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New-York tribune., 1879-09-15

The Cuban slaves seem disposed to take
advantage of the social disorganization which
prevails throughout the island to assert their
freedom, and some Of them have begun
TO leave the plantations. Their mas
Ars offer tAcm liberty if they Will
New-York tribune., 1879-09-15

The fact that the four workmen who were
buried in the r1ins OF the Fourteenth-st.
house escaped fatal injury will probably save
those who are responsible for the accident
from the public censure which they seem to
deserve. If the men had been killed, there
might have been an Outcry; but they ali
escaped 10y an extraordinary series Of circum-
Stances, and We shall doubtless hear no more
OF the affair. There seems to have been a
careless disregard of precautions against ac-
cident, aud it is eminently proper that public
attention should be directed TO that fact.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17
EdisOn's Long Delay.

Robert Fulton was ridiculed when he
proposed to send boat to Albany by
steam. His experiments excited de-
rision. When the boat left the wharf
and was stopped by defect in the ma
chinery, the shore rang with laughter.
But the boat went to Albany and re-
turned.
Thomas A. Edison says that he can
subdlvide the electric light. He as sures
the world that he will give it light
that will take the place of gas, and be
much cheaper. He claims that the
problem is solved Nothing is lacking
but a few minor details. His horse
power, generator, insulator, meter and
dynamometer are perfected, but he is
still experimenting on lamp. He
says that he has reached seven gas-iets
per horsepower, and thinks that he can
increase them to ten. AS long as he
can increase the number of lights per
horsepower, just so long will he CON
tinue the experiments.
Meanwhile the public has become i'm
patient. Some newspapers carp at the
inventor and deride him. It will do to
wait. The man certainly has confidence
in his own powers, and his record as an
inventor is untainted. He is not the
only interest at stake. He must also
consider the interests of those who
have pinned their faith to him by their
investments.
Il must start with perfect plant,
he says. It will cost millions to light 8
great city. If there are imperfections in
the machinery, they ought to be dis.
covered before it is used, and not after.
ward. 1t would cost fortune to change
a seven-iet machine for one giving ter
jets per horsepower.
On the whole, in the absence of any
other Edison, we do not see that PEG
pie impatient for electric illumination
can do much better than to wait TIL
this Mr.. Edison gets ready.-Ne,t
York Sum.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17

RUINoUsLY low prices for cotton
goods are discouraging the English
manufacturers. Manchester papers in
innate that an effort to remedy this
condition will be made by reducing
production, and that, to this end, there
is likely to be a general resort to the
short-time system. In the nature of
things it is impossible that such an ex-
pedient can have any permanent reliev-
ing effect. If the pressure of goods
upon the market is materially abated
by the temporary closing of factories in
England, or by the curtailment of their
production, manufacturers in other
countries will quickly supply any deficit
that may follow. 1t is no longer possi-
BILE for any one country to control the
worlds markets. The difficulty in En-
gland is excessive population and labor,
and chronic tendency to manufacture
more of certain goods than there is a
demand for at home or abroad. The
obvious remedy is diversion of labor
from overcrowded pursuits, and an ex-
portation of people who cannot by any
possibility find profitable employment
in the British islands.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17
ociation with the Republicans of the

ISOLATION with the Republicans of the
North"
The visitor cut short his call so as not
to have upon his conscience the total
ruin OF the Secretary's breakfast. If
he had remained he might have said in
reply to this suggestion of a new de-
parture in the South, which has always
been favorite idea with Mr.. Evarts
and the President, that the Southern
people are not logical; that they are
swayed by sentiment and prejudice
more than by reason; that they
stick to the Democratic party
because they know that party
sympathized with the Rebellion; that
they hate the Republican party because
it suppressed the Rebellion; and that
they will continue to act solidly with
the Northern Democracy until it is
plain that there is no hope of getting
possession of the Government by con-
5lunlng the alliance. Ii the Democratic
party is beaten in 1880, the movement
Mr.. Evarts foresees may spring up in
the South, but it will not make it's ap-
pearance in time to be of any help to
the Republicans next year.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17

huckleberry pastors, and won't sell fo,
nothin. They look to Their old places
Nv biznis, wher they used to chirp
cheerfully ez they marked up the price
Nv their goods, and wher they thot
nuthin Nv takin $10-note every day
for likker and cigars, becoz they Good
afford it, and they see other men in
poseshun workin mite and day to sup
port their families in comfort. and these
men lay ther room to Sherman. ez T do.
1t is crooel outrage. 1t costs the
Government nothin to print money, and
ther is no reason why it shood not hev
KEEP on printin currency. What is a
Government for? Is it for the people !?
Is not Salnyooel Popman one OF the
people? Then why shood the Govern
ment cultivate taste in Samyooel
Popman for fast hosses and shampane,
and then, jist for the sake NV payin off
debt, contract the currency and room
him?
The other drugger at Secessionville
remarkt that eff Samyooel he'd saved the
money he made by infashun he wood
hev bin safe agin the effeck NV con
trackshun. But that he he'd no sense
into it. Infashun shood hev bin per-
petooal. When a temperance man seq
to me that he wood like to git drunk Nv
a mite, only for the reackshun that fol-
lows when he gifts sober, [ alluz remark
that the troo safeguard agin that is
never to hev no reackshun-to keep
drunk all the time. The prinsiple I fol
Ter as to ikker is the one wood lev
adopted in finance. To avoid the re-
ackshun that follers infashun, 1 shood
never stop it. Keep on in6atin. John
Sherman don understand finance at all.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
TroO Finanseer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17
Who Caught the Biggest Fish.

The Princess Louise captured a
twenty-eight pound salmon at Indian
House pond, somewhere near Quebec,
and did it all alone by herself, the Mar
quis, who was in the canoe with her,
touching neither rod nor reel, giving no
directions, and not even venturing to
hurrah after the deed was done, for fear
of misconstruction of his enthusiasm.
This was doing very well, indeed, and
the Princess is entitled to great deal
of praise. We believe, by the way, that
the trout caught by Mrs. Hayes in the
Adirondacks last summer weighed
twenty-nine and three-quarter pounds,
and was secured while William Wheeler
was couple Of miles away and sound
asleep. But the Princess fish was a
very pretty little fish, for all that
Buffalo Express.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17

dollar, on the evidences Of debts,
bonds, mortgages and the Like, cover
every form under which debt is re-
corded, and are so drawn as to con-
tinue the practice under which public
corporations, cities and towns deduct
the local tax from the coupons on their
bonds presented for payment by the
owners outside of the State. Mortgages
given in the purchase Of real estate are
exempted from all but State taxation.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17

HE new Tax law of Pennsylvania
pels railroad and transportation
lpanies, besides their dividend tax,
>ay tax on gross receipts, and COM
les mining coal to pay special tax
that. Home insurance companies
taxed on their premiums, foreign
trance companies, banks, and all
porate and unincorporate fiscal agen-
), on their net earnings, and a fixed
of 4 mills on the, dollar is levied on
evidences of debt, public or private.
operations in general are taxed 3
Is on the dollar on the par value of
fir stock, if 6.per-cent. dividend is
Jared, and less or more as the divi-
ads are larger or smaller. A tax OF 3
lis on the dollar on that valuation is
led if no dividends are declared, all
ofts kept by the company being
ated as dividends. The tax on trans
ration companies is eight-tenths of l
: cent. on gross receipts. The speci-
atoms under the tax of mills on the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17
The anti-ren5 agitation in Ireland

The anti-ren5 agitation in Ireland is
increasing. A few days ago, at public
meeting in County Galway, speech
was made by Mr.. Malachi O'Sullivan to
$4,000 persons. They had come, he
said, to assert with no uncertain voice
that the land of Ireland belonged to the
people of Ireland, and not to few men,
or to men who never saw the soil of
ireland. He mentioned case of man
who had not a penny, but who bought
an estate with borrowed money, and
then raised the rents to enable him to
pay for it. He complained that, owing
to the land jobbers, farmer could not
buy meat for himself or his family, or
the ordinary necessities of life. How,
he asked, were they to get rid of this
system? They must have system of
peasant proprietors. Three cheers were
then given for the French revolution
and for the Irish republic. He told
them that they must save the people
and take the sharing into their own
hands. This advice elected three cheers
for the Zulus and King Cetywayo,
whereupon he said that they did we'll
to cheer for the Zulus, for, after 700
years Of English rule, they knew what
the Zulus were likely to suffer if they
were brought under it; but they would
not be brought under it, for they would
fight to the last.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17
When to Eat Fruit.

The Spanish proverb has it: "Fruit
is golden in the morning, silver at noon
but lead at night" Americans do not
seem to have heard of this proverb, nor
to have one of their own experience.
Mostly they eat at night, and hence
have not the sovereign idea of it that
they would have if they hi eaten it at
more proper times. They eat it as
dessert at dinner. This may be the
most proper time to eat dried fruits, but
it is not the right time to eat juicy ones.
The Spanish people learned their
proverb from eating the very juicy
fruits, like oranges. These should be
eaten in the morning, a little before
dinner-not later than noon. Early in
the day they will, if eaten, prove to be
the best medicine for the bilious. =
Fruit Recorder.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17

The question of title to the immense
nth American territory marked on
) maps as Patagonia, and sometimes
led Araucania, is still in dispute be-
zen Chill and the Argentine Confed-
ton. The Senate of the latter has
ected the treaty by which the prin-
al part of Patagonia was conceded to
iii, and negotiations for more salts
tory settlement will be resumed.
e country in dispute extends about
zen degrees south from the fortieth
allel of south latitute.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17

Nd weather in some of the grain
ing districts of Europe, and a
shopper visitation in Russia, which
IS to equal that of Kansas three or
years ago, have effected a stiffening
he market on the other side of the
ntic. A curious story is told of the
at of detachment of Russian sold
by grasshoppers. A swarm of
'pers, covering an area of more than
atty square miles, was encountered by
troops while on the march. The
er in command ordered his men to
a fire on the enemy, but after vast
powder for half an hour gave up
fight and beat a retreat.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17

HE Russians have figured up the
of their late war with Turkey and
that their expenditures were about
100000. While this sum is rather
Her than most people would sup
the cost of the war to be, it is still
city stiff debt for bankrupt coun-
to shoulder, in addition to already
Y heavy burdens. However, the fig
of the debt is scarcely as appalling
contemplate as the number of deaths
Russian soldiers during the cam
gn, which is officially stated at 20O,-
!. It is hard to understand what
antages Russia has received from
victory to compensate for such aw-
slaughter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17
Chinese AStuteneSS.

In ways that are dark the Chinese
are, we know, peculiar, and the Herald,
Of Foochow, relates an instance of
fraud, the ingenuity of which is really
remarkable. A short time since a ma
tive bullion broker called at one of the
gold shops there and offered four gold
bars for sale. The proper weight of the
native gold bar is Ills. 10, and the four
bars should therefore have weighed Ills
DO. The broker told the dealer that
his bars were, he knew, Ills. 2 under
weight, and the dealer thereupon put
them in the scale, but found that they
weighed over the Ills. 40, rather than
under. Thinking, however, that he
would do sharp thing, and gain the
value of the Ills. 2 of gold, he remarked
to the broker that the bars were GER
tainly only Ills. 50 in weight, but that
he would buy them at that weight. He
thereupon paid the money, and the ma
tive broker was leaving the shop when,
asif struck with sudden idea, he turned
to the dealer and said, perhaps you
would not object to give me an &C
acknowledgements in writing of the weight,
so that in the event of there being any
dispute hereafter I might be cleared"
The dealer gave the acknowledgment
that the bars he had purchased weighed
only Ills. 80, and the native broker re-
tired. Shortly afterward the dealer,
chuckling over the gain he had made,
reweighed the bars, and then examined
them more closely. A suspicion seized
him that he had been done, and, upon
the bars being examined, they were
found to consist partly of iron. The
oversharp dealer found himself with
out any remedy whatever against the
astute Chinaman. for the adulterated
bars weighed over Ills. 40, while the
broker was in a position to prove by
his receipt that those which he had
sold weighed under Ills. 38. It is clear
from this that our countrymen in the
East act unwisely when they try to
make money out Of the simplicity of
the heather Chinee, for the latter is up
to all sorts of dark ways even in games
he does not understand"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17

Ohm J. MOORE was accounted the
kedest man in Spartanburg, S. c..
was accused of numbering a woman,
the popular sentiment was that no
at mistake could be made in hang
him, even if he was not guilty of
+ particular crime. About $50 men,
cribed as "the best in the county,"
up to the jail in the night. The
9riff had received warning, and spirit
his man away; but the mob finally
nd him hidden under a railroad
lge outside of the town waiting until
ain came along. Moore was silently
'ched to the place in the woods where
murder had been committed, a
lister was brought for his spiritual
ISOLATION, his wife and children were
we'd to bid him farewell, and all the
parations for his execution were as
ematic as if it had been a legally APP
lted hanging. A multitude gathered
ut the criminal and his guards, some
whom wanted to burn him because
persisted in denying that he had
united the crime. The guards re-
I'd to allow this, and, mounting their
'oner on a buggy, soon had him
Cling from tree.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17

In recent sermon, in Paris, on con-
fession, Pere Hyacinthe insisted that
priests should be allowed to marry.
There was no more danger, he said, of
their imparting secrets to their wives
than was the case with regard to doctors
and lawyers. And confessors should
not be young men, "a years of age. They
should be persons of experience and
knowledge of the world. Nor should
confession ever be compulsory. 1t
should be left entirely to the wants and
to the feelings of Christians.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17

HE first State election this year will
hat of Kentucky, on Aug4. The
9rs come in order as follows: Cali
la, Sept. 3, State and judicial officers,
; Congressman and Legislature
ne, Sept. s, State officers and Legis-
re; Ohio and Iowa, Oct. 7, State
ers in part and Legislature; Mary
., Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missis-
i, New Jersey, New York, Pennsyl-
a, Virginia and Wisconsin, Nov. 3.
errors are elected in all the States
ed except Mississippi, New Jersey,
nsylvania and Wisconsin.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17
THREE DREAMS.
And Their Singular Realization.

lrrOu the 81. Louis I1lneS.
Philip Teasdale, Cashier of st.
Louis mercantile firm, dreamed that
2-2-2 would win in the Chicago race the
following day. He accordingly bought
pool tickets on the three horses that
were No. 2 in the entries as figured on
the pool-room black board. They won
races. On the following day he repeat
ed the operation. Altogether he made
$l,34l on an investment of S..
from the Hartford Timesl yr
The tragic death of Mrs. ROLAND at
Niagara falls few days ago-an occur
renee which happened when the lady
reached down, at the edge of one of the
islands called the Three Sisters, to dip
a cup of water from the rapids and fell
in and was carried over the cataract
was all seen in dream, even to minute
particulars, two nights before the acct
dent happened, by person in this
c1ty-a stranger to the unfortunate
lady. She related the story before the
accident occurred. IT,.
From the Boston Transcript
The man who wants to "sleep upon :"
a project before deciding may be wiser
than he knows, for in that sleep his
mind, unknown to him, may traverse
the ground again, unhampered by his
will, uninfuenced by his prejudices,
and give him clearer and better judg-
ment. Who has not awakened to see
light where all seemed dark the night
before? Causeur remembers an in
stance in his own experience, back in
his high-school days. Good Mr.. Sher-
win had given the class tough prob
lem, which involved both geometry and
algebra in it's solution. Causeur took
it home, and worked and worried over
it all the evening. He made diagrams
without end, and wrote down equations
without number, but the equation
which was to give in known terms the
value of the unknown &C he could not
evolve from them. Time and again a
fresh start was made, but with no better
result-there was still link missing.
Tired and disheartened he went to
bed, and was soon fast asleep. In the
early hours of the morning, when it was
barely light, he awoke, and the first
thing Of which he was conscious was
that he had solved the problem
it was as clear as day. Rising
at once he sought pencil, but, finding
none, used a half-burned match, and
with this, on the marble of the mantel,
noted down two short equations. Then
he returned to bed, and slept. Later
in the morning he worked out the
equations, and carried the result in tri-
umph to the old school-house on Bed
ford street.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17
IKE Aenosha telegraph
1NOSHA, WIS, JULY II, 1879

AS FAR as received, the returns from
census of the State, taken in March
t, and as yet incomplete, indicate
at the total population of Kansas
es not fall much short of 100000.
etty good for youngster of less than
years of age.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17

The Russian Society of Hygiene pro-
pose to print school books in white let
tiers on black ground, in order to check
the increase of myopia-short-sighted-
ness-in scholars.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17

CoooANUT SoUEALER, father of the
first monkey born at the Philadelphia
Geological Garden, is dying. He is
over 80 years old, is stopped, emaciated,
wrinkled, toothless, half blind, and
partly paralyzed-a altogether far from
healthy.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17
THAT RIDICULOUS EXTRA SESSION.

A Talk with Secretary Evarts-Reyolution-
airy Doctrine that Can't Be Tolerated.
The Compietest Breakdown ON Record
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-10-09

Some twenty-five years ago Mr.. Hiram
Woodwork (my wife's father and myself,
while buying stock in the western counties,
toria, owned largely by Mr.. FosteS Sen.
During our sojourn there Mr.. Foster, Sen,
urged upon us the feasibility of building a
distillery at this point 1 guess Charlie and
myself did but little talking about 1t as both
were quite young, hut Mr.. Wood worth and
myself did, on arriving home, discuss that
question with our "better halves" and they
said decidedly no, and we said no and
wouldn't go.
will accept just as much of the response
bility Of that private business transaction as
will Hon. Chsrlie-no more, no less. II it is
bad and terrible for me, is 1t not equally ter
rife and horrible for him = 1t occurred, as
you would make the reader believe, quite
recently. Oh, thou bypocritc and what will
be thy reward? You say Charlie Foster is
authority for the truth of your statement.
will give you Mrs. II. Woodwork, a good
Republican lady and widow of Hiram Wood
worth, (deceased) as to the truthfulness Of
mine rs she remembers all the facts.
Thanking you kindly, Mr.. Editor, for the
use of your columns, bid farewell to this
political work until 1880 arrives. And to the
kind readers I would say,
Pity the sorrows Of this poor jealous crew,
Who to their ring-masters always prove true.
Pity the miseries from the hard work won,
To find a single misdeed / had done.
Pity the writer about grave-robbing and pink,
While their own true record would appall
Smell worse than tube roses in summer.
Adieu,
d. L. WADSWORTH.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-10-09

When Mr.. r. A. Horr called on US last
week for the purpose of asking the publica.
tion of what he denominated Q vindicasion
OF his character, we promised to do 90 In
Rorr's defense in the Republican, We find
that II Ii more than a self vindication, and
our Would-be State Senator knowing that we
publish Democratic Journal, will certainly
promise II we refuse to dish up to our read
ers document written In the interest of the
Republican party.-Elyris Constitution.
just so. And this comes from Dem
ocratic editor who has for these many
years arrogated to himself the virtues Of
candor, consistency and fairness in all
their perfection. He gave his word as q
man of honor, and then creeps out with
the weak excuse that Mr.. Horr's reply
was more than vindication. Exactly
If Mr.. Horr had made an unsatisfactory y
answer, vindication that had not car.
ried conviction on its face, a defense
that would not satisfy even a Democrat,
the Constitution would have been hap.
py to give it to its readers. But Mr..
Horr having done all this, he backs out
Of positive agreement, simply because
he dare not allow his readers to hear a
candid and convincing statement, well
knowing that it could not fail to satisfy
many Of his own party of it's truth, and
perchance lose the Democratic party
some votes.
More than q vindicationl A document
written in the interests Of the Repuhli-
can partyl Fudge! The last paragraph
alone made any reference to politics,
and II the Constitution desired to be
fair and honorable, 1t could have omit
ted that and published the balance.
We repeat, he dare not let his readers
see Mr.. Horr's defense, and makes
this ridiculous excuse for sneaking out
of, and breaking a solemn promise.
And yet he allows his henchman to 20
on, week after week, making charges
and insinuations against Mr.. Horr's pri-
vate character, and ostensibly asking
questions which he desires him to An
swer.
II we had allowed charges affecting
the honor of Democratic candidate to
be made through our columns, we would
not refuse him q respectful hearing,
though he were the bloodiest Democrat
alive. Better take in that pious sign,
and stop that pious cant, and cease
lecturing your Republican brethren on
their moral delinquencies, until you can
at least show yourself to have the honor
of common sinner.