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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03
A STRANGER.

The suggestion given by our correspondent
in regard to seats, &C., is one we'll worth con-
sidering by our city authorities, and we re-
spectfully refer the communication to the
Committee on Public Grounds" Our park
is certainly one of the finest in the west, and
the improvements spoken ofby "Stranger,"
while not costing any very great amount,
would add considerable to it's looks. We like
to have things excellent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

CHEESE BoxEs.-For the past week we have
seen an immense number of cheese boxes
carted by our Office for shipment at the depot.
Messrs. Simmons 81 Co. are now manufsc-
turing on an average three hundred boxes
per day, but this amount is not enough to fill
the orders constantly coming in from the
dairy region west of us. The firm are adding
new machinery, and in few weeks with
their increased facilities they will be able to
turn out about six hundred boxes daily.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

TROUBLE AT THE BRIDGE.-Some one cp-
posed to the bridge improvement cut hole
in the bottom of the pile-driyer last Monday
night, and on Tuesday morning when the
workmen went to their work they found her
quietly settled in the mud at the bottom of
theriyer.r The same party most likely threw
the plank, timber, ETC., from the bridge into
the river.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

DAM Tive don't mean tobe profane, but
we have noticed that the lake at this point
has fallen about two feet during the past two
weeks. If that canal and river marriage
lately celebrated in Chicago is causing this
great fall of water, the river at that point had
better be damned n,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

a company is being formed somewhere
down east to manufacture rope out of the
stalks Of Canada thlstles. If some of our en-
terprising boys would go to work now and
cut the thistles in this locality, they could
supply that company with material enough
20 keep them running several years. And
this is poor year for thistles, too.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03
EX-UNION SOLDIER.

sour Yankee this week furnishes US q
very entertaining letter from Egypt which
will be perused with interest by our many
readers. We expect he will next week give
us an account of the celebrated pyramids.
"L. w. R." furnishes us another interest
ing letter from the Green Mountains this
week We hope ne will continue the series
through the summer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

We had occasion to call at the Northwest
ern depot few days since, and found our old
friend Gibbons up to his neck in business.
The Company could not have a better person
in the Office than Mr.. g., and we hope they
may retain him many years.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

Some person or persons unknown, not hav.
ing the fear. of the law before their eyes, scut-
tied the dredge last Sunday, hoping to sink
her. When discovered there was three feet
of water in her, but the leak was stopped,
the pumps set to work, and in short time
she was ready to work again.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

Mr.. A. B. Truesdell, our City Marshal,
handed us corn stalk from hisgarden which
measured twelve feet in length. Mr.. T. says
he has corn growing in his place that is all Of
fourteen feet high, and has not yet reached
maturity. The seed is from Ohio and is
species of white dent. The stalk in our Office
has upon it three well developed ears of corn.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

IT know what your beau's horse's name
u.s." said precocious youth to his sister on
the north side, last Sunday morning" it S
Damye." "Hush, Charlie, that's naughty
word" 81 don't care; stood near the front
gate last night when he drove up, and heard
him say, whoa, Damye.'" That boy will
be School Commissioner if he lives long
enough.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

We are sorry to learn that the wife of our
much esteemed citizen Levi Grant, Esq, met
with a severe accident in the northern part
of this State few days since. While stand
ing at the top of steep fight of steps lead
ing into her hotel, sudden faintness seized
her and she fell to the bottom, receiving in
iuries that are deemed very serious.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

By referring to communication in anoth-
er column it will be seen that Capt. Read
very kindly offers the use of his extensive
grounds to the Agricultural Society for their
next annual fair free gratis. No finer spot
can he found in the county for such purposes,
and we think the Society will further their
own interests by accepting the offer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03
List OF Letters

D emaining at the Post Office, Kenosha, for the
ma week ending, Aug, 9th, 1871
Agin Samuel Butler Geo
Boes Mat Brooks Miss A
Brennan VIM Connolly Agnes
Darrison Harvey Erwin T H
Ellis W Ell Hannah RObt
Hoyt w D Kerry Mrs
Larabee g w Mcintyre Jimmie
Marvin Ella S Pontins Jacob
Schmitz Anthony SimoLds John L 3
Smell Theo 2 Taylor Oscar
Towsley Dea R Thomas VIM
thompson Mrs Fran VanAlstine Peter 9
clio Wellendorf Julius B
Unavailable letters:
Kearney John Mitchell George
TO obtain any of the abovelet the applicant
must call for advertised letters and give the date
of this list CHAs FRSfyTZ P M
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

The Cincinnati Commercial relates
that at certain hotel down that way a
large mirror is placed al the entrance of
the dining room hall, which is so con-
structed that you see yourself, as you go
In, a thin, cadaverous, hungry person, but
when you come out from the table, and
look again in the glass, your body is dis
tended to the extremity of corpulency.
This method of fattening up the boarders
may be practicable at Cincinnati hotels,
but it wouldn't go down anywhere else
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

Some enterprising youngsters have been
running ferry boat at Main street bridge
during the temporary suspension of travel
over that structure, the past week, and they
"paid expenses"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

COLORADO COLONIAL movement is on
foot here to start colony1or point one hun
dred miles south of Denver, Colorado. The
lands in that neighborhood are rich, and we
know of 10 point in the west where colony
will thlive better than in that spot. About
ffty persons have already signifed their de
sire to take part in the enterprise, and an
agent will probably be sent to look over the
grounds within a very few days.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

/, The appearance in the last "Peerage and
Baronetage,' of son of the late Sir Samuel
Stirling, calls out from a Canadian paper a
romantic story of his parents courtship and
gcog Mne1 Samuel e 1scs Gop into
Stratford, Canada, and fell in love. with the
pretty daughter of the village blacksmith,
whom, like a man, he married. Without
knowing who he was, she trustfully waited
several years with her father, where their
sonswas born, while he travelled over dinerent
parts of the earth, until at his request she
went to England, to find herself Lady Stirling
and at the head of one of the bestifamilies in
the realm.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

We are sorry to learn that Judge Webster
for several days past. We hope soon to see
him on our streets again enjoying good
health.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

We are under obligations to Mr.. FL. e..
Sholes of this city. for bound volume of the
Kenosha Daily Telegraph, printed in 1854. The
book is very interesting and valuable as a
reference, and It's pages call forth memories
of times when live men advertised.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

While the people throughout The county
west otus have been fairly sweltering with
the heat during the past week, Lake Michi-
gan has been gently tanning our city with O
steady, cool breeze,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

We are informed that a new hotel will GER
tainly be built on the spot formerly occupied
by the Halliday House, during the coming
fall and winter. We hope it is so, as that
end of Main street looks deserted at present.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

Of every million of Americans, 100000 are
more or less troubled with diseases Of the
Stomach and Liver. But they are so of their
own accord +; for in that pure and harmless
vegetable Inyigorator of DR.. Staford's is!
balm for every variety of Liver Complaint
Sold by all druggists. t...... 3m1.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

Persons who lisp may cure themselves by
repeating rapidly several times the following
sentence: "The strife ceaseth and all good
men rejoiceth."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

Truesdell showed US a splendid assortment
of stereoscopic views last Tuesday, from all
parts of the world. He sells thousands of
them .E.E
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

High medical authority recommends iced
tea as a summer drink, For relief of thirst
and cooling the blood when heated it is
claimed to be the best drink that can be
taken. =
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

Messrs. Borkenhagen, Dickhout, and Linn
pert are now "wearing of the green" the
clothing beidg made up and applied by Char
ley Dig, our go-ahcad painter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

A light shower fell last Monday, laying the
dust, and cooling the atmosphere-just what
we wanted.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

REPUBLICAN COUNTY CoNvEN TIoN.-A Re-
publican Convention for Kenosha County will
be held at the Court House in the city of Ke-
D. 1871, at one O'Clock, P, NJ, for the purpose
of electing two delegates to the Republican
state Convention TO be held at Madison, Wis,
on Wednesday, the 30th day of August, A. d.
1871, for the nomination of State officers.
Each town and ward is entitled to three del
egates.
MARK DRESSER,
Chairman Rep. Co. Com.
Kenosha, July 26th, 1871.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

Our Sheriff now has fourteen regular board
ers at his establishment.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

Some of the sidewalks on Main street are
being fixed. Good.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03
Chicago g. North Western H. Ts.
TIME TABLE
Mails Close

Forthe South and East, 7-3O, AM. 1854 $50, P M.
So North, 10 :" 1120 AM: $40 -
&C West, 2-45 -
Post Office open from a. m, to p. m.,-Sun-
days from 10 to o'clock, noon.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-03

Kenosha, July Doth, 1871.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-08-24
JOHN H. McDEVITT, S. C. E. c

@S- A Berlin, Germany, telegram o
the 18th, says: "Cholera has appeared
in the neighborhood of Stettin. The dis
ease continues its ravages at Konigsberg
where on Tuesday there were seventy
new cases and thirty-four deaths, anC
on Wednesday eight new cases and TWEEN
ty-seven deaths. A dispatch from Su
walki, Poland, says cases of cholera arr
decreasing. In that town, whose popu
lation does not exceed 6O0O, about one
half of whom are Jews, there have beer
443 cases of disease, SO of which were
fatal. :.a. ..
Gs- One suspicion in regard to the
Mrs. Wharton poisoning case, has been
cleared away. The physician who ex.
amined the stomach of Henry G. Whar'
ton, one of the alleged victims, reports
that he found no traces of poison. Thus
the charge against Mrs. Wharton of poi
soning her own son falls to the ground
@- A Virginia editor, in noticing the
statement that tight-lacing saves the
country 100000 annually in board
alone, says it is villainous and habitual
lie. He knows girl who laces SO tight
that his arm will go round her and lap
over clear to the elbow and one wouldn't
think, to look at her, that she could eat
anything but soup, but she's got an ap-
petite like cross-cut saw, and she mows
swath at table like self-raking
reaper.
10 The Mexican muddle remains
mixed. Juarez counts a majority, but
hasn't got it, and threatens to retire to
private life in disgust, which everybody
believes he won't and SO both parties
are arming.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-08-24

On the matter of advertising, we said
two years ago that the city of Augusta
did more advertising in the Edgetield
AdrertiSer than the city of Charleston
did in all the country papers Of the State
put together. Such is still the case.-
Chester Reporter.
And Augusta has real live business
provoking and wide-awake commercial
community, linen who knov that judicious
advertising pays, and therefore invest
literally in printers ink. And see the
result: In Charleston, (where the mer-
chants save money by not advertising,)
dull stagnation and fearful lack of ami
nation and enterprise is observable on
all sides. Whilst in Augusta (where the
merchants make money by advertising
far and wide,) all is life and activity the
city is rapidly extending its limits; new
and splendid buildings arc constantly
going up new merchants are coming in !;
the older merchants are increasing the
of their stores and adding to
tllclI SlOChS IdlllOeiIio
and canals opened,-and the brightest
of a golden harvest are loom-
ing up in the near future.
We would rejoice to know that Charles
ton was regaining and extending her
wonted commercial prosperity. But be-
fore this desirable consummation can be
her merchants must change
their tactics. In short, they must seek
customers and trade through the columns
of the newspaper press of the interior.
Let them inform the people of Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and Florida concern
ing the inducements they can and will
offer to all in want of merchandise; in
0ite customers from abroad to examine
their wholesale and retail stocks, before
seeking other and perhaps inferior mar
kets. Do this, we merchants of Charles
ton, and ere hong your gloomy repinings
will be changed to songs of joy and re-
joicing.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-08-24
least admired of the MANY beautiful girls

least admired of the many beautiful girls
Who graced and glorified the scene. AT
this ball, small colony Of. Edgefeld
aborigines rather clustered around a
genial gentleman whom many Edgeheld
people know, love, and willSbe glad to-
hear of-zDr. sam MARsHAEL, formerly
of Abbeyile. DR.. MARSHALL has lived
here seven or eight years, is q partner ID
appointment Drug Store, popular pTaes
titioner, and, aseof yore, South caroh-
nian of the old knightly and cavalier
type.
Another person here to whom Edge
field people are naturally drawn is the
venerable Mrs. JANE BUTLER, who, bke
DR.. BUST, may be seen on the streets
almost any fine day, followed by three
little grandsons, the sons of Genl. M. c.,
who are spending the summer with her
This lady, of the old and high regime, IS
as hale, vivacious, witty, and full of in in
terest in the life around her, as if she
were but twenty years old. Her chill
dren and grandchildren cluster lovingly
around her, and her old age is, as it
should be, prosperous and honored.
How is that Edgefield and Laurens
narrow gaugee Shall we travel home
upon it two weeks hence? Nightly and
morningly we pray in its behalf.
Our next letter will be fronl-we know
not where. Caesars Head perhaps. But
we shall blow where we list; and no man
shall tell whence we come or whittier
we 90. Arain Adieu. ]. 7. B.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-08-24
Home. and Health"

Every family needs high-toned, fresh
and practical health journal. Home books
of Medicine and Hygiene are expensive
and of very limited circulation, .and
many of thern are not adapted to the
masses, and will not reach them. Be.
sides, most of them cont in matter which
should not go under the eye of the young.
er members of the family. A journal
which avoids technical and mere profes-
sional phrazes, and the treatment of all
improper subjects, which is not written
in the interest of any medical party dr
clique, and whose publishers are not
committed to any hobby, is needed eve
rywhere. Such Journals "Healh and
Home"
The terms are purposely placed low 70
as to insure the widest possible circula-
ton. The subscription price, only 81, so,
is Tess tkcp the cost of q single visit of a
practicing physician. Surely the constant
presence of such magazine in the fami-
'ly will pay. At the close of the year the
numbers will make a most interesting
and useful volume of four hundred pages
royal octavo.
ALI Business Letters and all Commu-
nications for Health and Home should
be addressedto "W.R. DEPUY q BROTH
ER, sO5 Broadway, New York"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-08-24
The Crops in South Carolina.

We print to-day a number of letters
from our attentive correspondents in the
interior, which letters, together with other
trustworthy information in our possession
enable US to make the following general
estimate of the probable cotton and corn
crops of South Carolina for the current
year:
/. With the most favorable seasons, the
cotton crop of this year will be at least
thirty per cent. less than that of last year
the estimates range from twenty-five pei
cent. to fifty per cent, according to locali-
ty.
2. With unfavorable seasons, the crop
will not exceed one-half Of the crop of last
year Upon this point, our estimate agree
8. The crop of the present. year will cost
at least twenty-five per cent. less than the
crop of last year. The estimate range
from ten per cent to thirty three per cent
+. The crop of breadstuffs, although
there was large increase in area, Will not
be larger than is required for the wants OF
the State, ard, in some localities, there will
be deficiency.
This is the substance OF all the letters
and private advices received by us during
the past two weeks, but it must not be
forgotten that heavy rains or high winds
would seriously diminish the yield OF cot
ton, and reduce the crop Of the staple be-
low our lowest figares-Charleston News.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-08-24

GEy. GARY" The ladies will be pleased
TO learn that Major-General Martin With
erspoon Gary of South Carolina, is at the
ST Nicholas Hotel"
We copy the above from the New York
Sun. We knew the Gen. was favorite
with the ladies of this State, and that his
gallant address and insinuating manners
had commended him to the favor and Sc
cured the smiles, of the fair daughters oi
Virginia, MAJ sland and Georgia. But we
were not aware that his almost irresista-
bic, sweetly- persuading speech, and charm
ing manner, had made itsimpression North
of Mason & Dixon's line. Here is the
proof, however, that the conquering hero
has invaded Yankeedom, and as soon as
he arrives in New York, the leading pa
pers announce his advent to the ladies of
that Metropolis. What a rush there will
be from Saratoga, Long Branch and the
other summer resorts. If the keepers of
these Spas were wise, they would induce
the General to divide the season among
them-Barnwell Sentinel.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-08-24
CaroIina,s Honored Dead.

We again advert to the roll of our
martyred dead and the history Of the DIFF
ferent regiments, battalions and compa-
MES, furnished by this State during the
late war, which is now in course of prepa-
ration by the Survivors Association of
South Carolina. An agent has been ap-
pointed to canvass the Statctor subscribers
to this most valuable work, copy OF
which should find its way to the house
hold of every onewhose heart thrcbs IN
unison with the principles for which those
brave men fought and so hcroically died.
It.is true the war between the States"
is past, and the doctrines which we sub
mitted to the stern arbitrament of arms
has been decided against us 1t is true
that it was our duty when the last line of
bavopets was lowered at Appomatox,
when the starry cross on the ensign Of
the army of the West was shrouded in
The gloom of the surrender at Jonesboro,
10 forget the mad passions engendered BY
The red demond of strife. But though
the field be lost, it does not follow that we
should be altogether unmindful Of the
pasta past fruitful in all the elements of
moral political and martial greatness
past, the fame of which is as imperishable
rs the deeds it commemorates q past
which calls up the march, the bivouac
and the fight The march through the
gorges of the Blue Ridge, and up the
lovely Valley of the Shenandoah-with
Johnston through Tennessee and Georgia,
where the footprints of our men could be
traced in characters of blood from their
torn and lacerated feet The bivouac,
where meath the cold arch of winters
night, and the quivering light Of the
stars, they rested from the fatigues Of
the day, uncontrolled save by thoughts OF
the loving and loved ones in their sunny
Southern home. The fight in which our
gallant boys presented fearless breasts to
the storm of leaden hail, and won for
themselves name almost without a
parallel in the history of nations 1t is
the intention of the Survivors Associa-
ton to place on record the name Of every
solder rom this State who persisted in
battle or who died during the war. There
are few Of our people who do not mourn
some relation who fell in the front of bat
tie. There are none of our people who do
not treasure the memory of our SLAIN
heroes. Even those who were opposed to
the principles for which the South fought
bear willing testimony to the valor and
self-sacrifcing heroism of the menin gray
We earnestly hope that the agent will
meet with success commensurate with the
nobleness of the object.-Charleston Cou-
rinr
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-08-24
COMM ERCI-A-L.

9t AUGUSTA, August %.
/ GOLD-Buying till and scllingat 112
COTTON-IO-day's market has ruleC
quiet at yesterdays quotations, will
light offerings, closing 1irm. biverpoo
middling, lGs New York middling, II
Sales, Of 1ales.i Leceipts, 10 bales.
BACON-Stock large and market I'm
changed; C. Sides, 81! C. R. Sides, 8
Shoulders, 7@S; Hams, l5@2O; Dry
Salt Shoulders, u. Dry Salt G. r. Sides
81; D. S. Clear Sides, 10.
CORN-Prime white is selling at 90 cts
by the car load from depot; retail. 95.
WIIEAT-Wequotc choice white, 81 G5
amber, 81 So.
FLoUR-City Mills, 81 5o@lO; at re
tail, 81 q barrel higher. Country, 81 81
40, according to quality.
CORN MEAL-s95 at wholesale; 81.
at retail.
OATS-556G5.