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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-12-27

The Springfield Mass Republican is not
taking stock in the Hayes conspiracy.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-12-27

The people of Pennsylvania are likely to
keep step to the music of liberty, and with
courage and calmness and full faith in
their sovereignty" do their duty. Indiana
hail!
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31
Stages of National Life.

A writer In the British Quarterly Re
VieaU has said that nations May be said
roughly to pass through three stages OF
growth:
Firstly, the youthful stage; thinly peo-
pied, exporting natural produce, and i'm
porting luxuries.
Secondly, the self-subsistent stage;
we'll peopled, consuming their own
produce; and manufacturing their own
goods.
Thirdly, the most dependent stage;
densely peopled, exporting manufac-
lures and luxuries, and importing natu-
raj produce.
Holland, Great Britain, Switzerland
and Belgium have already assed into
the third and most dependent stage,
and with the increase of population
other nations must infallibly do so as
well. A few years ago England was able
to feed her own people from the produce
of her own fields; she now buys grain to
the annual value of more than G12, OO0,-
900, besides relying on foreign raw ma
terial for employment, foreign markets
for the disposal of her manufactures,
foreign land for the disposal of one or
two hundred thousand of her surplus
population.
Such being the new and unforeseen
condition of national life, may they not
ultimately be found to be utterly incom-
patible with the old method of settling
national disputes by force of arms, a war
inficting such intolerable injury on a
neutral State as to necessitate the adop-
ton of some other method of set
thing national disputes than one which
has ceased to secure even approximate
iustice2
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31
Died With His Boots On.

A Pueblo (Cal. correspondent OF the
ST. Louis Globe Democrat writes: Tim
Shay, noted gambler, died with his
boots on, at La Junta, about sixty
miles east of here, yesterday, and this
is how it came to pass. On Sunday
evening, while Shay was engaged play
ing game of poker with certain par
ties, he stole 500 from them. A dispute
arose afterward between Shay and his
confreres in the game as to who was en-
titled to the money, and the matter was
finally referred to Rufe Edwards, keeper
of dance-house, for settlement. Ed
wards decided against Shay, and re-
turned the money to the'rightful owner.
At this Shay was much enraged, and
swore that he would kill Edwards CD
sight, but was kept away from Edwards
during that night. Edwards, having
been informed of Shay's threat
called to see him yesterday
morning, and inquired if he had
made any such remark. Shay
at first denied that he had done so, but
finally said to Edwards: CT have just
500, and I'll go and buy six-shooter
and kill you on sight. After this threat
Edwards retired to his dance-haH and
loaded double barreled shotgun with
buck shot. He then went into the
street, and noticed Shay coming toward
him. Shay Immediately tried to draw
his revolver, but Edwards was too quick
for him, and fired both barrels OF his
gun, tie charges taking effect in the left
side of Shay's chest, tearing CHASTITY
hole therein. Shay was the last of gang
of roughs who have infested Southeast
ern Colorado and Western Kansas for a
number of years. Most of them have
died with their boots on, after having
killed several men each, and Shay was
no execution to the rule.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31
About Silver.
Justice /?

The resolutions introduced in Con-
gress go over ground that has been
very carefully covered by report OF the
House of Commons, and to which little
can be added. The report covers twelve
points, which are, in substance, as fol-
lows:
s'First, the annual production of silver
has increased from $40. 900, 900 in 1868
to $7O,00O,000 in 1875; second, the
United States has increased it's product
of silver; third, Germany has from $780,
100000 to 800, 100000 of silver to dis
pose OF; fourth, Sweden and Norway
have demonetized silver; fifth, Austria
has in four years gotten rid of ST., 900, 600
in silver currency; sixth, Italy has sub
stituted the rag baby for silver money
to the extent OF 1885,, 900, 900 in ten years;
seventh, the English Government sells
$5O,OOO,000 worth of bills on India,
which replaces that much bullion sent
twenty years ago; and, eighth, the gross
remittances of silver to India during
the past four years have been $50, OOO,-
900 instead of $144, 100000 in the four
years previous. On the other hand {:
ninth, France has in four years bought
$167, 900, 900 in silver; tenth, England,
Russia and Spain still buy silver; elev-
enth, Japan and China and other eastern
nations absorb a great deal of it; and,
twelfth, India is still customerr.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31
Vanderbilt,s Children.

Commodore Vanderbilt has ten living
children, two sons and eight daughters ;
some thirty-odd grandchildren, and half
a dozen great grandchildren-one, son
of William H., being man grown. The
probable shape of the will is being dis
cussed. It is understood that William
III. Vanderbilt, the older son, will be well
provided for, and endowed with large
part of the railroad interests which his
father has managed with such consum-
mate skill. This city is full of gossip
concerning the probable provision that
will be made for the other son, Cornelius
J. Vanderbilt. Those who believe the
Commodore to be man Of stern justice
think the second son will be endowed
with some important railroad interest,
while others accept the current rumor
that he will be classified with the daugh-
ters, and, like them, receive only asmall
portion of the estate. Cornelius is man
of perhaps 40. For thirty years of
mis- life, beginning in infancy, he was
the victim of an affliction from which
few ever recover, and which entirely in
capacitated him for any exertion what
ever. Some eight years ago he began to
throw it off, and his constitution has
now acquired nearly it's normal tone.
He is tall, about six feet, and slight
stoop of the shoulders betrays mark of
the disease which he has conquered.
He has thin, high head, clear blue
eyes, facile speech, an earnest manner,
and quick, expressive gestures. He
dresses with neat plainness, and looks
more like Methodist minister without
parish than son of the great COM
mercial millionaire. He has very
good education (and how he attained it
with his disabilities is o wonder), and
much more literary taste and ability
than any other Vanderbilt. He is social,
amiable, affable and popular, and much
liked by wide circle Of .acquaintances,
who, like the buzzing city outside, won
der whether the stern old man will
brand him as social pariah, or give
him a liberal " setting-up" IN business.
-New York Correspondence Chicago
YYiAqEY1H
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31
cold Pan,sO Statue.

Officers of the army in Washington VINO
served under Gen. Thomas are chagrned
at the action of the committee appointed
to select site for the heroic equestrian
statue of s'OId Pap" which the Army
of the Cumberland subscribed $50, 900
to erect in some square in Washington.
The committee consisted of Senator
Morrill,. of Vermont. Representative Hcl-
man. and the Secretary OF War, and, as
Congress- appropriated $25, 900 for base
for the statue, these gentlemen concluded
to select Stanton Square, in the north
east corner of the city, an unfrequented
and unknown locality, as though they
were ashamed to have the statue in
Washington. This brought out the fol-
lowing message to Senator morrill,, from
one of the principal officers OF the Army
of the Cumberland eff the committee
find no filter place than an obscure and
distant spot for the site of the monu
ment to one of the noblest soldiers OF
the republic, the Society of the Army OF
Cumberland will feel itself obliged to
select one which will illustrate its respect
for its dead comrade and hero
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31
Five Thousand Billions Of GraSShOp
DGrSs

It has been reserved for a Colorado
correspondent of the Boston Traveller
to tell the biggest grasshopper story OF
the season: "About 10 o'clock in the
morning our attention was called to a
rumbling, dismal sound, as of many
earthquakes, and Immediately the air
was darkened, the sun hidden from view
by myriads-thousands of bushels of
these terrible insects, which in few
moments began to settle down upon the
gardens and fields in every direction.
For an hour or two all hands, men,
women and children, sailed forth, armed
with every conceivable weapon, to fight
the hoppers off our garden. But all In
vain. While we men were driving off
one thousand billions, four times as
many more would settle behind us, over
and all around us, until in utter despair
we were glad to beat an inglorious re-
treat to the house. They filed and GOV
cred everything. The vegetation, the
earth, fences, stables, houses and all,
were literally black or brown with them,
and in the bitches and hollows they lay
or crawled from two to four inches
deem"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31
Knights of Pythias..

At meeting of the Supreme Lodge
of the World of the Knights of Pythi-
as, held at Philadelphia last week, the
annual report of the Supreme Keeper of
Records and Seals was read, showing
that the order has now SO, 276 members;
Initiated during the last year, IL, 276 !;
admitted by card, 966 reinstalled,
1880; withdrawn, 1,647; suspended,
2,8O9 deceased, 844. The receipts of
the Grand Lodges have been $72, 1924;
expenditures. $50, 1872 amount on
hand, $18, 897.88. The total receipts of
the subordinate lodges have been $685.
O62.14; expenditures, $736, 217.70 !;
amount paid for the relief of brothers,
S191, 666. 18; families, $9,279.61 !; for
burying the dead, $48, 866. As education
of orphans, $1,121.84; total relief,
1862, 528. 48. Pennsylvania has 430
lodges and membership of 39,318 !;
New York is second, with no lodges
and 6,O65 members New Jersey has
1O6 lodges and 6,131 members Mary
land, 81 lodges and $3.50 members !;
Ohio next, with "a lodges and 5,780
members.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31
The Black Flag of the Turks.

When the Turks get into particu-
larry distressed condition in times OF war,
they unfold to the breeze, Tor the inspi-
ration of their ignorant and superstitious
soldiery, tie famous and original stand
ard of "the Prophet. This banner is
now carried in the battles against the
rebellious provinces in Turkey, indicat-
ing the heat and extremity of the strug-
gle in that country. The "holy" flag,
which is believed to have been hung be-
fore the tent of Mahomet's pet wife, is
preerved with pious generation, being
wrapped in forty-two coverings of satin
and locked in a costly chest placed i'll a
sort of chapel, in the inmost recesses OF
the Sultan's seraglio, and has only been
unfurled in few critical periods in the
nations history. It means " death to
the Christians" It is a flag of deep
black in color, and from this fact has
doubtless been derived the expression
of unfurling the black flag" which
means to fight the enemy with no quar-
ter, except that which is indicated in the
words ''cut and quarter"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31
A NEVADA TRAGEDY.
Love, Marriage, and Murder-A Band of
Assassins Kill the Wrong Man.
rAustin New Cor. San Francisco Post.l

Love, Marriage, and Murder-A Band of
Assassins Kill the Wrong Man.
CAustin (Nev.) Cor. San Francisco PostI
The driver of the lone stage commu-
nicates the following particulars of a
dastardly assassination which was COM
mitted at Isabel's rancho, on Reese
river, about thirty-on miles from this
city, about 9 o'clock last night. In or
der that the particulars as given may be
fully understood, it will be necessary to
explain that the ranches of John Wixom
and Mr.. Isabel adjoin. and that few
weeks ago the daughter of John Wixom
and the son of Isabel were married I'M
known to the parents of the young lady.
Miss Wixom being scarcely IA years
of age, anG young Isabel not having
reached his 18th, the match was re-
garded by the young ladys parents and
friends as being very undesirable, and
annoyed them greatly. AS soon as the
wedding ceremony was over they sue
ceeded in inducing the misguided girl
to return to her home, where she has
since resided. Steps were being taken
to have the boy arrested for perjury in
falsely swearing that the girl was of age,
but he left the country to avoid being
apprehended. The parents of the boy
Isabel, on the contrary, considered the
match in favorable Light, and have re-
garded the action of the young lady's
parents in keeping her away from her
husband as an act of oppression. DR..
Wixom, a physician Of this city and
brother to John Wixom, sent his buggy
yesterday to the rancho of the latter. and
suspicion appears to have arisen that
DR.. Wixom had arrived at the rancho
for the purpose of removing his niece,
Mrs. Isabel, nee Wixom, to this city.
Later in the evening John Stoner, an
employe of Mr.. Becker, neighboring
farmer, arrived at Wixoms for the pur-
pose of spending the evening, and
shortly after his arrival proposed taking
a ride in the doctors buggy, accompa-
MED by Barney McCann and John Ryan.
He drove in the direction of Isabel's
rancho, distant about quarter of mile.
Upon reaching the house six persons
arose from the bush and fired into the
buggy, killing John Stoner instantly.
A shotgun was pointed and discharged
at Barney McCann, who knocked the
barrel aside and escaped with badly
burned face. The body of Stoner then
fell from the buggy, and the horses ran
away, the entire body of the assassins
pursuing and firing into the buggy, the
top and bottom of which is riddled with
buckshot and bullets. DR.. Wixom did
not accompany his buggy to the rancho
OF his brother, and the intention of the
assassins was thus defeated. The assas-
sination has created good deal of ex-
element, and strong force lis now in
pursuit of the murderers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31
"A FANTASY.
BY MARY S. wITHINGToN.

II awoke some morn,
And down the stair descending all forlorn
OF wonted faces found the world below
No mothers smile, no kiss, no baby's crow,
NO sister taking up the thread half spun.
OF last nights talk (some talks are never done);
Outside the door
II then wendell, seeking soft Lenore,
Or welcome, stately sweet Of Lady Glare,
Or stayed my step at gracious Anna's stair.
Or sought gay Lii for a tilt of words,
Keen and 1nsplriting as tourney swords:
And here and there,
For whisper of the wise, smile of the fair.
For all gay courtesies, lightsome pleasantries
For the dark splendor OF some gorgeous ewes.
For even thee, soul-comrade, if a bare
Blank very vacancy should ON me stare:
If then should speak
Some right-authentic angel, g They You seek
All like dream have vanished; but dream
In truth they ever were; they did but seem;
Phantasms were they, Pigments, fantasies,
Projections of thy own thought, only these"
All mel alas!
If all this gramarye should come to pass,
think should believe hinl-should believe:
Nor would his disenchantment deeply grieye.
Nor greatly startle, nor bewilder me-
Soul-comrade, save 'twere also told of theei
-ScrSbTleT for September.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31
How TO Grow Fat.

1. Take soup and beer every day, also
hot milk-coffee or chocolate well sweet
ened. 2. Let your food be chiefly far
inaceous and vegetable; bread with but
ter or milk milk-mush, potatoes, cab
bage, turnips, etc., prepared with but
ter sweet puddings. 8. Eat meat only
once q day the fatter kinds are most
suitable. 4. Take neither acid nor aka
lis, and avoid every thing that disagrees
Milk, butter and sugar are very fattening,
but everybody cannot take them with
impunity, and to grow fat it is essential
that digestion be almost perfect. 5.
Sleep all you want, and take exercise in
moderation.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31
The RIGHT BOWER.

It was Judge Lurlington's own ex-
preston.
Half dozen lawyers, fresh from their
studies, and just admitted to the bar,
were listening to his advice. The old
iurist had bottle of wine at his elbow,
and was in a communicative mood.
"Young men," he said, whatever
may be your strait, never take a case be-
fore a jury, or before any court, unless
you have your right bower for head. !"
Ef the reader surmises from this that
the old Judge was fond of euchre, he
will not have surmised amiss.
The young men looked at him inqur
inglY.
II mean," he added, ''that you shall
never advocate cause into the work of
which you cannot enter with a clear con-
science. You shall never accept a client
whose cause you do not believe to be
ius5
''Can that rule always be adhered
to 2" asked one Of the listeners.
1T can, answered burlington, en-
phatically. 1T is d lawyers firm rock
of foundation, and the only sure point
OF departure to the respect and conf
dence OF his fellows"
Have you always followed that rule,
Judge2"
81 WAS never tempted from it but
once, . he replied. F'I will tell you the
story if you would like to hear it..
OF course they would like to; and
having laid aside his pipe, the old man
began:
zone day [ was waited upon by a
man who gave his name as Laban Sar.
furt. He was of middle age, we'll
dressed, and at first sight appeared to
be a gentleman but the illusion was
.dispeIled when approaching business.
He was hard and unfeeling, and natu-
ralIy a villain. Success in speculation
had saved him from becoming a thief or
a highwayman. L heard of him as q
heavy dealer In the up river lands. He
asked me ii I was willing to undertake q
job which would call me to Shireton.
told him was open to anything legiti-
anate that would pay"
"Mr. burlington, said he, tapping
me with coarse familiarity upon the
arm, . l want to secure your services /;
you must not be engaged on the other
side
81 [ told him If he would explain to
me the case I might be better able to
give hum IN answer. He bit an enor-
nous qud Of tobacco from black plug,
and having got it into shape betweeA his
jaws he went on with his story.
''The case is one of ejectment. An
elderly man, named Philip Acton, had
died leaving valuable estate. There
was nearly 1000 acres of land, with or
portunities for developing immense
water power; and ere many years that
land would be worth more than 81, OOO,-
600. At present upon the esta te, and
claiming it as son of the deceased, was
a man calling himself William Acton"
s'But," said Ssrfut, che is not le-
ultimate child at all. His mother was
Betsy Totwood, at one time a girl in
Acton's employ. Acton, I know, was
never married. He brought the boy up
and educated him, and now the fellow
thinks he will step into his protector
shoes. can prove that I am the only
living relative of Philip Acton. He was
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31
To Determine the Age Of Eggs.

An egg is generally called fresh when
it has been laid only one or two days in
summer, and two to six days in winter.
The shell being porous, the water in the
interior evaporates and leaves cavity
of greater or less extent. The yolk OF
the egg sinks, too, as may be easily seen
by holding it toward candle or the sun;
and, when shaken, slight shock is felt
if the egg is not fresh. To determine
the precise age of eggs, dissolve about
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31

four ounces of common salt in quart
of pure water, and then immerse the
egg. If it is one day old, it will descend
to the bottom of the vessel; but if three
days, it will float in the liquid. If more
than five days old, it will come to the
surface and project above in proportion
to it's increased age.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31
A Branch of A. Z. Stewart & Co. in
Chicago.

The leading dry goods houses of
Chicago have for several years been buy
ing in Europe instead of New York.
A. T. Stewart & Co. are TO open, next
month, huge dry goods house in Chi
cago and to make straight bid for the
country trade. Their agent. Sabin K.
Smith, told reporter of the Post they
.would take stand from the start as
though they had been established for
ten years in Chicago; there would be no
questions about time, style, credit, or
anything, but they would continue their
trade as they had been doing in New
York, saying to their country customers
on their way East, stop right here and
get your goods, and save the journey. "
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31

AMONG the Sioux Indians mother-in-
law can be thrashed with a lodge-pole If
she LOOKS her son-in-l law in the face for
the first year of his marriage.
Press. AS logical conclusion, we pre-
sumo she always takes him by his back
hair when she per-Sioux him.-Pb6lG-
delohi0 Bulletin.
The society writer of the Peoria Demo-
crat says of the distinguished custom of
eating exclusively with the fork The
fashion originated with hotel servants,
because the securing of knives in these
caravansaries was the most serious job
of the whole daily round of duties.
ANoRRIsTowN gentleman who couldn't
decide to which one of the leading
American colleges to send his son, has
now concluded to enter him in the one
that made the poorest time at the recent
boat races at Saratoga. He thinks there
is more studying and less boat-racing in
that institution -NOrr&stOaO1a Herald.
ONE of the youngsters who was fond
of Bible stories swallowed bottleful of
paragoric because it was nice. They
gave him powerful emetic, and he thus
described the sequel to his brother
"Budgie, I was whay-al, a regular
whay-al. I didn't fro up Jonah, but L
frew up lots of uver things. y Cincinnati
Times.
x. IS entering his lodging in Paris
and asks of the porter Anything for
me to-day?" eyes, p" replies the tyrant
of the doorway "some letters, but |
don't know what is in them" Which
reminds one of the other concierge who
hands lodger a postal card with an in
vitation to breakfast. The lodger is read
ing when the porter interrupts him
kindly ''You have no time to waste, The
cries g he expects you at noon, sharp.
The other day man took home
book containing several anecdotes show
ing the power of imagination, ana, after
reading them to his wife, he tenderly
said : CHOW, Angelina, you may mag
inc that you hear me kissing Madalina
in the other room, and you see how
wicked it would be to accuse me OF such
thing" "Julius JOHN" she repliedin
a smooth voice, "if ever [ imagine such
thing, you'll need doctor within fiji
teen minutes, and I'll send for him, no
matter what the book says"
ABOUT an hour before game of base
ball is to come off on the cricket grounds
the members of each club assemble
at an appointed rendezvous. The
Captain arrives, calls the roll, discovers
that all are present, and then asks
Secretary, did you order gallon OF
arnica and some splints and plaster9"
II did," is the reply. Treasurer, have
you arranged with an undertaken to hold
himself in readiness 20 GO have.
" Pitcher, did you secure burial lot in
Elmwood?" 81 did," "Then let us
march to the grounds and to a glorious
victory or noble death!" And they
march. Free Press.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31

Lo, THE poor Indian at Niagara, got
high a few nights ago and broke some
window glass. Fine, $40!