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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
A Monster Ship.

A new steamship which, when com
pleted, will be the largest and finest
merchant vessel in the world, is nov
being built at Barrow, England, for the
Inman line. She will be ready for use
in the spring Of 1881, and will then be-
gin making regular trips between New
York and Liverpool. The City of Rome
was regarded as the most appropriate
name which could be given to this adj
dition to the Inman feet. Her dimen-
sions are to be as follows: Length OF
keel, $40 feet; length over all. 500 feet;
breadth of beam, So feet; depth of hold,
38 feet inches. and depth from top Of
deck houses to keel. 50 feet. Her
measurement will be $500 tons, or oyer
2,00O tons larger than either the City
of Berlin or the Arizona, and 500 tons
larger than the Servia, the new Cunard
steamship which will be completed this
fall She will be oyer four-fft of the
size of the Great Eastern. The engines
Of the City of Rome will be of $500
horsepower, with six cylinders, three
of which are high pressure and three
low pressure. There will be eight
boilers, heated by forty-eight furnaces,
and the vessel can be propelled at the
rate of ISL knots an hour. She will
carry four large masts and three smoke
tunnels. A large spread of canvas can
be set, which will enable the steamship
to make good time, if necessary, with
out the aid of the engines. The saloon
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
Italian Marble.

y The London Building Neavs says
that the extraordinary demand for Ital-
ian marble has raised question as to
how long the quarries are likely to hold
out. According to report of the
French Geological Commission, there
yet remains considerable surface and
depth of the true Pentelican marble
untouched, but no specific statements
are given on this head. At Carrara q
dreadful waste of material goes on. A
late traveller was assured on the spot
that hundreds of tons were needlessly
thrown away through sheer carelessness
and the.clumsiness of workmen. Much
of this exquisite material is removed in
enormous masses for the decoration of
commonplace edifces. The Italians
are at length becoming alive to this.
The quarries have been worked almost
without intermission since the days of
the Roman Emperors. A little COM
munity OF sculptors is established
around the quarries, and the artists
chisel is piled almost side by side with
the marble-mason's saw. This marble
goes everywhere.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
Duel With Hatchets.

LAT Breckenridge, Col, in the early
settlement of that country, were two
friends, q. ?. Hall, now in Montana,
and Spencer, now in the Black Hills
mining, and formerly Senator from
Alabama
At social gathering, Hall, imagining
Spencer had insulted him, wrote him a
challenge. The latter at once accepted,
naming hatchets as the weapons, and
the next day as the tins.
The parties each bought hatchets,
but they were not the size and weight
that could be thrown with accuracy.
Spencer had practised as a boy in
throwing particular-shaped Ratchet of
certain weight, and blacksmith was
employed to make two of the kind.
This delayed the meeting until after
noon, and the interval was employed
without avail by friends in the effort to
settle the difficulty.
The parties met, and again friends in
terfered, but neither would 1etract or
make any apology. This delay proba-
bly, saved the life of Hall, for at this
moment the mail-carrier came in sight,
and the seconds told the principals to
wait, as the carrier might have letters
for them. The carrier came up with a
letter for Hall from his mother, who
wrote that she had visited Spencer's
mother the day before, and how happy
they both were to think their two boys
were together to take care of each other
In case of sickness or trouble. . +.. ~.
Hall, after reading the letter, passed
it to his second, who read and handed
it to Spencer's second, the latter giving
it to Spencer. After the letter had
been read all around, both principals
blar1ed themselves fer being too hasty,
and apologized. Spencer soon alter
left for home, and. during the war,
joined the Union army. Hall, finding
gold in onsana, was there married.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
Successful Effort.

A good man, conspicuous for his
helpful interest in the young, occupied
the pulpit of the Unitarian church in
Northampton On recent Sunday. His
heart was gladdened by the sight of
some brig Unlocking boys on some front
seats. The speaker talked at those boys
with genuine enthusiasm, his ardor
rising at the seeming quick response
which his earnest words met in the
frightened eyes and attentive attitude
of the chosen subjects of his personal
application" of most wholesome truth.
The preacher was little puzzled for
the moment to note the unseemly levity
of some of the congregation, but his
burning zeal was not quenched, and he
drove the truth clean home with sledge-
hammer blows. Going out of the
sanctuary, the visiting brother, still
glowing with the pleasant warmth of
successful effort, asked the pastor who
those bright-looking boys were on GER
tain seats. "Those," said the minister,
gently, "are the pupils of our Deaf and
Dumb Instituted"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
WIT AND HUMOR.
Nd work-Plowing.

GROUND work-Plowing.
WHERE there's will, there's way to
break it.
The true Indian question-"Agent,
got any rum?"
MAN proposes; and, when he does so
i'll the bar-room, all the loafers eagerly
accept.
But few men can handle hot lamp
chimney and say there is no place like
home at the same time.
He said her hair was dyed and, when
she Indignantly exclaimed, "'Iis false |"
he said he presumed so.
WHEN he signs for her and she signs
for him, the sighin's of the times may
be considered suspicious for wedding.
AN old rail-splitter in Indiana put the
quletus upon young man who chaffed
him upon his bald head in these words:
Young man, when my head gets as soft
as yours, Lean raise hair to SELL"
"BEAUTY is ever young" sings the
poet. 1t is, it is. Look at us; only %
thirty years ago and not a bunion to-
day. Photographs for sale at all the
principal news depots and drug stores.
THE Austrian soldier gets only one
meal day in time of peace. This is a
rather interesting fact to note in con-
nection with the other fact that Austria
has been most wofully thrashed every
time she has fought anything during
the past fifty years.
A YOUNG man who held a loaded
pistol to his head, and threatened to
blow his brains out unless the girl who
had refused him would consent to have
him, was coolly told by the young lady
he would have to blow some brains into
his head first He didn't blow.
UNLESS Mr.. Edison can arrange some
contrivance whereby his electric light
can be turned down to such a point as
to be practically extinguished and still
be instantly turned on by means of a
the old man is heard in the hall, he can
never hope to make it popular with
young people.
"TRUsr boy" says an exchange.
Certainly; trust him when he catches
you coming out OF saloon not to tell
his sister, whom you are sweet upon;
trust him to discover the size of your
feet and mention it before company;
trust him to find the cigar you deposit
in dark nook on the porch before you
nntnr tho houco. fruct him fo mann.
facture misery out of bent pins, and
tarred front gates. Trust him, of
course, but the best way is to operate
on the cash system and pay in advance.
MARY had little pie;
The upper crust was tough;
But Mary's brother chewed away,
And couldn't get enough.
She tried piece herself one night,
And strange as it may seem,
That simple chunk of pie
Became the fabric of a dream.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
COMMON: A PATHETIC IRISH STORY.

To tue memory of Patrick Conner; this simple
stone was erected by his fellow-workmen.
Those words you may read any day
upon white slab in a cemetery not
far from New York; but you might
read them q, hundred times without
guessing at the little tragedy they indi-
cate, without knowing the humble ro-
nance which ended with the placing of
that stone above the dust of one poor.
humble man.
In his shabby frieze jack ct and mud
laden brogans he was scarcely an attract
I've object as he walked into Mr.. Bawne's
great tin and hardware shop one day
and presented himself at the counter
with an
I've been told ye advertised for
hands, yer Honor"
Fully supplied, my man." said Mr..
Bawne, not lifting his eyes from his
.account-book. al.
I'D work faithfully, sir, and take low
wages, till I could do better, and I'd
Learnt would that"
was an Irish brogue, and Mr.. Bawne
always declared that he never would
employ an incompetent hand.
Yet the tone attracted him. He
turned briskly, and, with his pen be-
hindu his ear, addressed the man, who
was only one of fifty who had answered
his advertisement for four workmen
that morning.
"What makes YOU exDect To learn
faster than other folks-are YOU any
smarter?"
"I'll not say that" said the man, 'sbut
I'd be wishing to, and that would make
it asier."
"Are you used to the work?"
I've done bit of it,"
"Much?"
mo, yer Honor. I'll tell no lie: Tim
O'Ioole hadn't the like of this place;
but know q bit about tins"
"You are too old for an apprentice,
and you'd be in the way, I calculate, .,
said Mr.. Bawne, looking al the brawny
arms and bright eyes that promised
strength and intelligence. Besides, T
know your countrymen- lazy, good-for-
"1ANeoo4AAAhS AO1OWo, WIZ never 90 Cn0lr
best. No, I've been taken in by Irish
hands before, and I won't have an
other
"phe Virgin will have to be. after
bringing them over to me in her two
arms, thin," said the man, despairingly.
"for I've tramped, ali the day for the
last fortnight, and niver Job can T get.
and that's the last penny I have, yer
Honor, and it's but half a one."
AS he spoke he spread his palm open,
with an English half-penny in it.
Bring whom over?" asked Mr..
Bawne, arrested by the odd speech, as
he turned upon his heel and turned
back again.
"Jist Nora and Jamesy."
Who are they?"
The vans me wife, the other me
child" said the man. 90, masther, Just
'thry me. How'll I bring 'em over to
me, if no one will give me job? I
want to be aiming, and the whole big
city seems against it, and me with arms
Like them!" He barred his arms to the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15

The small islands of the West Indies,
known as the Leeward islands, are be-
coming source of sugar supply to this
country. Five years ago none was re-
ceived from there. Last year 100000
worth was shipped.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15

IN I7UU the national debts Of the civ
ilized nations of the world were about
81 100000, 900, while the population was
about 3OO,000,000. In 1870 the popu-
lation had reached 60O,OOO,O0o, but the
indebtedness had reached $4,000, O0O,-
900. The above table shows that in eight
subsequent years the debts of the civ
ilized world have increased abou
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
National Debts.

From an article in the Chicago In
ter Ocean, from the pen of Robert P.
Porter, we extract the following table
showing the debts of the civilized ma
tons of the world in 1878:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15

THE insurance commission of New
Hampshire says that much of the pro-
perty burned in that State is set on fire
to get insurance money, and that near
~ every large fire reveals over-insur-
ance.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
AN English servant girl was re,

AN English servant girl was recently
held for trial for holding child Is
months old, belonging to her employer,
before fire and roasting it alive, for
no reason that she could give except
that she was dissatisfied with her situa-
ton and wanted to leave it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
THE SHEPHERDS SONG.
BY HATTIE E. s. CREssY.

~, PARTI.
On! who is so happy as T.
VIII ~ita my tiocks SO sportive by day,
"nlch at night contentedly lie.
rom the fold never caring to straw.
MY little home cot is in view
~, Inc CHIMNEY just rises in sight:
11en lr1s, so loving and true
H. py waits my coming at night.
"; o * and grace will compare
=, win ladies of higher degrees:
NO one is more lovely and fair
she is altogether PLEASING To mo
No table more teuptingly snread
IMAM mine in the length of tba land
ouppilea with the whitest of bread.
Inc skill of my Iris hand.
Inere's naught, from the bees to the swine
1nat escapes her notice and care.
Oouio leave my sheep and my kline.
, Hel tolls would joyfully share.
BUT OF Iris dote and dream
as watch or my fiocks by day.
ana sometimes, SO intent on my theme
~, l forget that they might go astray.
Inc songs OF my Iris are sweet,
>, ana listen with JOY to her voice:
For hours have sat at her feet,
While she warbled the songs of NV choice
MY pipe was once my delight:
nave thrown it forever aside.
would smoke it from morning till night.
were II not Tor the smiles of my bride.
He shepherds, give ear to my strain:
20 MOO the nymph of your dreams:
ng for the Jcyiess swain
On whom no Iris' smile ever beams
PARTII
have no further care for my sheen.
MY cattle may roam DER the plain:
have nothing to do but to weep
My pleasures are turned into pain
The light of my household is gone,
Iris sleeps meath the brow of the hill.
mus my once-happy heart is forlorn,
And my hocks may roam at their will:
NY pleasures were rare and replete;
AS bitter as gall are my woes.
On, the moments, how few and how fleet,
Ihat forever undid my repose!
She was Ill, but felt not fear:
She died, but scarce knew it then:
never missed the smiles of my dear
Till they laid Der away in the glen.
Now wander from morning till night
Mid the haunts she delighted to stray,
And whenever my focks come in sight
Affrighed they soon flee away.
Ye shepherds who witness nv grief
And my losses SO deeply condole,
once my pleasures surpassed your belief,
AND you were the ones to console.
Your joys have been fewer than mine;
You know not that ito love is to live"
You follow your sheep and your kline.
For The support that your labor will give
the loss of ambition deplore,
My grief like garment will cling:
have no one to love any more,
And my life Ia a valueless thing.
Mass.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15

A good ship sailed out on the sea,
And bore my lover far from me;
With wind-puffed sails SO fresh and free,
And left me sad and lonely as could be.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15

A SMILE on the face is worth two in
tumbler.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15

Dull ne was he1ped along. A present
from Mr.. Bawne at payday set Nora,
as he said, "a week nearer" and this
and that and the other added to the
little hoard. It grew faster than the
first, and Connor's burden was not so
heavy. At last, before ha hoped it, he
was once more able to say: I'm going
to bring them" and to show his hand
kerchief In which, as before, he tied up
his earnings; this time, however, only
to his friends. Cautious among
strangers. he hid the treasure, and kept
dis vest buttoned over it night and day
until the tickets were bought and sent.
Then every man, woman and child, ca
pable OF hearing or understanding, knew
that Nora and her baby were coming.
There was John Jones, who had M ore
of the brute in his composition than
usually falls to the lot of man, would
spend ten minutes of the noon hour in
reading the Irish news to Conner.
There was Tom Barker, the meanest
man among the number, who had never
been known to give anything to any
one before, absolutely battered an old
jacket for pair of gilt vases, which a
peddler brought in his basket to the
shop, and presented them to Conner
for his Nora's mantel-piece. And here
was idle Dick, the apprentice, who
actually worked two hours on Connor's
work when illness kept the Irishman at
home one day. Conner felt this kind
ness, and returned it whenever it was
in his power, and the days flew by and
brought at last a letter from his wife.
She would start as he desired, and
she was well and SO was the boy, and
might the Lord bring them safely to
each others arms, and bless them who
had been SO kind to him." That was
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-01-24
Superior Court.


State We. Michael Lee, applt. Complaint for
single sale. Verdict guilty.
Coombs Co ATTY C. E. Clifford for deft.
State VS.. james P. Cafferty. Indictment for lar
ceny from the person. On the evening of the 18th
of September last Mrs. Lizzie M. Chase of Paris,
Maine while attending State Fair in City Hall Port
land, was robbed of her pocket-book containing
small sum of money. She says that on feeling
persons hand in her pocket she Immediately caught
hold of the arm of the respondent who was close to
that he made no response; that Mr.. Lyons came to
her assistance and held to the respondent till he
was arrested by policeman; that when Mr.. Lyons
took hold of respondent she heard the purse fall on
the floor.
The respondent. who claims to be bonnet frame
manufacturer of New York city, is a smart looking
fellow, apparently about 2S years old. He said he
was acquainted with no one in the city; that he
came here for the purpose OF seeing what KIND OF an
opening there was for his business here's that he VS.
tied City Hall; that while he was leaving the han
Mrs Chase stepped up behind him ana sald sne haa
lost her pocket-book, and believed he had taken IL;
that he told her she was mistaken, and proceeded
to walk away; that she thereupon pulled ms over
coat from his arm and Mr.. Lyons grabbed MN Dy
the arms and held him till the policeman took
charge of him. He denies that he took her pocket
book Verdict guilty.
Coombs, Co. Atty.
Mattocks with Scribner for respondent.
State VS.. Thomas Bragdon, appl't. Complaint 1or
search and seizure. Defense is that respondent
son William owned the liquor seized. Verdict guilty
Coombs Co. Atty. G. Z. Clifford for deft.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-01-24

There will be this morning at the High
School the annual exhibition Of bread made by
the young ladies of the chemistry class.
Rev. Mr.. Lowden of Casco street church,
will lead the social meeting at Y. M G. A. to-
night.
The Y. M. G. Association will hold special
business meeting at the close of the gospel
meeting this evening
Rev. j. M. Dickinson will exchange with
Rev. F. e. Clark Sunday forenoon and preach
to yovng men in the afternoon. The usual
gospel meeting will be held in the evening.
Some time ago Sargent &c Denison's shed
was entered and four barrels stolen. Yester-
day Jerry Boyce was arrested by officer Crib
ben for the offence and locked up.
The Fusionists wanted to lease Cong
gress Hall yesterday, and telegraphed asking
if they could have it. The lessees had not de-
cided last evening.
The Temperance Union will hold their usual
Sunday evening meeting at Congress Hall,
commencing at o'clock. Speakers from
abroad are expected to be present, who will adj
dress the meeting. All are invited.
1t was nasty enough yesterday. The heavy
rain turned the snow to slush, there were no
cutters for the water to run off, and the eros
sings were fearful. The mercury indicated $50
at sunrise, 400 at noon, $50 at sunset; wind
west and pleasant after II a. m.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-01-24
Portland Benevolent Society.

At meeting of the managers of this society
recently held, the following resolutions were
passed and ordered on record:
Whereas, Since our last session our beloved
associate, Thomas R. Hayes, for many years a
faithful and efficient officer of this society, has
been removed to higher sphere.
Resolved, That we hereby express our sense
of the great loss we have sustained and our
high estimate of his christian character and
devotion to every good work; and we especial
ly recognize his untiring effort to practically
carry out the purposes for which this society
was organized and has been perpetuated.
Resolved, That we extend to his family our
deep and autobiography and the earnest
wish that they may be sustained under their
great bereavement.
Whereas, A. X. Shurtleff, ESQ.,, life mem
Der of this society, has recently been removed
by death, we hereby record our tribute of res
pect to his memory.
Resolved, That Mr.. Shurtleff, though es-
teemed by his neighbors and fellow citizens as
man OF enterprise, integrity and public
spirit, is regarded by us particularly as friend
of this society. He was instrumental in secur-
ing for us in the year 1868 quite large sum
arising from complimentary dinner. He vol
unfairly contributed in 1870 the sum necessary
to constitute himself life member, and was
constant attendant and contributor at our an
niversary lectures.
Resolved, That we honor his generosity and
sensible benevolence in remembering the
charitable institutions of his adopted city and
bequeathing to them the generous sum of four
teen thousand dollars, of which this society re-
ceives one thousand dollars with sincere thank
fulueSS
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-01-24
Emperor Norton I.

The following from the Pacific Appeal, a
paper published by colored men in San Fran
cisco, shows that Jane Thurston had rival
from which she has been fortunately freed by
that grim tyrant, who, only, will ever be able
to subdue her vivacity. What a pity that the
Emperor and the great Proprietor should
not have met and solved the problem, when
an irresistible object meets an immovable body
what is the result?''
On Thursday night Joshua Norton, univer-
sally known as Emperor Norton, died suddenly
on California and Dupont streets. He was
born in London, England, Feb. 4th, 1917. and
came to San Francisco in November, 1913.
from Valparaiso, Chill. In former years he
was frequent contributor to the Pacific APP
peal and below we give a copy of his latest
Proclamation, left by the Emperor in person
at this office last week for publication:
PROCLAMATION.
The Congress of the United States must pass an
Act declaring the Decree of Norton !. law OF the
United States, or it is hereby abolished.
Given under our Royal Hand and Seal, this oath
day of December, 1879.
r., s. N T.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-01-24
Personal,

W. r. Stocking, of Wiscasset, Maine, Persi-
an missionary, furnishes a letter from that
country, stating that great distress prevails
among the Christians there, from the failure
of wheat and other crops He urges that do
nations be sent to the American Missionary,
A. N. Andrews, at Mosul, or to the Rev. Benja-
min Larrabee, at Oroomiah, Persia, to save
hundreds from starving.
Peter e. Norton, esq. Of Pennington, a
Greenbacker, writes letter to the Chronicle,
in W hich he commends the course of Capt
Voter, and says he unequivocally condemns
the course of Ex-Governor Garcelon, Council
and Co., with regard to the late election re-
turns, and henceforth shall give the Fusion
cause no support
Clifford Belcher died in Boston last week.
Mr. Belcher was born in Pennington, Me-. in
1919. He graduated at Harvard College IN
1868, and practced law in Louisiana until
1878, when failing health compelled him to re-
linquish business. A few months ago, suffer
ing with a complication of diseases, he visited
Boston for the purpose of availing himself OF
the best medical treatment, but without avail.