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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-01-13
VOLUME Kill.

teasely from Brights disease of the kidneys.
On the day Of his demise he vainly endeavored
to dictate dispatches to the State Department.
An appeal to Congress to find means to bring
home his body will doubtless be made.
The commercial failures throughout
the country were 146 for the first week in Jan
uary, material reduction as compared with
the corresponding week in 1881. 1850
1t is said that a bill will be intro
duced in Congress to divide the Territory Of
Utah, attaching portion to Colorado and
Nevada, bringing portion of tho Mormon
people within the laws of the two States.
Hon. Richard Il. Dana, Jr., died re-.
Gently at Rome, Italy.
An instructive statement of the com
position of the Territorial Legislature of Utah
has been prepared to be submitted to Congress
for its information. and guidance. It appears
from this statement that, out of thirty-six mem
bers composing the General Assembly of Utah
and paid like other Territorial Legislatures. mt
of the treasury of the United States, thifv-two
are high officers of the Mormon Chu.nch, bound
by their oaths to obey the doctrines of the
church in all things, secular as well as spiritual,
and twenty-eight are living. In polygsny in VIC
lation Of the law Of Congress- Of 1862.
Advlces from New Foundland report
the loss on that coast of the steamer Lion,
with all Oh BOARD, consisting of over forty
people.
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She Wanted to Break His Heart, but
He Didn't DrOn. @#

His name was Moses Sparrow. He
was very green. That was the idea that
always came into Miss Pages mind when
she looked at her country landlady's son.
Such a rustic youth, with such fair hair,
such big blue eyes, such sloping should
ers, such lamblike expression. And,
being there at the farmhouse, whittier
she had been sent to spend the summer
months, the city belle resolved that she
would try her powers of fascination upon
the boy, who struck her as so good a
subject for Irritation, in which all the
fun was to be on her side and all the
sentiment on his.
And at it she went, beginning with a
smile, a word, and rejoicing to see the
fish bite so readily. She enjoyed her.
self very much until she grew tired of
it, and then she decided on breaking the
heart she had won and enjoying the
crash. So she turned him out in the
garden and made him sit beside her on
the bench under the wistarias, and said,
sadly:
Tim going home next week. I shall
send you wedding cards when I'm mar
RED. I'm to be married to rich old
gentleman next winter" aes
Then she waited to see him drop at
her feet. He only said
"Wall, I'm real gladi I kinder felt
afraid I'd been goin' too far with you.
I'm sort of butterfly, iirtin' from flower
to flower, you know; and [ hev firted
with you, I du allow. I was afraid
you'd go off in decline or suthin- you
seemed to set SO much on me-if you
heerd sudden-like that me and Ann
Maria was keepin' steady company.
But, law, sence you're goin' to be mar
ried, there amt no harm done r. Then
he smiled at Miss Page, and she arose
and sailed away from him with great
dignity. - Y0nktOn Leader.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-01-13
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

In the Republican caucus of the Iowa
Legislature, on the 10th inst, James T. Wilson
was nominated United States Senator for the
long term, and ]. W. McDn for the Kirkwood
vacancy.
Two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar.
taken twice week, acts as a thorough prevent
i've of smallpox. This is what the nurses in
the pest house at Chicago use. A majority Of
them have never had the disease, and thus
fortified they have no fears of catching it,
In consideration of grant of 5000.
600 acres of land, Rock Island firm has con-
tracted to erect q capitol for the State of Texas.
The building is to be S66 feet high, -5e6 long
and 285 in depth, the seventh highest building
IN the world, and the second in the United
States. s@s8 AZ - 9% g
j. T. Lloyd, famous as a New York map
publisher, has been arrested at Nashville,
Tenn, and is now in jail under true bill for
obtaining money fraudulently.
An earthquake in the district of Kan.
chow, China, caused the loss of $50 lives.
Parnell and Dillon have written to the
Town Clerk of Dublin thanking the corporation
for the " freedom conferred by Them
The Gar has ordered reduction of
twelve million rubles per year In the payments
! to be made by peasants on lands which they
received at the time of their emancipation.
| An explosion in the drug store Of Os-
borne & Mccarthy, at Denver, fired the build.
| ing and destroyed two stocks of goods. John
| Townsend was killed by falling wall. The
| loss is estimated at 5000, 900, which is fully
covered by insurance,
The Northern Pacific surveyors have
been driven from the Flathead Indian reserva-
ton by hostile savages
The Committee on Ways and Means
in the national House of Representatives have
decided to refer all tariff measures to SUBJ
committee, to disappointed by Chairman Kelley.
The House Committee on Commerce has de-
cided to hear no delegation except through
members of Congress. One exception is made
in case of the Mississippi Commission.
The miners in the anthracite coal re-
gion are insisting on an advance in wages. and
the operators propose to defeat the movement
by restricting mining to three days each week
up to the 18th Of April .H.ag
A man in the Chicago small pox hos
pital is suffering from his third attack of the
loathsome disease, which is something re-
markable. A second attack is by no means
rare, although, as general thing it comes
hut once
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FOREIGN NEWS.

Irish constabulary seized at Kilrush o
box containing twenty rifles and bayonets and
500 rounds of ammunition.
A strong agitation is going on through
out Russia in favor of levying heavy export
duty on grain.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen,
France, has published a letter in which he ad-
vises the italian nation to choose another capi-
tai, and leave Rome to the Holy Father.
Gambetta has made overtures to En-
gland looking to a reopening of the negotia-
tons for commercial treaty.
The English press is still harping on
Blaine's policy.
In consequence of a recent warning,
the tomb of Napoleon at Chiselhurst will be
connected with the priests house by an electric
wire.
The Khedive of Egypt has been no.
titled that England and France, which placed
him on the throne, are determined to maintain
his authority against any attempts to create
disorder. EH
Intelligence from Accra confirms the
report from Cape Coast CASTLE, in November
last, of the massacre of 200 young girls by or
der of the King of Ashantee The girls were
purposely captured for massacre in raids on
the neighboring tribes.
A St, Petersburg dispatch states that
Admiral Saulkowsky, who sailed in the Russian
man-of war ChasseuI in search of the Jeanette,
has informed his Government that he had
been in company with the Rodgers, search YES
sci, which he left Aug. 9returning to Ikutsk,
and that the Rodgers had sailed for Herald
island, having heard that one of the Jeannettss
boats Containing corpses) had been cast ashore
there.
A Berlin paper which designated the
Emperors rescript as coup detat has been
seized by the police.
A Belfast dispatch: The largest
steel sailing ship aioat, registering 1870 tons,
has just been launched for Ismsy, Imrie 4 Co.,
managers of the White Star line. 1t is named
the Garfield and will be employed in the
Australia and California trades.
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Mormon Faces.

The Salt Lake Tribune, published in
the Mormon country, says: There are
three distinct types of faces, denotlng
stubbornness, ignorance and supersti-
ton. The stubborn face first strikes
the observer. A forehead like the end
of filbert, crooked nose and a pro-
truding lip. Such faces belong to men
who viii take the minority side of any
question and stick to it clean to the
grave. Every town has some odd,
cranky character who is willing to bet
two dollars and o half that the world Is
fiat; who denies that water will seek its
level, and if on a jury always stands out
against the other eleven. Ii he ever has
to leave his native town, he will fetch
up in Salt Lake in the Mormon Church
to dead certainty. He embraces the
faith, content to know that 8, 1893 out OF
10000 look upon it as the grandest sham
in the century. The superstitious class
have faces of another type entirely.
There is strength in the stubborn face,
but none in the superstitious. Their
under lip retreats; their chins are hardly
discernible, and, sitting with diiated
eyes and open mouth, they drink IN the
food of bosh and drivel from the
preachers, absolutely believing that the
meaningless language is the divine In
SEPARATION of God. Then comes the vast
array of ignorant faces-whole rows of
men who look like chimpanzees from
the iungles of Central Africa men with
little diminutive noses, big months,
cunning, twinkling eyes and protruding
teeth. The fringe of neck whiskers
about the lower part of the face complete
the general resemblance to the baboon,
which is never lost when viewed from
any direction, front, side or oblique.
These faces only belong to the con-
gregation, the tithe-prayers. The 1.-THE
eaters, who sit up and do the talking,
are of different order. Their faces are
stamped with sleek, plausible cunning,
and they maintain their gravity and de-
corum with good show Of naturalness
as they face the poor devils whom they
have robbed and duped for half
century. Cannon is fine type of the
sleek-taced apostle of fraud and robbery.
To the congregation below he seems the
perfect impersonation of piety and
purity. The cut of his iib, the perfect
brush of his hair and the mild and gentle
look of his eye all indicate the man
whose sleek exterior is but a mask to
cover his real characteristics. The
wretches to whom his hypocritical ser
mons are directed drink in his platitudes
like water.
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PrnHerhiaI Savings.

What unmitigated instances the max
ers of proverbs must have been to those
who knew them intimately. Take for
example the unnatural monster who
propagated the saying that "Children
should be seen and not heard " Did he
want them born dumb? Imagine what
an interesting individual the author Of
Soft words butter no parsnips," must
have been. What kind of words would
he have had, and why could he not have
left the parsnips to the cook And then,
too, how contradictory proverbs are
One aggravating authority asserts that
GA rolling stone gathers no moss "
would be have MS sit still like Jumps on
q log till we become moss-grown and
unfit even for the fire? What is the
use of proverbs anyway? All sorts OF
uncomfortable people quote them to us
upon all manner of occasions, and 30
sooner do we think We have succeeded IN
mastering the deep meaning that under
lies them, than our breath is taken away
by some other uncomfortable person
asserting the deep truth of another
directly opposite. Such, for example,
as we recover from the mastery of the
s'rolling stone" as ga setting her never
gets fat" How is this or should it be
the hen that rolled and the stone that
sat So after all we may come back to
our first position. that the makers OF
proverbs are unmitigated instances.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-01-13

The inaugural message of Gov. Cam
eron was submitted to the Virginia Legislature
on the 9th inst. His recommendations on the
subject Of the State debt are in accord with the
measure known as the Riddleberger bill.
b. w. Keyes, the noted Republican
politician of Wisconsin, has applied for di-
voroe, on the ground of Incorporate use Of
liquor by his wife,
1t is stated that George Fl, Pendleton
is fomallyin the field as the civil-seryice-reform
candidate for 1884.
The movement to curtail the power of
the Speaker is growing in strength. Republican
members OF the House, who are dissatisfied
with the organization Of the committees, now
recognize Ortiz as their leader Mr.. Ortiz will
introduce resolution transferring the power
Of committee appointments to the House.
Prominent Southern Republicans are
bringing strong pressure to bear upon the
President to have Secretary Hunt, Of the Navy.
retained in that position.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-01-13
LOngIngs.

Though we seem grieved at the short
ness of life In general, we are Wishing
every period of it at an end The minor
longs to be of age, then to be man Of
business, then to make up an estate, then
to retire. Thus, although the whole life
is allowed by every one to be short, the
several divisions of it appear long and
tedious. We are for iengthening our
span in general, but would fain contract
the parts CT which it is composed. The
Insurer would be very well satisfied to
have all the time annihilated that lies be-
tween the present moment and the next
quarter day. The politician would be
contented to lose three years OF his life,
could he place things in the posture,
which he fancies they will stand in, after
such a revolution of time. The lover
would be glad to strike out of his exis-
tence all the moments that are to pass
before the next meeting.
Thus, as fast as our time runs, we
should be very glad in most parts of our
lives, that it ran much faster than it
does. Several hours of the day hang
upon our hands; nay, we wish away
whole years; and travel through time as
though country filed with many wild
and empty wastes, which we would fain
hurry over, that we may arrive at these
several little settlements or imaginary
points Of rest.
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Future Prospects of the Republican
par.fv


The same evidence of political disintegration
are to be seen in all sections of the country
The now apparently solid Republican Senate
and House will be brokeninto the fragments Of
faction before the LIST of March and the strongest
Republican States of the North will be con-
vulsed by the coalitions of the best elements of
both parties against the placenen Of every
faith. Both parties are rotten all round the
edges in some localities they are both rotten
to the very core. and, as coalition becomes the
policy of bad men, good men will be forced to
coalition to defeat spoilsnlen and plundererS.- -
Philadelphia Times (Dem.).
The Times is mistaken. There never
was a time when the Republican party
organization was as formidable as at this
hour. It seems to us almost certainty
already that the nominee of the next Re-
publican National Convention for Presi-
dent will be elected. The Republicans
have since the death Of Garfield carried
New York, though ex-senator Conkling
was sick, and have carried Virginia, secur-
ing q majority in the Senate. They
have also electeda Speaker of the House
with the greatest ease, and it should not
be forgotten that they reelected Charles
Foster Governor of Ohio by a
majority vote. The next thing
they Will admit Dakota Territory as
a State, and decide few contested seats
in the House in their own favor, secur-
ing working majority in both Houses
Of Congress. Several Southern States
will follow the example of Virginia.
North Carolina will do so at the earliest
opportunity. The Solid South is NO
more. The Democrats have nothing to
win with against this power. They are
in confusion on the tariff and finances.
They are inexpert in taxation, internal
and external, and money matters. Mr.
Pendleton's little civil-service reform
diversion is well enough in its way, but
it would not stand the wear and tear of
rough campaign. Cincinnati COM
mn oas/.STJ
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-01-13
TentNnic Jokes.

A collection of jokes, conscious ana
the reverse, perpetrated in the German
Parliament, has recently been published
by :" Ancelmus Factus in Berlin. The
collection ranges from 1867 to the pres
emit time, and if the quibs and cranks it
contains do not always seem to be I'M
reasonably waggish, they are at all events
interesting as indicating the German
idea of joke. A portion of the collec-
ton consists of the naive, and sometimes
oddly inconsequential, remarks of mex.
perienced members. Thus Dr. Schwartze
observed on one occasion that he had
great pleasure in saying that the motives
Of this proposal, though unknown to
him, were yet fully in accordance with
his views; J" and Herr Won Viacke ex-
pressed his agreement with a previous
speaker to this effect: I" I think just as
he does in this matter; I am exactly in
the position in which am" Similarly,
DR.. Ellissen once oracularly remarked
s'The proposal of the honorable men,
Der has either no meaning or it has a
meaning" On the other hand we should
probably be mistaken if we ascribed a
remark of one Herr Schraps to mere
naivete or confusion Of tongue. "I have
supported" said Herr Schraps, Cdr.
Reineke's proposal, and viii vote for it,
but shall be very much pleased, never
theless, if the House rejects it," The
jokes which are undoubtedly intentional
are sometimes rather grim. Thus, Herr
Dedecker, discussing a proposal for the
complete insulation of cholera patients,
doubted "whether it would not be a
surer preventive to kill off the first
cholera patients at once; but We have
hardly come to that yet." There is a
certain humor, too, of a melancholy sort,
in the phrase of DR.. Schweitzer "We
believe in country where the police are
always with us, before us, and behind
us, and in our midst. Pail Mall
G1zette
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-01-13
A Touching Incident.

Over the hills, not three miles from
Whitehall. says the Times, reside fam
ily who have little two-year-old pratt
tier. The family have box OF rattle
snakes that are quite doclle and tame.
The little chubby hands of the two-year-
old daily drops little morsels OF food IN
the box, and the reptiles have become so
accustomed to her visits that they viii
raise up on their tails when they hear
the pit-a-pat of her approaching foot
steps. The child's mother, during the
hot days, has the cradle brought out,
and the little one quietly takes its after
noon nap within q few feet of the box;
and as the mother sings a sweet lullaby
to her precious darling, the snakes al.
wavs ioin in the chorus, and the weird
and musical noise of the rattle resembles
the soft monotony of the snare drum OF
the orchestra.
Often the mother rocks her child to
sleep while she fans its face with palm
leaf, which she keeps always on the foot
Of the child's couch.
On Sunday afternoon the child had
become tired of feeding the snakes, and
the mother did not see the little one as
she quietly moved away the cover. The
child became sleepy, it is supposed, and
then it crawIed into the cradle, as it was
often accustomed to do. The mother
was engaged in doing her housework,
and therefore paid little attention to wee
Katie. She was suddenly attracted by
the rattling of the snakes, and she walked
to the door, where sight met her eyes
that at first caused her great alarm.
The child was in the cradle, and at
each rocker was snake, rockingit gent
" with their tails, while four more large
specimens stood near by, producing the
music which was so soothing to the
child's ears.
But the most remarkable of all was q
large rattlesnake perched upon a high
chair at the child's head. with its tail
cooled about the handle of the palm-lesf
fan, gently swaying it backwards and
forwards over its face.
1t was a picture for an artist, and
showed that the great Creator of all
things had even put in the breast of rep
tiles that greatest of all virtues, love and
gratitude.
The mother stood and watched the
reptile nurses for a few moments, when
ali feeling of fear entirely left her DO.
som. She moved toward the cradle
when the music ceased, the fan was
gently laid upon the cradle, the four
snakes uncoiled their tails from about
the rockers, and in less than thirty sec
onds the whole tribe were in the box
again, having returned voluntarily.
They beheld the child's mother, and
knew their services were no longer re-
CURED, therefore they relinquished
their precious charge into the mothers
keeping.
The little story, is, alas, too true, and
is another evidence that all the intelli'
gence of the snake kingdom was moi
monopolized by that traditional reptile
that peddled apples in Eden.
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEAN1Nas.

Gen. Swain, who hears very often
from Mrs. Garfield, says the family is quite
well, and that the health Of the Presidents
mother has been excellent this winter.
Among the deaths announced are those
Of Rev. ylano R. Hotchkiss, D. D., the famous
Baptist theologian, Of Buffalo; Samuel Buckley,
of Flint, Mich, aged 1903 years; Col c. w.
Melvin, civil engineer employed along Red
river in Louisiana James Isom, of Richmond,
Ky, who made saltpeter for the American
army in the war Of 1912 DR.. John W. Draper,
the author, and @. G. Clay, formerly Senator
from Alabama.
1t has just been learned at Washing
ton that, for five months prior to his death at
Santiago, Minister Fitzpatrick had suffered in
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THE TINE TO soUEnoH BouRBoN1sM.

The crushing defeat of Bourbonism in
Virginia and the assembling of Con-
gress which at last has the power in its
hands suggests that now is an opportune
time to put a quietus on Bourbonism, to
re-enfmnchise Southern Republicans,
and to secure fair elections in the South
ern States. Congress cannot take a step
this session which will be greeted with
more reclamation in the North as COM
mendable and patriotic IN every way.
The defeat of the Bourbons IN Virginia
has inspired hope among the people in
other Southern States that at last there
is a prospect of their rescue from Bour-
bon tyranny, which has not advanced
them politically and has retarded their
material growth by keeping sectional
prejudices alive, so that there is no rea-
son to doubt that its removal and the
dissolution of the solid South will also
be welcomed with reclamation In that
section.
Bourbonism in the South has now en-
ioyed ten years of unrestrained rule, and,
during that time, has maintained itself
in power by corruption, fraud and vio-
lence Of almost every conceivable de-
scription. In 1870, Republican Admins
trations held the power in the South, and
Bourbomism commenced its assault by
the organization of the Ku-Klux Klan,
which intimidated negro voters by deeds
of violence which did not stop short Of
murder. When the national Govern
ment broke up these gangs of midnight
murderers, various leagues took their
places in the guise Of political associa-
tons, which, by menaces, foggings,
expulsions and ostracism, extend
ing even to the opportunities for
obtaining work still further intimidated
Republican voters. In this manner the
Bourbons gained control Of the South.