The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-09-15

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VICIssITUDEs OF LIFE IN MEx1oo.-Tbe
career OF General Negrete, now lying in
Vera Cruz under sentences ofEdeath for hay
ing conspired against the present government
OF Mexico, has been most geventful.S His
military history is quite familiar to all
american America readers At one time he was
Division General and Minister of War under
President Juarez, who now has it in his
power 10 sign his former, comrades death
WARRANT, or commute the capital penalty to
another form of punishment Juarez and
MS rilme Minister hate Negrete with bitter
intensity, and If the sentence be committed,
III VIII De under strong outward pressure.
/ Nearly every man ofnote has pettloned for
Communication Negrete was found secreted
in house in Vera Cruz, where, for five
months, he had maintained concealed ex
istence OF the most wretched character. To
gam a livelihood he often assisted in making
cakes ana preserves, which were sold In the
streets OF the city by afaitla3l Indian woman
ana at times lie worked as aid in tin shop,
he having obtained knowledge of the trade,
IN MS ooyhOod, before he comm enced his
eventful military career. Notwithstanding
his most commendable Industry he earned so
llttle Inat more than one day had to be
passed by him and his very few companions
without having had anything to eat. His
family, then and now in Puehla, has also
suffered great privations, and lately his wife
had TO beg friends for clothing with which to
ciothe herself and children. Yet this man
has been the center figure in three consequent
tlal revolutions, aud thousands of men have
Ooeyed his orders. He also in part planned
and in truth fought the battle of Puebla, of
May 9TH, 1861. when the French were so
badly repulsed.e His poverty, after holding
so many exalted positions, and filling nu-
merous important places, is cited as proof of
his,exceeding great honesty. 1t is averred
that should he be exc cuted, another great
revolution will be added to The many reyolu-
tions for which Mexico has become notorious
the world over Il L9S7 AW
Shooting HORSES. Two gentlemen connect
ed with The British army, Mr.. George Fiem-
lag, veterinary Surgeon, and Col. FitzwytgraIn,
have recently published VOL ks. on the treat
mens of the horse, and both energetically pro-
test against the paring and cutting away of O.
sole and frog which often accompanies the
operation of shoeing horse. Nothing can
be more barbarous than the carving and cut
ling ola horses foot before shoeing, though
on his skill in this, many a farrier prides
himself The idea Chat the frog must not be
allowed to bear on the groand that the sole
must be thinned, till it4s'springs Ion the
thumb. lis a most pernicious sone.~On this
subject Mr.. Fleming's precept Is The
sole, fioG and bars must, on no account, or
unGer. any conditions, except those of a
nature, be interfered with in any
way by knife or rasp AT each shooting the
hoof must be shortened to it's natural pro
beyond which forms the chief diff
Guilty of the work, and is the criterion of the
GOOD workman.
AN INGENIOUS goNyIoT. -Adolph Law
renee, q noted convict,l made his escape from
the Maryland vPenitentlary, at Baltimore,
Wednesday evening. Lawrence made an
efigy of man., and placed it. in position
inside the cell, Just as the convict, stands
when the Deputy Keeper makes the first
evening round, and receivsac a check from
each prisoner as proofpoSitivs of his presence
IN his proper place. The efigy was made
of straw taken from his bed,o and had for a.
head q pretty good repr esentat ton, made of
papier mache, He also had a hand made of
the same material, in the frger OF which
was held his ticket. AS the Deputy Keeper
made his roupd, he hurriedly gathered in this
ticket with the rest, which was placed among
those taken from the prisoners, and on
count, it was found that the number of
tickets Tailed with the nHmber of prisoners.
After making this efigy, Lawrence, who was
out of his cell hid himself in the yard, and
BY the aid of a rope, managed to scale the
wall. little girl saw him let himself
down from the wall, and gave the alarm. On
Thursday ne was recaptured. $500
Near Mansfield, o., on Saturday night, a
young man named Hull, in quarrel, drew
his revolver and fired at his antagonist, Aaron
Mrs Townsend, and young man named
Edward Mccullough now lnterfered-and
Lrjed to get the revolver from Hull. In the
scuffie the pistol was either accidentally or
lesignedly discharged, the bail entering Nc.
Cullough's face below the left eye. The
ball entering the brain and caused instant
death. Hull then attempted to take his
own life, but was prevented. He afterward
to Mansfield and gave himself. up,
where he now remains. in Jail, 4
AT present there are thirty-two fcircuses in
the United States. OF this number ten are
circus and menageries combined three are
without tie circus, and nineteen
bireuses without the menageries. These
give direct employment to
seven thousand men and horses, requiring
nine hundred vehicles for their transportation
and representing a capital of 50 900.
The receipts Of each company average about
$3.50 day, while their expenditures amount
to 500. ysfrssgl 4 80 faglst !
young girl named Kitty Felt was alb
Quoted from her mothers home at New Or
leans last week and conveyed to howell in
the woods by a white man, who held her
while she was being shorn of her blonde
tresses by an old negress. She was then
to go home. e The larceny of hair from yollng
girls in the West and South has recently
been madeq quite a. business .s0f by mens who
have heretofore contented themselves with
the profits of peddling.
Itappears that nineteen unfortunate men
Lave been executed in the ditch of the fort
at Mon Touge, France They were not
shot like any ordinary criminals, by file
of soldiers, but disposed of by Sergeant,
who, putting pistol to the ear of each
prisoner, one after the other, blew out their
brains Among the men executed there are
said to have been five staff officers, recently
captured On the plain of Statory disguised as
shepherds. T
The husbands of Indiana are sometimes
very accommodating. lady of Kokomo,
in that state, who had been in the habit of
visiting certain hotel with her husband on
market days, became enamored of g young
man residing there and proposed to the hus-