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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
DOINGS IN CONGRESS.

Senators Sherman and Bayard were the prin-
cipal speakers Wednesday, April 8. There was
no immediate prospect of break in the deadlock.
that, while he thought it was the duty of the Re
publican Senators to persist in their attempt to
elect Senate officers for time at least, if Sem
ator Malone thinks it necessary for his protec-
ton, at the same time he thinks that the Sem
ate should aFe action ON the nominations sent in at
early day. The President nominated Hiram
Price, of Iowa, Commissioner of Indian Affairs vice
Thomas NJ Nicho, whose nomination was with
be United States Marshal of South 1 Gina
and the following to be United States At
torneys Samuel ". Mellon, for South Caro-
lima; George NJ. Duskin, for the Southern district
of Alabama To be Receivers of Public Moneys:
James NJ Wilkinson, Marquette, Mich John NJ
Farland, Detroit, Mich; John Lynn, Tracy MINI
To be Registers of the Land Office John P. Owens
Taylors Falls, Mimi. Charles B. Ty'er. Tracy
Mimi
Nothing new is to be reported of the Senate
on Thursday, April Z, the usual speeches, inter-
spersed with roll calls, being continued Senators
Vance, Ransom, Call, Dawes and Hoar were til 8
principal speakers. An adjournment was taken TO
Monday. The President nominated the following
Postmasters: Arthur L. Sanborn, Anderson, Iowa
Bohan S. Loomis, Preston, Mimi. John G. Diekey,
wateryille, Kan; George W. Doty, Burllngame,
Kan: William N. Taft. Charleston, S. c.; John
Nichols, Raleigh. N. G.
The time-killing debate upon every subject
was resumed in the Senate on Monday, April IL.
The time of that days session was occupied by Calf
Of Florida, in defense Of the Southern States, a
statistical speech from Camden in defense of the
credit Of West Virginia, a facetious speech by
Beck on Don Cameron's dominance in Penn
sylYania politics, retort by Cameron, and har-
angue by Vest referring 10 pretty much everything.
AT the close OF Vests speech the Senate adjourned
NO business OF any kind was DONE Senator Ed
munds had returned from Florida and occupied his
seat in the Senate. He seemed to be in exceIeut
health and spirits, and received the concentrations
OF his feilow-Senators OF both parties.
In the Senate, on motion of Mr.. Burnside, a
resolution adopted on Tuesday morning, the
18th inst, requesting the President to commune
cate TO the Senate any information in the possession
of the Government touching the alleged arrest and
imprisonmentof Michael Boyton, who claims 10 be
citizen of the United States by the Government of
Great Britain. The hoodgates Of talk were then
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGs.

A party of Americans have leased
from the Dominion Government 1900 acres of
bog near Winnipeg, and will manufacture pear
on large scale.
The Army OF the Tennessee reelected
Gen. Sherman President and Col. Dayton Sec
rotary. The next reunion will be held at st.
Louis.
Commander Meade reports to the Ma
Wy Department that lawlessness is unrestrained
at Havana, and that the British Consul was
F. F. O'Brien, a large real-estate own
er Of Montreal has been convicted Of uttering
forged paper for $4,000.
The mercantile failures in the United
States for the first quarter of 1881 were /, $50,
against 1884 for the corresponding period OF
1880.
Tabano, the chief of the remnant Of
Victor.o's band of Indians was captured wi h
four followers in Chihuahua.
The United States Supreme Court has
reversed the decision of the Supreme Court of
Utah, which found Miles, the Mormon, guilty
of bigamy. The latter tribunal made an error
in admitting the testimony of Miles second
wife in relation to his first marriage, whereas q
Utah law bars wife from testifying against
her husband or a husband against his wife.
Nearly all authorities agree that, SO long as the
fact of the first marriage is contested, the sec.
ond wife cannot be admitted to prove it. Tho
case is remanded for new trial.
Messrs. Eyarts, Thurman and Howe,
the American Commissioners to the Inter.
national Monetary Conference. sailed from New
York last week.
Ex-President Hayes is said to be writ
ing history of his administration.
The annual reunion of the Society of
the Army of the Tennessee was held at Gin
cnnati, Gen. Sherman presiding. Biograph-
ical sketches of the dead of the year were read.
The Treasurer reported Sc, 900 in bonds on hand.
Gen. Sherman read sketch of the battle of
Pittsburg Landing. Ex-President Hayes led
the procession to Fountain Square, where
statue to Gen. Mcpherson was un-
yelled. Eight thousand persons were present
at the Music Hall in the evening, where Gen.
Dodds delivered an extended Grafton, and brief
speeches were made by Hayes, Sherman, Pope,
Sheridan and Cox.
A terrible tale of suffering for food
was brought to New York by the steamship
Nebo. She encountered the bark Tiger with a
crew of eleven men, who existed for week on
strips of leather soaked in lamp-oi, then de-
voured the Captains dog, and for eight days
had gone hungry and meditated eating each
other Over the ample stores given them they
fought like pack of wolves.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
Der Gomblaind Vas SchmaII.Pox.

what is the complaint ?" asked his
Honor, as he scowled over his glasses
"Der gomblaind vas schman-pox, :"
responded a German with sunset
nose.
His Honor looked at the window and
reckoned how many jumps it was to the
ground the audience started out to see
where the fire was an attenuated re-
porter attempted to crawl into the quill
toothpick he was breakfasting on, and
even the clock went.
Smallpox" yelled the justice
singer.
Yaw, mynheer. Dot teller NIT a
plue eye ouf his nose sdeal dot schmall-
pox vrom mine store in vrond. I'd vas
got ham Ply ids insite owit. ketch
him Ply der peck ouf his neg pehint NIT
boleesman. I ped you /" and he
chuckled like rattle-box.
"Then you didn't break out with the
small pox?" asked his Honor, somewhat
Modified.
"Nein. Dot fellar preaks owit NIT a
ham"
ooh 1" said his Honor, as he made a
bung-hole with his mouth.
"O-oh |" remarked the audience, as
they came In and reported that it was
only dog-fght.
"Owe I" explained the prisoner, as
the clerk informed him that hams were
up. and that one would cost him $10.-
~ B. Dispatch
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
Growth in Wealth.

The United States must soon take rank
as the wealthiest nation in the world. It
falls behind only England and France in
its present valuation, and its average an
nual increase of wealth is greater than
that of both these nations combined.
1t is estimated at $3.50, 100000 This
it an enormous gain. more than the en-
tire productive industry of Spain, or
Italy, or Russia. The resources of our
country, both agricultural and mineral,
surpass those of any other country the
inventive genius of the people is greater,
and their industry is more constant and
universal.
The standing armies of Europe i'm
poverish the nations. Their direct cost
is immense, but their indirect cost is
greater. For 2O0,0 900 or 100000 of the
best laborers are turned from producers
into consumers. Their labor ought to
produce an average value per man of
$500 a year. An army of 300, 900 men
occasions, therefore, loss in productive
industry of $3.50, 600, 900 per year.
The comparative net gain to the Unit
ed States, by the absence of standing
army, must be at least $500, 600, 900 per
year. Such saving enables us to out
strip all other nations in the increase OF
wealth.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
POLITICAL POINTS.

Gov. Littlefeld, of Rhode Island,
has been reelected by a majority of 5,O72.
A Washington dispatch says that
"Mahone and Alexander H. Stephens have
fraternized, and they seem to agree entirely
with each other in anticipating something like
a political millennium, and in believing that they
will bring it about"
The Pennsylvania House defeated a
resolution approving the course of the Presi-
dent in the management of his administration
and urging the speedy confirmation of all
worthy nominees to Office.
BY advice of the President, Secretary
Kirkwood has rescinded large number of APP
pointments to the Pension Bureau and ordered
competitive examination. There are 100
positions to be filled, and the candidates num-
Der 100.
Senator David Davis has written q
letter to John Martin, of Kansas, in which he
charges that both the Republican and Demo-
cratic Senators are not free agents, but are
controlled by monopolies. He says there
ought to be reorganization of parties The
first step toward that reorganization, he thinks,
should be the disarmament of the Democratic
party. He thinks the Republican party would
then become disorganized and demoralized.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
The Coffee Planters Life,

The coffee-planter lives free and iol-
ly life, as planters do almost always.
Perhaps it may be little monotonous,
as his territory is small and the thing
grown is only one It is all coffee
coffee up to his veranda, coffee down to
the barbacues, coffee In every twist of
the hills, coffee in every barred valley.
The planter seizes ON probably one OF
the most lovely spots ON the earth for
his operations but he does not improve
the aspect of it. The shrub itself is
pretty enough at all times, but it is not
allowed to bear luxuriantly, and the dry
red earth is always visible through if.
The land must not bear a weed nor a
blade of grass, that is thought worthy of
producing coffee. Looking down from
height, the stranger will at first think
a plantation fair enough to the eyes,
but when he is among the sunny paths,
with the soil itself close to his eyes-the
red-hot sdil-he will hardly long be fas-
cinated with the look of the place. The
bungalow stands probably in the middle
of the plantation, and here the master
is informed, few minutes after 6 in the
morning, how many hands have been
mustered to the work for that day. At
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
Won Without Loss.

AS rule, military men are much more
humane than the public for whom they
tight. The General who sacrifices 1000
or 5000 men in successful assault is
hailed by the people as hero. But, if
he could have gained the same advantage
by head work, with the loss of only 100
men, the code of military ethics stig-
matizes the popular hero as "butcher. +"
An illustration Of this contrast be-
tween professional and public opinion
occurred during the Mexican war.
The siege and capture of Vera Cruz,
and its strong castle of San Juan de u
loa, was one of the most brilliant achieve
ments of the campaign. Within twenty
days after landing, Gen. Scott took the
city, 5000 prisoners, and 400 cannon.
The American loss was sixty-four killed
and wounded.
The success was due to head-work,
and that was what the people could not
or did not appreciate. A great victory,
to be appreciated by the public, must be
accompanied by ''long butchers bill 2"
that is, report of thousands killed
and wounded.
A few weeks before the capture of
Vera Cruz, Gen. Taylor had defeated the
Mexicans at Buena Vista. The lists Of
killed and wounded on both sides re-
ported thousands.
When the news reached Gen. Brooke,
commanding at New Orleans, he rushed,
report in hand, to the Exchange, and
threw the whole city into frenzy Of Joy.
In few days the news came to the
same General of the capture of Vera
Cruz. He again visited the Exchange
to spread the report.
"How many men has Scott lost p
called out merchant from the crowd.
"Less than 100, am delighted to
say" answered Gen. Brooke.
"That won't do, +" responded the mer-
chant. "Taylor's the man for my
money. He always loses thousands. 2"
The crowd only gave o few faint
cheers for Vera Cruz. There was no
butchers bill /" to stimulate their en-
thuslasm.
Yet military men regarded the capture
as one of the brilliant sieges of modern
warfare.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15

Baron Rothschild tells the following
story as he exhibits his porcelain SER
vice:
One day an old man, careworn, wrin-
kled, feeble, and apparently lettering on
the verge of the grave, presented him
self before Baron James Rothschild, so
hciting the honor of an interview with
the famous banker. The old man was so
aged, so poor, and had so detected an as
pect that the Baron was Immediately i'm
dressed with a compassionate feeling, and
this became a lively interest on learning
that he was jew. The aged visitor
took from his bag a rich and beautiful
plate, so splendidly wrought that the
Baron admiredit exceedingly.
''Sir," said the patriarch, twill you
buy this Of me? I have the whole set,
and service so beautiful must find its
fitting place in the mansion of the prince
of tinanciers. !"
ut is indeed very fne," said the
Baron. 'How much do you wish for the
service?"
Look you sir, said the old man, 'T
am bowed down with many years, and
have not long to 1--we. 1 am poor, and
wish to end my days in comparative COM
fort. VIII you in exchange for this val
liable set of porcelain give me an income
for life of 100 francs (S20) a month"; 1t
is not much for you, and | am so old"
The Baron looked at the poor old man,
examined the plate again, and after
few minutes reflection, said: ''Well, be
it so; here is the first payment. Send
me the service and give me your name
that I may have it entered in my treas
urers book.
The splendid set of porcelain was de-
ivered the same day to the Baron, and
month afterward, while he was seated
in his counting house, a man entered
and asked for the second payment of the
proposed income But the man was
young, scarcely thirty-four years of age,
of a vigorous constitution and great
muscular development, and looked as if
he would live for 100 years.
"But you are not the mani" exclaimed
the astonished banker.
"Excuse me, Baron, said he; "I am
indeed the man. p
"But you appeared at least eighty
years old" said the Baron.
"But, sir, l am only thirty" said the
man.
I'm fact" continued the Baron, 81
thought your venerable appearance did
not belle your assertion.
81 have wonderfully recovered" OBJ
served the man, land thanks to your
generosity"
The Baron laughed heartily, and gave
orders for the payment of the money,
exclaiming, "Ah! you are an excellent
comedian, and have taken me in thor
oughly."
81 am probably the first who has done
so, replied the Jew, politely bowling to
the millionaire.
For years Rothschild paid the monthly
allowance. His porcelain service is so
exquisite that he does not complain.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
The Locomotive Engineer,

Tt e London Telegraph pays SPLEEN.
did md deserved tribute to the men who
hold the lives of hundreds in their hands
the locomotive engineer. It says
"Most passengers are as ignorant, hap
PLY, of the pitfall under their feet as one
is of the intricate process Of digestion, or
of the anatomy of the human frame.
They take their journeys as they take
their food, trusting blindly that, some
how or other, it will be all right, and
that the narrow corners will be shaved,
and it seldom occurs to them to express
their thankfulness for the manly devo-
tion which contributes to their safety.
While faith is the guiding rule of the trav-
eler, dutyis the absorbing principle of the
railway servant. But does it never occur
to the wakeful traveller as the lamps flash
past him, as the trains rushes over the
bridges and through network of signals
as the tunnel seems a duller roar and the
lighted station a suppressed scream,
when the pulse of the motion never stops
and the impetus at times becomes almost
terrible, what a sense of gratitude there
ought to be toward those lonely men, who,
faithful to the end, turn this point and
that, shift the lamps, keep watch and
ward, and clear the way for the swift
express? Those who have trusted them
selves to this splendid power are utterly
powerless. Their lives are in the hands
of the men who drive the train, and Of
the signal men who watch Yet there
is no sleep in the signal box or at the
tunnel mouth there is no conversation,
no distraction, nothing but dull mo
notony Of duty. A score Of things may
have happened; the spaff may be short
handed, some one is unexpectedly on the
sick list, some good-natured fellow may
have done double duty out of pure CON-
radeship; but this makes no difference
in the safety of the line. There need be
no cause of fear when such men know
their Luty and do it."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15

Secretary Window called for offers of
S666,oOO in bonds for the Pacific railway sink
ing fund, and was rendered 81, ZOO, 900.
The Postmaster General has issued
orders for reorganization of the railway mail
service, as to salaries and appointments, on
May.
Secretary WINDOWS refunding scheme
was approved by the Cabinet, and he was au-
thorized to use his discretion IN the matter. It
Is understood that the s1O4.O0O,OOO of new
uonds viii be issued at per cent, and sold to
the highest bidder. The Secretary also con
templates calling in maturing bonds and allow
ing holders to retain them at reduced rate Of
interest. Atty Gen. MacVeagh is of opinion
that such plan would be legal.
A panic was created in the Postofice
Department by the summary discharge Of
eight clerks, some of whom had been in posi-
ton many years. Their only offense was said
to be incompetency. Postmaster Genera
James IS making careful inquiry into the
qualifications of his subordinates with view
to good of the service.
Private Dalzell has been appointed by
Secretary Kirkwood to 81, 900 clerkship in Tie
Pension Off G.
Secretary Window has issued call
for all the outstanding 6-per-cent. bonds which
mature in July next, aggregatlng $195, $50, 400.
Any holder of these securities can have them
continued at the pleasure of the Government,
at the rate of 81 per cent. interest, by forward
ing them to the Treasury Department to be
stamped, semi-annual interest payments to be
made by check to the holders address. The
Government Will pay no expense of transporta-
ton on bonds received, but will return such
securities by prepaid registered mail.
Mrs. Blaine, Mrs. Sherman, Mrs. Pen
dleton, Mrs. Logan, Mrs Harlan and other la
dies well known in Washington and throughout
the country appeal to the people of the United
States to contribute to relief fund for the
sufferers from the earthquake in Scio
Ex-senator Bruce, of Mississippi. was
ttn1erel the mission to Brazil, but he declin d
it, the main ground being that colored man
would be coldly received there.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

A boy of IA shot and killed his sister
n girl of II, in Sanbury, Pa, while the family
were seated at dinner. His reason was that
they would not give him enough to eat.
Internal revenue officials found an
illicit still IN ravine about fourteen miles from
Somerset, Pa, and captured four moonShiners
and $50 barrels of whisky.
A Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1850.
brought $4,000 at an auction sale in New York.
The large jewelry store of William
Wise, in Brooklyn, N. Y, was burglarizsd a few
nights ago. Six large holes were bored in a
safe containing 100000 worth of diamonds. but
The steel plates broke the drill. Another safe,
Weighing 400 pounds, was lifted out of the wall
by jackscrews, and robbed of 100 watches. val
ued at $4,000.
Ex-Attorney General Devens has
been re-appointed to the Supreme bench of
Massachusetts.
j. l.. g. L. F. Kuntz, the well-knovn
lager-beer brewers of New York, have made an
assignment to their father, their liabilities be-
ing $4,000.
Jay Gould has bought Col. Tom
SCOTS interest in the Texas Pacific railroad.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
NUMBER 10.
Odd Facts About Pigeons,


In the pigeon case in the Central Park
Museum are some Of the bones of that
extinct and much maligned bird, the
dodo, the giant of pigeons, being the
only specimen In the country. Two
hundred and fifty years ago they
were found in the Mauritius islands
IN great quantities. It was a
curious bird, as large as a
swan. The bill in the case Is not I'M
pigeonlike, though 100 times the size Of
its modern representative. They we're
sluggish birds, unable to fly, and laid
single egg about the size of turkeys.
Another queer pigeon that lived at
that time, and which is now extinct, is
the solitaire. 1t was found ON the island
of Rodriguez. 1t was larger than tur-
key, and In general respects resembled
the dodo. Another was the Nazarene,
that was twice as large as the dodo.
But the most remarkable was the
didunculus, living relative, and closely
allied to the dodo. The bird was rather
larger than our common partridge, and
possessed the curious naked skin sur
rounding the eyes which characterized
its ancestor.
One of the finest of the thirty or more
different species of pigeons is the
oceanic fruit bird of the Pelen islands,
There they are found In thousands, feed
ing on nutmegs. They become very fat,
and the fat, which has a strong flavor Of
the nutmeg, is considered great dainty
by many. It is said that they grow SO
fat that when shot they fall on the
ground and are shattered to pieces by
the fall. Not only are they valuable as
a means of subsistence, but they seem
to have been appointed to help carry out
one of the great laws of nature. 1t is a
well-known fact that the nutmeg has to
pass through some chemical process be-
fore it will grow, and in the stomach of
these birds the nutmeg is prepared for
reproduction.
The question how carrier-pigeons find
their way home is probably one never to
be determined. Some writer's assert that
the birds are guided by landmarks, and
give as proof that, when the ground is
covered with snow, the birds are con-
fused, and others say that they are in
tiuenced by some magnetic or electric
current, and on this point it is noticed
that birds either fly east or west, north
or south, and when started rise at
great height, and for a minute hest
tate, and then by unknown instinct they
dart off in the right direction. The
exact date of their utilization is not
known, but, as far as we know, Noah
had. the honor of having first pressed
into service our feathered friends. Pliny
says chat these birds were used by Brutus
and Hirtius during the siege of a town
by Mare Antony. In 1884, at the siege
of Leyden, they were used by the Prince
of Orange, and by their means he sue
ceeded in freeing town that was be-
sieged. To show his gratitude he Or
dered that the sagacious birds should be
fed on strawberries, and when dead that
they should be embalmed with all honor.
In Pliny's time navigators from Cyprus
and Egypt carried these birds on their
galleys, and on their safe arrival hber-
ated them to convey the good news to
their famllies.-NeaO York Sltn.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
The Secret of the Oak.

While J. J. Brady and G. W. Cooper
we're getting out some timber in the
swamp near this. place, within 200 yards
of the graveyard just over Cedar Creek,
they cut and split a large white oak. III
the butt of which, about three feet from
the ground, they found, four inches in
side of the surface Of the tree, a hole
that had been bored about six inches
deep with an inch augur In this augur-
hole was found lodged at the heart Of the
tree a bundle of human hair, nicely
wrapped in paper and tied with strong
cotton string. A completely seasoned
and nicely made white oak peg, about
six inches long, was driven tightly over
this bundle The tree, which had no
sign of a scar upon it, is supposed to
have grown eight inches in diameter
since the hole was bored, as it was four
inches from the surface to the head of
the peg, The bundle, peg, and every
thing, looked as fresh and new as if they
had been placed there the day before.
Some who claim to be posted on the
growth of trees have counted the grains
and made calculation. They say that
the bundle must have remained i'm
bedded in the trunk Of this huge tree at
least fifty years. But no one on earth
can tell how long it remained there,
who put it there, or why it was done
WrightsUiLLe (GG.) Recorder.