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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-02
FOREIGN

BRADLAUGH created an exciting scene
in the British House of Commons the other
day. When he attempted to address the
Speaker he was met with cries of Withdraw !"
from the opposition. He was afterward &C
corded the privilege Of speaking in his own be-
half from behind the bar. He made vigorous
but vain appeal Laboucheres motion to allow
him to take the oath was overruled. Bradlaugh
was then called to the table and informed
of the decision of the House. Being requested
to withdraw, he twice refused, in respectful
manner. The Speaker, by an overwhelming
vote, was authorized to enforce his removal.
Bradlaugh continued obdurate, and had to be
forcibly removed beyond the bar, returning
twice. He was finally arrested by the Sergeant
at Arms and confined in the tower.
THE warlike intentions of Russia are
disclosed by the imperial ukase which provides
for the enrolment, during the current year, of
1856 900 men, South American advlces, via
London, report revolution in progress in the
Argentine Republic, and the city of Buenos
Ayres besieged by the national forces. The
cause of the trouble is the election of Gen. Roca
as President over Carlos Trujedor, the Buenos
Ayrean candidate
SOUTH AMERICAN advices report battle
between the Argentine and the Buenos Ayres
attempt on the part of the yictOrs to capture
the city of Buenos Ayres, however, was repulsed
with considerable loss. The bill legallzlng
marriage with deceased wife's sister has been
rejected by the English House of Lords
A HAVANA dispatch announces that
the insurgent chief, Limbara Sanchez, has sur
rendered with thirty-three officers. 2A privates,
1873 arms of all kinds, twenty-eight women, and
IL
surgents the province of Santiago de Cuba. -.
The Spanish authorities are taking the most
extraordinary pains to prevent the Ian ing of
flibustering expeditions on the island of Cuba.
The recent outrages on American vessels are
ascribed to the anxiety of the authorities on this
ihbustering business.
LooUsTs are playing havoc with the
wheat fields in many parts of Russia :. The
German Parliament has approved of Bismarck's
Church bill in a modified form.
The Belgian Government has ceased
diplomatic relations with the Vatican. All the
Bishops in that country have been instructed to
act with prudence in opposing the new educa-
tional law. . The Grecian boundary, as fixed
by the Berlin Conference, adds 800 square
miles to the territory of Greece, and about
100000 people to her population. .
Ten thousand people, principally Kurds, have
persisted from hunger in the districts of Baya-
lid, Alashgerd and Van Asia Minor . The
war in Buenos Ayres has ended in the triumph
of the national arms The Russian army on
the Chinese frontier has been defeated and put
to fight
The rife-match at Dollymount, Ire
land, on the goth ult., between the American
and Irish teams, was won by the former, by a
total score of 1892 to ,28o. At 800 yards the
contestants tied, with 1876 each. At 900 yards
428, and at 1000 yards the former made 400
and the latter 416. The Lord Lieutenant and
the Lord Mayor of Dublin were among the
spectators.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-02
In America. lightning kills: in China.

In America, lightning kills; in China,
thunder. You pat friend on the
shoulder here it means calling man
a thief That little girl in Sunday-school
with blue eyes and golden curls-it is
no use to say what you think. This
black-haired race think her eyes are
white and hair uncombed. How merry
dining with the gentlemen and ladies
at separate tables in different rooms |!
Our streets are filled with pack-mules
and drays; in the middle kingdom
men are beasts of burden" You know
you have never seen city, for city
cannot be city without city wall
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-02
Shopping.

Shopping is the art of wearying ones
self In the attempt to find out what oae
does not want The pleasant fiction OBJ
talns IN certain fashionable circles that
shopping is the labor attendant upon pro-
vldlng the children and madam with
clothing and the house with furnishings.
But no gentleman who has escorted a
lady or two through afour-hour shopping
tour and at the end carried as the net re-
suit six towels, a few handkerchiefs, a
ribbon or two and forty-three dress pat
terms, will dare or care to maintain that
shopping is business. It is a woman's
pastime. It is to her what a shooting
match or a fishing excursion is to the
average man. He does not hit the bulls
eye, or catch the big fish, to any great
extent, but he has the tramp, he gets
tired and secures a good appetite for his
dinner. In both cases, it is not the re-
suit, but the pursuit that pleases. How
much fun there is in ranging through a
score of shops, and pricing things that
she has no intention of buying, In hunt
ing for bargains that are never accepted
when found, and in allowing the imagi-
nation to clothe her In ''purple and fine
linen, " at the costof gingham and calico,
no man ever has or will comprehend. A
man is nuisance to q shopping lady,
and shopping is a nuisance to man.
Where the fun comes in he fails to under
stand. When he has occasion to buy
anything, he rushes into store, asks for
what he wants, inquiries the price-to
show that he is wide-awake-says 'Do it.
up" pays the money. and is gone. She
asks for the goods, feels of them in a,
knowing way, asks the price twice, the
second time as though she felt sure she
had misunderstood the first time, and i'm
mediately becomes convinced she can do
better elsewhere, or begins to doubt
whether it is what she wants She rushes
wildly into thenextstore, prices the same
goods and finds them higher, goes to store
after store, looking at other things that
she thinks she may sometime want, gets
led off on false scents, and comes back to
the first store, to find that all the goods
she looked at in the morning are sold,
and finally goes home with few pat
terms and paper of pins, without the
goods that she came out In the morning
fully intending to buy.-ChicagO Al
Tu1ooo
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Breeding Elephants.

If, as Mr.. Corse and the London Cir
Gus seem to have demonstrated, e1e-
plants, under proper conditions, may be
brought to breed in captivity, it may be
an open question whether, in view of the
increased difficulty of capturing the ami
mails, the supply in India may, at no
distant day, be wholly dependent upon
their power to produce their young In
bondage. Mr.. Corse's experience en-
abled him to study the young elephant
from its birth under extraordinarily adj
vantageous conditions. The precise
period of CESSATION, he says, is twenty
months and eighteen days. The young
animal when born is thirty-fve and a
half inches high. It soon begins to nib
BILE and suck the breast pressing it with
its trunk to make the milk flow more
readily into the mouth while sucking.
It has never been Observable use its pro-
boscis in any other way during this act,
but invariably seized the nipple with the
side of it's mouth. At this period it is a
common practice with the elephant at
PENDANTS to raise small mound of earth
about six or eight inches high, for the
young one to stand on, and thus save the
mother the trouble of bending her body
every time she gives suck; for she never
has been observed to lie down for that
purpose. The nipples are two in num-
Der and are between the fore legs.
It is remarkable that the elephant,
having only one young, has byno means
strong affection for it. Instances have
occurred of mother leaving her off
spring and escaping into the woods. IF a
wild elephant happens to be separated
from her young onlyfor two days, though
giving suck, she never afterwards recog-
nizes or acknowledges it.
81 have been much mortified, " Mr..
Corse says, cat such unnatural conduct,
particularly when it was evident that the
young elephant knew its dam, and by
it's plaintive cries and submissive APP
proach, solicited her assistance"
During the first year the elephant
grows eleven inches, and is nearly three
feet eleven inches high. In the second
year it grows eight inches, in the third
six, in the fourth year five inches; about
the same in the fifth year; in the sixth
year three inches and half, measuring
then about six feet four inches in height.
During the succeeding ten years the
growth is comparatively slow. The male
is longer in attaining its full growth than
the female, seldom having acquired it
before his twenty-sixth year. These
figures are arrived at by Mr.. Crosse from
the study of Asiatic elephants only. The
African elephant does not arrive at the
colossal proportions of his Oriental
brother. But it will be observed that
while Mr.. Crosse only succeeded twice in
breeding during his five years service as
director of the company's elephant
hunters, he nevertheless speaks of facts
that could only have been learned from
some one who had studied elephants,
other than the two born within his ex-
perience, from their birth upward; SO
that the conclusion is irresistible that
the birth of young ones among the ele-
plants owned by the East India Com
pany was not an uncommon occurrence.
-Ne1O York SIN.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-02

EMORY SToRRs, of Chicago, and B. H.
Brewster, Of Philadelphia, have volunteered
their services as counsel for Cadet Whitaker,
i'll case he asks for a court-martial.
THE concession granted to an Amer
lean company by the Nicaraguan Government,
giving it the exclusive privilege of constructing
ship canal across that country has been. re-
ceived at Washington.
POLITICAL
The National Observation-Disclosures State
Convention of Vermont met last week and
made the following nominations For Governor,
NJ o. Heath; Lieutenant Governor, G. f.
Clough State Treasurer, Fletcher Tarbell !;
Electors-at-Large, G. J. Stanard and j. ].
Burgess
WASHINGTON
The Secretary of War has suspended
the recommendation of the West Point Academy
Board that Whitaker be dropped on account of
deficiency in his studies. This will give him an
naannrtunitu of demanding cOTrt-martial in
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-02
Keep Ahead.

One Of the grand secrets of success in
life is to keep ahead in all ways possible.
If you once fall behind, it may be very
difficult to make up the Roadway which
is lost. One who begins with putting
aside some part of his earnings, however
small, and keeps it up for a number of
years, is likely to become rich before he
dies. One who inherits property, and
goes on year by year spending little
more than his income, will become poor
if he lives long enough. Living beyond
their means has brought multitudes of
persons to ruin in our generation. It is
the cause of nine-tenths of all the defal-
cations which have disgraced the age.
Bankers and business men in general do
not often help themselves to other peo-
to fall off, and their expenditures exceed
their receipts. A man who is in debt
walks in the midst of perils. It cannot
but impair mans self-respect to know
that he is living at the expense of others.
1t is also very desirable that we should
keep somewhat ahead In our work This
may not be possible in all cases; as, for
instance, when a mans work is assigned
to certain fixed hours, like that of the
operatives in mill. But there are GER
tain classes of people who can choose
their time for the work which they are
called to do, and amongst them there are
some who invariably put off the task as
signed them as long as possible, and then
come to its performance horried, per-
picked, anxious, confused insuch astate
of mind as certainly units them for
doing their best work. Get ahead and
keep ahead, and your success is toler-
ablv SIRE
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-02

chance of being further heard. The excess Of
value of exports from this country over the inn
ports for the year ending the 31st of May, as
reported from the Treasury Department.
amounts to 1852 1888.
The President has appointed Daniel
B. Dyer, of Baxter Springs, Kan, Agent for the
Indians at the Quapaw Agency, Ind. Ter, vice
Amos T. S. Kist, not confirmed during the late
session of Congress- John H. Sullivan, Of
Madison, Ill, Agent for the Indians at Moquis,
Pueblo Agency, Arizona, vice Milo A. Boynton,
resigned and Paul Selby, Postmaster at Spring
field, ILL.,, vice D. L. Phillips, deceased. The
President visited New Haven, last week, and
attended Yale commencement exercises.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-02

JOHN SAYRE, of Bridghampton, L. T.,
chief officer of the whaling vessel Alas
ka, arrived home a few days ago, after a
cruise Of nearly four years. In that
time they took 1920 barrels Of sperm
oil, 203 barrels Of whale oil, and 1,217
poands Of whalebone. It is said to be
the largest catch within the same time
in thirty years.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-02
Seeing A Man Home

I picked Simmons up pretty near
drunk, and took him home. When I got
to his house, as I thought, [ shook him a
bit, and said, "Here you are. ''Right, -
said he, and gave big bang to the
knocker. Up went window.
''Who's there?" screamed woman.
81 have brought the old man home, -
said I.
CAL right" she cried, and came to
the door.
She Immediately seized hold of Sim
mons, and gave him such shaking that
his teeth seemed to rattle in his head.
''Who are you shaking OFF" says he.
Goodness gracious!'' cried the wo-
man, ''that's not my husbands voice. L
Immediately struck match, and she
found she had been shaking the wrong
man. "There, F" said she, furiously, GIVE.
been setting up here, expecting my hus-
band home drunk, and now I've been
wasting my strength on stranger"
F'Don't he live here!'' said I.
ono" said the woman, che don't"
"What made you knock?" asked Sim
mons.
"Knock," said he, "you told me to-. :"
II thought you lived here" said I.
''Glad I DON'T" said he.
I suppose he was thinking of the shak-
ing he'd had. At last I found where he
did live, and got him home. As soon as.
ever we knocked, out she came. "Ohr'
says she, ''you're the wretch as makes,
my poor husband drunk, are you?" and
she caught me slap across the face. I've
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-02

MUTTON PIE. - Ingredients - Two
pounds of the neck or loin of mutton,
weighed after being boned; two kid
neys, pepper and salt to taste; two
teacupfuls of gravy or water; two table
spoonfuls of minced parsley; when
liked, little minced onion; puff crust.
Mode-Bone the mutton and cut the
meat into steaks all Of the same thick
ness, and leave but very little fat; cut
up the kidneys; arrange them with the
meat neatly in pie dish sprinkle over
the minced parsley and seasoning of
pepper and salt pour in the gravy and
cover with a good puff crust Bake for
an hour and half, or rather longer
should the pie be very large, and let the
oven be rather brisk.
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GENERAL

SIR CHARLES upper has left Mon
treal for Europe to close an arrangement with
a company of London capitalists for the COM
pletion of the Canada Pacific railway.
THE following are the census returns
from few of the prominent cities, compared
with their population in 1870, and showing the
gain of each /:
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THE SOUTH

THREE negroes who took refuge under
aTtree near Louisville, KY, during a furious
thunder storm, few nights ago, were found
sitting there stone dead the next morning.
Lightning did it.
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T'HF ora7ooe -cron Of Florida will be
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-01-10
Parnell, the Irish AgItaior.

Mr.. Parnell, the present leader Of
the Irish people, is English:by descent,
his family having settled in Ireland in
the reign of Charles IL. The celebra.
ted poet, Parnell, archdeacon of Clogh-
er, the friend Of Pope, Addison and
Swift was an ancestor of his, as were
also Sir John Parnell. Bart, M. p.
for Queens County and Chancellor for
the exchequer, and Sir Henry, NJ. P.
for Rothleague. the celebrated commen.
tator on the penal laws. Mr.. Parnell's
mother is an American, the daughter
Of one of our naval officers, and resides
now with her daughter in New Jersey,
passing the summer usually at New
port. He was educated at Cambridge IN.
iversity. is only 90 years old. of very gen.
tlemanly appearance and manners. and
though not eloquent in the usual sense
is vigorous and clear in speech.
Though his landed estate yields only
el40J year, he is rich in American
and other securities.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-01-10
A New Lincoln Story.
Washington Letter to Chicago Tribune.


A new story Of Linooln-uew to me
at least-at Republican headquarters
in Chicago during the Grant reception.
and which in this connection 1t may
not be amiss to tell.
Your readers will recall the Peace
Conference which occurred in February
1865, at Fortress Monroe; between
President Lincoln and Secretary Sew
ard on the one side, aud Alexander
H. Stephens, John A. Campbell and
R. M. r. Hunter on the other. The
attenuation of Mr.. Stephens has long
been matter of such general notoriety
that it is not offensive to speak of it.
1t seems that Mr.. Lincoln had never
seen Mr.. Stephens before. At that
time kind of cloth was worn by
Southern gentlemen, nearly of the
shade of the ordinary corn husk; and
Mr.. Stephens greatcoat was made
of that material. But Mr.. Stephens
who always has been frail man, wore
many other garments beneath to
protect him against the raw wind Of
Hampton Roads, and Mr.. Lincoln
watched with much interest the pro-
cess of shedding until the man was
finally reached. At last Mr.. Stephens
stood forth in his PHYSICAL entity ready
for business. Mr.. Lincoln giving Gov
Sew ard one of his most comical looks
and pointing to the discarded coat,
said: well, [ meyer saw as much
shuck for as little nubbin in all my
life,"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-01-10

EDIToR FREE PREss:-In an able
article of the Galveston News Of o late
date, it shows that the expectation of
cheese aud butter and money received
for them, is even greater than our
boasted cotton export. Now. sir,
while We here in Texas raise an i'm
mense quantity Of cotton, which to be
sure is always readily marketable at
bome for cash, we also can raise rice.
sugar and tobacco with success aud
profit, in this semi.tropical climate.
We Texans, with all our vast prairies
and almost continual summer, with
our vast herds of cattle roaming over
tho grand expanso Of our open prairies
or uncultivated .lands-yet the dairy
business, SO profitable in the North,
where they have to be fed six months
i'm the year at least, is neglected here,
while this prolific, climate furnishes
our roaming stock food (by natuer's
provisions) all the year round. all the
paiustaking We have is to mark and
brand our stock in thespring to prove
ownership.
Certainly this loose way of letting
milch cows roam over the prairies
would not answer for dairy business,
but l say cattle oan be reared with 90
little expense, and as that branch,
rudely as it is conducted in Texas, go
far as beef market is concerned is as
profitable and important branch as
the tedious and laborious production
of cotton, very 6ckle and often uusta.
BILE in market. Texans, pay more at,
tention to profitable and improved
stock, more attention to the dairy
(making cheese or butter.) You may
say, either will spoil in our warm oil.
mate; very true, but if you make suf.
ficient to induce exporters to buy. then
they will encourage you by sending
your produce off by refrigerating cars,
provided you produce plenty and de.
liver the article fresh and sound. But
ter, eggs and cheese can be as safely
exported as fresh beef and mutton. by
vessels and contrivances peculiarly
adapted to the trade with the South.
But while l ain in favor Of stock.
raising and the dairy. I would not
have you neglect our staple products
in which the North cannot compete.
Q. ERMARD.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-01-10

1t is given as q rumor, that Jay
Gould is endeavorlng to secure o con.
trolling interegt in the Texas and Pac.
ific railway, that there is great antag.
onism between Boston aud New York
capitalists, and that the New Yorkers
are determined to make the first con-
nection with Huntington's road. This
may indicate that the Pierce road will
be run in the direction of the Upper
Rio Grande. In connection with this
rumor it may be asserted, positively,
that the Texas and Pacific will at once
be pushed from Weatherford towards
FL Paso. At the meeting of its stock
holders in Philadelphia last week it
was decided to issue bonds to tho A.
mount of$25 900 per mile, to be used in
completing the road to the Rio Grands
The acquisition Of majority Of the
stock by Gould would add much life
to tho operations Of the company, and
would insure the completion of tho
road to FL Paso within two years, In
the meantime, if the Pierce cxpedi-
tion to the Chinati mountains demon
strates that there is rich mineral de.
posit on this side of the Rio Grande,
no time will be spared in developing
the vast amount of railroad lands in
Presidio county and along the Pecos.
In two years we may reach EI Paso by
rail from Dallas, and Fort Davis by
rail from San Antonio. Then too, the
International will reach San Antonio.
and the Waco branch of the Central
will tap the Texas and Pacific 10 East
land county. while there will be direct
rail connection with New Orleans.
With all this railroad building and
a good crop season, We may expect Tex
as to assume q degree Of prosperity
within the next twelve mopths never
before equaled.-( Statesman.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-01-10
&oLK SATURDAY. JANUARY NOS

fuluews. The mad agony Of the wild.
ows aud the shrieks Of the ohildless
and fatherless, beggar all description.
Above all other sounds arose the Ia
mentations of the bereaved, and
though all tho soldiery were making
preparations for hasty departure, one
and all moved about with batod breath
and noiseless steps. Indeed the terri
bio massacre had, for a time, struck
terror to every heart. At about eleven
or twelve o'clock at night tho army
took up the line Of march on the re.
treat to the Colorado. The families
had lett a few hours earlier-some OF
them had wagons. others carts, Others
had pack horses, and others again
went on foot. Couriers had been dis
patched, in all directions, to tho set
Elements and q general exodus there
from at once commenced, none desir-
lug to be left behind the retreating
Texas army at the mercy Of the ad-
vauciug Mexican troops. They gath
cred whatever they could carry, aband-
oning the remainder Of their worldly
possessions, and started on without
delay. Many put their little all into
their wagons and went on foot beside
them. Delicate women marched thus
until their shoes were worn out, then
continued the journey with bare feet
which were wounded at almost every
step, and sometimes covered with
blood. Their clothes were few and as
they had no means of shelter from the
frequent storms. they often marched
through long days in wet and mud be-
drabbled apparel, finding even at night
no relief from their sufferings, since
the wet earth and the angry sky offer
ed even less comforts in darkness than
in daylight.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-01-10

The young folks were talking about
mistakes in courtship. when Uncle
Job broke in with the declaration
that there was not ary such thing,
for" said be. nobody ever makes any
mistakes worth mentioning in court /,
ship. It's after the courtship's over
and the lovers have been married that
the hurtiul mistakes begin" well
uncle," said one Of bis pretty nieces,
what's the moral Of thst7" The
moral 2 exclaimed Uncle Job. What's
the nOrslg Why. IspOse the moral is
keep co coartin'."