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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16

Hard times have cOme--we know It
Retrenchment's in the air
Advice-they all bestow it.
To g cut down here and there.
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copies OF each of said reports the sum o.
| two dollars and twenty-ffv cents per page
! for the whole number of pages contained In
one copy of the reports of each Institution
or Department of the State. Provided
That in rule and figure work, the sum Of
| three dollars and twenty-five cents shall be
allowed for each page of same in one copy
of any such report, messages, etc.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That all
Executive proclamations and notices and
CURED by law, to be made or given by the
Governor of this State, and all public State
officers shall be inserted in the newspaper
printed by the Public Printer in a condensed
form. once a week for three weeks only ;
and that for all such notices said Public
Printer shall only be allowed pay at the rate
of sixty cents per square of ten lines solid,
minion type for the first insertion, and forty
cents per square for each of the other two
insertions.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That said
Public Printer shall hereafter be allowed
and paid for printing two hundred
copies OF all bills. reports and resolutions
ordered by either house of the Legislature
to be printed in the manner now directed
and prescribed by law, the sum OF three
dollars and fifty cents per page for the num-
Der of pages contained In one copy thereof,
in full com pensarion for such service.
SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That all
Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the
provisions of this Act be and the same are
hereby repealed, and that this Act shall be
in force from and after its passage.
By Limitation, February 8, 1875.
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AN ACT amendatory of an Act entitled an Act
to create the Office of Commissioner of I'm
migration and Agriculture, and for other
purposes approved April l4th, 1879 and to
repeal an Act entitled an Act smendatOry of
and supplemental to an Act to create the
Office Of Commissioner of Immigration and
Agriculture, approved April 9th, 1874.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legisla-
ture of the State of Mississippi, That the
Commissioner of Immigration and Agri-
culture may have assigned to him a suitable
room i'm the capitol in which to transact his
official business, as provided in an Act en-
titled an Act to create the office of Commits
sioner of Immigration and Agriculture,
and for other purposes, approved April 18th.
1873, provided there be any suitable room
herein not otherwise assigned and used and
in the event that there should be no such
vacant room in the capitol, the aforesaid
Commissioner may provide himself. at his
own expense, in the city of Jackson, with
a suitable room for transacting his official
business.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the
salary of the Aforesaid Comm issioner be and
the same is hereby reduced from the sum OF
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etc., of timber or rails, without the consent
of the owner also to prevent moving, sell
ing or buying property to which Others
have q claim.
By Mr.. Fortune: To amend the charter
of Taylor's Depot, Lafayette county
passed
By Mr.. Hudson: To amend the law re-
lating to admitting persons to practice law ;
also to amend section 2236, Code of 1871, in
relation to certain contracts; also to amend
section 270S, Code of 1871, relating to ma
licious mischief.
BY Mr.. Clay: That the Committee on
Fees and Salaries inquire into the eXpedi-
ency of reducing the fees of Sheriff, Char
Gerry and Circuit Clerks. and report by bill
or otherwise; referred to said Committee.
Mr.. Featherston gave notice that he
would on tomorrow introduce q bill to
regulate banks and banking, and put into
imm ediate liquidation all banks which are
not now declaring dividend to stock
holders. Adjourned.
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An Act to regulate the Public Printing, and
to prescribe the duties and pay of the Pub
lie Printer.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Legisla-
ture of the State of Mississippi, That here
after the Public Printer of this State shall
insert in the volume of printed laws, all
laws enacted, and resolutions adopted, by
the Legislature, with good index to each
volume of said printed laws. He shall not
insert therein any copy Of the Constitution
of the State, or of the United States; Pro-
vided chat such amendments to the Consti-
tuition of this State as shall be made from
time to time shall also be published in such
printed laws, or other public documents,
Public Printer shall be allowed as
full compensation for furnishing two
thousand copies thereof, the sum of three
dollars and fifty cents per page for the
whole number of pages contained in one
volume and for an additi Onal one
thousand copies, one dollar per page for the
whole number of pages contained In one
volume thereof, to be paid for on delivery
AS now required by law.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the
State Printer shall publish five hundred
copies OF the Journals of each House, twenty
eight ems wide and fffty-seven ems long, in
long primer, in the manner and style and
within the time now prescribed by law, and
he shall print the same In close, compact
manner, line after line, allowing no
space eXccpI lOT poTuSE Apus, VI WuCA
otherwise absolutely necessary to make
the Journal Ineligible, and then as
little space shall be allowed as pos
sible and he shall be allowed as COM
pensation thereof, the sum OF two dol
lars and twenty-five cents per page for the
number of pages contained in one copy OF
such Journal; and on the delivery of the
same to the Secretary of State, that officer
shall distribute them as follows: One copy
to each member of the Legislature; one
copy to each State office, and to the Super
intendent of each of the Public Institutions
of the State; one copy to each Judge of the
Supreme Court; one copy to each Circuit
Judge, District Attorney and Chancellor;
one copy to each Circuit and Chancery
Clerk, to be kept by them in their offices as
public property: one copy to each State
Library in the United State six copies, sub
stantially bound in law sheep, to the Missis-
sippi State Library; two copies 60 the Ma
tional Library at Washington City; one copy
to each of the Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress from this State, one copy
to each of the clerks of the Federal courts
in this State, and the balance shall be pre-
served by the Secretary of State in his
office until otherwise ordered by the Leg
islature.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted. That the
several annu al reports of the various State
officers of this State. now required to be
made to the Governor or to the Legislature,
the Public Printer shall be allowed as full
compensation for furnishing three hundred
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Dabcock,s Trial.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 9.-Acting under the adj
vice OF the court given just before adjourn
ment last night, the Government Counsel In
the Babcock trial to-day passed over the
testimony to show the expense and opera
tons of the whisky ring from 1873 to 1875.
No evidence was brought against Gen.
Babcock, the testimony being OF general
character, and tending to show who were
in the conspiracy and its extent. Jos. M
Avery was put on the stand at the opening
of the morning session, and kept there an
hour and half; he was deputy collector of
the Internal revenue, and after the depar-
ture OF Collector McGrue, in Nov. 1879,
became the active business man of the ring.
Sertentaff, foreman of Ulrich's distillery,
was also examined. :
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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 2.
Joint Resolution in. relation to the Pay of
the Officers and Employees Of the Legisla-
ture.
Resolved by the Legislature of the State
of Mississippi, That the compensation of
the following officers and employees of the
two Houses of the Legislature shall be as
follows, to-wit:
The Clerk of the House the sum of thirty
four dollars per diem Reading Clerk ofthe
House, seven dollars per diem Sergeant-at-
Arms of the House, six dollars per diem !;
Doorkeeper of the House, four dollars per
diem; two Messengers, one dollar each per
diem three Porters for the House, two
dollars and fifty cents each per diem six
Pages for the House, one dollar each per
diem; one Secretary of the Senate, thirty
dollars per diem one Sergeant-at-Arms for
the Senate, sixteen dollars and fifty cents
per diem one Doorkeeper for the Senate.
the sum of four dollars per diem. And that
the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House employ
one Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, who shall
be paid the sum OF two dollars per diem.
Be it further Resolved, That the officers
and employees of the two Houses snail re-
ceive and draw the per diem fixed in the
foregoing resolution from the commence
ment of the present session of the Legisla-
ture. and that these resolutions take effect
and be in force from AID after their passage.
Approved February I'd. 1876.
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LA w -
OF THE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
published BY AUTHORITY. |
HOUSE BILL, NO. 81.

HOUSE BILL, NO. 81.
| AN ACT to amend Section 1869 of Chapter
| 9, ofthe Revised Code of 1871.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Legisla-
ture of the State of Mississippi, That Sec
| ton 1169 of Chapter Q, of the Revised
Ci,de OF 1871. he and the same is hereby
| amended As follows, to-wit: By adding the
following provisO to said section: Provided,
that in all cases in which the sum to be
paid to each distributes shall be small, not
exceeding one hundred dollars in amount,
the cost of taking out letters of guardian
ship would exhaust or nearly exhaust such
sum, the Chancery may, in the exercise of a
sound discretion. order and direct such ex-
ecutor or administrator to pay over such
sum to the distributee, or to such discreet
and prudent person as may be designated
by the order of the Court, upon the recon-
mendation in writing of two disinterested
practicing attorneys in the Court, where
such matter is pending, to receive the same !;
such person paying ours tho same for the
benefit of such minor as his or her necessi-
ties may require.
SEC. 2. Should the sum due to such dis
tributee be paid to some discreet person for
the benefit to such distributee, under the Or
der of the Court, such person shall not be
required to give bond and security for the
faithful application OF the same.
SEC. 3. Be 1t further enacted, That the re-
ceipt of the person designated by the Chan
cellor shall be ample, sufficient and a good
voucher to the administrator or executor by
whom the same was paid.
Approved, Feb. I'd, 1876.
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Approved, Feb. I'd, 1876.
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION, NO. 2.

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION, No.7.
Joint Resolution in regard to an sppropria-
ton asked from the Congress of the United
States to make navigable a certain portion
of the Tombgbee river, in said State and
the State of Alabama.
Be it resolved by the Legislature of the
State of Mississippi, that the memorial OF
the Board of Trade of the town of Columbus
in said State of Mississippi, TO the Congress
of the United States, asking for an appropri-
alton of fifty thousand dollars to clean out
and make navigable, at all seasons, the
TOmbigbee river, between said town and
the Gulf of Mexico, be and the same Is
hereby approved and recommended.
Be It further resolved, That our Senators
in Congress be instructed, and our Repre-
sentatives in the House of Representatives
be requested to sok from their respective
Houses said appropriation.
Be it further resolved, That his Excellen-
cy, the Governor, be requested to forward
copies of the foregoing memorial and reso-
lutions to each of our Senators and Repre-
senratives in Congress.
Approved Feb. I'd, 1876.
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By Telegraph
THE FIRE FnEND.
Two Lives Lost, and -, 900, 600
worth Of Property Destroyed

| NEW YORK. Feb. "a fire was discoy-
cred last night on the first floor of the i've
story building, No: 10 Crosby street, occu-
pied by Lesher, White & Co. extending
through to Broadway, on which thorough
fare it was numbered as 444 and 446. The
flames extended to the adjoining six-story
building. AT 80 o'clock the roofs of Nos.
~ and 446. Broadway, fell In with loud
walls. Soon after the walls of Nos. 44s and
$50 also fell, the front walls, which were of
iron. fell into Broadway, covering the pave
ment with the debris. Huge masses Of iron
a considerable distance and encumbered the
opposite Sidewalk. After the fall of these
walls, the firemen gained the first advan-
tage; the heat being less, they were enabled
to approach closer to the ruins. The de-
Buildings Nos. ~, Go, AS, $50 and 80
Broad way, extending to Crosby street, are
completely destroyed, with their valuable
contents; Nos. 40, AZ, 454 and 456 Broad
way are badly damaged, and the rear Of
TALLY destroyed. Lesher. White & CO. were
carrying a stock OF 5000, 900, which Is totally
destroyed. The stock of Catlin. Brundette
4 Co., dealers in clothing, Nos. 44S and 455
broadway. amounting to $500.000, was de-
$4,000; Catlin, Brundette & Co, $4,000.
LATER Additional and later details of
the fire last night, give the losses as follows:
Lester. Whitman C Co., 81, OOO, 600, insured
for about half that amount; Catlin, Bren-
delt & Co., from 100000 to $4,000. insu-
rance $685., 900; Horntafl, Whitehead & Co,
clothing, $3.50. 200, insurance about $l75, 600:
Powers, CASTOR & Co., boots and Shoes
Sill, O0O, insured for about the same amount:
Phelps d Everdell. fancy goods, loss from
$4,000 to $4,000. insured for $4,000;
The stock of Gutteman Bros, dealers in Ia
ces, was damaged by smoke to the amount
OF $4,000, fully insured; Seidenback.
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SENATE BILL, NO. SO.

AN ACT to define and punish the crime of
burglary in railroad cars.
ture of the State of Mississippi, That any
person or persons who, in the night or day
time, with the intent to steal or to commit
a felony, shall break into and enter any
railroad car in this State, in which any
goods, merchandise or other valuable things
as freight, shall be deemed guilty of bur-
glary, and shall. on conviction, be sentenced
to the penitentlary for not less than two nor
more than five years.
APPROVED, February Sd. 1876.
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LOUISVILLE, Feb. "a Convention of the
General Railroad Ticket Agents Of Amer
was called together to adopt a schedule of
rates to be charged during the Centennial
season. Nearly all the principal roads of
America were represented, one hundred
agents attending. 1t is thought a reduction
of % per cent. from the regular rates will
be made.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-29
The Spanish War.

HENDAYE, Feb. s.--Many Cariist families
are flying into France. There is great dis
couragement among the immediate follow
ers of Don Carlos. Several leaders are
charged with treason. The Carlist council
of war at Tolosa decided to mass their
troops at Navarro and Guipuzcoa.
MADRID, Feb. 9.-After the opening of
the Cortes, the King with his ministers of
war decided to go to the headquarters of the
army of tie North.
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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION, NO. 3.

Ht5UBE JOINT RESOlUTIONs No. ..
House Joint Resolution providing for addi-
tional clerical force in the Office of State
Treasurer.
Resolved by the Legislature of the State
of Mississippi, That the state Treasurer be
and he is hereby authorized to employ such
additional clerical force as the prompt and
efficient discharge of the duties of the office
may require; provided, not more than five
hundred dollars per annum shall be thus
expended.
Resolved, further, Than an act permitting
the employment of an additional clerk at
one hundred dollars per month, for six
months. be and the same is hereby repealed,
and this resolution shall be in force from
and after its passage.
Approved, Feb. I'd, 1876.
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When boy has been off all day, con-
trary to the expressed wish of his mother,
and on approaching the homestead at
night, with an anxious and cautious tread,
finds company at tea, the expression of
confidence and rectitude which suddenly
lights up his face connot be reproduced
on canvass.
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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 2.

Joint Resolution in Relation to the State Ii
brary.
Be 1t resolved by the Legislature of the
State of Mississippi, That hereafter it shall
be the duty of the State Librarian to keep
the State Library open every night, sunday
excepted, till the hour of 10 O'Clock, during
tie sitting of the Legislature.
Approved February I'd, 1876.
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PROVIDENCE. Feb. 9.-Three Providence
Congregational churches decline the invita-
ton of the Plymouth church in the Beech
err Moulton case.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 9-The Vine Street
church declines the Plymouth invitation.
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A Noble Sacri6ce.

Providence, Feb. 1.-TWO children Of
Thos- Smith, aged nine and eleven, and
young man named Barry, who attem pteo to
save them, were drowned. The accident
was caused by the breaking of the ice on
a mill-pond which the children were at
tempting to cross.
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Cotton Market.

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 9.-Cotton, demand
fair; middIings 1880; low middlings IL &c :;
good ordinary 9sc.
NEW YORK. Feb. 9.-Cotton weak and ir-
regular; IL 15-16@131sc.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-Cotton weak and ir-
regular. Sales 80 bales. Uplands IL slice !;
Orleans 1910. Futures opened quiet !;
February IL 1890 29-92c; March Is 1-l6
@S-32c; April Is 5-l6@1l-32c; May j. 1872
@9-16c; June ID 23-32@ 25-32c; July Is
23-32@ 3O-32c.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 9-Noon.-Cotton dull !;
middling uplands 7-16d middling Orleans
631d. Sales 10000 bales. Speculation and
export 1000 bales. Receipts 1890 bales.
Grocery Market.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 9.-Sugar dull and
weak; inferior to common 5@5s4c; fair to
fully fair 6@7c; prime to stric lily prime "a
@%c. Molasses dull fermenting fair 800
33c: prime to strictly prime 40@7c; fair
reboiied 43c; prime to choice rebOil ed4S@
Sic choice not fermenting 52c. Flour firm
superfine % 20: XXX, 81 0O@4 Is; xxx,
81 H1s@6 90; choice and family % 250l
so. Corn meal quiet and firm; 81 20.
Corn steady; choice white Sc. Oats dull I;
47@5Oc. Bran quiet; SOC. Hay dull prime
S2I@22. Pork easier; $2l IS. Dry salt
meats dull; 9@kl1L@11Hc. Bacon quiet;
IO0l93< 0l35Sc Lard dull; packers 1219c
refined l3c Neg 1314c. Hams quiet; choice
sn n i4c. Coffee quiet; ordinary to
prime l7@l9c. Whisky dull; 81 l0@l IL
for rectitied.
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The Turkish War.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, FEB. 9.-The Porte's
answer to Andrassy's note will demand the
moral support of the powers who Joined in
the proposed pacification of the revolted
provinces.
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Sentenced.

FREEPoRT, L. l., Feb. 9.-Mary Greedy,
for killing her husband, was found guilty
of murder in the second degree, and SEN
fenced to fifteen years Imprisonment.
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No Pnrticulars.

SHANGHAI, Feb. 9.-Nothing has trans
pired here explaining the recent dispatches
that five war vessels had been ordered to
Chinese waters, from Bombay.
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A Drunken Brute.

LONDON, Feb. 9.--Abraham Reed w.sar-
rested for beating his wife nearly to $50,
and cutting off her hands in a drutSs
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Judge Lynch.

BLOOMINGTON, IND, Feb. &C. A. Nor
shOn, convicted of nurder and sentenced for
life, was taken from the Jail by masked men
and shot dead.
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By Limitation, February 8, 1875.

AN ACT to provide for holding the Giro nit
Court in tine county of Jefferson, in the 9th
Judicial District
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Legisla-
ture OF the State of MISSISSIPPI, That here
after there shall be two terms of the Circuit
Court held in the county of Jefferson, COM
mencing on the third Monday of March
and September of each year, to continue
eighteen days and no longer.
SEC. g. Be it further enacted, That all
suits commenced in said Circuit Court, re-
turnable to July term. A. D. 1876, shall be
returnable to the first Court held In said
county after this act shall go into operation.
SEC. 8 Be it further enacted, That this
Acthall be in force and take effect from and
after its passage.
Approved, February 8, 1875.
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| two thousand dollars, as provided for in
section number nine of the Act to which this
Act is amendatory. TO the sum of one hum
dr,''' dollars per aunnm, and that said Com
n;is-inn"r ,.hall not hereafter employ, at the
pui,lic expense, any clerk in his office.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the
provision of section number eleven of the
aforesaid Act of April 18th, 1873, entitled an
Act to create the Office of Commissioner OF
Immigration and Agriculture. and for other
purposes, approved April 18th. 1873, author
zing the aforesaid Commissioner to expend
ten Thousand dollars in the. pursuance of his
duties. he and the same is hereby repealed /;
and that hereafter no sum of money what
ever shall be drawn from the public treasury
TO carry on the business of said office.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That an Act
amendatory and supplemental to an Act to
create the officeo Commissioner of Immi-
grafton and Agriculture, and for other pur-
poses, approved April 9Th, 1874, and all Acts
and parts of Acts conflicting with this Act
are hereby repealed, and that this Act take
effect and be in force from and after its pas
sage.
BY Limitation, February 8, 1875.
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CONVERSATIONAL.

Discussion of the Diplomatic APP.
preparation Bill, In which 9th.
er Topics are Introduced, I'm the
House of Represen tatives, Feb.
I'D.
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The story that a quantity of gunpowder
was found in the coal of the Antwerp
steamer, is untrue.