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Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1868-09-19

NV ~ y ~ we - --T IS
hing better"
Something better" than the rec,ilude.
probily, and moral excellence which the Cos
pei %enjoins. and The supernatural felicity Il
promises! What may that something be,,er,'
be The low cunning, lrickery, cheating.
scl'eming, and Iying: by the practice Of which.
the Yankee has given a provc,b 10 all the ma
lions OF The world ? and rendered himself M.
to'IoDs as a creature soul-slIiveled with The
''nnri sacra fames"!
The nearest approach to social perfection
the completest Public Society, that is; or, in
other words. the highest civilization. is that in
which the individuals composing Society OBJ.
serve the law Of God in unity Of spirit, For
True civilization can be no other, Than correc,
morals = The offspring of true Religion =
translated into public law, True Religion uho
only efficient bond of Society and, therefore,
correct morals; and, therefore, irne ciyiliza-
ton, have been accessible 10 the word from
the beginning. To what 'better'' do Radical
aspirations now tend?
Barharism: on the contrary, is that condition
OF M association which has no bond of
common interest that condition in which in.
dlvIdualism and private interests outweigh the
common good; in which man, for The sake of
some temporal advantage, hates, vilifes, and
ca'nmniates his fellow. man,-mangles his re.
puiat'on, robs him of his patrinony, ~cur,ails
his personal liberty, and, if possible. ey.
tingnishes mol only it; but also, all other ma.
tural rights. ssasc5
Barbarism is there, in its mos, revolt
ing features, where the paren, IL deprived
OF any of that control and supervision over
The interests Of his household, Which The ma.
or revealed law gives him. !, Is there,
where the ignorant and characierless make
The laws ; where the voice of the minority
that of the majority where the
Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1868-09-19

Of ST. James, 10Th September, 1868
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-23
Ace Of Animals,

i The average; Of cats is 10 years !, squir7
rels and hares, to s years bear rarely
exceeds 20 years dog lives 20 years
a wolf 20 "a fox a to 10 +; lions are long
lived, the one known by the name OF
Pompcy lived to the agcof 20; Elephants
have been known, it is asserted, to live to
the great age of 400 years. When
Alexander the Great had conquered
P6rus, king of India, he took great
elephant and named him Ajah dedicated
him to the sun, and let him go with the
inscriptions: alexander, the son of
Jupiter, dedicated Ajax to the sun The
elephant was found with this inscription
$50 years after. Pigs have been know n
to live to the age Of 20,and the rhinoceros
to 90; . horse has been known to live to
the age Of 81, bat average % to 80;
camefs sometimes live to the age If 100;
stays are very long-livedi sheep seldom
exceed the age of 10; COWS live alb 1ut Is
years. Cuvier considers it probable 9Aat
whales sometimes live 1000 years; the
dolphin and purpose attain the age of 80;
an eagle died at Vienna at the age of 104 /;
ravens frequently reach the age 100;
swans have been known to live 800 years.
Mr., Marlertoh has the skeleton of a swan
that attained the age of 200 years Pc
licans are long-liyed tortoise has been
known to live l01 years. .rf
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-23
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Palestine Correspondent Cincinnati Gazette.
H9a Abraham's Oak. "a s''s +


| When Moses sent the spies into the
| Promised Land to learn the character OF
the country to which he was journeying
we read they assembled to tha south and
came unto Hebron.
! And they came unto the brook Of Eschol
and cut down from thence a branch with
one cluster of grapes, and they bore it be-
tween two ON staff and they brought of
the pomegranates and the figs. These
same declivities are covered with yines
yards, and these slopes yet produce the
same clusters of grapes which the spies
Carried off to Moses rs an evidence of the
fertility or the land. These vineyards
with their circular watch towers, could be
noticed on either hand extending off into
the distance, while the fig tree and the
pomegranate tree flourish in great luxuri-
ance. AS we rode out toward Ahraham's
Oak, We could MOI but be Impressed with
the surrounding of Hebron and could not
but think of dissatisfaction with which the
spies beheld them after their tedious Jour.
ney through the wilderness, ~ !
The oak under which Abraham enter
tanned the three angels, tradition says isl
in the plains of .Mamre, and perhaps two
miles from Hebron 1t seems, from the
Bibaelnrative, that the old patriarch was
sittin in the tent-door, in the heat of the
day, when three men stood by him. With
true Oriental hospitality, he insisted that
they should rest under the tree, and that
they should partake of morsel of bread
with him. 1t is hardly necessary that wei
should speak of how Abraham entertained
the three angels and how Sarah laughed
at.the strange promise, and how the de-
structien of Sodom was revealed and how
the old patriarch interceded for it,. a,s5cI
The tree which tradition points ont isanl
evergreen oak, and is nearly ten feet in di-
ameter, while it's branches overspread a 1
space of over two hundred and sixty feet
ipcircumference. Near at hand is a well
which evidences great antiquity, and from
which the water was Brought as mention
ed in the chapter We extemp ported a cup
from an orange, and drank of the water,
which is of an agreeable taste. While this
oak cannot date back so many centuries as
this tradition says, yet it is very probable
that under one of its immediate ancestors
and in this very plain of Mamre, happen
ed the events mentioned in the eighteenth
chapter of Genesis. At any rate the belief
was so pleasant that we entertained it, and
are far more willing to lay down our penil
than we were to leave its COOLING shade
for Bethlehem, from which we will next
address our readers
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-23

Douglass j errold, the famous English
wit, wrote many beautiful things, but no
thought more fresh, sympathetic and
loving ever dropped. from ho3 pen
than this:
Blessed be the hand that prepares a
pleasure for a child, for there is no saying
when and where it may bloom forth.
Does not almost everybody remember
some kind hearted man who showed him a
kindness in the dulcet days of his child
hood? The writer of this recollects him
self at this moment as a barefooted lad
standing at a wooden fence of poorlittle
garden in his native village, while with
longing eyes he gazed at the flowers
which were blooming there quietly in the
brightness Of Sunday morning. The
possessor came forth from his little cot
tage he was a wood-cutter by trade,and
spent the whole week at work in the wood.
He had come into his garden to gather
flowers to stick In his coat when he went
to church. He saw tie boy, and breaking
off the most beautiful Of his carnations--
it was streaked with red and white---he
gave ii to him.
Neither the giver nor the receiver spoke
d word, and with bounding steps the boy
ran home. And now, here, at vast dis
lance from that home after so many years,
the feeling OF gratitude which agitated
the breast of that boy expresses itself on
paper. The carnation has long since
Withered, but now it blooms afresh.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-23
A. Rare Chance !
I S9-Q TO BUY a $50
=5s.Eals::;aA r A r vi.

The subscriber being obliged to quit the
farming business on account of tie i'll health
of his family, offers his farm for sale at ~
Bargain. The farm is situated in the town
Of Newport, State of Ill. Nine miles south of
Kenosha, and 10 miles north of Waukegan.
The farm consists of so acres, is within eighty
rods of School House, and same distance
from church, is well supplied with Wood
and Water +; has convenient and we'll appoint
ed Residence an excellent well, cistern &c,
&c, also two frame barns and all the necessary
Sheds out buildings &c. There is a fine, bear
ing Apple Orchard on the farm, currant bush
es, Grape Vines and all kinds of Shrubbery
The farm is well enclosed with post and board
fences and conveniently divided with cross
fences This farm will be sold very cheap
and possession given immediately, any person
wishing to purchase homestead, complete in
all particulars will not fail to examine this
For further particulars enquire at this office
or OF the Subscriber on the premises.
I. s. WILCOX.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-23

THREE CROPS : YEAR-The last Sacra-
mento California Union, tells of a farmer
who resides at Woodbridge in that state
who has raisedf from sixty acres of his farm
only once plowed, two crops Of grain, pro-
ducing 5000 bushels, and the third crop
is now standing on the field, and, as con-
sidered by competent judges, viii yield
1000 bushels, more, making in all
4, 900 bushels from sixty acres, by onceplow.
ing. TheUnion adds, this is certainly an
evidence of good land and a proof Of poor
farming.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-23
Stacks for Hay and Grain.

In a stack for hay or grain, care should
be taken, as in the construction of house,
to have a good foundation. Great quanti-
ties of both hay and grain are annually
lost by lack of attention to this matter.
Sometimes the hay or grain becomes frozen
Ito the ground; at other times water is car
ried up far into the stack 1t is often the
cases that the stack has no better founda-
Ition than some brush, coarse weeds, poles
lor straw; and not unfrequently the stack
rests directly on the ground. 1t is no Won
der that farmers who commence their stacks
in this manner complain of great waste of
hay or grain in the stack.
In England great care is taken i'll pro-
Eviding good foundation for stacks, Or
dinarily there is permanent Enclosure
for a stack-yard The stack foundations
are also permanent Sometimes stone pill
lars capped with broad fiat stones are used
which not only protect the stack from
moisture but from vermin. Iron rails and
pillars are also used for the same pur-
pose.
In this country it is hardly necessary to
go to so great an expense to secure a good
foundation since lumber is comparatively
cheap here. It would always be well,
however, to build the stack on timbers or
poles placed on the ends Of posts which
should project about two feet above
ground. A set of such foundations would
last for years.
The shape of stack for either hay or
grain, should be nearly that OF an egg,the
small end up the bulge in rick should
occupy the same position. Care should
at all times be taken in stacking grain, to
pack the heads of the bundles some inches
above the butts, so as to protect the grain
from rain. For the better ventilation OF
stacks some farmers recommend, to place
Ia barrel ON the foundation, gradually
raising it as the stack goes up. This will
insure draft through the whole length
of the stack
An excellent covering to the upper
portion of the stack, may be made by
working in small amount of long straw
or tall grass, letting the ends hang over
on the outside. This may be put in at in
teryals of few feet apart from where
you begin to taper, and it viii be OF
much use in protecting the grain beneath.
Prairie Farmer
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-23
A Season of Violent Storms.


Rhe present season has been proverbial for
severe storms, accompanied with thunder and
lightning. We Juld easily Gil page Of the
paper with recent disasters, involving the loss
of life. The number Of persons killed by
! lightning appears to far exceed that of any
previous year The account published below
is only specimen Of many OF like character
Correspondence Of the New York Times
NEwDURG, July 18th, 1868.
| Extraordinary reports are in from all parts
| of Orange county, relative to terrible thunder
storms in different sections, durings which IL
persons were killed by lightning. On Friday
afternoon, July 3, a severe thunderstorm
passed over the country near Middleton, The
II house of James Wade. a colored man, was
struck by lightning, instantly killing the wife
of Wade, andtwo Of his four children. The
house was entirely consumed Oliver Kirby,
employed as a brakeman on the fiawley
Branch Railroad was instantly Killed the same
AFTERNOON by the electric fluid The lightning
entered just behind the ear of deceased, pass
ing down his side, and tearing OF the sole of,
his bost. On Sunday afternoon, July 5, at
Port Orange, three children of Mr.. William
ISherry were Killed by lightning. They were
sitting on a bench under lilac bush The
electric huid descended from the telegraph
wires. A little brother seated with them es-
capped unframed Two miles from Port Or
ange man was struck dead by lightning. On
the North Plank Road, near S6awangunk,
tive men and a team were killed. by lightning
the same day Sunday. The same afternoon
a hurricane visited Montgomery. General
deYasi alton was left in its track Near Snake
Hill two men were killed instantly by the
| lightning Fences were ripped up every
where while huge trees were uprooted and
thrown in every direction. Thomas Colyer
carman OF Port Jervis, was also killed by
lightning.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-23

How TO MAKE BARREN TREES FRUITFUL -
The Elkhorn Independent states the follow
ing:
"On the premises of Mr.. S.Mlller, on Spring
ST., in this place, is an apple tree which, al
though an old, large and vigorous one, has
never borne fruit. The only reason assigned
for its not doing so, was that there was not
iron enough in the soil. Acting upon the
supposition that the reasons assigned were
correct, large, rusty spikes. nails, &C., were
this spring driven into the roots Of the tree,
and iron laid in around the roots. The effect
of all this was that the tree was this spring
full In blossom, with The prospect of an ex-
traordinary yield Of fruit"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-23
[oNA lNcHF On ssI'4ei, NJ AXES ON SQUARE. ]

Professional and Business Cards, 81 line
per year for the firstAffve lines, and fifty cents
for each additional line.
Estray Notices, published four weeks, S., 100
Tor single animal, "a 4 fifty cents for each
additional animal in anne notice. Af-
Legal Notices at STAT al Z rates. ~ p 40 Z
Advertisements notaecompanied with dircc-
lions will be inserted until forbidden and
charged Tor accordingly. $50 e7E
THE TELEGRAPH is the ol0sSt Newspaper IN
the State of Wisconsin, has Largesta.
Circulation ofany paperin Southern Wisconsin
making very desirable advertising medium.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-23

How TO READ THE CLoUDs.--Soft-look-
ing ordelicate clouds foretell fine weather,
with moderate or light breezes hard
edged, oily looking clouds, wind; a dark,
gloomy blue sky is windy, but a light,
bright blue sky indicates fine weather.
Generally the softer clouds look the less
wind (but perhaps more rain) may be ex-
pected, and the harder,more greasy,rolled,
tuffJed or rugged, the stronger the coming
wind will prove Also, bright, yellow
sky at sunset presages wind,a pale yellow,
wet, and greenish, sickly-looking color,
wind and rain. Thus by the prevalence
of red, yellow or other tints the coming
weather may be foretold very nearly, in
deed, if aided by Instruments almost ex-
actly. Small linky Hooking clouds foretell
rain light scud clouds driving across
heavy masses show wind and rain, but if
alone, may indicate wind only.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-23

s.d kidneys, bladder, womb and blood affections
ut the urinary orgrns gravel scrOfnla rheumatism, ca
haFrh, Asthma, bronchitis, dyspepsia.
0Er practice Is not of experiment but of twenty
standing, founded the laws Nature with
experience and evidence to it. Do not down
"a build up MAKE sick to make wsno harsh treatmen
SO .riaing no fattering. We know the and the
e5Esedy needed work. but knowledge gained by
of experience in the treatment of these diseases
siEsivelyno encouragement without prospect Candid
opinions. reasonable in charges claim not to
everything everybody but do claim rea-
500 and common sense We invite the Sick matter
Sast their aim ent to call investigate they
don hope make nterrogatons and decide themselves
1t will cost nothing consultation free This is the
Sixth year that have visited this place, shall max
visits Cor gularly the days of the
overv eight weeks.
On. V, CLARgscr Price Can BIZ CONSULTED AT
kenosha, Halliday, late Durkee House,
during Sat- 18th OF August, 1868
~ Residence asd Laboratory. waukeean III,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-23

To PRESERVE FLOWERS Take a deep
plate, into which pour quantity Of clear
water Set vase of flowers upon the
plate, and over the plate set bell glass
with its rim in the water The air that
surrounds the flowers being confined be-
meath the bell glass is constantly moist
with water that rises in the form OF
vapor. AS fast as the water becomes CON
densed it runs down the side of the bell
glass into the dish, and if means be taken
fo enclose the water on the outside of the
bell GLASS 30 as to prevent it from evapo-
rating into the air Of the sitting room, the
atmosphere around the flowers is continu-
ally damp. The plan isdesignated in the
"Hopean Apparatus. The experiment
may be tried on a small scale by inverting
tumbler over rosebud in saucer of
water-Er
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-23
POSTERS AND HANDBILLs

- For Programmes and Bills requiring an unusual
amount ofcOinp POSITION, fof bordering and other
"Xtra work, reasonable charges win be made. .
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-23

F Elk PRESIDENT BUcHANAN.--The funeral Of
Mr.. Buchanan was largely attended at Lam
sons were in the procession, the Masons TAX
ing prominent part in the exercises. He
leaves an estate computed at 100000. His
last words were, "Oh, Lord Almighty, as
Thou wilt !"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-23
$500 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
Miscellaneous Items.

Bishop Lee and family, of Iowa, will
IS the remainder of the summer in Bos
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-23

A maiden lady has sailed from New
York to Paris with lap dog, in order to
consult physician there touching its
health. The dog is sixteen years old.
The lady desires that he may live until he
is twenty-five. He has bronchitis and a
cough.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-29
Wool in New York.

We have to record the largest move
ment in Domestic Fleece that has taken
place, in a like period, for many months,
consumers having taken advantage of the
current low prices to replenish their stocks.
1t has been known that the new clip has
been coming forward with more than usual
promptness at so early stage of the sea-
son, and for various reasons, it has been
freely offered, Notwithstanding the allega-
tion that the price is too low for it to form
profitable element of farm produce
Prominent among these reasons may be
mentioned the general depression of trade
and manufacturing industry, which has
led to an uneasy and uncertain feeling
among dealers. They seem, indeed, to have
been possessed of the fear that no other
results would follow the policy of holding
on than an exhaustion of margins, and
hence, by slightly modifying their views,
manufacturers have been induced to antici-
pate their wants considerably. At the
close, after large portion of the cheap
Wool had been disposed Of there was, if
anything, a slightly better tone to the mar
ket, with nothing, however, that would
seem to indicate reaction in prices.
The market for California wool has SYM
pathized to some extent in the activity, but
low Western now being abundant, there is
not 80 wide a discrepancy in the two
classes. Texas is inactive, with dropping
tendency. Foreign kinds remain about as
hull as ever. The sales reach 100000 lbs
State and Western Fleece at 37@53c for low
20 choice grades, including 100000 lbs No
x and Xxx Ohio at 42c to 4S953: 275.OOO
mixed Western, principally Indiana, Mich
,gan and Ohio, at 4094Sc; 25,OOO lbs low
Western at 37@39c; 1900 unmerchantable,
10000 lbs tub-washed at 4S1a@5215c; 5000
los fine light Long Island at 45c; 1000 lbs
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-29
1s- PROPOSALS. Q
SEALED PROPOSALS

WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE Of
W fee Of the City Civil Engineer in Columbus
Ohio. until ~ - :: - '
Monday the Sd day of August, 1865,
at Il o'clock A. NJ, for furnishing materials and
building seven circular brick main or trunk sewers
IN the city of Columbus. Said work will require
about 100 900 Gu bic yards of excavation and filing
and about 8, 600 900 of brick. more or less.
Plans. profiles and specifications can be seen at
this office. ,......'.- ---- : :.
Bids are solicited for the whole work and for each
sewer and section. I III
Payments will be made in cash on the monthly
estimate Of the Engineer. approved by the COM
mittee on Sewers and Drainage, reserying 10 per
cent for the faithful performance Of the work until
the W hole is completed. r.t r.iHE 'EE
Each proposal must be accompanied by bond,
executed in due form by the bidder or bidders with
at least two good and sufficient sureties, residents
of Franklin county, satisfactory to the committee
on Sewers and Drainage conditioned for the faith
fol performance of the work that may be awarded
to him or them for the payment as liquidated dam
ages by such bidder or bidders to the city of any
excess of cost the bid bids of bidder or
bidders which the city may be obliged to pay for
such work by reason of the failure of such bidder
or bidders to complete his their contracts. Said
bond shall be null and void if contract shall be
awarded to him or them. No bid upaccompanied
by such bond will be entertained by the committee
on Sewers and Drainage.
Copies of bonds Gin blank will be furnished to
bidders on application to the City Clerk.
Bids will be opened by the standing committee on
Sewers and Drainage and the right to reject any or
all bids will be reserved by the fommiltes S peHpn
Asst City Civil Engineer.
City Civil Engineers Office No. 9s South High
street, up stairs .. iy27-dtd
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-29
BaItimore Cattle market-July "a

BEEF CATTLE-The offerings at the
Scales during the past week amounted to
1852 head, against 1867 last week. OF the
number offered 2SS head came from Ohio,
5l4 from West Virginia, and Is from Vir-
ginia, over the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road; 81 from Virginia and 38 from Mary
land on foot. OF the receipts 500 head were
taken by Baltimore butchers, 292 sold to
speculators for other markets. A number
to country butchers, and the balance were
reshipped to the East without being offered
here. Prices to-day ranged as follows !:
Old Cows and Scalawags at $4@5; ordinary
thin Steers, Oxen and Cows at S5@5 so;
fair quality Beeves SIS 1906 25; and the
very best beeves at $S@S 75 per 100 lbs, the
average price being about Sc % gross
The market opened active at an advance of
fully 371a cents per 100 lbs on the rates of
last week, but closed dull. ..- ...-....
SHEEP-There has been good supply
at market during the past week, and the
demand moderate at previous rates. Prices
to-day ranged as follows: Good tat Sheep
4@514c per lb gross. Stock Sheep 81 500
3 per head. Lambs S2@4 per head. ,.- r,
HOGS-The arrivals during the past
week have been larger, but with good
demand the supply is pretty well exhaust
ed, and the market closed firm. Prices to-
day ranged as follows: Fair to good live
Hogs at So 75@13 so per 100 lbs net.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-29
CincinnatI Tobacco market.

tFrom the Cincinnati Enquirer's Review for the
week ending July 81 1888 j ~ -
! The amount of leaf on the breaks the
past week was small. The demand was
only moderate, as shippers and manufac-
turers bought freely of the tobacco which
was entered at the fair. The demand,
however, was sufficient to take all offered
and at full prices. In manufactured there
is rather more doing. We quote: -s,.