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The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1882-07-08

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INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
ADVERTISEMENTS
Inserted at one dollar per square (ten
Iiues) for the first insertion and hfty cents
for each subsequent insertion. ~ lH (.
Legal advertisements inserted at the rates
fixed by law, L
Announcing candidates for beat or city
Offices, tive dollars and q half; County, five
dollars; District and State, ten dollars; in
yariably in advance. @'p,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-22
OPTIONS.
Mr.. Beecher On COrn,'v AMI Specula-
ton Generally.

NEW YORK, Dec 1S.-The Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher appeared before the senate committee
on grain corners. He said that if any man
could buy all the wheat in the country and so
starve the people, he would be a criminal Of
the deepest dye He thought the species of
gambling carried on by merchants was far less
injurious upon the public morals than the eff
fects produced by church fairs and religious
lotteries. He had been, he said, minister Of
the gospel for forty-fve years. Il hold" he
said, shat man with a long head foresees his
advantage over his neighbor in these
speculatons, but on that account these
speculatioas should not be counted i'm
moral | regard the age In which we live as
an age of combinations. think it is part of
my profession to deal in futures There are
two ways of dealing in futuresr-one IN reall
ties, the other in risks and chance A man
may sell what does not exist. One, two, or
twenty men who looked ahead, were sufficient
ly sagacious to phropbecy what. would come
to pass in the future, and were right in their
conjectures, and thereby reap profit can
lot see that such actions are illeglimate.
There is. but little danger of famine in this
country If you ask me the gospel side of the
subject, you are all wrong from the top to the
bottom. of society. There is no man who
1oves his neighbor as himself, but as mere
commercial judgment do not see cause for
any special complaint Supply and demand
are minor principles which regulate prices.
The law of price is the law of brain. The
value of the finest silk dress ever made is what
fools are willing to pay for it, and that is de-
termined by the vanity of the fool who bids
the highest To a railroad company
my place in Peekskill might not be worth
$40; to me it is worth $4,000. There is
nothing in our civilization but what calls for
intermediate men. One man makes chairs;
another stores them; railway takes them to
distant city, and there they are sold by another
man But all this selfishness is wrong, and all
commerce is more or less selfish Money
making in Wall street is an illusion Apub-
lie assembly can do very little for this. No
law can make morality. / have been much en-
ightened since this committee has been III ses-
sion have read more about Vanderbilt and
G'uid than they ever read about me. l think
ii would be good thing, gentlemen, if you
would come down about once year. l think
that these Investigations are good public in
s'ructors. once bought number of Banana
S, and paid SiOO share for them. But
zen sold them out at 500 share | was
glad to get rid of them That is all know of
stock speculation.
In the course of his testimony, speaking of
public morals and bribery, the witness said:
There was George Washington, he could not
ha hrihel but he sWore like a trooper"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-22
DAVITTS PLUCK.
In O Letter He Tells Why He Declines to
Be inundated.

NEW YORK, Dec 19.-The following letter
has been received from Michael Davitt, dated
Dublin, Dec /: &My letters may be interrupted
for some time to come, owing to the govern
ment declaring in the house of commons this
evening that am to be bound over to keep
the peace in consequence of speech of
mine delivered in Navan on Sunday last
which virtually means that am to be impris-
oned, as cannot voluntarily bend myself to
the conditions imposed upon me for acts not
committed by me- The government lends it
self to this petty prosecution at the insti-
cation Of the London. press, and in
obedience to the clamor Of its landlord adj
versaries in parliament Mr.. Healy, M. p,
is also to be bound over to be of good be-
havior,' while Mr.. W. Redmond, who has but
recently returned from America and who
left for the south Of France at the beginning
of this week to recruit shattered constitu-
ton, is to be prosecuted under the Grimes
In the city Of Cork shortly after landing in
Ireland. Thus the government has aimed its
first blow at the national league. Mr.. Healy
had no expectation Of being proceeded against
for his utterances at St Mullins last Sunday
until reaching the house Of commons last
night, when he had the satisfaction of hearing
Chief Secretary Trevelyan arraign him, try
him and sentence him without single charge
having been preferred against him or an OPP
portunity afforded for defense. This is how we
administer justice over here just now Of
course Mr.. Healy will give no bail
and will go to prison, like myself, under thay
Sharpening statute of King Edward I'LL A
plank bed, prison fare and prison clothes in
winter is not very inviting, that's true; but to
surren6 or the right of speaking the truth; to
acknowledge guilt when none can be proved,
and knuckle down to q cowardly prosecution,
instigated by cowardly landlord, press and
parliamentary clamor, is simply impossible
of performance, let the consequences turn out
what they may have broken no peace but
the peace of landlordism, and no bail or prom
Use Of conditions shall be entered into that will
stances, from resorting to every form of OPP
position known to political warfare, and sane
toned by honor that will destroy not only its
peace but itself, until the monster iniquity Of
The age is obllterated from the social life Of
Ireland.
%John Dillon's medical adviser has declared
against his venturing out to Colorado this
winter. He will now probably proceed to the
south of France.
~Mr Brennan has also been ordered out of
Ireland by DIR. Kenny, and is at present in the
south of Europe to recruit, if possible, a health
that has been 80 seriously injured through the
combined effects of overwork in the land
movement and confinement as a suspect
~Mr Parnell has consented to address his
constituents in Cork on Sunday, Dec. L."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-22
DE LONGS FOLLY.
Hills Ignorance OF the Means OF Pre-
serving life i'm the Arctic REGIONS


Hills Ignorance OF the Means Of Pre-
serving Life in the Arctic Regions.
CARSON, New, Dec. 18-The following APP
pears in The Appeal: Senator Jones, who is in
Carson, gives an account of De Longs Arctic
expedition, which he got from Captain Nell
baum in San Francisco Nelbaum is Russian,
who has been for many years in the service Of
the Alaska Fur company. He was the last
man from whom the De Long party received
provisions He says: @De Long left my station
1t almost the northern point of Alaska, and
furnished him, at the order of the Alaska Fur
company, with sleds, dogs, and provisions.
He took twenty-seven dogs and one Indian.
account for the loss of the party on the theory
that they killed the dogs. l do not believe
that De Long knew anything about the under
taking he was graphing with and was ignor-
ant of the means by which progress
could be made in that region 1
see by the diary that there was but one dog
left a few days prior to his death; he
must have killed the dogs without knowing
their great value, and when the dogs are gone
there is absolutely no hope left The dogs
could not have died nor have been lost; they
were killed. The scent of these animals Is
remarkable, and they will detect provisions no
matter where they may be. When men in
these regions kill polar bears and had more
meat than they could keep, they cache the
meat, and it sometimes lies in the ice for
years, until discovered by dogs The ice is
full Of these places. If you meet an Indian
there, and kill his dog, he lies down and dies
He also neglected to take the right kind of
gnns. De Long refused the fowling pieces 1
offered him, made expressly for the Arctic seas
and climate. He said he wanted gun for
bears, not birds, and wouldn't listen to me.
The weight of the Remington rifles hampered
him. They took no fishing-tac and ali
Sheir chances for life were thrown away
through ignorance. liked De Long person.
ally, but he was not the man to command an
Arctic expedition.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-22
Tho Trunk LInoa

NEW YORK, Dec 2O.--After the close of the
northwestern war the assertion was made that
tbs New York, Lackawanna and Western was
cutting on west-bound business, and that this
would lead to a war; 1t is now claimed that
the New York, Lackawana and Western
adheres to the pool schedules, with
the object of claiming percentage
when it asks admission to the
pool A cut is, however, being made by the
Grand Trunk of Canada, which has opened a
route to New York via the Vermont Central
down TO New London, Conn, and thence to
this city, making the distance from
Chicago about 1885 miles This is a
roundabout way but the inducements
are sufficient to make it an object for
shippers to use this Noute whore time is not
important large business is done over this
route between Boston and the west and it is
reported that negotiations have been opened
for the lease by the Grand Trunk of the
Rome. Watertown and Ogdensburg, which
will give the Canada road an advantage
over the eastern connections of the
New York Control 1t is possible these nego-
tiations may fail through the influence of the
Vanderbilt interest with the New York. Lacka-
wanna & Western, which own the Ogdensburg
line, and an agreement may be made to admit
Lackawanna TO the pool This would limit the
through business of the Crank Trunk,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-22
Bill Arp on Nature.

Atlanta Constitution.
There are some curious things about Indian
corn, and one is where do the red ears and
the speckled ears come from when you don't
plant any but white ears; and another is,
why don't we find an ear with an odd number
Of rows on it? You can find four-leaf clio
yer, but have never found the odd row on
an ear of corn yet 1t is always fourteen, or
sixteen or twenty, or some evon number, and
I would like to understand what corn knows
about mathematics, and what objection nature
has to odd numbers. But nature is full of
mysteries. / was looking at some honeycomb
the other day and wondered how it could be
made so true and uniform and perfect even
under microscope, and yet be all made in
the dark. And ! would like to know how
the lightning bug kindles the fire SO suddenly,
and I've noticed that there is not only
there is power in it that pushes him forward
and always upward. He rises as he lights,
which is good emblem. When man sets
statesman, and undertakes to throw light
around upon the people he ought to so live
by precept and example that he would rise
higher and higher as he Illuminated. And right
before me in front of the piazza are two vines
climbing cane-one madeira and the other
a jessamine-and they cross each other at
every round, climbing in opposite directions,
and | have tried to make 'em reverse but they
won't You may tie one with string but it
will squirm and twist out of it and go accord
ing to its nature
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-22
American Homogeneousness.

Henry Waterson in Courier-JournaI
The people of the United States are more
homogeneous than the people Of England, or
the people of Germany, or the people of France.
Mr.. Blaine went to Maine when three or four
and twenty, carrying with him the manner,
habits and tastes of Kentuckian, and b. anne
a leader of Yankee hosts Sergeant Preatiss
went from Maine to Mississippi, which took
him in her arms and made him her idol His
political rival was another northern man,
Robert J. Walker. John Slidell did not look
upon Louisiana until he was 30 years old. He
was New Yorker. The present United States
Senator Hawley, of Connecticut ia North
Carolinian, and in a recent congressional in
vestigation told witness he ought to knock
man down. We are all slike-a few differ
ences of an external kind marking us off by
states, not sections-and whether it be a
rebel among Yankees or Yankee among
rebels, the stranger will fare just as he would
at home, precisely as he conducts himself.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-22
THE RED FLAG.
Herr Most Welcomed by Justus
6chWab and Others.

Herr Most Welcomed by Justus
Hchwab and Others.
New YORK, Dec. 19-Yestesday morning
body of twenty-five men, headed by Justus
Schwab, the socialist, marched down King
street in the direction of the Guion line steam
ship pier Following Mr.. Schwab was a tall,
heavily built man, carrying a stick, to one end
of which was attached a blood-red handker-
chief, which kept Haunting in the air. The
motley procession arrived at the pier and
waited two hours for the arrival Of the Wiscon-
sin, upon which was Johan Most, in whose
honor the procession had been organized.
About hundred persons gathered around
them, and it must be said treated the eminent
representatives Of American socialism with
considerable disrespect The custom house
inspectress, Mrs. Jennie Ferris, even went 30
far as to suggest turning the hose on them.
The delayed steamer finally made its appear
ance but the anxious watchers ON the wharf
did not recognize the to them, familiar figure Of
Most aud they had to postpone their vigorous
@threo times three and tiger" until Mr..
Schwab had gone on board the steamer and
brought out his distinguished compatriot
from across the sea. To correspondent Herr
Most said he was feeling pretty well, but was
somewhat fatigued. The voyage, he said, had
been long and tedious and anything but pleas
ant He would deliver number of lectures
in the principal cities of the United States, be-
ginning at Cooper institute. In per-
sonal appearance Mr.. Most is not at all strik-
ing He is small in stature and effeminate in
physical development His hair is light
brown, and he wears full beard of the same
color. He speaks English with difficulty, and
80 brokenly that it is no easy matter to under
Mr. Schwab and introduced to the procession,
Mr.. Most left the second-class cabin, of which
he had SO long been an occupant, and was con-
Quoted to an obscure hotel in Hoboken. He
will have reception Wednesday night in this
city at the bands of several workingmen's asso-
Citations, and next Thursday will leave for
| GhicaCO
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-22
A CORNERSTONE
Laid for the New Board Of Trade Build.
ing in Chicago.

CHICAGO, Dec a
The cornerstone Of the new board of trade
building was laid with appropriate ceremonies
yesterday. 1t was a fine piece of granite,
shaped somewhat like carpenters square.
It's faces we're highly polished, and measured
about 7x6feet It weighed 12,412 pounds. A
space was cut into it for the reception Of the
box The stone was resting on blocks right
above its final resting place, and was all ready
to be put N position. The derricks were deco
rated with many large and small flags, and q
temporary platform was made out of the ad-
Joining masonry.
The box which was placed in the corner
stone was made Of copper, and was 21xl5x7
inches 1t contained the following articles:
Copy of the rules and regulations and the last
annual report of the board of trade; eertifi-
cate of membership; members and visitors
ticket; bond of the board of trade issued in
1882; programme of exercises at the dedica-
ton of the chamber of commerce, Oct 9, 1872;
copy of the rules and regulations of the call
board; members certificate in the same; q
statement of the organization of the board of
real estate managers and work accomplished
on the building up to date; bound volumes of
Chicago daily reports for the years 1866, 1857,
1871 and 1882; statement OF the pork
1882, and market reports for December IL,
1882; report of the packing for the west for
the year ending March 1, 1882; The Inter
Ocean of December 81, 1881. with the annual
review of the trade and commerce of Chicago;
copy of the rules and regulations of the open
board of trade of Chicago; copy of the holy
bible; Chicago city directory 1882 IS; Chicago
Evening Journal, of December IL, 1882; The
Tribune, Times, Inter Ocean, Herald, News,
Stats Zeitung, Freie Presse, of yesterday; The
Herald, November Is, 1882; conservation,
December 8, 1882; United States postal card
and postage stamps; constitution and bylaws
of the produce exchange; rules and bylaws Of
the commercial exchange; photographs Of
foundations of the new building, and of the
completed building; report of the Chicago Re-
lief and Aid society.
The building will cost over 81, 900, 000 The
walls viii be built of Fox island granite, cost
ing $685., 300 delivered and set in the walls.
The building will contain an immense ex-
change or trading hall for tie board that will
be over twice as large as it's present hall, and
also l20 offices for rental Then there will be
call board, committee rooms, etc. 1t will be
Us feet long, 173 feet wide, 40 feet high, with
tower at the La Sale street front over 800
feet high The board of real estate managers
expect to complete the structure by May 1,
1894
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-22
The SIM.

Edinburgh Review.
In any reference to the physical history Of
the sun, the stupendous magnitude of its
sphere must be kept wildly present to the
mind With diameter los times longer than
that of the earth's, the solar orb looks out
into space from surface that is twelve thou
sand times larger than the one which the earth
enjoys. The bulk of the sun is one million
three hundred thousand times that of the
earth If the surface of the sun were thin
external rind, or shell, and the earth were
placed in the middle of this hollow sphere, not
only would the moon have space to circle in
its usual orbit without ever getting outside of
the solar shell, but there would be room also
for second satellite, nearly as far again as
the moon, to accomplish a similar course. The
weight of the sun is three hundred thousand
times the weight of the earth, or, in round
numbers, two thousand millions of millions of
millions of millions of tons. The mean dis
lance of the sun from the earth is now so
well ascertained, through Investigations which
have been made in several district ways that
there can scarcely be in the estimate an error
of 5000 miles, The distance, at the present
ume given, Is *, SS5, 600 miles. This measure
is In itself so vast that if any traveller were to
move at the rate of four miles an hour for ten
hours day, it would take him $500 years to
reach the sun. Sound would traverse the in
terval if there were anything in space capa-
bic OF transmitting sOnorous vibrations, in
fourteen years, and q cannon ball sustaining
its initial velocity throughout would do the
same thing in nine years. A curious illustra-
ton, attributed to Prof. Mendenhall, is to the
effect that an infant with an arm long enough
when stretched out from the earth to reach
the sun, would die of old age before it could
become conscious, through the transmission
OF the nervous impression from the hand to
the brain, that it had burned its fingers In
order that the earth, thus moving round the
sun with chasm of 90, COX, COO miles of inter-
vening space between them may not be drawn
to the sun by the preponderant attraction of
Its 33O, QUO times larger mass, it has to shoot
forward in its path with a momental velocity
fifty times more rapid than that of the swift
est rifle ball But, in moving through twenty
miles of this onward path, the earth is drawn
out of straight line by something less than
the eighth part of an inch. This deviation is
properly the source from which the amount
of the solar attraction has been ascertained
If the earth were suddenly arrested in its on
ward flight, and its momentum was in that
way destroyed, it would be drawn to the sun,
by the irresistible force of its attraction in
four months, or in the twenty-seventh part of
the time which cannon ball would take to
complete the same journey.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-22
George ID. Prentice.

George Alfred Townsend.
When lecturing at Louisville, Ky, I was
taken to see George D. Prentice, the once fam
GUS editor His name in my mind was a syn
onym for wit, courage, gallantry and patriot
ism found poor old man, stumbling in
his walk, forgetful in his attire, neglected in
his own Office, dependent on small and
grudged salary for his daily bread, and, what
was more costly to him, his hourly whisky.
He had taken the union side in the war, and
at the close of it the returning Coafederates
revenged themselves upon his establishment,
and young Watterson, who had published a
Louisville journal on wheels, following the
Confederate army, established the paper in
Louisville, which absorbed the old journal
though Watterson had the consideration,
after Prentice was dead to set his
statue at the portal Of the surviving compound
journal. Prentice was a smallish man,
though he may have taken that appearance
from his age and wear; his hair was thin; he
had q pair of spectacles in his fingers; he
wrote in a bare room, in which was an old
wash-basin and wash-j Jug When my name
had been mentioned twice, he demanded, in
dramatic way, of some one present, to.know
why he had not been told before that was in
town. Nobody deigned to reply
After talking vaguely a few minutes he
said: Il expect you are too good to take a
drink" and then added, looking at me a min
ute, Come down and take drink with an old
man"
Under or next door to the office was a little
bar kept by German, and feeling very IN
comfortable, l went through the form of
drink with Mr.. Prentice, and as quickly as
possible excused myself with promise to re-
turn.
l did not go back for another year. when I
introduced David Gray, of The Buffalo Cour-
Ter, a poet, who was on his way to New Or
leans to be married. Mr. Prentice seemed
still further gone in his wits, and though he
greeted me warmly, he turned on Gray, and
seemed to remember something his paper had
said about his being reduced in health, or
and SO did ], and we again made hasty de-
parture
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-22
AIl ADout 3 rnoe-reg.
Anon.

Anon.
1t is laughable to see how little it takes to
raise crowd-or start story-in city
street.
sNever you mind me" said a bent-over old
man, when asked what had happened to him
sHow did he get hurt?" asked man out of
breath.
did the horse step on him?" quer1ed col
ored man with spectacles on.
@Where did the dog bite him? Did they
shoot the cog? Was it big dog? Has be cot
wife? Did they live together?" ratified
woman made up good deal like Widow Be
dott
@Come and see the man in a fits soueaked
out bootblack, as he called the rest of the
brigade.
&Look out, he's going to shoot!9 yelled a Dig
man with red whiskers; and the crowd blew
away like dust when the old man slid his hand
into his pocket as if for shooting iron.
Then he Strengthened himself and started of
on his own individual business, muttering
something about what the mischief it was to
them if he wanted to sit down and take peg
out of his shoe"