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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25
HUMOROUS.

Coffin is the name of a rising tenor
singer in the West. Strange that man
can sing who is always Coffin. 7.
Commercial Advertiser.
-" Yes" said the Idaho man, "it's
dreadful unfortunate that my gal got
Rugged by that ar bar She's sort o.
held me in contempt since. - Chicago
Herald.
"A party of young ladies attended a
church sociable in Elizabethan costume,
and when the local paper said that the
fair was visited by ruffs nobody caught
on to the joke. Herald.
i've started to read a poem by Bart.
ley Campbell the other day. Finally
we came to the point where he rhymed
"plenty" and event she." Then we
stopped. We are not tough. -LoOeH
Citizen.
elm all wool and yard wide!''
shouted a cowboy, as he gave his SOM
brero an extra side hitch, and looked
around for foe. chat may be, re-
piled an undaunted female. 'but you
won wash. ~ Philadelphia cal.
-" Yes" said Mr.. Brickhandler,
"my bull dog has wonderful artistic
TASTE He wouldn't attack tramp the
other day because the cloth of the mans
trousers wouldn't harmonic well with
the color Of his jaws. "-Boston Post
1t was his first attempt on roller
skates, and as they brought him to in
the toilet-room he remarked: 81 tell
you, boys, that was gorgeous. must
have knocked in the whole dome of
heaven, the way those stars flew round.
wonder if there's any left for the next
man. oil city Derrick.
flake my advice said old Skin
flint to his clerk, whom he had discov-
cred stamping an envelope from his own
private receptacle; stake my advice.
If ever find you taking anything of
mine your connections won't save you.
To jail you CO." "Very well, sir,'
said the clerk; "perhaps l had bet
ter not take your advice, then. THE
Judge.
''The top of the morning to We,
Mrs. O'Flaherty" THE same to We.
Mrs. O'Raherty. An did We see the
orphants marchin' yisterday?" 81 did;
God bless livery mothers son of 'em.
But didn't see little Johnny O'Hern
in the procession" 'sAnd sure he's
not an orphant any more. He's quit
the business and has gone to learnin'
thrade, he has, ssArrah, God bless
HIM for his enterprise. = Kentucky
State Journal.
Why he wasn't there now: Koscius-
ko Murphy, who is book-keeper in
OF ocerv house, met friend who clerks
in cigar store on Austin avenue and
asked him for a cigar. s'Ain't got
any," said his friend. "Ain't got
any!n said Kosciusko .'Why, when I
used to work in cigar store / always
had my pockets stuffed with cigars.
i" Yes; probably that's the reason you
amt in cigar store now was the
crushing reply.-Teras Sitti1sgs.
Young Calvin wants to know if
we "believe that the angels have wings,
and why we think so?'F We think they
have, Calvin. We never saw their
wings, but we know that whenever a
young man becomes perfectly convinced
that he has met an angel he spends
about all his spare time holding her
tight with both arms, as though he
feared she would fly away the minute
he let her go. And if they had no
wings there would be no cause for this
widespread, almost universal fear
Burlington HGwkeye.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25
" NOT GUILTY."
James Mutt Acquitted of the Murder of
n. L. Dukes-The Verdict Greeted with
Shouts of ApproyaI

James Mutt Acquitted of the Murder of
n. L. Dukes-The Verdict Greeted with
Shouts of Approval.
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 23.--The city was on
the qui viye yesterday morning to know if
there had been a verdict in the Mutt case
The court met at $50 o'clock, and half an
hour later it was announced that the jury
wire ready with their verdict In the
courtroom there were as many spectators
as ever, and outside as many as ever who
could not get in. At ten o'clock sharp
were seated Judge Stowe sternly
warned the audience that, no matter what
the verdict might be, there should be no
demonstrations of approval or disapproval
Those disregarding this injunction would, he
said, be arrested. The prisoner, who was
in the dock, was told to stand up. He did
so, standing as rigid as statue, his lips APP
parently thinner and more colorless than
usual, and his heavy eyes more heavy.
Gentlemen, have you agreed upon
verdict" asked Clerk Rowland. "We
have,o answered the jurors. what
say you, guilty or not guilty."
was the next Interrogation. Not
guilty." replied the foreman, and such
shout as went up from the thousand of
voices in the courtroom never was heard
before, in this county at least. The shout
entered the mouths of those in waiting, and
they proclaimed it as they ran downstairs,
yelling at the top Of their voices: ''Acquit-
ted! Acquittedp' The crowd in waiting
upon the street took up the re-
frain, and yelled out with might and
main: "AcQuittedr' Shop men ran
to their doors and joined in the shouting.
Judge Stowe was to all appearances as hap
py as the happiest A hearty smile illum-
mated his face as he left the bench and
shook hands in greeting with a number of
those who had worked and prayed for the
deliverance of the boy He never seemed
to think once about enforcing the penalty
for disobedience of his injunction about or
der
Mutt was removed to prison to undergo
examination which shall establish his pres
ent sanity. He will probably be discharged
to-day. Mrs. Mutt and her daughter heard
the news as they were alighting from a car
rage in front of the office of their counsel.
They were deeply affected. The jury called
on them in body, and some of the jurors
mingled tears with the widow
Judge Stowe says if the verdict had been
different he would have been the first to
sign petition for pardon. Everybody in
dorses the result When released, the pris-
oner will be taken to the farm OF an uncle
in Fayette County, and there kept until the
excitement has passed away.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

"A Boston paper calls Matthew
Arnold ''the apostle of molasses and
moonlight"
1t agrees with Mr.. Arthur 70 be
President of the United States. He has
gained twenty-six pounds in weight
since he assumed that Office. Chicago
Herald.
Titus Sheard, the new Speaker of
the New York Assembly, arrived III New
York City in 1856 from Ireland, alone
and almost penniess.-N I. Times.
Senator Salisbury, of Delaware, is
the only member of the United States
Senate who has never been married.
He is called the Lone Star of that body.
Boston Post.
DIR. John Hall affirms, on the au-
thority of prominent publisher, that
ministers purchase the largest part of
the scientific books written by specula-
tive writer's.
A volume of table talk, or wit and
wisdom, of Frederick the Great, has
been discovered in. the Prussian State
Archives, and viii be published early
in the ensuing summer.
"A Miss Sheriff, who was practical
ly the first English prima donna to try
her fortunes in America, recently died
unnoticed in London. 1t is thirty
years since she was in this country.
R. j. Burdette is forty, Bret Harte
is forty-fve, Mark Twain is forty eight,
w. D. Howells is forty-six, Thomas
Bailey Aldrich is forty-fve, joaquin
Miller is forty-two, James Russell Low
ell is sixty-four and John G. SAKE is
sixty eighty. z. Tribune.
e. d. Winslow, the notorious Bos-
ton forger, who almost succeeded in
causing a rupture in the diplomatic re-
lations between England and America a
few years ago, is now successful business
man in Buenos Ayres, South America.
He has taken the name of w. D. Lowe.
-Boaton Herald.
The Boston Traveller saws that
President Bruce, of the Massachusetts
Senate, and Speaker Marden, of the
Massachusetts House of Representa-
tives, were born in the same year, in the
same town in New Hampshire, and
were graduated in the same class st
Dartmouth College.
The Fresno (Col.) Republican says:
A remarkable matrimonial compact was
made at the United States Hotel in this
city Monday evening, in which Noah
Hickok and Elizabeth Hickok were
married for the third time. They have
been twice divorced. The bride and
groom have reached the mature age of
seventy-three and eighty-seven respect
lively.
M. Roustan, the new French Minister
at Washington, is about forty-eight
years of age. He has held many Con-
sular posts, and in 1881 was appointed
Ambassador to Tunis. He was a con-
spicuous actor in the recent events in
that country, and the success of French
diplomacy in the dealings with the Bey
is due almost entirely to his firmness
and sagacity. Washington Star.
-Trollope received S24O for his first
production and S35, 900 for one of his
last. Captain Marryatt received $780,
600 for one of his works, and Lord Lyt-
ton $4,000 for the copyright of the
cheap edition of his works by Messrs.
Routledge & Sons, in addition to the
large amount paid at the time of their
publication, while it is well known that
Messrs. Longman paid Lord Beacons-
field $4,000 for +" Endymion."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25
THE CITY OF COLUMBUS.
The Captains Statement as to the Cause
of the Wreck.

The Captains Statement as to the Cause
of the Wreck.
BosToN, Jan. 23.-Fishermen say the
City of Columbus did not strike on the
DEVILS Bridge at all, but on the Mussel Bed
situated three hundred feet outside of the
buoy of the bridge. They say, further, that
there is but fifteen feet of water there, and
all contend that Captain Wright was correct
when he said he saw the buoy on the
steamers port bow at the time the vessel
struck. Quartermaster Mcdonald, the man
at the wheel when the catastrophe oc-
CURED, has been reported as having said
that when off Nobska light Captain Wright
gave him the course to follow as southwest
by west, and he held that course until the
vessel struck the rocks Captain Wright
admits that he was correctly quoted, so far
as changing the course at Nobska was con-
ceEned, but also says that before entering
his state-room he told the second mate to
change the course to the west-southwest when
the ship should be off Tarpaulin Cave light,
and, in his opinion, this was not done
hence the wreck.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25

A FIRE at Fall River, Mass, ON the 10th,
In the residence of Charles p. Stickney, the
forger, WHO was recently pardoned from
the Massachusetts Penitentiary, caused
the death of his wife and the probable ia
tai burning of himself.
PROF. PETER VoTz, prominent musi-
clan of Allegheny City, Pa, was MUIR
dered on a railroad bridge the other night
by unknown mon, who took his watch and
money.
AT Scranton, Pa, nine powder mills ,ex-
ploded on the evening of the 18th. One man
was known 10 have been killed, others
were missing, and the pecuniary loss was
very heavy.
In building in Exchange Court, New
York, occupied by several stock brokers, q
recent fire caused a loss Of $l20, 900.
On the 18th G. Il, Dewey, the Montreal
swindler and forger, who pleaded guilty at
Boston, made restitution of 100000 of the
$4,000 frauduleutly obtained.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Directors
on the 18th elected as President of the
company Robert Harris, Vice. President of
the New York. Lake Erie & Western Road,
and he at once entered upon the duties of
his position.
On the 18th Francis w. Rockwell IRE
publican) was elected to Congress from
the Twelfth District of Massachusetts, to
succeed Governor Robinson.
JAMES EGAN, ex-SpeaSer of the New
Jersey Assembly, was recently fined five
hundred dollars and sentenced to hard
labor in the penitentiary for, one month,
for an attempt to bride Assemblyman
Armitage.
In Philadelphia recently three photogra-
piers, who pleaded guilty TO making and
selling obscene pictures, were sentenced
each to one years Imprisonment and five
hundred dollars fine.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th Sc
we're earthquake shock was felt at Comic.
cook, N. H.
AT Paterson, N. j., six hundred ribbon
weavers went on strike on the 18th for
higher wages.
A CONFESSION was made on the 18th by
Edward Tappan, confined in prison at Hun
ter's Point, L. l., for the Townsend out
rage, that his brother, John B. Tappan, on
the evening of November II last killed
Mrs. and Anna Maybee by strangling
them to death on the barn floor, and then
assaulted Mr. Maybee and robbed the
prem ises.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
XLYIIIth Congress.

THURSDAY, Jan. IA petition was
presented In the Senate for the appoint
ment Of a commission on the liquor traffic
Bills were introduced to establish Board
of Interstate Commerce and to secure
reasonable rates of transportation over
railroads aided by the Government In the
House the Senate bill appropriating 81, OW,-
600 for continuing the improvement of the
Mississippi was passed by vote of 215 to
Ga. A communication was received ten
dering the Marine Hospital at Erie, Pa, to
the Government for home for soldiers
and sailors. A bill was reported to grant
pension to the surviving grandchild of
Thomas Jefferson.
FRIDAY, Jan. IS. - In the Senate a
message was received from the President
recommending that relief expedition be
dispatched for the Greedy party, and ask
ing that immediate action be taken in the
matter. In executive session the Mexican
treaty failed for lack of one vote. Ad-
journed to the 2lst. In the House the day
was consumed In debate on the Fitz John
Porter bill in Committee of the Whole.
SATURDAY, Jan. 19.-The Senate was not
in session. In the House the day was
devoted to debate on the bill for the relief
of Fitz John Porter.
MONDAY, Jan. 21.-In the Senate sew
eral petitions were presented asking an
investigation of the divorce legislation of
the respective States, and others praying
for law to give ex-prisoners Of war the
benefit of the public lands. Mr.. Edmunds
introduced bill to amend tho act grant
ing lands to the Union and Central Pacific
Roads, and to secure to the United States
the indebtedness of the companies. A bill
was passed permitting retired army Off
GERS to hold civil office in the Territories
In the House bill was passed repeating
the law prescribing the iron-clad oath. A
resolution was adopted instructing the
Committee on Public Lands to report bills
authorizing the restoration of uuearned
railroad land grants to the public domain
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25
Thrown from a TrestIe.

DAYTON, O, Jan. 23.-Express No. 2 on
the Cincinnati division of the Toledo, Gin
cinnati & st. Louis Road, consisting of seven
coaches, baggage-c car and engine, dashed off
a long trestle twenty feet high, near Beaver
town, Tuesday evening, causing comdlete
wreck and loss of $4,000. The accident
was caused by the truck-wheel of the engine
breaking as the train was in the middle of
the trestle and all the cars were hurled off
in an instant, carrying away part of the
trestle. Twenty persons were on board,
four Of whom were injured.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25
Strange PremOnition.

NoRTHBoRo, Mass, Jan. 23.-The body
of Hilon Brooks, of this town, a victim of
the Gay Head wreck, has arrived home.
Brooks had a premonition of disaster, and
prior to his departure regulated all his finan-
cial matters and talked freely as to the
course to be pursued by relatives in case he
should not return alive. On the morning
after President Lincoln was assassinated
Brooks, who was then in the army, gave
the boys in camp with him an account Of a
dream he had the night before in relation to
that tragedy, which was corroborated by in
telligence received soon after.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25

"A Biddeford (Me.) gentleman found
in his wood-shed recently dead weasel,
with his tongue frozen to an ax-blade.
The AK had been used in cutting beef in
the morning, and the animal, in at
tempting to secure a piece Of the meat
which adhered to the blade, had sin
gularly met his death.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25

-On the oath of bright nine-year-
old boy in New York. woman was
tentenced to three months, Imprisonment
she other day for stealing baby car
riage.-M Y. Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
A Remarkable Man.

Bat de Prare, a gentleman living near
Marshfield, Wood County, is remarkable for
his advanced age and various experiences.
He was born in the Michigan peninsula in
the year 1T77, and is now consequently in
his 106th year. He is of mixed descent, his
father being French fur trader and his
mother an Indian woman. His father was
one of the early fur-traders, and among the
pioneers who penetrated the then unex-
ploredwilderness of the Northwest. The
old man is quite hale and hearty, but is
wholly incapacitated from performing any
manual labor. He is supported by private
contributions. He was soldier in the
American army in the war of 1912, and was
with General Jackson at the battle of New
Orleans. During the war between the
United States and Mexico, Bat de Prare
was with an American regiment, and after
ward acted as scout and interpreter for the
Government in the Black Hawk war. At
the beginning of the late civil war he en-.
deavored to enlist as private, but was
rejected on account of his age. For over
fifty years he did not sleep under roof.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25

Vennor, goose-bone, muskrat, corn
shuck and all may as well be laid on
the shelf as relics. ~ Cincinnati Com
nsercidl Gazette
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25

The claim is made for Cleveland,
O., that it shows a lower proportional
death list for 1883 than any other city
in the Union.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25

"A letter addressed to Widow
Smith, Richford, VT threw the post
master into a panic, there being eleven
widows of that name in Richford
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25

Innocence is like polished armor, II
adorns and it defends.-Dr. Snoth,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25

From the various comparative tables an
nually prepared by the State Railroad Com
missioner it is learned that the roads which
traverse Wisconsin have total stock, COM
mon and preferred, in the State, of $780,
563, 604S0. The total amount spent for con-
struction and equipment during the past
year was $4,000, 06619. The total earnings
were $40, 706, 857. 81; expenses, So, 2S5, 189 a.
The number of passengers carried in the
State was 3,SO7, 675; tons of freight, 4,462,-
367. The equipments are: Locomotives,
1874; passenger-cars, 74S; baggage, mail
and express-cars, 431; parlor or sleeping
ing-cars, 81; freight-cars, 52,791; other
cars, TIA.
The number of persons killed on all the
systems during the past year was: Passen-
gers, 8; employees, 43; others, AZ. The
number injured for same time: Passen-
gers, %; employees, 1903; Others, %; max
ing the total killed IS; injured, 154. The
total of accidents, including killed and in
jured, was on all the lines, 242
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-04
Revivals.

The fact that religious revivals are not
necessarily revivals of righteousness is
becoming every day more apparent. If
it is quite possible to be as religious as a
Hottentot or a Turk and yet have no
Christianity, spurious revivals are Just
what might be expected. A false religion
and false Christ are doubtless among
the most efficient means employed by the
father of lies to build up his kingdom.
In revival of genuine religion there are
conversions to truth, practical as we'll as
theoretical. True conversion is not only
a change of heart but of life-a change
from evil practices, habits, and opinions
to such as are pure and good and upright.
The world will not be saved through
church that is unsaved-one that affiliates
with, and is actuated by, the spirit of
compromise with evil and wrong. doing.
In such churches there may be revivals of
religion but not of Christianity. Where
there is pride, fashion, worldly conformity,
love of pleasure aud amusement INDUCED
in and sanctioned by church, there will
assuredly be q revival of the same in their
religious ingatherings. On the other
hand, when church is baptized with the
Holy Ghost, and moral purity, honesty,
truth and love abound, there will be q
revival of the same spirit of power, bring
ing forth the fruits of righteousness and
true holiness,-Seiected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-04
"The Rock that is. Higher than I.''

You must climb up higher than your
self in order to conquer yourself. AS long
as ones thoughts center wholly on him.
self, and are directed merely TO his own
good and improvement, he is almost sure
to be defeated in his struggles with be-
setting faults. He has no motive strong
enough to make him Tin New Testament
language) "resist unto blood, striving
against sin y; for that self.love which
makes him seek his own best interests is
gain control of human heart. He will
dc what he knows by sad experience will
hurt body, mind and soul, and what he
has called himself time and again
"fool for doing, even if he would resent
another's calling him 80 still he will
keep on doing it through the strength of
the desire which urges him on, and the
weakness of the only motive which
prompts him to resist. Defeat is almost
sure to come on that low level where moth
ing else is sought than our own interests
and pleasures, and victory will seldom be
achieved until higher principle of ac-
ton has been gained. Then "lead me to
the Rock that is higher than ~ must be
the prayer of every soul. There is
whole host of temptations assailing us at
| every step. Their sleepless eyes are
watching the first exposure of our hearts.
They know where our defenses are weak
est and if ever the strong human will
on which we have been relying should
slumber, they know that, too. When for
a moment we unloose our armor to seek
some relaxation, they make their fercest
assaults, and where the joints of our
"harness were not we'll knit together,
their flying darts soon find the narrow
opening. Down on the level of these
temptations is continuous, if not disas-
trous, warfare; and we shall not fully
master these enemies of our peace till we
gain and hold on to the heights which
command the plains below. Such ref
uge there is in that allegiance to God
which makes us lay hold of him as he has
already laid hold upon us, and through
that contact divine power flows in to sup
ply the needs of human weakness. There
is love for God which can grow to be
so absorbing and supreme as to keep every
heart.throb in unison with it. There is a
loyalty to the eternal righteousness which
can become so devoted that no usurping
passion in the heart shall dare lift up the
standard of revolt. And all this loving,
royal recognition of the divine as some.
thing to be thought of, loved, obeyed, is
that religion which takes us out of our
selves, and makes us find our truest lives
in God. The eager reaching up to that
religion and the steadfast holding to it is
the only remedy for private, social and
national evils.-Rev Richard MetcdE