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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-18
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Congressman Levi P. Morton was last
week nominated for Minister to France by the
President. The Senate promptly confirmed
the nomination. Ex-Gov. Noyes of Ohio, has
been the Minister to France for the last four
years.
In note to the British Legation.
Secretary Blaine shows that the Consul at Phil
adelphia was imposed upon by spectators as
to the hog cholera, and expresses the hope
that prompt steps will be taken toward an au-
thoritative denial Of the falsehoods.
William M. Evarts, Allen G. Thur
man and Timothy o. Howe have been appointed
Commissioners to the International Money
Conference.
Walter Blaine, of st. Paul, has been
appointed private secretary to his father, the
Secretary of State.
Carl Schurz has been sued for 5000. 900
by Charles D. Gilmore, Washington claim
agent, for being disbarred from practice at the
interior Department.
Secretary Window has decided that
the treasury department. must refuse to allow
the national banks to substitute bonds for the
legal tenders deposited by them for the retire
ment of their circulation.
The Secretary of the Navy has decided
to purchase the whaling steamer Helen and
Mary, now at San Francisco, to be used in the
Jeanette search expedition. The price is
$4,000 The vessel ia TO he manned NV vol,,,
teer officers of the United States navy.
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Handwriting and Character.

You take pen in hand and you are
showing something of your own charac-
ter. The very style of the handwriting
is an element in the determination Of
character. The way. in which a man
dashes off letter is very much the way
In which man uses his voice. There is
a modulated ease in the tones of the
handwriting. Without protesting to be
experts, like Messrs. Chabot and Neither
cliff, we can certainly gather a general
idea of character from the handwriting.
A minister was commenting on very
strong dispatch in the presence of his
sovereign. "The language is strong"
said the statesman, "but the writer does
not mean it; he is irresolute" ''Whence
do you see irresolution ?" said the King.
'In his MS and g's, please, Your Males
ty." Only it is to be said that great
deal of humbug is often talked by peo-
pie who profess to be judges of hand
writing [ showed a professor of CALI
graphy letter which I had received. He
took a very unfavorable view of the
handwriting. 1t was the handwriting of
man without learning, without genius,
without feeling. "And now, sir, said,
evil you look at the signature ?" The
letter was written by Lord Macaulay.-
London Society.
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The Home Of Mark Twain.

In letter from Hartford, CT, to the
Burlington Qowa) HaaOkeye, Mr.. r. J.
Burdette writes:
81 think have never been In home
more beautifully homelike than this pal
ace of the king of humorists. The sur
roundings of the house are beautiful,
and its quaint architecture, broad East
Indian porticos, the Greek patterns in
mosaic in the dark red brick walls attract
and charm the attention and good taste
of the passer-by, for the home, inside
and out, is the perfection of exquisite
taste and harmony But with all its
architectural beauty and originality, the
elegance of its interior finish and decora-
tions, the greatest charm about the house
is the atmosphere of 'homelikeness' that
pervades it. Charmingly as he can en-
terrain thousands of people at time
from the platform, Mr.. Clemens is even a
more perfect entertainer in his home.
The brightness and best sides of his ma
tnre shine out at his fireside. The hui
NOR and drollery that sparkle in his
conversation is as utterly unaffected and
natural as sunlight. Indeed, don't be-
lieve he knows or thinks that most of
his talk before the sparkling fire, up in
the pleasant retirement of his billiard
room study, is marketable merchandise
worth SO much page to the publishers,
but it is. And it is not all drollery and
humor. He is so earnest that his
earnestness charms you fully as much as
his brighter flashes, and once in while
there is in his voice an infection of won
derful pathos, so touched with melan-
choly that you look into the kind, earnest
eyes to see what thought has touched
his voice. And he has heart as big as
his body; I believe there does not live a
man more thoroughly unselfsh and self
forgetful. Two little girls and boy
baby, bright eyed, good tempered, and
with full head of hair as brown as his
fathers, assist Mrs. Clemens to fill the
heart of the reigning humorist, and they
do it most completely. Personally, Mr..
Clemens is, perhaps, a little above the
medium height, of good Symmetrical
physique, brown hair, scarcely touched
with gray, that curls over high, white
forehead; friendship in his eyes, hearty
cordially in the grasp of we'll shaped
white hand, strong enough and heavy
enough to be a manly hand; his age is
forty something, and he looks thirty five:
in the evening after the lamps are lighted,
his face has boyish look, and he loves a
good cigar even better than Grant
| does "
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POLITICAL POINTS.

Secretary Window, in brief inter
view with Washington correspondent, said he
had always been proteotionist and was in
favor of proper, reasonable protective tariff.
President Garfield repudiates certain
free-trade sentiments attributed to him by the
London Telegraph. He states that he wrote to
the Secretary of the Golden Climb, last August,
that he did not believe in its principles. but
would be pleased to see full discussion of the
tariff question.
Ex-senator Angus Cameron, of Wis
consin, was nominated by the Republican Sen
atorial caucus at Madison, for successor to
the late Senator Carpenter, on the forty-eighth
ballot.
The people of North Carolina will vote
next August on the prohibition question.
There are five Congressional vacancies
to be filled-viz. the one caused by the death
of Fernando Wood, and those created by the
election Of Messrs. Conger, Frye and Mitchell
to the United States Senate from Michigan
Maine and Pennsylvania, and the one created
in New York by the appointment of the Hon.
Levi P. Morton to be Minister to France.
The National Anti Monopoly League
reports that applications for charters for
branches have been received from twenty-four
States.
The Governor of Minnesota has APP
pointed Gen. A. ]. Edgerton to serve out the
unexnred term ne Caore%arv Window, IN tl,o
United States Senate.
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Legal Railway Decisions.

An interesting decision was made by
the Supreme Court of Georgia in favor
of the Georgia railroad. This was suit
for $4,000, brought by Owens under
these circumstances He was the holder
of a through ticket, bought in Balti-
more, from that place to Atlanta. He
boarded the train in Augusta. Conduc-
tor James B. Johnson took up his ticket,
and gave him stop-over ticket, allow
ing him to stop over at one point.
Owens protested in writing, claiming
that he had the right to stop as often as
he chose. He boarded the train next
day at Barnett. Conductor Walsh then
took up his "stop-over ticket. This
left him without any ticket. He board
ed the train next day at Union Point,
when Conductor j. B. johnson told him
he must pay his fare or get off. He re-
fused to do either, whereupon johnson
put him off. This suit was then brought
for $40, 900 damages. The jury found q
verdict for the railroad.
The Supreme Court of Kansas, in the
case of animals killed by railroad trains,
held: A railroad company is not guilty
of negligence in failing to protect the
swine in township where they are per-
mitted to run at large, and it appears
from an agreed statement of facts that q
hog was killed by the negligence of the
railroad company in such township, and
it further appears that the negligence of
the owner in permitting the animals to
run at large, in violation of the statute
laws, contributed directly to the injury
the negligence of the defendant was
offset by the negligence of the plaintiff,
and the owner of the animals could not
recover for the loss.
The Supreme Court of Georgia de-
cides that, in suit against a railroad
for loss of goods shipped over its line, it
was competent for the defendant to
prove by the agents of connectingroad
delivery in good order to it; and. al
though the witness may never have seen
the goods, they may testify from the
books of their company, proved to have
been made in the usual order of business
and to be accurate. Also that, when a
writing is shown to be lost or beyond
the jurisdiction of the court, secondary
evidence of its contents is admissible.
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Fishing in Lapland.

The wter is very clear at Hamerfest,
in Laplnd; you may see everything
that goe on among the fish. A few feet
down ya may see the young cod snap
ping at our hooks, if you have one;
little lover down the Goldfish, and the
huge place and the halibut on the white
sand at he bottom; in other places the
starfsh, as large as plate, and purple
and gren shellfish of all sizes. The
plaice taken in the following man
her: Ii calm weather the fisherman
takes srong, fine cord, to which he has
fasteneda heavy spear-head, like whale
harpoon This he holds ready over the
bow of he boat, while another person
paddles it forward slowly. When the
fish is Sen at the bottom the boat is
stopped and the harpoon is suddenly
droppedupon him, and thus the fish is
caught. In two hours the fishermen
will geta boat-load. The halibut are
caught With hooks. They sometimes
weigh fite hundred pounds, and if drawn
up carelssly will overturn the boat. In
many ofthe mountainous districts the
rivers swarm with trout, the habit Of
which isto conceal themselves beneath
the boulder rocks in the bed of the
stream, 7enturing out to feed only at
night Men, each with heavy hammer,
will entG these waters and strike one or
two blows on the stones, when the fish
run from their lurking place partly
stunned and ale easily caught.-Seo
World
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DOINGS IN CONGRESS.

On the assembling of the Senate on Wednes-
day, March Q, telegram from the Governor of Iowa
was read, announcing the appointment Of J. W..
McDin to fill the unexpired term of Senator Kirk
wood The following names were sent in by the
President: William NJ. Evarts, Of New
York, Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio,
and Timothy o. Howe, of Wisconsin,
Commissioners from this Government to the Inter-
national Monetary Conference L. P. Morton, OF
New York, Minister to France; Lot NJ. Morrill,,
United States Collector of Customs at Portland, Me-
David ID. McC.ung, Surveyor of Customs at Cincin-
natl; John W. Green. Collector of Internal Revenue
for the Second district Of Iowa; Robert s. Taylor
of Indiana, member of the Mississippi River I'M
provement Commission Enthusiastically E.
Guilford Wanston, Ohio; George Pheger, South
Bend, Ind; James o. Raymond, Stevens Point, Wis.
Immediately upon the assembling of the
Senate on Thursday, March 10, message from the
President received. Mr.. Pendleton offered a
resolution providing for the organization Of the
standing committees of the Senate. The resolution
was read, subject to objection raised by Mr. An
thony. After reading the resolution Mr. Anthony
moved that it be printed and lie on the table, the
subject to be called up tomorrow. Agreed to.
Mr.. Pendeton then offered resolution providing
for the organization of the select committees which
Was disposed of in similar manner. President Gar
field sent in the nominations of COL Clark E. Carr to
succeed himself as Postmaster at Galesburg. and
Sanford A. Hudson, of Wisconsin, as Associate JUS
tice Of the Supreme Court of Dakota.
The session Of the Senate on Friday, March
IL, was an exciting one. The Democrats tried to
press Mr. Pendletons resolution relative to the COM
nnittess to . vote, but Mr.. Conkling made the
point of order that It could not be consid-
cred because it changed a rule of the Senate
without notice having been given. The Vice Presi-
dent sustained this point, and an appeal was taken
from his ruling After debate at some length,
Senators Conking, Sherman, Bayard, Garland,
Ferry and others taking part, the point of order
and the appeal were both withdrawn,
and the matter went over to Monday. Mr..
Edmunds made his appearance and took the oath.
Senator David Davis said he had intention OF ac-
cepting bonors from either party but intended to be
independent He would not accept the Chairmanship
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Of the Judiciary Committee, although hevould vote
to appoint the committees. He moved Ae substi-
tuition of Mr.. Garland. The President seat in the
following nominations: Postmasters-Gerge f.
Dick, Bloomington. H.; Orlando a. Merwin. Eyans-
ton, ILL.,: Almond B. Biford. Benton Harbor.Mlch
Lorenzo J. Worden, Lawrence, Kas; ThoIhs f.
Hall, Omaha. Neb.; Henry g. Pearson. New York.
In the United States Senate, the oathof ofics
was taken, on the meeting of that body on Monday
March II, by Messrs. McDin, of Iowa, and Cameron,
of Wisconsin. Mr.. Morgan offered resolution de-
nouncing assassination as a means Of rcdrefs for
any grievance. On the question of organizing
the Senate speeches were made by Messrs.
Pendleton, Conkling and Hill, the latter
inquir1ng particularly what Senator chosen
by Democrats would prove false to his trast
Mr.. Malone took position in front of the Vice
Presidents desk and declared that he should vote as
he pleased; that he owed nothing to the Democrats
and that the Democratic party had done more injury
to the South than anything else. MIR
Voorhees, offered to be one Of two Demo-
cratsto pair off with vacant Republican seats. The
President nominated Stanley Matthews, of Ohio to be
Associate Justice Of the United States Supreme
Court; Don A. Psrdee, of Louisiana, to be United
States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Judicial Circuit:
John W. Powell of Illinois, to be Director Of the
United States Geological Survey: Orlando H. Brew
ster, Louisiana. Surveyor General of the United
States. District of Louisiana. Postmasters-
George j. Williams, Youngstown, Ohio
Thomas J. Anderson, Topeka, Kansas;
Jacob M. Wells, Marion, Ind: John R. Dowd
Rockville, Ind; Mrs. Priscilla W. Wilson, Braid
wood, III; 6. W. Mitchell, Charleston, Ill; James
II. Clarke, Nation, H.; John Kennedy, Hastings
Mimi; Eden N. Lavens, Faribault, Mimi; Frances
W. seeley, Lake City, Mimi; Edward Russell, Day.
export, Iowa William c. Hawley, Manchester, Iowa
George Crane, Dubuque, Iowa; Justus 7. Moak,
Watertown, Wis; Frank Patterson, junction City
Kan; William MuDenix, Bristol Tenn; Henry W.
Turner. lexington Mo.
The Senate session was very brief on Tues
day, the 18th inst Mr.. Voorhees, called up his reso-
luton asking the Attorney General for the names of
Deputy Marshals appointed to guard the polls at the
October election in Indiana. 1t was amended so as
to call also for Information as to the necessity for
their appointment and in its shape was adopted
An attempt was made by Mr.. Pendleton to call up
his reorganization resolution but it failed and the
Senate adinnrnnd
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-18
First Things in American Iron.

Iron was first made in America in
1920, at a point on Falling creek, a
branch of the James river, in Virginia.
The first iron manufactured west Of
the Allegheny mountains was made In
Fayette county, Pa, in 1870.
The first rolling-mill west of the AL
legheny mountains was located on Cheat
river, in what is now West Virginia.
The date of its erection is unknown.
The first rolling-mil in Pittsburgh
was built by Christopher Cowan, an En-
glishman, in 1912. 1t had no pudding
furnaces nor was it intended to roll bar
iron,
The first rolling-mill erected west of
the Alleghenies to puddle iron and roll
bars was built in 1916 and 1877, at
place called Middletown, better known
as Plumsock, in Fayette county, Pa.
Pig-iron, manufactured with bitumin-
Gus coke, is claimed to have first been
made as regular product in the United
States by F. Fl. Oliphant, at Uniontown,
Fayette county, Pa, in 1886.
Knocked bituminous coal was first
used in blast-furnace about the year
1S43, in the Shenango valley, Pa.
The first use of Lake Superior iron
ore in blast-furnace was in 1853, by
David and John Agnew, at Sharpsville,
Mercer county, Pa.
Oast-steel was made in the American
colonies at an early day. In 1905 there
were two steel-furnaces in Pennsylvania,
producing $50 tons of steel annually.
Bessemer steel was first made in the
United States at Wyandotte, Mich, in
the autumn of 1854.
The first Bessemer steel rails rolled in
this country were rolled at the North
Chicago rolling-mill on the Oath of May,
1866, from hammered blooms made at
the Wyandotte rolling-mill from ingots
of steel made at the experimental steel
works at Wyandotte.
The first iron rails of any kind made
in this country were cast by the Lehigh
Navigation Company, at their foundry
in the upper end of Mauch Chunk, Pa,
in 1925 A few fiat rails were rolled
prior to 1912, but such rails were only
bar iron. The manufacture of heavy
wrought rails was commenced at the Mt.
vagerolling-mill, in Allegheny county,
Md, in 1874.
The first iron vessel built in the
United States was launched at Pitts
burgh in 1889. It was named the Val.
ley Forge. For general navigation pur-
poses it was completely successful.
Other iron vessels were built at Pitts
burgh within the next decade, among
them an iron schooner for ocean service,
and an iron steamer, the Michigan, for
service on the lake-both built for the
Government about 1912. The latter is
still doing Government service on the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-18
Eggs That are Not Eggs.

It is very gratifying to learn from a
pamphlet recently issued by the Johns
Hopkins University that for years we
have all been blindly ignorant concern
ing that useful edible, the hens eggs.
The startling and scandalous facts set
forth in the pamphlet alluded to as fol-
lows:
1.-THE egg undergoes total regular seq
mentation.
"There is no food yolk, and cleavage
goes quite through the egg.
"There is a true augmentation cavity.
"Segmentation is rythmical.
"There is an invaginate gastrule.
"The larva leaves the egg as an Naup-
lius, and passes through a protozoca
stage, and schizopod stage.
''The fifth thoracic segments and ap-
pendages are entirely wanting at all
stages of development"
This is certainly matter to which all
thoughtful people should pay attention
The fact that we have beer eating eggs
destitute of the fifth thoracic segments
is simply horrifying.
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This table covers the ground Of the other

This table covers the ground of the other
tables of the same bulletin. 1t will be noticed
that the largest excess of females is in the Dis
trict of Columbia Rhode Island standing sec
ond, Massachusetts third, Connecticut fourth,
North Carolina fifth, New Hampshire sixth
and South Carolina seventh. The females are
in excess in sixteen States and the District of
Columbia and the males are in excess in twenty
two States and all the Territories. In Idaho,
Nevada, Wyoming, Arizona and Montana, the
females are less than so per cent. of the males,
the excess of males being largest in Montana
and Arizona. Utah and New Mexico are more
evenly balanced, the sexes standing in Utah
about as they do in Illinois, while Minnesota is
near the standard of New Mexico.
Since 1870 the proportion of females has in
creased in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,
Nevada and nine other States and Territories.
In Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin
and twelve other States and Territories in
which the males were in excess in 1870 the
proportion of females has increased. In the
Middle States, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode
Island, Massachusetts,, Maryland, Tennessee,
and the District of Columbia, females were in
excess in 1870, and the proportion of females
has increased. In Alabama, Georgia, Louisi-
ana, Mississippi New Hampshire, North Caro-
lima and Virginia Gin which females were in ex,
cess in 1870 the proportion Of females has de-
creased,
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and taking a six-pounder brass cannon, left
there by John Morgan during the war, masked
it, and awaited the approach of the
Marshal. When the Marshal and his party en-
tered the pass, they fired the piece-charged
with nails, scraps Of iron, and the hke-but
overshot the mark. The MarshaPs party, none
of whom were hurt, dismounted. captured the
piece, and drove the asSailants across Perry
county into Breathitt county. The Marshal
and his assistants were pursuing the fugitiYes
in Breathitt county at last accounts.
The people of Mississippi City, Miss,
took negro named Ed Turner from Jail and
Iynched him for an assault on white woman
William Old and William Whitehorst
were shot and killed in Norfolk, Va, as they
were leaving Princess Ann Court House. The
assassins lay in ambush and fred at them as
they were driving along the road.
The people Of Greensboro, N. O., cele-
brated the centennial anniversary of the battle
of Guilford by parades and speeches.
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGs.

The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, unlimited, has declared quarterly diyi-
dend of ~ per cent. on stock and certificates
representing $SO,0OO,O0o.
At the annual meeting Of the Union
Pacific railroad a dividend of IL per cont.
was declared, payable on the LIST of April The
total earnings we're 22,455, 1874, and the sur
plus earnings $13.2O4416.
An American schooner has been lost in
Fortune bay. All hands were drowned.
The census shows that the native in
crease of population in the past ten years has
gained upon foreign immigration.
The Mexican National railroad, which
is being constructed by the Palmer & Sullivan
Company, has made a contract with two firms
in Pennsylvania for 200 locomotives and 5000
freight cars, and has also contracted for steel
rails for 1000 miles Of track.
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noticed an exceedingly beautiful pebble,
and called Mr.. Redwine's attention to it
and while they were admiring it the
other gentlemen returned, and they also
noticed its beauty. The gentleman,
without any idea of its value, remarked
to the boy, "I'll give you a dime for it. .
"All right" said he, and accepted it
gladly. Some time afterward the gentle
man was in Gainesville and showed the
stone to DR.. Daniel. That gentleman
believed it to be a diamond, but finally
paid the gentleman $50 for it and took
the risk. He sent it London, there
being at that time no diamond cutters in
the United States, where experts pro-
nounced it diamond of the first water,
and he received for it $500. 1t was
afterward rumored that it sold for
much larger sum than this, but nothing
is known positively of its history be-
yond its sale in London. - Gainesville
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