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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-18
A Bear Story.

Captain ", of Yankee Fork, began to
tell about the lakes and fish of the Lemhi
country. He told of ice lakes in the
Middle Fork in which were trout weigh
ing from twenty-five to fifty pounds
Then he told about the reddish lakes.
Said he: "There is something in this
reddish business that asto1ishes me. At
certain day in the early spring they
leave the Pacific Ocean, and travelling
up the Columbia River without halt
turn up the Salmon River, aud never
turn to the right or left till they reach
Reddish Greek, in Lemhi County.
They form tours at the mouth Of that
creek and march up to the lakes, where
the boys and bears have high old time
on fish for the summer.
"The bears! What do you mean2"
"Why, I mean just what I say. A
Salmon River man never thinks Of fish
ing with hook, line, or spear. Wemake
the bears do our fishing up there, you
bet. By carefully studying the habits of
bruin we find that in the summer season,
from o'clock till 7 in the morning, he is
buSily engaged fishing. The way bears
hSh up our way is This: ElgnG or ten
bears will sit in row on a rifle in the
river; the bear in the middle by quick
motion of the right paw, pulls the fish
out of the water; he then throws it to
the bear next to him, and it is thus passed
one to the other until it is thrown on the
bank. They throw the fish to each other
like you see men pass brick. Well, all
l. = h Il
quietly, sack the fish as fast as the bears
throw them out on the bank, and go off
about our business. Maybe you don't
think bears are suspicious? I've seen
eight bears jump the bear that was near
est the bank, because one Of boys stole
one fish out Of their pile, and the bean
that kept tally missed it when the fish
ing match was over. "-NeyaCLd .PdDer.
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and to admit free articles intended for the Interna
the death Of the Hon. Fernando Wood were passed,
and the House adjourned.
On the opening of the Senate on the morn
ing of Tuesday, Feb. Is, the Military Committee re-
ported favorably the bin to place Thomas c. Crit
tenden upon the retired list of the army with the
rank and pay of Brigadier General. Mr.
Hereford presented resolution of the Legis-
lature of West Virginia favoring law for
the regulation of Interstate railway traffic. Mr..
Mcdonald introduced a resolution relative to the
equalization of taxation, which laid over. The
Cattle Disease BILL which the regular order,
laid aside, and the Funding bill taken up. Mr..
Bayard spoke in explanation of the amendments
made by the Finance COMMITTEES. He advocated
$50 bond at 81 per cent. interest, and OPP
posed the clause making only the new bonds
receivable as security for nationalbank Gil
cuation. The principal debate was in refer
ence to the rate of interest and it continued without
result until the adjournment. The Committee on
Elections reported to the House upon the contested
election Of McCaBe versus Orth, from the Ninth
Indiana district, confirming Orts title to the seat
1t was concurred in. The morning hour was occu-
pied principally by discussion point
CT order, which left unsettled. Brief
addresses were made on the acceptance
of the statue Of Jacob Collamer, of Vermont
The House then went into committee of the whole
on the River and Harbor bill. Several amendments
proposed and rejected, and finally, without ac-
ton on the bill, the committee rose AS less than
quorum had voted on the last amendment, the Ser
geant-at-Arlns dispatched in search OF absent
members Two or three hours passed in vain at
tempt to secure q quorum or reach an agreement by
which the session might be closed Finally recess
was taken until morning.
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POLITICAL POINTS.

A Washington telegram says: cit
now seems impossible that the nomination of
Mr. Matthews can be gotten out of the Judi
ciary Committee. 1t is learned positively that
Senator Edmunds opposes his confrma-
ton. This leaves Mr.. Matthews with but two
friends on the committee. Senator Thur
man told Democratic member of the House
that this was the most painful pub
lie duty he had ever performed, but the grow
ing sway of railroad corporations warned him
that Mr.. Matthews should not be elevated to
the Supreme bench, which is the last resort
the people have against the grasping corpora
tons"
The Philadelphia municipal election
has evidently resulted in victory of several
thousand for the Citizens candidates, Samuel
G. King Democrat being chosen Mayor and
John Hunter Republican, Receiver of Taxes.
Pittsburgh chose for Mayor Robert w.
Lyon, the only Democrat on the Citizens
ticket by q majority of 1850, and elected the
Republican candidates for Comptroller and
Treasurer. In Allegheny City the Republican
nominees we're triumphant.
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGs.

OF the S5,8 $50 immigrants who landed
in Canada last year, 1870 proceeded to the
United States.
The extraordinary weather of the cur
rent season eliminated on Saturday, the 18th
inst, in one of the most furious snow-storms
ever known throughout the Western States, and
in heavy rains, consequent floods, and extern
sive damage in the Eastern States The rains
in the East, following the partial thaw, swelled
ther rivers, and all the principal cities along the
Potomac, the Pennsylvania rivers, and other
streams, had their streets turned into temporary
canals. The extraordinary sight was witnessed in
Washington city of tow-boats employed in trans
ferriug passengers along Pennsylvania avenue.
Three spans of Long bridge was washed away.
At Toledo, Ohio, the water in the streets was
were caught in the ice gorges, and many of
them were sunk. Trains could not leave,
as the tracks were flooded or strewed with
debris, the bridges dangerous or
swept away. Several freight cars lying
on the tracks were submerged and their con-
tents damaged. From Trenton, N. J., it is re-
ported that the ice on its way down the Della
ware river crushed everything in its track.
Bridges on country roads and railroad bridges
were swept away by thousands throughout Ohio.
Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey.
An iron span 200 feet long and weighing 400
tons, belonging to the Pennsylvania railway
bridge at Toledo, was thrown by the ice directly
| into the channel Of the Maumee river. Re-
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Four men were swept into eternity by
the explosion of fre-damp in Warmers coal
bank, Robbins Station, Ohio, and five others
were badly injured.
The details Of drunken tragedy come
over the wires from New Mexico, where Julian
Vigil chopped his wife and daughter into
pieces, MORALLY wounded his son, and hanged
himself to rafter.
The interior of the Michigan Avenue
Baptist Church, in Chicago, was destroyed
by an incendiary fire. The loss was about
$4,000.
Six laborers were burned to death by
an explosion in the Belmont mine, near Helena,
MT
Omaha is to have a grain elevator
with capacity of 100000 bushels. The Union
Pacific railway viii subscribe $50, 900 toward its
construction and leading citizens have pledged
$4,000.
At Robinson, Col, Deputy Marshal
McIlhanny was fatally shot by persons in am
bush.
An electric light company, with
capital of $500, 900, has been organized in De-
troit. 1t proposes to furnish heat and motive
power.
Judge Gardner, of the Superior Court
of Chicago, decides that Mrs. Rappleye, an il
legitimate daughter of the late John S. Wallace,
is entitled to onethird Of the estate OF deceased
South.
The Southern Oil Works, in Memphis,
were destroyed by fire. The loss was 1926, 900.
4 loss of 1856, 900 was incurred at Deni-
on, Tex, by the burning OF Kuhn's groc cry
house, Goodsells dry-goods establishment, and
the Herald Office
The Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio
railroad was sold at auction at Richmond, Va,
under decree of the United States Circuit
Court. Clarence H. Clark, of Philadelphia, be-
came the purchaser for himself and associates
for $8,605,00O. The intention is to use the
road as q section of a grand trunk line from the
seaboard to the West and Southwest
Green jackson, coIored, was hanged
at Marion, Crittenden county, Tenn.
A landslide at the tunnel near Ash
vile, N. G., was being removed by force of
twenty convicts, when large mass of earth
fell into the cut, burying the whole number
Four Of the men were killed, several others
sustained serious injuries, and some of them
are expected to die.
The murder of F. Fl. Peterson, of
Madison, Fla, by a negro named Savage Gre
ated intense excitement. The assassin was
sent to jail, and the Governor sent two militia
companies to keep guard over him.
A volcano has been discovered in the
Allegheny mountains, in Fayette county, Va
Steam rises in considerable volume, and stones
thrown in were heard plunging down the abyss
for several seconds.
The Pope has appointed Vicar Gen
eral Janssens, of Richmond, Bishop of Natchez.
J. c. Neerez is to be Bishop of San Antonio
A tornado sweeping through the pines
of North Carolina crushed rude hut occupied
by turpentine Makers killing ten of them and
seriously wounding three others.N
A loss of $4,000 was sustained at
Charleston, s. G.. by the burning of two bag
factories.
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BITS OF INFORMATION.
Sun dialS were invented $50 B. G.


The se1tant was invented in 1850.
The first locomotive built in this
country was at West Point in 1880. 1t
was named the Phoenix.
CALICO received its name from Cali
cut, city Of India, which was discoy-
cred by the Portuguese in 1893.
THE English is the most difficult of all
modern languages for foreigner to learn
with accuracy. The German comes
next. The French is easier to acquire,
and the Italian easier still.
Foe is caused by the union of two
masses of vapor of different tempera-
ture. The sun heats the earth in a
much shorter time than it does the
ocean, and when the warm air of the
land unites with the colder air of the
sea the Yapor is condensed and rendered
visible. s
DURING time of scarcity the ancient
Lydians invented several games, among
others that of dice. One day they would
engage IN games SO entirely as not to
feel any craving for food the next day
they ate and abstained from games. In
this way, according to an old historian,
they passed eighteen years.
The following thirteen States formed
the Union at the time Of the Declaration
Of Independence New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti-
cut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia. The last six were slavehold-
ing States. e..
The gift of a red rosebud means,
"Thou hast stolen my affections ;" of q
white rosebud, 81 am to be won," or
:" 1 shall win you if I can" Both are
declarations of love, differing only in
intensity. "One is hint, the other a
dead 'give-away,'" said recent writer.
The moss rose means, " Thou art one of
a thousand !" the white rose, "My
heart is free;" the damask rose, ''Blushes
augment thy beauty" the cinnamon
rose, "Without pretension;" the wild
rose, "Simpicity;" a withered white
rose, Transient impression;" a with
cred red rose, "Our Irritation has
ended"
The average daily temperature or
daily mean temperature is found by add
ing the temperature at Z a. H., 2 p. m.
and twice the temperature at 9 p. m.
and dividing this sum by four; to find
the monthly mean temperature, the
daily mean temperatures of each day are
added and divided by the number of
days of the month. The annual mean
temperature is found by taking the sum
of the twelve monthly mean tempera-
lures divided by twelve, and the mean
temperature of place is ascertained by
adding the annual mean temperatures
and dividing by the number of years.
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Tennessee Marble,

Nh. John j. Craig, of Knoxville
Tenn, says that the United States Gov
eminent is now working successfully a
quarry of white stone in the immediate
vicinity of that city which is pronounced
by competent judges to be superior to
anything of the kind found elsewhere in
the United States for building and all
outdoor purposes. It is highly crys-
tallized limestone marble-andasitc comes
from the hammer or chisel is almost per-
fectly white; when polished it shows a
faint pinkish blush, most delicate and
beautiful long exposure to the atmos-
phere seems to whiten and harden it, a
sort of glass-like enamel forming over
its surface and rendering it almost i'm
pervious to dampness and stains of any
kind. A column of this marble, which
has been standing in Knoxville more
than thirty years, and which has never
been touched with brush or soap, is as
white and clean to-day as it was the day
it was first exposed to the storms and
sunshine of our tickle climate. The text
ure and working quality of the marble
is unsurpassed. It is neither too hard
nor too soft, but exactly soft enough to
allow the sculptor to work it'iwithout
force and trace on it the finest lines q
finished form, and yet hard enough t..
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-18
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The official census footings for the
State of Pennsylvania are as follows: Males.
2,1S6,695; females, alag, ISL. Native. $685.
253; foreign, $751; 533. White 4,197, 1O6; COL
ored, $3.50, including in the State Is Chinese.
s Japanese, 1853 Indians and half-breeds, and 2
East Indians. Total, 42S2, 1856.
The Senate Committee on Territories
authorized Senator Saunders to report with a
recommendation for its passage the bill for
creating the Territory Of Pembina, to consist
of the northern hall Of N,kota.
1t is reported that Speaker Randall is
firmly opposed to any greater rate of interest
than per cent. in the refunding measure, and
that in the conference committee appointed by
him no compromise will be thought of.
The Ways and Means Committee of
the House of Representatives chose John Ran
dolph Tucker, of Virginia, to fill the Chair
manship made vacant by the death of Fernan-
do Wood
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ports on Monday are as follows: "The flooded
districts report material Improvement in con-
dition. The streets Of Washington are again
passable. The Maumee has fallen nearly two
feet at Toledo, but trains are forced to take
circuitous route The Ohio river touches the
curb at the foot of Main street in Cincinnati.
Gen. Cyrus Bussey urges that $1,000 men be
set at work on the levees at New Orleans Dead
wood reports three feet of snow and binding
storm. On the Burlington road in Iowa the
snow is as nigh as the car-tops."
The police of Montreal have traced out
neutrality-suspicious. burglaries by finding grocers
wagon at the door of wholesale house at mid
night. The grocery proved to be only
fence for the stolen goods, of which
large quantities were recovered.
Hon. Fernando Wood, of New York,
expired the other night, at Hot.Springs, Ark
He was born in Philadelphia, of Quaker par
ents. When but Is years of age he was elected
to Congress, in which be has served ten terms
In 1850 he retired from mercantile pursuits
with fortune, and in 1854 was elected Mayor
of New York. He went to the Hot Springs
last month"; in an enfeebled condition.
The ship Normanton was lost off the
coast of Newfoundland recently, and Chief
Mate McCreeohy and seaman Dooley were the
only members of the crew of eighteen who
were saved.
The exports from New York since the
LIST of January, exclusive of specie, are valued
at 1000, 900, against $42,O0O,00O worth
during the corresponding period of last year.
and $41, 900, 900 during the same period of 1879
Four desperate convicts escaped from
the penitentlary at Kingston, Ont, the other
night, after hot fight with the guards. They
obtained civilians clothing at the prison tailor
shop and walked across the st. Lawrence to
Cape Vincent, N. Y, where two of the number
were recaptured.
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A Remarkable Story.

A correspondent of the New York
Evening Post, writing from Baltimore,
tells the following remarkable story: 81
sat while by two ivy-grown graves
neither very long made-but the story
of the young people whose bodies lie In
them is strange and terrible enough for
Southworth novel in the present pro
portions. This is the tale as it was told
me: There was an ambitious Baltimore
mother, and very rich and manageable
young scion of stately house, and the
former had heard thai the latter had said
that he would marry only blonde-a
woman with yellow-gold hair and dark
eyes if such he could find. The mother
had lovely daughter, but her hair was
brown. AS, however, modern art could
change the spots of the leopard, that lit
tie difficulty could be composed; the
mother took the daughter to New York
and had her transformed into the golden
est of blondes. She then vent with her
to Saratoga, where the young man was
to pass the gay season. The result was
electric-the young man beheld his ideal
an arrangement was speedily made for
the marriage. The sad feature Of the
story is that it was a real love match,
and the young man would have loved the
beautiful girl brown-hnired as nature had
made her. Of course the blonde hair
fiction might have been sustained for
some time, but very soon after the mar
riage the young lady became very i'll,
and an ugly and strange eruption APP
peared on her neck. The hair-dye had
wrought poison in the blood People
still tell how she was glittering with din
monds when she was carried out in the
arms of her husband from the stately old
mansion in Baltimore and placed in the
carriage to be borne away to another city
for medical treatment, which was Of no
avail. She died before the year was
ended, and her broken-hearted husband
soon followed her to the grave.
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The Hat Wouldn't Stand IT.

Billy Manning, the lamented minstrel,
had an inexhaustible fund of natural wit.
He was up and down in life, sometimes
worth thousands, and again fiat broke.
These reyerses did not affect his spirits
in the least; indeed, his poverty inspired
in him many happy thought. 1t was a
habit of Manning, when hearing of the
death of an acquaintance, to take off his
hat, and, bowling very reverently, re-
mark:
''God rest his soul. "
On one occasion several of his friends
entered into conspiracy to report to
him the death Of some person he knew.
One friend would approach him and say.
''Well, Billy, George Jones is dead at
last"
Manning would take off his hat and
say: "God rest his soul"
Presently another friend would come
along, and, according to arrangement.
ask him if he had heard of the death of
Smith.
After the usual expression of surprise
and sorrow, off would come Manning's
hat, and he would make the fearful OBJ
servation, 'tGod rest his soul"
In this way he heard of the death of a
dozen old friends within an hour. Man
ming was then playing in hard luck, and
his hat was of straw and badly out of re-
pair. Just as he had uncovered to ask
rest for the soul of his twelfth departed
friend, the depth and breadth of the
racket dawned upon him. Standing
there, holding his miserable straw hat by
the brim, and increasing, if anything,
the look of sorrow upon his face, he
said:
''Now let this end right here. L don't
want to hear of the death of another per-
son. This hat won't stand it"
EIGHTEEN hundred and eighty-one does
not resemble pair of lovers on sofa,
| because there is one at each end,
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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE


The clearings in New York in Janua-
ry were the largest ever known in any month
by nearly $4OO,OOO,OOO.
A now banking institution, to be
called tho United States Bank is expected to
commence business in New York early in the
spring. Among the Directors of the new bank
arc Gen. Grant, Logan c. hurry, late President
of the Kentucky National Bank, W. r. Travors
and II. Victor Newcomb.
At Rock Hill, ON the North Pennsyl-
wanna railroad, during dense fog, passen-
ger train crashed into freight just entering
upon siding. Two men were instantly killed,
four fatally injured and four seriously.
The button shop of the Scoville Man
ufaeturing Company, in Waterbury, Ct, was
destroyed by fire, The loss is estimated at
100000
President Hayes was the guest of the
Baltimore Press Association at its annual ban
quet
Charles Edward Forbes, Judge OF the
Supreme Court Of Massachusetts, in 1S4S. died
in Northampton, aged So.
The venerable Judge Ezra Wilkinson.
of the Superior Court Of Massachusetts, is
about to resign.
The Canal Boat Owners Association
of New York has adopted resolution urging
upon the Legislature the abolition of all tolls
upon west-bounl freight
The Northampton bank robbers
per, Red Leary and Billy Conners-are con-
stantly guarded by armed men, The bank will
give the thieves 800, 900 for the return of the
other securities.
Gen. Herman Uhl, business manager
of the New York Stats Zeitung, accidentally
shot himself while cleaning loaded revolver.
He died within half an hour.
Charles Cotton, Treasurer of the Dol
lar Savings Bank at Hartford, Ct, whose death
is announced, was the seventh in direct line
from one Of the pilgrims who came to Massa-
chusetts bay in 164O.
Peter Cooper's Goth birthday received
fitting celebration in New York. He sent
check for $4,000 to the trustees of the Cooper
Institute.
A tank of the Standard Oil Company,
at Bayonneport, N. j., exploded and took fire,
several thousand barrels of naphtha being con-
sumed.
f. A. McLain started from Bradford
Pa, for Aiken with 200 pounds Of nitro-elycer-
inc in cutter. His horse evidently ran away.
as after an explosion only pieces of flesh re-
NAMED Of the outfit.
A committee of directors of the Per-
manent Exhibition at Philadelphia voted to sell
the building, which was the main structure of
the Centennial.
The New Jersey oystermen report
that the deep ice on the rivers and on the sea-
shore has played havoc with many of the
oyster-beds.
In the Whitaker court martial. DIR
Alexander, Post Surgeon at West Point, ex-
pressed the belief that the negro cadet muti-
lated himself
The Maine State Senate has declared
against woman-suffrage.
Jacob Schaefer defeated William Sex
ton, in New York, in the greatest billiard match
ever seen in that city, The game was for
$1,000, cushion caroms, 400 points up.
West.
A fleeing band of Apaches was thor
oughly whipped by a party of New Mexicans.
who killed eight and sent the remainder off in
hot haste for the frontier.
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Colorado Not the Climate for Invalids.

The climate Of Colorado is not one
suited for an invalid. We have frequently
been asked the question, and have seen
and rehearsed numberless examples Of
the Ill effects of Colorado atmosphere
upon delicate constitutions. The atmos-
phere is very dry and pure and light,
but it seems to live upon the tissues of
the body rather than feed them. An
ordinary man will lose from one-ffth to
one-eighth of his weight the first season
in Colorado. All observers declare that
a man cannot endure either mental or
physical labor as well as in q heavier
atmosphere. Dogs are said to be short
lived in Colorado, and other animals are
easily exhausted of their strength. An
entirely erroneous opinion has gone
abroad about the desirableness Of
Colorado climate for consumptiyes, and
many Of this class have too late found
their mistake.-Chicago Inter Oce0n.
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retain these lines in all their original
delicacy, unimpaired by wind or rain,
for generations to come. The quantity
of the marble is unlimited. Knoxville
is surrounded by whole mountains of it..
Facilities for transportation are now
good and daily growing better. Car
loads are being daily shipped to all sec
tons of the country, and the absence Of
capital alon prevents the quarrying Of it
from soon developing into one cf the
most important industries in that singu-
larly favored but as yet almost unknown
section. american.