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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11
Tax Collection by Machinery.

The State of Virginia has adopted a
machine to make barkeepers and liquor
sellers honest and to prevent their evad-
ing the revenue tax on liquor sold at re-
tail. The apparatus which now must
by law decorate every Virginian bar is
simply a registering dial combined with
mechanism which whenever the index is
moved ahead sounds bell. The dial
indicates up to million drinks. Tam
pering with it is prevented by the pc
culiar seal, which consists of a miniature
tongue of brass that perforates bit of
paper carefully fitted into the lock.
After this tongue is in place, the paper
bears only single perforation. Any
attempt to violate the seal will result in
defacing and tearing the paper, and this
will be sufficient to subject the saloon
keeper to prosecution under the law.
Two results have followed the intro
duction of the invention which might
easily have been anticipated. The first
is that the liquor men have raised the
price of their beverages SO as to cover
the amount which they are now obliged
to pay in taxes, and the second is the
production of devices to swindle the
machine. Already one enterprising in
dividual has begun using bell behind
his counter having precisely the same
sound Of the gong in the machine. He
went through all the motions of oper-
ating the latter, and the false bell sound
ing made it seem as if the drink had
been properly registered. = Scientific
american
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

The Midland railroad of England has been
defrauded in gigantic manner by some of it's
officers. Several of the delinquents have been
arrested.
Madame Titiens, the famous opera singer, is
dead.
The situation in the famine districts India
continues to improve.
The steamer Pandora is being reftted in En-
gland for another start for the Polar regions.
Advices from the City of Mexico report that
the Mexican Congress "has authorized the
Government to expend 100000 in the con-
struction of factory for breech-loading arms
The Government has contracted for $4,000
worth of Remington arms The Government
has ordered the Collector of Customs at Vera
Cruz to remit monthly to the United States
$25,0OO on account of the payment of the
American debt"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11
Those Noble Indians,

Having received their overcoats,
trunks, corn-plasters and ruf1ed night
shirts, Tail, Cloud and the rest of the
gang have started for home, leaving be-
hind them bill of $4,000. They are to
go on the Missouri river until spring,
when they promise to emigrate to the
White river, and there beat their arrows
into plow-shares, and whisky bottles into
pruning hooks, and cultivate the land.
This arrangement will give the Govern
ment four months in which to equip an
army to bring them to terms again in
time for another pow-wow and more con-
cessions next fall.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East

William G. Gilman, a New York broker of
hitherto good reputation, has committed for
geries to the extent of over 5000, 900 and fed
to parts unknown.
McKeesport, Pa, has been visited by @ disas-
trous confagration. The Pittsburgh car and
locomotive works and large number of stores,
shops and dwellings were burned, involving
loss of about $4,000.
The battle of Germantown, Pa, was fought
on the 4th of October, 1777, Gen. Washington
being defeated with the loss of 1000 men, the
British losing 600. The Tooth anniversary of
the event has just been celebrated with great
spirit by the people of Germantown and the
surrounding country.
The Allegheny Pa.) savings bank, the oldest
bank in the city, has gone where the woodbine
twineth. About 100000 are due depositors.
A savings bank at Harwich, Mass, has also col
lapsed.
Vanderbilt has ordered an advance of per
cent. in the wages of all the men in the en-
ploy of the New York Central Railroad Com
pany whose salaries are less than So, 900 per
annum.
Four men were drowned in Boston harbor,
last week. by the capsizing of their boat.
A storm of unusual violence swept over por-
lions of Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware
on the night of the 4th inst, causing many
serious wash-outs on railroads. An excursion
train was wrecked near Phanixville, Pa, kill
ing twelve persons and wounding about fifty.
A passenger train was precipitated into the
Delaware river, at Frenchtown, N. J., by which
five persons lost their lives. Ten schooners
were sunk by the fury of the storm
i'll the harbor of Lewes, Del The
steamer Massachusetts, from Providence for
New York, was blown ashore on Long Island.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11
WASHINGTON NOTES.

A swindle, consisting Of the overpayment Of
an illinois firm of mail contractors to the
amount of 800, 900, has been discovered in the
Postoffice Department.
Work at the Government Printing Office is
almost entirely suspended, only two presses
being in operation.
President Hayes has issued proclamation,
placing all the unsold public lands in the State
of Arkansas in the market.
Attorney General Devens wants an appropri
alton of 1926, 1000 to cover the deficiency in his
department during the past fiscal year.
The commission appointed to investigate the
origin of the Patent Office fire very unanimous
ly agree that the fire was not the work of an
incendiary.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11
Girdling the Earth.

The latest round the world railroad
connections talked of are as follows: A
tunnel under the Straits of Dover; the
passage of the Ural mountains; road
way on the steppes of Asia and across
the rivers and mountains; tunnel or a
pontoon bridge at Behring's straits, and
then home stretch through Alaska,
the Pacific States and across the CONT
nent, a matter of more than 20, 000miles.
Then a passenger may take seat in
London and never leave the car till he
reaches New York. All this seems hard
~ more improbable than the Pacific
railroad did q generation AGO.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11
That Kelley Motor.

It may be that the world will soon
know something definite about the
Kelley motor, The inventor has agreed
to submit his machine to the investiga-
ton of body of experts selected by the
New York Herald management, and the
offer has been accepted. The result of
the test of the wonderful motor, which
Mr.. Kelley says will prove it's power
over all other known agencies, will be
matter Of general interest, and the sooner
we know all about it the better we shall
feel
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11
OBITUARY.
Archbishop BayIey.

James Roosevelt Bayley, Archbishop
of Baltimore and Primate of the Roman
Catholic Church in America. died at his
home in Newark, N. j., aged IS years.
He was born in New York city, Aug. %,
1914, and was educated at Washington
(now Trinity College, Hartford, where
he was for short time tutor; studied
theology with the Rev. DR.. Jarvis, of
Middletown, took orders in the Protest
ant Episcopal Church, and successfully
served parishes in Harlem and in Ha-
gerstown, Md. There he was received
into the Roman Catholic Church, pre-
pared for the priesthood at st. Sulpice
in Paris, and on March 2, 1912, was or
dained in New York by the late Arch
bishop (then Bishop Hughes. APP
pointed Professor of Belles-Lettres in
st. Johns College, Fordham, he became
President of that institution in 1916. On
Oct. 80, 1868, he was consecrated Bishop
of Newark, n. J. On July 80, 1872, the
Pope raised him to the Archbishopric of
Baltimore and the Primary of the Church
in the United States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11
Another Mormon Murderer.

Grin Porter Rockwell, the notorious
Mormon murderer and accredited chief
of the Danites, has been indicted by the
Grand Jury of the First Judicial Dis
trict of the Territory for his participa-
ton in what is generally known as the
Aitken massacre, which occurred in the
central part of the Territory in 1858.
Rockwell was arrested in this city to-day
by the United States Marshal, and con-
uAvad to the nenitentiary for safe keep
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11
|. 1851, 500, 900 $8S

This shows loss during the year by
the chief European banks of about $780,
IT'S. ZOO, France only having gained any
considerable sum. It should be added,
however, that part Of the store Of coin
or bullion in these banks is silver,
though the amount is not known.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11
A GAINESVILLE. w. Va, signer of

A GAINESVILLE, W. Va, signer of
the Murphy pledge went to Wheeling a
few days since, and, after transacting
his business and while waiting for the
train to take him home, was induced to
forget his pledge to such an extent as to
get drunk. He fell asleep as soon as
the cars started, and the conductor had
no easy task to awaken him. After he
was aroused, instead Of presenting his
ticket he handed the conductor his
Murphy pledge. The conductor
punched the pledge and wrote on it,
Gone drunk" The GAINESVILLE gen.
tlemans dismay may be imagined when
the next day he exhibited his pledge
that he was Murphy man.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11

when arrested, and talked loudly of
writing his confessions, as Bill Hickman,
his former associate in crime, had done.
Salt Lake Cor. New York Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11
Teresa Titiens,


The great artist, Theresa Titiens
almost the last of the noble school of the
old masters, Garcia and Clement, which
gave to the world such singers as Pasta,
Persiani, and Grisi, is dead, and one of
the grandest voices in the world is
silenced forever. With the details of
her ailment the public is familiar. She
was afflicted with cancerous tumor,
that cruel and hopeless scourge of
woman. Repeated operations had been
made by the most skillful surgeons in
England, which were borne with heroic
fortitude. AS in all such cases, they
raised hopes on the part of her friends
that her life would be saved, but the
horrible malady was too deeply implant-
ed in her system to be eradicated by the
surgeons knife. Each operation afford
ed temporary relief, but at each recur-
renee it ragged with renewed severity,
until death has kindly come to the relief
of the poor sufferer. Madame Titiens
was born in Hamburg in 1884, and APP
peared in opera in her native city at the
early age of Is. She was engaged for
three years at Vienna, removing thence
to England, where she has since resided.
In 1876 she paid brief visit to this
country. She possessed a noble soprano
voice, tull of passion, remarkable for it's
breadth, and always grand and imposing
in it's delivery. Her dramatic ability
was no less remarkable than her vocal.
She occupied upon the lyric stage the
same position that Rachel occupied and
Ristori now holds upon the dramatic,
and her presentations of the most power
full tragic creations deserve to rank
with theirs
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11

The latest Prussian census shows a
population of 25,742, 4O4 OF this num-
Der 16, 636, 800 are Protestants, 1925, $40
a-o po,,case n ,4ha1ia an1 900 roo
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11

HE-".How serenely beautiful is the
sky tonight. Heavens lamps are all
alight And the milky way" She
"Sure enough the way the milk has
been sour for the last week is too bad. /"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11

Mr.. TURREEN, Of Indianapolis, has
just got married. It is to be hoped bis
wife is Iadle-like.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11
South.

Colored Congressman Small, of South Caro-
lima, has been indicted for bribery by Column
bia Grand Jury.
The Mayor of the fever-stricken city of Fer
nandina, Fla, has addressed piteous appeal to
the people of the Northern cities for aid.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-27
e10a day at home: Agents wanted. 0utat and
Vlh terms free. TRUE . Co, Portland, Ne.

Al Extra Fine Mixed Cards, with name, II
~ cts. postpaid. l.. JONES & CO.. Nassau
N. Y.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-27
TRAINS
EAeT.
ss.s
'Fl.g Stations. Telegraph stations.
We h B461N866O
6en'l Pass'r ARt.. Chicago.

alag Stations. Photograph Stations.
CONNECTIONS.
i. Al Sioux City with Illinois CeL>-al, Sioux
City and Pacific and Sioux City and st. Paul Rail
roads.
2 Passenger train going east connects at Davie
junction with branch trains arriving Ut Port
landville at IL. 10 p. ~, and then connecting with
HOward's stages for Virginia. Eden, Fairview,
Beleit, Canton, Harrisburg. Flandreau, Linwood,
Rock Rapids, Sioux Falls and all points on the
Big Sioux River, and from leaving Portlandville
at Us p. M, connects at Davis Junction With
train going west.
S. At Elk Point with stages for P,nca, Neh.
and Richla d, D. T.
4. At Vermillion with stages for Lodi, Rive.
side, Turner, Bloomingdsle and Finlay.
s. AT Meckling with stages for St.James.
i. AT Gayville with stages for ST. Helena.
Z. At Yankton with stages for all points 1
southern and western Dakota, and North Nebras
ka; and during the season of navigation with
Missouri River Transportation Companies line
Of steamers Tor Randall, Brule, Pierre, Sully.
Rice, Bismarck. Stevenson, Berthold. Buford.
carroll and Benton; connecting at Pierre with
transportation wagons for the Black Hills.
This is the only Direct Route to the
GEO. E. MERCHANT.
E.V. DERRIcKeoN, Gent Superinsend't
AGENT.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-27

REATrYPIANo, Organ bess.v Look.
OeNIS startling news Organs, ~ stops,
81. Pianos only $50 cost Peso. Cir. Free. d.
F. Beatty. washington. n. Y.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-27
DAKOTA
TIVE COAL MINE DISASTER At slAx,Yse.

TINE COAL MINE DISASTER At BlANIYRe.
As the soldier enlcsing the battle field
and the sailor departing on q pcrilous
voyage are surrounded with unknown
dangers, TO escape which passes beyond |
their utmost skill and widest experience.
80 the miner descending TO the depth Of
the gloomy coal pit walks and works In
sense of danger Is not as keenly felt where !
the bright sun shines down on or the Wild |
clustering Winds blow around those who
dare II, as where ia the stifing atmosphere
OF the deep, black pit, the heroes OF the
pick and shovel spend their hours Of toll.
Imprisoned Ia the bowels Of the earth, in
galleries and caverns from whose grimy
sides the deadly gases ooze in q million
streams. the miner Of coal depends for life
on the merest chance. The wounded SOL
die! can crawl into shelter, the shipwreck-
ed sailor can cling to the floating spar, but
for the poor miner stricken down by the
sudden explosion of fire damp or trapped
10 some lonely working bv the caving roof
there Is absolutely no hope. Science has
failed to provide him with any reliable
means Of escape. and chance never comes
to his assistance. So it has been with the
two hundred and thirty.three victims of
the Blantyre colliery explosion. They de-
scended TO their work as usual; were en-
gagged at it az usual, when suddenly a blast
of flame and poisonous gas rushes through
the workings, followed by the silence of
death. Have they all persisted? The
friends eager to rescue cannot reach them.
The train sent to convey the wounded to
the hospital at Glasgow returns empty.
Faint sounds Of knocking are heard at the
bottom of one of the pits, but no one can
descend, for the deadly gas fills the mines,
and any attempt to enter them would prove
fatal. We suppose that the usual jnvesti
cation will be held as to the cause of the
explosion. But there are no witnesses to
give testimony, aud all conclusions must
rest solely on surmises. Would it not be
better that the great problem of preventing
such catastrophes should be thoroughly
investigated? Surely, when the nature of
the fire damp gas is 80 well known, there
must be some means of diluting it with
pure air by powerful force pumps and
other devices. Helmets similar to those
used by divers might be employed in rend-
ering assistance to imprisoned miners, to
whom every moment must seem an eseru.
ity of horror. While VI are shocked by
the news of this calamity we are surprised
at the helplessness of those who were free
to act. We doubt much if America ingen-
uity could not have promptly devised q
means of safely operating for the rescue oil
the men who possibly survived the ex
ploslon. but who, if not speedily rescued,
must die a lingering death by suffocation,
drowning or hunger.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1877-02-20
III.
PO E II r Y

From the Charleston Is. CO. News and Courier.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER's LATEST POEN
The following Ode ito the South" was write,
last evening by the distinguished author ant
handed to US for publication. We take mucl
pleasure in presenting 1t to our readers as tn
frank testimony Of an accomplished English
man to the facts Of the past, and the truths o
our present condition. Happy would 1t be fo
the South II other gifted writer's of England
and the North" who come among us had tn,
same magnanimity and impartiality a. has in
duenced Mr.. Upper In penning these lines:
TO THE SOUTH.
The world has mis!udged, mistrusted, malign't
E you,
And shonld equick to max hon est amends
Let US. then, speak OF you just as we nnd you.
Hnmbly and heartily, cousins and friends!
Let us remember your wrongs and your trials
-- slandered and plindered. and crushed to ths
dust,
Draining adversity's bitterest vials,
Patient in courage and strong In good trust.
You fought for Liberty-rather than Slavery!
Well might you wish to be quit Of that i'll,
But yoa we're sold to poll tical knavery
Mesh'd with diplomacy's spider-like skill;
And you rejoice to see slavery banished,
While the free servant works well as before.
Confident though many fortunes have vanished
Soon to recover all-rich as of yore!
Doubtless there had been some hardships and
cruelties,
Cases exceptional. evil and rare,
hut to tell truth-and truly the jewel 'tis-
Kindliness ruled-as rple-eyerywhere,
,kS- ri =
heritance,
Born with your children and grown on you,
ground
And it was quite as much int'rest as meri
hence
Still to ,naksis;ends Of dependents all round
Yes, 1t is slander to say you oppress'd them.
Does man squander the prize of his pelf?
Was it not often that he who possessed them
Rather was owned by his servants himself?
Caring for all, as in health, SO in sicknesses,
He was their father, their patriarch chief,
Ages infirmities, infapcys weaknesses,
Leaning on him for rsposs and relief,
bravery.
| Selling for freedom both fortunes and lives,
Where was that prophesied outburst of slavery
| Wreaking revenge on your children ant
| viyese
Nowhere! You isft 81; to seryile keeping
And this was faithful and true to your trust
Master and servant thus mutually reaping
| Double reward Of the good and the just!
Generous Southerners! Iwho address you
Shared with too many beliefin your sins;
But rccsnt it-thus-let me confess you
knowledge is victor and everywhere wins;
For have seen, have heard, and am SURE
Of it,
You have been slandered and suffering long
Paying all slavery's cost, and the cure oft.
And the Great World shall repent of its
wrong!
MARTIN r. YUPrER.
Charleston. February 9Th, 1877.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1877-02-20
ENEMIEs.-Have you enemies? {

ENEMIEs.-Have you enemies? Go
straight on, and mind them not. If
they block up your path, walk around
them, and do your duty regardless of
their spite. A man who has no enemies
is seldom good for ANYTHING; he is made
of that kind of material which is so easi-
Iy worked, that every one has hand in
it. A sterling character-one who thinks
for himself, and speaks what he thinks
is always sure to have enemies. They
are as necessary to him as fresh air; they
keep him alive and active. A celebra-
ted character, who was surrounded with
enemies, used to remark-s'They are
sparks, if sou do not blow, will go out of
themselves" Let this be your feeling
while endeavoring to live down the
scandal Of those who are bitter against
you. If you stop to dispute, you do but
as they desire, and open the way for
more abuse. Let the poor fellow talk !;
there will be a reaction If you perform
but your duty, and hundreds who were
once alisnated from you will flock ta
you and acknowledge their errcr.E4l-
erdnder's Messenger.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1877-02-20
l Bulls EyE-The Rhi,ade,nh

A BULLS EYE.-The Philadelphis
Evening telegraph, republican paper
makes bulls eye in commenting on
Returning Board Wells's lame and i'm
potent explanation of his letter to Sena.
tor West. 1t says:
eve mnst face the fact, however OBJ.
nOxious it may be. that Wells, the pres.
ident of the returning board of I.ouisi.
ana, knowing that the electoral vote o1
that State would elect either Hayes OF
Tilden, offered 1t for sale first to the re-
publioans and then to the democrats
and that the election of November fol
President of the United States, and the
franchises Of the whole nation were in
this one scoundrel's control, and thai
he held them subject to the highest bid
der. No less than that can possibly be
made of it, and if the electoral commits
sion want any more argument than they
have had to convince them that they
must go behind the verdict of the Louis
lana returning board to find the truth,
this letter of Wells gives them an irref-
utable and irresistible argument"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1877-02-20
There is little boy in South Norwalk

There is little boy in South Norwalk
who has watched with anxious ewes his
comrades slide dewn hill, while he, hav-
ing no sled, was compelled to take up
with an old chair or barrel stave. His
foster-mether finally told him to pray
for one. He took his mothers advice,
and one evening prayed as follows:-
Now lay me down to sleep, want a
sled; l pray the Lord my soul to keep,
| want a cutter" The grandfather Of
the little fellow was informed of the
prayer, and was SO pleased that he bought
. sled, and q few mornings after it was
left by his bed, so that he could see it as
soon as he awoke. As his eyes first rest
ed upon 1t tho good lady behind the
door waa both surprised and shocked to
bear him say, "Well, now, where the
devil did that come from ?n