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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-09
A Sacred MOther.in.LaW.

Some Kaffir customs and rules of ETH
ouette are perplexing; such, for in
stance, as the one which forbids, under
the penalty of absolute social ostracism,
Kaffir lady to pronounce the name of
her husband, or otherwise indicate him,
save by some such figure as the sun, or
the star, or other similar metaphors.
And, though in the new-made bride a
few such slips are, by common consent,
forgiven, for man to commit such a
hideous breach of decorum as to breathe
the name of his mother-in-law, or even
to hint at the existence of the lady, con-
stitutes so great an enormity that I have
never been able to meet with an au-
thenticated instance of its having been
committed. Temple Bar.
l.. j. T.
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re number of European immigrants
ing at New York during the twelve
;hs ending Aug. 81, was 1OS,5O7,
z an increase of 33,472 over the
GER landed during the preceding
re months. Of the 1881 immi-
IS who arrived in August, 3,775
from England, 1907 from Ireland,
from Germany, 1908 from Swe-
558 from Norway, 648 from Scot
and the remainder from the sew
,ther European nationaities.
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The Spelling-RefOrm Outlook.

At the conclusion of his essays on
"Spelling Reform " in .Scrib1aer's
Monthly, Prof. Lounsbury, of Yale,
makes this vigorous summing up of the
subject:
These are the objections to any alter
alton of English photography that are
most commonly urged. There are 9TH
ers, but they are directed not against
reform in itself, but rather against the
proposed methods of reform. The OBJ
ject of these articles has been to show
the existence and n.ture of disease,
not to discuss methods of cure. For
the difficulty in this matter is that, hay
ing become acclimated in childhood, we
have forgotten in what an unhealthy
photographed climate we are living, or
have become Indifferent to it. Yet it is
not so much that the public is opposed
to remedying what it deems evil; it
simply does not see that there is an
evil. To remove the hold that the
present spelling has upon the feelings
of most persons is one of the first steps
that must be taken before reform of
any kind can hope to receive serious
consideration; and because it's hold is
upon the feelings and not the intellect,
it is necessarily work that cannot be
accomplished in day. The ignorant
and almost puerile preiudices that are
displayed in reference to this subject
are likely to end for nearly all who are
now swayed by them only with their
lives; but it is possible to prevent their
perpetuation and spread, We cannot
expect any reform to be fairly examined
so long as in the eyes of educated men
the spelling of particular word
in particular way is particular
evidence of total depravity. There is
no objection under our present system
to any person writing metre" with re,
and it's compound, diameter" with er.
1t is only when he insists that, where
everything is irrational, his particular
irrationality shall be looked upon as
contribution to the purity of the En-
gllsh tongue, that his ignorance makes
of him nuisance. 1t is full time for
us to abandon groveling superstition,
which in the minds of many has con-
founded the worship of the letter with
the worship of letters. If we cannot
free ourselves from the trammels of our
present photography, we can certainly
free ourselves from the absurd notion
that there is anything about it either
respectable or reasonable; and those
who come after us may be at liberty to
consider and remedy some, if not all, of
the evils under which we are now suf-
fering. If, in the future, to schemes of
reform can be given that careful and
candid examination which hitherto
every single one of them has been pre-
vented from receiving by stupid preju-
dices and stupid fancies which their
owners have dignifed with the name of
ideas; if this can be given, we may hope
that, after numberless failures, success
will be attained; that the language we
speak will not be forever disgraced by
an photography, to the vicious varia-
tions of which, when we set out to learn
it, we can see no end, and in which,
after having learned it, we can find no
sense.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-09

THE Official Journal of st. Peters
burg has published the report of the
fires in Russia in the month of July.
There were 1883, and the total loss is
estimated at over 100000 of rubles.
The causes of fire were incendiarism in
424 cases, neglect in 674 cases, light.
ming in 374 cases, and the remainder
undiscovered.
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A NEGRO at Murfrees5oro, Tenn,
aged 103, has just married his seventh
wife, who is 80.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-09

SOME landlords in Ireland are inc eas-
ing instead of decreasing their rents.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-09

1t II you would. Inc cry that comes up TO you
from the South is that you right wrong.
Justice demands in trumpet tones of you that
you grid up your loins and meet the issue made
by the Democratic party. You cannot compro-
mise with wrong Justice will have its full
and perfect work. Justice is of God, and, like
Him, it is eternal; its eye is never closed in
slumber; its forehead knows not the shadow Of
WEAKNESS; at it's command are weapons fash
toned and tempered in the armories of the
Eternal The right may 60 down; wo, sorrow,
devastation may spread all over the land; but
at last justice, with flaming sword, will march
over all its enemies; the majesty Of Gods
great laws will be vindicated; the right will
triumph, and the wrong will perish.
OF all the nations Of the earth, we ought to
be the last to seek to compromise with wrong.
We tried for nearly hundred years to COM
promise with the crime of human
slavery upon this continent. In our
hearts we knew it's infamy. Our con-
sciences refused to bow to the accursed
wrong, yet, in spite Of heart and conscience,
we sought to uphold and sustain, strengthen
aud project it. At the demands of it's advo-
Gates we struck the brightest jewel from the
Declaration of Independence; we allowed the
importation of slaves till 1908; we passed the
Missouri Compromise; we enacted the Fugitive
Slave law; we placed the courts, the bar, the
press, the pulpit, and the social life of this
great nation at the feet Of the slave power; we
outraged truth; we scorned justice; we exulted
in our infamy; we defed God and set at naught
the reason and instinct with which He has
crowned u.s. The cry of Gods poor fell I'M
needed upon our ears, until at last all over this
land the cloud Of Gods displessure gathered,
and out from it's awful bosom the bolted light
ming Of His wrath fell, crushing and destroy
ing. Near half million graves, lifting them
selves to the quiet skies to-day bear silent but
mighty witness to US Of the awful punishment
just God sends upon those who forget the
right in blind devotion to the wrong See to it,
men of Ohio, that this great question of right
and justice is not set aside upon any plea Of OK
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-09-11
KILLING A BIG SNAKE.

The biggest snake Connecticut has
produced in this century was killed in
Westford, Windham county, Conn.,. one
day last week. Mr.. Allen, who killed
the snake, Is an enterprising farmer OF
unimpeachable veracity, and his story OF
the fight is corroborated by coterie OF
friends who saw and assisted in the scene.
Mr.. Allen had been trimming his
orchard trees, using keen-edged sickle
to lop off the sprouts. He was interrupt
ed by party of acquaintances who drove
to h;s door and asked him to guide them
to huckleberry pasture on his farm.
He cheersully consented, and started off
at the head of the troop in his shirt
sleeves and with iiis sickle in his hand.
A monster boulder uplifts itself at the
entrance of the pasture, and is girt on
one side by narrow ledge that seems to
have been made especially for snakes to
sun themselves on AS Mr.. Allen passed
this rock he saw an enormous black coil
as big as a rubber fire hose lying notion
less on the stone. 1t was great serpent,
fast asleep, basking in the sun. A young
and incautious member of the party at
once hurled his dinner pail at the snake,
striking it in the centre of the coil. The
snake sleepily raised its head, saw The
empty dinner pail, and the party gazing
with deepening interest.
Mr.. Allen AYERS, and his friends also
say, that the serpent eyed them for an
instant with glittering, icy smile, its
tail vibrating with such rapidity that it
was invisible at first. Its tongue darted
in and out of its jaws with almost incon-
ceivable velocity. The first impulse of
the party was to turn and rnn. They
plunged through the blackberry and
huckloberry bushes in headlong panic,
Mr.. Allen covering the rear. Looking
over his shoulders, he saw the snake fol
lowing. with its mouth wide open. He
continued his flight, but the serpent
gained on him, and at length, just as the
serpent's head was overtopping his
shoulder, he turned suddenly and cut at
the serpent's crest and neck with his
keen-edged sickle. The snake lodged
the blows, and the party, ceasing their
fight, one by one closed in on the snake
with fence rails, blackberry briars, stone
slabs and other missiles, and there was
long and fierce fight. 1t was not until a
quarter of an acre of pasture had been
tramped over that the snake was killed.
1t measured just II feet and 5 inches,
and the thiokest part of its body was as
large around as an ordinary tea kettle.
In its stomach was found the remains of
Mr.. Aliens choicest rooster, which he
had missed from his ropst O few days
previously. As many other fowls had
mysteriously disappeared lately, Mr. AL
len conieetures that they had been seized
by the snake.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-09-11
LOCOMOTIVE SPEED.

'How fast do you think we are travel
ing ?" Charley Fraser, one of the oldest
engineers of the New York, Lake Erie
aid Western railway, asked Sun re-
porter as they were rushing over the
meadows On the foot board of locomotive
No. 800, toward Ruthford Park.
81 should think we were going nearly
mile minute"
ga mile minute % said Fraser. 81
doubt if you ever rode a mile minute.
Few locomotives have driving wheels
over five feet, and I have my doubts if a
five wheeler can be pushed o mile min
ute. People have very erroneous idea
of the speed of railroad trains. We are
not going now more than thirty five
miles an hour, Fand this is very FAST
Few trains make this speed. The pass
engers in ihe cars would think we were
going mile minute sure, if I was to
pull out the throttle so as to send her
forty miles an hour. The express
trains make no such time as the local
trains. Where we lose is with SO many
stops. No man can stand O. q platform
car and face the wind going mile a
milo "a minute, and live. The breath
would actually be blown out of his body.
You couldn't count the telegraph poles
going mile e minute. Talk to- an old
engineer Of that rate being made by a
passenger train. and ho would laugh. ]
| made mile q minute once, however. 1t
was when was but Is years of age. I
was an engineer then, in charge Of six
foot wheel locomotive. ghere were a
lot of railr2aa moguls on board, and the
| object was to make the best time we
could. They were to ring the gong
when the speed was q milo 1ainute. |
thought we waYa rlaking it some time
hefoTa the hell rung. At length, on a
down grade, with a full head of steam,
when we We're spinning along as if VIC
were all going to destruction, and one
motion Of tha piston going over the
eensre could no longer be distinguished,
the bell rang. We had reached the rate
of mile minute. 1t was tie fastest
ever rode, before CT aimee. I tried hard
| to ,caAa mile minute on subsequent
miles, but lacked it three or four seconds
every time. I copldn'. squeeze anothe,
mile inside of the sixty seconds.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-09-11
THE WHIPPING POST.

LONDON, Ontario, Sept. 3rd. "A Mum
cey Indian named Josia Ii. Doxtater, re-
siding with his red brethren, on Della
ware reservation, some Is miles from this
city, while here recently selling a load of
potatoes got drunk and committed an in
| decent assault upon six year old girl
| named Prudhalme, He escaped to the
Reservation, but on his first reappear
ance in the city was arrested and sentenc-
ed by Judge Davis to be imprisoned
three months in the common jail, with
| hard labor, and receive twenty five lashes
| with an instrument known as the "cat. ;"
The prisoner, who Is about % years of
age, short, heavy set, and Yilianous look
ing, accepted the sentence with apparent
indifference. He refused to reveal the
names of the parties who sold him liquor,
| it being against the law to sell Indians
liquor. The whipping took place yester-
day. It is the fourth affair of the kind
that has taken place here within the last
two years in the Jail yard. A tripod was
erected, on which three culprits have
been whipped for outrages. Doxtater
had laugh on his face. His back was
barred; his wrists strapped to the upper
| parts of the arm Of the triangle, and his
knees and ankles to the lower part, throw
ing him back. The only sign of nervous
ness manifested was quick look at ''Cat
of Nine Tails" which was in the hands of
stout expert, who had been drummer
in the 23d British Regulars. The ''cat''
had short handle and nine throngs of
hard, heavy cord yard long, with nine
knots in each. At command of the sher-
if the "cat" was fourished around the
whipper's head with q quick jerk and
whistled through the air and fell with a
sharp thud over the left shoulder blade
making large blue marks at each thud.
The lashed flesh was cut open but the
prisoners muscle did not quiver. Twen-
ty-fve lashes were given with all the
power of the strong man. In one place,
not bigger than two hands, it caused the
flesh to creep up into small squares out
of which blood trickled. But few of the
crowd of sixty could look at it. Through.
out, the indian never fiinched, and afte,
the last blow, which Vas given with extra
vigor, the sheriff cried ''enough," and
Doxter laughed and said ''Bully for In.
dian" When he was released the porter
asked him how he felt; he answered
''feel him BACK, very Inuoh." The In.
dian asked the whipper TOR ''chew bac
cer, and grabbed pipe out of the
mouth of the turnkey and went to smok
ing. but it was taken from him. HI.
wognds were washed with salt and water
to prevent inflammation, and that made
Josiah vince worse than the fogging
He will be released in six weeks, ana
sent back to the Reservation. He re-
Gently served severalmonths for simi
lar crime.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-09-11
THAT NOBLE ANIMAL THE-JACK.
ASS.

john A. Rockafellow writes from Ari-
zona to friend in this city an account
OF q very amusing adventure he had with
cinnamon bear. The latter, is a very
ugly customer to close with, but our
friend was delivered in the most unex-
pected manner, as will be seen by the
following: Last night I was coming
up from Santa Cruz valley, eighteen
miles below. was riding buro jackass,
but on coming "a very steep hill, dis
moEn!ai and was slowly walking up,
when L came to an immense cinnamon
bear, less than twenty feet away. Of
course to run waa out OF the question, so
L stoad and eyed the old fellow and he
stood and eyed me as l slowly pulled
out my six shooter from the holster.
Old bear hunters say it isn't safe to
tackle cinnamon with q rigo carrying
less than seventy grains OF powder, and
then give lin, dead shot as the CHINA
nloas arc worse than the grizzlies. /
didn't have my rifle with me, ard as my
six shooter only uses % OF powder |
concluded wes not looking for a fight
unleaa the bear was. Whatever his in.
tentions were / don't know; but my huro
Gackass), who was some distance ahead
just then caught sight oi him, and, in.
stead of running away as one would
eypeos, started for Mr.. Bruin with tai
and ears erect, and to cap the climax
commenced to bray. This was toe
much and the old bear started as if he
was shot out of gun. He just tore ar
the ground, and when he couldn't rur
fast enough he rolled down the mountain
side. old Baalam' has played that
trick before with me when I have been
trying to got up to deer, and I have
always pounded him for it, but last night
concluded would give him a leather
medal. ."-Syracuse Herald,
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But in the supreme instant he was
spared. A man sprang up, and almost
dragged him from his horse, receiving
as he did so, the lance in his own bosom.
General p cried Valore-for the man
was he-smy life belongs to you and to
France !" and he fell with the blood
pouring from the jagged wound in his
breast, helpless and unconscious.
1t was over--the day was won. With
mighty cry of triumph the victorious
army swept over the plain, leaving the
dead and wounded upon the blood soaked
field.
In his tent, Europe's conquerer was
thanking heaven for its favors, and
dreaming already of new worlds and new
people 70 subdue.
The day will never be forgotten. Its
victory and multitude OF slain will be
remembered as long as history lives.
But there were deeds of yalor performed
on those Egyptian sands that deserved
loftier monuments and louder praises
than were sung over their naked bones
by the hyena and carrion bird.
Among these obscure heroes was Pierre
Valore, whose name, although unknown
t. fame, still found place in the memo
ry and gratitude of the Indispensable
man he Lad saved.
Bonaparte never forgot Pierre Valore's
generous salvation of his life from the
mameluke's lance. His preserver could
never go to the wars again. Death long
hovered over him; his words always
rang in the great conqurer's ears; there
was no man in France who kept warmer
place in the Emperor's usually cold
heart than Pierre Valore.
In his quiet home, with his sweet
heart who would have scorned him for
asking parting kiss, now his wife, and
the mother of his children, Valore, with
his badge of the Legion Of Honor on his
heart, watched the tides of battle from
afar, unable to take part III them. Ma
poleon was his god.
On his return to Paris the Empeor
chose the violet flower as his favorite
emblem. He never gave any reason for
its selection; but long afterward it was
said by veteran of the "Old Guard"
that the origin of the emblem could not
be traced beyond the battle of the Pyra
mids. He added, also that hardly any
other subject would make the masters
CHEEKY voice tremble, or make the pure,
unclouded brow grave.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-09-11
RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE.

Reading Eagle: Near Orwigsburg
Pa, yesterday, G. Herman, well-to-dc
farmer, narrowly escaped being killed by
an OK which was suffering from hydro
nSobia. The animal had been raised by
Mr.. Herman. A few days ago it was bit
ten by dog supposed to be mad. On
Wednesday evening Mr.. Herman noticed
that the OK acted strangely, and he penn.
| ed it up in shed in the barnyard. About
O'Clock yesterday morning he was awak
ened by hearing strange sounds in the
direction of the barn. Supposing that
one OF his horses was unwell, he went
out, and was surprised to see the OK raw
ing around the barnyard, uttering low
groans and tearing up the ground with
its horns. When Mr.. Herman entered
the yard the OK stopped its antics, and
he approached it. When he was about
twenty feet from the animal it lowered
it's head, and, with roar, made rush
at him. The man retained his presence
OF mind, and as the animal approached
he stepped to one side, but in doing so
he was struck in the face by hoof. He
staggered to his feet and made toward a
garden fence, but the OK turned and
charged after him. The distance was
about thirty yards, and the race was won
bt the man, who reached the fence and
fairly threw himself over it. Before he
could rise from the ground there was a
terrible crash, and the OK dashed through
the fence, scattering the boards right and
left and rolling headlong over Mr.. Her.
man. It didn't take the man long to get
on his feet and escape over another fence,
which surrounds the house. His clothes
were badly used up, and his face was
covered with blood from the wound caus-
ed by the kick he had received; but he
was not seriously injured.
After getting gun and loading it with
powder and handful of bird shot wrapp-
ed in a rag, Herman returned to the fray.
He found the OK paving the ground
wrathfully, and pausing occasionally to
dig his horns viciously into it, at the
same time giving vent to roars that could
be heard more than mile away. The
animals head was covered with blood
from cuts received by butting its way
out of the stable, and great quantities Of
saliva issued from it's mouth. Herman
mounted stone wall which runs along
one side of the garden, and from that
place fired two shots at the infuriated OK
The first shot took effect in its neck, and
only seemed to increase its rage, for with
blind fury it charged at the stone wall
and battered its head against the stones.
'pae second shot, however, struck the OK
in the side and killed it. On going to
the stable where the animal had been
penned the night before, Herman found
the sides of that structure completely
battered to pieces, and in another part of
the yard he found hog, weighing near
ly 200 pounds, dead, and gored to a
shapeleSS mass of ielly.
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THE OTHER SARTORIS.

After the country had been several
days sympathizing with Gen. Grant and
Mrs. Grant in their grief at the death of
their daughter the agent of the press at
London has discovered and announces
that it is not their daughter at all who
has died, but her mother-in.law, Mrs. E.
Sartoris, lady better known to an older
generation as Adelaide Kemble, daugh-
ter ct Charles Kemble-the brother of
John Philip Kemhle.by bis wife Marie
Therese, clever actress of Viennese
birth and French descent, who began
life on the stage as danseuse. Adelaide
Kemble was the younger sister of Mrs.
Anne Kemble Butler and of John Nit
chell Kemble, one of the most eminent
of Anglo Saxon scholars and historians,
who died in 1852 leaving his great work
on the ''Saxons in England unfinished.
Adelaide Kemble, who was gifted with
singular beauty, and with a voice of ex-
quisite quality and rare compass, very
early in life became an opera artist, and
on the stage of Covent Garden Theatre
during her brief but triumphant career
as prima donpa-won great distinction
by her dramatic force as we'll as by her
vocal endowments and her artistic train
ing. The best judges Of the day pro-
nounced Pasta to be her only superior in
the role of Norma" She married while
still very young Mr.. Edward Sartoris,
the son of Greek merchant established
in France, who had married in England
and who purchased property there, and
retiring from the s.ise became one of the
recognized leaders of the most brilliant
and intellectual if not the most fashion
able society of London. Afew years be-
fore her sons marriage to tha daughter
of President Grani she had contributed
Ill serial form to one of the English ma
gazines some charming papers on social
life IN France, which were repuhlisked
under the title of "a Week IL a French
Country House." both at London aud at
New York. Adelaide Kemble was
strangely unlike her more famous but
not more fortunate sister, MIs. butler,
and inherited raere of Charles Kemble' 8
quiet dignity and gentle social graces.
Her welded life was long and ? happy
one, yet she dies o2.y IN the Goth year OF
he- ase,-a fact which viii startlingly re.
mind many people in this city who assist.
ed at the American debut Of her brilliant
sister in New York iorty-five years ago
that they must no longer include them
selves among the heady youth of the
present day.