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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-30
Foreign Intelligence.

In a recent collision off st. Pierre,
France, the French brig Vocoberg sank, and
Lightweight persons who were on board
were drowned.
ADvICEs of the 21st from London state
that James Davis, Secretary of the Lon
don and San Francisco Bank, had absconded
with $3.50, 200.
AT Odessa, Russia, the cattle-plague
showed no signs of abatement on the 21st,
eighteen hundred head of cattle having
died within seventeen days.
ON the 21st Moody and Sankey began tho
second fortnight of their work at Wands-
worth, Eng, with two services, each at
tended by three Thousand people.
The tug Erie Belle exploded her boilers a
few days ago at Kincardine, Ont, tearing
the boat to atoms, killing four men, and
blowing eight others into the lake, whence
they were rescued.
AN address was issued on the 21st by a
Spanish Republican society declaring that
il the Government did not establish univer-
sal suffrage the society would adopt a rev.
olutionary attitude.
BRIGANDs few days ago received a ran
som of $4,000 for the Duke of Castlemonte,
who was captured near Naples, Italy.
A FEW days ago James Russell Lowell,
United States Minister to England, was
chosen Rector of the Scottish University
of st. Andrews, defeating member of
the British Parliament by eighteen votes.
ADvICEs of the ed from Cairo state that
the Egyptian army under Hicks Pasha,
aggregating 10000 men, was totally an
initiated by the forces Of Ell Mehdi, the
False Prophet, during the first week of
November, near Ell Obeid. It was said
that the victorious army numbered 5000
men. Such Egyptian troops as remained
in the Soudan were to be concentrated at
Khartoum.
QUEBEC, Can, has adopted the new
standard time.
OFFICERS arrested Edward Wolff, a lead
ing London Socialist, on the 23d for hav-
ing Internal machines and explosives in
his residence, with which, it was alleged,
he intended to destroy the German EN-
bassy.
TWENTY persons were drowned by the
collision of two steamers on Lake Geneva,
in Switzerland, a few days ago.
EARL GRANVILLE, British Foreign Secre-
tary, was informed by Marquis Tseng on
the 23d that war between China and France
was certain.
The salary of the Archbishop of Paris
has been reduced by the French Chamber
of Deputies from $4,000 to Is 900 francs.
THE failures are announced of Roux de
Frassainet, Paris (France) banker, for
100000 francs, and James & Co., Man
chester (Eng.) merchants, for $4,000.
TWENTY deaths from yellow fever oc
CURED at Havana, Cuba, during the week
ended on the oath.
ADvICEs of the 25th from Cairo state that
the feeling of panic over EliMahdi's success
had been intensified by reports received
that the False Prophet was rapidly march
ing towards Lower Egypt The Khedive
was making desperate offers to the Bedouin
chiefs to induce them to organize an army
of resistance to the Prophet. A corps COM
posed of six thousand Bedouins and two
thousand gendarmes was being rapidly or
ganfzed to march against the invader.
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Grows Like an Evil Weed.

The methods employed by the liquor
sellers to develop and extend their bust
ness are proofs of illegitimacy.
No legitimate, straightforward bust
ness can afford to set up retailers all
over the country, supply them with
stock, with store furnishings, and even
pay their taxes when these are required
in advance.
We do not find wholesale druggists
setting up apothecary shops all over a
city, filling them with stock, providing
them with signs and fancy show bottles,
and picking up Tom, Dick, or Harry
from some other business and estab-
l1shing him as manager of the new
stand.
The profits of the drug business are
popularity supposed to be enormous, but
no wholesale drug house-no matter
what its wealth and trade-could stand
such course for year without having
to close its doors. This is equally true
of the wholesale dry goods, hardware,
grocery, and, in fact, all jobbing estab-
lishments. So far from establishing
stores to retail their goods, so far from
picking up failures and do-nothings of
all kinds to set up in business, they
have to exercise the greatest prudence
in selling to those already established
in selling to men who have their own
money embarked and who have had
years of experience in that special line of
trade.
But the profits of liquor-selling are so
enormous that the liquor-sellers can
take chances that no other business
men can. They can establish new sa-
loon anywhere, and confidently run the
risk of its being profitable They can
put in charge of it man who has failed
at everything else he undertook-he is
certain to be able to sell liquor enough
to pay his way. They can put into the
saloon every dollar that is invested in
it-eVen down to paving the tax and
hcense-they can violate every we'll
recognized law of business, and vet be
more sure of rich return than any
other business. The official returns
show that no property in the country is
developing in value SO rapidly as brew
cries and saloons. In Cincinnati the re-
ports of the revenue officers show an in
crease in the business Of the breweries
Of over seventy per cent. in four years,
and those years. too, were when long
established houses in that city were
going down in bankruptcy with most
alarming frequency.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
From Washington.

HE Natlonal Grange commenced its an
fnual session at Washington on the 21st,
twenty'seven States being represented by
Master State Changers.
SECRETARY FoLGER on the 22d author
6zed the payment without rebate Of the
three per cents embraced in the one hun
dred and twenty-second call maturing De-
cember /. The amount outstanding was
about STA, 100000.
ON the 23d the Grand Jury at Washing
ton was at work on cases against claim
agents. The Government had evidence
that twenty persons or firms had filed
papers for pensions for Confederate sol
diers.
COMPTROLLER KNOX on the 23d issued
the second chapter of his report, which
shows that 272 National banks were or
ganized in the year ended November /, the
largest number organized in any year
since 1865. The number of National banks
in operation was 1882, the largest number
in operation at any one time The re-
sources of banks was S2,372, 10000 The
total amount Of bonds held by National,
state and Savings banks was 1921, 229, 259.
THROUGHOUT the United States and Cam
ada the business failures during the seven
days ended on the 23d numbered 252
against 223 the previous seven days. The
distribution was as follows New England
States, "a; Middle, 55; Western, 80; South
ern, As; Pacific States and Territories, %;
Canada and the Provinces, "a.
AN order was issued by Secretary Folger
on the 24th that the Treasury Department
should adopt the new standard time, not
withstanding the decision of the Attorney
General that the new time standard was
not legal in the District.
MIR. KDfBALL, Chief of the Life Saving
Service, in his annual report on the oath
stated that at the end Of the last fiscal year
the number of life-saving stations was 1914.
The number of disasters to vessels in the
field of life-saving operations was 800. OF
3,792 persons on board these vessels only
fifteen persisted, and Of over 81, 900 900 worth
OF property in these ships and cargoes, only
$l,500,000 was lost.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR on the oath pardoned
Sergeant Mason, who was sent to the AL
bany IN. W Penitentiary for eight years
Tor an attempt to kill Guiteau.
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publicly whipped On the 9th, a. colured
he1se-breaker named Groome standing one
hour in the piflery, and receiving twenty
fashes. The others got ten each.
In the neighborhood of Wichita, Kan,
investigations on the oath led to the dis
covery of over two hundred fraudulent en-.
tries on public lands.
AT Fedor, Tex, Oh aries O. Keuf1e and
his clerk, while preparing to leave their
store on the night Of the oath were met by
burglar, who shot and Killed them both.
He then rifed the money-drawer, outbound
only fifteen dollars.
ON the Southern PacificA Road COWBOYS
on the Oath robbed an express train near
Gage, A.. T., killing the freight-messenger
and securing large amount of booty.
MISS AGGIE HILL, who claims to be the
wife of Senator Sharon, and w. M. Nell
son, h9r attorney, were indicted by the
San Francisco Grand Jury on the 9th for
forgery, perjury and conspiracy.
MAsKED men on the night of the 24th
took from the Jail at Birmingham, Ala,
Lewis Houston, a negro charged with as.
saulting widow lady, and hanged him.
AIRPORT was made on the oath by Wal
ter S. Haines, Chicago chemist, that he
was unable to discover traces of narcotic
drugs in the liver of Fora Burns, recently
murdered at Lincoln, Ill.
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Keep on Drinking.


If you wish to be always drinking,
start an appetite for drink; the oftener
you drink the oftener you want to.
Ii you want to prevent your friends
from raising you in the world, keep on
drinking, and that will in the end defeat
all their efforts
If you would efectually counterfeit
your attempts to do well, keep on
drinking and you will not be disap-
pointed.
If you wish to repel the endeavors Of
the whole human race to raise you to
character, credit and prosperity, keep
on drinking, and you will likely tri-
umph.
If you are determined to be poor, keer
on drinking, and you will be ragged and
penalties to your hearts content.
Ifyou wish to starve your family, keep
on drinking, and then you will consume
the means of their support.
If you would be imposed upon by
knayes, keep up your visits to the
saloons, for that will make their task
easy. ~ u3
If you wish to be robbed, keep on
drinking, and the thief will do it with
greater safety.
If you wish to deaden your senses,
keep on drinking, and you will in due
time be more stupid than an ass,
If you have resolved to kill yourself,
keep on drinking, and you viii hi
upon sure mode of self-destruction.
If you would expose both your folly
and your secrets, keep on drinking
they will run out as the liquor runs in.
Ii you think you are stro1g, keep on
drinking, and you will soon find your
self subdued by so powerful an enemy
If you would get rid of your money,
without knowing how, keep on drink.
ing, and you win do it effectually.
If you are hated by your family and
friends, keep on drinking, and you will
soon be more disagreeable.
If you would be a pest to society
keep on drinking, and society viii
avoid you as an infection.
If you would smash windows, break
the peace, get your bones broken
tumble under horses and carts, and be
put in the lookup, keep on drinking
and it will be strange if you do not sue.
coed.
If You wish all your prospects in life
to be cIouded, keep on drinking, and
they will soon be dark enough.
If you would destroy your body, keep
on drinking, for drunkenness is the
mother of disease.
If you wish to ruin the soul, keep on
drinking, and you will be excluded
from Heaven.
If moderate drinkers are told that
they stand on dangerous ground, they
repudiate the idea with scorn, and say
that they can stop drinking when they
please. They pass on few months
and become habitual drunkards utter
slaves to their appetites for rum. Then,
when you appeal to them to stop, they
say they can't, and clamor for prohibi-
ton. Now, which class shall we be-
Geve? Does the self-reliant, strong,
stimulated moderate drinker best under.
stand the situation, or is the evidence
IF the experienced inebriate more trust,
worthy in the matterp Who are the
most competent judges of the relative
benefits of slavery and freedom, the ex.
masters or the ex-slayes? All drunk
ards in their sober moments favor the
entire extirpation of intoxicants. All
women of refinement and intelligence
indorse prohibition.-EuretG (Cal.
STANDARD. M m
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"Gittin, Dad Home. -


The other day man who was stag
gering drunk navigated up Michigan
avenue to Third street, and there flung
himself down on the ground for sleep
He had lain there about ten minutes
when boy about nine years old, his
bare feet red with cold, and his hair
showing through the crown of his old
hat, came down the street as if in
search, and soon espied the drunkard.
The lad shook him vigorously, and di-
rectly the man sat up. secured a brace
for his back, and growled out:
"Whazzer want wiz met
ats Jimmy, dad its little Jim,
was the reply.
"Whoze lizzie Jimmy"
"Why, dad, don't you know me! I'm
your own boy. Ma sent me to bring
you home. Can you walk?"
81 guess 'er CAM mumbled the man,
and he tried to rise up. The boy gave
him all the aid possible, but he was not
half up when he lurched over and rolled
on his back.
"Oh, dad!n walled the boy, breaking
down all of a sudden, ''you are drunkT'
Yes, I'm junk
81 can't get you home, and the po-
lice will put you in Jail! Oh, dad! what
made your
"Vhaz maze me?" sleepily answered
the man.
"Say, dad,'' continued the boy, as
he bent over him, little Katie's awful
sick. T"
''Zhas so? Well, I can't help zhas."
"Can't you go homer"
"No. You shtay here while [ go Ter
sleep.'
''Oh! I can't can't! Everybody
knows you're drunk, and everybody
will boot at me!''
''Whazp exclaimed the man, as he
raised on his elbow.
"The boys are hooting at me now,
and the men across the road are laugh
ing! Oh! dad, it's awful to git drunk!
It's awful when you are ashamed to
look any one in the FACET
The boy leaned against the wall and
hid his face and cried. The drunkard
rubbed his eyes, braced to sitting po-
sition, and by careful management
reached his feet.
''Jimmyr w..
eyes, dadr'
"Shame-perfeck shame! I'm 'er
BRUTE l am. I'm shorty, Jimmy, you
know I'm shorty"
eyes"
I'm goin' home"
81 II help you. ~
''No, shur; you 60 That way--I'll go
This; then er boys won't boot at you.
Cum-'go long"
The boy crossed to Fourth street, and
when he was too far away to be sus-
pected OF relationship the father braced
up and started up the avenue mutter-
ing:
EI'm er brute, I am, an ] orter be
kicked, l had, an if l drink any more
hope er be shot, do. "-Detr0st Free
| Press
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


For a few weeks negotiations have been
going on between the Government author
tiles of the Indian Bureau at Washington
and Mother st. Bernard, of the House Of
the Good Shepherd in Milwaukee, for the
purpose of taking twenty-five Indian girls
and giving them an industrial education.
The matter has been settled, and Mother
st. Bernard will start in a few days for the
White Earth Indian Reservation in Mime
sofa and select the girls, whose ages will
range from fourteen to twenty years.
Should she fail to get the twenty five there,
she has the privilege to fill the number
from the Bayfield, Reservation in this
State. The girls support will be paid for
by the Government at the rate of S167 each
per year for three years. They are to re-
ceive an English education, besides being
instructed in cooking, sewing and other
domestic arts.
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Temperance Reading
TIE GIN PALACE.

The Devil grows aristOcratic of late,
And he wants house more grand:
Sc down goes the WOODEN shanty,
To make room for q stylish stand.
He has dealt out death to thousands,
And it reaped him a harvest fair;
To prove how the work has paid,
costly house he'll rear
He will build it of bricks that were purchased
With the drunkard's pains and fears;
He will I'LL it with cleaning windows
That are made from frozen tears
And the MONEY that at his counter
Made fathers brain grow Wild
Till he beat an Invalid woman,
And killed his beautiful child.
Come, hasten, ye merry masons,
Build up the towering WALL
Work well, work fast, good felowsi
You shall be paid for ALL
Paid in the drunkards money
Which left his wife unfed
And sent his children weeping,
Hungry and cold to bed!
Pull down the old frame buildingl
Make room for a new one herel
| For this, dear homes were mortgaged,
Or sold by the auctioneer!
No matter if little children
Stray homeless through the land,
Down with the old frame building,
Make room for the stylish stand?
Monitor JoltrndI.
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land, N. J., on the night Of the oath, with
razor, after having been assaulted.
There was not the slightest clue to the per-
petrator. The victims watch and bundles
were not taken.
MAY & MEYER, Of New York City,
wholesale clothiers, have failed for $780,
900.
ROBBERS entered the Pottsville (Pa.)
Post-ofice a few nights ago, blew open the
safe, and carried off five thousand dollars.
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The business. nurtured BY /

The business, nurtured by the com-
post heaps of corruption and wrong
doing. grows like fungus. mold, mil
dew or noxious weeds. Unless this
growth is checked it will oyershadow
and blight the land, like some poisonous
ivy sitting the life and vigor out of some
grand old oak. If the country is to
continue in prosperity this poisonous
fungoid growth must be stopped
Toledo Blade.
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The Two Most Stylish American Cities

The ladies of st. Louis are sure to be
in fashion this winter if they do not
persist in buying new clothes and will
stay out of doors a good deal Hus-
bands and fathers viii do well to make
note of this fact to be used in family
argument. The shade to be worn in
Paris is known as fumee de Londres, or
London smoke. It is ga warm, deep
tone of gray, such as crowns the hills
on a rainy morning" Almost any old
dress can be readily converted into the
required shade in St. Louis by the SIM
pie process of dipping it into the atmos-
phere. Toward spring st. Louis will
be the most stylish city on the conti-
nent, possibly excepting Pittsburgh.
st. LOatis Globe Democrat.
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Unearthfng Land Frauds.

Last September the Commissioners of
Public Lands of Wisconsin offered for sale
100000 acres of public lands at auction.
The bidding was spirited at first, but soon
pool was formed of land SPECTATORS to
buy the valuable pine lands at minimum
price and by combination to prevent
open competition. The reports of this pool
came to the ears of the Commissioners,
and they made an Investigation and found
that the pool had bought the lands at a
minimum price, having held the auction
among themselves, and resold at a large
advance on the Price, it is said from $50, 900
to 100000 above the price realized to the
State. The Commissioners. after hear
ing, were convinced that fraudulent COM
bination was made, and have set aside the
sales. The lands belong to the educational
and drainage funds of the State.
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The Houston Post is responsible for
the statement that the enthusiastic adj
mirers Of a sensational play set fire to
the theater in Fort Worth, Tex. by firing
OFF pistols in applause.
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"A loving wife in Randolph, N. T.,
had her husband arrested for wife-beat-
ing and he was fined ten dollars for the
otfense, but not having the money the
woman paid the fine and saved her hus-
band from iail.-M Y San.
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THE New York Herald, in an editori-
al commenting on the work of the wom-
en- at the polls on election day, said:
.tAnd yet, what can the women of a
rum-cursed State do to lessen vice by
which they and their children are the
principal sufferers? 1t may be said that
they can make their homes more at
tractive; but to the habitual tippler the
dirtiest grog-shop is a more delightful
place than the cosiest family tireside in
the world
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THE Lord Bishop of Rochester, Rt
Rev. DIR. Thorold, who is on his visit
to this country, addressed the recent
Episcopal Convention in Philadelphia,
closing with: eve may have as many
free churches as we please; we may
open as many free libraries as we
please; but as long as the demon intern
perance haunts our homes our churches
will be useless, sermons useless and eff
forts of laymen useless. At st. Louis
recently listened to some of the best
speaking ever heard. A man got up
at a meeting and stated that all the raw
ages of fire, civil war, ETC., were not
equal to the evils caused by intemper-
ance. If you want to earn the eternal
gratitude of the masses you will use
your energies and prayers in this battle
against intemperance. What desire
and hope is to see a thoroughly organ
lied system of Temperance. If the
Episcopal Church in America will throw
herself into the strife, the blessing of
God will be with her. ''--SoattherYs
Herald.
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Many young man who on Sunday
can be found around the saloon or the
billiard-room would regret extremely if
a knowledge of the fact were conveyed
to bis father and mother in the old
home With churches to welcome, Ii
braries filled with good books, maya
zines and newspapers within the reach
of the humblest artisan, there is small
excuse for spending the hours of the
Sabbath amid surroundings that every
man knows lead downward and to ruin.
= Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Neither Ill Nor Thirsty.

A man of temperate habits was once
dining at the house of a free drinker.
No sooner was the cloth removed from
the dinner table than wine and spirits
were produced, and he was asked to
take glass of spirits and water. "No,
thank you," said he, II am not i'll"
Take glass Of wine then" said his
host, cor a glass of ale" mo, thank
you," said he, 81 am not thirsty"
These answers produced loud burst of
laughter.
Soon after this the temperate man
took a piece of bread from the sideboard
and handed it to his host, who refused
it, saying that he was not hungry. At
this the temperate man laughed in his
turn. "Truly," said he, II have rs
much reason to laugh at you for not
eating when you are not hungry as you
have to laugh at me for declining to
drink when not thirsty"
He might have gone further and given
stronger reasons for not drinking if he
had chosen. The liquor would not have
quenched his thirst if he had been
thirsty. Pure water would have been
the best drink in that case
"What do we require drink forP''
The answer nature gives is simple: "To
quench thirst" And when we are
really thirsty nothing meets our case SO
completely as glass of cold water; and
there is this advantage about it also;
the moment it has answered the end for
which it is taken it ceases to be inviting;
as Shakespeare wisely says: Honest
water, too weak to be a sinner" and if
people would be content. with it there
would be fewer sinners in the world
than there are.
The animals are in many respects
wiser than we are. When left to them
selves, they eat and drink like philoso-
piers. God sends the sluggard to the
ant, the inconsiderate to the crane and
the swallow. He rebuked Balaam by
an ass. We might learn from them
few useful lessons in dietetics, and es-
pecially in drinking. They drink when
they are thirsty, and would we go and
do likewise we might save ourselves
many a Youths Temperance
Banner.
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Man is very much ike an egg
keep him in hot water and he is bound
to become hardened.
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1T is curious and probably unsus-

1T is a curious and probably unsus
pected fact that Chicago, albeit a thou
sand miles in the interior, is in some
sense the largest port of entry in the
United States. Thus, in 1881, its ag-
gregate of arrivals and of clearances
was 20 more than New York, philadel-
phia and San Francisco combined, and
Il more than New York, Philadelphia
and New Orleans combined. The total
of arrivals at all the ports of the United
States in that year was 43, 209, of which
g. 27, or considerably more than half,
were at Chicago. -SyrGcuSe Journal.