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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-08-11

In the star-route trial, A. c. Buell., a
Washington journalist, while on the stand adj
mitted having received material financial aid
from Gen. Brady and MIR. Walsh at various
times, and acknowledged now being in the
formers employ. The witness and other
writer's who have denounced the prosecution
were characterized by the court as hireling
libelers."
Judge Wylie, of Washingt ton, refused
to naturalze a Chinaman, because Of the re-
strictions of the bill recently passed relative to
Monaghan immigration.
The appointment of Gen. Grant and
William H. Prescott to be Commissioners to
negotiate o commercial treaty with Mexico is
made in accordance with an amendment to one
of the Appropriation bills, which makes pro-
vision for the payment of the expenses of the
commission.
The Bureau of Statistics has sent out
statement of the number of immigrants ar
rived in the United States for the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1882, as com pared with the pre-
cadino vaar The foI1rac are &c fo1louS
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iowa Republican Platform.

Following is the platform adopted by
the Iowa Republican Convention at
Des Moines
The Republican party of Iowa. reaffrming it's
support of the national platform of the purity
in 1880, and its own declarations in the past.
submits the following as It's pl4tfOTm for the
present year
l. In reaffirming the platform of 1882 and
insisting upon its enforcement in its relation to
several affairs Of the nation, States and TeTrl-
tories, in order that sound policy shall pre-
vail in the nation, and ample protection be
afforded its citizens in all their rights OF citi-
Zenship, we especially commend the present
Congress in its course in vindicalion OF an hon
est ballot and fair count by its action in seating
the members legally elected to that body.
2. We recognize that the personal and oficI
bearing of President Arthur in his succession
to the lamented Garfield is worthy Of respect
and commentator, and the general admins
tration of the duties of his Office meets with the
approval of the Republicans of Iowa.
3. We commend with equal pleasure and
pride the faithful and efficient administration
of the affairs of our State.
4. We favor the creation by Congress of a
department of industry, and taking prompt
measures to protect Western cattle from con-
tagiOus disease. We favor an equitable revision
of the tariff, so as to encourage industries and
protect labor.
s. We are in favor of and demand a modif-
cation of the patent laws, TO prevent reissue
and to protect innocent purchasers of patent
articles in open market.
6. We favor national legislation regulating
Interstate commerce to the end that the sys-
tenn of pooling by parallel and competing lines
Of railway, and unjust discrimination against
non competing points, may be 80 controlled as
to afford healthy competition to all sections
of the country in the carrying trade.
Z. We also favor as q further solution of the
question of transportation renewed efforts look
ing to a practical and iudicious improvement
of the water ways which nature has provided
for cheaply transporting the commerce of the
Stafea
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AnecdOte of AgaSSIZ.

The father of the famous naturalist
was quite impatient at his sons devotion
to frogs, snakes and fishes, for he wanted
Louis to be merchant. But the boy
would spend bis vacations travelling on
foot through Europe, and carefully ex-
aiming every species of natural history
that he could find. Oncehe reached Lon
don when there was to be meeting of the
Royal Society, and, having letter of
Introduction to one of the members, was
permitted to be present. The gentle
man said, 81 have young
friend here from Switzerland who
thinks he knows something about
fishes how much, / have fancy to try.
There is, under this cloth. a perfec
skeleton of fish which existed long
before man." After describing it still
further, he said to Agassiz, e Can you
sketch for me on the blackboard your
idea of this fish," The boy took the
chalk and drew an outline of the fish.
correct in every bone. The grave old
doctors burst into loud applause, and
Agassiz said it was the proudest moment
of his life,
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEAN1NGs.

A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona,
says: The Project of the District of Monte
yuma, Mexico, sends the following to Gov.
Ortiz have the honor to inform you that
on the Oath, between the hours of and 10
a. M, the Apaches attacked Col. Lorenzo
Torres at Encino, eighteen miles from here,
who was accompanied by sixty Federal troops.
The fight lasted three hours resulting in
the death of yicciente Provincio, tho Diputado
of the district, and all the troops except five
Federals and Col. Torres, who was wounded.
The Indians took all the horses, equpage and
stores. They were strongly fortified and COM
pletely ambushed the troops. A force of
troops has been sent in pursuit of the
Apaches, who are moving toward the Arizona
border.
The Catholic National Total Absti-
hence Union held three days session at st.
Paul. The Ri. Rev. John Ireland was elected
President.
A court of inquiry has been ordered
in the case of Col. Carr. Sixth cavalry, in ref
erence to accusations growing out of charges Of
INSTRUMENTATION preferred by Gen. Wilcox
commanding the Department of Arizona.
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The South Carolina Gerrymander,

In another paragraph we have shown
the shameless acts of the Bourbon De-
mocracy of South Carolina in redistric5-
ing the State. A map of the Congress
sional districts makes fearful and Won
derful picture. But its true iniquity
cannot be fully understood without q
brief analysis of the strength of the Re-
publican and Democratic parties in that
State. The census returns for 1880 show
sc, 900 white and lis, 889 colored voters,
giving the latter 81, 989 majority. In
free election and fair count the Re
publican majority would reach more
than 10000. The assertion that large
numbers of blacks vote the Democratic
ticket cannot stand for moment before
the actual facts. The policy of the De-
mocracy in redistricting the Stale was
to group the greater part OF the colored
vote in the Seventh district, which now
contains Republican majority of more
than 10000. But in spite of this
four of the other districts contain
from 900 to 5000 Republican majority.
The Democracy, even as they have
things now fixed, can carry but two
out of the, seven districts on an honest
vote, yet they openly boast that they
will carry six out of the seven, and that
they willcontrol the Legislature and elect
the State officers. This can only be
brought about by the commission of the
most outrageous crimes upon free suf-
frage and the rights of citizens. The New
York Tribune, in commenting on these
facts, says: sit is a matter of great
concern to the people of the whole eoun-
try to know whether a minority is not
merely to govern the State OF South
Carolina, but is to exarcise a largely
disproportionate influence in the TWO
houses of Congress, and possibly change
the result of a Presidential election and
the political character of the admins
tration of the Government. And above
all it concerns the whole people to know
whether South Carolina or any other
State is to be exempted from the prin-
ciple Of majority luie. This is no more
local issue than the tariff. The funda-
mental principle of republican govern
ment is involved in it, and every voter
in the country is interested in its settle
nent. "-LdnSi1lq Republican,.
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FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

bill appropriating 100000 for pubic
building at Leavenworth, Kansas, was passed
by the Senate on the I'd inst. The time in
which the Ute Commission shall complete its
work was extended to Sept. Is. 1885 The
Sundry Civil measure, the last of the long
list of appropriation bills, was passed. A
message was received from the House inform
ing the Senate of the action of that body in
passing the River and Harbor bill over the
Presidents veto. The pending business was
suspended and the veto message read. vote
was Immediately taken on the question sShall
the bill pass, the objections of the President to
the contrary notwithstanding ?" The result
was yeas Al, nays Is. So the b.ll passed
The House, by a vote of yeas 122. nays So
passed the River and Harbor bill over the
Presidents veto. The House also passed bill
granting pension of $37 q month to soldiers
who lost an arm at the shoulder. Com
mander Sigsbee and Joseph R. Hawley were
authorized to receive decorations from foreign
potentates.
The Senate passed number OF bills at its
session on the Sd inst, among them the fol-
loving: Authorizing Government buildings at
ST. Joseph, Mo-; in relation to land patents in
the Virginia military district of Ohio; to pro-
vide for deductions from the gross tonnage of
vessels of the United States extending to for
eign steamships The provisions of the inspection
laws now applicable to domestic vessels.
The last two measures Mr.. Frye de-
carei 'sthe first guns fired in
favor of revival of American commerce. A
long dohate ensued on the Tax reduction bill
'for tue relief OF b INKS, patent medicines and
perfumes, but no result was reached. William
W ,ldorf Aston was nominated bv the Presd ut
for Minister to Rome; Henry K. Mccoy. Unit-d
statsJudge for the Northern district of Georgia;
Oliver P. Shiras United States Judge for the
Northern district of Iowa; VIM Lowber. of
Pennsylvania United States Consul st Flor
ence. The House adopted resolution prsvld-
irg for sine-die adjournment on Saturday
a d passed bill 10 establish diplomats rela-
tioas with Persia by the aid of Consul n
eral, who shall receive a salary of SIS 900 .
year
The bill to establish diplomatic relations with
Persia was passed by the Senate Aug A. The
Temaiuder.o of the days session was devoted to
discussion of the tax-reductinn measure The
House employed most Of its time in going
through the Sundry Civil bill as amended BY
the Senate. and refused to concur in all the inn
rorlant changes. The attempt to perpetuate
the National Board of Health by aid OF an APP
preparation was defeated after bitter debate.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-08-11

Discontentment pervades the ranks of
the Irish constabulary. They demand in
creased pay and quicker promotion, and strike
is INN; nent.
The united opinion Of the Irish men,
bers of Parliament is said to be that the pro-
ceedings OF the English Government in Egypt
are most unwarranted and brutal Parnell
says the present operations in Alexandria are
apparently the outgrowth of long series of
plans Of Government agents In the East.
Eighty square kilometers of crops
were destroyed by confagration in Russian
Caucasus province.
An event unknown for 200 years was
the presentation at the Court of st. James of
Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto, as prelate of
the Roman Catholic church.
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8 the greatest advertiser in the world. ,

as 81 the greatest advertiser in the world"
The steamer Golddust, bound up the
Mississippi river from Vicksburg to st. Louis.
exploded her boilers within 200 yards after
leaving the wharf at Hickman, KY, killing sew
enteen persons outright and wounding forty
eight, many of whom cannot survive. The
boat took fire Immediately after the explosion
and burned to the waters edge.
A Shreveport (La) dispatch says a
west-bound train on the East Line railroad
from Jefferson, Texas, was wrecked near
Winnsboro, Texas, killing Conductor Fowler,
Mail Agent Charles Harper, Express Agent Ike
Rosser and passenger named Fetro. Several
others injured.
The Health Officer Of Texas has adj
vised the Governor that a yeIIow-feyer cpl
demic ID impending at Brownsville.
At local election at Frankfort, Kv.,
negro named Edward McElroy fred dou-
ble-barreled shotgun into the crowd at the
polls, and then shot at Sanford Egbert. Piss
tolls were then drawn by about twenty persons,
and the colored man was soon dispatched.
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Seventy Twin Brothers,

A band of Cree Indians woke up one
snowy morning to find that abot1t d
dozen of their choicest ponies had been
taken during the night. Pursuit was
soon organized and within few hours a
fresh trail was found In the snow. After
following the trail some thirty miles it
entered the Saskatchewan river, the ami
mails evidently heading for a wooded
island in the middle of the river. Smoke
was rising from among the rocks and
trees on the island. After some recon-
noitering an opening which seemed to
be the mouth of cave could be seen in
the face of the rocks. Presently single
Indiana Piegan, the pursuers decided
from his appearance-showed up In
front of the opening. He was painted
and arrayed gaudily. Pretty soon a
dog at his feet scented the Crees,
and began growing and barking. The
Piegan instantly turned and entered
the cave. In moment another Piegan
came around the rocks and also went
in; then another. and another, and an
other, there being but few seconds be-
tween them. The Crees lay silently in
the bushes watching and counting, I'M
til upward of fifty Piegans had come
around the rocks and gone into the cave,
and still they kept coming. What
seemed remarkable was the fact that
all these Indians were to all appear
ances exactly the same size, were
dressed and painted exactly alike, each
carried Winchester rife, and, most re-
markable of all, each one seemed little
lame in the left foot, limping slightly.
They were gaudy crowd, and the Orees
counted seventy of them. That seemed
to be all, for NO more came. AS the idea
of seventy twins was an impossibility, the
superstitious Crees naturally concluded
that the evil spirit had something to do
with it, for there was no doubt that
that there were seventy Piegan Indians
on the island who were all exactly alike.
The Crees had counted them several
times as they fled in and out of the
cave.
So thoroughly were they filled with
the idea that the devil was mixed up
with the twin brother mystery that even
when reinforcements arrived, which was
within a few hours, they were very re-
luctant to attack the island. While they
were debating what to do one less super
stitious than the rest volunteered to
swim over to the island during the night
and investigate. He did SO. On APP
preaching the supposed cave he was sur
prised to find it was no cave at all, but
only an opening leading some ten feet
into the rock where it made crook and
came out on the other side. The open
ing at this opposite side was out of sight
from the shore, and here a fire was burn
ing, and solitary gaudily-attired In
dian sleeping beside it. The stolen
ponies we're tethered near by. 1t re.
quired but glance to understand what
had seemed so mysterious before. The
sleeping Indian was the only occupant
of the island, and the apparent presence
of sixty-nine other warriors was caused
by sharp trick of the Piegan chief.
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The Bat Caves OF Texas.

A correspondent describing the lime
stone caves or carerns, of Texas, says of
them: These bat caves have long been
known to bear aud turkey hunters.
They abound in several counties of that
State. They are not ve1y comfortable
places to go into, as one is continually
haunted by the fear of rattlesnakes,
she-bears with cubs, and the danger of
unknown abysses. Beside the great
horles of bats fitting around your light,
hitting you in the face and becoming en-
tangled in your hair, is an uncomfortable
feature, producing sort of creeping"
feeling i'll fellow. Then there is the
eve1-present danger Of your light be-
coming extinguished, leaving you in
darkness blacker than pitch from which
you might never emerge. However az
dent an explorer he may be who ventures
into one of these things, and however
interested with what he sees, he is con-
tinually wishing that he were we'll out
of it. They are regular witch holes. If
there be witches in the world, there you
will find them, I should think. I ex.
plo1ed one in Bandera or Medina, sever
al hundred yards, as judged, until I
came to fine creek rushing and roaring
through it. Beyond the creek I could
see another opening, leading, no doubt,
to still deeper and darker depths, but [
had got enough of it, and refused to vent
ure further. In this one encountered
the bat guano Immediately on entering,
and it continued a great distance. I
could not judge how thick the deposit
was, but it was certainly many feet.
There could not have been less than sew
ersl thousand tons of it, and it was ac-
cumulating with great rapidity.
The substance cast down by these bats
is exceedingly rich in nitrate of potash.
For the manufacture of that salt no other
substance in the world can compare
with it. I saw any quantity of it in the
Bandera or Medina cave, which, by the
way, by some natural chemical process,
had been converted where it lay into
pure saltpeter, apparently. It would
undoubtedly make a very strong fertil-
izer, beside furnishing gunpowder, etc.,
but whether the raw stuff is worth $50 a
ton or not I cannot say. But if it is
worth anything like that figure should
say Texas bat cave is better than a gold
mine. On the whole, it looks like new
industry was about to be added to us in
Texas, namely, that of bat ranching.
The bat ranch man would be at no ex-
pense for feeding or herding his cattle.
He would be at no expense whatever ex-
cept for gathering his guano and ship
ping it to market. He should gather
his guano only in the night wheE the
cattle are away feeding. Should he dis
turb them too often in the day time they
might shift their quarters, thus cutting
off his daily supply of guano.
The Confederates worked some of
these. caves for saltpeter during the war.
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FOREIGN NEWS.

Engineer Melville has given up all
hope of finding Lieut. Chipp and his boat
crew. The searching party are at Tobolsk.
An Irish editor has been arrested for
publishing an article written by James Red
path, which, the Government alleges, eneour-
ages the murder VI landlords.
During the festivities attendant on the
arrival of the Archduke Charles Louis al
Trieste, petard was thrown into the crowd,
injuring several people. In retaliation mob
broke the windows Of the houses frequented by
Italians
Parnell's scheme for checkmating the
operations of the Land Corporation Company
has assumed form. The Lord Mayor of DUB
lin will be asked to call meeting during TIE
exposition, for the Inauguration of fund to
aid evicted tenants. Parnell claims evictioas
will be increased if tenants are left defense
less
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The Kangaroo.

When Capt. Cook first discovered
Australia he saw some natives on shore,
oro of whom held dead animal in his
hand. The Captain sent boats crew
ashore to purchase the animal, and find
ing, on receiving it, that it was a beast
quite new to him, he sent the boatswain
back to ask the natives its name.
"What do you call this ERE animal p
said the sailor to naked savage.
The latter shook his head and said
Kangaroo, " which means IN Australian
lingo, 81 don't understand"
When the sailor returned to the ship
the Captain said, "Well, and what's the
name of the animal ?"
The sailor replied, Please, sir, the
black party says it's kangaroo" The
beast has kept the name ever since.
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Little Children.

1t was one of the secrets of nv craft.
IN the old times, when I wanted to weld
iron and steel and make good ax and
hammer, to begin gently, for / found
out in time that if / began to strike
hard at first I might make o bad Job
where ought to make a good one. So
[ found it was the first condition of
good work to begin gently, then by and
by | could come down with more
forcible stroke. And [ used to notice
this trouble in the great iron mills, and
l found that the reason why the great
hammers could come down so gently as
not to crack an egg and then come down
ike an earthquake was that there must
be III the machinery combination of
force and gentleness to be effective. Mr..
Collyer argued that machinery in the
hands of the mechanic was his child in
a certain sense. If there was a screw
loose he got little purchase to turn it to
the right, and so at length it worked
well and there was no trouble. Gentle
ness was master of the situation.
Children are tender; you must lead
them tenderly on. Solomon's doctrine,
Spare the rod and spoil the child" is
an abhorrent doctrine to me--a doctrine
that | will not have about my house. I
took it out of my eldest son when he was
little fellow, thinking he had told me
lie, and | felt as if some one would
take 1t out of me, and found at the end
of the week that the child had told me
the exact and simple truth. We should
cultivate the virtue of the wisdom of in
finite love with little children. Children
are not things, but human beings, pos
sessing power we cannot guess at. We
bend over these little ones and seek our
image in them. If we detect fault we
probably say, "Oh, he has taken that
from his mother" We always walk
softly when we don't know our way, and
particularly when we walk in shadows.
The child is tender; we should lead on
softly. Hold your hand; if you must
whip somebody turn the lash to your
own shoulder. Don't sap the flower in
their lives by trying to pluck out
the weeds. A great many fathers and
mothers lay heavy burdens upon the
backs of their children. 1 remember
when | was child how glad I used to
be to get half day to go into the woods
to cut hazel rods for our master. We
knew what they were for. but we didn't
care. Children will sometimes get into
little mischief. Now, have known
children when they did wrong to go and
tell their father and mother. Well, 1
was never addicted to that. Children,
no more than grown people, like to be
caught in naughty act. Sometimes
parents are inhuman when they detect
teeir children in wrong doing. said to
Lucretia Mott once, Chow do you man
age your children Well,'' the old
lady said, 81 never touch them with my
hand, but tell them to go into the room,
and after reflection tell me what they
think about it." In all our dealings
with little children we must be gentle,
patient and forgiving win them with
our love and not terrify and repel them
with harshness or severity. Robert
COLLIER.
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The znnis On Witeheraft

They had been told of the persecution
of the witches at Salem, and, as witch
craft is capital crime in Zuni, they
heartily commended the work, and sa d
that it was on account of the energetic
steps taken In those times that the
Americans were prosperous to-day, and
rid of the curse of witchery. At the
public reception held for them in Salem,
when told they were in the famous city
of the witches, they fell into an an :
mated discussion of the matter among
themselves there on the platform. HI a.
81, when invited to address the audience,
preached a little sermon on witchcraft
which would have pleased old Cotton
Mather himself. He thanked the good
people of Salem for the service they had
done the world, and gave them some adj
vice how to deal with witchcraft should
it ever trouble them again. BE the
witches or wizards your dear est relatives
or friends, CONSIDER not your own
hearts," said he, but remember your
duty and spare them not; put them to
death. Century.