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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25
A Stalwart Speech by Grant.

Gen. Grant was waited upon at Phil
adelphia by a committee of the "First
Defenders of the National Capital"
Col. John W. Forney, acting as spokes-
man for them, delivered ten minutes
speech, to which Gen. Grant responded
as follows:
It has always been an impression with me-
don't know how gotit; perhaps it was be-
cause have seen so much In the papers-that
the Sixth Massachusetts, was the first regiment
which found its way to Washington on the
breaking out of the Rebellion in answer to the
first call for defenders of the National Union.
/ am very glad, indeed, to know the truth Of
history in that regard. and I am sure, as Col.
Forney has said, if we never had as loyal
Congress as while you gentlemen occupied
the Hall of the House of Representatives.,
that there have been times since, at all
events, when there has not been so loyal
Congress, and hope that the time is not very
far distant when we will have all our members
in that body representatives of the national
idea and the idea of Unionism aud integrity OF
the Union which all of you fought so gallantly
to maintain. At all events, l hope the spirit
which carried you to Washington on the occa-
sion referred to will be SO thoroughly imbued
in the hearts and minds of the great majority
of the people that any who attempt to again
lower the flag of the Union will find not only
a single regiment, but a sufficient number Of
regiments to crush in the bud any attempt at
national degradation. am very glad to have
seen these gentlemen this morning.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

THE Board of Examiners of San
Francisco observed, during a recent
session, that one young woman, can
didate for a certificate to teach, was
particularly apt, answering the most
difficult questions with readiness. One
of the examiners watched the young
woman to find that, once in a while, she
cast her eyes down toward her cuffs.
He stepped up to her at the close of the
session, and, as though DESTROYS Of con-
graduating her, took her hand. On
both cuffs the examiner found about
$50 words, written in faint hand and
with Authorizations. Once upbraided
with the cheat, the young woman of
the tell.tale cuffs confessed that she had
paid one of the clerks of the board $50
for set of the questions and answers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVEN-
TION.
How the Exposition Building in Chicago
Will BE Arranged.

How the Exposition Building in Chicago
Will BE Arranged.
AS the Republican National Conven-
tion is to be held in Chicago, and of
course will be called to order in the
Exposition Building, the managers of
that institution have set about taking
the preliminary steps toward putting it
In condition to properly accommodate
the delegates and those who will wit
ness the proceedings.
1t is the intention to build the speak
ers' platform Immediately in front of the
elevator in the north end of the building.
In shape it will be something like that
used in Moody's Tabernacle, on Monroe
street, with raised seats back of and
around the space to be occupied by the
speakers. It will be raised six or seven
feet from the floor, and will extend
about seventy feet south from the eleva-
tor. 1t is estimated that it will accom-
modate about 1000 people. In front
of the platform Will be arranged con-
venient tables for reporters, correspond
ents and press agents. Then the space
in the middle of the building and di-
rectly facing the platform will be re-
served for the delegates of the conven-
ton, numbering. probably, from 1900
to 1900. The audience will occupy
the remainder of the building as far as
the center, or about 240 to $50 feet
south from the platform. The seats
will rise, tier above tier, to a height of
from eighteen to twenty feet, or
to level with the gallery, which
will also be furnished with chairs or
benches. It is thought that in this way
fully 10000 people can be seated. To
overcome the difficulties in the way of
hearing it is proposed to erect a parti-
ton in the rear of the seats occupied
by the audience, across the center of
the building, and, if necessary, board
up the arches around the seats. Be-
hind the speakers platform some kind
of sound1ng-b board, or other device for
throwing forward the sound of the
voice, will probably be erected. In the
rear of the platform rooms for commit
tees will be partitioned off. The proper
Geographic and telephone facilities
will also be furnished. Arrangements
have been made to put in a new floor;
new skylights, affording better light;
and ventilation will also be putin. The
work will not begin till April.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25
Rich Men in New York.

It is said, and doubtless truly, that in
1880, a little less than fifty years ago,
only one citizen of New York, John
Jacob Astor, was worth more than
81 100000. Nothing can better illustrate
the growth of wealth here than this
fact, which now seems surprising
enough. Millionaires are very plenty
in these days, SO very plenty that they
are hardly taken into account. Every
few days somebody dies leaving an es-
tate valued at over 81, 100000; and yet
the mass of our old inhabitants may not
even have heard his name. It has been
asserted that there are at present in the
metropolis fully 500 men whose prop
erty is estimated at 100000 and up
ward. Such citizens as William Fl.
Vanderbilt, John Jacob Aston, Henry
Hilton, George Law, Moses Taylor,
Royal Phelps, A. A. Low, Peter Coop
er, Alexander and Robert L. Stuart,
Horace 3. Clafin, E. S. Jaffray, James
Gordon Bennett, William Fl. Appleton,
August Belmont, G. 2. Huntington,
Anthony j. Drexel, Levi P. Morton,
James Brown, Amos E. Reno and dozens
OF others who might be named are pre-
sumed to be millionaires over and over
again. Half a century has made won
derful changes here in other things than
private fortunes. Then the city had
little more than 100000 people; now
including adjacent towns and the popu-
lation properly ours within radius of
fifty miles of Union square, it includes
not far from 100000. Then Chambers
street wss far uptown, the City Hall
Park was the principal park, we had no
hotels, newspapers, libraries, theaters
worthy of the name, we had no ocean
crossing steamers, no modern improve
ments. few foreign fashions, no regularly
recurring defalcations, little official or
legislative corruption. no stupendous
municipal debt, no reckless ambitions,
no booming Wall street, not many
luxuries, but an amazing amount of pub
lie and private honesty. What revolu-
tons fifty years have produced! When
we look back through the light of his
tory, it seems as if 1880 must have been
all of five centuries ago.-New York
Paper.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

A New YORK correspondent ntimates
that Jay Gould will some day take ed
itorial charge of the Tribune of that
city, in which he is credited with own
ing already large controlling share.
With telegraph company, an ocean
cable, thousand or more locomotives,
several score brigades of railroad and
telegraph men scattered all over the
continent to gather and send him news,
a Caesar on the throne of the Roman
empire who could hear the faintest
whisper on the verge of the ancient
world had fewer facilities than Gould
would have at the focus of this web Of
railways and of wires.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

is duty which the Republicans of
Maine owe to the nation, as well as to
themselves, to refuse submission to the
plot. The Republican Senators and
Representatives, as elected by the peo-
pie, should organize at the capital, pro-
ceed to fill vacancies as provided by
law, choose Governor under the con-
stitutional methods, and maintain their
rights. 1t is not at all likely that the
conspirators will carry their plot to the
extent of violence; if they do, then the
Republicans will have right and power
on their side, and they need not fer
the issue of such struggle. It will be-
cowardly and fatal to avoid conflict
by submission to the most barefaced
and high-handed outrage ever perpe-
trated in the country. The Democrats
must be taught at the very outset that
they cannot transplant the Louisiana
and Mississippi methods to any North
ern State; the fight will be the shorter
and the. victory the surer by making q
stand now against unlawful and revo-
lutionary assumption of power.
Whatever the course of events NAV be
in Maine-whether the Democratic vii
lainy there shall be allowed to prevail
Or not the attempt to defeat the pop
ular will by fraud has been made with
the sanction, if not actually under the
advice, of the national leaders of the
Democratic party, and the party, as a
whole, must bear the odium that
attaches to it. Practically, the Maine
outrage is another step in the direction
of electing Grant President, and any
further pursuit of the attempted vii
lainy will cause conservative and patri-
otto Democrats all over the country to
join with Republicans in calling the
"strong man" to the front.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

AN odd and altogether delightful
wedding is described by the Portland
(Ore.) Bee. In the town OF Port
Townsend, Ore, young man won the
love of young woman, encountering
at the same time the stern opposition of
the girls parents. The father and big
brothers of the girl went so far, indeed,
as to threaten personal injury to the
lover should he persist in his atten-
tons. A few days ago the lover ap-
peared at the door of the house in
which his sweetheart was as Gagged
bird. IN his right hand the desperate
youth carried a rifle, cooked and
primed. On his left was preacher.
The old folks came down like raccoons
from tree. They produced the girl
and the two were married in the front
yard. After the ceremony the hus-
band shouldered his rifle and with the
bride on his arm walked triumphantly
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

The United States Commissioner of
Pensions has issued circular for the
protection Of pension claimants against
the unjust exactions of class of attor-
neys who, after having obtained power
of attorney from the claimant and pos
session of his papers, demand the pay
ment of their fees in advance, as con-
dition of proceeding with the prosecu-
ton of the claim. He says that this
practice has been extensively pursued
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IHE engagement ring is worn on the
first finger of the LETT hand. ANY ring
with stone setting is considered fash
ionable.
OF the European nations Great
Britain, Sweden, Austria, France,
Spain, Belgium and Saxony are the
largest iron producers. The United
States and Hindoostan have valuable
iron mines.
BUsTs on hostages stamps: On ones,
Franklin; twos, Jackson; threes, Wash
ington; fves, Taylor; skies, Lincoln /;
tens, Jefferson ffteens, Webster; thir-
ties, Hamilton; nineties, Commodore
0. H. Perry.
The largest steamer that ever crossed
the Atlantic was the Great Eastern.
Her extreme length was $50 feet, with
a tonnage of 10000 tons. She was
built in England and was launched in
January, 1858.
The first newspaper published in
North America was the Boston NeaUs-
Letter, commenced April "a, 17O4 It
was half sheet of paper, twelve by
eight inches, two columns on a page. It
survived seventy-four years.
A HUNDRED years ago carpets we're
hardly used at all by the middle and
lower classes, and the rich spread small
pieces in the center of their best rooms
but long before this time, in the DAYS
of Edward l., we hear of carpets, often
of very rich and costly materials.
CARD or pasteboard, in all its vari-
cites, is made by FASTING together sheets
of paper and afterward subiecting them
to pressure. This can be made so firm
and hard that, in one instance, paper
manufacturer rooted part of his mill
with stout board made of brown pa
per.
In sculpture relieve is species Of
carving or chiseling in which the figures
are engraved on, or raised from, a
ground. There are three sorts basso.
relieve, or has relief, in which the flo.
ures have small projection from the
ground on which they are sculptured
mezzo-relievo, in which the figures
stand out about half their natural pro.
portions; alto-relevo, in which the fig
ures stand completely out from the
ground, attached to it only in a few
| places.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

The telephone has had new use dis
overed for it, the accurate determine
on of the time of fight Of small-arm
roiectiles. Two telephones are used,
ne placed within few feet of the gun
nd left open to receive and transmit
he sound of the discharge, the other in
he shelter-proof near the target. With
stop watch beating fourths of second
he period between the discharge of the
Juliet and its reception by the target
,rovided it hits-can be measured with
efficient accuracy for all practical pur-
)Oses
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

The distress occasioned by the open
winter in New York is terrible in some
directions. A local paper notes that
signs Of retrenchment among plumb
9rs are everywhere visible. A Nine
zenith street plumber recently sold
three pairs Of carriage horses;
3 well-known plumber in Fourth
avenue has advertised his steam yacht
Tor sale, and another plumber of almost
equal notoriety, living in Brooklyn,
sold, early last week, $3,000,000 worth
of railway securities to enable him to
pay his grocers' and wine merchants
bills for the last six months"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

CHICAGO now has right to claim the
proud title of the city of hogs. In 1854
Chicago murdered only 52,S49 hogs,
While Cincinnati killed 421, 900. This
year Cincinnati slaughtered 1854,
While hoggish Chicago got away with
100000. Even st. Louis is ahead of
Cincinnati on the hog business. In the
after city this year 979, 261 porkers de-
,arted this life.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25
DR.. HOLMES, at the dinner in Boston.

DIR. HOLMES, at the dinner in Boston,
gave an interesting account of his con-
nection with the atlantic. Mr.. Lowell,
he said, who was the original editor
chad fancy that I could be useful as a
contributor, and woke me from kind
of literary lethargy, in which I was half
slumbering, to call me to active service.
Remembering some crude papers OF
mine in an old magazine, it occurred
to me that their title might serve for
some fresh papers, and so [ sat down
and wrote off what came into my head
under title The Autocrat of the Break
fast Table This work was not the re-
sult of an express generalization, but
was, as may say, dipped from the
running stream of my thoughts. It's
very kind reception encouraged me,
and you know the consequences, which
have lasted from that day to this"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25
History In Brief.
Here is a short story of Mississippi

Here is short story of Mississippi
justice:
Chap James A Barksdale was nominated
as Chancery Clerk of Yazoo county.
Chap. II Henry M. Dixon announced him
self as independent candidate for Sheriff Of va
ZOO county.
Chap. Ill delegation of the most respected
citizens of Yazoo waited upon Capt. Dixon and
strongly advised him to retire from his candi-
dacy Dixon complied with their polite request,
but
Chap. w. He afterward reconsidered his de-
termination, and again took the field, where
upon
Chap. Y. James A. Barksdale went out at
noon to meet Dixon, with shotgun in his
hand, fred upon him at short range, unarmed.
in the open street, and killed him.
Chap. VI. Barksdale was formally arrest
ed, but released on bail on his own recog-
nizance.
Chap VII. The election was held, and James
A. Barksdale was triumphantly elected Chan
Gerry Clerk by grateful people.
Chap. VIII The Grand Jury investigated the
shooting affair thoroughly, and found no in
dictment against Barksdale
THE END.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25
OUR LITTLE FOLKS.
At Bedtime.


@Muzzer. what is bod DOM
When I'm fass asleep at night!
Is He hawai- a big party.a
Wiz We angels dwest in white9
Cos, you know He's never sleepy!
II I was as big as bod is,
Idont b1eeye that neither'd r.
3Muzzer. do We flowers know it.
When tell 'em vey are sweet9
Say is vat we truly weason
Why vey bob so wound my feet?
Huh We wind never saw It'll
Seems to me it's awful fin!
If bod ever means to show it,
Fink it's time He should bedin'.
"Muzzer. lots of stars lass evenin'
Tumbled right down from We sky
Vey were baby stars-So teentyl
And, oh muzZer. yey could fly
Cos cwept out to We Winder.
And watched 'em dance and hop.
DON'T wish cid Uncle Benny
Kept 'em in his candy shopl
eco to sleep? JUS wish, muzzer.
You would let alone!
It bod ever lets We Wind out,
will have some of my own
Ven I'll blow We stars to pieces,
And Ell scatter all the flowers!
Hum-m! I'll smash fngs when get it !'-
What a naughty lad is ours!
LuCRECF
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

by certain Washington agents, who
have, under this pressure, been able to
collect from their clients large amount
Of money, and that the complaints and
protests OF the claimants are both
numerous and bitter. Claimants will
hereafter file their claims at the
Pension Office, and the correspondence
will be carried on with the claimant
direct
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25
Mr.. Yellow Jackets Cousins.

A cousin of the yellow jacket is the
hornet, an insect who is known for his
bad temper and also for the way in
which he sticks pins. In the town of
Chambe rsburg, Pa, a farmer entered
Mr.. J. S Nixon's drug store, holding in
his hand hornets nest as big as a
straw hat. Mr.. Nixon hung the nest
up over where gas was burning. Soon
ten hornets came out Of the nest very
unexpectedly and in ten seconds there
wasn't man in the store. Mr.. Nixon
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25
STORIES FOR CHILDREN.
An Odd Nest.

In the town Of Monongahela, which
is in The State of Pennsylvania, there
lives man named Mr.. Joseph H. Her
ron. Some time ago Mr.. Heron bought
one of those penhandles called the teIe-
scope, OR hollow handle. The handle
was made of tin, and little girl could
put her little finger in the hollow, so
big around was it. But Mr.. Heron
never used that pen except when he
would write with red ink, and that was
not more than once week. The other
day when he picked it up to use it out
flew wasp-like insect, known as the
yellow jacket. This insect is smaller
than the bee, and has yellow stripes all
over it's body-a very fashionable dress
among insects. no doubt. Mr.. Heron
put the pen down and watched. By
and-by back came Mr.. Yellow Jacket,
and, looking around to see that every
thing was right, crawled into the hol.
low. After watching for long while,
Mr.. Heron saw that Mr.. Yellow Jacket
and his wife had built their nest inside
the penholder and were raising family
of little yellow-jackets, too Mr.. Y. j.
would fly out and soon return with a
grain of sugar or some such food, and
Mrs. 7. J. would almost always meet
him as the door. IIr. Heron took up
the pen and wrote with it, and the
" scratch, scratch" did not suit the fami-
~, but when he laid it aside again they
busted themselves with the little Y. U.s..
as usual.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

ACCORDING to an accurate calcula-
ton there are $50 candidates for the
next general election in England to
contest 652 seats. In thirty boroughs
returning one member there are yet no
Liberal candidates, and in iftythree
there are no Conservative. In forty
four counties the Liberals have as yet
no candidate, and in twenty-six the
Conservatives none,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25
Mr.. Worst and the Hawk.

Here is another hawk story. This
hawk. though, is not French bird, but
a Pennsylvania one. While Mr.. Geo.
N. Worst "a funny name, isn't it; all
have heard of Mr.. Best, but who heard
of Mr.. Worst before ?)-while MIR.
Worst, who lives in Lancaster, was
shooting birds .out in the country he
saw large hawk sitting in tree. He
crept up very close and fred at the
hawk. The hawk fell to the ground.
Mr.. Worst ran to pick it up, and the
hawk kept quiet until he saw the hand
approaching. Then he pecked out with
his sharp beak and tore .e of Mr..
Wors,' 5 fingers almost off. Now, if it
we're not wicked to make what is called
a pun, or play upon words, one might
ask: "Did Mr.. Worst get the best of
it that timer"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

EIGHT of the eleven members of the
House Committee on Indian Affasri
IRE in favor of letting each State take
care of its own Indians. This plan
would afford the people of Colorado
heir much desired opportunity of wag-
ing war OF determination.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25
Jhe Nenoshu Telegraph
KENOSHA, WIS, DEC. IS, 1879.

A. THE reduction in rent made by Mr..
oarnell to his Irish tenants is 30 per
.ent. less than that made lasc year by
he Duke of Bedford (who has no Irish
property to his English tenants, and
ess tnan that made by many Irish land
Ords.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

Four colored men in Georgia are
worth over $4,000 each. The total
value of property owned by colored
men in that State is $3.50, 1898.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

The Russian missionaries in Japan
have succeeded in converting 1000
Japanese to their faith.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25
The Locomotive Hawk.

1t is very queer, but it seems that
there are rogues and rascals among ami
mails, fish and birds just as there are
among men. One of the worst rascals
among birds is the hawk. There lives
a cunning old hawk along railroad be-
tween the stations of Mesgviny and
Romilly, in France. He has lived on
the railroad for fifteen years and he has
reason for not moving to some other
part of the country. One of the en-
gineers on that road says that he will
fly along with the train, going fast
when the train goes fast and slow when
the train slackens it's speed. He knows
that all the little birds fly up from the
hedges and brushes by the side of the
track when the trains pass, and SO he
can easily pounce down on them. II it
were not for the train the old pirate
would have to 60 searching through the
woods and fields for his prey, because
birds know that they must hide from
him and that they can do it in every
other place except along the railroad.
In fact, they might see him there, but
he keeps himself hidden in the smoke
and steam made by the locomotive. It
is pity that the trains are not able to
run away from the hawk, but he can fly
all around them, however fast they may
be running.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

didn't know the hornets were there, but
they were, and had been warmed into
life by the gas.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

Cleaning out and filing up 5000 vaults,
$10 each ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1SU.UUU
Expense of earth-closets $40 each....... $4,000
Making connection with sewer, 1000
houses, 800 each. .................... 100000
Water rent, $50 each. Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
Two per cent. tax on $l6 000, 900. 100000
In addition to this, the other State and
county taxes will make the entire
amount foot up to an aggregate of 7
per cent. Tor 1880. But the Avalanche
wants to know IF it costs double that
sum, and the people are compelled to
pay 100000 to clean up the town and
free it from liability to epidemics, is
not that less expensive than for 10000
inhabitants to fee for their lives every
summer, and remain for four months
wandering refugees?"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25

The sanitary reforms that are pro-
posed in Memphis will amount to over
81 100000. Here are the items: