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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-30
THE BADGER STATE
AGRICULTURAL WORKS
At ALCOHOL.

The undersigned Will sell at Public Auction on
the nth day of April. 1876 the property situated
on Winconsin and Main streets, known az the
Badger State Agricultural Works and contents,
consisting of One 40 Horse Power Engine and
Boiler, one Planning Machine, and variety OF
other machines used in the manufacture OF Agrl-
cultural Implements. Title Perfect.
G. u. PETIT, Administratrix,
45w3 Estate of NJ. 81. Petit. deceased.
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wv ANDRE, Manufacturer, Wholesale and
&aAo Retail dealer in Cigars, Plug, Cut Chewing
and smoking Tobacco, Snuff, Pipes, &c. His Oh
oars are all madefrom best qualities OF domestic
andImported tobacco, and sold TO the trade at
lowest cash rates Also, constantly onhand some
fine Meerschaum Pipes. Orders promptly filed.
Directly opposite his old stand, NO.s7h Main
Street, Ken0sha, Wis.
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The owners CT the New York Hippo
drome want Moody and Sankey to give
It up, so that they can turn it back into
beer garden, which pays better than
revivals. These spectators are evident
ly not among the converts.
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EwAHNEN BROTHERS, No. ~ Main St., Keno
IA sha, Merchant Tailors. We keep constantly
on hand well selected stock of Cloths, Gents
Furnishing Goods, Ready Made Clothing, Hats
and CAPS OF the latest styles. Work done and
goods sold as cheap as at any other establishment
IN the city.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-30

ND B. WHITAKER g 90 Manufacturers OF
MA0 Portable & Stationary Steam Engines and
BOILERS Skating and Pullies, Hand and Power
Tire Benders, Tire Drills, and all other kinds OF
Machinery. Also Kenosha Union Thimble Skeins,
Tuycrs, Bolster and Reach Flutes, Kettles, sleigh
Shoes and Post Mauls. Repairing donepromptly
Kenosha, Wis.,, April 10Th, 1874.
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The Chicago Evening Journal

THE Chicago Evening journal
of March % says:
Rev. Philo Judson, one of the
founders of Evanston, and one Of
the oldest surviving ministers Of the
Rock River Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church. died at his
residence in that village early this
morning, in the 10th year Of his age.
The wives of Governor Beveridge
and Mark Kimball, Esq, of this city,
are his daughters.
Rev. PhiIo Judson will be re-
membered as once a Methodist
minister in this place and after that
a business man for several years.
II was here, if we remember right,
that he first became business man.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-30
Special Notices.
obstacles to Marriage.

H0ppu ReJtet for Young Mem from the
effects Of Errors and Abuses in early life. Man
hood restored. Impediments to Marriage remov-
ed New method of treatment. New and remark
able remedies. Books and Circulars sent free, in
sealed envelopes. Address, HOWARD ASSO-
CITATION, 419 n. Ninth St., Philadelphia, Pa
an Institution having high reputation for hon
orable conduct and professional skill. 1y1
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CATARRH

Pridham' g Oriental Catarrh Cure is a speclhcfor
Cararrh It is not a nose remedy, but liquid to
be taken internally, and acting on the cause de-
stroys the disease. Thousands who have used 1T
tho most skeptical Theserem edies have acquir-
ed wide reputation and those afflicted should
not fail to give them trial. Prepared only by
JAMES PRIDHAM, Waukegan, Illinois.
For sale in Kenosha by r Robinson, q ii. e. CLARK,
Wholesaler Chicago by FulIer& Fuller.
A5v1
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-30

Day of vengeance, lol that morning
On the earth in ashes dawning,
David with the Sibyl warning.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-30

mu AHBLE WORKS.
w HUGGINS 81 WASHB u RN
Kcnosha and Racine, Wis. Monumental and
6Sravestone work executed IN the highest style OF
ne art R.F. ROBERTS, agent.
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REPUBLICAN CITY CONVENTION.

REPUBLICAN CITY CONVENTION.
The Republican delegates from thes
several wards of the city met In conven-
ton, at the Court House, Tuesday after
noon, 28th inst. The convention was
called to ORDER by the chairman of the
City Committee, Mr.. w. Z. Reed. Mr..
Mark Dresser was chosen as Chairman,
and Mr.. j. NJ Stebbins, Secretary.
The following delegates then passed in
their credentials which were accepted:
1st Ward:-W. E. Reed, j. Lacas, M.
Dresser.
I'd Ward A. SchoffeD, Th0o. Werve,
F. W. Beckmann, by t. Werve, substi-
tute.
Sd Ward:--J v. Quarles, J. NJ. steb-
bins. J. T. Yule.
4th Ward w. Mygatt, Chas. Frantz.
E. G.. Timme..
The convention then made the follow
ing nominations unanimous.
For Mayor, A. Farr +; for Treasurer,
A. Schoffen for Clerk, F. w. Beck
mann for Marshal, w, Cook for AS
SCISSOR, H. McDermott; for Justice of the
Peace, M. Dresser.
The fol lowing gentlemen were ap-
pointed as the Republican City Commit
tee:
". E. Reed, 1st Ward, chairman; I.
Werve, Cd - NJ. Stebblns, Sd; E. G..
Timme, 4th.
Convention then adjourned sine die.
Three inebriated tailors while on their way
home last Saturday night about midnight. laid
out some very queer looking coat patterns in the
snow though they wefe rather indestinct from
being piled together too promiscuously.
100
A large missionary meeting took place
at the Methodist Church Wednesday OF
last week. A number Of prominent
Met hodist clergymen from abroad were
here, and an interesting session was
had.
There are in England and Wales, S4S'9O1
farrners. in the United States, 2, 9S4,29S.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-30

There are in England and Wales, S49'9O1
farmers, in the United States, 2, 9S4,s9S.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-30

Ali what terror is impending,
When the Judge is seen descending,
And each secret veil is rending.
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PRIDHAM'S
STANDARD REMEDIES.
q - THM a

Can be cured-Pridham's Asthma SPECIFIC will
relieve the worst case in i've minutes, and from
one to three bottles effect permanent cure. Il
fails
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-30

To the throne, the trumpet sounding,
Through the sephulchres resounding,
Summons all, with voice astounding.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-30

Death and Nature. mazed, are quaking,
When, the graves deep slumber breaking,
Man to judgment is awaking.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-30

Three inebriated tailors while on their way
home last Saturday night about midnight laid
out some very queer looking coat patterns in the
snow though they were rather indestinct from
being piled together too promiscuously.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
An Interesting Discovery.

The main portion of the Babylonian
antiquities just received at the British
Museum, as the result of the last expe-
dition of Mr.. George Smith, was found
near Hillah, a town about three miles
north from the site of Babylon. They
are chiefly tablets, mortgage-loans,
promissory notes, records OF the sale of
lands, shares, and other commodities,
representing, in fact, all the various
commercial transactions of a Babyloni-
al firm, who may be approximately de-
scribed as Messrs. Gabi & Sons, bank
ers and financial agents. Many of the
tablets represent the renewal of loans
and mortgages, so that the documents
referring to the first and the last of
continuing transactions bear the dates
of several different reigns. The dates
thus extend from the fall of the Assyri-
an empire to the reign of Darius Hy-
Shapes, including dates in the reigns of
Nabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnez-
Ear, Eyil-Merodach, Cambyses, and
the elder and the younger Cyrus. The
dates of the tablets, therefore, fur
nishsvery important chronological land
marks, and they are in many respects
sdbversive of the recant chronology.
The rate of interest in Baby1onan loans
Was generally ten per cent, and much
light is thrown on the social life of the
Babylonians from the circumstances
that witnesses of deeds are always de-
scribed by their trade or profession.
One of the tablets is dated in the reign
of Belshazzar as king, being the FIRST
time his name has been found In con-
nection with the royal dignity, previous
inscriptions having had reference to the
time when he vas inscribed as son of
Nabonidus,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
A Revival Incident

Those of our readers who have con-
stantly attended the Moody meetings
at the Tabernacle will remember the
recital by the great r~evivalist OF the
story of a man who had robbed his en-
ployer of some 8 5000 and fed to this
city. Through the mysterious workings
of Providence the man strolled into the
Tabernacle, where he became fascinat-
ed with Mr.. Moody's description of
the willingness of Christ to save the
most hardened sinner. At the conclu-
sion of the service he remained rooted,
as it were, to his seat. One of the ush-
ers, thinking that he vas under convic-
ton, babe him go to the inquiry-room,
whe g he was taken in hand by MIR.
Moody, to whom he confessed his crime
and the circumstances which led to its
commission. Mr.. Moody talked with
him, prayed with him, and begged him
to- return and restore what he had
Left of his employers property. His
appeal to the man ) better instincts was
not without effect. He promised to re-
turn the next day. At a subsequent
meeting Mr.. Moody informed the cor
gregati 30 that he had received a letter
AIOIl 1IA5 WEeICH6u hI1iis III "hlon hO
stated chat he felt satisfied that Christ
bad ptrdoned him, and henceforward
ke should lead aa exemplary life. A
letter received here yesterday from
Z kron, O., brings the intelligence that
the mlan, whose name is San Jose
Bganlzer, had returned to that town and
confessed his crime; that he had placed
s., 900 in the hands of a lawyer to be
returned to tn defrauded employer
that lie had been sentenced to a brief
Imprisonment, and that influential
friends were working to obtain his par
don. The Akron papers make quite a
sensation of the affair, and acknowl-
edge that in one instance, at least, the
Moody revival has been productive of
good results.-ChtcGg0 Tribune.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
A FacetiOus Suicide.

w. W. Bancroft, San Francisco
agent for the Globe Tobacco Company,
committed suicide at that place last
week, and among his effects was found
the following letter, addressed to the
Coroner:
R. R SWAN, NJ. D., Coroner: Dear Sir
In order to save you as much trouble as
possible, / beg to inform You that this is q
case of laudanum taken with ''suicidal in
TENT Reasons concern no one but my
self; still, if any one should insist upon
having q reason. you may say | was driven
to desperation by the PIesidentiaI muddie,
and seeing no prospect of ascertaining in
this world who was to be next President,
went to the next, where all Nllngs are sup
posed to be known, for this information.
Please exert your influe ace with the 'sCity
Fathers'' to prevent The erection OF a mon
ument over my remains; but IL you should
find a widespread feeling oa the psrt of
the people to mark my last resting-piace,
you might let Mr.. Young speak to Mr..
Croker and nave it fenced in.
Respectfully, ETC.,
w W. BANCROFT.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

niseahe. in my conception of Gov. Hayes,
u ne is tne man to walk into the White
house over asy slippery and doubtful road.
IL is painIui Il hear this question discuss
between two candidates for Alderman in the
Ninth Ward. 1t is paaaful to read that be-
cause a Vermont Elect0ry was a village POST
master, therefore the people of Vermont are
to be partially disfranchised that because a
North Carolina Elector was a Commissioners
to the Centennial Exposition, therefore
North Carolina is to lose a part of her voice
in the national election; that since the TWEEN
ty-second joint rule has not been re-enacted
by the present Congress, therefore the pre-
siding officer Of the Senate may declare any
body elected whom he chooses. OF course
the forms of law must be respected, but
these are all piddling objections that will be
swept out Of the way like autumn leaves by
the breath of the people when they have the
opportunity to pass their opinions upon
them. You might as well attempt to OPP
pose the law Of gravitation by witchcraft as
to settle this disputed Presidency by mere
legal conundrums. .
Are there no dangers confronting us?
We have seen two Governors and two Leg
islatures at work in Louisiana at the same
time, two Legislatures in Alabama, two in
Arkansas, and two now in South Carolina.
The spectacle of w Presidents and two
Congresses would not be an edifying one,
but it would not be a long step in advance
OF what we have already witnessed. Stress
is laid on the fact that Gen. Grant will see
Hayes duly inaugurated. The only form
OF Inauguration known to the law is for the
newly elected President to take an oath to
support the constitution of the United
States, and this he can do before any person
authorized by law to administer oaths; and
when he has taken it. Gen. Grant can not
inaugurate him or d~isinaugurate him any
farther. I am not one of those who think
that the present financial cramp is due to
political causes, but / can see that the dis
order, confusion and uncertainty growing
out of a double barreIed Government would
produce far greater depression in business
than any thing we have experienced since
the panic Of 1878.
II the Republican party is ready to adopt
intimidation as an element in politics, and
to substitute the judgment of Returri ing
Boards in place of votes legally pOlled, it is
aworse party than / supposed when 1 joined
the Liberal movement in 1872. [ do not
think so badly Of it as this. l think that all
the present fuss is due to the anxiety of
office holders for their places, for which the
great mass OF the party have ne sympathy,
but, on the contrary, a well grounded con
tempt. Accepting its defeat in a manly
way, if it is defeated by a true
the Republican party has a fair prospect of
returning to power four years hence. At all
events, it will be in a position to take adj
vantage of the errors and shortcomings of
its adversary. But, crawling into the
Presidency over the ruin and subversion OF
the process of popular elections, it will be
annihilated. 1t has already received such
harm as its wisest leaders can with difficulty
repair. HORACE WHITE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
AIN Accommodating Ill Otel Clerk.

Scene I.~French's Hotel. Time, mid
day. Fat Shotel clerk, smiling, and
brushing his diamond stud with a
feather. EntSr young man in a hurry.
He writes on the register, John Green,
Hdrrisburgh, Pa.'1
Young Mani shall sake a room this
evening. Some bundles may be sent
here for me this AFTERNOON. II the
charges are not more than So, pay
them.
Exit young man in a hurry Clerk
stiffiy bows and continues to brush kls
diamond stud with a feather.
Scene U.-Time, n hour later
Enter a small boy with heavy oblong
package. He struggles up to hotel
counter, and says: ga bundle for Mr..
Green. The charges are SIS So"
Clerk drops mis- feather, and permits
the diamond to dazzle the small boys
eyes. Then he takes the bundle, and
pays the small boy $3.50.
Scene III.-iime, following day
Fat clerk scratches his head with the
feather and thinks of Mr.. Green and
the small boy, and the $3.50. Then he
opens the oblong bundle and discovers
a brickbat in a paper box, with q note,
saving: "This is the best Russian clay
| could find"
CLERK exclaims, "Godelmity," and
the proprietor Of the hotel debts !
with So. 3O.-NeW York San.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
A Strange Coincidence.

1t is a rather strange coincidence;
that at the burning of two theaters in
which were the greatest number of lives
lost ever known-to wit, the Richmond
Theater and the Brooklyn Theater-
the principal or most prominent actors
in each were grandfather and grand
daughter. At the former it vas Spen-
Ger H. Cone, who afterwards became
n of the most eloquent and promi-
nent ministers of the Baptist Church,
and who occupied the pulpit in the
church corner of Broome and Elizabeth
Streets for many years. His eldest
son, Spencer w. Cone, was the father
of Catherine Cone, who married Mr..
Isadore Lyon, who now goes by the
name of Kate Claxton.-New York
Herald.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21

The unfortunate ex-Empress Char
lotte of Mexico, who at present is cared
for in a castle near Brussels, is or pre-
tends to be perfectly oblivious of every
thing and every body around her, and
holds conversations only with imagin-
airy persons. When the Belgian King
and Queen visit her she first gazes at
them distractedly and then turns her
back to them. Her distaste to society
is so great that she will not even per-
NIT her maid to dress her. Her mem
DRY regarding some things is, neverthe-
less, remarkable. On certain days she
orders her bath to be got ready; this
she does by writing an order on a slip
of paper, and laying it where it will be
seen; if her request is not attended to,
the order will be repeated in the same
manner and attention called to the neg
lect.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
Christmas Festivities.

The common custom of decking the
houses and churches at Christmas with
evergreens is derived from ancient Dru-
id practices. 1t was an old belief that
sylvan sprites might flock to the ever
green's, and remain there unnipped by
frost till a milder season. The holly.
ivy, rosemary, bay, laurel, and mistle-
toe furnished the favorite trimmings,
which were not removed till Candle
mas. In old church calendars Christ
mas Eve is marked TtnaplG e1ornantur
(the temples are adorned). Holly and
Ivy still remain in England the most es-
teemed Christmas evergreens, though
al the two universities the windows of
the college chapels are decked with
laurel. Itswas an old English supersti-
ton that on Christmas Eve the oxen
were always found on their knees, as
IN an attitude of devotion, and that af-
ter the change from old to new styIe
they continued to do this only on the
eve of old Christmas Day. This was
derived from a prevalent medieval no.
ton that an OK and an ass, which we're
present at the Nativity, fell on their
knees in a suppliant posture, as appears
from numerous prints, and from the
Latin poem of S%annazaro, in the 10th
century. 1t vas an ancient tradition,
alluded to by Shakespeare, that mid
night spirits forsake the earth and 90
to their W confines at the Growing of
the cock. The Christmas celebrations
have lost their primitive boisterous
character, the gambols and carols are
nearly gone by, and family reunions
and evergreen trimmings are nearly all
that remain of the various rough mer-
riments which used to mark the festi-
val. The last memorable appointment
of a lord of misrule wa in 1927, when
he had come to be denominated ga
grand captaine of mischiefe. "-Apple-
toms american CycJop9dia.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
Children In China.

Chinese women bear D
for children, and they
proper that blind or
should be killed. Sc
little girl was sick w
when she got well it
eye-sight was gone.
the first to say that she ous-
ed, and day by day the har.
woman talked to her husband Ill
manner until he consented to get rid
the child. He called the little thing
him one day and took her out for
walk, with the intention of leaving b.
in a thicket either to starve or to !
eaten by wolves. When near the sp
where he was to abandon her, he co
cluded that he could not be so cruel
a helpless little one, and straightwayr
turned home with the child. I'll
mother was sorely disappointed to me
the two again, but the father said ]
would rather labor twice as hard for
livelihood and save the child's life. t.
mother had to submit, and now the 81
is Is years of age, and has learned to {
so many things that there will be ]
trouble in getting her a husband.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
Notes

1t is a costly honor to be Lord
Mayor of London. It cost the last in
cumbent of the office about $50, ZOO to
maintain it's dignity, which sum is said
to be $4,000 less than it cost Sir A.
Lusk. The salary of the office is not
more than $4,000.
Sir Curtis hampton is believed to
be the only instance of an American
accepting and bearing an English title
since the independence of the colonies.
Sir Curtis, a great friend of George
Peabody's, who spent the last year of
his life in his house, acquired a large
fortune in the fur and iron trades, and
took a leading part in the first Atlatic
Gable Company.
Tally 81. The Duchess of Edin-
burgh has another daughter. That
makes 81 children and grandchildren
in the family of Queen Victoria, all but
three of whom are living. The Ouch
ess of Edinburgh is very regular in her
habits. Her first child was born in o.
tober, 1874; her second in October,
1875, and her third in November, 1876.
The publication of the New Century
the bright little paper issued from
the woman's department of the Centen-
Mails to be continued; and an organ
1Zation called the Woman's Centennial
League is to be formed, with the vari-
GUS Centennial Committees and the ex-
hibitors in the Woman's Pavilion as a
nucleus.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-21
Odds and Ends.

When Tom Thumb voted at the
last election three year-old Connecticut
boys stood around and looked disgust
ed because tina. little shrimp could and
they couldn't.
In carving q turkey in the presence
of strangers it is a breach of etiquette
to stop more than twice to spit on your
hands and get a new hold.-NOrrlstown
HeTGtd.
There are some delicate i'm
pulses that q good woman can not re
sisL; she can not hesitate to put three
hair-pins and a spare shoe-lace into tho
first shaving mug she sees. Women
are better than men in this respect.
George Eliot says that the peculiar
waving motion of the feelers of the
common cockroach are not indicative
of cerision or contempt, but are the eX-
pressions of an earnest soul vainly
striving to grasp a vanishing idea.
The King of the FIJI Islands has
been presented with a pair of suspend
ers. He wears one around his neck
and the other around his waist, and de-
clares that they are a great convent
ence, and he doesn'tknow how he ever
got along without 'em.-NorrtStown
Heraid.
Livery four has a revival in
it's school-house now, but the fact that
the wood-drawers still continue to put
the best sticks on the outside OF the
loads leads US to infer that the mild in
fluence of prayer is falling short of its
perfect work.-FWlton Times.
"A little boy was asked what time it
was. He answered "Twelve." 81
thought it was later than that" replied
the questioner. "It don't never git no
more than that in these diggins," re-
piled the youngster. "Jest as soon as it
gits up to twelve it starts at one agin;
don't never git no higher in this bot
TOM"
Schools in Franklin County, has resign
ed to accept the SUPPLEMENTARY of one
man. The work will be harder and the
| salary smaller, but then the situation is
more permanent, and she won't have to
canvass the county for reelection every
two years.-Haw&-eye.
There is no nonsense about So
j~ourner Truth. She especially criticises
the white women, because with all their
privileges of culture and professions OF
CHRISTIANITY they accomplish SO little
unselfsh good. To one audience she
said: "Wid all your opportunities for
readin' an writin' you do not take hold
an do any thin. My God, l wonder
what you are in the world for" And
to another; "What for you all rushin'
to hear Moody and Sankey? Ebery one
ob you goin' to see Moody and Sankey,
What you 'spec-dat dose two men go.
in tote all you women to hebben?" And
then, in solemn warning, 81 tell you
it's the doors of the world, not the hear
ers, God wants"