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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-27
The total number of ironoioraI,ts hro,,c,l,t int,

II0 tOIdI HuIIIUeI OF IHIIlIIgIHIIIb drought IlLO
this country since the establishment of the
Union, not including those arriving in 1880,
was 1O.138,75O. OF this aggregate Ireland and
gland 100000, France $4,000, Sweden and
Norway 100000, Switzerland $4,000, and other
countries ranged from 10000 for Italy to 613
for Turkey and 383 for Greece. Very few i'm
migrants now come from Spain. Portugal or
Turkey.
The German immigrants nearly all bring con-
siderable money with them, estimated ON an
migrant is estimated to add at least 81, 600 to
the wealth of the country, in addition to the
money he brings with him. At this rate the
United States will have over $500, 600 900 added
to its wealth this year by means of emigration.
The poorest class of immigrants come from
Austria-the Sclavonians. Many of them ar
rive here utterly destitute.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-27
sorrowing for the Dead in Africa.

The beating of the drum announced
chat the dance was about to begin. The
men arranged. themselves Uis-a-vi8 with
the women, as in ballet dance in a Eu-
ropean theater. The dance opened by an
advance of the women, who kneeled be-
fore the men and then retired. The men
next advanced, slapped each other on
the THIGH, knelt and withdrew. After a
pause both men and women went
through a figure somewhat resembling
'tThe Lancers. The women displayed
some peculiar contortion Of the limbs,
and simultaneously the men passed in
and cut between the contortionists.
This was only the prelude to more ex-
citing scene-a very lively dance not IN
like the French can-can accompanied by
savage gesticulations. Some of the
men threw themselves violently on the
ground others crawled about "on all
tours, " while the women set down clasp
ing their knees with their hands. Sub
sequently the women formed circle,
and then retired into line joined by the
men. The dancers We'd with..each other
IN grotesque contortions, and the one
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-27

THE Legislature of Michigan will make
hugging a girl against her will penal
ofense, but will say nothing about hug
ging her against the front gate. -BoSto'l
Globe.
TIE new settlers in Texas will find
plenty of elbow room, if nothing else.
One of them writes that he has ''the Rio
Grande for bath-tub and all Mexico for
a backyard"
A PHILADELPHIA woman asked another
for charity, and when she opened her
purse to give her some assistance she
Knocked her down. 1t is very hard to
please some people.
A DOUBLE experiences: "Shall [ read
you pretty story, Efie?" "Has it got
a moral to it?' Eyes, darling" ''Then,
Mumsey, I'd rather not. A story with
moral is like jam with powder in it. "
81 DECLARE, John, I never saw such
man! You are always getting some new
wrinkle" And the brute calmly replied,
matilda, you are not, thank fortune.
If you had new wrinkle, you would
have no place to put it, dear"
''The thruble wild the country, sor,
is absenteeism," said an Irish car driver
to the tourist "But there are not many
absentees in this part, l hear" was the
reply. "Not many absentees, is it?
Well, thin, let me tell ye the counthrys
jist full of absenteesr'- London Punch.
THE process of depriving tuber of its
cuticle differs according to the manner of
of cooking. If it be baked, you take the
potato from the skin; if it be boiled, you
take the skin from the potato; if it be
hashed, you take-no, you don't take
any!-DGnbltry NeaOs.
A STORY is told of an old gentleman
who always took notes Of his minister's
sermons, and on one occasion read them
to the minister himself "Stop, stop!
said he, at the occurrence of certain
sentence; ''I didn't say that. 81 know
you didn't, was the reply; 81 put that
in myself to make sense.
Possibly mistake: "James, - said
motherly woman to young man whose
first sermon she had just heard, james,
why did you enter the ministry" 81
had call the Lord, " said the young
man, and then came the reply: "But
are you sure it wasn't some other noise
that you heard ?"-HarGord Coura'at
If young man in a street car gives
up his seat to pretty young lady he will
be accused of Partially; if he gives it up
to an ugly old lady, it will be said he
does it for effect. The average mean
plan for him to adopt is to keep the seat
himself, and see nothing but the paper
he is reading.-Ne,O Orleans Plea
yatae.
"YoU amt taking any stock in wo-
mans love, eh?" mo-" he answered,
despondently, otis all fummery."
every strange" added his friend; ''you
didn't use to talk that way" Perhaps
not" he replied, 'Fbut I've been married
nearly two years and there are four pairs
of trowsers hanging upin my closet wait
ing to be patched, and not stitch.taken
In them yet. "-BrOOkEya Eagle.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-27
THE TIDE OF IMMIGRATION.
[From AZ New York Trihnnal

IfFom the New 1orK Inbune.I
The renewed prosperity of the nation, and
the hardships of military service in Europe,
are regarded as the principal causes for the in
creasing tide of emigration which is now set
ting toward these shores. In 1877 the number
of immigrants who came to this country was
less than 10000. Last year the number
reached 457,257. Of these 327,371 were
landed at the port of New York Judging
from the arrivals at Castle Garden SO far
this year, Superintendent Jackson estimates
that the arrivals at this port this year may reach
100000. The arrivals at this port for the first
four months of last year, and corresponding
period of this year, with the countries from
which the immigrants come, as shown by r6-
turns made to the United States Treasury De-
partment, were as follows
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-27
High.Priced Beans,

Tom Watrous, commercial traveller,
stopped off at the Marshall mich. eat
ing-house several years ago.
He was not very hungry and called
FOR plate of beans, which he received.
He inquired the price, and was informed
that it was rs cents.
"That's laundering price for beans,
said Tom.
"That's the price," said the propri-
etor.
The train was just starting; Tom
paid the bill, and the coaches bore him
and his Indignation on toward Detroit.
This was on Saturday. On Monday,
Gilmore, the eating house man, received
q telegram, collect on delivery, $1.25,
which he paid, and read on opening it /:
"A laundering price for beans"
Thirty days from that date neat ex-
press package was handed In to Gil
more, G. o. D., who paid 80 cents for
the privilege of opening it to discover a
lot of sawdust, on the top of which lay
slip of paper with the cabalistic SYM
bols: GA laundering price for beans y
Two months from this Gilmore was
summoned to Chicago to meet former
business partner, and the hotel clerk
handed him letter conveying the pleas
ant information GA laundering price
for beans r.
During Gilmore's absence his son paid
for two kilograms and one express pack
age, all bearing directly on the subject
OF IS cents being ga laundering price
for beans p Cost of these articles. S3. 80.
A genuine telegram from Gilmore's
mining-share broker advising him to
sell was refused, and the loss of it en-
tailed an actual damage to Gilmore of
$1,000.
A year rolled away. Gilmore ordered
q case of Mackinac trout from Detroit,
They came G. o. D., 1888; when
opened he found every fish had been re-
moved from the ice and sawdust, and
single met his eyes, marked with a
blue lead-pencil ga laundering price
for beans |" Trouble arose between Gill
more and the Detroit fish house, and
they went to law, Gilmore winning the
suit, $25 damages, and all at cost for
attorneys services of 1856. 80.
Gilmore grew detected. Life looked
gloomy. Letters poured in on every
one of his family at regular intervals
from all parts Of the world, bearing the
unpleasant information that it was {" a
laundering price for beans /"
At last Gilmore sold the Marshall eat
ing house and moved to Chicago. He
carried his deep affection along with him,
gnawing like cancer at his Vitals. The
persecution never ceased. Gilmore
dropped, faded, and finally died. The
terribly afflicted family followed him to
his last resting place, and the widow,
with what little money she had saved
from the expenses of bogus kilograms
and express packages, erected a plain
marble slab to the memory of the tor
tured Gilmore.
The following Sabbath the mourning
family went out to the cemetery to plant
some violets on Gilmcre's grave. Arriv-
ing on the ground, they observed in
silent horror that another legend ap-
peared above the name of Gilmore, on
the tombstone. 1t was chalked on a
small blackboard and read:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-27

who succeeded the best was the loudest
applauded. Every joint and muscle was
brought into play, and at intervals the
men and women would drop out to re-
fresh themselves with millet and beer.
In this way the sorrowing for the
dead was kept up throughout the night
without intermission.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-27
An Ohio Nero.

The Ohio boy is full of genius. He
had been reading that Nero fddled while
Rome burned, and his fancy was kindled
by the mere thought of the sublime
spectacle. How hard it is to repress the
precocity that bespeaks the possession
of heaven-born endowments. One after
noon this boy set fire to the woodshed,
and, crawling up on adjoining fence,
covered his mothers hair comb with a
bit Of paper, and played "Way Down
Upon the Suwanee River while the
confagration proceeded. He took his
meals standing for several days after
ward,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-27
Appalling Catastrophe.

A terrible calamity, involving the loss of
nearly 200 lives, occurred to the steamer VIC
toria at London, Ontario. "The Inflated YES
sci, y says a dispatch from London, with over
600 excursiopists on board, was returning from
Spring Bank, and, when near the Cove rail-
way bridge, one mile below the city, the boat
suddenly collapsed like an egg shell and be-
came q total wreck, level with the waters
edge. All the passengers were instantly
plunged into the stream, more than half of
them being underneath the debris. The
first news which reached the city was
brought by survivors, who struggled through
the streets wet and weary. The news fell like
thunderbolt, and stampede took place for
the spot. Arriving there, terri5le sight met
the view. Fifty or sixty bodies had already
been recovered and were lying on the green
sward some distance up the bank Those ar
irving from the city from every direction
crowded around anxious to see If any relatives
were on board. Several hundred families
were represented on the excursion, and the
vail at the sight of the victims was hear(rend-
ing. Fathers mothers, brothers and sisters
rushed about panic 5tTicl1en, endeavoring to
identify relatives. By o'clock about eighty
bodies were recovered from under the wreck
where the water was twelve feet in depth
Almost every minute some victim was brought
to the surface and conveyed To the boat.
The steamer Princess Louise was early
brought to the spot and the victims placed
On the upper decks. Fires were lit on the bank
overlooking the river, and petroleum torches
were brought and the search continued. Up to
the present hour about $50 corpses have bee
secured. Among the dead are James Robert
son, Manager Of the Bank of British North
America; j. G. Meredith, Clerk of the Division
Court; VIM. Mcbride, Assessor and Secr. tary
of the Western Fair Association; Mrs. VIM.
Ashbury, VIM. Millman, Montreal, commercial
agent, and two sons of J. Rogers, plumber.
Mr.. Matthews, night editor of the ADDER
tdser, lost his wife and two children. Harry
Smart, of the Free Press lost wife, two chill
dren and a sister-in-law.
The whole city seems almost demented to-
night. The accident was entirely due to gross
carelessness. The boat was overcrowded to a
disgraceful extent. The manager, George
Parish, was expostulated with by several at
Spring Bank, and urged not to let the boat go
out in that overcrowded condition, but ne is
reported to have replied, GAN right, know
my business Or something of that sort.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-27
The Harvest Field for Lecturers.

New England is the harvest field for
lecturers, says Burdette. No New En-.
gland village is too small to sustain an
expensive lecture course. Other enter
taiments may lang1ish minstrel com
panies may disband, and the circus may
pass under the auctioneer's hammer, but
the lecture lyceum fourishes, year after
year, and grows in grace and pocket and
general popularity. A small audience at
a lecture in New England is rarity.
And they are good audiences; not so
quick and ready to express appreciation
with their applauding hands. but they
are not cold and icily reserved, as we of
the great, social, Misunderstanding, take
airs-and-sit-down' prairie
land are apt to think. The speaker be-
fore New England audience looks, for
the greater part, into the faces of his
hearersfor encourgaementor disapproval.
And the quick shades of expression that
viii go sweeping over these faces, clear
as an open book, tell the speaker very
quickly how much or how little his au-
dience is enjoying what he is saying.
Unless he is blind, he can make no
mistake in the expressive faces of New
England audience. And they are not
selfish or niggardly with their applause.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-27

The following letter from ex-President Grant
10 Senator Jones, of Nevada, has been made
public
City OF MEXICO, April "a, 1881
MY DEAR SENATOR: Isee by the latest dispatches
received here from the capital of country that
the deadlock in organizing the Senate has not been
broken, and that nothing has been done by The
President to alay the bitterness which must be en-
gendered by his most recent appointments. When
the first batch of nominations for New York was
sent in delighted. 1 believed then the Presi-
dent had determined to recognize the Republican
party, and not faction 4; but his nominations
of the next day convinced me that the
first act was but part of deep-Iaid scheme by
somebody to punish prominent leaders for being
openly friendly to me. cannot believe that Gen
Garfield is the author of this policy. I give him
credit for being too big man to descend to ouch
means for the punishment of men who gave him
hearty support in his election, and who are dis
posed to give him the same support now,
for the offense of having had former
preference for some one else for the Office which he
now holds. But Garfield is President, and is re-
sponsible for all the acts of the administration
Conkling and Platt are the chosen Senators from
the great State of New York and that too against all
the opposition of an administration created by the
same party that elected them. This should give
them all the stronger claim to be consulted in the
matter of appointments in their State. When it
comes to filing the most influential Office in their
State without consulting these Senators, it great
slight When he selects the most offensive man to
be found it becomes an insult, and ought to be re-
dent will see this and correct his mistake hilses<f
and restore harmony to the party. He owes
this to himself and to those without whom
he could not have been elected No
body believes he could have carried the State
of New York without the active support Of her pres
ent Senators. Their passive support would not have
answered. Without the State of New York Gen.
Garfield would not now be President. His reward
ing Robertson is not only offensive to the New York
Senators, but it is offensive to New York Republi-
cans. The change of Badeau and Cramer, the two
appointments in which felt strong personal inter
est, very disastefu to me, the first because of
our personal relations and my wish that he
should be kept where his Office would support him
until he finishes some work he is engaged
upon, and which he could do without interfering
with his public duties; the second, because it was
at the expense of removing the of my old Secre-
tary of State who probably never had his superior
certainly for moral worth, in the department.
1t is Fish resigned but he did this from sense
of honor supposing it to be the duty Of repre- enta
tives abroad to give administration the oppor-
tunity of saying whether they wanted OF not.
Very truly yours, Q. s. GRANT.
Hon. J. P. Jones, United States Senator, Washing
ton. ID. G.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-27
Central CItu Item.
A Great Railway Enterprise.


It is not improbable that in these days
ofgreat ventures and gigantic industrial
enterprises the Sahara Railway may en-
gage the attention of the enthusiastic
capitalists of Paris, and the money be
provided for the work. It is reasonably
certain that railway would more speed
lily civilize the country than an army Of
occupation, and the display of such con-
fidence in the resources of the great con-
tinent would largely tend to draw thither
European settlers in sufficient numbers to
insure rapid development.
Soudan is a well watered and fertile
region supporting a native population
estimated at 80, 000,00 Its trade is now
conducted by caravans across the desert.
The substitution of the railway for this
primitive method of transportation, is,
according to French engineers who have
examined the country, not SO difficult as
it would seem at first view. The desert
tract to be traversed is about 1900 miles
wide. An arid waste where no rain ever
falls, and where for very long distances
there is not drop of water to be found
upon the surface, presents obstacles both
to construction and maintenance, but
they are not so formidable as the crossing
of lofty mountain chains. The route
through Africa lies along extensive table
lands, and through broad valleys, with
no very high ridges to cross. Our Union
and Central Pacific Railways had des-
ert of equal magnitude to traverse, be-
sides climbing over two great mountain
ranges. From Sherman to the summit
of the Sierras is sterile waste that will
never be inhabited by civilized people.
The Utah oasis, Salt Lake City, is the
only inhabitable spot of any magnitude.
Where the camel bears his load the loco
motive can surely follow.
Even under the adverse circumstances
the Soudanese carry On quite large
commerce with the Mediterranean coast.
Caravans of 10000 camels leave Oran
yearly laden with dates, returning with
barley grown in Algeria. The entire
country along the Niger seems to be des-
titute of salt, and as many as 100000
camel loads are carried there annually
from the Sahara Salines.
The country is well adapted for the
growth of cotton, indigo, rice, sugar,
coffee and tobacco, and would afford
good marketfor the sale of manufactured
goods of all descriptions. It is estimated
that go, 900 Europeans scattered through
Soudan would soon train the inhabitants
to agricultural pursuits, and develop
trade of immense proportions
Orleans PicnyaE7ae.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-27
HuMORs OF THE DAY.

BAD buy Words Charge it to me.
MEN who work all night getting out
morning papers are well posted on the
snooze of the day.
AN aged Philadelphia colored woman
has been married seven times. She is a
sad example of how woman can black
male.
THE maple tree in an emblem of
Christian forbearance. The more it Is
bored, the more sweetness it exudes.-
Boston Transcript.
For music by the glass or key,
Well matted, not too yatty,
Or bottled for the export trade,
Apply to Cincinnati.
-Murat Halstedd.
THE Tombstone Gossip, printed at
Unlucky Cuss, Arizona, is sending polite
requests to its esteemed contemporaries
to Exchange or else gTavitate to Old
Nick"
Now doth the busy funny man
Improve each stolen squib,
And gather humor all the day,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-27
Letter from Gen. Grant.

The following letter from ex-President Grant
TO Senator Jones, of Nevada, has been made
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-18

rank of colonel, shall be assigned TO duty at the
Military Academy, nor shall the whole number OF
officers assigned to such duty exceed the number of
-. 1t also provides that the regulations for the
examination of appontees to the Academy shall
hereafter be prescribed by the Superintendent tn-
stead of the Secretary of War; and that section
1895 of the Revised Statutes shall be amended so
as TO read as follows:
Every cadet who shall be found deficient by the
Academy Board either conduct or studies, at any
annual examination. shall be forthwith discharged rom
the Academy and shall to be cadet thereof, an
shall be continued therein and such cadet shall
be Ieapp0inred to the Academy without the written
recommendation OF The Academy Board nor shall any
such cadet be appointed to place IN the Army within
four years next after tae time Of has having been so
found hcent.
The bill further provides for the appointment each
year of q Congressional Board of Visitors, in add-
ton to the Board of VeitOrd appointed bv thePres-
dent, and gives this Congressional Board the
authority of an ordinary Joint COMMITTEES of Con-
gress to make such Invest CATIONS as II may deem
proper. The last section of the bill provides for the
appointment Of professor Of German to teach that
language at the Academy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-18
WASHINGTON NOTES.
WAsIlISGToN, Monday,

WAsHSGToN, Monday, Jan. II. 1881.
Surgeon ". X. Van R.yprn has been ordered to The
Navui Hospital. Brooklyn, y. Y.
Members of the Pacific Railroads Committee Of the
House xpress the opinion thai action whatever viii
b. taken the committee THIS sessiOn III tue Northern
Pacific Railroad matter
Representative Chittenden who occupies the residence
in Washington where Charles Sumuer formerly lived
expects TO keep mp his Washington establishment
during least year after his retirement from CJn
RresA.
The Uonse Committee Elections will take action to-
day upon Lc trpOf Of the subcommittee In the ease Of
Bisneo agt Hull. Tine snb. committee unanimously rc
port In favor OF unseaiing Hull tDeD.l. the present
Incumbent
Tbs value OF the exports OF domestic brcadsuns from
the United States during December. 1880. were
SIs.2Ii 74G and during DecFmb r. 1879. Sl0.l55 2a6
S2G3 295 3j7, aud for tho ~sainc period IN 1879.
$Z39 92Ol.ss0.
The Prrsdent has granted TO Private James Quinn
a certificate OF mert for bravery. Qrnn was with
Lieutenant Schwa, ki and Scout Captain Jack" In
1870 IN the Big Horn IeowstOne Expeditions and
disu yed great personal bravery occasion under
FIR. and while engaged N dggiag and building breast
works. lie also touH part with twenty-five M II IN
cnargc upon an Inin village. He hrs participated III
SIX rI .agrucns wh Indians and Is now Ia the service
Al