The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-11-10

One OF those gentlemanly swindlers, who
are so anxious to, pay DOCTORS bills with q
check which Is for five or ten dollars more
than the bill, met his match the other day in
the wife of Cambridge physician. He
which he owed the doctor, and he had q
check for $25. The doctors wife said that
no one owed the doctor 500. The young man
persisted in his determination to pay the
bill. Did you say it was for medical
services rendered in Boston pr Z" es,
madam. " My husband has had no prac.
tice in Boston for over a dozen years. -
vices render ed in Boston 7"My husband
has mott charged cent for practice in ten
yeSarsmhe ma retired" quietly replied the
be the dentist" despairingly said the young
swindler, as he looked for the horse car,
which did not come " There is no dentist
Of that name in Cambridge" was the con-
elusive reply, as the gentleman rushed for
the horse car, which just then appeared in
light. aa q
The President last Saturday signed the
commission of Columbus Delano as Secretary
of the Interior, from the first of November.
He also appointed Benjamin f. Farnham, OF
Mass, Consul at Bombay; VIM. H. Town
send, of r. / !, Consul of Cork Frederick
Hedd, of N. Y, Consul at Client Arthur
Livermore, of N. H., Consul at Londonderry
@Nh'AdulCl rOpG, OI lII1uOlS, SUPERINTENDENT
Of Indian affairs, at New Mexico; Edward 81.
Philterplace, of Michigan, Superintendent of
Indian affairs, of Arizona. d ataA<
Seventy seven lists of German losses were
published up to October 7. They show a
loss of men in killed of five hundred and
forty-three officers and eight thousand two
hundred and twenty four men, Wounded
1,663 officers and So, 933 men. Missing-l4
officers and 8, DAT men. Total loss as far az
reported, 2 230 officers and 50,200 men. The
PruSsian Guard alone has lost 254 officers and
7,O14 men.
fellow named Parkhurst and the wife of
Philadelphia merchant, who stole SlS 900
other husbands money when she fed from
nome year ago, were arrested in Cherokee
county, Iowa, last week and taken back to
the City Of Brotherly Love. She, a Young
woman, and handsome, had married an old
man to please her parents, and when the
fOrsaken lover of her maiden days came
along, why she put off with him.
The story of General BUrnside's visit to
Paris is, as follows General Burnside de-
sired to visit the Prussian army and obtained
letters of introduction from Minister Motley :
at first he was prevented from going but
soon afterward an opportunity offered of
sending dispatches tC Minister Washburne
which had accumulated in London. Gen
eral Burnside undertook to convey the dis
patches to the Prussian headquarters. When
ne got there he presented his letters of
Introduction to Bismarck and others, and
stated that he had no business in Paris, and
mad no thought of entering the city, and was
nrst induced to do so at the suggestion of
Bismarck.
A Detroit lady was recently surprised'with
the gilt of valuable set of diamonds from
her Quaker aunt. They were accompanied
with the following enistle Thee NAV
find them convenient, Catherine, in case Of
necessity.
connecticut boy writes from Omaha that
two hundred men are ont of work there A.
to the Garden of the West" he saws that
wild lands in Nebraska are like cerfgin sand
plains in Connec lieut., where the winters are
severe, and drouth and grasshoppers eat ur
what grows in summer.
Great destitution exists among the miners
along the German frontier.