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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06

spent and exhausted in attempts to catch us In
some mouse-trap or other, like the bill of the
gentleman from Ind ana (Mr. Hostetler).
All this arises from the inherent nature of
the collection called Democracy. I do not
mean to say the difference between their aver
age of intelligence and ours is so very great,
but say that the difference is Just enough to
make us take right positions on an average and
for them to take wrong ones on an average !;
that is all
With this picture or panorama thus carefully
and cOnsic erateiy drawn, MIR. Chairman want
TO contrast in just one or two words, and then
have done, the action of the Republican party
of the United States. belong to it, and have
always belonged to it, and beg to say | am
proud of the honor 1 believe in it ; I believe
in its future; l believe in its past l believe
even in its present.
When, In 1860, we came into power, sixteen
States of this Union were black with the Tester
ing curse of African slavery, and over vast
empire beyond the Mississippi the same por-
tentous cloud hung black and lowering to-day,
in all this republic, there is not one man who is
big enough to buy and sell another.
We found 100000 of men slaves, and we
left them all freemen. We found war just
becoming fragrant along 1000 miles of border.
That war we have brought to a close ably, de-
cisively, VIGOROUSLY, mercifully. If the prob
lens of reconstruction have proved too much
for anything but time that universal solvent,
nevertheless impartial history will accord to us
that we have given to them the best of honest
effort and of patriotic endeavor.
The finances of the country, entangied and
overwhelmed in the confusion of q great war,
we have brought out of chaos up to the shining
heights of prosperity.
need say no more. These and such as these
are our arms, won in well-fought fields These
are our monuments, and whether the world be
sixty centuries or six thousand DID, I say that
the sun in all his luminous marches from the
east has never lighted up blazonry so honorable
or inscriptions truer or more splendidly de-
served
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06
DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY.
Voorhees, Exodus Has Already Cost
About S25, ZOO, and All For Campaign
Material.

Voorhees, Exodus Has Already Cost
About S25, 900, and All For Campaign
Material.
Washington Cor. New York Tribune.1
The exodus investigation has exhaust
ed the contingent fund of the Senate, and
run that branch of Congress somewhat
into debt. The witnesses who have been
waiting here to be examined have lately
been compelled to get their certificates
discounted by brokers in order to meet
their expenses.
About $50 witnesses have been exam
med, OF which only twenty-one were
summoned at the request of the Repub-
hcan members, and four of these were
residents of Washington. The Republi-
can members of the committee have,
however, no ground for complaint, since
some of their strongest evidence has
been obtained from Senator Voorhees,
witnesses.
One day Senator Voorhees, learned, by
some means, that the testimony to be
given by five witnesses who had been
summoned by him from Kansas would
add nothing to the sum of his knowl-
edge of a nature calculated to advance
the interests of the Democracy, and he
thereupOn discharged them upon the
preteXt that the funds were exhausted.
The Republican members then asked
that they be summoned again, process
which would cost nothing, since they
were already here, and to this Senator
Voorhees, willingly assented.
Another day a witness from Parsons,
Kan, was examined, and testified
that he had conversed with large num-
Der of the negroes who had arrived in
his neighborhood, and had found mono
who complained of i'll treatment in the
South, but he had learned that they
were induced by circulars, sent out-Or,
at least, signed-by Gov. st. John, of
Kansas, to emigrate to that State.
The story throughout was preposter-
GUS, and there were three other wit
nesses from Parsons in the room who, it
was learned, would have controverted
the statements in every essential re-
spect. These three witnesses were dis
charged, however, by Senator Voorhees,,
without being examined, and were re-
summoned upon the request of the Re-
publicans
It is not probable that the investiga-
ton will come to an end in consequence
of the exhaustion of the contingent fund.
1t is desired, among others, that Gov.
st. John should himself be summoned,
as an act of justice to him.
The total expense of the exodus in
vestigation thus far is between 500, 900
and $500
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06
Curious Fatality,

Last September Francis FL. Kelly,
James and Henry Briggs (brothers),
William Barley and Thomas Gum,
five young woodsmen, came from New
Brunswick to work in the lumber woods
along the Susquehanna. James Briggs
was killed by falling tree few days
after going to work. His brother went
to Michigan to work In the pines. As
he was standing near fellow-chopper
one day the ak slipped from the chop
per's hands and struck Briggs in the
stomach, killing him instantly. In Jan
uary last William Barley fell from
log on the Susquehanna during drive
and was drowned. Some time after
ward, as Thomas Gum was starting logs
on hill in the woods, log suddenly
started rolling. 1t struck Gum,
knocked him down, rolled over him,
and crushed him to death. Francis
Kelly, the last one of the five COM
rades, then went to work for Cochran
Brothers, in Medick's run, in Cameron
county. One day he, with others, was
driving logs down the stream, and a
heavy jam occurred. Kelly went out ON
the jam to loosen the logs. A large
hemlock tree stood on the bank. The
high water had washed away the earth
from around its roots. One of the men
saw that it was tottering and likely to
fall across the creek directly where Kelly
was standing. The men shouted to
Kelly. Before he could get out of the
way the tree fell and crushed the young
man to death. He had written to his
mother in New Brunswick some time
before, telling her of the singular fatality
that had befallen the men who came to
the States with him. A few hours after
his death letter addressed to him ar
rived at Driftwood postofice 1T was
from his mother. She appealed to him
not to engage in driving logs VIZ
Transport Pa. letter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06
An Independent ElectOr.

1t was the intention of the founders
OF the constitution that Presidential
electors should be untrammeled in vot-
ing for a President. But custom has
long since made them but registers of
their party's nomination. Only one
case is known In which an elector.
elected to vote for a certain candidate
for the Presidency, voted for another.
1t was William Plummer, formerly Gov
enor of New Hampshire. In 1920. he
was chosen a Presidential elector, and
his course is described in his sons BIZ
ography of him as follows
His name had been placed at the head
OF the list, without his being consulted
as to whether he would serve or h.w he
would vote. 1t was on the occasion of
Mr.. Monroe's second election. Gov.
Plummer did not regard himself in this
more than IN other acts of his life as the
tool OF party, or the mere exponent OF
other mems opinions.
By the provisions of the constitution
the people choose the electors; and it is
the duty of these electors to choose the
President. In the exercise of this duty
he voted for John Quincy Adams instead
of James Monroe, who received every
other electoral vote in the Union.
This single vote against Monroe (for
it was regarded chiefly in that light ex-
cited much wonder and some censure at
the time. 1t, however, created no sur
prise to those who knew him, as it was
the natural result of his general rule of
independent a ton, ombineds " til his
avowed opinions respecting some of the
leading measures of Monroe's admins
tration.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06

"THE vivacity of the American char
acter" is illustrated in an incident that
occurred to Mr.. G.. A. Sala during a
Western railway trip. He says: "In
the smoker, between Chicago and Ce-
dar Rapids, I was addressed as part
ner and offered a plug Of terbacker,
by a gaunt youth Of 10, with lanl, hay
colored hair, whose coarse homespun
coat and vest, red flannel undershirt-
overshirt he had -misshapen felt
hat, and pantaloons tucked into boots
knee high, bespoke him to be rough
of the roughs. He was nothing what
ever of the kind. He was a graduate of
the University Of his State, had taken
high honors in the department of miner
allugy, and was now on his way far West,
with view to prospecting around in
the mining regions"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06

The barbarous custom of "hazing
is, we believe, rapidly going out of
vogue, even in those colleges where it has
existed, but the custom of college fights
seems to be spreading. These fights
are a natural outgrowth Of youthful
spirits, and generally do not amount to
anything more serious than pretty
tough test Of strength, courage and met
tie between different classes. Any trife
serves as a basis or casus belli. In some
of the Eastern colleges the carrying of
canes or the wearing of a particular kind
Of hat is made the occasion of repeated
struggles, which always involve dilapi-
dated wardrobes, and sometimes bloody
noses. One of these combats occurred
at Wooster University, Ohio, a few days
ago, between the Freshmen and the
preparatory department. The former
having supplied themselves with new
straw hats determined to make it an &C.
casion of asserting their superiority over
the " Props" The latter organized for
resistance, and brought matters to an
issue by demanding that the Freshmen
doff their hats. The result was gen
eral collision, i'll which the Freshmen
were worsted, and every hat that went
into the fight was torn in pieces. They,
however, captured seven hats from the
enemy, which they fastened to poles,
and the next morning paraded the
streets, all supplied with new hats. The
same day the Props attended college ex-
ercises wearing as badges pieces of the
straw hats which they had captured. In
the afternoon the conflict was resumed.
and was proceeding at furious rate
when the President of the college ar
rived on the battlefield and separated
the combatants.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06

The fund for building monument to
Senator Morton now amounts to between
4, 900 and $5, 900, and plans have been
asked from different artists, as it is the
intention to raise more money right
away, and erect the memorial as soon as
possible. 1t is to be set up in or near
Indianapolis, on such spot as Mrs
Morton may select.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06

A CONSIDERABLE sum of money has
been raised for the purpose of building a
church to the memory Of the Confeder-
ate heroes who fell at the battle of Mans
field, in April, 1864 New Orleans has
contributed literally thereto. An APP
peal will be made to Texas, Missouri,
and Arkansas, number of whose sons
were present at the battle, to contribute
their share, also.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06

ALTHOUGH Senator Edmunds is very
exacting man, he is nevertheless held in
great esteem by most of his associates.
1t has long been the practice Of some
Senators to take their bills to him for
approval before introducing them.
Sometimes he will change comma, a
word, or a sentence, but. when the bill
he has seen comes up for action, he is
pretty sure to favor it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06

$50 QUICKLY sometimes, 2 said Sterne,
"has the wheel Of fortune turned round
that many man has lived to enjoy the
benefit of that charity which his own
piety projected" A dozen years ago a
New Orleans banker, the founder Of
one of the principal railroads in Lou
isiana, helped to build a charity home.
He was induced subsequently to enter
into the scheme of establishing gas
works at Havana. He lost his whole
fortune. Later he became an inmate of
the establishment his fortune had helped
to build. Now he has recovered and has
accumulated another fortune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06

harbor for $500, 600; but the first great
sale of dock-lands is now in process Of
negotiation, awaiting only the approval
Of the Governor to 60 into effect. These
lands consist of the twenty-fiye-acre
piece of South Boston flats, for which a
number of prominent Boston gentlemen
have offered 81, 100000.
Two LITTLE sons of Mr.. Cocker, near
Roswell, Ga, got to fighting, when a
third son tried to part them. The two
that were fighting were respectively II
and 7 years old. The'one that tried to
part them is 10 years old. When he
found out that he could not stop the
fight he picked up what he supposed to
be clod of dirt, but which proved to be
a stone. With this he ran up to the
oldest boy and hit him on the head for
the purpose Of stopping the fight, but
which resulted in his death within two
hours.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
Rover.

Come hither, good Rover, come hither to me
Your grave, honest face I'm delighted to see
You seem to have something important to say
What is i. good Rover? Come, tell me. pray.
Have you come to relate your adventures this morn,
With the hen and the chickens, and in the corn
Do you think, my brave Rover, twas doing quite
right,
To give Madam Biddy and chicks such fright?
Old Moody, not easily driven away,
Thought breakfast of corn was much better than
hay,
And when at the last you compelled her to yield,
With airs quite indignant she quilted the field.
And now for froic all ready you look
Stop, stop, you bold robber; come back with my
book.
Here, into the water and bring me this stone
That's it, my fine fellow, the very same. one
Now, lie down while on the turf at my feet
And keep very still till my task is complete
Then good-by to books Well be off for walk,
Awhile with the birds and the flowers to talk.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06
Consolation for the Bald.

Prof. Fourier, IN lecture on alope-
cia, says of badness "There is moth
ing ridiculous or malformed about it,
and it confers upon the physiognomy
an expression of wisdom, experience,
and venerability. It adapts itself mar
velously to certain heads which would
be deformed by wig, and is the severe
beauty represented in sculpture by the
classic head as Hschylus.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06

CORNELL has started class in jour
nalism, and it is very sad to think that,
in few years, the pampered children
Of fortune who are now supporting their
families in afluence on their wages as
newspaper men will be saving wood for
a living, while their places are filled by
Cornell graduates.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06

THE following preparation is recon-
mended as food for weak baby: One
teacup of oatmeal in two quarts Of boil
ing water, slightly sailed. Let it cook
two hours and half, then strain. When
cold, to one gill of the cruel add one gill
of this cream and one teaspoon of sugar.
II this then add one pint of boiling wa
ter, and it is ready for use. This can be
digested when milk and all else fail.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06

ACCORDING to a statement prepared at
the Bureau of Statistics in Washington
the exports Of domestic breadstufs from
the United States during the month of
March, 1880, amounted in value to
$19, 719, against $14, 293, 900 during
March, 1879. The total exports Of
breadstuffs during the nine months
ending March 81, 1880, amounted to
1912, $50, 226, against $132, O32, $50 dur
ing the corresponding nine months Of
last year.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06

COUNT VIM. BISMARCK, son Of the
great Chancellor, has lately made his
maiden speech in the German Parlia-
ment. He resembles his father in APP
poarance and also in his manner Of
speaking-his rather hoarse voice, his
pauses in the midst Of his sentences,
and his energetic but UNMARRIED gestures.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
has filed and sold over SO, O0o, 900 worth
of lands for residences on the landward
side OF Boston, and sold to the Boston
and Albany railroad untitled flats in the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06
Che 4jeneslra Telegraph
KENOSHA, WIS, MAY 6, 1880.

SENATOR BAYARD financially is not a
millionaire, being set down by Whining
tonians as worth about 100000. But
he has an income from his investments,
his salary as Senator, his Attorneyship
Of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and
Baltimore railroad, and law practice, Of
about 500, 000.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06

PRESIDENT HAYES has made another
discovery. Recently two excursion par
ties, one from the South, the other from
New England, called at the White
House, and soon got we'll mixed
The President was not able to tell the
members Of one party from those Of the
other He said that until that time he
had always thought he could tell Yam
kee from q Southerner.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06

The adag2 nothing but good con
corning the dead " is not recognized
among the Mormons, who at funerals
speak out concerning the character of
the dead person. At recent funeral
in Salt Lake, President Taylor re-
marked He died drunkard, and he
will find drunkards grave. He has
gone to HI, and there is where he de-
serves to go"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06

TEwFIK, the new Khedive Of Egypt,
is as economical as his sire was extrava-
giant. He discovered not long ago that
his venerable father had carried off a
certain collection of coins valued at $780,
900, which had been purchased with
state money, and the Khedive intends
to rebuke this want of economy by
placidly subtractingi the item from his
fathers allowance during the next twelve
months.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-06

In 1856 Judge w. w. Pepper was
Judge Of the Seventh Judicial Circuit
of Tennessee, and Andrew johnson was
Governor of the State. Pepper, who
had been blacksmith, made a shovel
for the Governor, who returned the
compliment by making coat for the
Judge. The coat has just come into
possession Of the Tennessee Historical
Society.
Two MURDERERs were hung lately in
st. Louis. The children of one of the
poor fellows were permitted to view the
execution from q window so near to the
gallows that the cries of the little ones
were heard throughout the Jail, reaching
even the ears of the father This adj
iunct to the execution was barbarous and
inhuman beyond example. The author
tiles Of no other city or county or State
would permit such cruelty to children.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-17
BUSINESS CHANGE.

A Sacramento Wholesale Establishment
There has been for years on j street, below
Third, business house which, beginning in
small way, soon grew into strength and i'm
portance. The firm name was originally
Foster & Billingsley, and subsequently Bill
Kingsley & Co. It dealt from the outset in
wooden and willow ware, and adheres strictly
to those lines still. Recently a change and
enlargement in the business has taken place,
by the admission of A. S. Hopkins to the
firm, which is now composed of that gentle
man and U. &. Billingsley. Mr.. Hopkins
for two years past has remained out of bust
ness, but March 1st of this year he joined
with Mr.. Biliingsley, and the wooden and
willow ware business is now to be conducted
by these two gentlemen. The one brings to
it long experience in the trade and business
skill the other fine financial Judgment
thorough knowledge of the trade of the in
terror, and general business qualifications of
a high quality. The new firm, backed by
ample capital and commanding fine and well
established trade has taken Mr.. Hopkins
old store-room, Nos. 81 and 313 street, and
opened out there the cOmpetest line of
wooden and willow-ware ever put into stock
in the interior of California. The store room
The main floor is 40 by 100 feet, and the
lower or basement story is of like size. In
the center of the main room stand the offices.
On either side of the wareroom ruu-the en-
tire length-galleries, one being FIVE and the
other eight feet in width. These galleries
amount literally to second floors, and largely
increase the storage capacity OF the ROOM
One of the galleries alone will hold easily
800 dozen brooms. In front and on either
side are spacious show windows, in which are
constantly exhibited samples of goods in
stock. The stock embraces every and all
kinds of brooms, mops, sponges and brushes,
for every conceivable use to which such ar
ticles are adapted. Also woodenware of
every kind known to the trade, and willow
ware in every form known to manufacture
from the lightest to the heaviest baskets and
cases also matches in full stock, wrapping
paper of all kinds, and paper bags in full
variety twines kitchen utensils, and hun
bred kinds of small articles of novel invention
for the home, farm, kitchen, stable, store
factory The firm confines itself to whole
saleing, and commands n large trade, COM
peting with the bay and Eastern markets,
and selling to better advantage than rivals
abroad, because of the advantages afforded
by the centrality of Sacramento's situation
and the economy with which business may
here be conducted. The firm manufactures
hwillow-ware and brooms, and is the agent for
the San Francisco and Pacific Glass Works,
keeping bottles and demijohns in full line,
ard is agent also for the Sacramento Wood
enware Factory, the largest establishment in
that line on the coast.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-17
BRIEF REFERENCE.

Complaint has been made recently that the
lighted, even on dark nights. Those at Fifth
aud j streets, Eighth aud l, Thirteenth and
G, Fourteenth and ID, Eighth and H and
Front and | are the ones to which particular
reference is made.
The yard of an unoccupied house on NJ
street, between Fifth and Sixth, has several
times lately been robbed of Towering plants,
and complaint is made that the thieves also
broke the windows Of one of the buildings.
Early yesterday morning officer Carroll ar
rested Chiuaman who WAS stealing potatoes
from a sack in front of Goldman's grocery
store, ON Second and j streets.
A horse attached to Peltier's butcher
wagon ran away on Second street, but was
stopped at Il street without doing any dam
age.
The Changers ball which was to have been
given at Walsh's Station Thursday night was
postponed until next Wednesday evening.
The funerals of the late Judge Cater and
wife took place at the City Cemetery yester-
day, and were largely attended
Three pairs of blankets were stolen Thurs
day night from Antoine Brewers saloon, on
Front street, near M.
There is a message at the Western Union
Telegraph Office for A. E. d. Derupert.
The only arrest made yesterday was Lucy
Redding for disturbing the peace.
Five dodgers were given beds at the Station
House last night.