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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21

REV. WILLIAM GOODELL, al early
and late abolitionist, an eloquent
speaker, a noJed editor, and an able
author, died at GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin.
on the evening Of February IA, 1878,
aged Sc yeaas. Two OF Mr.. Goedells
children residing in GAINESVILLE, on re-
firing from an active business life, he
made that city his home. The James
vile Gazette in speaking Of him says
Mr.. GOODELL assisted in organizing
the American Anti Slavery Society Of
Philadelphia, in 1888; the Liberty par
ty, in Albany, n. Y, in 1910; the
American Missionary Association. at
Albany, in 1916; the National Prohibi-
ton party, in Chicago, in 1869, and
participated in the reunion Of
Abolitionists at Chicago, in June, 1874,
which was the last time that he ever
passed beyond the city limits Of James
vile.
Mr. and Mrs. GooDELL celebrated
their golden wedding in this city July
4, 1873, their two children, Mrs. Rev.
LIP. FROST and Miss LAyINIA GOOD
ELL, attorney-at-law Of Evansville, be-
lug present, together with three Of
their grandchildren.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21

BAYARD TAYLOR has been appoint
ed Minister to Austria.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21

joint convention on the 18th instant.
Several addresses. were. made the most.
notable of which were by Garfield, OF
Ohio, and Stephens, Of Georgia.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21
Warm and Spring-like.

Last Thursday was quite generally
observed as Valentines day.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21

JAMES GOODWIN, President.
JACOB L. GREENE, Secretary.
JOHN NJ. TAYLOR, Ass't Secretary.
D. If. WELLS, I'd Asst Secretary.
T. D. DOUGLASS, Sup't Of Agencies.
JIO. J. d. BRISTOL, State Agent,
Milwaukee, Wis.
T. 7. JORDAN 6 u. LEWIS
agents, KenoSha, Wis.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21

tac5S and figures like these commend them
5clYest to the intelligence and judgment Of all
men. They carry conviction upon bare presen-
tation. and need no argument or illustration to
demonstrate their significance.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21

Royal Manufacturing Co., 258 s. 26o Broadway
New York. Held for postage.
To obtain any of the above letters the aDDli
can5 must give the date Of this list.
CHARLES FRANTZ, ?. NJ.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21

For some time past he has been en-
feebled by i'll health and old age, but
his mental faculties remained unim-
paired. About week ago his chronic
ailment returned and his life Of use
fulness ended calmly and peacefully
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21

Russia and England are watching
Constantinople and each other under
pretence of looking to the welfare oil
the Christians in Turkey. This watch
ing will probably preserve the peace
till the meeting Of the conference Of
the European powers for a general ad-
iustment of affairs which it is hoped
may permanently preserve the peace.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21
Coin Values by the Gold Standard.

The New York Bulletin Of the 18th
gave the following as the quotations
Gin gold Of coin and bullion on that
day:
Buying. Selling.
American trade dollars $0.96A$0.97A
American silver (half and
quarter dollar8) 1854 Oh
American silver dimes and
half dimes) .96A Oh
Mexican dollars, old style .9215 "a
Mexican dollars, new style 90 "a
English silver $50 4.86
Five francs 80 SO
Thalers .69 10
English sovereigns 4.85 4.88
Twenty francs 1856 800
Spanish doubloons 1880 1910
Mexican doubloons 1856 1866
Silver bars 600 fiue) 1.16M 1.1715
Fine gold bars ParMI
Gold was rTOtnf7 on Tho r4h If 400
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21

Roads around town are again i'm
passable.
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Total amount paid to .,,~ 200
Dec. 81, 1876. esSS, kSS3, b3<,.SG
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-07-12
Curious Customs.

Some of the most curious customs that
are to be found in any class of people
are found among the Moravians, who
have their headquarters in the beauti-
full and ancient town of Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania.
1t has always seemed to the writer to
be a strange custom to toll the church
bells when person is dying; but the
Moravians do more curious thing yet.
When person is dying, IA member Of
their sect, word is at once taken to a
person appointed to the duty, who i'm
mediately proceeds to the church ana
climbs high up in the belfry, when he
takes trombone and plays a tune
This tells the sad news to the MoFavians
that one who has been languishing has
"gone hence" or that a sudden visit of
the shadowy angel has borne its ghastly
and bitter fruit. The sound of bells is
such common occurrence that one may
toll and toll, and the business man or
the slumberer will fail to notice; but in
the silent hours of night if the unaccus-
toned music of the trombone is walked,
where is the slumberer that will not
hear it? And where is the person whose
soul it will not thrill? As the trumpeter
is supposed to stand on the walls of Zion
and announce the coming of a spirit
from the land of mortality, it is pleas
antly romantic to imagine that he
catches the music from the earthly trom-
bone and echoes 1t throughout the region
of spirits, to be in turn re-echoed by
whom and where we dare not even try
to think. What originated the custom
it is very hard to determine, as it has
been observed almost for countless
ages"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-07-12

"A plant possessing natural electrical
mower is said to have been discovered in
Nicaragua, and a short description Of it
is given in Belgian horticultural jour
nal. 1t is a species of " "Phytolaces, p
and has been ohristened " P, eledricca,"
in consequence of its curious properties,
which are so strong as to cause sensible
shocks, as from galvanic battery, to the
hands of any person attempting to
gather a branch. The needle of the
Compass is effected by proximity to the
plant. There is a curious shrub, called
the "compass plant" which has long
been known to exist in the prairie land
ofthe Western States of North America,
and which takes its name from the
peculiarity that the edges of the leaves
are invariably turned north and south,
while its surfaces face east and west.
This curious property enables travellers,
by simply feeling the leaves, to ascertain
their direction in the darkest night, the
plant itself having, 1t is said. percept-
fble general inclination toward the POLE
The causes of this flexity of position in
the leaves has never been discovered; !;
some authorities attributing it to the effect
of light on the varying sensitiveness Of
the two sides of the leaves. while others
seek for the reason in electricity. The
latter hypothesis has not been generally
accepted, but if the alleged discovery Of
the electrical plant in Nicaragua is au-
theptiG, the probability of such an in
huence being at work in the compass
plant is greatly increased.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-07-12
lnfnrY1nMnd.

A rather good-looking young darkey
called upon me the other day, and after
tWirling his hat in his hand for a consid-
cradle time, blurted out:
Boss, does you know meP
Indeed l DON'T"
You was a ossifer in de army oh de
Potomac, waren't your"
"Yes."
Had charge of stebedOres at Belle
Plains, eh?"
eyes"
"Wall, don't you know me now"
No; don't recollect you."
"Wall, / is SAM"
"Sam whatP'
OATS jis what We ak me afore, and dat
isn't my name, tell ye once agin."
"YOur name is Sam. Now Sam whatP
"Boss, I kin tell ye jis what it is; my
name isn't Sam What, but jist Sam"
"Oh that is ii, is it? Well, what was
your masters namer
"He runn'd away long go. Got no
master now"
"What was your fathers name%
"Nebber had no fadder."
Your mothers name p
"Nebber had any modder."
"Your brothers, sistersT
"Nebber had any fadder, no brudders,
no sisters, Boss; Pll jist tell yer all der is
about dis. Pse Varginny nigger, come
out OBJ de bondage, and when you see me
you see all der is OBJ us. Now you go way
wild your Belle Plains. You a hossifer
OBJ de guard, and not know Sam; well,
dat is remarkable.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-07-12

HoF WATER FOR INJURIES AND BRUISES
The New York Medical Journal reports
this case: The patient was engaged in a
machine shop, and while hfs hand was
upon the anvil of a trip hammer, the
hammer-weighing 20 pounds-fsl. II
so happened that a file was on the anvil,
and in this way the force of the ham.
mer was arrested about half an inch
before it reached its bed. When the
hand was examined it was found that
the whole palm was a mass of pulp.
The metacarpel bones were comminuted
extensively, and there was apparently
but small chances for saving the hand.
1t was, however, placed in hot water,
and kept there for two or three weeks
and then taken out and dressed. In three
months the patient was sufficiently well
to leave the hospital, and now-nine
months after the accident-he is able to
move the fingers. and has quite useful
hand. Bruises and injuries do much
better when treated with hot than cold
water. The temperature should be
about 103 degrees F. Another cause is
reported of compound fracture and dis
location of the ankle joint, in which the
proximal end of the first metatarsal
bone protruded from the foot. The dis
location was reduced and the foot placed
in hot water. At the end of a week it
was taken out and dressed in the ordi-
nary manner. The foot is now doing
well and promises good result.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-07-12
Words OF Wisdom.

If laughter is the daylight of the soul
a smile is its twilight.
By bestowing blessings upon Others,
we entail them on ourselves.
Danger should be feared when distant,
and braved when present.
To give pain is the tyranny of beauty
to make happy is her true empire.
Patience is vir tue which some Deoo.e
think everyone needs but themselves.
The froth of the head not unfreuentlv
becomes venom when itreachesth heart.
The miser lives to die rich, and is the
gaoler of his house, and the turnkey of
his wealth.
The mind that busies itself much with
| the future has need to be an uncommonly
cheerful one.
The light in the world comes prlnci.
pally from two Sources-the sun and the
Students lamp.
Riches do not half so much exhilarate
US with their possession, as they torment
US with their loss.
The worst-hearted of enemies is often
less to be dreaded than the most kind
hearted of friends.
You may speak out more plainly to
your associates, but not less courteOusly
than you do to strangers.
When you hear suspicious persons
boast of being the friends of their kind
ask them what sor' of kind that is
The death-smile Is the grandest thing
in the world. 1t makes the dark Past
an arch of triumph into radiant Future
You can't get anything in this world
without money, some say; but this is
not true, for without money you get into
debt.
1t is but a step from cunning to
knavery; lying makes the whole differ
ence-add that to cunning, and it is
knavery.
IN engaging a lady for the polka
or the next set, make mamma clearly
understand that the partnership is to be
one of limited liability.
As soldiers in the march of life, we
may never learn to mark time, but time
never fails to mark US
If some mems bodies were not straight
er than their minds, they would be
crooked enough to ride upon their own
backs.
"I wish" said wild young gentleman,
"that my birthday were a month long"
"Keep SOBER" said his friend, "and it
will seem so to you.
A correspondent wants to know
whether, considering the great utility of
the ocean, poets are not wrong to call 1t
"a waste of waterF
There is said to be man in New Y ork
who is habitually so sleepy that his curl
osity cannot be awakened. Such is not
the case with his wife.
A st. Louis widow has had three hus-
bands. She has on hand lawsuit to
break the will of the first; another to
recover the insurance money on the life
of the second and third to obtain ali
mony from the last.
"You hook thin" "Should think any
body would if they had passed through
what 1 have" What's that% said tramp
No. l. No. 2 replied that he had been
arrested, tried and convicted. "Of what
erime" inquired No. l. starvation;
and was sentenced to sit in a dining
saloon for four days with a muzzle on"
A cigar contains acetic acid, formic,
butyric, valerie, and proprionic acidia,
prussic acid, creosote, carbolic acid, am
monia, sulphureted hydrogen, pyridine,
viridine, picoline, and rubidene, to say
nothing about cabbagine and burdockic
acid. That's why you can't get good
one for less than five cents.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-07-12

Red from MetaL-If oxide Of cobalt
be dissolved in aqua ammonia, q red
solution will be produced different in
color from that of all other metallic
oxides
Back from Whae.-If a little pure
white calomel be rubbed into a GLASS
mortar with little colorless solution of
caustic, potash, or hme-water. the whole
viii become intensely black.
Tipo AHaGlgums By Mir4lrrs become Fluid
Take an amalgsm of lead and mercury.
and another amalgam of bismuth; let
these two solid amalgams be mixed by
triturition, and they will instantly be-
come liquid.
Liquids made SOlids.-Dissolve muriate
of lime in water until it will dissolve no
more; make also a similar solution of
carbonate Of potash both will he trans
parent fluids, but if equal Quantities of
each be stirred together they will become
a solid mass.
Tests for Acids and ALEalies-Make an
infusion of red roses, violets. or mallow
flowers; treat 1t with solution of potash,
and it will become green; the addition
of muriatic acid (diluted) will convert it
instantly into red. The experiment NAV
be frequently varied.
Changing Vegetable Colors.--Prepare g,
little tincture of litmus. Its color will
be bright blue, with tinge of purple;
puta little OF 1t in phial, and add few
drops OF murlatlc acid; its color will be
changed to VlUld red; add little solu-
ton of potash the red will now disap-
pear and the blue will be restored. Byl
those means the liquor may be changed
alternately at pleasure.
Curious Change of Calieo-Dissolye fou1
drachms of copperas in one pint of cold
water, then add about six drachms of
lime in powder, and two drachms of
finely powdered indigo, stirring the mix
ture occasionally for twelve or fourteen
hours. If piece of white calico be
dipped into the solution for a few
minutes, it will be dyed green; and by
exposure to the atmosphere only for
few seconds, this will be converted to a
permanent blue.
Magic 1rd1asattdtiOns-1. Drop a little
su1phate of Opper (blue yitrioD into
water, just sufficient to make a colorless
solution; then add little ammonia, and
the mixture Will be intensely blue. q
Pour little tlncture of litmus into a
wineglass, and into another some diluted
sulphate of indigo; pour these two blue
fluids together, and the mixture will be-
come perfectly red. Stake some soda
water, or water impregnated with car
bonic acid gas, and add to it little blue
tincture of litmus. The above will be
changed to red.
Metallic Observation-Disclosures a
small quantity of nitro-muriatic acid
upon piece of thin gold or gold leaf,
and in short time it will be completely
dissolved. Silver-Upon a small piece
of silver pour some nitric acid lauuafortis)
and it will be dissolved in few minutes.
Copper.-Pour little diluted nitric acid
upon a thin piece of copper, and in a
short time it will be dissolved, and the
solution will be of beautiful blue color.
Iron.-Pour some sulphurie acid, diluted
with water, upon some iron filings a
violent etervescence viii ensue, and in
a short time the filings will be dissolved.
The above experiments are designed to
show the great solubility of the metals,
when submitted to proper menstruum.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-07-12
TO MY FRIEND.

Though long miles now lie between us,
And cares as well as joys have seen us,
StiIl / think of you my friend.
As my way through life Wend;
Think OF you with thoughts OF pleasure,
AS fond memory gives fair measure,
Ofthe Joys OF converse sweet,
When our paths through life would meet.
And the sun shines here as brightly,
Speed the hours away as lightly.
AS eier those on which we reckOned
Meath the rule Of James the second;
W nile the morning daWnS as Dr1gnI nert
AS refreshing comes the night here
clear the moonlight and as melloW,
AS e'er shone on Plymouth Hollow.
Smile the stars down as benisniy,
Play the zephyr's round as finely,
While the verdure growing Ialr
Fills with incense all the arr
Morning songsters are as cheeryr
Oftheir notes never weary
Sounds of insect, bird or pee.
Here as there, have charms for me-
rbougb I miss the old friends round me,
And the kindred ties that bound me,
Still deem ii something grand,
Living in this stranger land;
Newer scenes have around me,
Newer, fewer ties. have bound me,
And my heart warns towards the new,
AS the old friends, tried and true.
In the outskirts of the city,
will you say, ah what a pity
It should chance nor wise nor witty =
Westward lies lake Michigan,
Some thirty miles, the shortest span,
Thirty, If you go by land.
Forty, on the river Grand
Out from the shofe, ten miles or so,
The soil is sandy, you may know,
So very sandy, that the rains
Wash down your labor and your gains;
But further inland as you go,
More productive it doth grow,
Till this far if you chance TO roam,
You'll find a rich and sandy loam-
And our city is most growing.
This too likely you are knowing
In a few years il has doubled,
As many more it may be trebled,
Over thirty thousand now,
The census taker doth allow,
Thirty-three or thirty-four,
1t may be less or even more.
In the outskirts of the city,
am thinking, what pity
1 have not a telephone,
With one sounding tube at home;
/ could note the varied phases,
Nor so scant need be my phrases,
OF the country hereabout,
As easy as the school boys shout;
And need not stop to measure
All my words, nor spend my leisure
Moments on this simple ditty,
You will class, nor wise. nor witty;
All so easy would tell you,
And, If good or i'll befell you,
You could send the word to me,
As my friend I'd talk to thee.
MATTIE II. BAscoM.
Grand Rapids, Mich. 5-27-'7s.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-07-12

A GREAT MANS BEGINNNG.-A Mr..
Patrick, who was one of Representative
James A. Garheld's earliest friends, in
giving a sketch of his career to some
school children several years ago, said /:
az want to tell you about young man
who came to my farmhouse from the
canal. He had been q canal l-boat driver,
and as the canal had just froaen up, he
wanted to do chores for his board dur
ing the winter. James, for that was his
name, was a stalwart, honest-looling
fellow, and, SO took him in. My own
children soon began attending school,
and asked James if he did not want to
90 to school with them, but he declined.
soon noticed that he seemed to be
quite despondent, and asked him if he
was troubled about anything, and he
then confessed to me that, although he
was 10 years of age, he could neither
read nor write, and he was in such men
tai distress because, as he thought, 1t was
too late for him to begin. assured him
that II was not too late, and urged him
TO begin at once, which he did, with so
much energy that within a year from
that time he was teaching school him
self"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-07-12

-Itseems to have just been discovered
why an elderly maiden lady is not the
right kind of a lady to put in charge of
postofice. The postofice department
has recently been compelled to seek the
resignation of the postmistress of a small
town in Pennsylvania, because the post
mistress, who is an elderly maiden lady,
has felt it her duty to open letters
addressed to the young ladies and gentle
men of the neighborhood, to find news
which she couldn't get in the local
papers. Hereafter she will have to look
through keyholes or something of that
sort, in order to get any happiness out
of this dreary and exacting world.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-07-12

The best method of lighting railroad
cars is thus described: ''The lamp has
a shape not unlike that ofa telescope. The
larger end, at the bottom, causes fan to
osciiate, and this in turn gently forces
the lard oil from the reservoir in the
upper joint, saturating the wick, and
making light of SURPRISING brilliancy,
steadiness and strength. The apparatus
is wound every ten hours. No chimneys
are required, and this saves much time
and expense and annoyance. The light
has P power about equal to thirteen
candles. Three lamps are furnished to
each car, and person is enabled to read
the smallest print without the slightest
difficulty"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-07-12

One of the most remarkable feats
of the New York Herald is its quintuple
Sunday morning edition. The setting
up of twenty pages, containing one
hundred and twenty columns of type,
in single night, requires the labor Of
upwards of a hundred experienced COM
positors. Three sets of forms are nee
essary and in order that all the seven
perfecting presses may be simultane-
ously at work, every page of the paper
must be stereotyped, and from fourteen
to twenty-eight plates taken of each,
the whole edition requiring three hun
dred and thirty-six plates, weighing
altogether over sixteen thousand pounds
of type metal, and employing the labor
of twenty-five expert stereotypers.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-07-12


are still the most thorough and seaFch=
ing cathartic medicine that can be
employed: cleansing the stomach and
bowels, and even the blood. In small
doses Of one pill day, they stimulate
the digestive organs and promote Wig
orous health. ?
AYERS PILLS haye been kaoYn for
more than quarter Of century, and
have obtained worldwide reputation
foF their virtues. They correct dis
eased action in the several assimila-
tive organs of the body, and are so
composed that Gbstructions within
their range can rarely Withstand or
ayade them. Not only do thsY cure
the everyday complaints Of every
body, but also formidable and danger
Gus diseases that have bafled the best
of human skill. While they produce
powerful effects, they are, at the same
time, the safest and best physic for
children. By their aperieRt action
they grippe much less than the common
purgatiYes, and never give pain when
the bowels are not inhamed. They
reach the vital fountains of the blood,
and strengthen the system by freeing
it from the elements Of weakness.
Adapted to all ages and conditions
in all climates, containing neither
calomel nor any deleterious drug,
these Pills may be taken with safety
by anybody. Their sugar-coating pre-
serves them ever fresh and makes
them pleasant t9 take; while being
purely vegetable, no harm can arise
from their use in any quantity,
PREPARED IT
Dr. J. C. AVER & CO., Lowell, Mass,
Practical and Analytical Chemists.
soLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-07-12
RN IL. WlanIN SAYS .

One Of the best remedies for CatarrA, nay, the
best remedy we have found IN q lifetime OF suffer
ing, is SANFORD,S RADICAL CURE. It IL not
unpleasant 20 take through the nostrils and there
In Inhalation Il cleaTS the head and threat 30
thoroughly that, taken each morning on rising
able hacking during the entire day, but an unpre'
cedented clearness of voice and resp ratofy
Each package contains Dr. Ganfords ImproEed
Ilhaling Tube with full directions for use IN Al
cases. Price, Gl00. For sale'by all wholesale and
RetsllDrugglsts and Dealers throughout Ihe nlted
States and Canadas. WEEKS d POTTER, General
Agents and Wholesale Druggists. Boston, Mass.