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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-12-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE President has adopted rules for
the reception OF visitors at the White House.
The President reserves Saturdays and Sun
days for himself, and on those days will re-
ceiye no one. He will hold his first public
reception on New Years Day.
MAJOR WILLIAM ARTHUR, the Presi-
dents only brother, has received an APP
pontment on Gen. Hsncock's staff.
THAT wing of the Greenback party of
which Mr.. Hugo Preyer is Chairman will
hold convention in st. Louis on March 8.
THE President is reported to have
said to some Senators who called to urge
appointments that he does not get time to
think; that he is kept talking about APP
pointments and filling offices twenty hours
out of the twenty-four, and can't get
time to properly consider anything.
AMONG number of nominations sent
by the President to the Senate, on the 10th,
was that Of Benjamin II. Brewster, Of Penn
syyania, for Attorney General.
REPRESENTATIVE LADD is reported to
have said that the Greenbackers in Congress
will join any party or element in the House
that will oppose the restriction of silver
coinage.
The Treasury investigation now in
progress is conducted with closed doors, al
though it is said the evidence will all be
published when completed.
DR.. ISAAC l. HAYES, the Arctic ex-
plorer, is dead.
GUITEAU's head has been nodded in
plaster by Clark Mills, the well known
sculptor. Guiteau at first refused to have
his beard removed, as was necessary in
making the cast, but finally submitted him
self to the barber's hands. After the oper-
alton he expressed himself highly gratified
with the result.
SECRETARY FRELINGHUYsEN on the
10Th assumed control Of the Department OF
State.
EX-SECRETARY BLAINE says he will
continue to reside in Washington, devoting
his attention to his private affairs, and that
he does not at present design makinga tour
through the South as has been reported.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-12-24
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

THE Post-ofice Department has made
a ruling that no newspaper supplement
containing any advertisements whatever can
be allowed in the mails at second class rates
unless the publisher makes affidavit that the
same rate is paid for advertisements in the
supplement as for those in the body Of the
paper itself.
THE condition of the cotton crop, as
reported to the Department of Agriculture,
is lower than in any season since 1866.
Taking the reports OF the season together,
up to December 1, the indications point to
a crop of about 4 ,900,O0O bales, and soma
what higher product appears possible.
TIE international & Great Western
Railroad reached Larned on the 18th.
BEEF is being shipped in refrigerating
ears from San Antonio, Texas, destined for
the Paris markets.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-02-16
A MONTANA editor draws this picture

A MONTANA editor draws this picture
of one of his esteemed contemporaries
"The blear-eyed picture of melancholy
and imbeci]ity who has ravaged his ex-
changes to fill up the Insect during the
past year, and the cheerful-looking
corpse who has acted lately as his man
Friday, and who is tender-foot equally
soft at both ends, will doubtless paralyze
everybody to-day with their thunder
bolts of choice sarcasm and polite in
vective. The intelligibility Of their
philippics, however, will depend largely
upon whether they could borrow that
dictionary again or not, their vocabulary
being painfully abridged if left to their
own resources. .
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-02-16
In a GAMBLING Haunt.


Further alongm be found the Amer
lean, armed with his red-covered "Kre-
mer's Graphic Railway Guide" which
has become the guide, philosopher and
friend Of our transatlantic cousins who
are visiting Europe. The tourist who
comes from country where everything
is practical will not hear word against
his "Kremer," which contains all the
information he can require, and prevents
him from having to carry half hundred
weight of guide-books about with him.
It contains skeleton maps, sketches of
tours, advice to the traveller, with prac-
tical hints, valuable notes, etc., and its
price is ridicuiously small, while the de-
scriptions are given in such readable
form that geographyand history becomes
a pleasant study. Onthe square in front
Of the Casino and the Hotel de PARIS is
the Cafe de Paris, with it's polyglot wait
ers, and it's customers speaking Babel
OF tongues. Every beverage in the
world can be obtained, from "Scotch
whisky to "prime old Bourbon" but
little line has been drawn at the 'sTom
gin, " which is sold down in the Conda-
mine with label which havors strongly
of contraband. Timetables standing out
on the pavement in the sun are all occu-
pied, for going to the cafe is not consid-
cred in the same light as going to the
public house at home, and French GUS
toms and fashions havenot only been ac-
cepted but adopted. The English lady
and her daughter may be seen there Of
a morning, drinking their cafe az toit
and eating their little rolls, while at
o'clock tea the tables are crowded, and
the decoction Of Bohea is passed round
and imbibed with as much pleasure and
apparent satisfaction as the Chinese
manifests when he inha!es the fumes OF
the opium from his metal pipe. The
Frenchman sips his absinthe of an after
noon, the italian drinks his ver1nouth,
! the Russian rncorks his pint OF foam.
ing champagne, and the German takes
his coffee with milk, and accompanied
by half dozen sweet cakes just to gel
| h7a month into shor,o fr,,, toI1o l,l>o4o
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-02-16
TIE Trustees Of the Tick ohsar,

The trustees of the Lick observatory
have finally closed the contract for the
optical part Of their great telescope.
There has been considerable doubt
whether a refractor or an enormous re-
fecter would be selected, but the de-
cision is in favor of the former. The
object glass is to be three feet in diane
ter, and the Clarks are to make it for
$50, 900. The mounting for the instru-
ment is not yet provided for. Its power
will exceed that of the Pulkowa glass,
now constructing, by A per cent, and
it will be almost twice as powerful as
the great + telescope at Washington,
which at present holds the supremacy
among it's kind. y 2v.s Eaa4zs --t.se-e g.--' -
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-02-16
ANCESTRAL PORTRAITS.

am ple,scd to see the traces
In these sw vt " Sir Joshua" faces
OF my featu~ s and my eyes:
Fair .heyare, that girl and brother,
With tn..- Dung "nd smiling mother,
. Beautiful beyond disguise.
For observe their dress how simple,
iAushH With embroidered wimple,
Yet think the effect is good;
Scant, perchance, yet freely flowing;
Nothing to impede the growing
Into graceful womanhood.
And their houses were not numbered
With the rarities unnumbered
Wherewith now we deck our rooms;
Wainscot walls, and plainly tinted;
Nothing vivid, save where glirted
Sunshine on bowl Of blooms.
Aud their gardens differed greatly
From all those we have seen lately,
Where the flowers in strange device
Grow AS in 4 broidercd cushion,
Holding all that art can push in,
Without leave to spread or rise.
Their flowers grew in natural order.
In the wide, old-fashioned border,
Bright with pink and peony;
With tall hollyhocks in posies,
CtChS, ana IaVeuQer, ana roses,
Purple larkspur, and sweet pea.
And liked their yew-cut alleys,
Framing vistas Of the valleys,
And the church-tower and the lea.
And the stately trees whose shadow
Fell at eve DER park and meadow,
Century after century.
Their amusements-well,f for certain,
II On them lift the curtain,
You'll pronounce them tame and few;
And yellow page you're turning
You would scrutinize their learning;
An, it would seem small to you
Who have sat for horrs in classes,
Making notes OF all that passes;
But you see their sphere was home;
There they reigned supreme and thrifty,
And the matron long past fifty
Kept her dignity and bloom.
And they had their Christmas dances,
Summer junkeGngs and fancies,
And the daintisst, chcriest teas;
Sometimes, too, q little scandal;
But strain from BOyce or Handel
Cleared the air like Summer breeze.
And although they might work blindly,
Yet their aims were good and kindly;
1n their quiet neighborhood
Not child but knew and loved them,
Old and middle-aged approved them,
Aud took pattern Us they could.
So they lived, my ancestresses,
Simple, unperp.exed by guesses
At Gods secrets yelled for aye;
Books were fewer, knowledge rarer:
But none nobler, sweeter. fairer,
Grace the England of to-day.
Chambers JoUrnt
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-02-16

Col. H1ee1NsoN's new house in Cam
bridge, Mass, is tiled, instead of clap
boarded and shingled. Its principal
feature is the hal, which occupies as
much space as any Of the looms, and has
q fireplace in it and staircase. All one
side Of the hall is lighted by windows Of
various shapes and colors.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-02-16

ST. PAUL, February "a resolution by Searles
was adopted requesting the finance committee to
ascertain what legislation. if any, is required to
able the state to do its duty toward the suffering
people Of the frontier. Mrs. Sarah W. Clark petit
toned the legislature, through Daniels, to qualify
her to vote to relieve her of taxation She stated
that she paying heavy sums OF money to aid the
government, but had voice in their disbursement
Senate bills passed. To restrain cattle from run
Ming at large in Mcleod county; to authorize school
district No. to issue S. 900 in bonds to build school
houses. -. Bills introduced: Authorizing towns in
Rcnvile county to- issue bonds to aid railroads;
regulate the service OF summons in civil cases in
Wright county; to pay claim of $50 to j. Q. A.
Ward; to change the boundaries Of school districts
in Hennepin and Wright counti s; relating to cec-
tons of officers of corporations; to authorize st.
Louis county to issue bonds for court house and
Jail. :. Adjourned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-02-16

] A GROWING industry in Maryland IL
the shipment of ivy and swamp brier
roots to northern cities, where they are
made into pipes, whip and cane handles,
door knobs, etc. ..
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-02-16

ST. PAUL, February 10.-Mott offered petition
from the students Of Carleton college, praying for
constitutional amendment whereby college students
might vote at general elections without returning to
their homes. Bills passed: 10 incorporate the city
of Moorhead to regulate the inspection Of gran re-
gulating the manner of weighing wheat, etc.: amend
ing the laws relating to registrars of eeds to lay out
a county road in Ramsey county; to amend the law
incorporating the Western Railroad company; to APP
propriate $1,000 for a bridge Cottonwood
river to legalize election held in MURDOCH Swift
county, to restrain cattle from running at large in
Hennepin county; to amend acts incorporating the
village of Kesscn Dodge county; proposing ad6i-
ton to the constitution providing for the voting of
women all questions relating to the manufacture
or sale Of Intoxicating liquors. Adjourned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-02-16

THIS standard article is compound
ed with the greatest care.
Its effects are as wonderful and rs
satisfactory as ever.
1t restores gray: OF faded hair to its
youthful color.
It removes all eruptious, itching
and dandruff. 1t gives the head a
cooling, soothing sensation Of great
comfort, and the scalp by it's use
becomes white and clean.
BY it's tonic properties it restores
the capillary glands to their normal
vigor, preventing badness, and MAX
ing the hair grow thick and strong.
AS dressing, nothing has been
found so efectual or desirable.
A. A. Hayes, ND, State Assayer
of Massachusetts, says, "The con-
stituents are pure, and carefully Sc
lected for excellent quality and I
consider it the BEST PREPARATION
for it's intended purposes"
Price, One Dollar.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-02-16
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11

Last week Madison was thronged, if
not gay. Hotels and boarding houses
were crowded with guests, and parlors
and halls were thickly filled at night
with cots and their sleepers. In addi-
ton to legislators, and legislative hang
ers on, there were the large number of
members in attendance ON the joint
state and horticultural conventions.
The mass of visitors was increased by
large number Of the Ancient Order
Of United Workmen in session here in
Grand Lodge. But Madison took them
all in and provided not only for their
physical wants but for their mental
recreation. Every evening afforded
several lectures and literary entertain
ments, which attracted more or less
the attention Of visitors. A week spent
at the capital at this season of the year
cannot fail of affording a large amount
of enjoyment, and many agreeable
memories. In this connection we want
toremark that the Capital House, whose
Inequalities we enjoyed during our
visit in Madison, is capital place to
stay at. The bill Of fare Is abundant
and varied, and the cuisine excel
lent, while every attention is paid to
the comfort Of guests. The charges
are very reasonable. Mine host, Brasee,
is a genial gentleman, who seems to
delight in contributing to the pleasure
Of his guests.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11
WHAT TO TEACH.

Rev. Charles Brooks, father OF { he
State normal schools in America. was
asked by teacher this question !:
" What shall [ teach my pupils?" He
answered, Teach them thoroughly
these five things /. To live religi-
ously. 2. To think comprehensive.
g. To reckon mathematically. 4. To
converse fuently: and, 5. To write
dramatically. If You successfully
teach them these five things. You viii
nobly have done your duty to YOUR
pupils, to their parents. to your coun-
try, and to yourself"
Borrowing out of the above, a thought
occurs to US under the head of what we
may not teach. Let us avoid giving our
pupils false notions of life, which will
make them dissatisfied with q so-called
humble position. The stampede from
trades and from farms, into city and
town, and the crowding into professions
which has characterized late years, has
been largely owing to teachings caught
from books, and inculcated both at
school and at home and the matter
must be corrected in the next genera
ton, if natural equilibrium be restor-
ed to society. Teach the truth of the
c0uplet
Honor and shame from condition rise
Act well thy part there all the honor lies, -
rather than the foolish sentiment that
any one may become whatever he
chooses.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11

Discussion is one of the powers that
move the world onward in the path OF
progress. The farmers have been using
this power in the late convention held
In Madison. The following resolutions,
after being reported by the special CON-
mittee, were moved and adopted at the
meeting of the convention held in the
Assembly chamber on Thursday even
ing
Reso1ced, That the present number
of reports of the Wisconsin State Agri-
cultural Society are.irsuficient to sup
ply the demand made by the progress
sive farmers Of the state, and we hereby
respectfully petition the legislature to
increase the number to ten thousand
copies.
Resoloed, That bin 81. senate, q bill
to appropriate to the Wisconsin State
Agricultural Society the sum of three
thousand and ninety dollars ought to
become a law.
Resolged, That our representatives in
the legislature are hereby earnestly re-
quested to foster and encourage all state
industries by judicious appropriations
for the purpose of scientific and prac-
tical Investigations and experiments
which are impossible by private effort.
| ReSo7ued, That copy of the above
resolutions be sent by the president and
secretary to the president of the senate
and speaker Of the assembly.
ReSolued, That it is due the dairy in
terests of this state that a law be enact
ed prohibiting the sale Of adulterated
dairy products as the genuine article,
and that we recommend the passage of
senate bill No. /, or one of like import.
Rescued, That the thanks of this
convention are due, and are hereby
rendered the several railway compa-
MES for the Gourtesies extended to the
farmers Of the state, thus promoting a
large attendance at our conventions by
a reduction OF fare, That large at
tendance of the representatives Of the
industries Of the state at our annual
conventions will doubtless be for the
advantage Of our commonwealth, by
the dissemination of practical knowl'
edge, and that such an attendance will
also be to the financial advantage OF
the several railways therefore, in con-
sideration of this mutual benefit, WE
respectfully request further reduction
| of one-ifth full fare.
| ResoIUed, That we are of the opinion
that the interest in these conventions
would be greatly promoted if each
agricultural organization in the state
would send delegates, thus causing the
information derived from these meet.
ings to be more fully disseminated
throughout the state.
ReSo1ced, That We most heartily com.
mend the action of the board of the
university of Wisconsin, in securing
the services of Pro. w. A. Henry tC
fill the chair of scientific and practical
agriculture.
That the further action OF the same
| board Of regents meet our cordial ap
proval in causing Prof. Henry to attend
the various industrial conventions and
meetings Of the state, to assist in the
advancement Of agriculture.
Resolped, That we recognize In Prof,
w. A. Henry an efficient aid in progress:
Of agriculture, an industry which al
acknowledge as being the basis of the
nations wealth and substantial pros
perity
". w. FIELD,
R. +. ROBERTS,
ALEX. a. ARNOLD,
il Committee.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11
ROLL OF HONOR.

PLEASANT PRAIRIE, No. Nv. H.
Flett, Teacher. Upper Form: Kate
Blackman, Maggie Reynolds, Minnie
Crow, Vic Carpenter, Charles Black
man. Middle Form: Eddie Blackman
Tim Carpenter, Justin Reynolds, Rich
ard Reynolds, Sigel Carpenter. Prjm-
arg Form: Louis Prange, Artie Rey-
nolds, Henry Wick, Dora Prange
Minnie Prange.
PLEASANT PRAIRIE, No. &c. NJ
Stannard, Teacher. Joseph Lonergan
Annie Lonergan, Agnes Lonergan
Michael Lonergan, Michael Doherty
Patrick Doherty, Henry Mollenhauer.
Charles Mollenhauer, Henry Lam
brecht, Annie Lambrecht, Dennis
Lynch, Ben Jensen, Jennie Miller
Frank Shirley, Mary Irwin, Maggie
Lynch.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11
EDUCATIONAL.
TEA CHERS' MEETING.

A meeting of the E.D.T.A., more in
the nature Of an entertainment than
Of regular teachers meeting, was
held at the Union Church, Pleasant
Prairie, on Saturday evening, Feb. 9Th,
A delegation Of the solid men of Somers
Station and vicinity, seventeen In num-
Der, came down on the cars, and sew
eral sleigh loads came from the same
town. Bristol and Paris were we'll
represented, and all Pleasant Prairie,
more or less, was there.
Vice-President Carpenter called the
| meeting to order at 7.45, and proceeded
with the following programme
Song ~" Crown the Song King"
Somers Glee Club.
AddresS-Superintendent Mahoney.
Song" Song for the West" Glee
Club.
Recitation" The Sign Board" Allie
Stannard.
Reading-"Aiss Eliza's Last school,"
Lottie Reynolds.
Recitation "All fer Bread and But
ter, May Shelley.
Reading - Paul Revere's Ride"
Minnie Gibbon.
Song" On the Red Field of blood"
Glee Club.
Defamation" Education" George
Graham.
Defamation The Last Words Of
Great Men," Sinclair Mainland.
Recitation go Why Should the
Spirit of Mortal be Proud?" Kate
Blackman.
Reading To-day and Tomorrow"
Maggie Reynolds.
Reading" Mr.. Scoopiey's Confess
sion," Nettie King.
Song" Hope Beyond" Glee Club.
Recitation" Brave John Maynard"
Mamie Torrey.
Recitation" Entertaining Her Big
Sisters Beau" May Washburn.
Recitation -" Annie aud Willie's
Prayer" Gertie Cook.
Defamation The Cause OF Tenn
perance,' Sherman Gibbon.
Dialogue -" After School, What ?"
BY six of the pupils Of the Newbury
School.
A hearty vote Of thanks was tend
cLcu lLlo SO1u6iS Ute CIuD 1OE LQB
excellent music which they furnished
for the occasion. The meeting closed
by the Glee Club singing "Sleep on
Thy Pillow"
The exercises were all good. The
manner in which the Rotations, read
ings, &C., were delivered, showed that
there must have been hard, earnest
work done by both teachers and pupils.
If from the many good things which
were Or the programme We were to
single out individuals, we would like
to commend Sinclair Mainland for the
very fine manner in which he delivered
his defamation, and to say that Nettie
Kings reading was ahead Of anything
we have ever before heard for one Of
her age. Everyone seemed to think
that the meeting was fully up to the
mark, and that thanks were due the
teachers and pupils who had assisted
In getting it up.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11

The Senate Committee, Messrs. Simp-
son, Quarles ani Anderson, to whom
the resolution regarding the amend
ment to the constitution giving the
suffrage to women, was referred, have
reported fayorably, and it will I'M
6Oubtedly be passed by the legislature
and go to the people for their decision.
1t would be difficult to prophesy what
Will be the fate of the measure in the
hands of the voters, No good reason
can be adduced against extending the
elective franchise to woman, but hoary
prejudice and selfshness entrenched in
law viii oppose it,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11

We do not feel in the least jealous of
our sister city, Waukegan, because
of her ambition to have Uncle Sam con-
struct harbor for her. But there are
some funny features about the affair
that are too good to be enjoyed alone.
Because of the ceaseless opportunities
Of certain citizens, corps OF govern
ment engineers were sent to make a
survey of the lake shore at Waukegan.
The citizens were divided into two
parties on the question of where the
harbor should be located. One party
wanted it located at one point, the
other party at another. The govern
ment engineers located it at a different
point. Is there anything funny about
that! We supposed the Creator locat-
Ell harb0rs but where he has failed to
do that, and the people are ambitious to
get their fingers in their uncle'S pocket,
a corps must locate it. The chief of the
corps recommended an appropriation Of
$4,000 as commencement. The COM
mittee on appropriations, in congress,
have recommended an appropriation of
$15,000to locate harbor at Waukegan !.
Such scandalous misrepresentation
give the entire system bad odor, and
gives character to the democratic cry
of :" no expenditures. except for govern
ment purposes.