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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06
A Protest.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 3-The citizens
living in the neighborhood where Saturdays
explosions occurred held a meeting last
night and protested against the further use
of natural gas mains The Councilmen from
the district were instructed to use legal
proceedings to compel the removal Of de-
fectiye pipes The managers of the Penn
Fuel & Gas Company have decided to lay
an entire new line of low-pressure mains,
except along the banks of the river The
victims of Saturdays disasters are all do
ing well. An explosion Of artificial gas on
Third avenue yesterday morning damaged
Walker & Sons paper-box factory $500.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06
Committed Suicide.

VANDALIA, ILL.,, Feb. 3.-Mrs. J. W. Ray
committed suicide yesterday morning by
taking a dose Of Diamond dye. Domestic
nfelicity is the cause assigned. About a
month ago bliss Retta Ray, sister-in-law
of the deceased, made an unsuccessful at
tempt to commit suicide by taking Rough
on Rats"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06

When an elephant catches cold
medical treatment is apt to include
large doses. Perhaps the most gigantic
dose was prepared lately in Cincinnati.
Five tubs filled with whisky, mo-
lasses and ginger were given to each
elephant in a show, and the mixture
was apparently enjoyed Cincinnati
Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06

The death of Schuyler Colfax leaves
but two ex-Vice-Presidcnts surviving
Hamilton Hamlin, of Maine, and Will
Jam A. Wheeler, of New York.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06

A Minnesota farmer states that he
can ''keep one stove going" during six
months with the suntlower stalks pro-
duced on an acre of land. The seed
produced and fed to fowls pays for all
the work of cultivation. He burns the
smaller heads with the stalks. which
are cut in the fall to the required
length. CHICAGO IribNne.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06

HE interesting information is given
by a Philadelphia paper that the Chinese
in that city have GRAINED sparrows to
fight" 1t would be vastly more diff
cult to train sparrows to keep from
fighting.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06

THE record has been broken by q
New York coachman clipping with the
family governess, and society is in con-
sequence terribly shocked.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06

in the New York pilot service there
are nineteen boats, with 1873 licensed
pilots all but two of whom are in active
service. During 1884 6,045 vessels were
piloted in and out Of the harbor at a
total cost to the vessel-oWners of S415.-
513.45.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06

DURING the past three months the
railroads have been earning more money
than they did in the last three months
of 1883.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06

One Of the railway companies whose
line runs out of Boston proposes sub
hitting to its employees a Temperance
pledge with an ultimatum to sign or
git. boston Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06

A YOUNG girl employed in a bag
factory in New York recently lost a
finger in the machinery, and now sues
her employer for $4,000. The man
who gets her full hand would in like
ratio pay heavily if she entered upon
suit for breach of promise.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06

A WRITER in the Weekly Medical Re
Vie10 says: Il have collected every
catarrh, asthma and hay fever sure
cure that is in the market, numbering
in all tifty-eight, and have carefully ex-
amined them. Eighteen of these sure
CUES are bald-faced frauds. One
ounce of quassia chips, pound of
table salt and forty gallons of water
will make one barrel of sure cure that
sells for one dollar bottle, holding six
ounces; the same quantity of water, q
pound of muriate of ammonia. a pound
of ground cubebs, and little common
potash will make another cure that
sells for fifty cents bottle, holding
four ounces. These two are the best Of
the eighteen frauds"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06

The discoverer of the richest silver
mine in Leadville sold his prize fol-
$4,000, and during the following year
the two purchasers made million each
from it. In the meantime the discov-
erer squandered his $40, 900 in prospects
ing, and the other day, a homeless
tramp, sought a nights lodging in a
Leadville Station-house.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06
HUMOROUS.
what He Got:

Soft blue were her eyes and lustrous,
Her breath was the breath of the South.
He kissed that girl on the forehead,
And got bang in the mouth.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06

GOVERNOR BAwN, in his annual mes
sage, spoke of people coming into
Rhode Island for the purpose of pro-
curing divorce. He states that, in
the past ten years, there have been
1884 applications for divorce in the
State, of which number 1926 have
been granted.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06

MIR. f. II. CUSHING, whose papers in
the Cento"y descriptive of his life
among the Zuni Indians have attracted
much attention, says that the Zuni's
smoked cigarettes seven hundred years
ago Many of the young men of to-day
are making a desperate effort to kill
themselves and revive the classic Gus
toms OF the Zunis in both smoking and
banging their hair.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06

PHILADELPHIA has been bereft of an
other sensation. Hezekiah Williams
(colored) had for several weeks been
exhibited at museum there as "the
wild man from the iungles of Africa. >
He was chained to the floor, and the
police interfered on the supposition that
he was an idiot. Upon being taken
into court the removal of his false hair
and beard revealed a perfectly sane
negro.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06

A NEW organization of veterans at
Boston is entitled ''the Gettysburg
Club, " and at dinner the other night
seventy-tive persons were present.
Eight Massachusetts regiments have
bought land whereupon to build battle
field monuments, and it is likely that
the other regiments which took part in
the battle will mark with stone their
positions on the field.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06

Mrs. EUGENIA MARKS, who died re-
Gently at Frankfort, Philadelphia
suburb, was q slave of Thomas JEFF
ferson, and was at his bedside when
he died. She took great pleasure in
telling that, while at Washington, she
cooked so nice a breakfast for General
jackson that he went to the kitchen to
compliment her, and accompanied his
compliments with a fiye-dollar gold
piece.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-07-31

Is at your disl 'osa for the season of 1888. Beir
manned by careful and competent officers and ere
who will exert themselves at all times to oblige vi
itors. Char tiers a Speciality. Rates reasonable.
For terms apply to
CAPT. F. E. DODGE, Manager
Newport, Oregon. s22sim
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-07-31

A couple Of horses were sold at auc-
ton in Corvallis. They were of the
dirty nose diseased kind. One was a
roane about fourteen hands high very
heavy made and rather neat appear
ing animal, it was knocked eff to a
young man be the name of Case; the
other was yellowish bay about four
teen and a half hands high, one of its
hind legs appeared like it had some
time ben broken or dislocated down
close to the foot. This horse was
badly effected with something like
gleet or glanders, and WAS knocked
down to some party whose name we
did not know, for FIVE dollars. There
is penal law against exposing such
diseased animals so that they will
come in contact with other animals and
the legislature should go farther and
make it penitentiary ofense for any
one to be found trading or dealing in
them. The law, however, as it is,
might reach some "Handy Andy" fel-
lows who are passing these kinds of
rotten beasts over the country. 1t
would do well for our grand jury to
look into the matter.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-07-31

A great controversy between Col.
Fred Grant who had been requested by
his father to arrange the place of burial
after the latters death, has been going
on with the Mayor and authorities of
New York regarding the place of
burial of the remains of General Grant
The New York authorities desired the
burial spot to be at Central Park, but
they did not feel inclined to consent
for Mrs. Grant, the Generals wife to
be buried there beside him after her
death; while the Grant family desired
and expected that the mother and
widow should find last resting place
beside the remaius of her departed
husband. New Workers may be very
choice about who shall be buried in
their cemeteries, but who is there so
savage and utterly devoid of human
feeling to expect other than if the Gen
eral is buried in Central Park that his
wife when dead shall be buried there
also.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-07-31

Grant, the great and world renowned
General Of his day and age; self
made man, sprans from poor boy of
humble but Industrious parentage, to
be one of the greatest, most successful
and best generals of ancient or mod
ern times. He was promoted to the
front and to the first position in the
army. and saved his conntry from
downfall and ruin where all others
before him had failed But alas. he is
now dead and the people mourn their
loss-th- nation mourn his depart
nre and IN fact the whole world join In
nlournins for the less Of so great
hero except Harrison poor unrecon-
structed rebel in the legislature of
Georgia who declared that he would
not vots for adjournment OF the Geor-
gia legislature then in session in honor
to the memory of General Grant, who
he declared had deprived, Georgia Of
her rights Ito be .rebsllious state.
Gensral Grant as warrior WAS a sue
cess in every particular SO much 80
that the whole world was surprised at
his ability which the world has hon
tored him for. AS a statesman and
as President of the Nation he made
some mistakes because he was of that
disposition which prompted him to
trust with implicit confidence in his
friends and unfortunate for him
through the goodness of his soul he
was too often misled and deceived by
designing and unscrupulo@s persons
pretending to be his friends. Grants
great contest for Ee-nominatian for the
presidency in 1876 and again in 1880
was brought about by csPoilsmep claim
ing to be Grants friends who encour-
aged and by theirpersuasionsforcedh him
slp to the paint of making the contest.
With all has faults and failures yet he
was a great, grand and a good old
man, whe even by the most prejudices
must be highly esteemsd for supreme
ability
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-07-31

SAW MILL Cndi vided ] interest ina mill run by
water, a good paner and seven aeles OF land usef'
in connection with th mill Power sufficient 70 ru.
about miles OF Corvallis with an excellent good
road to and rom it. Terms easy.
FARM-Farm all under fence only . miles from
Corvallis of $50 acres 50 now in tNatl0h tne
balance OF it can be cultivated aout 70 Of it now IN
wheat with fair house good barn and granefy.
will be sold at bargain. TcIms easy.
FARM-Farm of 47s acres for less than sls pei
acre. being OF the cheapest and best farms IN
Benton. county, situated miles west OF Monroe ol
q mile from good school, in of the best neigh
borhoods in the with church priv IieSes haIty
About 13G in cultivation, and over 400 can DC
cultivated All under fence. with good two stor.
frame house, large barn and orchard: has running
water the year around, and is well suited ter soch
and dairy purposes This is OF the cheapest aihs
in the Willamette Valley Terms easy.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-07-31

The Reverend, Doctor, Bonus, attor-
ney E. J. Dawne of Salem has recently
been appointed Chief Justice to Alaska
by President Cleveland. He is about as
mucb|qualifed to make Chief Justice
as pigs tail is to make a tin whistle,
yet we understand that even some of
the leading democrats and ex-Judges
of Corvallis signed his petition recon-
mending his appointment to President
Cleveland. And such is the way that
some of our democratic friends who
know better serve the country by rec
unqualified material for
positions.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-07-31

+ STOCK FARM-32O acres about so in c1ltiv:tion
$50 be cultivated, 20 acres Of good fir and
oak timber the balance good rsss land Small COM
Portable house nd barn. 1t lies adjoining an inex-
haustible ou range, making one OF the best stock
ranges in Eent0n county. situated about 10 miles
;southwe est OF Corvallis Price slttU.
FARM-A farm of 1S6 acres Of land situated
mile from Corvallis in Lrn County, Or. All under
femee: 80 acres Of rich b tom laid in cultivation
i56 acres OF good fir, and maple timber; good
houses, coed orchards and two good wells With
puI ps. Terms: $50 per acre, half cash down and
balance payable in one and two years, secured by
mortgage upon the farm. ....
LOTS-Two unimproved lots in Corvallis. One Of
the choicest building places in the city for sale cas-
enable.
ALSO Four unmproved lots except fens-
ed in Corvallis, Or The choicest building place in
the city for sale reasonable
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-07-31

Mrs. "Hogg Senders" near Monroe
after her illustrious son was bound
over to await the action of the grand
Jury, was also taken before Justice of
the Peace Shannon, and she also was
bound over, and after great deal Of
hunting around she finally prevailed
on the generous feelings of Greenberry
Smith to go her bail. After the old
woman had thus secured bonds she
went the bonds of her boy and secured
his release from the county Jail. The
people ofMenroe and vicinity who have
been pestered with these scallawags
SO long again through the generosity
Of the bon'lsmen will have to endure
their presence among them for a time.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-07-31

A late London dispatch says:
Owing to the failure Of Gladstone's
voice. his throat has been examined
by throat specialists, who pronounced
his affection to be obseinare catarrh of
the larynx, and enjoin entire rest.
This report alarms Liberals, as Glad
stone will be unable to take part in
the election campaign. Reassuring
state nents are circulating, however,
to the effect that his improvement is
certain, and will perhaps be rapid.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-07-31

THIS PAPER will he found on file at the following
named places, where advertising NAV be contracted
for at our regular rates:
Wv LoMLER s. Co, Advertising Agents,
Portland, Oregon.
l. p. FISHER, Advertising Agert.
San Francisco, California.
GEO p ROWELL & Co., Advertising Agents,
No 10 Spruce Street, New York CITY.
j. ii. BATES, Advertising Agent,
Al Park Row, New York CITY,
N. W. AVER & son, Advertising Agents,
Philadelphia, Pa.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-07-31

Wilt
nlbes oIdonex rlnantr
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-07-31
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COUNTY

Entered at the Postotfice at Corvallis
Oregon, as second-class matter.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-21
PERSONAL.

GEN. KoMAROFF Is said TO be a frst-class
humorist in the grim guise of soldier.
LORD LoRNE will, it is said, succeed Earl
Spencer as Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland.
Miss CLEVELAND prefers lady companions
who are mucn younger in years than herself.
GEN. LEW WALLACE is said to he writing a
novel, the scene OF which is laid in Turkey.
CoNGREssMAN IHscoCK. of New York. is
going 10 Mexico on silver mine prospecting
tour.
WILLIAM WALDORF AsToR will rest from
his work nc the Court o: KING Humbcrt in his
house at Newport.
VICTOR HUGO has accepted the Presidency
of the Society Of the Friends Of Historical
Monuments In Paris.
Mr.. GLADSTONE does not use tobacco, but
ne ls "a great lover ~ sherry wine, and Is q
hearty eater OF rich food.
LORD G. ARMoYLE.while he was in this coun-
try. had an allowance Of 500 a week. Now.
as the successor to the name and fortune of
his father, Earl Cairns. hc Will have unlimit-
ed thousands q week.
Miss FLoRENCE MARRYAT is tail. we'll
formed. rather masculine woman. She has a
deep, strong voice, Her complexion is blonde,
her HAIR dead gold, and her face pleasant and
intelligent. She has published forty three
novels in eighteen years.
on the four American sculptors now settled
iu Paris three are from lllinois-Air. Il. n.
HrinWhurst, from lttcuucld; Mr., Bernard,
from Chicago, and Mr.. Taft. from Champaign.
The fourth and most widely known member
uf Tai. little fraternity Is Mr.. John Boyle. of
Philadelphia, whose colossal Indian group,
1.-The Alarm ia Lincoln Park. ChicpSo,
has won him a well-merifed celebrity. lie rs
now engaged upon another large group for
Paramount Park.
GIN. SHERIDAN intends securing heroic
marble husts Of Generals who have G 10
landed the irmy. TO be- placed in army head
quarters at the War Department. with this
object he has commissioned Mr. Howard
kretschmar, Of Chi go, TO make marble
bust OF ten. Grant and also q marble copy OF
the erOi' bust Of zen. sheridan. which II in
thc G.. A. II. headquarters at Chlca'o They
VIII be paid for OFT OF the approximation for
80 expenses army headquarters. bust
~ Gen. sherman will be- ordered as soon as
funds are available for the purpos,
TIM new Lord Mayor OF 1-4ason. Robert
Nicholas fowle' VI. -. was tine immcds .
.c cd'ctssoF ~ seoige wi-l Nottago. the re-
'srstgag " NbNc serih C T. g. az. llauas
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-21
IRON SHIPS vs.. WOODEN SHIPS.
Prospect of a Revolution in shipbuiId-
ing at Bath, Me.

Afttthttt
"There is a great hue and cry that
wooden ships are going 10 be done away
with.v said an old Bath shipmaster; wet
/ see they are running the rating up on
them. Why is thatY Because they carry
freight better, not being 50 susceptible TO
change Of temperature.
"Iron ships are not so thick as wooden.
Three.fourths of an inch is all the thick
ness there is in some places between
water and cargo. Iron Is "a conductor OF
heat and cold; wood is q nOn-cOnductor.
There IT is. In going through arctic
waters frost goes through the vessel the
same as frost goes through a cellar. 10
doesn't take great while 60 run from the
Arctic TO the gull stream; iorty--ight
hours does IL; then comes dampness and
sweating Of the cargo.
ENGLAND owns double the navigation
Of any other country, and we own double
that of anybody but England. English
capital would like every biz of freight 10
come In English bottoms. and they natu.
rally stick up for iron. | don't think iron
ships have got beyond the experimental
stage yet. They don't insure an iron 81 %
against partial loss. II an iron shin strikes
anything she's gone. II they rub, down
they go. An English brig was brought
IN here for repairs. She met with disaster
on the Maine coast. She was carving
deals. She had long iron knees. every
other beam, thus giving more room. Not
single wooden knee was broken. but
every iron one was. Iron beats wood fre-
quently, because English shippers will
give the preference TO their own ships.
even to the extent Of paying them more
freight money"
the speaker seemed 10 think. though.
chat Bath would 20 into building iron
ships. shouldn't wonder II next year
J stated one" said he.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-21
Fhe PolItest of MiIitary CIerks.

from ne CHtCdgD LFtOUUe.
''When Grant was in Chicago three or four
years ago." SAID an army official, ''he lOunged
about Sheridan's headquarters good deal
His son Fred was az that time on SherIdan's
staff, but was absent one day, and Grant took
his place at Fred's desk and looked after the
business, a nervous, iidgety, irritable Old
fellow came in to inquire for some paper
that he had left with Fred. When
nc stated his case Grant took up the mat
ter IN a sympathetic way, and proceeded after
the manner Of an Oyer-anXiOus clerk TO look
the paper up. The document could not be
found. and Grant, apOloglZlng, walked with
the old gentleman to the door. As | walked
turned and asked: who is that old co ger?
re is the pOlitest clerk | ever saw at military
headquarters. l hope sheridan viii keep
him. l answered quietly, THAT is Gen.
Grant The Gdgety Old gentleman. after
staring at me for fun minute, said, with con-
siderable fcrvor, Il will give YOU 80 cents il
you Will kick me down stairs'n
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-21
Phase OF the Free Pass Question.

Phase OF the Free Pass Question.
A somewhat novel bill relating to free
railroad passes has been discussed by the
Connecticut House of Representatives
The press and people had said so much
about legislators accepting passes, and
thereby placing themselves under obliga-
tions to the railroad companies, that the
members teltimpelled to take some action,
and the discussion was perhaps the most
extensive and interesting ever had ON this
subject in any legislative body in the
United States.
The bill was not to make it unlawful
for a railroad company to give free passes
to the members of the Legislature, but to
compel them to do SO. Thus, what the
railroads have been accustomed to do as
a courtesy ever since they have been in
existence, was sought to be made COM
pulsory, the object being to relieve men,
bers from any suspicion of being influ-
enced in their votes by the acceptance OF
such favors. The bill met with very
strong opposition, and it soon became
evident that it would not become a law.
The debate took very wide range, and
the bill was vigorously attacked by
many members, who were indignant at
the idea being entertained that any honor
able man could be biased or Influenced in
the least by such a trife as railroad pass.
Some Of the debaters were bold enough to
openly defend the accepting of passes
on tn ground that that the mileage al
lowed by law was not sufficient to defray
their expenses from their homes to the
capital and return. Some of the speeches
were very pointed and crisp, while others
were quite sarcastic and amusing.
Once fully into the question, something
had to be done to satisfy public opinion.
Members who had often pocketed their
mileage coolly after they had been trans
ported free of cost, were Obliged to virtu-
ally condemn their own course. and the
result was that constitutional amend
ment was passed on its first reading pro-
yiding that each Legislature should APP
/ propriate money to pay the actual neces-
sary expenses of the members between
/ their homes and the capital. 1t is pre-
/ sumed that the effect of this Plan will be
TO shut OF free passes, or make them,
when given by the railroad companies.
enure to the benefit of the State Treasury
instead of being personal perqui5ite of
the members of the Legislature.
Itremains 10 be seen whether the amend
ment will ever run the gauntlet Of the
Legislature ana the popuaryote. Itmav
be- considered 10y the people as an evasion
OF the free pass issue, and be rejected bv
them. IL certainly seems to leave any
amount Of room for dodging to legisla-
tor OF moderately easy conscience. Prob
ably the greatest objection to 1t VIII be
that it will permit the legislators TO ac-
cept season passes, on which many of
them will spend time riding about over
the country which ought % be devoted 10
the interestso Of the state and people. while
the sense Of obligation 10 the railroad
companies will De, at the best, only slight.
iy diminished.