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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10
A Desperate Battle.

DANVILLE, Va, Feb. l.
A desperate, novel and fatal battle took
place on the plantation of William Lanier,
Pittsylyania county, between Thomas King
one of MFR. Lanier's tenants, and Kings
mother, on the one side, and George
Slate and wife, hirelings of Mr.. King, on
the other A complication of circumstances
led to the difficulty, but it was mainly States
aggressive temper and his refusal to deal
squarely about some property he had
found and refused to advertise. Slate left
Kings employment and came back to demand
his wages. Finding King in his stable, Slate
drew a pistol and told him he would shoot him
If he came out of there without bringing with
him the disputed property. King called to his
mother to bring him his shotgun. The old
lady was approaching with the gun in one
hand and q cane in the other. Slate, seeing
this. told his wife, who was with him, to knock
the old woman in the head. The old lady was
| thrown by the younger female, when Mr..
King came running to the aid of his mother.
Slate fired at him but missed A desper-
ate struggle ensued, in which all four
were engaged King secured the gun
and shot Slate in the thigh. Siate's wife then
got hold of the gun and knocked King senseless,
when Slate himself drew knife and stabbed
him in eight places Meantime the old lady
had been seriously cut and beaten, and large
piece bitten out of her arm by the female. 1t
was desperate life-and-d struggle. All four
of the combatants were covered with gore, and
fought until they had to cease from loss of
blood. When neighbors came on the scene
they found King and his mother dying and
Slate terribly mangled, so that life is despaired
Of. The wife was painfully hurt, but it is
thought not fatally. Eu T @
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10
POisOns in Our Food.

The use Of beer. generally recognized
as a wholesome drink, has become much
less general because of the suspected
use of harmful bitters and grape sugar.
A large piece of this so-called grape
sugar, taken from the hands of youth
in this city. who said his father manu-.
featured it, proved, upon analysis to
contain a quantity of sulphuric acid, :
enough to destroy some half dozen sets
of good teeth As this sugar is largely
used in adulterating cane sugar, candies
and numerous other articles of luxury
and nece sity, further comment is IN
necessary. Yeast powders are made and
sold here which contain soluble salts Of
aluminium. The use of tin in sugar, of
baryta in numerous articles Of food to
increase their weightare barely concealed.
The agreeable odor Of caramel in the
neighborhood of the coffee mills tells its
own tale, and to explain the wonderful
cheapness Of the beautiful iellies nowin
such common use we should have to &c
further than our matutinal frienG
Rags Bones, and pursues through the
wonderful transformations worked BY
modern chemistry the bones from our
garbage box, favored and colored By
the waste products from the gas works.
back again to our tables as currant jelly
for our famous canvas backs and red
heads, and perhaps meet in our sugar
bowls our old shirts transformed into
very palatable ugar.-A Paper Read
Before the Nd. Aeademy Of Sciences.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10
Buried in a Coal. Mine.
CoALTIELp. Va. Feb. 8.

NOALFlELD3 fdss rSD. D.
Shortly after / o'clock to-day an explosion
occurred i'll the Grave shaft of the Midlothian
coal-pits A volume of smoke, cinders, wood
and bark burst from the shaft, which became
choked up and closed. Intense excitement en-
sued, as it was known that large number of
men were at work in the pit, which
is over 1900 feet in depth, the gale
ries extending about three thousand feet
under ground. The greatest efforts have been
made to tap the pit and reach the injured
workmen, but without success. People from
all quarters are fiocking to the scene of explo-
sion. There are various reports as to the num-
Der of workmen in the pit. Some
say there are thirty-fve, others say
that the correct number is probably
tbirty-two. There is now hardly a doubt
entertained that the thirty-two men are dead. If
any survived the immediate explosion they
were suffocated very soon after. A majority
of the intombed we're married, and many leave
large families Most of these assembled at
The mouth of the shaft, and the scene was
heartrending in the extreme.
RICHMOND, VA, Feb. 6.
The men imprisoned in the Midlothian mine,
at Coalfeld, Chesterfield county, are believed to
be dead. The means of yentilating the death
trap were destroyed in the explosion, and the
pit was on fire for a time, at least. New APP
paratus of all kinds will have to be built before
even the attempt to rescue the imprisoned per-
sons can be made. The disaster leaves behind
it tWenty-seven widows and 10S orphan children,
for whose relief subscriptions have been started
in Richmond. One body has been taken out.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10
The British parliament.

+ We may go at once to the heart
of the matter by pointing out that
the British Parliament is the supreme
and exclusive depository of power. in a
sense of which IN this country We nave
no practical experience, and cannot,
therefore, easily form a conception. II
is not a body, like our Congress, exer-
cising lawmaking powers with limits de-
fined by written instrument and ex-
pounded by an independent judiciary,
but an assembly whose viii becomes
from the moment it is uttered part Of
the organic law. It is what the French
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10
"A SmaII.Pox Letter.

Deputy Warden Russ was opening Guiteau's
mail in the jail Office, when all of sudden the
officials scattered in every direction. The
cause of the excitement was the opening of a
letter from Marietta, Ill, which contained the
following message:
Here, send you some smallpox. 1t is
worse than the sentence of Judge Cox. Rub
yourself with the scah, and it will surely stop
your gab.'
In the center of the sheet was pasted some-
thing that looked Ikea black wafer. Mr.. Russ
at once scratched match and burned the
sheet of paper. !" don't know, = he said, 'sbut
people think these letters go right to Guiteau.
His letters have to pass through the inspection
officers, and if there is any smallpox virus in
them it might spread through the whole Jail"
The prisoners mail viii hereafter be handled
very carefully. Mr.. Scoville SAYS he has received
four such letters, and has asked the Postmas-
ter General to have his letters examined and
fumigated. Mr.. Scoville, upon the receipt of
the first letter, had himself vaccinated. Guiteau,
when he heard about Mr.. Scoyilles letters was
very anxious to be vaccnated ana his wishes
were complied with
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10
Tho Man With the Fail.

IH0 MAN WIN Tue FAaus
Tt carried the beholder back to thirty
/. years ago, when the threshing machine
was heard only at rare intervals, and the
honest farmer spread his golden stalks
on the clean barn floor and failed away
with such tempered blows that not
kernal was broken. The man who had
it sat down on one of the benches in the
West Circus Park. The rare sight of
such an article hslted every pedestrian,
and the man had to explain over and
over again:
swell, I'll have some beans 70 shell
this fall. and I kinder thought 'twould
be easier to fail 'em out. The hardware
man told me he had to send to Vermont
for it.
Pretty soon along came gray headed
Alderman, and when he saw that fail he
looked ten years younger all at once.
81 handled that for over ten years"
he said, as he picked it up and spit on
his hands. ''Seems like old times to
get hold of this hickory again. "
He stepped out on one side to give
the crowd an exhibition on the grass,
and his success was great. Az the sec
ond blow the fail end hesitated in mid
air, wobbled about, and finally came
down with whack on the patriots head.
making him see more stars than win
ter's night ever brought out. He drop
ed the weapon with the remark that he
was already ten minutes late in keeping
an appointment, and he WAS rubbing his
skull as far down the street as he could
be seen. The next man to try it was
one who got off a passing car under the
idea that dog fight was in progress.
"a fail? Ha! ha! Why 1 haven't
seen fail since I was married." he
chuckled, as he reached for it. 81 pre-
sumo I have failed thousand bushels
of wheat in my time. You boys stand
back there" .,
The boys retreated, and the man lifted
the fail on high, and patted the grass in
o vigorous manner.
eyes, my stint used to be twenty
bushels day." he continued, "and
though do say it myself r"
Something happened. He dropped
the fail, seized his jaw, and danced off
as If he had springs under him, and al
! though dozen voices asked what hit
him he refused to tell.
| By and by third man came sailing
along, and when he saw the fail he re-
marked that his father used one like it
nearly all his life, and was called the
smartest failer in New Hampshire.
Cant you use it?" inquired one of
/ the crowd.
"Why, of course. If you boys want
to see how our fathers got their wheat to
mill, I'll give you little exhibition.
Here, bub, hold my hat
| He buttoned his coat, moistened his
hands, and began work. The first blow
nearly broke mans knee; the second
cracked against boys elbow, and at the
third the hailer grabbed the top of his
head and sat down, with subdued look
in the corners of his mouth.
/ "Well, / guess I'll be jogging along, !"
said the owner of the fail as he rose up.
''It's all in getting the kink of it. A fell
:er who makes twists and wobbles a
special study won't git his head broke
over twice day, but a green hand might
as well sit down under a brick kiln dur
! in tornader. Dav. gentlemen"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10
POLITICAL POINTS.

The management of the National
Rcpublicd has been changed. 1t isnow an
administration paper.
The Tammany members Of the New
York Legislature united with the regular Dem
ocrats in electipg G. Z. Patterson Speaker,
thus breaking the deadlock which had existed
fCr six weeks. &N&E ~ =
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10

if endowed with intelligence Or memory,
the right key goes down at the proper
time; it matters not what the speed of
the movement may demand, there is no
hesitation. Now why cannot We accom-
plish with facts, figures and ideas what
the type setter accompIishes with his
type, the pianist with his keys. All
that is necessary to do this is applica-
ton and determination to succeed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10
POTATO flour, or the dried pulp Of tn

PoTATo flour, or the dried pulp Of the
potato, is attaining great Importance to
the arts. 1t is stated that in Lanca-
shire, England, twenty thousand tons Of
it are sold annually, and it brings at
present in Liverpool about double as
much in the market as wheat flour. 1t
is used for sizing and other manufacture
ing purposes, and when precipitated
with acid is turned into starch. When
calcined it is employed as o dressing for
silk.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10
indian Girl Graduates.

AUuIHH UlEl UFHuudJeSs
A correspondent Of the New York
Herald, writing from the Grow Greek
Agency, says:
"While / was galloping back to the
fort in company with DR.. Bergan, the
Post Surgeon, we came upon a handsome
Indian girl, who was sauntering along
the roadside. She proved to be Irwin,
or Yellow Woman, one of the Hampton
College graduates.
"Attired in fashionably -cut polo.
naise, iaunty bonnet, and pair of high
heeled French shoes, as she drew back
and modestly shaded her eyes with a
tiny-gloved hand, Irwin seemed the
strongest advocate of education that
could have been sent among the sus-
ceptible braves of Grow Greek. ~
"She is the daughter of Don't-Know.
How, an Indian storekeeper, who dis
plays over his door the sign of ID. K.
Howe When little Irwin was sent to
the college at Hampton Roads heI
fathers house appeared, in comparison
with the surrounding tepees, to be a
palatial mansion.
"The impression was not effaced even
by contact with Eastern luxury during
her college life, and last week the girl
looked forward with great pleasure to
the grand reception which her father had
arranged for her return. But when she
walked into the rude hut, and felt how
completely education had isolated her
savage surroundings, the poor girl burst
into tears.
"That night she slept in the arms of
her sister, and both girls cried till morn
ing, one because she was civilized and
the other because she was not. The
nexs morning Irwin turned everything
upside down and began general house
cleaning. Her father appeared at the
Agency an hour later with melancholy
countenance, and it is a question as to
how long he can stand the reginae OF
cleanliness which has been inaugur-
ated.
CATER a few words with the girl we
passed on, and by piece of good for
tune overlook one of the Yale College
graduates. He was the pink of stylish
perfection, and would have attracted at
tention even in the East. He said he
was surprised to find how education had
altered his ideas regarding the Sioux,
but said his people were all anxious for
civilization, and when we parted he apol.
ogized for having left his visiting cards
at home. ~
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10
Power of Will

Happy tne people who keep them
selves so well in hand that they can
maintain a calm exterior under the most
temper-trying circumstances | They are
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10

A CONTEMPORARY asks How snail
women carry their purses to frustrate the
thieves ~ Why, carry them empty.
Nothing illustrates thief more than to
snatch a woman's purse, after following
her half a mile, and then find that it con-
tains nothing but recipe for spiced
peaches and faded photograph of her
grandmother.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10

call constituent assembly, not con-
voked, however, for a specific purpose
or for limited term, but perpetually
renewing, altering or reversing its I'M
appealable regulations. Now, this ON
nipotent assembly, continually evolving
organic law, and from whose fiat there
can be no appeal, is Incompatible with
the plan of governing Ireland by means
of local legislature; and as it is ac-
knowledged that the latter scheme must
earlier or later be adopted, it follows
-that the nature of the British Parlia-
ment must be materially changed. -NeaO
York SIN.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10

A SEVEN year old boy at Bergen Point,
n. J., thus described his danger and
escape "I was a-tummin atoss the
tack, when I seen the ingin a-tummin.
| knowed couldn't git atoss quick
enough, so I started to lun. l lunned
up the tack little ways and tumbled.
l heard the ingin a-tummin. and I shut
my eyes, and put my face close agin the
ground, and it went over me, and ] got
up and lunned down the bank"
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Coinage at the mints during january.
sic, 45O, 900, of which 81, $780, 900 we're standard
dollars. al FE
The Commissioner of Internal Reve-
niue reports the quantity of spirits in distillery
warehouses Jan. /, 7S.sO6, 914 taxable gallons
which is about 4O,00o,0OO gallons in excess Of
last year.
The following is the pnblic-debt state
ment for January EER5
Six per cent bonds, extended ........$ 129,4T9 900
Five per cents, extended, III. ......... 40l,50S900
-Four aud one-half per cent bonds ... 250,o00,000
Four per cent bonds. .4s. a.......s 73S, TSS, 100
Befmdug certificates. ......,....s..< $50. 100
Navy pension fund ...,,........... 100000
r-------
Total interest-bearing 5S4, $751; 500
Iogaltondors. s4e7io,so6
Certificates t Of deposit n'4O'ooo
cates,t,,. ...,,.....,.. 74,l8NF90
Fractional currency 7,Oe9,4ss
Total without interest s9,s9s, lS9
Total ,s..,. 9s7, eA9 794
Total interest. ...........s.. ...s.,. 10,sSS,554
Cash in ireasury.... ,....,,..... 246,02S ASS
Debt less cash IN treasury 81 .7s2. 512 $50
Decrease during january. -. -. 12,97SS36
Decrease since june 81, 1881. ..a.. SS,0s5y3I
Current liabilities &#q
Interest due and unpaid..,,.,...s...$ 1,953,060
Debt ON which interest has ceased.,..., 13,92O,005
Interest thereon. e62, 949
Gold and silver certificates ......s.. 74lS7, 100
United States notes held for redemption
of certificates Of deposit ,....,,,,.,. 100000
Cash balance available Feb i, ........ l4s,90s 6S
Total ....,..,- .,...,.,.,.,...,,.,s 2A6o25, 46s
Available sssets-'s '''N ''
Cash in treasury =. .......1..~......s a46O25, 46s
Bonds issued to Pacific railway compan-
les, interest payable in lawful money, fsr
principal outstanding. ,s..,.s......s 6A62s.5l2
Interest accrued and net yet paid. ,.,.. S23,ll7
Interest paid by United states. .,.... 55,40S,giT
Interest repaid by communists ~
Interest repaid py TRANSPORTATION Oh Esa
mails ,...,...,. .......-....F..., d..
BY cash payments per cent OF net 1i,sot,021
earnings.. ......... ..ss.......ss.n @. 655, l9S
Balance Of interest paid by the United
states. ......s....... St'9io, 100
A gentleman who has taken much in
terest in the matter -telegraphs Washington
correspondent says he is satisfied, after care
full inquiry, that the President does not intend
to do ANYTHING in regard to the Fitz John Por-
ter case, not even to She extent of granting
him pardon, which would restore him to full
citizenship again
John D. Defrees resigned the position
of Public Printer by command Of his physi-
clan, although asked by President Arthur to
remain
At a meeting of the House Garfield
auditing committee last week, communica-
ton was received from the doctors who at
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10
somnambulistic Slipper.

In small village across the way re-
sides well-known clergyman and his
family. One of his sons, who is just
approaching manhood, has been in the
habit since infancy of walking in his
sleep. Every effort has been made to
break him of his somnambulistic ten
denotes, but without avail. A short
tim ago it was decided by the head OF
the house that the somnambulist should
occupy the same couch with his elder
brother, and the latter was instructed,
in case the boy INDUCED in any of his
former antics, to administer severe pun
ishment, In the shape of forcible appli-
cation Of the sole of slipper. The
elder son promised to carry out his in
structions. One night the father mag
med he heard sounds of disturbance in
In the chicken yard at the rear of the
house, and, fearing that his hen-roost
might be despoiled, entered the room
where the boys were sleeping, and,
opening the window, peered out into the
darkness to ascertain whether his appre-
tensions were correct. The elder son
thought the figure at the window was
that of his brother, and forgetting, In
his zeal, to ascertain if his bedfellow was
quietly reposing or not, leaped from his
couch, seized the eyer-ready slipper, and
administered a severe castigation upon
the party in undress at the window.
Before the astonished father could turn
he had received some four or five heavy
and singing blows, and was so surprised
and astonished that for few moments
he could hardly speak word. The son,
when he realized the situation, was almost
paralyzed, and the scene was ridiculous
In the extreme. When the circumstances
were explained, however, the clergyman
fully appreciated the joke.-San Fran
cisco ALtQ.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10
Probable Fate of Lieut.. De Long.

Interesting information concerning the fate
of Lieut.. De Long, commander Of the jean
nette, comes from Lieut.. Danenhower at Ir-
kutsk. The record cached" By Lieut. De
Long shows that his party, consisting of four.
teen officers and men, reached deserted hut
Sept. q, and from thence proceeded in their
endeaYor to reach some settlement on the
Lena river. Later records were found
showing that on the 9th of Octo-
Der two men were sent ahead for
relief, and that after marching south for fifteen
days they were found ina starving condition by
natives and taken to a settlement Efforts to
find Lieut. De Longs party had to be aban-
doned by reason of the refusal of the natives
to go on further, and Russian force was
then organized, and is now searching.
There is reason to fear that starvation
may have been the fate of the De Long
party. as they had but two days provisions,
and there was nothing to depend upon for sub
sistence but the precarious supply Of game
afforded by that desolate region. Secretary
Hunt has selected Lieut.. Giles B. HARDER and
Master W. Fl. Scheutze, of the navy, to pro-
coed to Siberia and assist Lieut.. DanenhoweT
in his search for the missing explorers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10
A Poor Memory.

Without question, the memory may
be cultivated. The habit of attention is
one of the first to be acquired in work
ing toward this end but there are other
helps, such as the habit of order, and
the advantage arising from proper CLASH
Fiction, and last, but not least, the aid
of the imagination. in making mental
pictures. The grocer and the apothe-
cary know the value of order in their
business the bookseller. too, with his
thou ands Of volumes; see him stsp to
the place in his store where he knows
the volume you have been asking for
should be; he merely reaches forth his
hand and takes it from the shelf.
Wacth the type-setter at his work YOU
would think. his fingers work automati-
cally, as they take up from the box ar
raDgement before him the exact letters
composing the words in his copy. OBJ
serve the fingers Of the piano player as
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10

THERE seems to be no occupation so
dangerous as that of brakeman on freight
trains, and many insurance companies
refuse to take the risk of insuring their
lives. It is said that only twenty five
per cent. of freight brakemen die except
by accident.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10
Blaine and the State Department.

BLAINE TO THE PRESIDENT.
Mr.. Blaine, in letter to President Arthur,
expresses great surprise at the annulment of
the invitations to the congress of nations, say
ing that the voluntary humiliationo of the United
States could only be made more complete by
requesting the permission of Europe for the
gathering The ex-Secretary begs that the in
Vitations extended by the President be not re-
called, as the meeting is necessity to the COM
mercial interests of the country.
THE PRESIDENT ANNOYED.
A Washington telegram says " the publica-
ton of Mr.. BIaine's letter to the President in
relation to the proposed Peace Congress of
American Republics has added fresh fuel to
the fame of discussion that was inspired by
the original publication of the State Depart
ment correspondence. 1t is understood that
the President will answer Mr.. Blaine's letter in
special message to Congress, laying the sub
ject matter of the proposed Peace Conference
before the two houses, and telling how the pro-
iect was matured.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1882-06-29

o. S. Bliss writing in the Tribune says
"Seyeral machines or devices for milking
COWS have come under my observation,
none of which has proved Of any practical
value, however have given them all the
most impartial and uupreiudiced examina-
ton and feel that am doing none of them
injustice IN the general observation above
written. There are milking tubes, in sets
OF four, generally made OF silver or some
imitation OF silver, which are sometimes
OF use for milking cows with sore teats a
few times but their continued use is sure
TO ininre the COW. have known Of their
use in many cases with 10 exception to the
above have frequently converted with
a very intelligent mechanic who was for q
long time in the employ Of Az inventor
who undoubtedly came nearer to perfecting
such machine than anybody else. He
was very hopeful ofsucccss for time, and
in the course Of his experiments tried ev.
err device known, but he now believes
the milking OF COWS by machinery imprac.
iicable.