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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23

James Shields has been elected Sena-
tor for the short term and George G.
Vest, Senator for the long term. by
the Legislature of Missouri, each hav-
ing obtained majority of each House
taken separately.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23

The Wisconsin, Dairymen's Associa-
ton is now-WednesRlay afternoon
in session in Kenosha holding IT'S Sew
enth Annual meeting and is large at
tended. But rs We are now ready to
go to press we can not give the pro-
ceedings in this paper.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23

VICK's FLORAL GUIDE.-This work
IS before us, and those who send five
cents to JAMES WICK. Rochester, n. Y :,
for it will be disappointed. Instead of
getting cheap thing, as the price
would seem to indicate, they will re-
ceive a very handsome work of 100
pages, and perhaps 500 Illustrations
not cheap, but elegant illustrations, on
the very best Of calendared paper, and
as a set-off to the whole, an elegant
Colored Plate, that we would Judge
cost twice the price of the book.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23
THE DEATH INSTANTANEOUS.

THE DEATH INSTANTANEOUS.
On Monday evening last just as the
Kenosha train approached the crossing
south Of the bridge in this city, a wo-
man was seen to be standing upon the
track. The engineer whistled to warn
her of her danger and the brakes were
applied, but she was either so Devil
dered as not to know she was in dan
ger, or powerless from some cause to
escape. At any rate she was struck by
the locomotive and instantly killed.
The train was Immediately brought to
a stop and the remains conveyed to
the depot A throng Of people visited
the depot during the next half hour
and it was finally decided that the de-
ceased was Mrs. Bridget Gibbs, a wo-
man of something over seventy years
of age, who resided alone in shanty
near the railroad some distance south
If the scene of the accident.
Colonel Barney happened to be in
town and on Tuesday summoned ajury
to determine the cause and the blame,
| if any. After listening to the evidence
they returned a verdict in accordance
with the facts above written, entirely
generating the engineer, fireman and
other train hands and recommending
| that action be taken to render the rail
road crossing more secure.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23
John Dillon.


One OF the largest as we'll as one of
The most cultivated audiences that has
ever assembled at the Opera House.
welcomed our old favorite, John Dill
Ion, and his excellent company last eve
ming, in "My Awful Dad" which has
created such furore in New York; it
is new play, and abounds in fun and
mlrth-provoking hits, and we doubt if
the imagination Of the most sensation
al play-writer of the age could conceive
a better character than that of Major
Adonis Evergreen for the great COM
edlan; it's fun, and perfect stream
OF it, from the the commencement to
the end, there's no let up, the audience
ls convulsed with laughter from the
ZINE the curtain goes Up until it comes
down on the last act, a laugh which
was contagious and swept over the
house from parquette to gallery in an
instant. It wasn't G. smile Or a giggle.
but a loud uproarlous laugh, INDUCED
in by all, both the young and the old
those who went to the Opera House
with the blues had 'em knocked out
Of them by my Awful Dad.
Mr.. Dillon is supported by the finest
company he ever had in this ety.
! Peoria Transcript
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23
bl Z u.

pAKKERAAA At CfafSton. ri, Jan. Is, 1879, Leila
charlotte, eldest daughter Of sGeorge T. and
Frances Parker. 'agsd III years, 3 rsenths.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23
Letters.

xAW VOA UA0CN AEE U UE@X 2
vIsHE following is a list Of letters remaining un-
= called for at the kenosha Post Office. Keno
sha County. Wis, for the week ending Jan. o.
1879, and which will be sent to the Dead Letter
Office at the expiration OF 80 days unless called
for.
Bloomanhow Henry Rafferty, Frank
Barns Peter& Co Rogers Thomas
Esser Mr. f Stoerkel Henry
Faulkner Mr. Vale Mtss Alice
LANCER Frank Webber M
UNAVAILABLE,
d Fisk & Co-Chicago Ill.
John Hansen, Racine Wis,
To obtain any OF tina above letters the appli-
cant must give the date OF this list
.& CHARLES FRANTZ. r. M.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

See LYMAN e Sons advertisement.
Chew JACKsoN's BEST Sweet Navy Tobacco
G. III. Sager has returned to Kenosha
Use Acme Backing. 1t is the best
Sold by JOS. Fl. Meyers. 26tf
Ladies Cloaks cut and fitted at
20tf GROsCH & EICHELMAN's.
An unfounded rumor was prevalent
on the street last week that q man
named Houston had been murdered at
the Town of Bristol.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23
Kf A "

We keep hay for sale by the cargo or
by the single bale, deliverable in any
part of the city. Also loose hay and
Dat and Rye straw by the load.
1tf DURKEE & Co.
At the annual meeting of the Keno
sha County Historical Society, held
last Thursday evening, the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: President, Josiah Bond; Vice
President, Volney French; Secretary,
Geo. w. Waryelle; Treasurer, F. II.
Lyman.
Ruchings, Veilings, Velvet, Ribbons,
&c. The best in the market, sold at
Watson & Wizards Millinery Rooms,
where Mrs. Watson is making fine
dresses to the satisfaction of custom
ers. Only two blocks south Of the
Grant House, COWS
S. Y. Brande has applied for an in
junction restraining the collection of
lis taxes, amounting to some 5000.
The complaint alleges illega1ity in the
levy Of the tax. AS the proceeding
will cost the county several hundred
dollars irrespective ii The final issue,
The dear taH-payers can lock for a
heavy dfnught on their purses next
year
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23

No lack Of ADJUSTMENTS this week.
Witness Paul Sauber's elegant new
sign.
Business in the Justice Courts is
brisk.
Where is that long talked of anna
teur concert?
The choir of st. Matthew's Church
Is now conceded to be the finest must
cal org anization in the city.
The hearing in Railway extension
matter has been adjourned for two
weeks.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-02
Packing a Trunk.

"The man who takes over ten min
utes to pack a trunk is dolt!" said
Mr.. Bowerman, as he slammed down
the lid and turned the key. Mrs.
Bowerman had been at it just seven
days and seven nights, and when her
husband went up stairs at 10 o'clock
she sat down before the open trunk
with tears in her eyes. "You see how
it is" she explained, as he looked down
upon her in awful contempt. five got
only part of my dresses in here, saying
nothing of thousand other things, and
even now the lid won't shut down.
I've got such a headache I must lop
down for few minutes" She went
away to lop, and Mr.. Bowe1man sat
down and mused: "Space is space.
The use of space is in knowing how to
utilize it." Removing everything, he
began repacking. He found that silk
dress could be rolled to the size of a
quart jug. A freshly-starched lawn was
made to take the place of pair of slip
pers. Her brown bunting fitted into
the niche she had reserved for three
handkerchiefs, and her best bonnet was
turned bottom-up in it's box and packed
full Of Undertaking. He sat there
viewing sufficient empty space to pack
in whole bed, when she returned, and
said he was the only good husband in
this world, and she kissed him on the
nose as bet turned thekey. It's simply
the difference between the sexes" was
his patronizing reply, as he went down
stairs to turn on the burglar-alarm.
When that wife opened that trunk !
But screams and shrieks would avail
nothing.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-02
Trees and Health.

Everybody knows that trees take the
carbonic acid thrown out in the breath
OF men and animals, separate it into its
component parts-carbon and oxygen
give back the latter to be used over
again, and work up the former into wood
and fruits.
It is also coming to be generally I'M
derstood that forest trees do important
service in promoting rainfalls, and in
helping to retain the surface-w water for
springs, streams and general use.
It is also known that certain species.
planted in malarial localities, help to
render the latter healthy by somehow
using up the deadly miasma.
It would now appear that trees grow
ing near drains carry off the sewage
water.
/ A gentleman, whose cess-drain was
constructed just like his neighbors' and
in the same kind of soil, had found it
unnecessary to clean it out, while the
others had to be cleaned out frequently.
An examination showed that three
large trees, whose roots had penetrated
into the vicinity of his second, or waste,
cess-pool, we're clearly the channels
through which the waste all escaped.
Whether it was changed into plant
food, as is likely, or was exhaled through
the leaves, in either case twas disposed
of with equal safety.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-02
Historical.

"Now, ladies and gentleman" shout
ed the book-agent; "before the picnic
concludes, I want to sell every one OF
you a copy of the Life of Pocahontas.'
She was an Indian girl, Poky was-they
called her Poky for SHORTCUT she
wasn't the kind that went around ped
ding baskets and blow-guns. Not fire.
quently. She sta. ed at home playing
croquet in the front yard, or went to
the Ladies' Aid Society, and didn't
take no coppers off O nobody. The
celebrated John Smith came travelling
them parts as agent for family paper,
but Poky wouldn't let her father raise a
club. She married Smith afterward,
and the last act of her life was to die OF
consumption" Just here Officer Uncle
Sammy Jones approached with shot
gun, and the meeting adjourned.-Neu
Orleans Times.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IT was not until 1880 that wheat
found it's way into Mexico, and then
only by chance. A slave of Cortez
found few grains of wheat in a parcel
of rice and showed them to his master,
who ordered them to be planted. The
result showed that wheat would thrive
we'll on Mexican soil; and to-day one of
the finest wheat valleys in the world is
near the Mexican capital.
The tallest men of whom record is
made we're German named Hans Bar
and Hungarian soldier, name not
given, who lived several centuries ago,
each of them being eleven feet hi h ;
their Weights not known. The heaviest
man of whom record is made was Miles
Darden, the Tennessee giant, who was
seven and one-half feet high and
weighed over 1000 pounds; he died in
1857. Daniel Lambert, the English
mass of flesh" was five feet and eleven
inches in height, and weighed 739
pounds.
SOME one truthfully says that the
science of mechanics draws it's vitality
from coal and iron. Coal emancipates
iron from its crudeness and furnishes it
with power as an instrument of COM
merce. The union of these two minerals
has solved the question of production,
and has rendered distribution easy.
The world is embarrassed only with the
difficulty of consumption. Coal fashions
iron and drives the finished machine.
The dirty thing is the great vehicle of
civilization. Iron is an instrument;
coal is cause. Iron is an agent of
industry, and coal is master power.
ESPRIT photography" is explained
by Rochester photographer: !" take
a piece of glass and on it paste the
photographed heads Of such spirits as
I wish to produce in hazy outlines
about the head of the sitter-so. In
the center of the glass put nothing,
but arrange the spirits in semi-cir-
Gle. Then from this prepared plate I
take negative, and afterwards posi-
tive. When a sitter comes for photo
graphs I take negative just as Iwould
any ones. When the printing is done
I place the positive plate of the sitter
under the positive plate of the Spirits
and allow the sun to print both. The
'spirits being in semi-circle, the fin
ished photograph appears as if the sitter
were surrounded by heads in the air."
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-02
Daniel BOOne'S Snake.

A writer in the Cincinnati CONNER
cial deserves the ribbon for the
champion snake story of the season.
The narrator tells how he was engaged
in blasting with gunpowder some large
and tough logs. From one of the logs
thus split open crawled an enormous
serpent, which was easily killed. The
man who tells the story continues from
this point as follows: "On stretching it
out I found it to be 81 feet and inches
in length, and the thickest part of it's
body measured 20 inches in circunfer-
ence. It was different species of SER
pent from any had ever seen before.
Its tail was armed with sharp pointed
and curved horn; it's body was varie-
gated with alternate brown and dirty
yellow stripes, and on close examination
L discovered that it had been totally
blind, it's eyes seeming to have turned
into a refectionless, hard, bone-ike
substance. This explained it's unde-
cided, hesitating movements when it
first came from the log. A strange
crease appeared about the neck, just
back of the head, which I found to be
caused by stout thong of leather,
about which the flesh of the serpent
had grown until it had sunk almost out
of view. Cutting this thong and re-
moving it, I found attached to it's under
side a copper plate which had been
heretofore hidden by the body of the
snake, and on one side of which was
scratched ID. Boone, April Is, 1872
I split the log in two, and near the low
er end Of the hollow I found where
there had once been an opening, but
long years ago it had been closed up
with plug made of oak wood, above
and over which the maple had grown
until it was almost concealed. The
dead appearance of the small portion
visible of the oak plug, was all that
called my attention to it's existence.
Ny theory of the matter is this: Daniel
Boone many years ago, probably on the
date recorded on this piece of copper,
caught the snake, then young and small,
fastened the copper plate about it's neck,
and imprisoned it within the hollow of
the tree by the means of an oak plug,
where his snakeship had remained I'M
til the day I delivered him to the free
air and sunlight again."
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-02
Whistling in England.

There is much less whistling among
farmers men than forty or fifty years
ago, and less singing also. When I was
boy most of the men sang at pillow and
with their teams. Their voices, borne
over the hills by the breeze, were one
Of the charms Of country ramble.
They mostly sang love songs or senti-
mental ditties. I remember "The Mis-
tletoe Bough" was great favorite
with one Of my fathers men. Some
time ago remarked to the rector of a
neighboring parish how very seldom I
heard men singing at the pillow con-.
pared to when 1 was boy Herepled )
"That is because you were bred among
the hills, and now live in fat country ;
men don't sing in flat countries" I felt
this was correct. Milkmaids sang to
their COWS, without which it was be-
lieved they would not ''give their milk
down." If you meet country girl
nowadays and ask her, "Where ale
you going to, pretty maid?" you can
never say the reply was, <A-milking,
sir" for maids no longer milk, but leave
it to be done by men called "garthmen."
At the tfclippins" all the men are ex.
pected to sing, but those who could not
might whistle, as I have heard them
more than once. Like milkmaids;
<'clippins" have all vanished. Those
kindly gatherings, where the master
and his neighbors and his men all made
merry together, have all gone, and we
have steam plows and reaping machines
and labOrers' unions instead. Although
there is yet more singing in billy than
in fiat countries, it is certain that far
mers' men neither sing nor whistle half
as much as they used to do. AS far
back as I remember our middle classes
considered whistling vulgar Gas boys
were not allowed to whistle). It is pos
Dible the lAborers have now got to think
SO too. Railway trips, and more ready
access to towns, are bringing everything
to dead level, and gradually effacing
the old-fashioned country ways.-Notes
and Queries.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-02
The Medicine Man.

A colored man known as Uncle Squills
was yesterday circulating around the
City Hall with a basket of popcorn,
''warranted to cure dyspepsia in its most
aggravated FORM He had pretty fair
luck Tor a while, but at length came
across an official, who nibbled at the corn
and remarked: ...
''Uncle squills, I had always supposed
you to be an honest man.
$50 $50 u.s."
I'm afraid not. Here you are selling
op-corn under false pretences. You
know perfectly we'll that this corn won't
cure dyspepsia"
'sWell. sah-well," stammered the old
man, as he scratched his head.
"Come, now. Uncle squills, own right
up that this stuff won't cure dyspepsia, -
urged the official. #
swell, sah,' replied the old man, after
great mental struggle, 81 am not dun
certain bout the dishpepsy bizness, but,
TO- de Lawd, I do believe dat dis con
will turn de wuss case of consumpshun
wrong side out less'n free days by de
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-02
Cure for Snake.Bite.

Mr.. S. S. Bowmer says that the fol-
lowing is certain cure for snake bite,
viz: Take the leaves from the cotton
wood tree, make a strong tea of the
same, use freely internally, and battle
the wounded part we'll. His dog was
bitten by very large copperhead, and,
after running fifty yards, fell, and to
all appearances was in dying condi-
ton. he took the dog up in his arms
and carried it home, made tea of the
cottonwood leaves, bathed the part bit
ten, and poured about quart of the
liquid down the dogs throat. In about
fifteen minutes the dog was up, run
ming about, and in half an hour he was
out in the woods hunting up another
snake.-B1177aet (TeE.J Bulletin.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-02
A SagaciOus Mule.

A few days ago mule trotted up in
lmping way to blacksmith-shop and
deliberately walked into the shop. He
seemed to be very uneasy and restless,
exhibiting unmistakable signs Of pain.
The men in the shop were rather taken
aback by the mule who thus came to the
shop unbridled and loose. At last the
mule lifted up one Of his legs, and, with
a gesture of his head, directed the at
tention of one of the men to his foot.
It was then discovered that nail had
worked it's way into the flesh, evidently
causing the apparent pain. The nail
was then drawn out, and his muleship,
much relieved, gave snort of thanks.
A few moments after he trotted off,
much pleased, and has not been seen
SINCE Columbus (Ga.) Times.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-02
Blood. YeargO. Blood!

When the editors of the Okolona
States and Lemars Sentinel were in
troduced, the other day, they each took
three steps backward, and for some
minutes glared upon each other like
fierce Numidian lions. The Okolona
bowler was the first to find words, and
said:
"What!
Andis thoul
Come, then, bastard.
Let me have at thee,
And by the gods
That roost on high Olympus,
I'll eat ye up
In holy secondi
Ugh!
Big Injun, mel"
The Royal Bengal Badger OF the Sen
ti1ael displayed his fangs and rejoined
with his native ferocity:
" I thank the gods
For this opportunity
To call thee
To thy TEETH,
Liar!
Hippograff!
Hippopotamus!
Snide!
Shyster!
And baldheaaed snipe of the valley!
0, come and see me,
And I'll mop the ground
With your miserable carcass
Thou-thou-thou-.
Three-ply
And dou]oly dyed
Horse-thief,
And son of gun!"
But the Okolona bowler didn't come.
A by stander had seized the hem of his
coat-tail between the tips of his thumb
and finger and held him securely. So
thankful was the Iowa man that things
turned out as they did, that he went out
and breathed a silent prayer to Heaven.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-02
THE END OF THE WORLD.
BY CARRIE v. SHAW.

If such thing could be that the sad winds low
monotone
I am hearing for the last time as I'm sitting here
alone;
If this great world should suddenly stand still and
cold as stone,
What an awe-struck multitude would stand con-
fronting the Unknown!
In the passion of the anguish of the moment drear
aud lone,
Should find the icy barrier that pride has raised
down-thrown?
Would the deep, despairing bitterness that tinged
the dark years flown
Fade away when we were standing on the brink OF
time alone?
Oh! I journey through darksome swamps
where cypress leaves lie strown:
could black CULTS, though utting rocks left
feet all bleeding, torn;
Though falling timbers blocked my way, DER
mounds of crumbling stone
could journey through the darkness meath the
solemn skies, alone.
For the sake of the dear dream I dreamed, ere
wlsdom's glass had shown
All vanity and weakness and the heart had bitter
grown;
For that sweet Illusions sake I could forget the
sad years flown,
And understanding. dyng-tll found him, ali
alone.
Oh! then, could forget the cruel bond that pride
has grown?
With the night of death around and his dear
face near my own,
Standing there amidst ihe ruins, where pale weird
lights, hickering. shone,
Then 1 need not fear to tell him how l worshiped
him alone.
Shall tell him how my nature, strange, the world
had never known?
And. mis- judged by those I loved. how I might
stand or fall alone;
That was not cold and naughty, that I reaped not
as had sown,
But that was very weary and would smile death
welcome home?
Or, shall wait, as have waited all my life,
alove.
With the darkness OF the shadows of deaths orgies
round me thrown.
With the Dead Sea fruit cherished once to taste-
less ashes grown?
Shall wait as | have waited all my weary life
alone,
With no one near in all the throng that can call
With the wreck of falling worlds about my helpless
feet thick strown:
The hearts wild tumult blending the chill winds
surge and moan?
shall watch and wait, have watched and wait
ed, a.! alone
shall note with lonely eyes the changeless love
to others shown
While I SILVER with the death damp OF the night
dews, al alone,
While feel my brow grow colder than the slab of
marble stone,
On which lean awaiting there the last great CALL
alone.
shall note the tears OF Others but my hapless
tears have flown
Key were shed DER those dear forms beneath this
slab Of marble stone.
M"thnks coud not weep through all Deaths
mysteries now made known,
have Wept SO muCh-While waiting through these
dreary years alone
shall stand alone reclining 'gainst this piece of
marble stone,
With the laundering. roaring, rushing of Deaths
pillows nearer borne.
There amidst diSsoving nature with the final
bugle blown,
shall die l have live l-msunderstood, IN
known, alone.
SCHELL CITY, Mo.