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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-20
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches,
xLvIIIth CONGRESS.
Second session.


OK the 18th the Senate passed the Joint res
olution authorizing the return of the steamer
Alert to the British Government. The bill re-
pealing the Timber-Culture law and the Army
Appropriation bill were passed In the
House the Senate's amendments to the Con-
sular and Diplomatic and Pensions Appro
priation bills were non-concurred in. The
Post-ofice Appropriation bill was considered,
and the amount required for inland mail
transportation was fixed at S140100OO The
item reducing postage on newspapers and all
secOnd-class matter to one cent per pound or
fraction thereof was agreed to.
In the Senate on the 18th the Indian Appro-
prfation bill was reported, and the bill prohib-
iting the importation of foreign contract la
Dor was taken up and discussed at great
length, but no action was taken In the
House concurrence was given to the Senate
amendments TO the bill to prevent the unlaw-
full occupation of public lands. The Post
Office Appropriation bill was further consid-
cred In Committee of the Whole and reported
to the House. At the evening session several
private bills were passed.
THE Agricultural bill was reported in the
Senate on the 14th and the Indian bill was
considered =. In the House the River and
Harbor bin was further discussed. The
Postal Appropriation bill was passed with
amendments increasing the item for letter.
carriers to $4,535,000.
The Senate on the 18th passed the Indian
Appropriation bill, after striking out the sec
ton authorizing the President to negotiate
for opening the Oklahoma lands The Post
Office Appropriation bill was received and re-
ferred. :. In the House Mr.. Slocum's motion
to suspend the rules and pass the bill placing
General Grant on the retired list was lost--158
to 103-the necessary two-thirds not being OBJ
tanned in its favor. The Legislative Appro-
priation bill was fl rther considered.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Congressman Rosecranz' son is a
Catholic priest and his two daughters
are nuns.
In his Life of Ralph Waldo Elmer
son" DR.. Holmes says the poet and phi
losopher always had pie for breakfast.
1t has been decided by an Arkansas
literary society that circus is superior
to district school as civilizing agent.
Susan B. Anthony began life as a
school-teacher, at eight dollars month,
and in fifteen years saved three hundred
dollars.
Rev. Charles E. Burdette, brother
of the Rda0kege humorist, was married
recently to Miss Minnie Russell, fellow
missionary in Farther India.
William Cullen Bryant has been
dead for several years, but letters di-
rected to him are received almost every
day at the Office of the New York EUen-
ing Post,
News letters, in manuscript, were
sold before newspapers were printed.
The Italian name gazette was first APP
piled to those letters and afterward to
the printed copies.
The prospectus has been issued of
the greatest literary enterprise of a
pathological character ever attempted
in Japan. This is Chinese dictionary,
called the "Meif Ttieu," which will ex-
tend to forty volumes.
The abundance of cheap literature
does not injuriously affect the sale of
very expensive editions of the same
works. There appear to be a great
many people in the country who are
building up fine libraries. Current.
The late Mark Pattison, speaking
of the desirability of condensing rs
much as possible in writing, once said:
Il think it must have been the scanty
supply ofpaper which made the class
les what they are. - Chicago Herald.
Fanny Ellsler left an estate worth
100000. She was most graphically
described by a ''Varmounter, - who,
after seeing her dance in Boston, said:
''She is as much quicker than lightning
as lightning is quicker than stone
wall. .
"A Kansas editor informs us that he
did not attend the late editorial con-
VenGlOn at Kansas Clty Tor the simple,
but very good reason, that he had no
railroad pass, and did not receive no.
tice in time to make the journey on
foot. -KGnsGS City Times.
Belle Kinney, a twelve-y ear-old
girIof Marysyille, o., holds her book
upside down when she reads, inverts
her copy-book and writes with the left
hand and in both ic &c cl-illfu1 DC othar
children with their books in the usual
position, = Chicago Inter Ocean
Libraries which are never replen-
ished by new publications may be val
liable, but they have lost their life.
Several of the old libraries in New York
are reserved for an apparently past gem
Grafton, and it is almost as curious to
see the people that go into them, it is
said, as to look at the old books on
the shelves
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HUMOROUS.

The profits of an alligator farm are
from $4,000 to $1,000 year. For par
ticulars as to how and when to plant
and reap and get the crop to market
see small bills.-M Z. Graphic.
"A talkative woman, pressing her
viands upon a guest at fable, asked:
care you not fond of tongueP" eyes, "
said the wearied. man, q always was
fond of tongue, and / like it still. -
New York school teacher--''W (Which
is the highest mountain in the Statep'
Boy" Sing Sing" Teacher-.''W hyP"
Boy =" Father went up a year ago,
and hasn't come down yet. "-BoSton
BeGe0n.
-"Denny, answer me now; plat
was the name av the little by We wor
playing wild out in the yarred this
mornin P" Donohue," "Wen, L
want you to be ffndin' out who; won't
have yez playin' wild any an iverybody's
children. "-Mercba1at TraUeler.
pa" said young Danbury boy
to his father" "where are you goipgPh
ITO hog-guessing match, my son. "
"What do the hogs guess about, pap"
was the next query. Little boys
should be seen and not heard" said the
father, in an impressive voice. DAN
bury Ne10s.
Vas Fooled.
Hans fell in love NIT shwweed leetle maid,
Und every night by her window he shtood,
Und dhere init poorly sharanade
He woke out der whole naborhoodt.
But family he tried once to rouse
Dot matt out her shleep so pewitchen;
He vas play on der front of dot house,
Und she shleeb on der leetle pack keetchen.
Carl PretzeJ
Mike Something of an invalid)-
The docther says Oh must dhrink oirun
for me blood. Mary-Shure, an how
can yez dhrink o.run, Moike? Mike
By meltin' it, ay course. Mary-But
yez can't dhrink hot melted oirun, We
fule. Mike-Oi knaw Oh can't drink
hot melted oirun, but it's mesilf that can
wait till it cools. --N. Y. Times.
When the well-known song, "AIrs.
Brady's Daughter" was having a run,
lady one day went into Philip Wer-
leiH's store on Bourbon street, New
Orleans, and stepping up to a dashing
young salesman, said: ''Mrs. Bradys
Daughter" "Glad to know you" re-
piled the young man, extending his
hand. "How is your mother"
change.
whats the use of going to
school?'' one street boy asked of anoth-
er, in surprise. "Why, 1 pick up lots
of things in school FIR instance, |
found out to-day what a. m. means,
khatye see in der papers all der time.
"What does it mean, anyhow" ut
means after midnight, of course; and
p. m. means pos morton, and that's
French for evening. -Harper'a Bazaar.
"A charming young girl, accom-
panied by her octogenarian great-grand-
mother, who is all that the name inn
plies, enters dry-goods store. '|How
much is this ribbon?" she asked of the
polite young clerk, who has bounded
agilely over several stools to wait upon
her. "a kiss yardr' replied the young
masher gallantly. ''Giye me ten yards,
then. Grandma'll pay you-she always
settles the bills when we go shoppin. y
CHICAGO Inter Ocean.
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THE FAST.

THE famous "buchuo man, DR.. Henry
Helmbold, was released from the insane
asylum at Norristown, Pa, on the 18th,
where he had been confined since June 81,
1881.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELDS eightieth birth
day was celebrated at the residence of Cy-
rus w. Field in New York on the evening
of the 18TH
THE belief prevailed on the 18th that
twenty EIGHT persons persisted by the re-
cent asylum fire in West Philadelphia.
AFTER few days illness DIR. Leopold
Damrosch the distinguished musician,
died in New York on the 10Th, aged fifty
three years.
THE sudden death of Francis A. Dre1el,
head of the great Drexel banking house of
Cured on the 14th in New York.
On the Pennsylvania Railroad an east
bound freight train was thrown from the
track the other night by broken fange,
causing the death of two hundred sheep,
eighty hogs and several horses.
ADvICEs of the 18th stated that there
were over seventy five thousand unem-
ployed people in the city of New Y ork, and
Notwithstanding this fact the immigrant
ships were landing five thousand poor peo-
pie at Castle Garden every week.
WHILE cleaning drain in Chicago nine
men were asphyxiated by sewer gas on the
18th and five of them died.
THE entire west side of the public square
at Princetown, Mo-, was swept away by a
recent fire. The loss was estimated at
100000.
A FIRE a few days ago destroyed the
Methodist Church and hotel and resi-
dence at Wellsboro, Pa. Many persons
narrowly escaped with their lives.
In Pennsylvania and Ohio numerous
iron mills resumed operations on the 10th,
giving employment to a large number of
persons.
ALONG the Atlantic coast hurricane
was reported on the 18th, doing heavy
damage at Cape May, Atlantic City and
other points. At New York two men were
fatally hurt by falling shutter, another
being blown from q building and killed.
A LAMP exploded on the 10Th in j. @.
Bright's hardware store in Pottsville, Pa,
destroying that building, the Miners
Journal, ]. Wingent's drugstore and the
Merchants Hotel. Loss, 100000
In New York on the 10Th Mrs. Y. Dud-
ley, who attempted to kill O'Donovan
Rosa, was held in $1,000 bail. On the
stand she said that she desired to slay
Rosa because he was an enemy of her
country.
Two SECTIONS of a stock-train collided
early the other morning near Connemaugh,
Pa, and William Keller and Joseph Erb,
two droyers from Chicago, were killed, and
| tramp was fatally injured.
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A Handy Husband to Have.

Scene in the. boudoir OF a Hartford
belle:
Thoughtful Mamma = Well, dear,
which gentleman have you selected for
your husband?
Dutiful Daughter-oh, think IN
take Mr.. FatboY.
Mamma-But, dear, Mr.. Littlem&n
is very rich, while your choice is very
poor.
Daughter-Yes, my choice is very
poor. it is true; but he is so big and
stout he will be just splendid to set on
the Bible and press winter leaves.
Mamma Oh, l see, You will not be
influenced by monetary consideration.
Daughter-No; Imarry for love alone.
Hartford Sunday JournGE.
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killed on the 18th BY being run over by q

killed on the 18th by being run over by 9
Bee Line engine.
WHILE quarreling on the 14th at Shelby
vile, KY, VIII Adams, twenty six years
old, shot and killed his sweetheart, TIME
Wilmouth, pretty girl of eighteen, and
then killed himself.
A BROKEN rail on the Louisville Road
threw fast passenger train from the
track early the other morning at Rens-
selaer, Ind, and ten persons were severely
injured.
The other day two colored men were
discovered in the act of placing OBJ
structions on track to derail train on
the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio
Railroad, and were shot by the officers
and killed.
In the Ohio Valley religious revivals are
taking deep hold, in some towns half the
population having been converted and
business was almost suspended. Within
seven weeks ten thousand persons have
been converted in West Virginia and
Eastern Ohio.
The Exchange Bank of Belleville, o.,
was in possession of the Sheriff on the
14th, and rumors prevailed that the cashier
had decamped with $4,000.
THE residence of P. B. Kinkead, County
Treasurer of Cass County, Texas, was en-
tered by two masked burglars the other
night, who knocked him senseless, and
robbed him Of 81 900 in currency and SIS, 900
in State securities.
THROUGHOUT Illinois, Indiana and Iowa
another snow storm prevailed on the 18th.
CONTRACTOR JACKSON, during a fracas
among his men near Sunrise, Miss, few
days ago shot three of them dead in self
dense.
A sNow-sLIDE few nights ago nearly
demolished the mining camp of Alta, U. t.,
sixteen persons being killed, including five
children and two Cinnamon. The financial
loss was about 81, 000..
AT Denver, Col, great damage was done
on the 10Th by heavy wind storm.
JAMES SINGLETON, of Muncie, Ind,
farmer, was frozen to death on the 10th.
In the Northwest the embargo on rail-
road travel, caused by the recent storm,
was very serious on the 10th. In the Du-
buque (Ia.) section it was reported as the
worst in eighteen years, and at various
points trains were from six to ten hours
late, and at others they were imbedded in
mountainous drifts. The mercury ranged
from 70 to 26 below zero.
ON the 10Th the annual Mardi- Gras fes-
tivities at New Orleans commenced. The
King of the Carnival appeared at noon,
and was escorted to the exposition grounds
by fotilla of eighteen steamers.
Mpc GApAu ATTETEA HrTr GuAp0N 10
Gently granted divorce from ex-senator
Sharon at San Francisco, was on the 10th
awarded $4,000 counsel fees, with ALI
mony Of $1,000 month from January 8,
1884.
In Baltimore heavy rains following
snow-storm flooded the streets on the 10th,
in some thoroughfares the water being two
feet deep.
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Unemployed Workers in New York.

New YORK, Feb. 17.--It is estimated
at the lowest calculation that there are at
this time over $4,000 men and women I'M
employed in this city. These are classified
as follows: Women, 10000; 'longshoremen,
5000; Italians, 5000; cloak-makers. TO-
900; tailors, 5000; artificial flowers,
1900; bricklayers, $500; carpenters,
1,40O; trainers, 1900; plasterers, 400;
plumbers, 1850; stonecutters, 1000; fur
niture-workers, 5000; ironworkers, 5000:
printers 1000; bookbinders, ETC., 1900;
shoemakes, 500; cigarmakers, 5000;
bakers, 500; walters, 1000; other trades,
2, 500 The loss i'll wages is placed at more
than $1,000, 600 week. While more than
seventy-fiye thousand workers are unem-
ployed in New York City, the immigrant
ships are landing 5000 poor people at Castle
Garden every week. OF these at least fifty
per cent. join the army of idlers, and are in
no way able to take care of themselves
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LATER.

IN the United States District Court &c
Chicago, in the Eighteenth ward election
fraud cases, the first witness on the 18th
was jeremiah J. Sullivan, printer, who
admitted that all his testimony of a few
days before was false; that it was dictated
to him by Joseph C. Mackin, who paid him
therefor total of $4.60 in four different
interviews and promised him situation
In Washington -
The recent storm at Newport, r. l.,
swept away the sea wall for seventy five
feet.
III was announced on the 18th that Gen.
eral Wolseley had decided to remain at
korti with the present force of 1900 troops
until General Evelyn Wood reported as to
the situation at Metemneh. The Arabs
were said to be deserving from Metemneh
in large numbers, and entering the British
camp at Gubat.
THE business portion of Bisbee, a. T.,
was swept away by fire the other morning,
the loss reaching 100000.
AT Bloomington and other places in Illi-
nois a coal famine prevailed on the 18th,
owing to the railroads being blockaded by
some small towns. Farmers were burning
fencing and corn.
A CONCURRENT resolution was adopted
by the New Jersey Senate on the 18th 80
submit to the people prohibition amend
ment to the State Constitution.
/ In the northern and western portions Of
4 New York State fierce snow and wind
storm prevailed on the 18th. At Troy,
Buffalo and other points great damage was
done, and the railroads were completely
blockaded.
A BILL forbidding any one to sell or give
tobacco to minors has been adopted by the
Iowa Legislature, and on the 18th awaited
the Governors signature.
ELIZABETH BoNY, ninety six years old,
committed suicide on the 18th by burning
herself to death in her house near Fall
mouth, KY.
IN the neighborhood of Montreal the
heaviest snow-storm for years ragged on
the 18th, and railroad traffic was at a
standstiH, immense quantities of snow
having drifted on the. tracks. A similar
state of affairs prevailed at Quebec.
The Brussels carpet mills at Lowell,
Mass, shut down on the 18th, throwing
nearly five hundred employees out of work.
In the United States Senate on the 18th
the bill authorizing the sale of part of the
lands of the Winnebago Indians in Me-
braska was passed. The Anti Foreign
Contract Labor bill was considered. In
the House the Appropriation Committee
reported the Nayal,bill, calling for $13,5i5,-
sSs. Mr.. Dorsheimer introduced a bill to
regulate the coinage and promote the
equal circulation of gold and silver. Tie
Legislative bill was passed.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

On the 18th James M. Murray was
hanged at Portland, Ore, for the murder of
his brother in-law, and Sanford jackson
(colored) was executed at Selma, Ala.,
for killing Rufus Gill (colored) in March,
1883.
FIVE troops of cavalry and company
of infantry are encamped at the Ponca In.
dian Agency and Camp Russell to prevent
another raid into Oklahoma.
In all parts of the Hooking Valley an
nouncement was made on the 18th that no
more aid could be given the striking
miners, and the men were advised to go to
work.
AT Cleveland, o., John and Peter Heav-
er, brothers, and son Of the former were
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Dynamite Thieves.

NEW York, Feb. II. Eight eases Of
dynamite were stolen from the magazine of
the American Dynamite Company in West
chester County. Every effort is being made
to locate it As dynamite is not market
able product, the thieves are believed to be
connected with some organization of
dynamiters. On the night of the robbery
four men were seen rowing across the Sound
from Bay Chester to the Long Island shore.
1t is reported that two English detectives
are giving their attention to the case.
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EI Mehdi ProcIaims eordon's Death.

LONDON, Feb. General Brackenbury
telegraphs under date of Kerbehan Febru-
airy IL, the translation of an Arabic document
found near the camp deserted by the rebels
on Tuesday. 1t is from the Governor of Ber-
Der to his faithful followers. 1t says:
To-day after midday prayer received
letter from the faithful Khalifa Abdullah
Eden Mohammed, in which he says Khartoum
was taken on Monday, eth Rabi 1902, in the
following manner: Ell Mehdi PRAYED and
blessed the troops, who then advanced against
the Notifications. They entered Khartoum IN
a quarter of an hour killed the traitor Cor
don and captured his steamers and boats
God has made him glorious Be grateful;
thank ana praise God for Hi unspeakahle
mercy, announce it to you,
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Five Men Killed.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb. 1O.-A Brazil
special to the Euentpg Gazette says that a
terrible accident occurred in the rolling-mill
at 6 80 this morning. A boiler exploded,
burying four men under the ruins of
the pudding furnace and killing one other.
Fifteen were seriously injured. Some
will die. The four men buried under the
furnace were all taken out dead. The ma
jority had lately arrived from Eastern
points and gone to work in the mill. The
dead are: Mahlon Baker, Waterman, Bra
I'll; Bob Davis, roller, Brazil; Brock, pud-
der, Brazil; James Billiter, Brazil; Lewis
Miller, Newark, N. j.
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IT is said that Edward Everett Hale
is the only survivor of seven newspaper
men who reported Webster's address at
the laying of the cornerstone of Bunker
Hill Monument sixty years ago.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-20

There has been discovered near
Yuba Dam fugitive sheep, which, in
swimming through the muddy water,
had become thoroughly covered with
"slickens, " in which much grass seed
had been mixed. A thick crop of green
grass is now growing upon the sleeps
back. Both the sheep and grass are be-
ing carefully guarded, and when the
latter has reachedits full growth it viii
be harvested, converted into hay and
preserved as one of the California Gu
riosities.- Chicago Times.
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A borse-car conductor in NewhI,1

A horse-car conductor in Newbury-
port, Mass, has long memory a
man owed him for two rides, and dis
appeared for four years. Upon his re-
turn he started to ride home, and
handed the conductor money for his
fare. The conductor took out four
fares, two of which were for the debt,
and one for the interest. Boston Post.
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THE Bell telephone patent has been
declared void in Canada for failure to
comply with the terms of the Dominion
patent laws.
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AN editor in Kentucky reports that
during the past five years he has re-
corded 1,340 murders and homicides In
that State, and there have been less
than twenty executions.
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Men have been employed on rail.
ways with the temperature of 104 de-
grees, and in the mines, under favor.
able circumstances, at 125 degrees,
while the stoke-holes of tropical vessels
they are said to work occasionally at a
temperature Of 156 degrees, CEegeEand
Leader.
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DYNAMITE has been discovered in the
Shetland Islands News from the moon
is now anxiously awaited.
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The statement is made that during
the year 1884 there were 100000
acres entered in South Dakota, and
that 100 post-oflices, seven daily and
79 weekly newspapers were established.
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In the Connecticut Legislature res
olution was introduced few days ago
to establish State Fireman's Associa-
ton. one of whose functions shall be the
complication of statistics" This was
not printers error.
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WE think we have discovered the
meanest man in the person of a Mem
phis (Tenn.) undertaken who recently
exhumed the body Of little girl he had
buried and returned it to its mother be-
cause she could not pay two dollars, the
price of interment.
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The honors are carried off by the
Jones family. There will be three of
them in the next United States Senate
James K. Jones, of Arkansas; Charles
w. Jones, of Florida, and John P.
Jones, of Nevada. And there will be
only one Brown, and not a solitary
Smith. The next House will also have
three Joneses-one from Alabama, one
from Texas and one from Wisconsin
and there will be three Browns. but not
single Smith.
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F, F. WAsHBURN. who was few days
ago placed in the Arkansas Lunatic
Asylum, lost his reason through serving
as a witness against a murderer in
Monroe County, and cherishing fear
that the condemned man would appear
and take his life.
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MISS MATILDA CHASE, who was re-
Gently burned to death at Annapolis,
Md, dreamed q few days before her
death of the terrible fate awaiting her.
She was so much agitated that she at
once sent for her lawyer to draw up her
will. The arguments of her relatives
against the truthfulness of dreams in
duoed her to change her mind, and a
few days later the dream was literally
fulfilled. Having made no will her
property, valued at 100000, went to
her only sister,
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THE whipping-post still survives in
Delaware. Nine convicts were whipped
at Newcastle recently eight for larceny
and one for burglary. The latter,
negro, received twenty lashes and stood
for an hour in the pillory. The others
received ten lashes each.