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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-06-12

The officers of the Wisconsin
Press Association would be greatly
relieved if the fraternity of the state
would respond for the Yellowstone
"outing" with as much zeal and
promptness as the Minnesota editors
have manifested for their Washing
ton excursion. Long before the
date-June 8-over 81, 300 had been
sent in for advance payment on
sleepers, and the officers had to
charter five coaches to accommodate
the crowd. It is to be Hoped the
Badger boys will be as prompt for
the trip to Wonderland July 20 to
August s. All who intend to go
are urged to send in their names
early to Secretary F. W. Coon, Ed
gerton, Wis, as requested by cir
cular No. 1
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-06-12
w ashington Letter.

The Senate Finance committee
has been almost overwhelmed this
week by the crowd of wealthy i'm
porters who have come down here
hoping by the half billion dollars
which they represent to awe the Re
publican Senators into taking GER
tain clauses out Of the MCKINLEY
tariff bill. These gentlemen say
that if the Mckinley bill becomes a
law it will benefit the American
manufacturers and drive the i'm
porters out Of business. To which
a member of the Committee re-
plies: THAT is just what ought TO
be done; the importers are of no
benefit to any one but themselves,
while the American manufacturer
benefits the whole community by
reason of the large amount of mon
ey he pays out as salaries. The
business of importing might be
stopped entirely without any serious
injury to this country. = That is
the whole question in a paragraph.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-06-12
Congressional.

Although it is near five months
before the election of Member of
Congress will occur, some Of the
Republican journals in this Con
gressional district are sounding
public sentiment as to the candidate
proper to be nominated. We have
expressed but one policy in relation
to Congressional candidates for
many years past; this line Of action
has been often stated. The popular
notion Of frequent change of office,
passing the office around giving
every competent man turn as far
as practicable, is an old political
theory, and if it has any merit at
all, it does not apply to candidates
for Congress. Experience, as a
qualification for q Member Of Con-
gress, is of the first Importance.
The first term in Congress is in a
majority of cases an inactive one,
and not at all influential AS a gen
eral practice the new member in
Congress sits as mere "looker on
in Venice" he votes when his name
is called and counts to make major
tiles when required. The new
member is never given a chairman
ship Of a committee of consequence
and seldom appointed on a leading
committee. Reputation for ability,
of course, is always d help, but
something more than that is re
quircd to accomplish large results in
legislation When important msas-
ures are sought to be gained in
Congress, they are not committed
to new members, but to the more
experienced New members are re
garded as presumptuous if they.at-
tempt to consume much time in
debate during their first term. For
much of the general truthfulness of
the foregoing statements respecting
new members, consult the Congress
sional Record, in which the assign
ment Of members to the committee
is given tnd their terms of service.
Whatever may be said in favor of
rotation in Office, it does not apply
to members Of Congress- Most OF
prominent leaders now in the Sen
ate and the House of Representa-
tives are those who have served a
succession of terms.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-06-12

and flowers adorn the grounds
around the dwellings, and doubtless
a view of the interior of most Of the
farm houses would exhibit show of
fine plants, besides books, periodical
literature, and especially the family
paper, when is the home county
newspaper.
People who were familiar with
the appearance Of Kenosha when it
was known by the name of South
port, and who have been absent the
intervening time, say they see no
reminder here of the place as it
then appeared, except the lake and
the river. The conformation Of the
lake shore is Of course the same as
it always has been, and the Island
as it appeared in olden times, is the
same, except it's primitive beauty is
gone. From the bridge as. far
south on Main street where it be-
gins to angle westward, both sides
of the street was tolerably well
built up by business houses, mostly
small OF these, one Of consider
able size is still remaining, the bal
ance were all swept away by the
great fires which occurred. Where
Balm & Co. S, business Office now
stands, there was in early times a
sand hill twelve feet high covering
an acre or more of ground. To
avoid this hill Main street diverged
eastward to a point where Simmons
Touring mill now stands and from
that point the first bridge to the
north side was constructed At the
south end Of Main street the Meth
odist church stood in the middle of
the street fronting north. This
church edifice was moved to where
the present church now stands,
where it was afterwards destroyed
by fire. One of the discomforts of
Main street early settlers will not
forget: the deep sand rendered
walking tiresome, and for over
coming this annoyance the inhabi-
tants were indebted to the public
spirited women. They organized
a plank walk society and procured
the building OF plank walks. Pearl
and Market streets leading from
street to the lake, were once the
chief business streets, but probably
only few Of the now residents of
the city can tell where these two
streets are; there are no remains
of either to indicate they were ever
business streets. On the north side
Of the river changes have trans
pired by the disappearance of once
familiar land marks.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-06-12
Changes in City and Country.

People who were once residents
Of this city and county, and who
after an absence Of several years,
return to visit their old homes or
acquaintance, notice changes which
do not readily appear to those who
have been continuous residents.
Changes are Of course more notice
able in the city than in the country
towns; but In the latter there have
been marked alterations in the farm
inc districts. Once, and that not
long ago, the houses and barns
were unsightly edifces and but in
differently constructed for the uses
intended. Now a large majority Of
the farms have respectable and
comfortable dwelling houses, good
barns and outbuildings for the hui
name treatment Of stock Fields
devoted to cultivation were once ir-
regular and jagged in shape to
avoid patches of land thought too
rough for the pillow, are now put in
good shape, giving farms more
finished appearance. Shrubbery
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-06-12
Qualifications for a Newspaper


An article pub isLed IN the North
American, has been much quoted,
describing the qualifications of a
successful newspaper journalist.
The article seems to meet with
much approval judging from the ex-
tent it has been copied. We must
be allowed to interpose dissent from
some of it's suggestions. AS spec
linen of what is declared to be nee
essary for a successful journalist, it
is said che must be able to make up
a column or two on the most insig-
nifcant incident. " Thas is to say,
in noticing ali event Of little or no
Importance. lie must have the abil-
ity Of clothing it with column or
two of fiction, or idle remark en-
tirely unwarranted by the text In
a world as wide as this and full OF
important changes and events, it
can never be necessary or profitable
to crowd a newspaper with vagar-
les unreal and imaginary. Fiction
has its proper place. attempts at
criticism are too often mere abor-
tions The old adage holds good
There is but one step between the
sensible and the ridiculous"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-01-15
His Wife's Devotion.

When my business partner came
home from the war, IN which he had
gallantly commanded a battery, he
had neither breeches, home nor money
His wife cut up a wooden shawl she had
worn for many years and made him
a pair of breeches. Gathering odds
and ends from the ruins of Atlanta
he built n shanty, of which love made
a home. His father gave him a s.
gold piece, of which ingenuity made
capital In three years he had built
n $500 home: in eight years $4,000
home. He now has a 100000 subur-
ban home aad is well worth over a
quarter of million dollars. His life
is an epitoIne of the South in 1866
its swift energy, its cheerful heroism,
its shrewd kuack of turning some
thing from nothing, its stages of
growth and its present prosperity.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-01-15
My heart fsiThin e.

Ask not why 1t is 1 love thee
Why Why is heaven divine
/ only know | cannot tell thee
But, my heart my heart is thine
Why loves the oreeze at noon to sigh
Why cease-why cease the stars to
shine
! cannot solve, know not why:
But my heart my heart is thine.
tough others smile with kindness on me,
This beart-this heart alone is thine
It's erery pulse an Offering TO thee,
So hallowed is its sacred shrine,
The sun will hold its onward course
Thus does my love-my love incline
To thee and nsught on earth can force,
Ny heart-my heart from being thine.
= vain thou bidst me. to forget thee
Death will tirst-will first be mine:
IN then my fitting soul shall bless thee,
Z or my heart, my heart is thine.
Each thought that haunts my fevered brain
From loves first dawn is thine-is thine
And this, the latest, breathes again
That my heart-my heart Is thine.
EIchange.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-01-15
General Grants Log Cabin.

\ recent despatch from st. Louis
SAYS The old Grant farm near this
city changed hands a short time ago
\ stipulation III the conveyance gives
the grantOr, Captain L S. Conn, the
privilege OF removing the old Grant
log house. The dwelling referred
to IN the conveyance Is the cabin erec-
ted by General Grant in the fall of
1857, and IL which he lived for sew
eral years hauling wood to St Louis
with team of horses, which was
considered an innovation bv his
neighbOrs at that time as OK teams
were the usual motive power used
for that purpose Grant Is said to
have hewn the logs with his own
hands with which to build this cabin
his only assistant being brother Of
the present circuit clerk Judge o. D..
Wolff.
The house Is regarded as n valuable
relic of the late general and is priced
highly by Its owners Several mov-
ements have been started IN the coun-
" to organize a company to purchase
the cabin and n small portion of the
land surrounding 1t with Wow to
beautifylng the premises and preserv-
ing the building from decay When
1t was learned yesterday that the
the property had been sold it created
quite sensation among the Grand
Army men, who are 10th to lose this
one monument of the great comman-
der from the county, and some effort
will probably be made at once to try
to secure the prize, which seems to
be slipping through their fingers.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-01-15
A Monkey and Parrot Time.

A despatch from Boston saws {:
Tho bark Margaret, Capt. Sargent,
arrived here from the west coast Of
Africa in a badly battered condition
She was So long overdue that she
had been given up a. lost Captain
Sergeant saws that between the gales
and the nature of his cargo he had
an experience he does not wish again
% meet Besides a regular cargo
there were twelve snakes, 400 cock
atous and parrots, an Ourang outang,
two small monkeys, two crOcodIles
and a gorilla, which he was bring
ing from Durham, Africa, to a mu-
scum here. There were some stow
aways on the bark, too.
There were also rats and they caus-
ed the death Of all but four Of the,cock-
atoos and parrots 10y eating up all the
corn that had been provided for the
| feathered passengers. Then during
IA gale the snakes and crocodiles
| broke out Of their boxes IN the hold
and invaded the forecastle so that
I for five days tho men could not ven
ture into their quarters, but had to
/ live in the cabin. These reptiles,
along with the rats, kept up con
1 tiuuaI warfare until the surviving
cruckodile killed the last snake, and
completed the chain Of vengance by
being itself killed during a fierce
southwest storm by some of the car
60 shifting and falling on 1t.
| During the scrimmagc among the
reptiles the monkeys took to the rig
ging and stuck there despite all ef
I forts u dislodge them, and the men
could not venture about the cross
| trees, the result being the gales car,
ried away ali the barks, hampers and
spars. They finally all washed away
except four, which We're captured
The worst passenger was a five
| foot gorilla, which was imprisoned IL
a stout wooden box lashed near the
galley The top Of this the animal
forced off, but though held by chain
he had considerable play, and get
ting possession of an iron bar he
swept the deck, so that the only way
of getting to the forecastle was by
the shrouds He wound up by par
italy scalping the negro cook, seiz
ing him by the wool one day, and on
ly letting go after he had been near
/ " killed with AN ax All the meI
were more or less hurt by the beast
and he led them life of terror
The museum collection now Is reduc
ed to the gorilla, three monkeys snC
| five parrots.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-01-15

ing, but paid no attention Howev-
er, the force and velocity of the wind
was such that she and her child
were buffeted from one side of the
room to the other and upon
rushing to the front door she found
that the house had been carried
across the street and the rear por-
ton entirely destroyed. Had she
and her little boy been IN the back
room they would have been instantly
killed. Two children in a house op
posite the Catholic church were bur.
led in the snow, which broke open
the windows and forced open the
doors, throwing the elder people
across the room. The father rushed
for a spade, and by the time the
children were taken from their peril
Gus place one was almast suffocated
BY prompt measures the chIld's hfe
was saved
The snow fall was unprecedented
Forty miners" have never seen the
like. On Butte Flatt, which Is the
fairest average, snow lies eight feet
deep and increases in depth rapidly
and from there up the hillside until
at the altitude of the Sierra Buttes
company's fume, LOO feet above
| the town, and the snow reaches thir
~ 10 forty feet IN depth.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-01-15
A Fatal Suowslide.

San FRAScIsCo, Cal, January s.
The first full details Of the great av-
aanche which swept away half a
dozen houses I'm Sierra CITY, buried
seven persons, narrowly missed de
stroyIng the town reached here Last
night. The disaster took place last
Friday, but all telegraph communi-
cation WAS broken until Monday, and
even vet the town Is wholly isolated
from the outside world, as the snow
heth to heavy for the stage runners
b. reach the nearest town, twelve
miles away
Sierra City Is little mining town
which lies m raviue bv the side of
tho Nuha river Above IL tower the
mountains 1000 feet high. Snow
drifts IN the ravIues Of these noun
talus a-o sometimes 100 feet deep.
aud 1t was one of these drifts, HOO
feet above the town ON the side of
the mountain, which caused the fatal
snow slide The slide started IN a
raviuc where the snow was about
thirty feet deep. 1t was what noun
talueyrs cul n lightning slide. The
sude followed the course of the ia.
vlne to the Cat, leapiug four hun
dred feet at bound over II country
road at which point the acccumulated
snow Of the Hat turned IN, and II
then made straight for the upper end
OF the town. 4 small hollow caused
II 20 turn nearly at right angle, and
tske course across the upper end
of the Hat. The houses OF |. T.
Mooney, Mrs john Rich and 4. Lew.
Is We're Instantly and completely razed.
Not timber was left standing. and
all the occupants Of Mooney and
klch houses We're crushed to death
Seven persons in their houses were
KILLED THIS slide travelled a mile
and quarter IN less than q minute.
No warning was given and there was
no chance # escape. Apparently all
the victims We're killed without Time
10 move hand or foot. There were
several miraculous escapes. the most
remarkable being that Of Mrs I..,vis
and her four children. Her housa
was smashed into match wood or5
every one supposed all the inmates
were KILLED. Soon, however. the
mother came from under the pres
ent house carrying a baby in her
arms, slowly and painfully strur.
ShnS through the snow. and follow
cd by three little boys. In some un-
accountable manner she had managed
to Init up a beam. burrowed thro3cb
the snow and thus saved the Tyss
Of herself and children
Another woman saw the snow fall
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-01-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Here is a good and timely scheme
for sending coin through the mails.
Take a piece of card board Of more
than ordinary thickness and with
. knife separate the layers at one side
over a space large enough to receive
the coin and slip it IN. When the
card is inclosed in a latter no one
would suspect the money
Eyes, Charles has proposed, said
a young girl to her confdant, '-but
I put him off until after Christmas
without any definite answer. You
see if accept him now he will
give me my engagement ring for q
Christmas present, but if 1 make him
wait a couple Of weeks viii get .
present and the ring too"
A man named Laird, at Battle
Ground, Ind, a short time ago went
to a neighbor's hog pen, killed fat
pOrker, dressed it up in mems clothes
putting hat on its head, and then
placed it on the seat beside him in
his buggy. But the trick. was detect
ed, and he was arrested.
David Ct. Martin, a prominent
Lancaster Co, farmer, has entered
suit for $4,000 damage for libel
against the publishers of the Ephrata
Review for stating that Martin had
cruelty beaten his daughter
Judge Furst of Bellefonte recent
" ordered that no evidence In a Ger.
tain case should be taken from the
Court room for publication in a
newspaper. Tne remedy for such a
Judge Is to elect new man.
The sale of the Harrisburg Can
Works to an English syndicate has
been confirmed
Peach trees Al. Atlanta. GA, are il
/ full bloom
Having fallen sleep during service
in church, Williamsport boy slep
on until midnight. In the meantime
his frantic parents were searching
the town for him.
High water did great damag,
along rivers IN the state of indians
last week
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-01-15

Contributed to the JUSIATA SESIIsEL-
The mud wasp is a peculiar insect max
ing its house out Of mud and placing its
eggs in the mId from which its young are
reared to full f-dged wasp developement and
growth. God created man from the dust
of the earth, br-athed into him the breath
OF life so that he became a .'living soul =
But man is dust.snd to duet his body re-
turns as il was AZ creation in the garden Of
Eden Like trees live of the ground by
their roots 50 less hxedly man lives on the
earth, dependent on its productions.
Young wasp. come out Of their ground
house at full dvv-lopement and live wider
and broader lives flying hither and thithrr
like birds Of song But man patterned az
ter the lkeDes, Of God dies before be
m,y live the spirit life-the' better life If
among the saved, and in death . before
stated his body becomes dust. A verse
read. concerning Gods compassion upon
Us, and knowledge Of u, thus For he
kno~eth our frame, no remember-th thzt
We are but dust And Abraham answered
on me to speak unto the Lori which an but
dust ind ashes" Such Of mankind a,
were OF the old Testament faith, aud such
in the present day that believe Christ,
such .s are baptized and believe are saved
aad are Christ, now aud for the resurrec.
tion. A verse reads Of the baptized "For
as many of you A. have been baptized into
Christ have put or Christ Like the vasT
comes out of It's mud house to a. wider but
ordinary and common life, so the baptized
Ten z baptized into Christ's death and also
being 'sburied with him in baptism, ,
are redeemed and are under obligation tC
walk in newnesI OF life, the Christ life, here
which is not an ordinary or common lii,
since it Is of God Rom. Vic, 3, and 4tt
verses. When the resurrection nornin
comes they that were baptized into th'
death Of the LOrd, s.buried with him in bap
t.sm" will be,brought oat of the dust OF tn,
earth to be united TO their saved souls fo
| life everlasting, however not by nature a
IN the case OF the young wasp coming from
! its mud house, but By Christ ho said g
am the resurrection and life," and whom
revelations set forth thus 81 am he tha
lIvsih and was dead and behold l Anu aliv
! forevermore. sc. An Old Testament verse
. in Dan. XII c., read. And many of then
I that sleep in the dust Of the earth shai
awake, some TO everlasting life, and SOM
to shame and everlasting contempt
[ AKRON.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-01-15
Attempt to Rob a Bank.

Ii has been considered exclusively
western TO step into bank in broad
daylight and demand money at the
point Of a pistol, but that method
was tried IN Pennsylvania last week,
which may be learned by reading
this
BLooMsBURG, Pa, Jan About
IL o'clock this morning man named
Appleman walked into the First Ma
tional Bank, covered, the cashier J.
=. Tustin, with revolver, and de-
manded $1,000 To gain time the
cashier commenced parleying with
him, and in the meantime one of the
clerks came IN, which caused Apple
ton to beat n hasty retreat. He ran
down the street to where he had Sc
creted horse (stolen from p ).
Harmanl. mounted and started off
Attemps were made to stop him. but
by displaying his revoVer he eseaP-
ed The horse wasSfound about a
mile from town, but there Is no trace
of Appellman.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-01-15
New Federal JudicIaliDIsirIct

Representative Mccormick has
introduced bill creating 4 new fed
eral Judicial district in Pennsylvania,
to be called the middle district. Ii
also provides for circuit and district
court, the district to consist of Lack.
awanna, Wyoming, Bradford, Tioga
Union, Snyder, Miffiin, Juniata,
Northumberland, Montour, Columbia
Luzerne, Sullivan, Dauphin, Hunt
ingdon, Perry, Fulton, Franklin,
Adams, York, Cumberland, Lebanon
and Clesrfeld counties. The courts
are to be held in Scranton, Williams,
port and Harrisburg. The bill auth.
orizes the PRECEDENT to appoint a dis
trict judge, district attorney and
marshel, and provision is made for
clerks and other officers at tame sal.
aries as are now paid in the western
district court
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-01-15
Hi>tOrI "f the Rat.
From the St. Lour. Republic.

From the ST. LouIs Republic.
No, not the slang phrase but the
bOthersome little rodent. Rats are
natives of Asia and their raids west
ward belong to comparatively modern
times The little animal was un-
known in ancient Europe The black
rat first came to Europe from Asia
IN the sixteenth century, and about
the beginning of the seventeenth or
the ending Of the sixteenth century
he arrived in Americs. This black
rat was the common house rat until
the brown or gray rat made his ap-
Pearance in 17T5. The gray rat came
to Europe from India by way of Rus
sIa and is now known as the Norway
rat from a mistaken tradition that 1t
came from Norway to England. and
from the latter lcountry to America.