in a circle about
three inches in diameter, then twisting
the center OF. this up to point and
burying all but the tip in the lard. It
will burn all night "a shady, dim light
and in our case proved a real comfort
Some of these homely facts are well
worth ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Farmer
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-11-28
A Judgment for $9,OOO,OOO.

On Oct. 5, 1854, George 7. Walker
gave promissory note to William
Hood for ST. $50, payable in six months
and bearing 3 per cent. per month in
terest, which was to be. compounded
and added to the principal if not paid
each month. AS security for the note a
mortgage was given on some land in
Santa Clara county, where Walker then
lived. No interest was ever paid on the
note, and, before its maturity, Walker
had left the State for Mexico, where he
took up his permanent residence. A
few months ago, however, he returned
on visit to this city, and then suit was
brought to recover on the note. On
computing the interest, it was found
that, added4to the principal, the amount
due was $9,000,0O0, and to-day Judge
Morrison rendered default Judgment
for that amount. It is believed that
Walker has already returned to Mexico.
San Francisco Post.
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A Year of Troubles.

An almanac maker in London ore
diets that the year 1879 will dawn on
scenes OF violence, bloodshed, accidents.
and explosions. In January there will
be strife and lbloodshed in Spain affairs
will go wrong in this country, and pub
lie disputes will be embittered; in En-
gland the Imprisonment and disgrace of
some great parsonage connected with
the Government may be looked for.
In February, Saturn and Mars will
combine to stir up trouble in Europe,
Mexico, and India. In March, many
deeds of vengeance will be perpetrated
in Russia; danger will Turk in the path
of the Emperor of Germany, March IL !;
a great clerical scandal will be devel-
oped in England; there will be war and
famine in India and China, and in this
country discord between President and
people, trouble with the Indians, and re-
ligious disputes, leading to scenes of
violence.
In April the religious world will be
greatly agitated. In May railway COM
panies will experience great adverse
fluctuations of their securities. In June
there will be war in Austria, Turkey,
and Greece; and in this country cruel
epidemic fever, cattle disease, a high
birth rate, prosperous dramatic season,
and good fortune to the advocates of
woman suffrage. And so on, until De-
cember, when more than one dynasty in
Europe will tremble, the Socialists be-
come terror to society, and the upris-
ing of the Greek and Slav races shake
Eastern Europe to it's foundations.
These predictions are based on the
conJunctlons and aspects of the planets,
and are made, the author declares, in ac-
cordance with "the simple and natural
rules OF astral science, as first collected
by Claudius Ptolemy, and illustrated by
Dldacus, Placidus de Titus"
This almanac has been published for
nearly fifty years, and has always
abounded in predictions in character
like those above. In 1853 it was pre-
dicted that earthquakes would occur near
Carthagena about July Is. On the 10Th
there was an earthquake at Cumana,
near Carthagena, in which 1000 persons
lost their lives In 1876 it was predicted
that there would be misfortunes on
American railroads and great catastro-
phe. The Ashtabula horror occurred
Dec. %. For July, 1878, it was pre-
dlcted that there would be in America
many violent, sudden and terrible
deaths by sunstroke"
Having made several good guesses in
the course of fifty years, the almanac
astrologer points with pride to his pre-
dictions for the future, and asks the
people to believe in his system. The
predictions grade with those made by
Other almanac prophets, and are curious,
to saw the 1east-T12te9. Ocenq1
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POLITICAL POINTS.

The Greenbackers polled over $4,000
votes in Pennsylvania at the recent election.
Gen. John B. Gordon has been re.
elected to the United States Senatefrom Georgia.
The full vote Of Wisconsin for Con-
gressmen at the late election foots up: Repub-
hcan, 99,57S; Democratic, 92,925; Greenback,
13,028.
There will be All unusually large
number of contested election cases in the next
national House of Representatives.
Alexander H. Stephens is of the
opinion that the currency question will not be
an issue in the Presidential election in 1880,
because it will be dead
Following is the official vote of Illi-
,nois at the late election: Superintendent of
Public Instruction-Slade Republican, 206,-
$50; Etter, Democrat, III 1855; Hall, National,
65,507; Kate L. Hopkins, Prohibition, 1896.
State Treasurer-Smith, Republican, 215,262;
Cronkrite, Democrat, 170,111; Bates, National,
65,623; CORN, Prohibition, 1882. The drainage
amendment to the constitution received 295, 7SO
votes, and is therefore adopted. ...9
Chairman Atkins, of the Appropriation
Committee, thinks there will beno extra session.
Speaker Randall is of the same opinion.
The Alabama Legislature has elected
Gov. George S. Houston to the United States
Senate, in place of Spencer. ...5
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news OF the WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS,

Evidence is coming out of wide
spread Internationaist conspiracy in Europe
indeed, against all the reigning monarchs.
There is great uneasiness in all the European
capitals. Verify, uneasy lies the head that
wears crown"
War has been declared between Great
Britain and Afghanistan, and the Indian troops
are advancing upon the Ameer's dominions
The decline in wages in England
seems to be general, and affects nearly all kinds
of labor. A cable dispatch says that "appall-
ing distress and restitution exist among the me-
chanics and laborers of Sheffield, in conse-
quence of the business depression" Public
meetings have been called to devise mean of re-
lief
A bloodless duel was fought near
Paris, the other day, between M Gambetta, the
distinguished French statesman, and NJ de
Fourtou, a member of the Assembly There
was one exchange of shots; weapons, pistols j;
distance, thirty-fve PAGES. Neither was hit
The first blood of the Afghan war was
shed on the 21stiof November, in a contest for
the possession of Fort Ali Musjid, at the en-
trance of the Khyber pass. The Indian troops
assaulted and captured the fort after sharp
engagement, the garrison retreating to the other
end of the pass. The British lost 800 in killed
and wounded.
Austria and England are to have ex-
ira sessions of Parliament.
A cable dispatch reports the massacre
by Turks of 800 Bulgarians in a Macedonian
village. ..... r,t.- f..
The Greek question is believed to be
a fair way of settlement. 1916
Arrests continue in the centers of
revolution and disaffection in Spain.
Gortschakoff, the Russian Prime Min
ister has rendered his resignation.
There has been heavy gale and con-
siderable loss of life on the Spanish coast.
The British columns threatening At
ghanistan are preparing to so into winter quar-
tiers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-11-28
Rag Carpets.

Allow me to give my experience in the MAX
ing, wearing and durability of rag carpets. To
my mind they are exactly what a plain family
room, inhabited by several healthy, restless
children, ought to have on it's floor. am sure
I do not know how I'should have done without
them when was bringing up my little ones.
Now, if lady concludes, all at once. to make
carpet of rags, and devotes her whole time for
some days, or perhaps weeks, to the prepare
ton of rags and CHAIN" she will weary and
disgust every one, and not enjoy her carpet
when she gets it. Let me suggest a better way
I may say here that I tried the busting way at
first, but experience taught me better ~
When ones husband or bows have really @got
all the good as the old ladies saw. of suit of
clothes, and you feel that YOU do not need to
lay them by for future contingencies. rib up the
garments, shake and brush we'll Choose some
dull, rainy evening when you are tolerably GER
tain OF having no visitors for the work. Then
cut your rags, trim corners, tack with strong
thread, make into large balls, sew some strong
cotton material on the balls to keep away moths,
and lay them by. When another nile of old
things accumulates-si months later perhaps
do the same. l assure my sister readers that
in a surprisingly short time thew find. upon
weighing the nice balls, that the Tag-carpet is
no longer doubtful. The shears Or scissors
have not been used long enougb Of anv one
Tune to hurt the fingers, nor has any weary dis
gust been experienced Cotton cord NAV be
pougn1 from many factories already dyed in
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-11-28
Rules for Spelling a Child.

1. Begin young by giving him what
ever he cries for. IN,
2. Talk freely before the child about
his smartness as incompatible.
3. Tell him that he is too much for
you, that you can do nothing with him.
4. Have divided counsels, as between
father and mother. .....s. a.
5. Let him learn to regard his father
as a creature of unlimited power, capri
cious and tyrannical; or as mere whip
ping-machine. ~
6. Let him learn (from his fathers
example) to despise his mother. so"
Z. Do not know or care who his COM
panions may be- '...... ......
s. Let him read whatever he likes.
9. Let the child, whether boy or girl,
rove the streets in the EVENING" good
school for both sexes.
10. Devote yourself to making money,
remembering always that wealth is a
better legacy for your child than prin
ciples in the heart and habits in the
life; and let him have plenty of money
to spend. H,s
II. Be not with him in the hours of
recreation.
II. Strain at gnat and swallow
camel; chastise severely for foible and
laugh at vice. ....
IS. Let him run about from church
to church. Eclecticism in religion is
the order of the day. :.st..: -.
IA. Whatever burdens of virtuous re-
quirements you lay on his shoulders,
touch not one with one OF yuur fingers.
The rules are not untried. Many
parents have proved them, with sub
stantial uniformity of results. If
faithful observance of them does not
spoil your child, you will at least have
the comfortable reflection that you have
done what you could. -L-n
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-11-28

[ remember on one occasion. after the
lecture was over, that the audience.
which was made up for the most part of
farmers and their families, seemed dis
inclined to go, but held their seats.
looking up as if expecting some kind of
an afterpiece. This was so unlike a
city audience-who rush for the door
before the last words are out of the.
speakers mouth-that / couldn't help
remarking the fact to the minister who
sat with me in the pulpit.
All, yes" said he, "our people are
not accustomed to lectures, and they
are expecting the doxology!"
Then, by all means, let them have.
it," I said; =" it will do us all good"
If you, SIR" said he, will stand at
the bottom of the steps, the people will
be glad to shake hands with you, if you
please, as they are going out"
Certainly" I said; with much
pleasure"
The minister stood up and told the
audience that, after singing the doxolo-
gy, any who pleased might have an OPP
portunity of shaking hands with the
lecturer Accordingly, took my posi-
ton near the door; and, if had been
a prize bulldog, the people couldn't
nave been more reluctant to pass me-
All stood up, crowding the aisles and
passage-Ways; but no one moved toward
the door. To facilitate matters, seized
one old fellow by the hand and gave If
a shake, and passed him along. Then
came another, and him I also pump
handled. [ held out my hand for the
next, rather furtive-looking youth, will
red hair and very speckled face. He
approached me in jerk and deposited
10 cents in my extended palm. Before
| could get an explanation, he was on
the door and off. In the meantime, the
rest began to move little faster; anC
by-and-by another fist full of copper
was thrust into my hand.
Good Heavens! do they suppos,
I'm here to take up a collection
They're actually putting money in m,
hand" [ said to the minister, stepping
back upon the platform.
!" Oh mol" said he, laughing; "thes,
are only boys who contrived to get il
without paying, so they think they mus
pay you" -
That was all the Misunderstanding want
ed, so I let the good people depart il
peace; and they did seem very much
relieved when I got up out of theil
way. 1t was money in good many
pockets, I expect.-Bosto7e CONNER,
cjGl Bulletin.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-11-28

bright colors, and ones taste may be gratifed
by the contrast of stripes But to those who wish
to do things in the cheapest way, will say that
coarse factory yarn, doubled and loosely twist
ed, makes an excellent warp and can be dyed at
home. Every farmers wife knows the virtues
of maple bark set with copperas for dyeing a
purple or slate, also of copperas-dyed cotton
thread, set by dipping in I've of wood ashes.
These are, think, the cheapest and easiest
dyes for cotton. Pretty they are not-but I
am writing for those who prefer comfort to APP
pearance. "
Perhaps some do not know that an apronful
of peach leaves boiled in water will make a
yellow dye for cotton (Which will wash out
however), and the said decoction of peach
leaves, with the addition of some of the above
mentioned I've from wood-ashes, will dye gool
"a good bottle-green, which can't be washed out
at all. I am speaking of strictly domestic dyes
which are almost of no cost There are, how
ever, many experienced old ladies who are only
too happy to instruct less-informed matrons in
the more elaborate arts of dying. have cut
trimmed and tackled, at odd times, the rags or
filling for $50 yards Of nice rag carpeting, with
out ever feeling the work burdensome. And,
now that my boys have grown up and gone off
into the world, | have no longer the old clothes
to cut up, nor do [ need to exercise such close
economy, still, recommend it to others who
are in the morning of life, as it were, and who
wish to be industrious and economical.
MRS 8
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-11-28
A Romantic Tragedy in Russia

A singular Nihilist tragedy, in which
a peasant girl plays prominent part,
has recently startled Odessa. Two
broth belonging to family of small
landed proprietors, Enkouvatoff by
name we're so much attached to each
other that they could not live apart.
For this reason, perhaps, when the
elder, Pimen, joined Nihilist society,
the younger, Dometi, did the same.
The Enkouvatoffs belonged to the no.
bill ty; but that did not prevent Pimen
from marrying a peasant girl. Unhap-
PLY, Dometi sympathized so entirely
with Pimen that he conceived pas
sion for the latter's wife, and showed
pertinacity in his attentions to his sis
ter-in-law. The involuntary cause of
all this trouble was devoted to her hus-
band, who naturally should have turned
his brother out of the house. Pimen,
however, still allowed Dometi to live
with him; and, to assuage his jealousy
consented even to live apart from his
wife, and to treat her." as the report of
the trial puts it, "ike sister" One
night Pimen was awakened by his wife
running into his room and crying out
that Dometi, armed with razor, was
about to attack him. She was followed
by the Infatuated Dometi, brandishing
razor, and Pimen, in self-defense, took
up the revolver, which every Nihilist
seems to have at hand, and shot his
brother through the heart.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-11-28
A Neat PAPER Rack.

Does anyone want to know bow to make nice
paper rack ? This makes very pretty one:
Take cigar-lighters, light or dark, or both,
cut forty lengths of six inches each. Weave
eight of these into square, four corresponding
to the warp and four to wool. Do not have the
splits close together, but leave an inch or more
between. When the square is finished,' fasten
the splits together with needle and thread Ina
similar way make four more squares with the
remaining thirty-two splits. Take two of the
squares and fasten. together at one corner. TIC
keep in good shape take long split and fasten
it at the center where the squares are sewed to-
gether, and at the outer ends of the squares
Treat the other three in a similar
way. Now take a piece of nice stout
pasteboard and lay the square on it, the
three squares above the other two. The lower
point of the upper middle square will be be-
tween the upper points of the lower squares
Cut the board in the shape of diamond, MAX
ing it a little smaller than whole diamond of
splits would be. Cut off the lower part Of the
board below the splits; cover the board with a
contrasting color. Then fasten on the splits
squares, having the edges of the splits just
touch the edge of the board This will make
the splits stand out and form pocket.
On the upper part of the board paste scrap
picture and tie some ribbon bows; one at the
top of the board and one at each corner Of the
pocket The ribbon should correspond in color
with the trimmings of the room. Fasten it to
the wall with tacks and put all your news
papers in it. t.., alts ... HAZEL.