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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12

An important branch of the jewelry
business in the city is the manufacture
of pencils and pencil cases. The largest
of the kind in the country is in this city.
More than half million pencils are
manufactured every year. These are
the pencils that are made of gold or
rolled plate, with various devices for
propelling the lead-holder from its case
and for returning it to it. The pencils
are made in about one hundred an fifty
styles, and vary from 50 per dozen to $25
and more. From the increase in appli-
ances for writers it would appear that
the gold pencil would be in less demand,
but such is not the case. Gold pencils
are particularly useless for hard labor
and are not employed, but for light
scratching, for ladies' memoranda, they
are convenient and elegant accompani-
ments. Some are provided with rings at
the end, that the owner might be tied to
them like the boy to the mittens. Few
sterling gold pencils are made. The
rolled plate answers its purpose as well
as the paste diamond serves its purpose.
Gold pens are made here and are in
extensive use. Pens are made of puro
metal. Metals of the baser sort will NOT
serve the purpose. The careful writer
finds economy in gold pen, but the
careless scribbler deserves nothing better
than a steel point. There are men who
have used one pen, with point perhaps
renewed several times, for five or more
years. The photographic pen has come
into general use by ready writers who
have too much to do to go into the shad-
ing or ornamenting business, which is
one of ink-wasting. Some have dis
carded the stylographic pen, because it
was not always ready for business, as
they thought, simply because the art OF
holding it had not been acquired
Providence Journal.
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i Canadian in Chicago.

The city at night presents a striking
and strange appearance. Walking down
Madison street, and mingling with the
endless throng that distributes itself
through the labyrinth of streets. we
pass a group of brilliantly-Gghted beer
palaces and variety halls, from which
emanate deafsniDg crash Of music snd
almost overwhelming odor Of poisonous
whisky and stale free lunches; then we
cross the sluggish river anil discern
in the distance q believing, snorting,
putting tug, looking like an animated
demon, with its coloTed eyes and inky
crown Of smoke, az it drags the dim ouf,
line Of a bIackened huIl and shrouded
masts after it; then q curious group Of
street merchants loudly advertise their
curious goods-a Silas Wegg deals IN q
choice collection Of popular ballads; a
dirty italian displays an array OF RIPE
bananas and dyspeptic- looking figs; a
learned astronomer reveals the hidden
mysteries Of the moon for a dime; a
blind unfortunate sings a simple ditty IN
lieu Of the niekels that drop into the cap
Of his little attendant-ail forming 2
novel and curious phase OF city life Gun
der the gaslight. - Toronto World.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
FITZ JOHN PORTER.
Executive Order PardOhing the Cor
ViCfed General.

Executive Order PardOning the Com
Victed General.
In reply to Fitz John Porter's application for
a remission of portion of the sentence of the
court-martial being executed, the President has
issued the following order, and has thus re-
moved the only legal obstacle to Congressional
action and exhausted all his powers in the case
under existing laws:
l, Chester A. Arthur, President of the United
States of America. to whom these presents may
come. greeting
WHEREAS, On the 10th day of January, 1858,
Fitz John Porter, Major General OF Vol
unteers in the military service of the United
States, and also Colonel of the Fifteenth -eg-
ment of infantry and Brevet Brigadier General
in the United States army, was, by general
court-martial, for certain offenses of which he
| had been thereby convicted, sentenced 'ito
be cashiered and to be forever disqualified from
holding any Office of trust or profit under the
Government of the United States : and
WHEREAS, On the 21st of January, 1853, that
sentence was duly confirmed by the President
of the United States, and by his order of the
same date carried into execution and
WHEREAS, So much of that sentence as for
ever disqualified said Fitz John Porter from
holding Office, imposed upon him as a continue
ing penalty, is still being executed and
WHEREAS, Doubts having since arisen con-
corning the guilt Of said Fitz John Porter of
the ofense whereof he was convicted by said
court-martial founded upon the result of the
investigation ordered on the 18th of April. 1873,
by the President of the United States. which
are deemed by me to be of sufficient gravity to
warrant remission of that part of the sentence
which has not been completely executed;
Noa0, therefore, k7ao1o ye, That l. Chester A.
Arthur, President of the United States, by viz
tue of the power vested IN me by The eonstitu-
ton of the United States. and In consideration
of the premises, do hereby grant to said Fitz-
John Porter full remission of the hereinbe-
aforementioned continuing penalty.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
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sumed to be united, harmonious and in
dissoluble people.
Mr.. Speaker, this disgraceful svs-
TEN of election frauds In several of the
Southern States, through and by which
that section was made solid in its sup
port of one of the great political parties
OF the day, ought, must and will be de-
stroyed. The people Of this great coun-
try are too intelligent and patriotic to
tolerate continuance of such outraees
upon our elective system. Such methods
and such practices are contrary to the
spirit of the age in which we live and to
the civilization of the nineteenth cent
ury. That there may exist in all parts
of our country-North, South, East and
West-and among all races and classes
of our people peace, happiness. concord
and fraternal feeling upon such condi-
tons as viii secure to all exact Justice
and the equal protection of the laws is
the aim, the object, the hope and the
aspiration of every patriotic American
citizen. For the accomplishment of
these grand and noble purposes, and the
attainment OF these commendable and
patriotic ends, I invoke, in the language
of the immortal Lincoln, the consider.
ate Judgment of mankind and the gra-
clons favor of Almighty God"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

1t is asserted by Washington friend
that Gen. Chalmers, late the Representative of
the 'Shoestring" district of Mississippi, will
iaead the Independent movement in that State,
and that he has the promise of backing by the
administration.
George Scoville, of Chicago, asked
the aid of the police of New York in finding his
wife. The return of John W. Guiteau to the
writ of habeas corpus dcades that Mrs. Scoville
is in his custody, or that she is illegally re-
strained of her liberty. Mr.. Scoville testified
that bis wife told him he had ceased to care for
her; also, that J. W. Guiteau said he would
resist all further attempts to prove insanity in
the family.
A terrible cyclone passed over Meal
lister, mining settlement in the Indian Terri
tory near the Texas border. Seven people were
killed outright, four fatally injured, eleven
dangerously and thirty-nine more or less hurt.
Fifty-nine houses were totally demolished and
thirty more badly wrecked. The cyclone cut
path through the timber just as you would take
a scytheran NOV through grass. The storm
oNSpe OfOA O HAuO cCCUAOA VI SOubt1y III A1hdu-
sas, Texas and Indian Territory, doing damage
wherever it struck.
lncendiarism is rife at Winnipeg, and
the city is patrolled night and day by 100 spe-
cial police.
A demand for an advance in wages
caused the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company to
lock out 1880 men.
A school house near Lakefeld. Mimi,
was lifted by funnel-shaped cloud ana scat
tered over the prairie. There were twelve per-
sons in the building, three of whom were terri
bly, bruised.
A statue of Col. Shaw, who command
ed the first negro regiment, is to be erected in
the State House grounds at Boston.
Mrs. KONG, of Boston, woman of 46,
who had been deserted by her husband, though
not deprived of support at his hands, attempt
ed the murder of her four children. She had
probably become demented as the result of her
troubles, and it was only because of the made
qnacy of her weapon a case-knife, that she
failed to kill all her children and herself. AS
it was, her youngest child was murdered, and
another seriously wounded
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.
10 Billy the Kid, Texas Jack, WiId
Bill and Other Unquiet Citizens.

10 Billy the Kid, Texas Jack. Wild
Bill and Other Unquiet Citizens.
WHEREAS It is provided in the laws of the
United States that whenever, by reason of
unlawful distractions, combinations or assem-
blages of persons, Or rebellion against the au-
thoI5ty of tho Government Of the United Stasoe
it shall become impracticable in the Judgment
of the President to enforce by the ordinary
course of judicial proceedings the laws of the
United States within any State or Territory, it
shall be lawful for the President to call forth
the militia of any or all States, and employ
such parts of the land and naval forces of the
United States as he may deem necessary to en-
force the faithful execution of the laws of the
United States, or to suppress such rebellion, in
whatever State or Territory thereof the laws Of
the United States may be forcibly opposed or
the execution thereof forcibly INSTRUCTED and
WHEREAS 1t has been made to appear salts
factorily 10 me by information received from
the Governor of the Territory of Arizona and
from the General of the Army of the United
States, and other reliable sources, that, in con-
sequence of unlawful combinations of evil dis
posed persons who are banded together to OBJ
pose and obstruct the execution of the laws, it
has become impracticable to enforce by the or
binary course of judicial proceedings the laws
OF the United States within that Territory, and
that the laws of the United States have been
therein forclbly opposed, and the execution
thereof forcibly resisted and
WHEREAS, The laws of the United States re-
quire that whenever it may be necessary in the
judgment of the President to use the military
forces for the purpose of enforcing q faithful
execution of the laws of the United States, he
shall forthwith, by proclamation, command
such insurgents TO dispense and retire peace
ably to their respective abodes within limited
time;
No,O therefore, I, Chester A. Arthur, Presi-
dent of the United States, do hereby admonsh
all good citizens of the United States, and es-
pecially the Territory of Arizona. againstaiding,
countenanclng, abetting or taking part in any
such unlawful proceedings and do hereby
warn all persons engaged in or connected with
said obstruction of laws to dispense and retire
peaceably to their respective abodes ON or be-
fore noon, the 18th day of May.
In witness whereof 1 have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed. CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
By the President:
FREDERICK T. FRELINGHUYsEN,
IF CEafa
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The following Is the statement of the
Comptroller Of Currency showing the amounts
of national-bank notes and legal-tender notes
outstanding at the dates of the passage of the
acts of June 20, 1874, Jan. IA, 1875. and May
81, 1878, together with the amounts outstand-
ing added and The increase or decrease:
NATIoNAL-BAEK NOTES.
Amount outstanding June 20, 1874 .S349 S94 1872
Amount outstanding Jan. IA, 1875. . 351, 1851, 450
Amount outstanding May 81, 1S7S..... 1922 555, 1865
Amount outstanding at date Circulation
Of national gold banks not included,
s9O7,97@. ......,......... ....... 800, 1880
Decrease during the last month. ... 523,64S
Increase since May l, 18sl.............. S,660,97S
LFGAL-TENDER MOTIFS.
Amount outstanding June 90 1874. 1882 000, 600
Amount outstanding Jan. IA, 1875. ... 382000,00O
Amount retired under act of JAN IA,
1875, to May 81, 1s7s......:.......... S5,s1S,9S4
Amount outstanding on and since May
81, 1878. ...................... S46, ,Ol6
Amount on deposit with the Treasurer of
the United States to redeem notes of
insovent and hquidating banks and
retiring from circulation under act of
june 20, 1874. ....................... 32,9sO,O54
Increase in deposit during the last
MONTH. Observation-Disclosures. 2,g6R,s1s
Decrease in deposit since May L, 1884,. 3,025.022
The President has pardoned Fitz-
John Porter. This is all he could do, under the
decision of Attorney General Brewster to re-
lieye him of the disabilities imposed by the
court-martiaps act. The Presidents action, of
course, does not restore Fitz-John Porter
to the army, nor is it step in that direction,
unless Congress shall pass special act for the
Lenefit Of Porter authorizing the President to
appoint him. Au that the pardon can effect is
TO relieve Porter from the disqualification of
holding civil Office 1t is known to be Porters
intention to endeavor to secure the passage of
bill which will authorize the President to re-
store him to his former rank.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office finds that spectators are engaged
in purchasing soldiers declaratory papers for
the location OF public lands, and efforts will be
made to put stop to such irregular transac-
tions
The new educational bill to be report
ed to the Senate appropriates $1,000, 600 for
distribution among the States and Territories
where illiteracy most abounds
The Chinese bill is thing of the past
and is now law and part of the statutes of
the country, the President having affixed his
signature to it.
In the petition for a writ of habeas
corpus in the case of Sergt Mason, the United
ststes Supreme Court decided that the court
martial had full jurisdiction, and that the sem
tenoe pronounced was not in excess of its
power.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
Keen Those Discharge Paners.

No soldier should allow any person,
however specious his reasoning
or smooth his tongue, to OBJ
tain q copy Of his discharge papers.
It can be for no proper purpose that any
person wants copies of such papers, I'M
less such per. on be the authorized agent
of the ex-soldier and be engaged in Sc
curing for him a tract of land under
the homestead act; and, even then, tie
ex-sOldier can act for himself. This case
can have but one Of two meanings: It
must be the intention of parties buying
up such copies of soldiers discharges
as they can obtain, thereby to locate
land; if that be the case and
the soldiers claims remain unim-
paired, the government is to be defraud-
ed. Or else it means that these copies
Of the discharge are to be used in some
way so as to invalidate the claims of the
soldiers who rightfully deserve recogni-
ton, and have the privilege of the home
stead act. Soldiers should remember
and dishonest men need not be told
that g lii making final proof on home
stead entry under the Soldiers and Sail
ors' Homestead Act the party viii be
required to present to the proper district
land officers certified copy of his dis
charge from the United States Army
during the war Of the rebellion, or in
the absence thereof, satisfactory evil
dence' of service, which may consist
of the party's affidavit Of the facts, cor
roborated by the testimony Of two dis
interested witnesses, viii be accepted. +"
The intelligent soldiers of the State of
Iowa and the Northwest viii at once
see the reasons why parties want soldiers
to give up their papers for a considera-
ton. Let such persons understand that
such practices viii be investigated, and
that they may hear further on the SUBJ
iect, and their schemes will be dropped.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
Racine's Calamity.

The thriving city of Racine, Wis, has suf-
fered from terrible conhagration. During the
prevalence of a strong northeast wind,
flames broke out in the warehouse
of the Goodrich Transportation Com
pany, and swept with incredible
rapidity through the adjacent lumber yards and
TO the St. Paul elevator, from which it spread
to business houses and manufactures. Blocks
of buildings were licked up with rapidity ter
rible to behold. Chicago and Milwaukee were
appealed to for aid in subduing the storm of
fire, and responded by promptly sending several
but is very heavy.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12

LATER.-The fire burned over an area of
about seven and half acres. The number of
buildings burned is forty-four, and 10000, 900
feet of lumber consumed. The total loss will
be in the neighborhood Of 5000, 600, with over
$25O,000 insurance. For the most part the
buildings destroyed had deprecated in value.
The business of the town was going in differ
ent direction. The stocks we're mostly saved,
as the owners had ample time to remove them.
The citizens are talking already about reorgan-
izing THEN fire department so as make it more
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12

ground with his feet and beloved with
all his might, but something seemed to
hold him back like magic, and he did
us no injury. Perhaps we ought to
add, in order to be correct historically,
that the bull was on the other side of a
fence. We never try an experiment of
that kind without taking proper pre-
cautions beforehand. - Philade lphid
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANT. IS.

The steamship Alaska, on her last
trip from New York to Queenstown, made the
passage in seven days and twenty-six minutes.
The Lake Shore meeting resulted in
the reelection of the board of officers and Di-
rectors. The report Of President Vanderbilt
shows decrease of $778,OOO in the gross earn
ings and Of $3.50, 900 in the expenses, the sur
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12

plus for the year being $40, 266.
In a letter to the Secretary of War.
Gen. Hazen urges efficient measures for the re-
capture and trial of Capt. Howgate.
A train on the Canada Southern road
took the Vanderbilt party Iii miles in 100 min
utes.
In the star-route cases in Washing
ton courtroom, the lie was exchanged between
George Bliss and Bob Ingersoll
The death is announced of Rear Adj
miral John Rodgers, at the age of 10.
Over 1000 Cinnamon were within two
days landed at Victoria, 3. c., from Hong
Kong,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
Presence Of Mind.

1t is said that if you have presence Of
mind enough to face a raging bull and
look straight into his eyes he is power
less to do you harm. eve tried the
experiment once, says an agricultural
contemporary, "and found it worked
admirably. The fierce animal tore the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12

A OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES citizen entered
d drug store in Germantown, Pa, and
asked for something for mine teeth,
dey's much bad" The young man in
attendance sold him box of tooth-pow-
der. The next day he excitedly told the
druggist that though he had swallowed
the whole of it at ono dose it hadn't done
his teothache bit Of good.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12

"I'D have you know that my uncle
was bannisfer of the law" +" "A fig for
your bannister r retorted Mrs. Parting
ton, turning up her nose q" haven't ] a
cousin as is a corridor in the nayy2
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12

FLoURENs, the French psychologist,
fixing the complete development of man
at twenty years, teaches that he should
live five times as long as it takes him to
become an adult.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
RTssI. has o. 74e mobiles with .

RUSSIA has "a, TAG mobiles with an av-
erage of $4,000 per annum; 123, OOG
merchants with yearly income Of
81, 800 each and 16, 254, 900 peasants
with an annual average Of $3.50. Would
rather be a noble, and with a noble
stand.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-07-07

We have charged time and again
that Judge Honk was absent from
his seat 112 times in 127 roll calls
during the last session of the
Forty>sixth Congress, and he has
not dared to deny it. He attempted
at Loudon to explain it, but failed
so miserably that we gave the true
explanation. It was the result of a
protracted spree. He was drunk
for a week before he left Washing
ton for Nashville In December, 1881,
was drunk two weeks at Nash
vile, and was drunk before,
at the time and after
Garfeld's Inauguration. He
was drunk at the time he was ex-
pected to speak in Knoxville last
April, was drunk several days be~
fore he left Washington two weeks
ago last Monday morning, came
home drunk and was in that condi-
ton for a week after he reached
here. This accounts for his con
tinued absence from his seat. He
has tried to make it appear other
wise, which renders it necessary that
we should tell the real truth, which
we have done, and we dare him to
deny it.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-07-07
Without any further action the
committee arose and the House
adjourned.
Alabama Greenbackers.

MONTGOMERY, July 6.-Yesterday a
convention of Greenbackers and In
dependents met at Birmingham and
nominated ticket for State officers,
as follows: j. l.. Sheffield, for Gov
ernor; A. II, Townsend, secretary of
state; p. L. Jones, attorney>general;
j. M Montgomery, treasurer; ]. M.
Shields, auditor; j. P. Ward, super
intendent of education. The attend
ance was small.
At II o'clock to-day, Geo. Turner,
ex- United States Marshal and special
United States District. Attorney,
called the Republican convention to
arder. The colored element is in
the majority. Turner, in his OPEN
ing speech eulogized SIX President
Grant and President Arthur, and
said that the fact that the Republic
can party had endured four years of
ex-President Hayes, and was alive
to-day was something to be thankful
for. He urged the convention to
endorse the ticket nominated at
birmingham. q.
In casting up the vote for tempo
rary chairman the teljers for two
sections reached the same result as
to choice, but the figures did not
agree, and this caused some con-
fusion. Both candidates were col>
ored. The vote on temporary chair
man indicates that the convention
will indorse the Greenback ticket.
There are several contests. The
chair appointed credentials com
mittee, which, it is understood, will
rule out the Alexander delegation,
from Mobile, and United States Col,
lector Burke and his delegation. At
2 o'clock recess was taken until 4
P N.