The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-12-14

side along the pathways, on the hillsides and
invading private pIats there were large crowds
OF people. Turning to the left the funeral
party proceeded directly to Battle avenue,
where, about $50 yards from the entrance OF
the cemetery, q hench had been prepared for
the reception of the dead. The great crowds
which were met near and just within the Gem
etery were formed about the vast grave. The
site being on the slope of the hill and COM
paetely exposed, the cold was almost INSURER
BILE, but still the people held their places.
There was no delay in removing the remains
from the hearses and wagons and deposltlng
them in the circular trench. Then the
services began. Rev. DR.. Noah 81. Schenck
read the beautiful burial service Of the
Episcopal church, which was listened to at
tentively by those who were within reach OF
his voice. There was indispensable sadness
mingled with solemnity in the scene. Hun
dreds of people wept, the tears freezing on
their cheeks IS they issued from the eyes. Al
ter the reading of the service, Rev. A. P. Put
nam, of the Unitarian Church of Our Savior,
addressed the assemblage. Rev. A. Stewart
Walsh, Baptist clergyman, offered fervent
prayer at the conclusion of MIR. Putnam's re-
marks, and the services were brought to aclose
with benediction by Rev. Joseph Odeu. Pre-
yious to the dismissal Of the assemblage the
choral societies sang ''Say, what Troubles
thee ~ and "Above the Tree top is Rest" 'phe
people now departed and all was ended except
the enduring agony Of the widow and orphan.
ea r West.
The House Louisiana Investigating Commit
tee left for New Orleans on the 9th inst.
Judge Lynde, of Wisconsin, declined to serve,
and MIR. Beebe, of New York, took his place.
The remains OF human being, supposed to
be those Of the lost aeronaut Donaldson, were
recently found by some hunters in the woods of
Newaygo county, Mich. ia
The murderer of Wild Bill at Deadwood, last
has been tried before jury of his peers at
Yankton, Dakota Territory, and found guilty of
murder in the first degree.
| A most shocking tragedy is reported from
Valley county, Neb. A farmer named Edward
F. Carr blotted from existence his entire fami-
| ly, consisting Of wife and two children, and
then hung himself. 1t is supposed he was
temporarily insane.
ID. FL. Chamberlain was inaugurated Gov
ernog of South Carolina, at Columbia, on the
9TH inst. The inaugural ceremonies were very
quiet, and very few persons in the city knew
anything Of it until some time after it was over.
The Democratic Legislature met the same day,
and appointed a committee to ask Gen. Ruger
to remove the troops from the State House.
| Columbia Is. O. dispatch of the 9th says !:
| ''The Congressional investigating committee
has applied to the Office Of the Secretary of
State for all the returns bearing on the Con-
gressional and electoral vote Of the State, and
applied to the Supreme Court and the United
| States Circuit Court for all documents touching
the legality of the situation on both sides with
in the jurisdiction of these courts and the
State and County Boards of Canvassers. STEM
ographers were placed at work at the Office of
the Secretary of State to copy the returns. A
committee Of the Democratic House waited on
Gen. Ruger and demanded of him why that
body was kept out Of the Capitol by United
States soldiers. He made verbal and after
ward written reply in which he stated that
the soldiers were there by order of the Presi-
dent, who recognized Chamberlain as Govern
or, and that, if called on, they would resist
the entrance of the Democratic House,"
George A. Trenholm, formerly Secretary of
the Treasury of the Confederate Government,
died last week in Charleston, s. g.
! -Four persons-three young ladies and one
young roan-were recently drowned near Ohm
stead, Ky, while padding across mill-pond
in canoe, by the capsizing of the craft.
The South Carolina Legislature (Chamber-
lain) has deposed Chief Justice Moses from
| Office.
Judge Bond, Of the United States Circuit Court,
has discharged the members of the South Caro-
lima Board of Canvassexs, and decided that the
| State Supreme Court had no jurisdiction to
NEEDLE with the duties CT the Board while en-
gagged in the determination of the case of the
| Presidential electors.
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