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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-24

of TO some extent IT payment OF debts,
and so also were powder and shot or
lead. On one occasion his lordship qui-
eted and settled with his mutino1s sol
diers, clamorous for their pay, by hand
ing over beef cattle in lieu of coin. At a
subsequent time, when tax was levied
upon the people of several of the counties
for a particular purpose, it was paid IN
the above named products of the earth
and the animal kingdom; to obviate the
Inconvenience of these media of eX-
change, the proprietor had dies prepared
in London for striking silver coinage of
shilllngs, sixpences and greats. But
comparatively small number of each of
these pieces were struck, fewer of the
greats than the others, and genuine
specimens of anv are very rarely III
the market All the pieces have. on the
diverse, bust of Lord Baltimore, draped,
looking to the left. Legend: C9cllius
Duo: Terr@ Marie &ct. T.. On the re-
verse: a Jozenoed shield, surmounted by
a crown, and dividing the numerals XII.
VI. and ~, with legend: Crescite, ct
multiplicamini.
There is also in existence a copper
piece, supposed to he unique, and evl-
IDENTIFY in value a penny. The diverse
of this is similar 10 the silver coins; the
reverse bears ducal coronet with two
remnants flying. Legend: Denarium
Terre Marie.
In the year 1888 goldsmith of Annap-
oils, named I. Chalmers, issued silver
tokens of three determinations: shilling.
sixpence and threepence. The shilling's
diverse has two hands clasped, en-
circIed by wreath. Legend: /.
Chalmers, Annapolis. Reverse: cir
Gle of beads is divided by a
horizontal bar; above the bar, and
within the circle, is a serpent, and below
the dividing line two doves figure VISA
Wis, holding a branch N their beak.
Legend: One Shilling, 1888. The six
pence has a tive-p pointed star within
wreath for the diverse, and the legend:
I. Chalmers. Annapolis; on the reverse,
q long cross, two arms terminating in
stars and two in crescents, a leaf in each
angle, and for legend: I. c., Sixpence, 1888.
The threepence has clasped hands and
legend: I. Chalmers, Annap's on it's
diverse, and wresth-encircled branch
or bush. with legend: Three pence, 1888,
upon the reverse.
The Chalmers shilling is as rare as
the sixpence, and the groat Cor three
pence) is quite as scarce as the sixpence.
Another private token In silver is some
times called the Baltimore Town Piece. :"
It's diverse carries head, facing left, in
a circle, with legend: Baltimore Town.
July 4, 1890; reverse, threepence, under
scored, within a circle, and legend:
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Curiosities of Dreams.

When it comes to stories of queer
dreams, the person most reticent about
this form of self-revelation is likely to
think if not to speak of some extraor-
binary experience in the Land of Nod.
When DIR. Holmes saw huge fishes
boiled to rags bob through the bub-
bling brine" in his famous nightmare
of hot day, he set "reminiscences go
ing in many a brain crossed by
thoughts of rash suppers like his own.
Two men drifted upon the topic some
how the other day, and one confessed
to terror oft repeated in his dreams
of the roof falling down upon him.
"My favorite nightmare, returned the
other, lis of huge dog rushing at me
to devour me. But I always bravely
take hold of his jaws, tear them apart
and so save myself from destruction.
The first speaker smiled sheepishly
~ dreamed that myself hundreds of
times" said he, "and [ never spoke e
it. I didn't suppose anybody else ever
dreamed such a foolish thing. Dos
tom transcript.
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IRONWORKERS ON STRIKE.
Nearly Two Thousand of Hewitts En-
pIOyes Demand the AmaIGamated Scale,

Nearly Two Thousand of Hewitts EN-
pIOyes Demand the Amalgamated Scale,
New York special: Between 1000
and 1000 iron workers this morning re-
fused to go to work in the New Jersey
steel and iron mills at Jersey City.
which are owned by ex-MaYor Abram s
Hewitt, because of the refusal Of the
firm to sign the amalgamated IRON
workers scale of wages and recognize
that labor organization. A week ago
last Friday the heaters in the twelve
inch room struck against certain rules
and asked Superintendent Stokes to
sign the amalgamated scale of wages.
The superintendent said he had no
power to sign, but he took the scale and
promised to present it to the proper au-
thoritieS. The men went back to their
work on the superintendent's promise
that the matter would be all right in a
few days, Days passed, and the
shop committee again called on the SUI
perintendent, but got no satisfaction.
Yesterday before they would go to
work they asked whether or not the
scale had been signed and were told it
was not. They then refused to go to
work, and the men in the twefve-inch
room, the rolling mill, the bar mill and
the pudding mill and their many labor
ers and helpers left the works The
knights and the Amalgamated Associa-
ton have secretly organized the works,
which have been Eon-union for years.
The firm is stacked with orders and has
been running day and night. The
members say they will not sign the
scale
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NET A FEARFUL DEATH
BY A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION OF
POWDER.

Disaster Near Cincinnati-HaIf a Score OF
Men Dead and Many More Injured-Fac-
tories Wrecked and Buned-The Acct
dent Due to Careless Railroad Men.
Cincinnati, (Ohio,) special: A terrible
explosion occurred late yesterday at
Kings powder mills on the Little Miami
railroad, twenty-nine miles east of this
citv. At least ten persons were killed
and thirty or forty injured. Two empty
freight-carS were being rolled on to q
Side-track, where car containing 500
kegs of gunpowder was standing.
AS the cars struck there was
an explosion and Immediately
afterward another car containing 500
kegs of gunpowder exploded, making
1900 kegs altogether. William Frauly,
a brakeman in the service of the Little
Miami, was standing on one of the
empty cars when the explosion occurred.
His body must have been blown to
atoms, although no trace of it has yet
been found. Nine other persons, sup
posed to be employees of the powder
company, were killed
There wer a number Of cottages occu-
pied by worllmen in the powder factory
situated close to the track. These were
mates injured. About thirty girls at
work in the cartridge factory were Grip
pied by the explosion. The railway
station and the freight house belonging
to the Little Miami railroad, together
with all the adjacent buildings, were set
on fire and totally consumed.
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the denomination, XII, W., ILL.,, made
with a stamp unon the reverse. The
authority for this coinage was granted IN
1852, and it WAS soon after followed by an
emission of the Pine Tree money of like
values, and the Oak Tree money of SINH
lar varieties in denominations to which
was added the twopence piece. On the
diverse side of these coins there is, rela-
lively, pine or an oak tree in the center,
around which is beaded circle with the
legend, Massachusetts, in, and yet another
beaded circle surrounding this. The re-
verse bears the figures 1852, with XII,
VI, Ill, or H., according TO the size of
the coin, in the center, with a beaded
circle about the figures. New England,
An: Dom. is the legend and on the edge
of the piece is still another circle OF
beads. Although this coinage was con-
tinuously struck for thirty years the coins
seem to have been produced from the
same dies or duplicates of the originals,
for they all bear the same date. 1852"
Of Copper -Colonials" the CRANKY or
Higley Coppers are cIassed as the first
coins of that metal manufactured in
America. They were made by John
Higley, at the town of CRANKY, in Con-
necticut. from 1877 to 1879, inclusive.
There are three different varieties of this
coin. On each issue the diverse is iden-
teal; deer standing in the center, be-
low the figured animal, Ill. with star
on one side and a hand, forefnger
nointed, on the other, and around the
!, see the legend: Value Me AS You
Please" The reverse of one variety con-
sists of three hammers, crowned about
them around a circle, the word Con-
necticut, star and 1877. Another re-
verse bears the three crowned hammers,
with. as legend: Il Am Good Copper,
hand, some dots, or single beads fanci-
fully arranged, and 1887. The third vari-
ETY. has a broad AXE, with. outside
the circle. hand and the words: Il Cut
My Way Through, a beaded circle sur
rounding this legend; some few of these
last also have the date 1879 upon them.
All these Cranky or Higley coppers are
quite rare, and when genuine and in a
satisfactory condition they bring high
price. It is alleged that years ago the
fneness of the quality of copper from
which they were made caused them to
be much sought after as an alloy for
gold, and their use for this purpose may,
in part, account for their present great
scarcity.
Among the early American colonials
the money of Maryland, issued while that
province was under the proprietorship of
Cecil. the second Lord Baltimore, is en-
titled to rank with original colonial coins.
In that day and province tobacco was
given and received as common article
of exchange; furs were also made use
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None but WhistIers.

There is nothing like occupation to
keep boy out of mischief SO thinks a
Brooklyn baker, of whose ingenuity the
Brooklyn Eagle relates a pleasing anec-
dote. Mothers may, perhaps, get hint
from the story, though it is TO be hoped
that they will not act upon it with too
much severity. Let them remember that
the laborer is worthy of his hire, and n OF
forget the scriptural injunction against
muzzling "the OK when he treadeth out
the corn.
Every Saturday morning a crowd of
small boys gathers about the door of
bakery IN Columbia street, in response to
q placard which calls for boys to pick
over" currants and raisins. AS the urchins
are ushered one by one into the presence
of the chief cook, that august and apron
ed functionary inquiries:
DO YOU know how to whistler"
If the boy is new at the business and
not strictly honest, he very likely saws
No." as he naturally assumes that the
cook must have some strong objection
against whistling. Such is far from be-
ing the case, however. On the contrary,
no boys are hired except those who an
swer this seemingly impertinent question
in the affirmative.
When all the applicants have been thus
picked over" the successful candidates
are seated in rows and the cook brings
in large bags filed with raisins and cur
rants. Every boy is given portion and
is at once told to whistle. The music
must be kept up as long as the work lasts,
and it is evident that the baker knows
what he is about.
But of course he is now and then call
ed out of the room. At such times, it is
said, there is apt to be a lull in the
music, and when he comen in again the
efforts of the boys to resume their
whistling are said to be really pathetic.
If any reader doubts this, or fails to see
the point of the story, let him try to
whistle Yankee Doodle" with his mouth
full of dried currants
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FIRE AT MINNEAPOLIS.
The Security Warehouse Destroyed
Loss 100000.

Minneapolis, (Minn.) special: The
biggest fire that has occurred in the
Flour City since the burning of the
Tribune building, NoY. 30, com pletely
destroyed the Security warehouse with
it's contents, entaling loss of $780,
900. The blaze was communicated to
the farm machinery house of Deere e
Co. The flames gathered strength with
the flying minutes. The walls of the
warehouse fell with q great crash and
the blaze mounted high in the air.
There are sixty barrels of oil in the
basement said one of the owners AS
he spoke there was visible evidence Of
it as the flames leaped upward> in great
angry tongues.
Suddenly the wind veered and carried
the sparks and heat diagonally across
the corner to the Cooper Block, occupied
by 0. w. Jones, the Smith Wagon COM
pany, Linsey Bros, and the Blue Grass
company. At AIS the north side wall
of the warehouse was seen to waver.
A shout went up from the Threats Of
watching thousands as it trembled and
then fell outward with resounding
crash. Beneath it lay little stone
structure which had been used as
boarding house. A dense cloud of the
blacklist smoke arose. hiding from view
the fremen. the building, and every
thing. When it cleared away the little
stone house had utterly disappeared.
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StandlSh Barry.
Mark Newly coppers were brought from
Ireland by a settler of the name given
the coins, and in 1852 the Colonial Legis-
lature of New Jersey passed law au
thorizing the circulation of the pieces as
money. They are of two sizes, the effigy
on the diverse of both being the same :
King Charles the First, in the character
of King David, kneeling and playing up
on harp; above the harp is crown,
with a piece of brass in serted in it:
legend, Fioreat Rex. The larger piece
has for its reverse st. Patrick, standing,
holding trefoil or shamrock in hi s right
hand and a crozier in his left. He wears
a mitre; at one side of him several figures
appear, persons who are receiving b is
blessing. At his left is shield, with the
coat of arms of the city of Dublin. The
legend is, Ecce Grex.
The small coin of Mark Newly has on
its reverse st. Patrick, standing, in his
left hand a double cross, and the right
hand is extended; snakes and other rep
tiles are fleeing from him; on his right is
a church. The legend, Qviescat Plebs. A
few of the smaller size are found "A sill
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WOULD LYNCH THE CAPTAIN.
People About Lake Pepin Wrought Up
Over the Disaster,


st. Paul, (Minn.) telegram: A mob
gathered last evening near Diamond
Bluff, Wis, the home of Capt. Wethern,
who commanded the Inflated Sea Wing,
with the purpose of lynching him. He
was made aware of the approach of the
crowd and was placed in a buggy and
driven rapidly to Ellsworth, the county
seat of Pierce county, and turned over
to the Sheriff fer protection
The feeling among the friends of the
dead at Red Wing, Diamond Bluff, and
Trenton is very bitter against the Cap
tain, and their anger has increased
since the sudden and unsatisfactory ter
minatiOn OF the inquest.
1t is said the United States Steamboat
Inspector has D warrant which he in
tends serving on Capt Wethern, charg-
ing him with overlooking his vessel. 1t
is pretty certain it carried over 200 per-
sons, though its capacity is but 40.
Red Wing, (Mnn.) special: AS time
progresses and the missing are heard
from it becomes apparent that the
victims of Sundays cyclone on Lake
Pepin will number few over 100; but
this, it is hoped, will not be exceeded by
more than six or seven. To-day was
devoted to fruitless effort to recover
more bodies, dynamite being used in
profusion on the shores of the lake to
bring to the surface the corpses buried
beneath the waters.
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TelegrapIlic Brevities.

ANDREW HAUFT, formerly of Belle
vile, ILL.,, was crushed to death at Pierce
City, Mo-, by an iron smokestack falling
on him.
WALTER w. HARRIS and William Cal
1aphy, engineer and fireman on freight
train, were killed in a collision near
Rochester, N. Y.
THE Lindell Railway has fled notice
in the Recorders Office at ST. Louis OF
having increased its capital stock from
$500, 900 to SO, 900. 900. The assets are
said to be 81, 100000 and its liabilities
$1,000, 600.
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PITH AND POINT.

JOKES about plumbers should always
be we'll loaded.
The land of the flea and the home OF
the slave-Cuba.
A RARA avis: "Your fare, SIR" said
the conductor. II have the reputa-
ton of being So" said the umpire.
"JAMEs, 1 am cleaning house, so be
good fellow and beat the carpet as usu
al" "No, I think I'll shake it this
year"
PAPA" said talkative little girl,
sam made of dust?" NO, my child
if you were you would dry up once in a
while"
Mr.. SrA1D-And is Miss Giggleg lg-
gle we'll educated? Mrs. McFad =
Educated? should say SO. Why, til e
ribbons on her graduating dress cost
over fifty dollars.
Little boy Uncle, won't you tell us
story? Genial Uncle-Certainl my
boy. What kind of story? "Oh, any
kind only so it's true. Tell us about
Jack and the Beanstalk"
Mrs. FANGLE-W What is Mrs Gada-
bouts reputation as charitable woman
based upon? Mr.. Fangle (from behind
the misrepresentation her willingness
to attend to other peoples business
without charge.
WANT any help?" he asked of the
grocer. well, [ dunno. How many
tomatoes can you put into quart
measured" Il can put five. but can
make four do" II guess [ don't need
you. Three is our limit here"
TEACHER Did Columbus know
that he had discovered a new CONT
nent? Class-No, he thought it was
India. Teacher-Correct. Why did
he think he had found India? Bright
boy-I s'pose it was cause the inhab
itants was Indians.
A SLIGHT advantage: First little
chicken-You need not be SO stuck up.
You are nothing but an Incubator
chick, anyhow. Second little chicken
I've got more freedom than you have.
My mother never knows when [ am
out.
A.-So that Is your wife Splendid
WON an; you ought to be proud. b
So I am; only she is bit thoughtless.
For instance, sent her the other day
with heap of money to buy me
dozen shirts, and what do you think
she brought home instead "a new
bonneti
THE DESERTER
saw wrong in kissing him.
He seemed SO true, so tender;
I saw no harm in woodland walks
With him for defender.
All, me did not think it then
That for that very reason
He'd quite refuse to marry me,
And boast of all his treason.
All right proved an aIib
The day they say kissed him;
And now he's lost his fortune
| am very glad missed him.
Tom Hall, d1D Mamsey's Weekly.
SHE-Yes, Harry, [ confess, you have
awakened in my heart the tender throb-
bings of first aud only love. Her
young bro.her-Hello, caught yer!
Gimme a quarter, or I'll tell She.
Tommy, go away. that's good boy,
and I'll give you ten cents tomorrow.
Tommy-Oh, no, you don't. That's
what you said when [ caught Tom Tur-
ner kissing you last week, and you
haven't paid me yet.
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SPEAKING of the hand clap ping and
tumult at the close of a song, Mark
Twain says: eve smash into it with an
earthquake of applause; the result is
we rob ourselves of the best part of the
treat. We get the whisky, but we
don't get the sugar at the bottom of
the glass
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The largest Thomson electric weld
ing apparatus yet produced Yields a
copper bar of an inch in diameter, a
brass bar of !! inches or an iron bar of
B inches, and machine is being made
for welding 6-inch iron pipes. This
system of welding depends upon heat
ing by the resistance of small contacts
to large currents, and for the metallic
bars mentioned a current of 10000
amperes, of the low pressure of one or
two volts, is necessary. To carry such
an enormous current without heating
a solid copper bar 81 inches in diameter
is used as the secondary conductor of
the transformer which converts an or
binary dynamo current passing over a
small wire) into one of the great volume
and low tension needed To produce
the current by primary battery would
require $4,000 telegraphic gravity cells
for an electromotive force of one volt,
and double that number for two volts.
For welding each square inch of sec
ton of iron or steel in forty seconds,
about thirty indicated horse power is
exerted by the steam engine, during
the production of the current, though
smaller power suffices for less rapid
work. Platinum and German silver
wires as small as one-fftieth of an
inch in diameter have been united by
this system. and work under the
microscope might be done If desirable.
The smallest currents now used range
between 200 and 800 amperes..
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A NEW utilization of waste product
is the making Of valuable paste, an
effective substitute for gum arabic,
from the straw boilings that accumu-
late in the manufacture of paper.
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HES E are known
0r0jamong numismatists
I: N: n: !:
---zEzz aunder the general
k0SgS92 - term colon la | S, !"
%8%T5 and to each issue
M IN IL bthere is tached very
SM ANE considerable historic
IM5Skzw interest.
-.----=----z The brass pieces of
money DESIGNATED as "Sommer Island
Brass, were, it has been conclusively
proven, tho first coins manufactured III
the English pro- inces of North America.
The date of their issue and history of
their coinage has never been definitely
asce rtained or est blished, although there
is reason TO believe that they were In cir
culation as moneV as early as the year
1916. John Smith, Governor of Virginia,
in his history relates that Sir George
Sommer was shipwrecked upon the
Bermudas, or Sommer Island, In
1912, and that four years later,
when Daniel Tucker arrived to take
command IS Governor of these islands,
there was found in circul tiOn certain
kind of brass money, with "hogge" ON
one side. The islands we're overrun with
wild animals of this breed, and its efigy
seems to have been accepted as the nat
ural and proper symbol. The Sommer
Island brass" or shilling" has on one
side hog, of what IS now known as the
razor back" species, In the center, with
xii" above the figure, and these are sur
rounded with beaded circle; exterior
and around this is the legend. "Sommer
Island" On the reverse side is ship of
that day, with canvas spread and flag
flying from each mast head, beaded cir
Gle nearly surrounding the efigy about the
edge of the piece.
The sixpenee of Sommer Island is
about half the size of the shilling, and an
exact counterpart of the larger coin, with
the exception that VI, instead of XII,
surmounts the swine symbol. Only
three of the shillings and one sixpence
are known to be in existence. The shil-
ling piece has been initiated. Of course,
none of the genuine coins are in the
market; they are priceless in value.
The New England shilling, sixpence
and threepence were the first silver coins
made in America. They were thin plan
chefs of silver, having N. E. stamped on
the top or near the edge of one side. and
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yer. But in either metal they are very
scarce, and usually much worn by circu-
ton.
Of the coins mentioned above the fol-
lowing named are constantly or occa-
sionally in the market, and when obtain
able they bring about the figures quoted
below:
CONDITION.
YEAR. SILVER CoLoNIALs Fair. Fine.
1862. N. E. XII, New England Shil-
ling. .......:.....S 50 70
1862. N E. VI, New England Sixpence so 25
1862. n. E. Ill, New England Three
pence. 5UJ 10y
1850. Pinetree, XII, Shilling. 1900. so 20
1862. Pinetree, XII, Shilling. ......... 10
1852. Pinetree smaller and thicker. s
1852. Pinetree. Massachusetts,. ........ Is s
1862. Pinetree, VI, Sixpence... 10 5
1862. Pinetree, Ill, Threepence Is 5
1862. Plnetree, H., g Twopence.. Is S
1862. Oaktree, XII, Mass. Shilling. 5 3
1862. Oaktree, VI, Mass. Sixpence....
1862. Oaktree, ILL.,, Mass. Threepence.
1862. Oaktree, H., Mass. Twopence. s
1862 Oaktree l.. Mass. Penny. 80 10
Wyatt's counterfeits of the above have lines
aero SIS.
1859. Lid Baltimore Head Shield Shi1-
ing ~ y11U
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THE SCIENCE OF COINS.
REL ALTON OF MUMI5M AT1CS TO
HISTORY AND EDUCATION.

Coins of the early Oofonies in North
America.