The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-05-19

About the middle of March last, a French.
man named Richards left his home near
Meadville, Penn for the purpose of buying
cattle, and not returning at the time specii-
ed his family advertised tor his wherea bouts
On Wednesday last his body was found in
French creek, near Meadvile, with a bandage
over his mouth, and with his hands tied be-
hind him and his pockets riAed This is the
most cowardly and brutal murder on the rec.
ords of Crawford county. From the appear
gnce of the body, it is evden: that he was
struck on the head, but not such blow as
would produce death, and that after being
robbed, he was thrown, gagged, bound and
alive, into the creek. He leaves wife and
six children
The Fort Wayne Gazette says g We have
received the first copy of John Russell Youno's
new paper, the New York Standard. 1t full
ty justities the expectations which so indus.
triOus and able d journalist would be liable
TO incite. 1t bids fair to rival the Sun in spi-
ciness and is sure to excel it in the matter of
respectabilIty, being paper which men IN
good standing will not be ashamed to see in
their houses. 1t is independent in politics
The splendid and costly machinery for pol
ishing the plate glass made at the Star Glass
COmpany's works in this city, arrived in New
York from England last week, and will be re-
ceived at the works the present week The
plate glass works viii then be as complete as
any in this country or Europe.-Neey Albany
Ledger.
A contribution was recently taken in one
OF the churches in Chicago, and on the day
following man who counts his property by
the hundreds of thousands called on one of
the elders and said " made mistake yes
terday, and put into the box ten cents, when
meant to put in five cents"
Paper petticoats having come into fashion.
the following advertisement thereof appears
Enorl ND MY1n 10
call the attention of ladies about to visit the
seaside to her new and richly embroidered
paper pettlccats at one shilling each Each
petticoat contains an installment of a new
novel Of great domestic interest, by Anthony
Trolope, entitled 'Tucks or Frills.' The sto
ry will be complete in fifty weekly petit
coats"
The small steel chain which winds round
the face of a watch is about eight inches in
length, and contains upward of SOC links,
riveted together. 1t is not thicker than q
horse hair, and the separate links can but
Just be perceived with the naked eye Most
of these watch chains are manufactured at
Christ church, Hants. The links are punch.
cd out by girls from plates of Steel and very
young girls pick up the links, and rivet one
TO the other.
A clergyman was reading for the instruc.
sion oil his congregation, one Sabbath morn.
ing chapter in Genesis. The last sentence
of the page was, land the Lord gave unt0
Adam a wife" Turning two leaves, instead
o. one he continued "And she was pitched
without and within ~ He had got into the
description of Noahs ark.
young man who has been paying his at.
tention to young lady in Beloit, was eiec
ted from the house by the young lady's faith
er, on Wednesday evening, and promised a
horse whipping if found on the premises
again. Such conduct on the part of The 'sold
man ?" is calculated to produce a coolsess
between himself and the young man. Tina,
young gent is wading in deep water"
"Pd rather not take horn with vou." said
The topper to the mad bull bnt the bull treat
ed him to two, and the topper got quite high
A citizen of Belfast Me discovered fon,
skunks foraging in his garden, and slew them
all with hoe. The neighbors don't speak
TO him.
An indianapolis grocer has been married
three times and divorced twice within one
year, and now has the same wife he started
with.
Mrs. Elizabeth Brown has been re-appoint.
ed Postmistress at Longansport.