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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-27
Practical Information.

"What is rack rent, dad p inquired a
young Comstocker who had been read
ing the news from Ireland.
The patient parent laid down the stock
list and replied: 500 you know how
much l charge Mr.. Boggarty for his
room upstairs ?"
Yessir; $12 month"
Well, now, suppose Mr.. Boggarty
should take it into his head to have, at
his own expense, new paper put on the
wall, the ceiling whitened, and all the
furniture mended, the room would look
a heap sight prettier, wouldn't it?"
Lor' T. murmured tho intelligent
boy.
"Well, if the minute Boggarty had
got all these improvements made I should
go up, and look around, and smile, and
jingle my money in my pocket, and re-
mark, 'This is pretty good sort of a
layout for a single man, Boggarty, and
you have altogether too soft q thing:
your rent will be $40 month hereafter,
what would you think of Il"
The innocent child giggled and said,
"That would be cheek, wouldn't it.
dad ?"
"Bet your money on it, my boy" re-
piled the father, beaming kindly upon
his offspring. "That would be rack
renting Mr.. Boggarty, and if he kicked
and claimed that all the improvements
had been made by him without costing
me a cent, and I should fire him out,
that would be eviction. I will now,
continued the parent, warming up,
briefly review the history of Ireland
for the past 700 years. When Brian
Borhu-"
But his son had fed Virginia CITY
Chronicle.
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Bismarck and the Actress.

Some years ago curious correspond
ence between Count Bismarck and the
members of a conservative society III
Pomerania was published by the Vos-
siscHe Zeitltlg. This society asked the
Count for an explanation of his conduct:
first, in abandoning the conservative
party; second, in allowing himself to be
photographed along with Mile. Lucca,
and third, in having ceased to go to
church The Count at once gave Il cat
egorical reply, with many thanks for the
frankness with which his dear friends"
had addressed him. In regard to the
first point Count Bismarck says that
people at distance cannot Judge of the
circumstances which must necessarily
influence the political conduct of states
man; that he must act for the good of
the country whose destinies have been
placed in his hands, and that if his cor
respondents knew how difficult it is to
adopt the righb course, and how heavy a
burden rests on his shoulders, they
would acquit him of willful desertion of
his party. In explanation of the second
point the Count reminds his correspond
ents of the lengthy negotiations which
led to the convention Of Gastein. AT
one time" he says, "matters came to a
deadlock, and life became SO insuffera-
bly, tedious that I did not know how to
kill time. 1 went for walk, met Nile.
Lucca, whom I knew, and suggested to
her that she should relieve the tedious
ness of our existence, by giving con-
cert. perhaps 1 will, she answered,
but only on one condition And what
may that be-? THAT your excellency
will allow yourself TO be photographed
along with me- with pleasure | an
swered, and this was the origin of the
picture. / now leave it to you to judge
whether you should cast stone at me
on this account" AS for the Counts
non-appearance at church, he explains
that his doctor forbids him to attend
divine service, as he has become so ex-
haueted through working night after
night that he is not equal to the effort
He adds that he feels this to be great
privation, and often prays in his own
room for guidance as to what is best for
the fatherland
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MISCELLANEOUS aLEAN1Nas.

The GI1ion steamer Arizona has made
the passage to England in days hours and
IS minutes, the Quickest run on record.
The Census Bureau has published
curious bulletin showing the position Of The
center of population since 1890. In 1880 it
was eight miles west by south Of Cincinnati
having moved west fifty-eight miles during
the preceding decade. The following is the
approximate location of important points from
1890:
1880. Twenty-three miles east Of Baltimore.
1900. Eighteen miles west of Baltimore
1910. Forty miles northwest by west of
Washington.
1920. Sixteen miles north of Woodstock. Va.
1880. Nineteen miles west by southwest of
Moorefeld, Va.
1910. Sixteen miles south of Clarksburg Va.
1850. Twenty miles southwest of Parkers-
burg, Va.
1860. Twenty miles south of Chillicothe,
Ohio.
1870. Foity-eight miles east by north OF
Cincinnati
1880. Eight miles west by south of Cincin-
natl.
The Government has instituted suit
against the Central Pacific railroad, under the
Thurman act. Over $40, 100000 are involved
in the result.
Col. W. H. French, Major General
of volunteers during the war, has just died at
Washington.
The sale of the revised edition of the
New Testament began in New York on the Goth
OF May. There was great rush to obtain
copies, and the sales were enormous. The Chi
cago Times and Inter Ocean printed in their
editions of the following morning the greater
portion of the revised work.
The Mexican Congress has given the
President of the Republic full power for eight
months to contract with States or individuals
for the construction of railways.
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Florence Percy.

Of the life of "Florence Percy" the
reputed author of Crock Me to Sleep,
Mother" correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Commercial gives the following
outline: Florence Percy or Miss
Chase, had romantic life and check
cred one. She is at present editing a
paper in Maine. She lives with her
third husband, an intelligent man, at
present In Europe temporarily. Her
first husband was Marshall Taylor, who
fell in love with her through her poems,
correspondent, became engaged, and
came from California to Washington to
marry her. She never had seen him
until the day she met him at the train,
when the license was Immediately pro-
cured and the ceremony performed at
her fathers house. After few years
the marriage contracted without any
previous acquaintance proved unhappy.
They separated, she retaining her little
girl, christened with her mothers nom
de plume, Florence Percy. Afterwards,
while travelling abroad, she married an
artist, Paul Akers, to whom she was per-
sonally devoted, and whose death, after
short period of matrimonial happi-
ness, was the severest blow of her life,
followed as it was by the loss of baby
girl Of his. Then passed years of loneli-
ness, when third marriage, of respect
on her part, but of love on the part of
her husband, gave her pleasant home
and kind attention, and resulted in the
birth of third daughter, child now
fifteen years of age, phenomenally beau
tiful and gifted. Mr.. Chase, the father
of Florence Percy, lives in Washington,
near the Navy Yard. He is a robust,
fine-looking man, Of poetic tastes, but is
totally blind.
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that viii enable them to fill vacancies coca
stoned by the resignation of Conkling and
Platt
The friends of William e. Chandler
say, now tnat he has been defeated for the
Solicitor Generalship by Democratic votes, he
viii use the fact among the New Hampshire
stalwarts for election to the United States Sen
ate to succeed Mr.. Rollins.
An Albany On. Y) telegram of May
%, says that city ''has become the center of
intense political activity. The sensation of the
day Was an editorial in the Conkling organ
warning that gentlemen not to place himself in
the way of being Inundated. Opinions differ
widely as to the connection Of Gov. Cornell
with the pronunciamento, it being generally
believed that he hopes to occupy one of the
vacant seats in the Senate. Among the rumors
which have gained credence is one that Gen.
Grant will hurry northward from Galveston
and take hand in behalf of Conkling. Thirty
two Republicans have signed pledge not to
go into caucus with the supporters Of the Sen
ators who abandoned their seats, or with Re-
publcans not in sympathy with the admins
tration. The leading administration candidates
are Chauncey NJ -Depew and James Wads-
WORTH
The friends of William e. Chandler
(says Washington telegran) attribute his re-
lection as Solicitor General to the indifference
of the President and Secretary Blaine, neither
of whom, they say, made any effort to get
Democratic votes, but remained passive, while
Attorney General MacVeagh was very active in
his efforts to defeat the nomination.
The Pennsylvania Senators are said to
be very wroth at the President for appointing
a Surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia who
was distasteful to them.
The Republican State Convention to
nominate candidates for Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, Supreme Judge and superintendent
of Public Instruction has been called to meet
at Des MONIES, Wednesday, June 80.
Senators Conkling and Platt and Vice
President Arthur arrived at Albany, N. Y. on
the Oath of May and were received with en-
thuslastic cheers by large party of political
friends who had assembled OF the depot to give
them welcome. At the hotel they were joined
by Gov Cornell, and in the evening a general
levee was held The room was constantly
crowded, and Senator Conkling shook hands
with everybody presenting himself, and to
each saying a pleasant word The Grant
Club appeared in body and pre-
sented an address to Mr.. Conkling.-
The departure of Secretary Blaine for New
York, on pretense of official business. caused
several influential gentlemen to visit the Presi-
dent and enter protest against the admins
tratlon taking part in the Senatorial struggle at
Albany The chief magistrate appeared sur
prised to learn of the Secretary's trim
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-27

Three burglars opened the safe in
the store Of J. G. Hanson, at Center junction.
Iowa, and carried away over $4,000 in cur
rency.
The only liquor saloon at Lompoc,
Cal, has been blown to atoms by a large bomb,
as was its predecessor some time ago. The
place was settled by temperance colony.
A terrible catastrophe occurred the
other evening at st. Joe, Mo. In cellar he
meath saloon, frequented by colored men, 100
barrels Of Danforths fluid ignited, and wrecked
the building, in which large number of PER
sons we're assembled. The number of lives
lost is estimated, at this writing, as high as
twenty.
Billy Leroy and confederate calling
himself Sam Potter were taken to Del Norte,
Col. An hour after arrival the prisoners were
lynched by citizens.
South.
From the South comes most cheering
words Of the prospect both of cotton and sugar
crops. The season was late and discouraging.
but the fine weather has brought everything
forward rapidly.
The explosion of a condemned boiler
in the machine shops of Risk & Co., at Mem
phis, killed two men and wounded three others.
Twenty-Five or thirty men made Jail
delivery at Morganton, Fannin county, Ga, of
prisoners held there for violations of the in
ternal revenue laws
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

Gen. Badeau, at present Consul Gen
eral at London, having declined the appoint
ment of Minister to Denmark, his nomination
has been Withdrawn from the Senate
Commissioner of Agriculture LIE Due
has resigned, and the President has appointed
as his successor ex-Congressman George B.
Loring, a practical Bay State farmer
In the executive session of the Sen
ate when the nomination of the colored ex-
Senator Bruce as Register of the Treasury
came up, Senator Lamar took occasion to state
that Mississippi was honored in the selection,
and asked for unanimous vote.
One Of the latest developments of the
ltar-route frauds was a contract let to John
Cross, friend of Dorsey's, to carry the mail
between Ozark and Eureka Springs, Ark,
eighty miles, six times q week, for $14, 400.
which was subsequently,let for "a, 300
The exposure of treasury ring,
which has been growing fat by a long series of
systematic populations, is the latest sensation
at Washington. The ringsters, so far as UNI
earthed, are Upton, the Assistant Secretary;
Lamphere, the appointment clerk, and Pitney,
the superintendent of the treasury build
ing. The records show the purchase of
twenty thousand yards of carpet for
the Treasury Department during the
last fiscal year, although deficit of 700
yards was discovered several months ago.
few local dealers have furnished such supplies
at retail prices, there having been no adver-
tisement for proposals In taking an inven-
tory of Pitney's supplies, barrel of bay rum
and q lot of Lubin's perfumes and soaps were
found.
A Washington dispatch of May "a
says: Secretary WINDOWS policy in the matter
Of the continuance of the 5-per-cents is as COM
plete success as it was with the 6's At the
close of treasury hours to-day the total amount
of the $3.50, 900 included in the call had been
received. Secretary Window congratulates
himself that his views in opposition to the call
ing OF special session of Congress prevailed.
He has accomplished all that Congress could
have done, with much less friction"
The President has made the following
recess appointments Consuls of the United
States-Jesse II. Moore, of Illinois. at Callao
John M. Bailey, of New York, at Hamburg
Selah Merrill, of Massachusetts,, at Jerusalem;
George W. Roosevelt, of Pennsylvania, at Bor-
deaux. Collectors of Internal Revenue for
/ Texas-Wiliam H. Sinclair, First district
William Umbnerstock, Fourth district.
Gen. Williamson has rendered his res
ignation as Commissioner of the General Land
Office. He takes charge of the land bureau of
the Atlantic and Pacific Railway Company.
Atty. Gen. MacVeagh will soon COM
mence criminal prosecutions against Dorsey
and Brady, and bring civil suits to recover
some of the money squandered
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-27
NUMBER 81.

Not so free with it as we are out West
But then, perhaps, they are not so free
with anything else as We are. But they
are warm hearted and especially kind
and encouragingin the awful first min
utes, when the man on the platform is
scared to death, and cannot remember
what he is going to say, and wants to
die, and is mangling verbless sentences
and phrases bereaved of their meaning.
They seem to appreciate his agony.
and help him alongover the hard places,
and then, when they have helped him
across the reef, and got him into smooth
sailing, you can see the charity fade out
Of the kindly eyes, and critical look
come creeping into its place. and you
know that you are on your own merits.
And if they do not like you, there is no
installing their disapproval. 1t is cour-
teous, polished, even gentle, perhaps ;
but it is decided and firm and unmiS-
taxable.
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DOINGs IN CONGRESS.

On the meeting Of the Senate on Wednesday.
May IS, Messrs. Bayard and Cameron, of pennsyl-
vania were appointed to wait on the President and
inquire whether he had any further business to
communicates to the Senate. They reported that
the President will have more than 200 more nomi-
nations and win send them in as fast as
possible. In executive session Judge Robert
son confirmed as Collector of the Port
OF New York without objection. Other
combinations were: Gen. Merritt Consul General
at London, vice Gen. Badeau; Aleck Foreman,
United States District Judge for the Western dis
trlct OF Louisiana; and Edward T. Nichols, to he
Ohef OF the Bureau of Yards and Docks of the Navy
department.. The nomination of Gen Badeau
Tor Minister to Denmark was withdrawn
Inc Following nominations were made by
the President: Albert G. Wedge Collector of Inter
nal revenue for the First district of Minnesota:
Henry G. Ripley, Collector of Internal Revenue for
the Sixth district OF Michigan; Madison Davis Sur
veyor of Customs at Atlanta, Ga: h B. Taliaferro.
United States Attorney for the Western district of
Louisiana; James G. Weeks United States Marshal
Western district Louisiana; Horace N. Taylor of
Wisconsin, Consul at Marseilles.
Nothing was done in the open session of the
Senate on Thursday, May 10, but in executive SEES
sion large number of combinations were made,
among which were the following: Ex-senator Bruce,
of Mississippi for Register Of the Treasury ex-Con-
gresham George B. Loring, for Commissioner of
Agriculture Gen. Richard Rowett, Collector of In
terna Revenue for the Fourth district Of Illinois;
Byron H. Langston, Collector of Internal Revenue
for the Fifth district of Missouri, and Henry G.
Ripley, Collector for the Sixth district of Michigan
The President did not send back all the
New YORK nominations recently withdrawn. He
did, however, renominate Gen. Stewart L. Woodford
for District Attorney of the Southern district Of
New York, A. w. Tenney to be District Attorney OF
the Eastern district, and O. McDougaI Marshal o.
the Northern district of New York. Instead of the
name OF Payne he sent in that Of Henry E. Knox for
Marshal Of the Southern dis trict, and substituted
Charles A Gould for Tyler as Collector at Buffalo.
The Senate on Friday, May 90, confirmed the
New York nominations sent in the day before; also
Glenn W. Sohoeld for Judge of the Court of Claims
and all the other nominations made by President
GARFIELD and not already acted on, save that of
William E. Chandler for Solicitor General and four
others After having adopted resolutions compl-
mentary to the Vice President, and having ascer-
tanned that the President had no other nominations
to make this session, the Senate then adjourned sine
die. The vote on the confirmation of Mr.. Chandler
is understood to have been substantially party
vote, Don Cameron being the only Republican San-
stor who voted with the Democrats against the con-
drmaton,
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The confirmation of Judge Robertson
was celebrated by salvos of artillery at Albany,
Utica, Rochester, and other places in the inte-
rior of New York. Judge Robertson was sere-
naded by the Republican General Committee of
New York. He made a speech, in which he
said he regarded his confirmation not as per-
sonal triumph, but as victory over one-man
power and the right of individual liberty in
political action.-A New York telegram Says
A friend Of ex-senator Conkling states that
he will Immediately enter into the practice
of law in this city, and will take no further
steps in politics until he has made sufficient
money to insure himself q comfortable living.
1t is further said the Senator will advise his
friends to elect ex-President Grant as his sue
cessor in the Senate. An Associated Press dis
patch from Washington says: "There is no long
er any doubt that strong fight will be made
against Conkling and Plat, and will have the
sympathy of the administration This is iusti
fed on the ground that Conkling declared Mon
day that he would regard his reelection as
rebuke to the administration and commission
to make war against it to the end of Garfeld's
term. The policy of the administration viii be
to elect straight Republican Senators who will
ce in entire harmony with the party on all ques-
tons. If this cannot be accomplished in this
Legislature, then the policy will be to prevent
the election of Conking and Platt, even if the
Senatorial election has to be thrown over to
the next Legislature"
An Albany dispatch says the anti
Conlling members of the New York Legisla-
tare profess to be willing to proceed at once to
The election Of Senator's, but will havc pothng
to 90 with caucus Mr.. Conkling said to
friend IN Washington that $4,000 was the
extent Of his fortune that he could make
S100,c0a per aanum in the practice OF Law, and
would not turn his hand over for reelection
The Ohio Democrats will hold their
convention for the nomination of State officers
on the 18th of July.
At a conference of the friends of Mr..
Conkling, in New York city, it was decided that
both Conkling and Platt should be vigorously
urged upon the Legislature for reelection. It
was agreed that neither of the resigned Sena-
tors should return without the other. The be-
lief was confidently expressed that both
of them could be returned.-A secret confer,
ence of prominent Democrats, with Speaker
Randall at the head, was held in Washington,
at which the political situation in New York
was carefully considered. They decided to rec
ommend to the Democratic members Of the.
New York Legislature not to enter into any CO.
ALTON with either OF the Republican factions
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Married People Would be Happier.

If home trials were never told to the
neighbors.
IF they kissed and made up after every
quarrel.
IF household expenses were proper
toned to receipts.
If they tried to be as agreeable as in
courtship days.
If each would try to be support and
comfort to the other.
If each remembered the other was a
human being, not an angel.
Ii women were as kind to their hus-
bands as they were to their lovers.
If feul and provisions were laid In dur
ing the high tide of summer work.
If both parties remembered they mar
ried for worse as well as for better.
If men were as thoughtful for their
wives as they were for their little sweet
hearts.
IF there were fewer silks and velvet
costumes for the street and more plain,
tidy housed dresses.
IF there were fewer ''please darlings,
in public, and more common manners in
private
IF wives and husbands would take
some pleasures as they go along and not
degenerate into mere toiling machines.
Recreation is necessary to keep the heart
in its place, ana to get along without it
is big mistake.
If men would remember that women
can't always be smiling who have to cook
the dinner, answer the door bell half
dozen tines. and get rid of b neighbor
who has dropped in, tend to sick baby,
tie up.tle cut hns of two-year-old,
gather up the playthings of a four-year-
old, tie up the head of six-year-old on
skates, and get an eight-year-old ready
for school, TO say nothing OF sweeping,
cleaning, etc. A woman with all this to
contend with may claim it as privilege
to look and feel little tired sometimes,
and word Of sympathy would not be
too much to expect from the man, who,
during the honeymoon, wouldn't let her
carry as much as sunshade.
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The rate of increase this year is nearly SO per
cent. This would give total immigration of
over 500, 900, Of which about $780, 600 would be
due at this port. The rate of increase for New
York, however, according to estimates of the
Commissioners of Emigration, will probably be
greater, as, owing to the backwardness of
the season this year, and the late dates
at which the Scandinavian ports were opened,
the tide was kept back. In the first ten days
of the present month 1888 immigrants ar
rived at Castle Garden, and it is estimated that
10000 will arrive this month"; against 40, 578 for
the same time last year. On Monday of this
week 6,521 immigrants arrived, the largest
number on any day yet this year. Yesterday
the number of arrivals was 1908.
The greater part of the immigrants arriving
consists of men under 40 years of age, who
would be subject to military duty if they 10
manned in Europe. Of the 109, 1913 immigrants
who arrived in the first four months of this
year 72,773 were men and SO, $50 women. In
the same time last year the men numbered
54,985 and the women 27,661, the proportion
being the same each year.
The number of immigrants arriving at this
port last year-327, 000-was greater than in
any previous year. In 1854, 319,223 immi-
grants arrived-the largest number in any year
previous TO 1880. The arrivals at Castle Gar
den for eleven years past with the five leading
A.-.n 49, els