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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-23
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGs.

Now that the Supreme Court of Min
nesota has decided that the repudiated bonds
can legally be paid, Mr.. Selah Chamberlain, OF
Cleveland, Ohio, who owns the greater portion
of them renews his offer to compromise fol
30 cents on the dollar.
Henry Willard has been elected Presi-
dent of the Northern Pacific railroad.
The widow of Jerome Napoleon Bona,
parte died the other day at Baltimore, aged So
She was the daughter of Benjamin Williams
at one time wealthy shipping merchant Of
Baltimore. She was married in November
1929, when but II years of age, to Jerome Ma,
poleon Bonaparte, the son of Jerome Bona
parte, who was the youngest brother of the
Emperor Napoleon the Great.
Secretary Blaine has been requested TIC
take President Garfeld's place at the Yorktown
Centennial ceremonies
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-23
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The District Attorney at Washington
holds that Guiteau need not be taken to New
Jersey for trial, while his assistant has reached
"a conclusion directly the reverse. The As
.sistant Solicitor of the Treasury declares that
the assassin can legally be tried and executed
in the District of Columbia.
In a letter to George G. Gorham re-
fgarding the threats to lynch Gaiteau, Gen.
sherman asks every soldier and citizen to re-
member that we profess to be the most loyal
nation on earth to the sacred promises of the
law. He admits, however, that shooting or
hanging is too good for the assassin.
The Warden of the Washington jail
visited Guiteau the morning following the
death of his victim The assassin's first ques-
ton was g How is the PRESIDENT" Upon be-
ing informed that he was dead, the miserable
wretch instantly sank down upon his bed and
appeared very much agitated. After remaining
in this position for few minutes, he arose and
paced the floor, muttering something TO HIM
sself, as if praying. He then inquired what
time he had died. and, after being informed,
said he was glad the President had at last been
relieved from his sufferings, as he would not
he was to suffer as he did.
The Queen of England telegraphed
her coincidence to Mrs Garfield in these words:
" Words cannot express the deep sympathy l
feel with you. May God support and comfort
you, as He alone can. THE QUEEN, Balmoral'
The most intense sorrow at the death of Presi-
dent Garfield is expressed by the press through
out all the civilized countries of the world.
A New York telegram of Sept. q
says: "The whole amount so far subscribed
for the benefit of Mrs Garfield amounts to
$3.50, 1000. Persons desiring to unite in this
fund are directed to remit to the United States
Trust Company, 40 Wall street, New York.
Cyrus W. Field is the treasurer"
Popular subscription lists for the ben
1 eft of Mrs. Garfield and children have been
Opened at the offices of the Boston AdoertiSer
and Journal. The list of the former was head
ed by 81, 900 subscribed by business firm.
President Arthur took the oath of Of
fee before Judge Brady, in New York. at an
early hour on the morning of Tuesday, Sept.
E2O.
The Southern journals are unanimous
/ in their expressions of profound sorrow at the
death of President Garfield. They look ON his
untimely demise not in the light of a loss to
their section so much as in the light of a ma
! tional calamity.
Gen. Peyton Wise, Democrat. and L.
! +. Lewis, Readjuster, fought bloodless duel
near Warrenton, va.
The Virgins Ferry Company, of st.
Louis, has filed suit against the Chicago and
Alton Railroad Company for $500, 900 damages
for breach of contract in not allowing them to
ferry freight and passenger trains.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-23
First sneaker of Congress.

Frederick A. Muhlenberg, who be.
slonged to quite a famous family of Penn
ssylvania, was the Speaker of the first
aCongress He was born at the Trappe
! in 1850, and was ordained to the minis
Atry of the Lutheran Church. He ofici.
lated in country churches in Pennsyl-
wanna, and in New York City, which be
sleft when the British entered. In 1779
land 1880 he was elected to the Cont
znental Congress, and for several years
safter was member Of and Speaker OF
sthe. State Legislature of Pennsylvania.
He was President of the State Conyen-
stion called to consider the ratification OF
! the Federal Constitution, and gave it his
Earnest support. He was member of
the first four Congresses, and was
sSpeaker of the First and Fourth Con-
fgresses. He was Register of the Land
Office of Pennsylvania under Governors
sAIifiin and Mexican, holding that Office
at the time of his death at Lancaster,
June 4, 1901,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-23

President Garield's mother slept at the house
Iof her daughter, Mrs. Larrabee, at Mentor, on
the night that death overlook her son. Tues
day morning at O'Clock the following telegram
came SNOW 3 lEE5
.;.tsH 81 "ELBERoN, N. J., Sept. 10.
st Mrs. Eliza Garfield:
"James died this evening at 1858. He
calmly breathed his life away.
I'D. G. SWAIN"
Mrs. Larrabee's first thought was as to her
mother The latter was sleeping calmly, and
they did not awake her. Not until O'Clock did
the old lady awake, having slept since IL p. IN.
AT that time Mrs. Larrabee passed the door
with heavy heart, and found her up and
dressed reading the Bible. 1t was thought best
not to break the news until Mrs. Garfield had
eaten breakfast. Oddly enough, the old lady
did not insist upon hearing the news until she
had finished eating. Then, taking the fatal
Telegram from the shelf, she was about to read,
but Miss Ellen took it from her trembling
hands, go td5-a
"Grandma, she said, would you be sur
prised to get bad news this morning."
Why, l don't know, said Mrs Garfield.
swell, l shouldn't, :" said Mrs. Larrabee q
have been fearing and expecting it all the
morning"
Grandma" said Ellen, "there is bad
news"
rs he dead?" asked the old lady, tremu-
lously. Fqe t-
"He is"
Thequick tears started in the sensitive eyes.
There was violent paroxysm of grief
No expression of frenzy told OF tie anguish
within. kht1sa& G esmal0
sis it true?" she asked. "Then the Lord
help me, for if he is dead what shall I do?"
She was rendered weak and little nervous BY
The announcement, and was obliged once or
twice to repair to her room, where, in solitude,
she might begin to comprehend the awful truth.
But she was not contented to remain there, and
soon returned to the sitting room. About $50
O'clock Mrs. Garfield was found sitting in the
roclxing-chair waiting for the news. The morn
ing paper sue read with eagerness.
''It cannot be that James is dead, she muir
INJURED. 81 cannot understand. l have no
further wish to live, and cannot live, if it
Is So"
BREAKING THE NEWS TO THE SONS.
The orphaned SONS at Mentor were not in
formed Of their fathers death till after break
fast the next morning For time they wept
bitterly, but afterward grew quiet, and bore
their affection with almost philosophical
caimness. a
dispatch from Wiliamstown. Mass, SAYS !:
I. When Harry Garfield left Williams College for
ElDeron be left word that his brother, James
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-23
POLITICAL POINTS.

In the special election held in the
Second Oewiston) Congressional district Of
Maine, to fill the vacancy caused by the cleo
ton of Mr.. Frye to the United States Senate,
ex-Gov. Dingley was elected by large major
|ity.
The Prohibitionists of New York State
held convention at Utica and nominated can
didates for State Offices.
The Supreme Court ssof Minnesota
having pronounced the old railroad bonds for
SIS, 100000 valid claim against the State, Gov.
Pillsbury has decided to convene the Legislat-
ure in extra session Oct 10, to mature plans to
adjust the debt ON the basis of 80 cents on the
dollar, in accordance with the proposition Of
the bondhOlders.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-23
The Queens Cashmere ShawIs.

Every one knows that the Cashmere
shawls which figure SO frequently az
wedding presents from the Queen are
part Of the annual tribute paid by the
Maharajah Of Cashmere as an acknowl-
Judgement of the Suzerainty of the En-
press of India but every one does not
know IN what dens of squalid misery,
land by what a physically debilitated
race, these shawls are produced. The
sagriculturists and the boatmcn Of the
delicious valley are physically a fine
|race-the men robust, and the women
fair to look upon. But in every shawl
producing village the physique of the
wretched workers is painful to observe.
Long hours of work, in crowded and
rooms, with poor, nay,
|wretched pay, have made the shawl
workers of Cashmere mere shadows OF
men. 1t is absolutely painful to see
their pallid faces and weak, ill-nourished
forms and although the Government of
India has moved somewhat to better
their condition, it is one of the few sad
sights in the Cashmere-i-benazir," OF
the unriyaled Cashmere of the Persian
poets. -LOndon Truth.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-23
Public sorrow.

The intelligence of the death of President
Garfield was received everywhere throughout
/ the country with expressions of the profound
Jest sorrow. The tolling of BELLS draping of
buildings closing of places of amusement, and
] in some cities an almost total suspension of
business, are but few evidences of the depth of
GLOON produced by the sad event. Nor has
sthis feeling been confined to any one section or
party. North and South, East and West, the
sgreat public heart was buried in one common
agrief over the loss of the great and good Pres
.ident, and one common sympathy for the
stricken mother and wife and children in their
Terrible bereavement N5.tIa. iS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-23

A GERMAN has discovered that if wood
|be exposed to the action of heated
current of pure oxygen, it becomes
proof against the action of moisture
and of changes of temperature. and is
adapted to the manufacture of
musical instruments.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-23

SoME of the Egyptian mummies are
encased- In bandages more than one
thousand yards long.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-23

The average annual crop of an orange
tree is from six to eight thousand
oranges.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-23

End of the Long Struggle of the Presi-
dent for Life-Ehe Sufferers Last
Moments Marked by Visions of That
Happy Home at IEentOr-A Bliss
full Dream of LOng-GOne Joys Tint
Robbed the Hour of Half Its Terror.
New-York tribune., 1881-12-14
PERSONAL.

The charming Princess of Wales has just passed
her thirty ty-seventh birthday and Maud her youngest
child, has attained her twelfth.
Mr. Oscar Wilde has postponed the production of
his drama of "Vera, or the Nihilsts" in view of
the state of political feeling the subject just
now."
Macleod of Macleod is an eccentric Briton, who
lately arrived at Nice with some remarkable travel
ling commemorative huge cats, each one accom-
panied by personal attendant.
DR.. Stroussberg, tbs famous railway king
and bankrupt, has been busy retrieving his shat
tered fortunes with street railways and cheap
papers in Berlin and has regalned the confidence Of
capitalists, which he soens never TO have entirely
forfeited. His latest enterprise aims at the con-
struction of the lonG-planned Euphrates railway
He has secured all the necessary contracts and is
now raising the required funds.
Queen Caroline of Saxony is suffering from an
illness which is attributed to a cause unusual in
royal households. Her Majesty has a mania for
cooking, in which she exces especially in the pre-
paraton of fruit preserves. The crop of frnit in
Saxony was this year abundant that the Queen
labored night aud day in the composition OF her
Jams and jees which she was, of course, obliged
To taste constantly. The consequent fatigue and in
digestion brought on o serious illness.
Count Won Moltke, who is now in his eighty
second year. is out of health and talks of retiring
from his post of Chief of the General Staff. He WILL
however, continue TO exercise general supervision
over the working of the Army Staff. Count Won
New-York tribune., 1881-12-14
GENERAL NOTES.

Nemphis tinman is beginning TO think
that there something in sprituasm after all, for be
has been offered 81 900 for Old clock which has lately
taken 70 striking in unconventional and mysterious
manner answering according to accepted code, all
manner OF impertinent quesons which visitors ask
about their future prospects and welfare
At a recent golden wedding near the centre
of the state plumber electrified the company by pre-
senng with his congratulations and good wishes, hi:
bill recepted in full This is the most munifcent gfh
of brilliant season and though doubtless well meant
Il furnishes painful illustration Of the wild and reck
less extravaganza which Is oorrupting the American
character
Unless the people of Hardwick, Vt, are more
full Of guile than the inhabitants of quiet village ought
to be In this year grace the waters Of natural spring
in that town possess extraordinary properties young
woman who removed thither from Brattlo boro in
dying condition three months ago, and whose parents
died OF the same disease-a scrofuous afecton-which
had brought her to the point of DEATH Ia IN excel
lent health This story has been generally attested py
persons reputation that IL would be disgrace to
human nature IL IL were proved false
Apropos of the love of Yorkshiremen for
betting Sheffield England paper tells the following
story: "A Sheffield minister noted for his long sermons
was grated to find cwo notorious betingm church
three SUNDAYS In succession Like the policeman in the
chorus, he could not understand 10 at all; but he
thought 1t his duty inquire into the change when
had come one of them, who was pariShioner 80
he called upon him. and found him In high spirits The
preacher Expressed MS pleasure AZ soeink hii ="
whereat the parishioner laughed heartily, and esd no
was glad too for he good stroke of business thai
timeI a good stroke Of business repeated the puzzled
preacher. : What do you meant Mean! why pes
Jim five quid to twenty that y9n would 20 on Tor
forty yninutes every tims. And you did"
A number of ladies and gentlemen in Eng
land have associated themselves for the establishment
OF an Academy OF Acting The list Of names includes
those of several noblemen and noblewomen-the Baron
Ferdinand Rothschild Sir Percy and Lady Shelley the
Duke Westmnstcrwhle among literary folk are LORD
Lyton Lord Dufferin, Mr. wilke Collins and Mr. sala
The foe the entire Of study TO be alO with
An fee OF 60 from which the children OF actors
are exempted Tho curriculum embraces the plays of
Shakespeare the structure of the English language, eo
cutiOn French drilling, fencing pantomme brOadsword
exercise stage department. The school Will give einstruc
ton in reading and elocuti0B 70 cergyen, lawyers an9
others who desire It, II Is to be hoped In the preseht
New-York tribune., 1881-12-14
IOCdL INDEBTEDNESS

The Census Bureau ought to help materially
to an estimate of the value of property. I'M
fortunately, the Bureau is called upon to fur
nish the assessed valuation of property, which
bears no relation whatever to the actual value
Of the property assessed In some States an
earnest effort is made to put assessments as
close as possible to the real value of property.
In other States the only reports made are 80
grotesque and so far from the truth that they
deserve little attention. Hence the statistics of
assessed valuation of property in the United
States, collected by Mr.. Porter, will be received
with considerable caution. There is no doubt
that he has done his best But it is question
whether his best is worth anything in this par
ticulr line of inquiry. Mr.. Porter reports
New-York tribune., 1881-12-14
9nnes to ADVERTISEMENTS.


hyUsEMESTs-3d Pooe-6th column.
kNNoUSCEMENTs--Sh PdGe-4th column 80
BANKING HOUSES AND BANKERS-7h PdGe-6tn coluHn'
BoAKD AND RoOMs--3d PdOe-4th column
BRUsHEs-6h Pdge-5th column
BusNFsS NOTICES-4h PdTe-lst column
toRPoKATIoN NoTIcEs--2d Pdge-6th column
DANCING ACADEMIEs-3dP Page 9TH column
bIylDYHD NouCEs-6h P00e-5th c9iumh
bRFss MAKISG-3d Pd0e-1st column
Dry GoopS-3d Page-4th column
ELECTIoS NOTICE-6h Iaae-5th cOiuInn.
ETNANCIAI-7M Pfioe-5th and 6th cOluhips'
FIsE ARTs-3d Page-6th column.
bURSTTURE-3d Pd0e-1st column
HrIp " WANrHD-2d Pdge--6th column.
ICE CRRAM-3d Pdge-5th column
ksTRUCTION-3d PdGe-5th column.
EARRIAGEs AND DEATIs-5n Page-5th column
bgDICAI-3d Page-4th column.
HINNG-6M Pdg6--5th column. -
HIsCELLANEoUs-8h Pd0e-5th and 9th columns
MUSICAL IHsTRUMENTs-3d fdge-1st column;
EFw PUBLICATIoNs-6h Pd0e-lst I'd and 81 Columns
boEAN STEAMERs--3d P00e-1st and 20 columns
REAL EsTATE-3d Page-1st column. .,
sITr .TIoSs WANTEp-MAIEs-2d PdGe-Gth column.
FRMALEs-3d Pd0e-4th column.
sPECIAL NoTICEs--5M Pd0e-6th column. .,
bTKAMBoATs AND RAILROADS.&C. Fage-2d ana Su
columns.
rEACHERs--3d Pd1e-6th cOlumn.
New-York tribune., 1881-12-14
4 WORD 10 TILE COURT

There is no good reason why the murderer
of President Garfield should be permitted to
turn the courtroom into a bear garden or his
trial into a farce. The murder of a President
does not lift the criminal above the level of
his kind, nor make him superior to the rules
of order that govern proceedings in courts of
Justice. But this prisoner has day after day
impudently defied the Court and its officers,
has disregarded the rules Of order as well as
the dictates Of decency, has interrupted the
testimony and has insulted and abused in the
most outrageous manner not only witnesses
and counsel, but persons outside who
had not appeared in the case. The his
tory of criminal trials furnishes no parallel
for the scandalous conduct in which this pris-
oner has been permitted to indulge. Justly or
uniustly, the public holds the presiding judge
responsible for allowing any person-be he
murderer or madman-to bring his court into
contempt and turn into show and farce
the solemnities Of trial whereOn a human
life is staked. The general sentiment OF in
dignatiOn and disgust has found expression in
the press, and, not mnaturally Judge Cox
has been somewhat disturbed by the free crit
icism t. which he has been subjected on this
account. This has moved some of his friends
to venture an explanation of bis motives in
permitting such scandalOus latitude to the
accused.
Now, we have no manner of doubt as to the
purity and excellence of Judge COx's motives.
1t is doubtless true that, so far from being in
Auenced by any friendly bias toward the pris-
oner, he is all the tiIae striving to divest him
self Of the natural prejudice which the shock
ing character of the crime and the detestable
character of the assassin have excited in the
minds of all good citizens. We clearly appre-
ciate the difficulties besetting him, and can
understand how, from an intense desire to give
the prisoner the fair and impartial trial to
which even he is entitled, he may "stand
so straight as to lean backward" We do not
know that we blame him for disregarding the
advice so freely rendered him by the newspa-
pers as to what means to adopt to repress the
prisoners unseemy Interruptions We grant
New-York tribune., 1881-12-14

Joint ownership readily enough; but wheh tne
Land Law fairly gives them an equal share Oh
the bed on which they have wanted to lie,
American influence makes the kicking out oil
the landlord a natural impulse. In like man
ner, the position of the priest is represented as
being completely changed by the spread OF
democratic ideas from the other side OF the
water. The hostility which the pcasantry nave
suddenly shown toward hunting is attributed 10
the same cause. The fact that the Leading
packs are no longer allowed to run, that the
Newbridge barriers are Withdrawn ana the
great steeplechases and meetings are dlScOn-
tinued, is supposed to imply vital change I'D
Irish tendencies for otherwise the tenants
would not turn their faces against sports on
which $4,000, 900 a year have been expended.
All these are regarded as proofs OF " the pro-
"found Americanization which has long been
" going on in Ireland, and which will go great
I" deal further"
So fanciful an hypothesis as this exhausts the
inventive as well as the analytical powers OF
English journalism. We venture to predict
that the future historian whose labOrs are
anticipated by The Pail Mall Gazette will find
the Irishman of to-day the lineal descendant
VI
heritage of taints, weaknesses, tendencies. pre-
ludiccs, impulses and habits which has not
been materially affected by the transmission of
American ideas. The successful struggle of
the thirteen colonies may have had an indirect
influence upon the French Revolution, but the
controlling impulses which rendered that social
upheaval inevitable were in the blood of the
people The spread of democratic ideas from
America had little to do with it. The forces
which were to be brought into action with
such terrific effect were already stored in the
national character. If the Irish tenant of to-
day will not pay his rent and is bent upon driv-
ing his landlord and the packs OF hOunds out
of the island, even if he has to resort TO the
worst forms of agraIian crime to accomplish
his purpose, it is not because he has been in
tluenced from America, where tenancy is gen
orally created by written agreement, and the
landlord has all the advantages of legal process.
1t is because nc is what he has become after
centuries OF misgOvcrnmcnt misfortune and
imp1oyidcncc. There has been no TRANSMISSION
of American ideas. The taints have been in
hcrted and constantly aggravated 10y vicious
race tendencies and lutOward conditions of
nature and law.