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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

The often-attempted feat of swimming across
the channel from France to England has been
accompished-the swimmer, man named
Oavill, making the crossing in five minutes
more than twelve hours The distance is twenty
miles.
Gen. Grant has arrived in Denmark, and is
visiting his sister, wife of Minister Kramer, at
Copenhagen.
Advices from the City of Mexico state that
"the Mexican official organ has published a
memorandum of Minister Foster, explaining
the intentions of the United States in issuing
orders to Gen. Ord. Perfect tranquility is re-
ported. Measures for bringing the border
question to satisfactory settlement are being
discussed"
The late news from Spain is that the failure
to subdue the instruction in Cuba is mainly
due to corruption, incompetency and malad-
ministration on the part of Spanish officials,
but there are no indications that Spain has any
intention of abandoning the contest, or that
she fears outsiders. .&r,
A Berlin correspondent states that the Khe-
dive Of Egypt, for his military service to the
Porte, demands the right to form navy.
On account of numerous accidents on the
overworked Roumanian railways, an agree
ment has been made by which the railways pay
1900 francs for every soldier killed, and $4,000
francs for every officer killed.
The plague having broken out IN Russian Po-
land, the German frontier has been closed by q
strong military guard
1t is asserted in England that Osman Pasha,
who commanded the Turks at Plevna, is no
less parsonage than the celebrated Marshal
Bazaine.
1t is officially announced that all the great
powers and Belgium, Holland, Sweden and
Portugal have adhered to the German protest
against Turkish cruelties.
United States Minister Noyes and family
have arrived in Paris
Already the famine in India has cost the
Government SAC, OOO, ZOO, and is adding to the
colonial burdens at the rate of G3,000,O0O per
month. -t..
dispatch from Belgrade, the capital of
Servia, says cat Ministerial Council, at
which Prince Milan presided, the cooperation
of the Servian army with the Russians in Bull
garia was determined upon, and commanders
of the various corps we're nominated"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30
WOrkingmen,s Platform.

The workingmen of Chicago. in mass
convention the other day adopted the
following platform
SECOND DECLARATION OF 1NDFpENnrNcr
WHEREAS, The two great political parties of
the United States, within the past eiobt or TON
years, have failed to legislate on behalf of the
producing class and
WHEREAS, Labor was ordained by divine
command, and is the only true source of neoo
PIE happiness, health, and prosperity, and the
only sure producer of wealth, power. and civiI-
cation therefore, be it
ReS0toed, That the working people of the
city OF Chicago and State of Illinois do hereby
repudlate the Republican and Democratic mar.
ties. Be it further
ReSoLoed, That we recommend to the in
oustriai classes of the Union, whether agri
cultural, mechanical, or commercial. and all
others who sympathize in our views. an imme-
date organization to promote the general wei
fare, and shape henceforward the true policy
nd legislation of the country basing ouT
action on the following principles and pur
poses
l. That we demand the repeal of the Re-
sumption act of Jan. IA, 1875 reconciliation
and free coinage of the silver dollar, and the
perPetuaUon OF the treasury note for all dues
and demands.
2: Eight hours the standard by which wages
shall be paid.
8. Arbitration committees for the adjustment
OF disputes between capital and labor.
4. prohibition of the use of prison labor bv
private employers.
.. prohibition of the continuance of manual
labor IN factories and elsewhere by children I'M
der twelve years of age.
+. Liberal application of the funds for edu-
cational purposes.
Z. reduction of taxation and economy in all
Governmental expenses, whether Federal
State, or municipal
3. Abolition of duties on the necessaries of
NE, the burden of which is borne by the poorer
classes
3. Opposition to class legislation.
H. The enactment of laws compelling en-
ployers to pay their employees on or before the
10th OF each month for labor performed in the
previous month.
IL. The immediate improvement of the Wa
ter-ways of the State and nation.
IL The reserving of the public lands, the
heritage of the people, for the actual settler.
Not another acre for railroads and specula-
tors.
Is. That evidence of Indebtedness. national
as well as personal, be taxed.
IA. The establishment of State and National
Bureaus Of Labor Statistics.
Is. The prompt and effectuaI punishment of
official defaulters.
Is. The removal of unjust technicalities
delays and determinations in the admins
tration of justice, and the establishment of
more speedy process for the collection of
wages.
II. A return to early principles by letting the
Office seek the man, and firm refusal to SUP
port professional politicians.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

THE Macon, Ga, refractory is turn
ing out 10000 pounds day, at cent a
pound. +.
The striking coal-miners in Sangamon
county, Ill, have resumed work at the
old rates.
The Buckeye Agricultural Machine
Shops at Akron, O., have closed for a
month or 80, being somewhat in advance
of work and the times.
THE Vicksburg Herald claims that
$4,000 Industrious laborers could obtain
a comfortable subsistence from the soil
within easy distance of that city.
The grain receipts at Chicago are be-
coming enormous. In one day. recent
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

ConstantinopIe dispatch says the Porte
has ordered the immediate concentration OF
1000 militia of the second class at Adrianople.
Sofia. and other points near the scene of opera
tions.
A war correspondent telegraphs that the
Russians have over 200, 900 men from Pyrgos to
Gabrova and thence back to Nikopolis At the
rate reinforcements are coming in the Turks
will in short time be crushed by overwhelm-
ing numbers,
The heavy draft upon Russia's population
for soldiers to fill the ranks of the imperial
army is producing infinite distress and priva-
ton among those dependent on poorer con-
scripts. Families are broken up, with little
prospect Of reunion even their furniture is
sacrificed for the bread that is no longer earned
for them; the streets of Moscow are thronged
with departing soldiers, deserted wives and
children. and the household goods of the
homeless.
The fight for the possession of the Schipka-
pass proves to have been one of the most stub
born and well-contested on both sides that the
lie
number;of intrenchments originally constructed
bv the Turks in the defiles of the Balkans, but
abandoned by them soon after the Russians
penetrated into Roumeia. The Turks hurled
themselves with desperate valor upon these
defenses, and were repeatedly repulsed with
terrible slaughter. For six days the con-
test ragged with fury, the valorous Turks,
with gradually thinning ranks, returning time
and again to renew the assault. always with the
same result. The Russians, on each approach
of the enemy, poured a CALLING fire into their
ranks, moving them down by hundreds, and
literally paving the mountain side with corpses.
Tho number of Turks killed and wounded is e.
timated at not less than 10, 1000, including many
officers. The Russian loss, owing to the fact
that they fought under cover of their works,
was comparatively small. The total Russian
force engaged in defending the pass was 13, 600
mon. Opposed to these was the whole of Sulei-
man Pasha's army, estimated at 10000.
A battle of some magnitude was fought near
Kars, in Asia Minor, on Saturday, Aug. Is, be-
tween the Russians under Gen. Tergukassoff
and Moukhtar Pasha's army. A correspond
ent, describing the engagement, says: "The
heights of Kiziltepe, which were captured by
the Turks, were only held by one Russian
battalion. The Turks swarmed upon
the mountains, protected by siege
guns, which they used with ter
rible effect. They made a desperate
flank movement from the direction of Kars to
capture Kurukdara. The Russians had their
tents loaded on wagons ready to move, but the
perfect discipline and admirable management
of the officers, together with the fierce fighting,
saved the day. The infantry contest at the
Southaton village and fort was terrible, the
Turks retiring at shutdown with heavy losses.
The Russians lost before Kurukdara two Gen.
erals and eight officers killed. 237 soldiers
killed, and TIP wounded. Deserters say the
Turks lost 5000 men,"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30
/ DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

The New York Witness, a temperance and
religious daily started in 1871, has suspended
publication. M
Suits are to be brought against the county
of Allegheny by the Pennsylvania railroad and
the owners of private property destroyed in the
Pittsburgh riots for the recovery of damages
to the full amount of losses sustained.
S. E. Hartman, manufacturer of Kenyons
hre-escape, was giving an exhibition of his
apparatus at store-house in New York, a few
days ago. He fastened the instrument to his
breast and lowered himself out of the third
story window, when the brass band parted, and
Hartman fell headlong to the ground, being
instantly killed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30

peen closed forever, and no slaves exist in this
broad land of ours This is canse for CON
gratulation, as much to the people of the
southern States as to the people of the North.
ana, my friends, let me ask you here-let me
ask you everywhere for us to seek for quar-
RES, quarrels we must have, elsewhere, and
let these sectional issues be buried forever
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30

AN enthusiastic Texas newspaper as
serts that the census of 1880 will show
that Texas has population of 2, ZOO, 900,
and will be entitled to eighteen Repre-
sentatives at Washington.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30

LoUIs1ANA's coming corn crop will be
the largest since the war
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30

The workingmen of Chicago. in mass
convention 6 n the other day, adopted the
following platform "
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-05-09
A Foreign War in Washington.

The prospect of immediate war be-
tween Russia and Turkey, with proba-
bility of other powers being dragged
into it before long, is of course the sub
iect of much consideration at Washing
ton, and the New York World has obtained
the opinions of Admiral Porter and Gen.
Sherman in regard to it. The admiral
naturally looks at the matter from q
naval point of view, and finding that the
Russian navy is inferior to the Turkish,
and that the Dardanelles and Bosphorus
are we'll fortified, concludes that it will
be impossible for the Russians to take,
or perhaps even attack Constantinople
from the water. He counts much on
the religious fanaticism of the Turks,
who, he thinks, having already bought
in the United States m abundant supply
of the best arms in the world, will give
every dollar and every valuable they
have to aid their side.
Gen. Sherman's idea is that all the
great powers will be involved in the war
before the year is out, and that the strug-
gle is going to cost million of lives,
with some of the greatest battles ever
fought. As to Constantinople, he sug-
gests, with his usual acuteness, that it
will do the Turks no good if they lose
every other point. The general has not
forgotten how he squeezed out the rebel
forces from Charleston and Savannah.
Both officers dwell with satisfaction
npon what is patent to every one, that
the war will enure to the benefit of the
United States, and give long and sorely
needed impetus to our trade and COM
merce, Admiral Porter predicting that
the war will last two years at least, dur
ing which we shall have to plant for the
! whole world.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-05-09
The Question of Mortality.

The comparison of vital statistics, MS
given in large number of reports from
various countries, makes the death rate
of the cities of each of these countries
considerably in excess of the cities OF
the United States. For instance, the
annual mortality for each thousand in
Madrid is sixty-five in Berlin, 30.6; in
London, 22.2; in New York, 27.9; or,
by another report, 1913 Philadelphia,
20.3; or, by another report. 1882 ;
Boston, 1885 Liverpool, 23.9. Or,
taking twenty English cities, an average
of 22.79 per thousand, an excess in the
same year Of 2.96 over that of as many
cities in the United States. According
to De Bows statistics the mortality of
Sweden is a. 80 France, 26.S9; Belgium,
1923; Massachusetts, 1871. By the
returns of the seventh census, 1850, the
death rate of the whole United States
was 1873; while England was 22.07 ;
France, 1897; Russia, $3.50; Prussia,
2O.5S. BY the eighth census, 1860, the
death rate of the United States was 1915,
showing a decided increase of vitality,
as, in times of peace, the death rate is an
index of the sickness rate and the general
degree of physical disability.
The recent army statistics Of our CIV |
war give yet stronger confirmation OF
American advantages. In the mean girth
of the chest the Americans enlisted meas
ured little less as compared with Cana
dams, Englishmen, Irishmen and Ger
mans but in the mean expansion OF the
chest they surpassed all but the Cana
dams. The height of the Americans,
five feet and 1923 inches, was the great
est, except that of the Canadians. five
feet 1850 inches. The testimony of the
great majority of our army surgeons i'll
answer to the question: "What nation
atty presents the greatest physical aptl-
tude for military service?" is most en-
phatic in favor of the native American as
possessing more physical stamina, greater
average height, superior intelligence and
activity. Not to multiply dry facts and
figures, they seem to support the opin-
ion that the native American type, IN
stead of being a degeneration, is an i'm
provement. The new world has 50 far
improved the progenitor races. This is
hopeful and cheerful for national out
look toward greater improvement and
worthy destiny.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-05-09
A Very Peculiar Pride.

The Popular Monthly has the follow
ing: \ gentleman travelling in England
had letter OF introduction to person
of some distinction whose whole estate
was in excellent keeping. Among other
fine animals shown him was fine white
COW, and this creature, he was told, was
the very personihcation of pride. AS
though she considered herself OF pure
blood, she claimed precedence in all
cases; she always went ahead OF the
herd, the best bit of pasture was her ex-
elusive domain, on which no other burst
intrude. SO far did she carry her pre-
tensions that if any of the other COWS
entered the stable before her she would
refuse to enter. Anxious to see this
with his own eyes he desired to be taken
to her stable at evening. The man, m.
structel how to act, drove in some OF
the other COWS. The white COW drew
up; not only did she refuse to advance,
in spite of all encouraging words, but
her whole frame swelled with anger and
offended dignity. She kept lowing con-
tinually. At last the COWS within, as
though conscious that they had forgot
ten their place, began to come out, and
as they were driven out the proud white,
with an evident air of gratitied pride,
strobe in in state.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-05-09
Hog Raising in Texas.

Colonel J. Depuy Davis, sojourning
in Texas, in letter to the editor of tile
Reading Eagle, gives an interesting ac-
count of the life of settlers in Stephens
county, that State. One Of the pioneers
wrote rs follows:
I am at present located about twenty
miles west of Palo Pinto. This is fine
country mountainous and picturesque,
and we'll adapted to the raising of hogs
and cattle, and enough of good farming
lands in the valleys for all practical pur-
poses. We are boarding at rancho
while we get our claim in habitable shape.
It is about mile from here, beautifully
located, and has about eighty acres,
which we can cultivate. We are Mt
present cutting house logs and cedar
poles for rails, and hope to be located
permanently in few weeks. We had
four horses to start with, and by trading
around have still that number and start
of hogs, twelve in all. This is the great
est country for trading I ever saw. The
people here are mostly from the North
and have the Yankee procliyity, "swap-
ping" fully developed. I Like the coun-
try and the people and intend to stick
out here. Stock raising is the principal
occupation. When I tell you that the
hunting is good here am not joking
chickens, quails, deers, trrkey-the latter
till you cannot rest; also occasionally
catamounts, panthers, bears, etc. A good
hunter can keep himself in fresh meat
easily.
It does not require much to start here.
Should you desire to come, 500 would
give you good start in the hog business.
For instance, you have $780, You in-
vest before coming, either in Dallas or
Forth Worth, in two ponies, the one to
ride and the other to trade with. You
can get them for, say $15 each, and say
SIS more for a saddle and bridle-in all
S45. Put the remaining money in your
pocket and don't fool any away and strike
out, not neglecting to bring all your
clothes, as they dress very well here.
You arrive Keep your saddle pony for
your own use, and trade the other for
hogs. You can get, say fifteen head for
it, which will be enough to start you IN
that line, and if your saddle pony is a good
one you can get for the use of it your
board while you are getting your claim
ready-that is, putting up log house
ten by twelve and cutting few poles,
which make excellent rails. An ordinary
hand can cut 100 per day and not hurt
himself. In two weeks you have place
to live in with hogs e. ough to start you
and saddle pony and $50 in money, or
thereabouts, $40 of which will keep one
man over month "batching" it. Should
you not wish to put up your own house,
SIS will get it done for you, and you can
hunt in the meanwhile-which reminds
me, that you will need gun, either
good shot gun or a rifle. It would be
better instead of getting trading pony
to get a pretty fair work horse. You
have no idea the amount of hogs or cat
tie you can procure for him.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-05-09
Prepared for War.

At the beginning of the present diff
culties between Russia and Turkey" 1t
was the general opinion among many OF
our army officers that the trouble would
create market for ordnance supplies,
arms, and other implements Of warfare,
and that the United States would be ell
abled to dispose Of the vast amount OF
unserviceable goods of that character
now stored in our arsenals and fortifica-
tions; but careful examination Of the
subject by prominent officers of the Ord
nance department leads to the belief that
there will be no demand upon our coun-
try for these goods, for the reasons that
England, Germany and France have
vast quantities of condemned arms for
sale, and therefore neither of the con-
tending parties would find it necessary to
make purchases on this side of the Atlantic
when they can obtain similar goods 80
much nearer home; but should the
present complications assume such shape
that the powers mentioned would decline
to dispose of their condemned arms and
supplies to either party, then there might
be demand for ours. Since the Franco
Prussian war both France and Germany
have been rearming and replacing the
arms used by them in that war with those
of more improved patterns, and conse-
quently have many old arms for sale.
It has also been ascertained that Tur-
key is much better supplied with arms
than was at first. supposed, she having
received over three hundred thousand
stand of arms from the Providence Tool
Company, of Providence, r. l., within
the past two years, under a CONTRACT
made with that company to furnish half
million Peabody guns-a breech-load-
ing rifle similar to the Martin Henry
rifle used in England. These rifles are
still being manufactured for and deliver,
ed to the Turkish government, several
officers of which have been in this coun-
l'try for some months past inspecting the
arms and experimenting their manufac-
ture. The Turks also have contracts
with various firms in this country. tor
200, 900, 900 rounds Of metallic cartridges,
and for a large number of cartridge
cases. which are now being made at
Bridgeport and New Haven, Conn, and
other places. That government is also
we'll supplied with breech-loading steel
guns for field service, and it is not prob,
able that there will be any. great demand
for arms of obsolete patterns upon this
or any other country. Russia has also
received good supply of arms IL; from TINS .tI
country, having had contracts with Smith
& Wesson, Colt, and other manufacturers;
These contracts were for revolvers anu
breech-loading rifles, large number OF
which have been delivered.
We have for sale about 400, 600 OF the
new Springfield muzzle-loading rifle, and
large number of repaired brcech-load-
ers, besides ordnance and ordnance sup
plies of every description, left from the
late civil war.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-05-09
My Mysterious Muleteer'

We were party OF three Englishmen,
travelling by rail from Madrid to the east
coast, bound to Puerta Muerta, to buy
transport mules for certain little war then
in progress in the remotest east.
1t was at Almanac, the junction for Va
lencia and Barcelona, that first saw my
mysterious muleteer.
No muleteer was he then to all outward
seeming; but dressed like a Spanish gen
,leman OF the old school, wrapped in wide
capa or cloak, which, when he chose, COM
p;ctely enshrouded his face. This was not
invariably more than once saw his fea-
lures plainly enough. He was not alone.
A strikDgly handsome girl, so like him
that she was evidently his daughter, clung
to him in manner that betrayed evident
anxiety and nervousness on his account.
Her eyes, full OF loving solicitude, were
continually turned to his; now and again
she motioned to him as if she wished him
to cover up his mouth with his cloak. Was
this for ooncealmeAt, or was he an invalid!
They were rather a remarkable pair.
Possibly it was the splendid Spanish beauty
of the girl that attracted me, but found
myself thinking of them for the remainder.
of the Journey | looked out Tor them on
the platform at Puerta Muerta, but they
were nowhere in sight. Then the pressure
of nv own affairs drove them quite out oi
my head, and for some time | was so busilv
occupied that l had no leisure for vague
dreams.
Puerta Muerta, when we reached il,
might, in truth, have been dead thousand
years. The houses were like crum5lin,
mummies set up in rows along the deserted.
dust encumbered streets only 4 stray f%-
lucha or two, with ragged sails, lay in the
harbor. The warehouses were all boarded
I'D, the mole overgrown with grass. The
great caravanserai or fonda by the sca
shore could have done no business for
years; we had the greatest difficulty IN
persuading its landlord that business had
come at last.
But in an hour or two all was changed.
A Spaniard has a keen scent for gain, when
money can be made without great eXpendi-
ture OF force. The town awoke with a start,
galvanized, as it were, into life by the action
of English gold. The shopkeepers took
down their shutters; merchants hitherto
idle came to proficr their services; dealers
without mules came in crowds to propose
contracts for their supply.
My duties brought me into close connec-
ton with the people OF the place; good,
easy going country folk, speaking prcvin-
cial patois, clinging to local costume-a
black, fiat sombrero as wide as cart
wheel, a white shirt, black sash, white pet
ticoat OF kilt, footless stockings, and rope
soled sandals on their horny feet-very tenn
perate, not over-industrious, but patient
and willing to work for very moderate
wages. The times were hard recent po-
litical troubles and bad harvest had
brougbt~smany to the verge Of want, and
aea came IA great numbers to be "apun