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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-03-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

Ex-President Grant is travelling in
India
Many avalanches have recently oc-
Cured in the Austrian Tyrol At Bleiburg ton
houses were crushed, forty persons killed,
eighteen seriously injured, and fifteen missing
A cable dispatch from Pesth, in Hun
gary, says that 100, 900 persons were rendered
homeless by the recent overflow of the river
Thesis, that $500 houses were swept away, and
1900 persons drowned
A dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica, re-
ports that the British steamer Bolivar, plying be-
tween Liverpool and ST. Thomas came In col
lision with the Haytien steamer Michael. The
latter sank, and sixty persons were drowned.
A dispatch from Calcutta says the
origin of the trouble between the Burmese and
the British residents at Mandalay is that the
latter protect and refuse to deliver up to
slaughter two of the royal Princes and their
families who have taken refuge at the Resi-
dency. The King of Burmah, who is said to
be mad with drink urged by fanatics and the
reactonary party, threatens to force the Resi-
dency.
The Wigan Rolling Mills, one of the
largest manufacturing concerns in Lam
eashire, England, has suspended payment
Pinto, the Portuguese African ex-
plorer, has succeeded in making his way across
the dark continent He telegraphs to London:
81 struggled with hunger, thirst, natives, floods
and drought | have saved all my papers,
twenty geographical charts, many topograph-
ical maps, three volumes of notes, meteorolog-
ical studies, drawings, and diary of complete
explorations of the Upper Zambesi, with seven
ty-two cataracts"
Herr Anderson, the celebrated chess
player, is dead.
The Emperor of Germany has just
celebrated his SD birthday.
One hundred and twenty more
French Communists are to be pardoned
The Swiss State Council, by vote
of twenty-seven to fifteen, has resolved to re-
store capital punishment in Switzerland.
A cable dispatch reports that the
French floating battery Arrogante sunk off the
Mediterranean coast of France Forty seven
of her crew were lost
The expenses of the French Interna-
tional Exposition were 100000 francs; the
receipts amounted to 80, 100000 francs.
By vote of 800 to 131, the French
Chamber of Deputies has resolved in favor of
an amendment to the constitution providing for
the transfer of the seat of Government from
Versailles to Paris.
tranquility re'gns in Afghanistan,
and Yakoob Kahn, pophew of the late Shere
Ali, has been proclaimed Ameer.I
A st. Petersb' rg dispatch says "a
fresh case of plague has appeared at Wetli-
anka Gen. Melikoff has returned to Wetli-
anka, where it has been decided to burn sixty
seven houses, valued at 1926 rubles The
Minister of the Interior has ordered the Gov
errors of the various provinces to cooperate
vigilantly against the spread of the epidemic
during the spring."
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A Fight with BOttle-NOsed Whales.

We redouble our exertions, and the
whales, finally yielding, follow their
wounded companion and fling them
selves on the shore, where they lie,
wallowing in the shallow water. With
q cry of triumph, which is borne back
from the women who stand on the cliff,
all the boats are rowed for the shore,
each striving to be the first to COM
mence the fight. With final cheer the
men drive the boats in among the fish,
lean out, and begin to strike right and
left.
I threw away the lance and attacked
the nearest with my long hunting knife;
Selling hold of the monsters fins, in
spite of it's struggles, I plunged the
knife repeatedly into it's heart. It's ex-
ertions and plunges we're incessant, fire.
quently lifting me off my feet and
throwing me under the water. I man
aged to hold on, and kept striking
till, with supreme effort, it turned
on it's back Similar encounters were
going on all about me; with wild cries
and oaths the men struck and hewed at
the whales as if infuriatad, regardless
of bruises and the waves that swept over
them every moment. While recovering
my breath and looking out for another
prize. I received a tremendous blow
from the tail of one behind me. [ was
stunned for moment, and, on recover
ing, found [ had been placed in one of
the boats. Quite satisfied with my ex-
ertions, I sat still and watched the
strange combat, already closing, as the
poor, stupid fish, ignorant of their
strength, fell easy victims to their de-
termined enemies. The sight was
strange and striking. The cloudless
sun was shining on the waves of the bay,
which was of magnificent blue, except
over large patch dyed red with blood.
Here each wave showed streak of
crimson, as it washed over the glisten-
ing bodies that had lately swum lords of
the deep. Behind narrow beach rose
the steep cliff, down which were running
the women and children, their shrill
cries rising above the shouts of the men
and the roar of the waves. Gradually
the tumult ceased, except where whale
in the last throes wrapped itself in q
cloud of bloody spray and deluged the
men who stood by watching.
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Not a BOOk-Judge.

"Old 81" reports many converse
ton between town and country darkeys
which shows that they both possess no
small amount of native wit. And,
apropos of negro wit and sharpness,
heard tale the other day of a Georgia
colored Trial-Justice which seemed to
me worth repeating. It'appears that a
white Democratic lawyer was called to
plead for one of his clients before this
ebony Justice, and, not fancying that
the negro had any mind of his own,
prophesied an easy victory for himself.
So, when it came his turn to plead, he
sent to his library for very large num-
Der of law-books, and, arranging them
on the desk before him, began to search
them and to turn down leaves in each
one. When he had thus marked about
two dozen fat volumes, he began his
plea, and from time to time he would
pick up book and begin reading an
immensely-long extract. The colored
Justice sat blinking, and showing evil
dent signs of distrust of his own ability
to comprehend, for half an hour, when
suddenly he said: "Mas'r John, is yo-
is 20 gwine ter read in all dem books
dat a-way?"
"Well, your Honor" answered the
lawyer, blandly, Il wished to call your
attention to large number of opinions
pertinent to the case
"Mas'r john" continued tie sable
Trial Justice, "'pears Like de mo- ye'
reads outen dem books de mo- clouded
like I gifts in my min. Now, Mas'r
John, I reckons dat I better decide dis
case on de equity an justice on it. So
just leaf dem books alone, n come on
at me-"
The lawyer did so, but, in telling the
story next day, he said: BLANK blank
his equity and justice. The niger de-
cided the case dead against me after all.
Evidently the colored Justice was de-
termined not to be overawed by too CO.
pious use of law-books. atlanta Cor.
Boston Journal.
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HINsDALE, Dupage county, Ill.
Hints on housekeeping.

Well, I presume, we all begin to real
lie that House-cleaning days are drawing
near-the hardest days of all the year but
don't let us be in too big hurry; wait until the
weather becomes we'll settled, and then take it
easy, or, if you can't possibly take it easy, as
Pat would say, "Be afther taking it jest as aisy
as liver yez can"
A good way is just to Clean on fine forenoons,
leaving afternoons and stormy days for visiting,
calling or fancy work, which, we all know who
have taste for it, is especially captivating after
doing extra hard or dirty work. AS you so
along clean up, fit up, and put in order only
room at q time, for it's terribly wearing on
soul, mind, heart and body to have tine whole
house all upside down" at once.
Even if you don't get done SO coon by a
month or six weeks, never mind You'll feel
go much better when you are done that you'll
always, thereafter, " take it easy" And an
other especially important part in this connec-
f Sfebe dh ns dss end darling this hu:Gsndi
annual painful paroxysm" with so much
greater degree of comparative complacency
that we ladies of the scrub brush and broom"
can we'll afford to work more slowly. You
know the biggesth of housekeeping is keep
ing the husbands and babies in good humor,
anu no small parG OF tudb Is OG1CUyS udNIDS d
quiet, we'll arranged home to come to when the
cares of the day are DONE and regular, we'll
cooked and nicely served meals, which cannot
be accomplished if we @rush" the cleaning
business. Make an effort to have little better
meals, if possible, at this time, and go to bed an
hour earlier SO as to get an extra amount of
rest, to repair the extra amount of nervous out
lay which cleaning demands. Don't let your
hands get hard and sore; whatever else you do,
be careful of that. If you can afford it, have
pair of rubber gloves to wear when sweeping,
busting, carpet lifting and other dry work.
When you stop cleaning for the day, after
carefully washing the hands, pour on and rub
in by the fire few drops of borax-water and
camphor, and at night, when yet damp, anoint
them well with little honey and cream, Or,
better still, a few drops of pure glycerine, and
sleep in pair of clean old kid gloves. All this
is little trouble, but not half SO much as sore,
stiffened, and rough hands. Have all curtains,
splashers, and draperies that require washing
nicely done up before you begin, and thus you
can put the finishing touches at once.
IRENE AR0oN.
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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

EaSt.
It is reported from New York that
Gov Robinson has decided to remove the Cor
oners of the city, and that Mayor Cooper will
prefer charges against Comptroller Kelly for
irregularities in his office.
The Rhode Island House of Repre-
sentatives last week voted on the question of
woman suffrage-twanty five ayes to twenty-one
noes-not the two-thir 's majority necessary for
submitting an amendment of the constitution
to the people.
J. & J. Tyrrell, of Boston, dealers in
hides, have suspended Liabilities, 100000
West.
Rev. DIR. James De Koven, for the
past twenty years Dean of Racine Wis., Col
lege, died at that place last week, aged about
50 years.
A State convention of colored men
of Wisconsin is to be held at Milwaukee, in
May, to discuss plans for colonizing themselves
in the far West. @s
A committee has been appointed by
he lower house of the Legislature of Missouri
to frame articles of impeachment against State
Treasurer Gates. s
A letter to the public from Arch
bishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, explanatory of
his financial difficulties, has been published.
He relates the causes that led to his present
pecuniary embarrassment, gives in detail his ex-
penditures on behalf of the diocese, which he
says should have been borne by the members
of the churches; recognizes the sympathy
shown him by both Catholics and Protestants.
and appeals for aid to "those who feel for 9TH
ers woes"
An Omaha dispatch says "another
terrible prairie fire has occurred in Lincoln
county, Kan, burning the house and all the
property of Mr.. Montgomery, living on Bitter
creek, and doing much other damage. A little
son of Mr.. Montgomery, IL years old, persisted
in the flames, and Mr.. Montgomery and Isaac
Pfaf, neighbor who attempted to save Mont
gomery, were badly burned and died in a few
hours"
South.
Twelve persons, convicted Of counter
feiting, were last week sentenced to various
terms in the penitentiary at Joliet, Ill, by
Judge Ballard, of the United States Court at
Louisville, Ky. g.
At Vicksburg. Miss, bloody shoot
ing ARRAY occurred between Capt ". F, Fitz
gerald, Capt w. H. Andrews and W. l.
Greene. Andrews and Greene were killed al
most instantly, and Fitzgerald dangerously
wounded.
Dispatches from gLynchburg, Va,
state the Grand jury of United States, Judge
Reeves Court, has indicted the following
named County Judges for refusing to recog
nize colored men in impaneling juries:
Haythe, of CAM bell; Henry, of Amherst;
Simmons. of Bobtown; Brown, of Nelson;
Wharton, of Bedford; Griffin, Of Roanoke;
Parish, of Buckingham; Bowles, Of Fluvanna.
At the recent election in Louisiana,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-03-27
Garden Talks-The Onion.
DEL RRY, Ill.

have had so much enjoyment and such re-
newed strength and vigor from the care of
small garden that want to tell my sisters what
I have done, and induce them, if possible, to
share my pleasure.
One or two hours each day of properly -di-
rected labor will insure bountiful supply of
vegetables and flowers for one family
The onion is my text to-day, and if that
*not-o'er- sweet" vegetable were found oftener
on every table, there would be sweeter tempers
and fewer dyspeptics in the land
From piece of ground, eight by sixteen
feet, / raised over barrel OF onions. I had a
wheelbarrow-l of weH-decay ed manure scat
spaded [ followed with steel rake, MAX
ing the ground az smooth as possible.
We then took board six inches
wide and as long as the width of the bed. With
the edge of this board we made a drill about an
inch deep at the end of the bed (by pressing
on the board slightly; next laid the board fiat
beside the drill, then turned it over once to
measure the distance to the next place for a
drill, which should be thirteen i: ches Made
this drill as the first, turned the board, then
used it to step on while sowing seed In the
drills already made. Proceed in this way until
the entire bed is planted, and the bed will look
smooth, with no unsightly footsteps ON 1t. The
bScuc INC pun dUOup oA1 1hS1i "PcsAt dAO |
covered half an inch with soil pressed gent
ly on them They should be planted just as soon
as the ground can be worked in the spring. |
For early use get q quart of onion sets, and |
fill one or two drills III the bed, planting them
about two inches apart. This method of plant
ing is not intended for those having extensive |
gardens. 1t is for the family with a bit of
garden, a rake and spade hoe will be
needed by-and- by. but shall talk to you.of /
this some other time. , a&fI s gFa /
Lettuces radishes, beets, parsnips and spin
ach can be planted in the same way Peas
must be planted about three inches deep; plant
two drills, then skip two. They must have
more space than the smaller growing vegeta-
bles 80
Z All the vegetables have named should be
planted in April You will probably be con-
scious of back before they are all planted,
but do not get discouraged; your strength will
grow with your plants, and you will soon be de-
Lighted with the work Do not work without
gloves. An old pair of dog skins OK kids will
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-03-27
Foreign Relations-Eaton chairman, John

Foreign Relahons-Eaton chairman, john
ston, Morgan, Hill, Pendleton.
Commerce - Gordon (Chairman), Ransom,
Randolph, hereford
Judiciary. Thurman (Chairman), Mcdonald,
Bayard, Garland, Lamar, Davis Qll.).
Other Chairmanships are distributed as fol-
lows: Privileges and Elections, Salisbury;
Military Affairs, Randolph; Naval Affairs, Nc
Pherson; Postoffices and Post-Roads, Maxey;
Pensions, Withers; Claims, Cockrell; Manufact
ures, Grover; Agriculture, Johnston District
of Columbia, Harris; Patents, Herman; Public
Buildings and Grounds, Jones, of Florida; Ter
ritories, Garland; Railroads, Ransom; Mines
and Mining, Hereford; Revision of the Laws,
Wallace; Education and Labor, Bailey; Civil
Service and Retrenchment, Butler; Printing,
Whyte; Library, Voorhees,; Contingent Ex-
penses, Hill; Rules, Morgan: Enrolled Bills,
Vance
SELECT COMMITTEES.
On Transportation Routes to the Seaboard-
Senator Beck.
To Examine the Several Branches of the Civil
Service-Senator Vest
To Take into Consideration the State Of the
Law Concerning Electoral Votes for President,
etc.-Senator Morgan.
To Investigate the Treasury Department Ac-
counts-Senator Davis w. Va).
On Census-Senator Pendleton.
On Epidemic Diseases Senator Harris.
On Mississippi river-Senator Lamar.
[Note.-This replaces the select committee on
sLevees of the Mississippi river."l
REoRGANIzED.
The select committee into the alleged frauds
| in the Late elections, commonly known as the
Teller Committee, is reorganized, with Wal
| lace as Chairman, and Bailey, Garland, Nc
| Donald, and Herman as the other Democratic
| members.
| The select committees on the subject of the
removal of the Northern Cheyennes to the In
dian Territory, and to inquire into all claims OF
United States citizens against Nicaragua, are to
be continued with the same memberships as al
present, their respective Chairmen being Sen
ators Kirkwood and Hamlin.
The caucus left three Chairmanships of stand
ing committees to be filled by the Republicans
viz: those of the Committees on Pubic-Lano
Claims, on Revolutionary Claims, and on. En-
crossed Bills.
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No palmer truth appears,
Our most important are
Sponge Cake.

II the directions for making this {
carefully observed, there will be no su
as failure in making it. The eggs
beaten separately, and the quicker the
put together, the better it will be.
Take two teacups of coffee "a" su
teacups of sifted -four, two large teas
of baking powder; into this break
sized eggs; beat all well together;
square jelly tins, and bake in a quicl
light brown; when done, turn on a
board and spread quickly with jelly;
fully and wrap each roll In clean nap
be used for the table at once. AUNT
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SENATE COMMITTEES.

The Chairmanships of the leading
committees of the United States Senate, as re-
constructed under Democratic auspices, are dis
tributed as follows:
IL III STANDING CONnnTTEES.
The Democradcm embers Of the FIVE principal
committees are:
Finance Bayard Chairman, Wallace, Ker-
nan, Voorhees,, Beck.
Approx riations Davis CIV. Va) (Ohaimanl
Withers, Beck, Wallace, Eaton
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keep your hands feeling respectable anc
and can be put to no better USE
SISTER Sal
HINsDALE, Ill.
Spring. 3
Spring is coming, spring is coming;
Don't you hear it in the rills?
Tripping gayly through the valleys,
Flying DER the sunny hills.
Are you all glad spring is come? 1 d
lighted, and it seems as though I could
feel grateful enough for the beauties tia
round me. I love not the winter, Cor l can
dismiss from my mind the disagreesblt
that cold is symbolic of death. Death!
shudder at its name! My mother and b
died in the winter. The white snow ensl
ing dead nature reminds me of the 81
that enveloped them. The icy air bring
the chill of the tomb that claimed them
the beautiful spring chases away these 6
thoughts, and I am happy again.
CARRIE Y. ST
SCHELL CRY Mo-
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A LARGE mushroom is said Z
forced its way through twenty in
concrete, covered with a thick l.
asphalt, in the floor of the saving
department of the General Postc
london 5
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WILLIAM M. EvARTs' sons, Prescott
and Sherman. are editors on the leading
Harvard and Yale College magazines re-
spectively.
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Aunt Lucy and ths Children.

MR. EDITOR: Perhaps the children '
little disappointed in not having long
this week, but I will make up for it son
You know, boys, that in very little WI
will be expected to take a prominent
society. This is progressive age, and
will be expected of you. Now is the
form your character. to store your mil
wealth that cannot be taken from you;
now that you will make your mark in the
and work faithfully to accomplish it.
edge is power" and your mind the store-l
fill it well with the choicest, purest gr;
nothing enter that will mar its beauty;
Der that
No palmer truth appears,
Our most important are
Our earliest years
and time never allows us to retrace on
A moment lost is lost foreverl Like
busy bee, I'VE must improve each
hour" AUNT
CHICAGO. Ill.
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WALKING MATCHES between cripples
are the novelty in Boston.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-07-26
NOT THE PROMISED LAND.
a KANSAS FARMER PROTEST AGAINST
THE NEGRO EXODUS.
New York SUM-

New York SUM-
To fully understand the probable
consequences Of the proposed exo-
dus OF the black laborers from the
Sonth to the Western plains OF
Kansas and Nebraska, it is neces-
sary to know the financial condition
Of the young States now establish
ing there, the cost Of living, the
character OF their labor, the cost of
opening farm and making 1t self
supporting. Knowing these facts,
any one CAL Judge Of the probable
saccess or future ut the movement,
~ far as the betterinent of the con-
dit,on Of the late slaves is concerned.
During what are called the, flush
times," extending from 1864 to
1879, the prices Of the farm pro-
ducts of the West were very high,
ana many, if not all of the owners
of the rlcn farms beyond Ohio We're
ANXIOUS To increase their acreage.
They borrowed money freely, at
very extravagunt rates of interest,
for the purpose OF buying more
land to aud to their already too
large estates, and mortgased all
their lands for security. This was
done with comparative little dan
ger to the farmers, as in most cases
they were making 200 per cent.
profit On the MONEY actually paid
out for Labor and tools. This squirt
OF borrowing money on mortgages
was ut it's height from the close of
the war until 1876, and many mil
hons Of Eastern capital were loau-
ed in the West. Then the pro-
ducts of the soil began to decline in
price, and . warning was sounded
% the farmers in the daily market
reports. But cid aud young, alike
infused with the frenzy of mort
gngsing, paid DO attention to the
warning. They saw paper money
steadily rise toward par, and utterly
failed to understand that the rise in
legal teuaers meant low prices for
farm products.
The young men who left Ohio.
Illinois pr Missouri with a team,
~ugou md plough, for Kansas and
Nebraska, well knew that the farms
they had worked on were bought
with borrowed money, and they re-
membersd the olt-repeated tale of
their fathers borrowing money to
buy hand, teams, and everything
else necessary to make crop, and
Fepaying the loan in one or two
years. These young men struck
tbe rich virgin soil of Kansas, thor |
oughlv ilnbue,l with the belief that |
n mortgage wiis pot a dangerous
creature, not even an Inconvenience, |
aud that fortunes awaited those who !,
boldly embarked in the most ex-
pelsiye 'uf farming operations-that
pf raising wheat, crop that re-
auires high-prlced labor and ex-
peusiye ni..cliluery. The result is
that to-day almost the entirs West |
is covered with mortgages. The
msjurty vi tnese mortgages We're
pl,lced when wheat WIS worth 81 so
per bushel in St. Louis, hogs worth |
frum five to eight cents pound,
and cssttle from five to seven cents;
sni taefe was fair Prospect that
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This expenditure can be reduced
about 500 by the use of dug
out" cave or hole in the ground
instead of IL house. Let this be
done, and the family has got to
have S65S in cash, AS there is no
credit in Kansas for these things.
Suppose 10000 families (and these
are not large figures when the talk
of the sympathizers in this move
ment is considered) come to Kan
sas during the next year. Ii they
come as poorly supplied with money
as those who clnle last spring We're,
instead of having $l3, 800, GOO, as
they should have if they are to farm,
they will have, ut the highest tig-
ures, Sl5U, 900. Instead of being
able to open farms, they will at once
have to search for work. and being
III need of it, so as To earn bread for
their starving families, they will be
bitterly disappointed /, find there
is no work III Kansas or Nebraska
after the 18th of November. Agri-
cultural work Is then ended, and
will not begin again until spring.
Ii the plan of bringing this people
10 Kansas as soon as the growing
cotton crop is picked is adhered to,
the manasers will bring the deluded
race into II frozen country, where
both climate aud people are hostile.
1t i, hardly creditable to the men