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and thrown off the car, The conductor was
badly injured. Oaly enc of the robbers was
captured.
Labor Convention.
PHILADELPHIA. August 27th-Delegates
are arriving in the city to attend the Labor
Convention tomorrow.
The Oft.told Story Reproduced.
NEW YORK. August 27sh-The Tunes
Washington special reproducss the oft-told
story this morning that Lincoln's place in the
Cabinet is to be filed by another appoint
ment.
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fonhtSn froOfS UNDER SURVEILLANCE.
PoRT SAID, August 27th.-The steamer
Calypso arrived Saturday with 80 Turkish
troops. and moved inside the inner hsrbor.
when the Monarch at once sent two armed
boats, covered with gatlipg gun from the
Monarch, to learn their Grand The Turks
stated that they were the annual relief for a
Turkish garrison at some fort in the Red Sea.
During the night armed boats from the Brit
ish feet cruised around. with orders TO pre-
vent the Turks from landing. The Calypso
i ~ctc.ed the canal Sunday morning, a steam
pinnaes from the Hecla accompanying her.
with orders to prevent the disembarking of
the troops :
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NEWCASTLE, August 26th. AT the Re.
publican primary election held here to-day
for the election of delegates to the Repub-
hcan County Convention to be held in Au-
burn, August 2Ssb, Ed. B. Silva and H. F.
Abe were elected ty large majority.
There were six delegates in the field.
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Tuolpmne.

SosoI.A, August 27th.-Ths following
ticket y'as nominated by the Republican
County Convention, held here yesterday !:
Ascend lyman. J. B. Carter; Sheriff, John
Assesso:, John Mouahsn Superintendent
of Schools, c. C. ortega; Coroner, DR..
J. Mauipn. The nomination of a Clerk
was.leftto the County Committee to make.
The following delegates to the State Con-
vention were elected: Charles E. Street,
s. S. Bfnndford, VIM. G. Long. John A.
Davis, r. NJ. Lampson and G. Wing.
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CObNSa.

CoLUsA, August 25th.-The most en-
thusiastic and hotly-contested Republican
Convention ever held in Coluss county was
held at the theater to-day. The following
nominations were made for county officers ;
George A. Blanchard, Superior Judge !;
George w. Williams, Sheriff Julius Wey-
and, County Clerk; Melvin Eddy, County
Treasurer W. +. Mason, Assessor; W.
81. Rsardon, Superintendent of Public
Schools; w. G. Lovelaoe, District Attor.
ney; j. GilcalhouD, Coroner Warren
Green, for Joint Assemblymar ". j.
Park and 7. H. Nichols were chosen del.
egates to the Joint Senatorial Convention
with Tehams L. P. Hannah, Ed. A. Har.
rington and Oscar Shultz were nominated
for Supervisors G. Wilson, George F.
Packer, Edward Harrington, Warren
Green and L. P. Mouiton were chosen del
egates Z, the State Convention.
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NEVADA CITY, August 26th.-The Re.
publican County Central Committee met
to-day and fixed September 10Th as the
date upon which the County Convention
will be held. The primaries to elect dele.
gates will be held on the It'll.
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DOMESTIC NEWS.

ESPECIAL TO TEE RECORD UNloS.l
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AUGUSTA tMe.l August 27th.-Joln Nye,
the temperance worker. yesterday procured a
| warrant against Hoyt & Co.'s Express, doing
business by the Boston boat. for bringing
malt liquors to the citv--...--S--utv Sheriff
found the store-houfe locked up, when be
broke the lock and 9. tzed sixty.two cases of
beer addressed to d.Gerent parties, nearly all
known to be fictitious names. An immense
crowd gathers6, some of whom pulled the
men from the teams engaged to take the beer
away, tnrew stones and bricks at them,
snatcbsd the beer and made away with it.
Seve.al persons were severaly hurt. Less
.nan half the beer was recovered by the Dep
| uty Sheriff, who was badly cut. The city
| officials did not interfere. Nye gave notice
to the officers week ago to stop the sale,
which they allowed 20 go on.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-03
THE SUPREME BENCH.
The Nomination of COnkIing Causes
a Sensation at the National Capt.

The Nomination of COnkIing Causes
a Sensation at the National Capt.
tai.
A Washington dispatch of Feb. a says: The
sensation at the capital to-day was the nomina-
ton of ex-senator ConkIing, of New York, to
fill the vacancy on the Supreme bench caused
by the retirement of Mr.. Justice Hunt When
the intelligence was first circulated few per-
Sons would believe it, but wendell their way
TO the Office of the Secretary of the Senate
for ocular proof, by examination of the mani
fold copy of the list of nominations.
Generally, when the Vice President receives
the list from the Presidents Private Secretary,
one or two Senators will take interest enough
in the document to superintend its removal
from the envelope, and to-day formed no ex-
ception to this rule. As the first name on the
list met the eve of the presiding officer, he ele
waited his eyebrows considerably and took a
second look as if to reassure himself that it was
not an optical delusion. The news spread like
wildfre. and from the conversation of the
groups of Senators the spectators In the CALLER
les rightly inferred that something unusual was
trangpring below on the floor The sheet of
manifold was suddenly in great demand, and
the grave Solons sWarmed around the table Of
the presiding officer with the same eagerness
depicted on their faces that troop of school
bows would exhibit when the prize roll
is opened for the first time. When
if was also learned that ex-senator
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Tne NuperstltlOns of GambIers.

Enough has been said about the super
sdtions of gamblers to fill volumes, but
the subject will never be exhausted so
ldng as the passion for gambling exists.
Among the. "Gleanings from Monte
Carlo have recently appeared the fol-
lowing instances of the lunacy to which
gamblers are subject
ga well-known italian Marchesa
never sits down without talis1nan in
the shape of tiny glass bottle hidden
in the palm of her hand and containing
a live insect and one of the most indie
fatigable votaries of roulette, a Paris
banker, positively declined, a few
months ago, to commence operations,
and returned to Nice, because ticket
bearing the number twenty-nine had
been given him at the door in exchange
fer his overcoat.
last winter two habitues were talk
ing of common friend of theirs, who,
one of them remarked, was in deep
affection on account of the death of his
only son.
Very sad, indeed, observed the
other; / conclude that you ascertained
the necessary particulars and profted
by them?'
al did and did not, replied the
first speaker that is to say, found
out that the boy was eight years old,
and that he died on the Both of Novem-
Der at six o'clock. Naturally I played
pretty heavy on these numbers-eight
thirty and six-one after another, and
then what do you think happened?
." They came up, suggested his
friend.
Not they. That scoundrel of an
employe-the thin one you know, with
the hatchety actually brought up
twenty-seyen, my pet number, three
times running, and, of course, I was
not on it. Can you conceive any thing
ore unlucky?'"
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to read or write. and all frew his life he
had met wild sorrow and misfortunes.
Men had told him dat he had no soul.
Men had told him dat dere was no God.
Men had LATED at him fur believin' dar
was hereafter fur weary souls. An
yit, how did he die?
When de poo ole man realized dat
de summons had come, his smile was
like dat of child's. De prayer that he
ma lie will ring in my ears foreber. In
his heart, so soon to be still, he felt dat
his long vars of faith war bout to be
rewarded. He had held fast through
darkness an scoffin' an trial and dis
par, and now de reward was clus at
ham. Oar was tears in our eyes an we
could not see, but we knew what he saw.
If eber mortal eyes looked into heaben,
that curtain was lifted to him. Wild his
hands clasped-wid heart putin its
trust in God to de las'-wid smile
which showed, muffin but faith an trust,
dis old man slipped from de lovin' hands
around him an jined de procession
which am allus marchin' from de shores
of airth to de gates of glory. Detroit
Free Press.
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Sargent had been selected for the
vacant mission at Berlin, instead of. as had
been believed by his friends, the portfolio of
the Interior Department the astonishment and
comment YVES increased. 1t was the general
verdict that, notwithstanding all rumors to the
contrary, the President was capable of keep
ing his own counsel, and had shell suddenly
exploded in the Senate chamber it could not
have created more excitement or confusion.
Advices from Utica state that Mr.. Conkling
declines to say anything upon the question Of
accepting the Supreme Court Justceship. It
is believed in New York by many of the leading
lawyers that he will decline the Office. Gentle
men who know something Of his business en-
gsgements say that he has been retained upon
cases enough to employ him busily for year.
and upon which an income of at least $780,
900 is assured. So urgent are his engageme nts
that he is reported to have recently declined to
go to st. Louis to argue railroad case for
which the extraordinary fee Of 50, 900 day had
been offered him.
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A Lime-Kiln Club Funeral Grafton

1t am my painful dooty," said the
President, as the meeting was called to
order, I" to announce de fack dat Brud-
der Kanaby passed from airth away
yesterday afternoon. He was known to
m oas' of us as Uncle Pete an / believe
he has passed away widout ieavin' an
in my behind him. Who does not re-
member his white har, wrinkled face,
kindly voice, an good-natured smile !?
Who kin not remember his kin words
and good deeds? Who cher axed him
fur help dat he did not get it ?"
An poo old Uncle Pete am no mo-
among US Some few of us war up dar'
when he breathed his last, an none OF
us will soon forgit how he passed away.
When you see de cold, dead face at de
funeral to-morrer you will see dat it car
ries de same kin smile as In life. He
died feelin' dat he was gwin home. He
was only poo ole black man, not able
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The Gaze-at.the-Girls Young Man.

Among the curiosities of every large
city, is the gaze-at-the- girls young man.
That he finds his pursuit agreeable is
evident from the way in which he sticks
to his business and the rapidity with
which he multiples. There is no trou-
BILE in identifying him. He is his own
Identification. From shortly before noon
until dusk the gaze-at-the-girls young
man may be seen on the leading thor
oughfares. Every pretty face that comes
along claims his attention and he at once
proceeds to investigate its charms. He
does not do this quietly and unobtru-
sively; not he. The gaze-at-the-g girls
young mans chief stock in trade is the
power of gazing long and impudently.
Then the gaze does not go alone. With
every gaze goes a smile, peculiar
smile, a sort of cross between the lop-
sided smirk of a Guiteau and the @s-
thetic shipper Of Bunthorne. This
combination is bestowed lavishly. The
modest blush is brought to the cheek Of
virtue by the insolent glare of the young
man. He brushes against the girls and
fairly forces his gaze into their faces.
The gaze-at- the-girls young man will
stoop and look under hat in order to
discover what kind Of face is hidden
beneath it. He has no hesitation In
doing all sorts Of uncivil things in order
to satisfy his girl-gazing, and that is
why he is noted for impudence, impo-
likeness and stupidity.
The gaze-at-the-girls young man is
ordered to be arrested in New York
whenever he is caught adding some in
sulting words to his gaze, which is quite
often 1t would be well if the same or
der were issued in other cities. a few
weeks behind the bars would do the
gaze-at-the girls young man good. He
would be careful where and how he gazed
thereafter. -Phit0deLl0lsiG Times.
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get to the church promptly, and Aurora
would have felt just like dropping
through the floor, don't you know, If
she had walked up the aisle on time.
"Don't you think, my dear, it would
be better to be ten minutes late 2" said
she, leaning against him in a kind of
harmless hug.
"No; I pride myself on punctuality. +"
Five minutes, then 2"
Now, my darling, don't coax"
"Just as you say"
She put her hand carelessly on his
shoulder, and then let it drop slowly
along down over his coat to small
pocket set in at the waist seam, where it
fingered for few seconds.
"You have the ring where you can
find it readily" she remarked, laying
placidly back in her seat. "There is
nothing so awkward as to tumble for the
ring at the altar, you know"
Oh, I've made sure on that point,
as | told you," he said, confidently.
81 slipped the ring right into this ham
dy little pr ket, where l-good Lord n
heavens
"What, Borealis what ?"
"The ring is lost"
He thrust his fingers into the pocket
madly, again and again, but the ring
surely was not there. He made wild
conjectures, felt in all his other pockets,
and concluded he must have left it at
Aurora's residence. He ordered the
coachman to turn about. When they
had gone back almost to the house
public clock struck 3.
"What is that ?" said Aurora, pointing
to the bottom of the carriage.
The ring lay glittering in corner.
81 must have dropped it, said Bore
ais, picking it up, "but I swear I
looked in that very spot two minutes
ago."
He had looked there, as a matter OF
fact, just before Aurora threw the ring
down.
WE'LL" he remarked, looking at his
watch again, "you will have your way
after all. We can't get to the church
before ten minutes late, anyhow"
"To be sure"
Acute presence of mind is character
istic of brides. They may blush, but
they know what they are about Their
eyes may be dim with tears, but they
can see misplaced thread in their dress.
Two blocks from the church Aurora ex-
pressed fear that she was as pale as
ghost.
"Say as fair as alabaster," Borealis
suggested.
"Now, my DEAR" she retorted, {" this
is no time for compliments. Is there
the least bit of color in my face ?"
"Well, no, but"
81 must look CHASTITY"
Would you like to blush as you go
IMP"
eyes"
He threw his arms around her, drew
her to his breast with the grip of a
wrestler, and kissed her loud and long.
He was through with it just as the car
riage door was opened by an usher, and
she walked into church with a satisfac-
tory amount Of pink on her Cheeks
(Tn9n Relic
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OUR LITTLE FOLKS.
Queer Little Birds.

Holloa Holloal what birds are those
Up in the chestnut tree?
Such birds as they,
win truly say,
Inever before did seeI
Hither and thither from bough to bough,
Half hidden mid leaves 30 greena
Could any one ever
Well, no, never
Can guess what it all may mean.
And surely there never were heard such songs
From wildwood birds before;
So sweet, 80 clear,
I love to hear
The echoes ring DER and Ger.
LoI one little bird peeps out at me,
And see familiar face
With merry eyes,
As blue as the skies
And think can also trace
wonderful hkeness-isn'tit queer7-
To dear little girl Of mine.
And she calls in glee,
"Papa, it is nse!''
And how the dear eyes shinel
Thus one and another know
OF the birds in the chestnut tree;
Those queer little things,
Without feathers or wings,
Stealing my nuts from mel
And my sweet birdie, with eyes Of blue,
Sings out, sob, isn't it funi
Please, papa, dear,
Won't you climb up here?"
But my climbing days are done.
I shake my head at the merry group;
"Too old bird am I,
AS you may see,
To perch in tree,
Or try to fly 30 highIo
Youths Companion.
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Contempt of Danger.

If dynamite balls were planted under
a Washington street crossing, at first no
one knowing the fact would go over the
ground; but should they remain there
for week, the old way would be re-
sumed by the people. Familiarity not
only breeds contempt in the social world,
but people living constantly on the verge
of danger, in time, come to regard it
with carelessness. The human race has
always fought shy of the destructive
forces of nature and art at first, but
familiarity with them has reduced the
fears. The New York Sun says: "When
kerosene was introduced, there were
many fears in regard to its use, on ac-
count of its liability to explode under
certain conditions, and particularly when
considerable quantity of it ignited
through the medium of its vapor brought
into contact with fire. Yet in a few
years thousands Of people were using
this feared agent even for kindling fires,
and every day there is fresh story of a
house or woman or child burned up
from this careless practice. Precisely so
it has been with dynamite, which at first
was regarded with terror from its destruc-
tive power. Yet the other day, in New
York, house was blown to pieces by
dynamite cartridges hung on a stovepipe
to warm, and in Pennsylvania a miner
put can of dynamite on his cook stove
to dry, and only fragments of himself,
his wife, and four children, and splinters
Of his house remained to hold an inquest
over. It is the old case of contempt of
danger bred by familiarity with it; but
since the lives and possessions of a great
many people are imperiled by the habit
which near neighbor may have of keep
ing dynamite cartridges in his house
and warming them on his stove, the laws
relating to this and similar explosives
seem to need revision"
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New York Hotels.

Frank NJ. Pixley writes to his San
Francisco Argonaut that the hotel
keepers of New York are the colossal
bandits of the age. A hotel in that city
is by him deemed "an organized CON
spiracy, perfect in all its details, audac-
ious beyond any conception of medieval
baron or Highland cattle thief. Robin
Hood and his merry foresters were gen.
tlemen compared with the New York
inn-keeper and his associates OF clerks
with diamond breastpins, his extortion-
ate hackmen, his boots, and porters and
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A Female Journalist

Says Paris correspondent
All the readers of Figaro know the
clever woman who puts the signature of
Etinelle to the "Cornet dun Mondain.
Her true name is the Comtesse de Pew
ronny She is young aud charming
lady, amicably separated from her hus-
band and living by her pen. She is the
daughter of Nine. Baird. woman of
letters, also formerly separated from her
husband, the celebrated painter, at the
end of scandalous adventure which
happened under thereign of Louis Phil
ippe, and of which Victor Hugo was the
hero. [ may tell you in confidence that
Nine. de Peyronny regards Victor Hugo
as her father, and that Che great poet
does not repudiate this paternity. Ac-
cordingly it isnot astonishing that Nine.
de Peyronny should have embraced the
vocation of literature and applied it in
Its mundane relations.
She has made for herself in Figaro a
place apart, sufficiently well defined for
that journal to give her 80, 900 francs a
year, or 2, 800 francs q month, for her
daily chronicles. 1 have to tell you also,
still In confidence, that these chronicles
signed by her alone are collective pro-
duction. Nine. de Peyronny receives
communications from all persons who
give soirees and from all the fashionable
dressmakers who wish that the toilets
made by them should be spoken of.
The great ladieswho wear them are much
astonished to see them infinitely des-
cribed in the Figaro, with which jour-
nal they have no relation. 1t is the
treachery of the dressmakers.
Various men of the world are also Sc
cret collaborators of Nine. de Peyronnv.
One of the most precious for her is III.
Lucien Double, the sagacious and witty
historian. the demolisher of Charlie
ragne. as M. Gambetta calls him. He
has suggested to Nine. de Peyronny to
make a volume of the "Cornet dun
Mondain, !" inserting in it various unpub.
hshed stories and having it printed with
charming illustrations composed by A,
Ferdinandus. 1t will be an elegant
book destined for men and women OF
taste.
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Placed on Approval,

A stranger enters the store of an oblig-
ing grocer:
Stranger Owing to the extortions
of the gas companies have about deter
mined to light my premises with candles,
only, you see, am at loss to decide
what sort to select. I want something
really good, you know"
Grocer" Certainly, sir Step this
way a moment, sir! You can see fol
yourself, sirI" lights fifteen different
sorts of candles and places them on the
counter.
Stranger (after having walked up and
down before them for five minutes, with
his chin in his hand, immersed in deer
refection)-" Well, Iguess on the whole
! prefer gas ! Goodafte rnoon r. exit
hurriedly y
Grocer (Hurling bar of soap after
him. )-"Oh. Ill"
Detroit Free Press.
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Tha Nervous american.

The greatest maker of telescopes is
Alvan Clark, of Cambridgeport, Mass.
He is now engaged in making larger
instrument than any ever before at
tempted. That part of the work re-
curing the greatest skill is lens grind
ing, of which one who visited the fac
tory says:
The process Of lens grinding, SO far as
itgoes. is avery interesting one. The glass
itself has been heretofore obtained from
Chance & Co., of Birmingham, England,
but now is received from Paris. The
glass from which small lenses are made
is generally cast in thick sheets, while
that for the largest ones comes In disks,
slightly convexed. The first rough
grinding of the larger glasses is done by
machinery, the grindstone being rap
idly revolving equatorial conceived iron
wheel, over which small stream Of
water and granulated iron is kept run
ming. This wears away the glass very
fast, preparing it for the second process,
which is finer grinding with iron tools
and emery. Then follows the special
local work of correcting the spherical
alterations of the glass. This work is
principally done by Alvan G.
Clark, the son, and his brother,
George B. Clark, although there is
one man in their employ who is capable
of doing it. This local application is
more than half of the work on large
glasses, and requires knowledge which
years and experience alone give. It is a
very slow operation, as the glass has to
be slightly warmed. taken to the obser-
vatio n room, there tested and corrected.
An observation cannot be taken oftener
than once in two hours, consequently
but little can be done in a day. The OBJ
servation room has to be kept cold and
dark, and working in it is very disagree
able. The last operation on the glass
itself is that of polishing, which is done
with pitch and rouge, days and even
weeks being necessary to bring it to its
required condition.
A singular fact connected with this
establishment is, that all the workmen
employed are foreigners, but one, and
for the reason, as Mr.. Clark says, that
Americans are too nervous to do the ex-
act work required, such as dividing a
small metal circle into 440 parts. This
diminishes somewhat the credit which
would otherwise attach to the country
for making the largest and best tele-
scopes in the world, for it seems we can
only do it by the aid of foreign work
men. There is one establishment of
this kind at Munich, one at Dublin, and
one at York, England; but they are
hardly competitors Of Clark, who has a
worldwide reputation for special skill in
this business. To his peculiar genius
we owe the fact that such an establish
ment exists at all in this country.